I am getting sick of some people's ways of turning shit around.
Yes, MegaRanger and Jeff. I'm talking about you.
A lot of TV-Nihon people went to Otakon. Myself included. There was a panel by the company Media Blasters.
In the past a Media Blasters rep was quoted as saying they were interested in doing some tokusatsu in the near future. Key word here is "interested". This information came from MegaRanger of Japan Hero. That's cool. Way to go. Flash forward a bit. I think somewhere a Media Blaster's rep was asked the same question again and didn't know anything about it. As far as I know this was a different person than the original rep. From what I understand Jeff contacted Media Blasters personally and asked the question and again got the same thing. Media Blasters was interested in doing some toku.
Yes. I told people to stop lying when they were throwing names of shows around as "CONFIRMED" releases.
Flash forward to Otakon 2004. We were there. MegaRanger was there. Jeff was there somewhere too. (I'd have LOVED to have met these guys so they could see that I'm not some sort of terrorist...but alas.)
During the Media Blasters panel a question was asked (By MegaRanger) about the status of the toku projects from Media Blasters. The gentlemen said that they were still interested in Toku and were looking at options to get things started. From a business standpoint he basically said they're still working on getting started. He neither CONFIRMED nor DENIED that they have done anything beyond saying they want to do it. They have not said that they have done it.
I asked the question if they knew which shows they'd like to do. I'm rather curious if they want to go after the Super Sentai series that have been used by Disney for Power Rangers. He said they hadn't even started looking at which shows they'd want to do. I asked him if he knew about JapanHero.com. I was hoping maybe he knew about their efforts to get toku noticed by some of the anime companies. He said they'd seen it and have thought about picking it up. I didn't say anything more because I was rather confused by his answer.
I did not lead him to believe Japan Hero was a show. We are not subbing Japan Hero. (But maybe Hamtaro :O)
My final question for him was what could the people currently fansubbing tokusatsu do to help out an offical release. He said to keep subbing. He liked what we did and that fansubbers would be the first ones they would ask for help.
Afterwards he came over and spoke with KingRanger/DekaMaster and he gave him a business card with contact information and wanted some Kamen Rider subs.
MegaRanger: Did I steal your credit? No. Did I call you a liar? No.
Please. I'm really tired of seeing the slander over there. We're all fans. Cut it out and place nice. It also sucks that you guys STILL have me banned. It'd be nice to clear this shit up without having to post in public.
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