prometheus126
10-27-2008, 12:19 AM
hey, I didn't know I had a place to introduce myself before I started posting so I kinda guess I did a wrong here :oops:
hey everyone at tokusatsu fusion! names prometheus126 A.K.A the great grand pubar. I hadn't known for the longest time that there was an actually fan base for these kinds of shows in america, let alone forums where I could talk about them. it really is suprising I'm not the only person in america who likes them and proves that I'm not insane for liking them (which alot of my friends tell me.)
I grew up during the great power rangers boom in the early nineties. I still remember when I saw the commercial for power rangers, I thought "it's good that they're making a show like this again!" only a little later did I understand the contradictiveness of that statement (that I didn't know of tokusatsu shows and that this was one of them nor that we had brought others of its kind out here.) easily enough I bacame addicted to power rangers and then to other shows of it's ilk that were brought over here and edited for broadcasting: vr troopers, big bad beetleborgs, masked rider, gridman and the such.
when I really discovered tokus was when I was fourteen and I went over to my ex-girlfriends house. her brother, kazuya, was a known bootlegger and a pretty good friend to me on his own right. when I went over to their house, I went to say "hey" to kazuya and found him copying vhs copies of ohranger. I said "what are you doing? watching power rangers?" he looked at me and said "not power rangers you idiot!! ohranger!" and then gave me some copies of dairanger and jetman to watch. they were raw but even then I had a decent understanding of the japanese language and could watch them (even though it was extremely hard figuring out everything. I'm still not perfect with the nippon tongue -_-) either way though I still fell inlove with them.
since then I've been an avid fan of the genre and watch an episode of one series or another each and every day. it's hard most of the time to be a tokusatsu fan in america, with the fact that whenever a toku comes to america it gets edited to the point where the original content is almost none existing. (juukuu b-fighters. though I haven't seen it, I'm almost positive it had no similarity to big bad beetle borgs.)
here I hope to get to known many fellow fans of this genre of shows, whom I can't find all that much in my area (I moved away from my old friend kazuya and even then I didn't know that many who knew of the shows, and they were all in the chinatown I used to live in.) hopefully I'll get to know more people, learn about other tokus I don't know about, and just plain have a good time discussing one of my favorite things from the land of the rising sun
hope to get to know the lot of ya! peace!:bye:
hey everyone at tokusatsu fusion! names prometheus126 A.K.A the great grand pubar. I hadn't known for the longest time that there was an actually fan base for these kinds of shows in america, let alone forums where I could talk about them. it really is suprising I'm not the only person in america who likes them and proves that I'm not insane for liking them (which alot of my friends tell me.)
I grew up during the great power rangers boom in the early nineties. I still remember when I saw the commercial for power rangers, I thought "it's good that they're making a show like this again!" only a little later did I understand the contradictiveness of that statement (that I didn't know of tokusatsu shows and that this was one of them nor that we had brought others of its kind out here.) easily enough I bacame addicted to power rangers and then to other shows of it's ilk that were brought over here and edited for broadcasting: vr troopers, big bad beetleborgs, masked rider, gridman and the such.
when I really discovered tokus was when I was fourteen and I went over to my ex-girlfriends house. her brother, kazuya, was a known bootlegger and a pretty good friend to me on his own right. when I went over to their house, I went to say "hey" to kazuya and found him copying vhs copies of ohranger. I said "what are you doing? watching power rangers?" he looked at me and said "not power rangers you idiot!! ohranger!" and then gave me some copies of dairanger and jetman to watch. they were raw but even then I had a decent understanding of the japanese language and could watch them (even though it was extremely hard figuring out everything. I'm still not perfect with the nippon tongue -_-) either way though I still fell inlove with them.
since then I've been an avid fan of the genre and watch an episode of one series or another each and every day. it's hard most of the time to be a tokusatsu fan in america, with the fact that whenever a toku comes to america it gets edited to the point where the original content is almost none existing. (juukuu b-fighters. though I haven't seen it, I'm almost positive it had no similarity to big bad beetle borgs.)
here I hope to get to known many fellow fans of this genre of shows, whom I can't find all that much in my area (I moved away from my old friend kazuya and even then I didn't know that many who knew of the shows, and they were all in the chinatown I used to live in.) hopefully I'll get to know more people, learn about other tokus I don't know about, and just plain have a good time discussing one of my favorite things from the land of the rising sun
hope to get to know the lot of ya! peace!:bye: