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Originally Posted by dreamcastegirl

Oh, definitely, the internet has changed things to even a greater degree then when I first crawled into this fandom. I think the Casshern cartoon was fairly popular in France, if I recall correctly—the French also got Liveman in the '80s, which I am eternally jealous of—but I know that the first time I knew of it was when I saw the movie as a HK bootleg and noted that Aso Kumiko was in it, and just brought it on a whim.

I know there was an English dub of Ultraman and maybe Ultraseven in America, but I think the first we ever saw of the franchise was the cartoon, The Ultraman, and I remember being fairly indifferent to that as I was well into Battle of the Planets instead.

*snaps fingers at you* You there, boy, bring me my walking stick.

Good to know I am not the only Liveman fan out in these neck of the woods.
As for the Casshern movie, it sadly was a failure despite having live action Jotaro, Kamen Rider G3, Kamen Rider Sango, and the suit actor for Riderman in the Kamen Rider ZX special. For starters, getting rid of the helmet? That's like Wolverine with adamantium knuckledusters instead of adamantium claws. Apparently the director is the ex-husband to Hikaru Utada and his previous credits were mostly music videos with Casshern being his directorial debut. The visuals were great, really good stuff here and there, but the story in general felt boring and I lost interest after the Casshern vs Barashin fight. In general I would say it ended up being a dumpster fire of a meal despite all the good ingredients it had lined up for it figuratively speaking.