After teasing a new appearance in this summers’ “Superhero Taisen Z,” the legendary Ishinomori hero Kikaider is expected to return this fall!
The exact details of the heroic cyborgs’ relaunch are yet to be confirmed so stay tuned to this page for further details!
Recently, it was announced that Ken Ochiai’s classic anime and manga: Tiger Mask will be adapted into a live action movie. Actor Eiji Wentz will be playing the lead role as Tiger Mask and the movie also stars Show Aikwa as Mister X, and Natsuna as the heroine Rukino.
The original manga told the story of Naoto Date’s alter ego: Tiger Mask, whom is a feared wrestler in America and extremely vicious in the ring. But after returning to Japan, Tiger Mask meets a young boy that idolized him as a villain, the boy lived in the same orphanage that he grew up in. Tiger Mask is inspired to be a more heroic wrestler.
The movie adaption however, is an origin story that pits Tiger Mask against an evil Wrestling organization. Tiger Mask’s costume receives a modern update, making him look closer to an American comic book super hero.
The film is set to premiere in Japanese Theaters this November, and a brief launch trailer has been released:
Just recently, it was announced that Shotaro Ishinomori’s manga turned anime 009-1 will be getting the live action treatment.
The original manga tells the story of Mylene Hofuman, a female cyborg that also works as a secret agent. Mylene will be portrayed by actress Mayuki Iwasa.
The film is directed by Koichi Sakamoto. But he’s not the only familiar toku alumni that’s involved with this project. Numerous familiar faces will be making appearing in this film:
Minehiro Kinomoto (Kamen Rider Accel),
Mao Ichimichi (Gokai Yellow),
Nao Nagasawa (Hurricane Blue),
Shizuka Midorikawa (Noshiko from Kamen Rider W Returns: Eternal), Naoto Takenaka (Horror from Garo: Makai Senki)
Aya Sugimoto (Maria S. Cranberry),
Kazutoshi Yokoyama (Leo Zodiarts),
Tsukui Minami (Hopper Dopant)
and Hirotaro Honda (Space Raider)
The film is set to premiere August 7th in Japan and the first trailer for this film has found it’s way onto Youtube.
Note that the movie has been rated R15, as such it may contain things that’s inappropriate for some viewers. Watch at you’re own risk!
For a while, news on NECA’s Pacific Rim Toyline was pretty sporadic. 18″ figure there, 7″ figure prototype there, et al. However within the last week, there’s been more pictures and information let out. With the movie premiere date coming sooner and sooner, what better time than now to catch up on toy news?
I’ve read comments from folks who’ve seen the new trailers, wishing for toys of various Jaegers revealed recently. Same goes for the Kaiju. In this update we get to see both! Now onto the updates, courtesy of our sister site The Toyark:
Read on to catch up with the images!
Entertainment Weekly has posted a new article about the upcoming Pacific Rim movie, due out this summer! They spoke with director Guillermo del Toro, and fortunately, while he did reveal some elements of the plot, he did so without giving everything away. We brought you news of a Pacific Rim Sequel back in January, but did you know it was already greenlit? Here’s why and then some…
Director Guillermo del Toro’s giant-robots giant-robots-versus-giant-monsters sci-fi action epic Pacific Rim won’t stomp into theaters until July 12, but the film’s backers already see its franchise potential as, well, giant—so much so that a sequel was greenlit before the movie was finished. After the first screening, Legendary Entertainment CEO Thomas Tull immediately told del Toro to start writing a follow-up. “He said, ‘Do you think you can come up with a great idea?’ ” del Toro remembers. “I said, ‘F—, yeah!’ ! Because on the way to the finished screenplay, there were entire angles and ideas that we chopped off because they were too much.”
Instead, del Toro and co-writer Travis Beacham plan to delve deeper into the alien forces behind the kaiju (Japanese for “giant monsters”), who in the first film invade Earth from their so-called “antiverse” through a breach at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, only to be met by a last stand of human defenders (including Sons of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam). “They’re a race of blind consumers grabbing planets, consuming them, and moving to the next,” says del Toro. “The idea [with the sequel] is to explore a little bit of that. I won’t spoil it, but I don’t think we’ll repeat a single beat from the first movie.”
Pacific-rim.net has posted the latest Pacific Rim promo images! 1 shows a Kaiju skull and the other shows a torn down Golden Gate Bridge.
Piqued your interest? Read on to check out the new images!
If you’re ready for some lighthearted fun in the form of a mockbuster movie, then get ready for Atlantic Rim! This movie features extremely simple dialogue with robots that look like they’re right out of Real Steel fighting giant lizard monsters in cities. This movie features a bunch of people we haven’t heard of along with Treach from Naughty By Nature fighting “very large” monsters and stuff from the sea.
Trailer below:
Our sister site The Toyark has posted a new teaser image of the NECA 18 Inch Gipsy Danger Jaeger from the upcoming Pacific Rim! The image was tweeted by NECA.
Thanks to Comicguy89 for the heads up. Read on to check out the giant fully articulated Jaeger!
A new original Toku series, BIMA The Garuda Warrior is set to premiere in Indonesia on June 30th.
But what makes BIMA interesting is that it appears to be officially backed Ishimori Productions with merchandise provided by Bandai.
BIMA the Garuda Warrior tells the story of Ray, a young man from Earth chosen to protect the Earth from an evil named VUDO, whom is out to steal Earth’s natural resources
A trailer for this new show has just been released and can be seen in the link below:
Thanks to Tokunation member ComicGuy89 for the heads up!
