Another special announcement for fans of obscure & old-school tokusatsu shows!
Discotek Media has officially announced a release for the 1978-79 series Message From Space: Galactic Wars. This series was a spin-off from the 1978 film Message From Space written by legendary tokusatsu godfather Shotaro Ishinomori himself!
Unfortunately, price & release details for this set are unavailable at time of writing. Stay tuned to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on this rare endeavor!
At Otakon, Discotek annouinced that they'll be releasing a the Space Wolf Juspion Complete Series blu Ray set! No word on pricing or release date as of yet, all we know is that it'll have English subtitles and will be released sometime in Q1 2019.
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They also got Message from Space! It's basically Star Wars as a Japanese tokusatsu TV series.
This is... Pretty big right? I know someone who'll be as giddy as they were during the Smash Direct's CastleVania showcase
Oh, that's a more obscure one! I always love seeing more official English subtitled tokusatsu.
"Standard Definition"? "SD on BD"? What is that supposed to mean? DVD-quality but on a Blu-ray disk regardless? Why though?
It's a step in the right direction, but calling Metal Heroes "big" is a bit exaggerating IMO.
I'd definitely say this is big though. Metal Heroes are one of Toei's three big franchises and Juspion is one of the more popular entries in the series. It was aired in a couple of different countries around the world and I know it was pretty huge in Brazil.
Honestly, I'd say any tokusatsu series release in the US is huge news. This isn't something anyone ever really thought would happen just a couple of years ago.
I mean, yeah, there's the Kamen Rider V3 and Kikaider sets, but those were aimed squarely at Hawaii due to its connections to Japan.
Will there be others?
I'm actually amused at this!
Has the distributor released any other Tokusatsu before?
Buying this so we can eventually get the Space Sheriff series stateside.
Huh. This is right out of left field. I'll probably pick this up, even though I'm not a big Metal Heroes fan. I just think that something like this should be encouraged (also, if it does well, hopefully we'll get Metalder, which is one of my all-time favorite toku shows).
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