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Gina Szanboti
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You can never go overboard with the pictures.
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YasMan
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Great review, glad to see another toku fan out there! How do you even by this stuff anyway - is there a website?
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Dessa
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There are many sites to get Toku stuff, but some are harder to get from than others. I believe in the column he says he got his from AmiAmi, but I know other popular stores to get from are Hobby Search, and CStoys. I've also had good luck with Plamoya, and I have a friend who really likes AniSatsu. HobbyLink Japan is hit or miss. I personally have a problem with their customer service and the way they do things, but others really like them. If you can find something in stock and on sale, it's not too bad.
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Snomaster1
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I don't know if there'll be an American version of "Akibaranger" but there is one thing I do know. I remember the other series that was talked about here but in the U.S.,it was known as "Power Rangers S.P.D." I'd love to see the Japanese parody the American attempts to do tokusatsu. I also remember reading in a book about a tokusatsu series that was done in English with Japanese subtitles. Does anybody know the name of that series?
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davecabrera
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I will throw in the stores I personally use. Amiami has the best prices for things by a few bucks, but if the item is at all popular you'll have to pre-order well in advance of its release. I have used HLJ for years and gotten nothing but good service, but I'm starting to hear stuff about their customer service in the last couple years. (If anyone has had such an experience, I'd like to hear). Now I use them when there's something I can't get from Amiami. Finally, for items that get US distribution (Bandai stuff from Bluefin, Good Smile stuff from AAA) I use Big Bad Toy Store, which has the best prices on US toys and packs your orders like they're covered in precious jewels.
Unless I really, really have to use someplace else, these are my usual choices. |
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davecabrera
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZhC_Zbzv2A Power Rangers SPD has been dubbed into Japanese by Toei, using the original Dekaranger cast. They have done this with more than one US-version show. |
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Dessa
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IIRC, Japan's re-dubbed most of the Power Rangers series (I've seen magazine scans of a number of them), as well as at least Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (saw the Japanese dub of that one myself), if not the original US Masked Rider.
In fact, if you check the Encyclopedia pages for the Sentai actors, you'll see that many of them re-dub their own Sentai characters' counterparts. |
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Aynslesa
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I choose "fluttering magnificently on the wind of justice" and I do imagine an explosion behind him. ::sage nod::
This column always makes me grin  and a big part of that is the pictures along with the commentary. Bring on the pictures!
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