Showing posts with label Tokusatsu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tokusatsu. Show all posts
Thursday, September 3, 2026

Hiroshi Wakagi, The Blessin' Four and Misuzu Children's Choral Group -- Tatakae! Thunder（戦え!サンダー）

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  Over the past several weeks, I've seen hurricane after hurricane along with torrential rains batter parts of Japan including the prefe...
Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Kotaro Kobayashi & BB5 -- Spider-Man Boogie（スパイダーマン・ブギ）

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  It's been a long day and one reason that I'm doing my two articles rather late tonight is that I was out for most of the day today...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Isao Sasaki & Koorogi '73 -- Himitsu Sentai Gorenger（秘密戦隊ゴレンジャー）

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  It was about a decade ago when I posted an article on the first opening theme song for the 1970s tokusatsu hero show "Himitsu Sentai...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Yuuki Hide -- Chikai no Ballad（誓いのバラード）

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  It was almost five years ago that I posted the article for the opening theme for Toei's take on "Spider-Man" from 1978 beca...
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Monday, November 24, 2025

The Firsts (Audio Ware) by J-Canuck

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  Welcome to the final full week of November 2025 . With the autumn in full swing, it's easy to get a bit wistful about the passage of t...
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Monday, July 7, 2025

On Behalf of Tanabata（七夕）: It's 7!

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Wikimedia Commons via Immanuel Giel   It is (or was in Japan ) July 7th 2025 which means another day to celebrate Tanabata , commemorating ...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Hiroshi Wakagi, The Blessin' Four and Misuzu Children's Choral Group -- Thunder Mask（サンダーマスク）

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  Yup, earlier today I met up with my good friend Danny for lunch and then to catch the latest Marvel entry "Thunderbolts*" . And ...
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Saturday, February 8, 2025

Daiei Jidou Gasshodan -- Bokura no Gamera（僕らのガメラ）

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  Back when I was into kaiju and dinosaurs decades ago, I was a rather unhappy camper because I wasn't able to see the complete version ...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Bing Crosby/Barbra Streisand -- White Christmas (song and movie)

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  Merry Christmas to one and all! I'm hoping that all of you who may be reading this are enjoying December 25th with family and friends...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Fruit Tart -- Nezumi Sentai Nezu Ranger（ネズミ戦隊ネズレンジャー）

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  I was doing some maintenance with hard drives and stuff, and I got to my anime one where I got to see the first episode of  "Ochikobo...
Saturday, December 23, 2023

Naoki Sato -- Resolution

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  "Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast" by poet William Congreve, 1697 I guess KKP icon Kayo Grace Kyoku did do a number ...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Kazuo Ohno -- Hengen Mikazukimaru（変幻三日月丸）

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  The first time I heard this song, I got the impression that this was some sort of tokusatsu theme song as would be the case for  "Kam...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

Masato Shimon -- Fireman（ファイヤーマン）

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  All firemen are heroes...that's without question. In Japan though back in the early 1970s , there was a Fireman who was a tokusatsu he...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Ichiro Mizuki -- Mazinger Z（マジンガーZ）/Kamen Rider Christmas（仮面ライダークリスマス）

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  Unfortunately, this week has started with the news of yet another celebrity in the music industry leaving this mortal coil. I found out on...
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Monday, October 31, 2022

For All You Cosplayers Out There....

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  Continuing on with today's Halloween theme, I started thinking about all of those cosplayers out there. I mean, I know that cosplaying...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Yuuki Hide -- Chikai no Ballad（誓いのバラード）

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  Back last summer, I wrote up on the opening theme for the Japanese TV version of "Spiderman" （スパイダーマン） that ran from 1978 to 197...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Yuuki Hide -- Kakero! Spider-Man（駆けろ！スパイダーマン）

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  Well...just when I thought things were starting to quieten down a tad in Marvel Land (haven't seen "What If?" yet) before ...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

Hitomi Sudo -- STARLIGHT FANTASY

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  My ardor for the "Ultraman" （ウルトラマン） tokusatsu series really only lasted for those mere few years in the early 1970s , although ...
Monday, March 8, 2021

Sanae Horikawa -- Aphrodite no Natsu (アフロディーテの夏)

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Released in July 1991 , “Aphrodite no Natsu” was used as the ending theme to a tokusatsu show called “Fushigi Shoujo Nile na Thutmose” ( 不...
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Sunday, February 7, 2021

Honey Knights & The Misuzu Children's Choral Group -- TAC no Uta（TACの歌）

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  Ahh...it's truly a pity that I lost the single cover for the "Ultraman Ace" （ウルトラマンA） theme so many years ago. It was kakkoi...