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We don’t often advertise podcasts or YouTube updates of people not associated with our site, but we’re making a special exception in this case. Our dear friends for many years, the folks at the Ranger Command Power Hour podcast, have released their 100th episode. In celebration of 100 episodes, they’ve done a crossover episode featuring appearances from nearly every single guest host they’ve had over the last 3 years.

We do play a special part in this episode – @TokuChris (TokuNation webmaster) wrote the script and has an appearance, along with @DenO_TokuNation (TokuNation Content Administrator) and @SoulInkChu (TokuNation Public Relations) representing our former podcast Talkin Toku.

Click here and listen to the episode coming in at an impressive 35 minutes. Congratulations to Ranger Command Power Hour for 100 episodes and for setting the standard of how professional, entertaining podcasts should be.

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Kamen Rider Climax Fighters was announced not too long ago for the Playstation 4. It’s a fighting game featuring all titular 19 Hesei-era Kamen Riders – from Kamen Rider Kuuga to Kamen Rider Build. Are there more? Possibly – we have to wait and see. But the big news coming today, courtesy of Playstation Lifestyle, is that Kamen Rider Climax Fighters will be the first main Kamen Rider game to receive localizations throughout Asia.

Why is that news? Well, because Bandai Namco localizations in certain areas of Asia – such as Southeastern Asia – receive the game in English. That’s right – it looks as if Bandai Namco will release the game in Southeastern Asia in the English language (text-wise, at least).

While a release of Kamen Rider Climax Fighters in the West is absolutely slim at best, a chance for fans to import the game in English at the very least seems high. We’ve included pictures courtesy of Playstation Lifestyle in the article so check it out!

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For you, Garo fans out there, a pair of teasers has just been released for Garo’s third anime installment: Garo Vanishing Line!

Garo: Vanishing Line is set in the near future, In a prosperous city named Russell City, an omen that threatens to shake its world begins to move within it. A man named Sword is the first to hear the first stirrings of the plot and throws himself into a shadow war in order to expose it. His only clue is the key word “El Dorado.” He meets Sophie, a woman searching for her missing older brother who has only left her with the same words: “El Dorado.” With Sword having also lost his younger sister in the past, both are drawn together by the words and work together to find out its meaning.

Garo: Vanishing Line will be premiering sometime in October 2017. In the meantime, you can view the teasers in the video below courtesy of The Tokusatsu Network.

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Jungle Beast, Spirit Unleashed!

The good people at Shout! Factory have announced the next Power Rangers Complete Series DVD set- Power Rangers Jungle Fury!

This 4-disc set contains all 32 episodes depicting the Jungle Fury Rangers face off against Dai Shi to stop the Great Beast War.

Power Rangers Jungle Fury: The Complete Series will be released on December 12 2017! The price is a very modest $16.97 USD and the set can now be preordered from Shout!’s main site.

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HYPER CAST OFF.

Finally, after months of teasing Bandai is gearing up to release it’s forthcoming S.H.Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider Kabuto Hyper Form. Ahead of the actual pre orders going live, Bandai’s Tamashii Tamshii Web Page was just updated with all of the release info in addition to some teaser images.

Pre orders for S.H.Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider Kabuto Hyper Form will open September 16th, 2017 and will see a release sometime February 2018. The Figuarts will retail for a rather pricey at 7080 yen, but will include removable Zecters, and a pair of impressive effect wings.

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Just like Nickelodeon and Power Rangers Ninja Steel, Customs Corner comes back from a month long hiatus. Where we last left off, it was March and we had seen Grimlockimus’s large-scale project- the Original Color Movie Megazord. But while many enjoy the large scale items, what about the smaller scaled ones? What about the Ranger Keys or the Bandai of America Ranger and Monster figures? Well, look no further than one of our site member’s works! This month’s featured article is on ZeltraxMillenium, an old acquaintance of mine and a fellow customizer. Here, you can check out his gallery of past works, as well as read up on his interview in the discussion below.

