20th Century Boys is a must-read manga. May have its flaws depending on the person, but I still think it was one of his best. However, URASAWA'S BEST WORK EVER would probably be YAWARA, since it was what made him a star. Also got the anime treatment as well back in the days.

I wonder if the site will ever get any new mods? I notice most of the staff hasn't been online for sometime now.

I'd hope so. Bots have gotten so bad the last year or so. Makes the News and Rumors forum a .ess. It's frustrating that nothing seems to be being done about it

I even contact them outside the web, and I heard nothing. I think we can get this place to feel more lively again.

Oh, I'll give that a read sometime! Speaking of anime, it's about time I finally finish Pluto. Considering how much Astro Boy has inspired sci-fi, I ought to give its pseudo-remake its dues by finishing it. I'd say I really liked it from what I did watch, but life is so busy lately...

Welp, now I have a reason to go to a theater and eat buckets of popcorn this summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmEx7wQI6RY

Travis Knight directing puts my worries at ease for now. Seriously hope they have Skeletor talk trash, because that's his shtick. They can make him feel and sound like Shao Khan from Mortal Kombat all they want, but I seriously hope Skeletor does enough shit-talking for fans to make a compilation. :lolol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNz6eHfsESQ

Love how to keep him safe his mother sends him to our world (nod to the Lundgren movie, maybe?) and it ends up with him at a desk job that sucks. :lolol
And I love the comic book store bit already. :lolol

I survived my first week in grad school. Though I got a cold so my energy levels are low. I hate being sick on my first week of school.

I didn't wake up until 2 PM today because I forgot to set my alarm. Not like I could do anything anyway because of the snow.

The snow sucks. My area just got hit with wind and cold temperatures. But last Friday I couldn't go anywhere due to the windchill (-40 degrees F), and I was also sick with the flu that day.

So due to YSST being penned by Shogo Muto, I took the liberty of introducing my watch group(s) to Kamen Rider Build,



This Was A Mistake.

More like:

Hagane no mooooooooooonsault!

This Was A Mistake.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

If you wanna make it a Muto marathon, might I suggest giving the Crows: Zero movies starring Shun Oguri and Takayuki Yamada a watch, followed by the 2007 Hana Kimi TV drama starring Maki Horikita (which I didn't know he took part in until as of this post, and btw, at least two-thirds of the actors who played are or went on to become toku alumni) and then finally, Muto's first claim to fame, the Densha Otoko TV drama. BTW, here are the notable toku alumnis from the 2007 Hana Kimi show that I could remember off the top of my head.

Dorm 2 (Protagonist's dorm)
Kamen Rider Kabuto *Dorm leader
Kamen Rider Sasword
Kamen Rider Dark Ghost
Hurricane Polymar
Ultraman Mebius
Yuuya (Gaim)
Gokai Silver
Rai (Gouraigan)

Dorm 1 (Muscleheads)
Gavan Type-G *Dorm leader
Bouken Red
Kamen Rider Grease

Dorm 3 (Theater kids)
Kuwagaraiger *Dorm leader
Kamen Rider Ixa (Nago)
Go-on Red

Faculty
Kousei Kougami (He's a mild-mannered vice principal in this, which probably explains why I went WTF when I saw him years later in OOO because of the stark contrast)

Oh, Crows is a fantastic film series. And in my head-canon, Gentaro Kusaragi was kicked out of Suzuran for being too friendly (his uniform is clearly from there).
By the way, if we're talking about films for tokusatsu fans, I can recommend "Saikou no Seito: Yomei Ichinen no Last Dance." Because it features:
Main character: Mei Hata (Mua/one of the Kamen Rider Abaddons from the movie Zero One)
Main character's friend: Kohaku Shida (Haruka Kito/Oni Sister and Sumino Ishikawa/Gozyu Unicorn)
Main character's other friend:Hina Kikuchi (Mika Ogawa from Wing Man)
Main character's classmate:Kazuto Mokuda (Michinaga Azuma/Kamen Rider Buffa)
The main character's father: Kohei Takeda (Otoya Kurenai/Kamen Rider Ixa and Kazumi Sawatari/Kamen Rider Grease).
The main character's teacher: Atsuhiro Inukai (Mitsuzane Kureshima/Kamen Rider Ryugen)
There might be some other episodic characters, too. But I especially like how this series features Kamen Riders from different generations?the classmate, the teacher, and the father.

Weeellllll majority of deliquents in Japan are assumed to dress like that if their school's uniform is a gakuran, though, both fiction and non-fiction. :lolol
But yeah, Crows: Zero was decent. I haven't followed the actual Crows or Worst mangas in-depth, skimmed through a few tankobons, but very standard Japanese school delinquent stuff. Oguri and Yamada's 1 on 1 fight scene was well-choreo'd. :rock:

Back to job searching... Temporary position teaching is over, so now I'm in my perpetual quest for a career. On the plus side, at least my money troubles can be set aside for a while.

See I really wanted to convey a Hazard Trigger-level of disaster, but the text color is black by default.

I've got like two and a half hours a week to stream and the schedule's full, I can't fit all that!

(I mean I'm also running a bunch of other series alongside Build so...)

Did they not like Build?

Oh no they love it, but now I'm fighting the urge to track down a Dragon and Cobra bottle again.

To say nothing of everyone else once I described how satisfying the shakey-shakey bit is.

EDIT: and also somehow someone came up with the combo of "TowerTurtle" and I don't have the heart to break the news to them...

The shaky-shaky bit is fun. Also, let'em have their dream for now. *smiles evilly*

I started playing Trails in the Sky (the old one, not the remake) and, hilarious acronym aside, I'm really enjoying it. World feels alive, gameplay is fun (it helps that I'm already somewhat familiar with it because Honkai Star Rail copied it's combat system), and the characters arelively. Estelle is a fun character.

Yep, I'm loving TITS so far.

Tokusatsu! Capitalism!
Best Match!