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Look, a non-Toei Sentai series

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https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/07/two-men-who-died-in-ne-portland-fire-on-july-4-are-identified-as-fire-investigators-continue-to-investigate-cause.html

We believe this is our friend Hitchbro (Seth Robert Thompson) died in that fire. I've e-mailed his e-mail and his friend to double check, but if this is him, this is a terrible lost. He was a good dude, he did some qc for us, and part of the tReading the Path of Heaven podcast where they talked Asian light novels:
https://media.zencast.fm/treading-the-path-of-heaven

It was always a delight when he visited our chat. I think everyone enjoyed his company and are saddened by his loss.

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Happy Tanabata Day! We should redo Densha Otoko

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"Rewrite the story" is sung by the actors for Touma, Rintarou, and Kento

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Kyuusei Sentai Wakusaver, a 5 episode web series and a 6th on DVD. (And a porno movie to come?)

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Chousoku Para Hero Gandin (Is this name right? The English in the logo is confusing...). A 3 episode series.

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I guess this is our first new series since cancelling Zenkaiger and Saber? Please enjoy Japanese cooking show episode 1!

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I just saw this movie. If you haven't seen it yet, you can buy it August 4th on Blu-ray. If you live in Japan you can stream it, cause they released it early, I guess? Gotta say, kind of disincentivizes people from buying your Blu-ray if you have two different releases, Mr. Toei. I can call you, Mr. Toei, right? While we're here, I have some other thoughts on your more recent series...

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Where's the rest of the set?

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These two are siblings

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Our forum member Ashki  is looking for some help with a toku CD project:

I'm looking for other enthusiasts to join me in my quest to create the definitive tokusatsu music archive. If you:

* have albums and can provide high quality scans of the discs and media, and/or provide fresh rips of the tracks (FLAC or 320kbps, I can easily convert the former while editing)
* know of good resources that have high quality rips or have knowledge about rare releases or variants

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For those of you interested in this food item from Zenkaiger, Luna found the recipe and actually made it:

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Apparently I was missing 1-5, and several episodes from series 2. Thanks to rooftopa for pointing this out and Verus for helping to fill gaps in my collection. If you've used the previous batch, please jump on the new one to fill out your collection!

If you haven't seen this series before, Jinnai Tomonori is a comedian and this series is a bunch of his different sketches. Pretty easy, pretty breezy. A fun little pick me up and cut down into very digestible pieces!

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https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-05-30/hawaii-kiku-tv-to-stop-...

For you older folks, I'm sure you remember stuff from Kiku TV. I remember my co-worker telling me about watching Kamen Rider when it came to the San Francisco Bay Area. I think they're the ones who brought Japanese dramas to network TV when I was watching them in the early late 1990s/ early 2000s

Sad to hear this happen, but not surprised

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Apparently I'm missing them so the batch was also. E-mail me or PM me on the forums, thanks!

• [T-N]NetaJin2_-_03AlwaysWantedToTryPart1[10A37EEB].avi

• [T-N]NetaJin2_-_07Alibi[8AF68A26].avi

• [T-N]NetaJin2_-_09AlwaysWantedToTryPart3[4FFFAABF].avi

• [T-N]NetaJin2_-_10Proposal[752C73FC].avi

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