Congratulations to the Democratic Party of Japan for beating the conservative Liberal Democratic Party which has held power for over 50 years, thus bringing some much needed change to the country's democratic politics. No, I don't find there names confusing, why do you ask?

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The other is a children's Japanese video featuring Lego-like people and the Tomica brand vehicles. We subbed one of these before, check it out, it's cute!
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Sending you my love...

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Front page pic from this site

Labels: Garo, Music

The word:
懐 【ふところ】
Futokoro (n) (1) bosom, bust, (2) (breast) pocket, purse, handbag

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正夢 【まさゆめ】
Masayume (n) dream that comes true

Don't confuse it with Uramasa!

Bonus:

Wiiiiiiiii!!!!

Finale!
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Labels: HD, Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider Decade

When these five heroes combine, nothing can defeat them! Pic courtesy of Arigomi

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Labels: HD, Rescue Fire, Tomica Hero

I actually wanted to write something about the allure of medieval fantasy on geeks since The Guild came out with a cool music video last week.


But on a dare, this week we'll be putting on our overthinking it hats, and talk the significance of crossdressing in Japanese media.

What is it about the many instances of Japanese guys going in drag? Is it because Japan's celebrities look more female in general? Is it to appeal to females by using a power/gender paradigm? Does effeminating men equal making them weaker/accessible to females? Maybe they do it just because it's funny? And why do women like yaoi so much as represented in the manga documentary, Genshiken?

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Labels: Cool

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Labels: Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider Faiz

"Look at all that pink and purple... Our money sure is gay." - Homer Simpson's Brazilian kidnappers

Decade promo, DVD version of the release meeting, Shinken Movie Promo, and another Ganbarie Commercial Man, what a nice package we have!

W promo, with its sneaky sneaky preview

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Labels: CM, HD, Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider Decade, Kamen Rider W

Rescue! Combine into Great Nessie!

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The word:
成仏 【じょうぶつ】
Joubutsu (n,vs) enter Nirvana, become a Buddha, go to heaven, rest in peace, die (peacefully), enter Soul Society

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Picture courtesy of someone on the forums

Word of the episode:
喚く 【わめく】
Wameku (v5k) (uk) to shout, to cry, to scream, to clamour


One more left?!
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Souchaku!

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Part man, part machine. All cop!

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Folks, I've got some bad news for you and some good news for you

First, we're canceling all our shows

Second, we're going to pick up the greatest hero show of all time to work on

Bibleman!


It's Jesus Time!

Blocks!

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Allow me to take you away from the action filled stimulus of tokusatsu to put on your overthinkingit caps for just a moment.

So recently a discussion came up on the forum about what is and what isn't offensive. I think it'd be interesting to have an open discussion of the matter.

From a personal standpoint, I think the Penny Arcade guys hit the nail on the head with this campaign. The spirit of the matter is worth championing. Y'know, "don't be assholes to people who are different". But the naivete of the way the message is being done is off putting. Like the stupid flash thing in the corner that tells people not to call each other "dicks" or "geeks". You're basically overshooting the goal and trying to purify humans into things that they are not meant to be.

From a #TV-Nihon standpoint, we don't censor our translations nor do we censor non-ignorant opinions on the forums. We don't overcompensate for political correctness and there are times when I outright break character to make an ironic point. Like the issue of swear words in our subs has been a battle fought since the very existence of the group.

My basic opinion is that people don't have the right to be offended if no offense was meant. What people should be disgusted with is ignorant thinking or behavior. Like if little kids walk by and they're calling each other "gay" and "noobs", they're probably not homophobes, but they still sound ignorant, right?

It's like the difference between manners and courtesy. One is about following rules set by society that you may or may not agree with. The other is about acting appropriately within a certain context to not be a dick.
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Now this is a true samurai

Word of the episode:
歪 【いびつ】
Ibitsu (adj-na,adj-no,n) oval, elliptical, distorted, crooked, irregular, warped

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I was also told to plug "Kamen Rider Super 1" performed by SHEJA which people can download from the iTunes store. I guess it's some fan tribute to Kamen Rider

Labels: HD, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger

Eei!

Today's word:
反乱反乱 【はんらん】
Hanran (n) insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, uprising, (P)

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So we've got a request for a translation of the Rescue Fire battle song "Rescue Dreams"

Anyone want to take a stab at it? Here's the lyrics

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Labels: Music, Rescue Fire, Tomica Hero

Epic space battle!

Labels: HD, Rescue Fire, Tomica Hero

Ryuki 19-37 batched for your convenience

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So the processed videos and karaoke are done, allowing me to announce the winners of the Kiva music video contest

PRSentai got the most votes, followed up by Kadam and Gearchi. Congratulations to these three

If we hold another contest, I would like to suggest that people find a better video editor and codec than WMV. There's just something about wmv that kind of make the video look mucky:


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Don't forget to check out the runner-ups

Labels: Kamen Rider Kiva

Whoa, are you a girl?

Are you not a girl?

Are you unable to jump?!

Also, what do people here do for a living? Do we have any professionals or anything, or just mostly college and high school students?

Plug: Recently I've been really enjoying the Overthinkingit.com Podcast that got plugged from the Jick show. As a geek, it's just important to find something mentally nourishing. It's fun for me to listen to several smart guys talk about pop culture. You may recognize their site as the one that created the I will always have been back: A Grand Unified Theory of Schwarzenegger. Fellow overthinkers, you owe it to yourself to give it a listen

And to think, this pic was PowerRanger.jpg or something when I found it

Word of the episode:
印籠 【いんろう】
Inrou (n) seal case, pill box, medicine case

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Plug: Lego Shinkenger! Check it out yo!

Labels: HD, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger

It was Cheetah's (Decade's typesetter for you dirty people who don't read the credits) birthday last week and so it's my yearly tradition of using his cake as a front page pic. His mom made that, guess we know where that talent comes from!

Word of the episode:
主義 【しゅぎ】
Shugi (n) doctrine, rule, principle


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The pseudo sequel to Magi versus Deka and the only Bouken versus Magi that you're going to get! It's Chou Ninja Tai! Two great short films starring beloved Sentai casts. See Metal Gear Solid 3 poster girl Yamasaki Mami star in the sequel!

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"This was the best musical about a show about men fighting to the death over high school sports ever" -JollyOldSaint

This batch includes
Drama complete series
OP/ED karaoke music videos
The musical
Bonus comedy sketch

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Labels: Batch, Fuuma no Kojirou, Jdorama, Music

A rocking adventure in space! Pretty cool episode as always

大当たり 【おおあたり】
Ooatari (n) big hit, big prize, bumper crop, striking it rich, right on the mark, bonanza, (P)

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There's a couple toku webcomics that I'd like to have translated. Do we have any translators who would want to take a crack at them? E-mail me if you're interested.

Got Toku T-shirt?

Latest Girls In Uniform News: Mele is coming

Henshin!

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Kiri 【きり】 (n) fog, mist, (P)

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It's kind of funny how even on our forums, we organize ourselves around our real life identities.

Like, are you black? Asian? The Filipino thread is ridiculously active. Plus there are a bunch of regional threads in our members only forum.

But you know, it seems like these subcategories are lacking something. Maybe a thread for white people. You know, so they can be empowered. Or maybe a thread for females. That way guys won't have to ask "you're a girl?!" in stunned in credulousness each time. I don't see how anything can go wrong with these ideas.

Looks like we've found our seventh samurai!

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御付き 【おつき】
Otsuki (n) retainer, attendant, escort
It's literally the o/go kanji for politeness plus tsuki which means "to stick with"

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