Tag: Cartoons

Mar282019 by Team HJUNo Comments

THE RETURNERS: Life is Short, Unless You’re Dead

Animation, Anime, Articles, Blog, Books, Comics, Culture, Fantasy, Featured, horror, monster, News, Sci-Fi, Toku, toku, tokusatsu, Uncategorized

If you're looking for something new to get into this year, and have a mind for supernatural mayhem with a twist, look no further than The Returners, the new book from up-and-coming author Lee T. Davis. Sporting heavy inspirations from the world of Japanese anime, live-action special effects, high-flying Hong Kong action, and Hollywood sci-fi, fantasy, and horror, this tale of otherworldly antiheroes is not to be missed. As the official blurb states, 2019's The Returners (not to be confused with an older, unrelated release of the same name) gives the spotlight to uncommon protagonists for the action/adventure genre. And that's especially true if we're only counting stories that aren't a prequel, a sequel, a midquel, any-other-kinda-quel, or anything based on an existing property to beg...

Jun52018 by Bookish DelightNo Comments

And We’re Still Going With It: A Deep Dive Into the MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC Season Premiere (Part 2)

Animation, Blog, Movies & TV, Reviews, Uncategorized, Videos

Greetings and salutations, HJU faithful! Bookish is back, and as I warned you last time, we're on our past and present retrospective through My Little Pony's last eight years... by way of mainly talking about current material. Seriously, the whole thing's on Netflix, it's worth catching up. Meanwhile, if you haven't read Part 1, you should go do that, and then come back here. In a bid to stop problems like friendship-deprived supervillains before they start, Twilight Sparkle decided to open a Friendship School, much like the one her previous mentor, Princess Celestia, started for magically gifted unicorns long ago. Its reach had spread across Equestria and beyond, bringing in creatures who aren't necessarily ponies amidst its student body. Things are going well—or at least the...

Feb232018 by DocNo Comments

Everybody Hates The New REBOOT Reboot Trailer

Animation, Anime, Articles, Blog, Culture, Movies & TV, News, Power Rangers, Sci-Fi, Tech, Toku, toku, tokublogs, tokusatsu, Uncategorized, Video Update, Videos

Are we all feeling nostalgic today? Well, too bad, because there's nothing here for you. Recently, a trailer dropped for the new ReBoot: The Guardian Code, the modern follow-up to the 1990s original ReBoot, in which a group of computer-generated characters live in a video game world where they must battle it out in varied scenarios for the amusement of the players out in the real world. At the time, the 3D animated title could be seen as a forward-thinking series exploring the possibilities of technology and using new visual techniques to bring to life its experimental adventure story. Which is why it puzzles many to find that what we have in this new ReBoot is a derivative, backward-glancing live-action series with CG integration that looks like something we've already seen and forgo...

Jan52018 by DocNo Comments

Here’s Where THE☆ULTRAMAN Airs This January

Animation, Anime, Articles, Blog, Movies & TV, News, Toku, toku, tokublogs, tokusatsu, Ultraman, Uncategorized

In 1979, four years after the last live-action Ultraman series had left the airwaves, Tsuburaya Productions decided to take their giant hero franchise into a new arena with The☆Ultraman, the first animated entry into the beloved Ultra Series. Now, for the first time, US audiences will be able to catch the show on television, thanks to the fine folks at TOKU. Continuing to kick giant monster ass, after airing such titles as Ultraman Leo and Gridman: The Hyper Agent in recent months, the TOKU channel has made itself a destination for fun, nostalgic film and television offerings in the imaginative tokusatsu subgenre. The☆Ultraman represents the next step on their apparent quest to get everything the kaiju kings at Tsuburaya have ever produced on American TV. This news comes to us ...

Dec292017 by DocNo Comments

INFINI-T FORCE Movie Trailer: Gatchaman’s Swan Song?

Animation, Anime, Articles, Blog, Movies & TV, News, Toku, Uncategorized, Video Update, Videos

Infini-T Force takes the next step in its continuing adventures, reintroducing a beloved character from the Science Ninja Team Gatchaman series, whose awesomeness can clearly only be contained by the sheer enormity of a movie theater screen. Tatsunoko Productions' television crossover event, combining the universes of four of their classic animated hero series into a single narrative, Infini-T Force has summoned up the lead characters of Gatchaman, Hurricane Polimar, Tekkaman, and Casshan, dropping them into a unified battle against evil, but until now, few of their former allies have been allowed more than a passing mention. Joe the Condor makes his triumphant return in 3D animated glory with the upcoming Infini-T Force: Farewell Gatchaman, My Friend. And with a title as ominous as t...

Dec72017 by DocNo Comments

This Disney/Avengers Mash-Up Shows How Snake-like Thanos Can Be

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Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War promises to be the largest collection of iconic, larger-than-life heroes the landscape of live-action cinema has ever seen. But what if things had been just a little bit different? What if the world needed saving not by the cape-flapping, shield-tossing likes of the Avengers, but by some other Disney icons? We all know their names. We hear their footsteps and tremble. Straight out of the vault, they've begun their march toward victory against the terror of Thanos and his horde of deadly minions. It's the Walt Disney cartoons! And they're here to do some avenging. For the five people left alive who haven't seen it, the Avengers: Infinity War trailer dropped last week and quickly broke records on streaming giant Youtube for the most views in the sh...

Dec12017 by DocNo Comments

ULTRAMAN Anime Teaser – The Classic Hero Reborn

Animation, Anime, Articles, Blog, Books, Comics, Culture, Kaiju, Movies & TV, News, Toku, toku, tokublogs, tokusatsu, Ultraman, Uncategorized, Video Update, Videos

The Ultraman franchise continues flying to new heights this season, as Tsuburaya Productions announces the arrival of the first animated title for the long-running superhero brand since 1980. We recently discussed possibilities for the mysterious countdown leading up to this announcement, courtesy of the eponymous manga series published in the pages of Shogakukan's Monthly Hero magazine, guessing (among other things) that there could be an anime adaptation of the popular comic in our future. And now, we have the first official teaser video to confirm it. Beginning in 1966, the giant monster-fighting Ultraman wowed audiences with its live-action special effects wizardry and imaginative action, giving birth to a lineage that endures to this day, where dozens of new entries into the saga...

Oct192017 by DocNo Comments

Ultraman Geed Goes A Little Mad In The New ‘Mob Psycho 100’

Animation, Anime, Books, Comics, Movies & TV, News, Toku, toku, tokublogs, tokusatsu, Ultraman, Uncategorized

Prepare to free your mind, as the popular Mob Psycho 100 manga is now being adapted to live-action. Courtesy of ONE, of One-Punch Man fame, the original web-comic series has already taken the anime world by storm, and now, with help from some friends in the explosive worlds of Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, and more, the property is set to make its live-action debut on Netflix. In the lead role, as psychic middle schooler Mob, is Tatsuomi Hamada, best known to some as Riku, the title hero of Ultraman Geed. It may come as no surprise that Hamada was chosen for the part, considering both Geed and Mob Psycho share the same series director in Koichi Sakamoto, whose street cred stretches far and wide in the live-action special effects genre, from Power Rangers and Super Sentai to ...

Oct162017 by DocNo Comments

2017’s Best Power Rangers Episode Is a Voltron Episode

Animation, Anime, Articles, Blog, Culture, Movies & TV, Power Rangers, Reviews, Toku, toku, tokusatsu, Uncategorized

Voltron: Legendary Defender is back at it, with another burst of hilarity and excitement in the show's fourth season on Netflix. And, as we hunkered down to catch up with the heroic, space-faring Paladins of Voltron and their robotic lions, we were treated to a special episode that some of us in the tokusatsu fandom couldn't help but find a bit familiar. While there are plenty easy comparisons to be made between them and the multi-colored Teenagers With Attitude of the live-action Power Rangers franchise (and their Super Sentai cousins from across the pond), none would be so bold as with this season's striking fourth episode, "The Voltron Show". We're not just throwing shade, folks. We're launching it out of a circus cannon to the tune of a full-scale marching band. And the result, true ...

Apr242012 by Keith Justice4 Comments

HJU Radio #35 – GARO: Makai Senki

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[Direct Download] [powerpress]http://greatjustice.net/HJURadio35.mp3[/powerpress] [Skip the Geek? Scrub to 1:11:00] Hey all out there in the HJUniverse! We back with you again and in some serious record turn around thanks to Jon Fuu! We recorded last weekend and are dropping the podcast not 4 days later! Click on, enjoy, and as always.. thank you for listening. ;) [HJU Discussion Thread] Geek Score Card: Skyrim Gurren Lagann CASSHERN SINS Community Green Lantern Cartoon Ultimate Spider Man Cartoon Legend of Korra Go-Buster Ratings Article Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger Amazing TMNT 2K3 Cartoon Atrocious Triceriton Action Figure :( Cabin in the Woods C2E2 2012/IDW's Panel: Smoke and Mirrors First Reported Impressions of Super Hero Taisen Our band of ragtag podcasters is as follows...