#OpeningTheme YATTERMAN 2008 平成版ヤッターマンオープニング w/ オリジナル山本まさゆきさん♪

Here is the fantastic opening to the 2008 reboot of Yatterman! I just dig the really funky retro opening theme. Enjoy!

MR Gatchaman Live Action

Battle of the Planets! Meet the G-Force, five incredible young people with superpowers! And watching over them from Centre Neptune, 7-Zark-7!

Watching, warning against surprise attacks by alien galaxies from beyond space. G-Force! Fearless young orphans, protecting Earth's entire galaxy.

Always five, acting as one. Dedicated! Inseparable! Invincible! 

Well, except when you do the origin story. Because these type of groups always start dysfunctional.
 

Ooh~wan, wan, wan, Ooh~jin, jin, jin. Yatta, yatta, yatta... Let's review TATSUNOKO series!

Battle of the Planets (comics)
Samurai Pizza Cats - Samurai Pizza Cats (NES)
Speed Racer
Yatterman (movie)

#AwesomeCosplayPicOfTheDay - Battle of the Gatchaman Fan-Forces

These dudes kick ass in their awesome Gatchaman cosplays:

Anyone got a source on this one, I'd gladly tag this post better!

MR Speed Racer

Go Speed Racer! Go!

 

Ooh~wan, wan, wan, Ooh~jin, jin, jin. Yatta, yatta, yatta... Let's review TATSUNOKO series!

Battle of the Planets (comics)
Samurai Pizza Cats - Samurai Pizza Cats (NES)
Yatterman (movie)

#OpeningTheme SPEED RACER 1967

Man, this old school theme song was so catchy and so funky!~

RR Samurai Pizza Cats

Who do you call when you want some pepperoni?

 

Ooh~wan, wan, wan, Ooh~jin, jin, jin. Yatta, yatta, yatta... Let's review TATSUNOKO series!

Battle of the Planets (comics)
Samurai Pizza Cats (NES)
Yatterman (movie)

RR Neon Genesis Evangelion (anime)

The year is 2015. The place: Tokyo-3. 

We take a break from our Halloween Marathon for the occasion. It all began exactly 20 years ago, on October 4.

Here's a great cult classic series that got so complicated, even the people making it had no idea what it was really talking about anymore...

Fly me to the moon, and let me review Evangelion among different mediums:

Neon Genesis Evangelion (manga)

CBR:Quickies Battle of the Planets (comics)

Battle of the Planets! G-Force, five incredible young people with superpowers! And watching over them from Centre Neptune, 7-Zark-7!

Watching, warning against surprise attacks by alien galaxies from beyond space. G-Force! Fearless young orphans, protecting Earth's entire galaxy.

Always five, acting as one. Dedicated! Inseparable! Invincible!

Check out more TATSUNOKO Production review below:

Yatterman (live)

Samurai Pizza Cats (NES)

#Movie NEWS! Gatchaman live

The Gatchaman live action film directed by Toya Sato came out last year.

But like most fans living outside Japan, I'm still waiting for a chance to watch it. Looks like I'll have to settle for the DVD release (it will no doubt feature English subtitles)

Here's one of the most recent trailers:



This looks fantastic! To most people either calling it a Japanese Avengers or "Gundam Live Action" (really??), one word: BOO! These were the original super anime team, the one and only "Science Ninja Team Gatchaman" aka Battle of the Planets back in the 1970s!

You know what, I can't wait for this!! Even though it seems to take itself way too seriously.. Oh, well! Wait and see...

#Anime NEWS! Time for a live GATCHAMAN movie!!!

Remember that CGi Science Ninja Team Gatchaman animated movie that the studio Imagi was making?
Remember?
Yeah. A shame it got canceled. Specially after all the hype it was starting to get and those teasers they showed at Comic-Con and all...

BUT HERE'S SOME GOOD NEWS, Everyone!
Japanese company Nikkatsu Studios are producing a live action version of Gatchaman for summer 2013!
Yeah!
A big budget Japanese live motion picture!
Honestly, it couldn't be better than that!

The movie will be directed by Toya Sato (live-action Grave of the Fireflies, Sexy Voice and Robo, Kaiji, Gokusen) will with a script by Yūsuke Watanabe (20th Century Boys, Gantz, Bloody Monday) and it will star.Tori Matsuzaka (.hack//The Movie, live-action Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, Kamen Rider Decade) as Ken, the head of the eponymous team.
Gō Ayano (second-in-command Jō), Ayame Gōriki (explosive yoyo-wielding Jun), Tatsuomi Hamada (youngest member Jinpei), and Ryōhei Suzuki (main pilot Ryū) round out the cast.

Can’t wait!

Let's hope this one doesn't get canned....

Source: courtesy from animenewsnetwork.

VGR Kyattou Ninden Teyandee (Nes)

How I love Tatsunoko Production's series~

Did you know a video game based on Samurai Pizza Cats was released for the Japanese NES, the Famicom?
Not that version of the show, the original Japanese version. So naturally the game stayed in Japan....

Let's check out their gaming debut and only starring role!

#OpeningTheme - Kyattou Ninden Teyandee

Speaking of Samurai Pizza Cats last week, I shoulda also post the original Japanese opening theme as well...

Here's Kyattou Ninden Teyandee!!



I love this theme song as well~

#OpeningTheme - Samurai Pizza Cats

Here's one of my all-time favorite intro from one of my all-time favorite cartoons/animes!
It's Tatsunoko's always classic Samurai Pizza Cats - which I found was quite missing from Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom's roster...

Anyway, enjoy!

Design - Samurai Pizza Cats cartmodd custom cover art

This is the cover & label I did for yet another cartmodd. This one was for a Pal fan-port of the unreleased Japanese-only Samurai Pizza Cats game.

I adore this one!
Very fun Mega Man-like title. Glad I can finally play it on my own Nes instead of emulation!
Please! Do not ask for these! This was a personal job, not outsourcing the work to other people. If you want me to work out something for you, I will do so for money only~

Design © Eyz 2012.
Game and work based on a propriety © Tatsunoko
Not for commercial use!

Gatchaman promotes Monster Hunter

Okay, this is random...



Thanks to Sam for the heads-up!

Source: Destructoid

ComicPageOfTheWeekend: Battle of the Planets

Here's a beautiful painting by Alex Ross for a Gatchaman miniseries that never came out, supposed to closethe TOP COW on-going series. (which I might talk about on this blog at some point, being a Tatsunoko fan and all that~)

(Click for bigger pic)

Battle of the Planets © Top Cow

MR Yatterman

A new movie review for the day!
I really wanted to make this one for quite some time...
Finally managed to find some time for it now~

Manga NEWS! Battle of the Planets - reborn!

You probably wouldn't guess it... but I'm a huuuuuuuuuge Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets fan!!

Now, I'm not here to talk about the classic anime series...or the great comic book revival. But about the CGi movie that has been in development hell for a very long time.

We need another Tatsunoko vs. Capcom

Warning: this is a little "conversion" from an old dA discussion which I thought had its place in this blog as well.

Since a new "VS series" is coming from Capcom, Marvel vs Capcom 3, I was thinking...
We should totally get another TvC at some point.
Or else, it will look like Capcom was just testing the market, if fans were all waiting for another MvC game, and Tatsunoko was just a little warm-up for the new MvC.

And it isn't.
It's a very fun game, very dynamic and nervous, which may look simple and a bit simplified but is pretty deep when you go for it and play it several times on harder difficulty and online!

Look at that! All the current VS game I got from Capcom (and SNK!)

8 Bit music - Pizza Cats, Mazingaaah Zetto and Do-ronbooooo!

Hello gang!
Remember that post a while ago?
Here's 3 more old "8 bit interpretations" I've uploaded on my youtube account some months ago.
Once again, all done with the program FL Studio 8 with the plugin magical8bit!


Samurai Pizza Cats 8 bit 

This one is dated from 26 juillet 2009.
First of all, I'd say this one's of my few favorite interpretations. I usually don't like looking back at what I've done some time after. Be it drawings, music, etc...
But this one sounds still pretty decent to me now.
A bit harder to get right, I played a long time in FL studio to get the sound and rythm that way.


Mazinger Z theme song 8 bit 

From 29 septembre 2009.
More Mazingaaah! I love all the catchy original japanese songs the whole Mazinger series used!
I had to do this one!


Tensai Doronbo 8 bit

23 mars 2010.
I gotta admit, I don't really like looking back at this one... Could have been a lot better.. Some background "voices" are pretty bad. I should have used other ways to replicate those sounds... (maybe use less tracks, less sounds...)

That's all I've done so far!
So stay tuned, if I do more, you guys and gals on this blog will be the first to know of it! (with the other 2 guys watching my youtube account)