The Ultraman Card Game is available in gaming stores now! Booster Pack 2 — where my card features — drops January 24, 2025! For more information, check their website.
Continue reading “From Fan Art to Official Art: Drawing ‘Ultraman Dyna’ for Tsuburaya”
Is it possible to talk about Power Rangers for two hours?? With guest hosts Shawn Pryor and Julian Lytle, the FDIC discusses the end of Power Rangers as a television franchise here in the US and what possibly awaits the teenagers with attitude in the future.
Continue reading “FDI Cast 194: We Say Goodbye to ‘Power Rangers’”
Since 1966, Ultraman has been a popular character from Japan. Over 100 television series, movies, specials, and video games have been made based on the Ultra series.
Continue reading “‘Ultraman: Rising’ Embraces its Japanese Origins through Direction, Music, and VFX”
Episode 3 of Kamen Rider Black Sun opens its blow hole all over us! If you’d like to follow along with our Tokucast, check out Kamen Rider Black Sun on Amazon Prime.
Continue reading “The F’n Tokucast: ‘Kamen Rider Black Sun’ Episode 3, A Whale of a Time”
We jump in to episode 2 of Kamen Rider Black Sun where we meet Poison Ivy kaijin for a brief moment. As of the date of this upload, Black Sun is on Amazon Prime if you would like to watch along with us!
Continue reading “The F’n Tokucast: ‘Kamen Rider Black Sun’ Episode 2, Flower Power”
Finally, after weeks of technical issues and failed attempts, we return with our first F*ckin’ Tokucast! This week, we dive into Kamen Rider Black Sun, Episode 1. If you want to watch along with us, you can check out Kamen Rider Black Sun on Amazon Prime.
Continue reading “The F’n Tokucast: ‘Kamen Rider Black Sun’ Episode 1, Attack of the Spider Man”
In Netflix’s upcoming animated film Ultraman: Rising, Ken Sato (Christopher Sean) is a Japanese-born American baseball superstar who recently left his prestigious Los Angeles baseball team to return to Japan to play for their league. In reality, Ken returns to take the mantle of the superhero Ultraman, given to him by his estranged elderly father, who is forced to retire.
Continue reading “How Toshiro Mifune and Hideo Nomo Inspired Netflix’s ‘Ultraman: Rising’”
After an extremely random deep dive into the thickness of guitar picks, we discuss a format change for the summer.
Continue reading “FDI Cast 193: Contemplating a Format Change”
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always, out tomorrow on Netflix, is a fitting tribute to the storied 30-year old action franchise. Original cast members Walter Emanuel Jones and David Yost return in a new adventure that sees the team reunite to face a foe long thought defeated. As Rangers across the world are captured in order for their powers to be used as an energy source for the villain’s plan, the original Power Rangers team must once again save the world.
Continue reading “‘Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always’ is a Fitting Tribute to the Franchise”
This week, Netflix released the hotly anticipated trailer for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always anniversary special. Thirty years may have passed since their debut, but when it comes to the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the more things change the more they stay the same.
Continue reading “30 Years Later, It’s Back to Action with the OG ‘Power Rangers’”
This was a pretty good year for American Tokusatsu fans.
Continue reading “2020: A Good Year for American Tokusatsu Fans”