Be sure to give him a follow on his Twitter account, @ZeltraxMilleniu!

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A brand new Power Rangers Ninja Steel airs this coming Saturday. The episode is titled “Ace and the Race”, and features the Power Rangers competing in various athletic competitions with a monster to save their friends. Check out the preview clip below.

You can catch a brand new Power Rangers Ninja Steel this Saturday on Nickelodeon. Check your local listings for air time in your area.

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A report today from various news sources (we’ve chosen to look at BusinessInsider.com) tells us that Toys’R’Us is spending a lot more money than it has been earning over the last fiscal year – to the point of $400 million dollars more – and has hired a law firm to help consolidate its debt while considering the option of filing for bankruptcy protection.

This is not the first time the retail toy store has dealt with financial woes – in 2003 the company closed 180 stores across the country.

Toys’R’Us blames a large portion of their current losses not to a failing toy industry but to losses from its Babies’R’Us sister store, which saw over a 3.0% decline in year over year sales and a massive drop in diaper purchases as consumers can find cheaper deals for their infant and toddler necessities online. Either way, if Toys’R’Us shuts down more stores or ends up going out of business altogether, fans of Power Rangers wonder what the future of the Legacy toy line may be.

With the release of the Power Rangers Movie failing to meet expectations, the movie toy line warming shelves in stores, and the Power Rangers Ninja Steel toy line already hitting clearance prices across the country, having the biggest partner of the franchise possibly go under is not something to keep one optimistic about a future of increasingly expensive Power Rangers collector items.

We should know more about this on September 26th when the next earnings report is due to be made public. With the hiring of a private law firm to work on consolidating debt, we assume the report will be dismal at best. Stay tuned for more news on the future of Toys’R’Us.

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The popular South Korean tokusatsu series, Legend Hero (or Legend Hero Three Kingdoms) recently concluded it’s English closed caption run on YouTube with the English translation of the 50th episode now available online. The series started off as incredibly popular with tokusatsu fans across the world but seemed to fade away during its tenure. With the full series now online, officially, with an English subtitle translation available, the show is beginning to gain some more momentum.

During the run of the series there was a segment of episodes that was seen as one of the more pivotal stories in the entire series. That story line ran through the 24th and 27th episodes. Two episodes ended up having to cut over 15 minutes when it aired on television – the 26th and 27th episodes. It was later released in a special screening as “Legend Hero EX” or “Legend Hero Three Kingdoms EX“.

Today, the official YouTube channel for Legend Hero released a trailer for Legend Hero EX with a “stay tuned next week” message. Check out the video below.

The clips shown lead one to believe that we are finally getting a release of the cut footage from Episodes 26 and 27. Linked to this news post is our special Legend Hero Full Series Info discussion thread. Be sure to check it out if you have interest in the series.

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“Watch as I become the Emperor of the Galaxy!”

8 years ago Ultraman Belial made his debut in Mega Monster Battle, and ever since we’ve seen dark ripples related to him throughout the Ultra universe. One of the darkest villains this franchise has ever seen, Belial has persisted to fight heroes at every turn even beyond his own multiple deaths. And even despite his evil, he’s managed to spawn a heroic son in Ultraman Geed. Despite his prominence Belial has only ever received a couple of really nice collector oriented figures. So given Geed’s popularity we wanted to do a throwback gallery to the original Ultra-Act Ultraman Belial!

One of the oldest Ultra-Act releases in the line, in fact the 2nd, Ultraman Belial still holds up pretty well all these years later. While not perfect, Belial has a surprising amount of personality and is an intricately detailed figure. Actually Belial even has a really great set of accessories. His alternate claw hands, the Giga Battle Nizer in 2 configurations, and even specific effect parts for the Belial Shot & Belial Deathscythe attacks! Frankly this is an incredible release for the time.

We’ve attached the full gallery of over 70 images to this post, but you can also check out a full review in the gallery thread by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post. We’ll be back soon with another exciting gallery as well.