[Sh Ranger]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

That octopus has me craving takoyaki.

That octopus might also be the only thing deterring Evolt from returning to this planet.

[TokuKnight89]

Seen Kamen Rider World more than once, including a re-watch a few minutes before this posting (I'm aware that this could be construed as a cheat and I am intending to get the Media Blaster set), and something finally clicked for me: Despite ZO's inclusion, there isn't a single thing which technically links ZO to the special! Shadow Moon and his revived Kaijin link to Black, RX, Shin, and J. No ZO Kaijin are included. His appearance is mainly because he's a recent Rider innovation and because they were trying to set-up J and ZO as the new "Double Riders" (a phrase Shadow Moon utters in World to refer to them both collectively).

[Sunred]

Movie or TV show title references in Boonboomger so far:

Waruido Spindo: The Fast and the Furious movies, which is called Wild Speed in Japan
Madrex: The Mad Max movies
Cannonborg: The Cannonball Run
Raita Naito and Naito Tech: Knight Rider and Knight Industries

[TokuKnight89]

Not a difficult realization to come to, but Lost Galaxy is the Power Rangers equivalent of Starship Troopers!

The troops of Terra Venture use the EXACT SAME suits as the ones used in the live-action SST Movie.

Scorpius and the Stingwingers and Trakeena are all insect-themed, but the theory is that this was to mesh with the fact that the early Balban Majin under Sanbash are insect-themed (and because virtually every Balban suit was being used for Gingaman VS. Megaranger, leaving the Lost Galaxy crew to find some workarounds).

It isn't long before the parallels fade away and it becomes less and less obvious, but it's pretty clear that someone recognized the potential early on and at least tried to run with it. Don't know if that's a good thing or not, but it is what it is.

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by TokuKnight89

Not a difficult realization to come to, but Lost Galaxy is the Power Rangers equivalent of Starship Troopers!

The troops of Terra Venture use the EXACT SAME suits as the ones used in the live-action SST Movie.

Scorpius and the Stingwingers and Trakeena are all insect-themed, but the theory is that this was to mesh with the fact that the early Balban Majin under Sanbash are insect-themed (and because virtually every Balban suit was being used for Gingaman VS. Megaranger, leaving the Lost Galaxy crew to find some workarounds).

It isn't long before the parallels fade away and it becomes less and less obvious, but it's pretty clear that someone recognized the potential early on and at least tried to run with it. Don't know if that's a good thing or not, but it is what it is.

Personally I liked it instead of copying and pasting the whole sheltered tribe gets raided by space pirates premise. Worked fine for Gingaman, but considering how PRiS ended what Lost Galaxy did felt like the next right step.

[Sh Ranger]

I have yet to watch Gingaman for comparison, but I rewatched Lost Galaxy a few months ago and I must appreciate the ambition of this show. I feel like Cosmic Fury tried to bring this concept to the modern audience, but it was sadly restricted by the 10 episode limit while Lost Galaxy had 45 episodes to tell an exciting space exploration story.

[Sunred]

So while most of us, myself included, probably remember the currently controversial Tohru Furuya as the voice of Aka Red, I didn't expect to learn that he was one of the uncredited child actors in episode 13 of Ultra Q that features Garamon while looking into said controversy.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

the currently controversial Tohru Furuya

At the risk of learning something unpleasant about a man I didn't know existed until a few minutes ago, what controversy?

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

At the risk of learning something unpleasant about a man I didn't know existed until a few minutes ago, what controversy?

He admitted that he was in an abusive affair with a fan not too long ago for a few years after the magazine Bunshun published an article about it, which shocked people in the non-hardcore anime fandom in Japan as well because he's the man who voiced Amuro Ray from Gundam, Yamcha from Dragon Ball, Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon, and Pegasus Seiya from Saint Seiya to name a few. In terms of prominence he's up there with Masako Nozawa, so even if the average Japanese person doesn't watch a ton of anime they would probably recognize his voice after a few listens or at least know the name based on the characters that he voiced.

[Sh Ranger]

While rewatching Jungle Fury, it suddenly occurred to me that the 3 Kenma's names are anagrams of their animal spirits in Japanese.

Kata = Taka
Rageku = Kurage
Maku = Kuma

Furthermore, Maku is a syllable short of Makuro (dark black), which may refer to his mastery of Dorinki.

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Originally Posted by Sunred

He admitted that he was in an abusive affair with a fan not too long ago for a few years after the magazine Bunshun published an article about it, which shocked people in the non-hardcore anime fandom in Japan as well because he's the man who voiced Amuro Ray from Gundam, Yamcha from Dragon Ball, Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon, and Pegasus Seiya from Saint Seiya to name a few. In terms of prominence he's up there with Masako Nozawa, so even if the average Japanese person doesn't watch a ton of anime they would probably recognize his voice after a few listens or at least know the name based on the characters that he voiced.

Then Toei should appoint Aka Blue as the new Master of Sentai. Since he was mentioned all the way back in Super Animal War, his appearance is a mystery even to this day.

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