Obscure Adventures in Geek and Nerd Culture

In comparison to Taekwon V, Kinnikuman is crudely inspired by Indian Mythology, according to my surprise survey at USYD. 

This is why only Shōnen Keniya, Shōnen Brooba, Shōnen Urufu and Shōnen Ōja are remembered. Picture story Prince of the Jungle (密林の王子)  Author: Hiroshi Yada (矢田洋)  Illustrator: Tatsuji Ishii (石井達治) aka Hideo Kikawa (木川秀雄)  Picture story Jungle King (ジャングル大王) Author: Toshihiko Miya (宮敏彦)  Illustrator: Tetsuya Fukao (深尾徹哉)  Picture story Angel of the Jungle (密林の天使)  Author: Ken Sawada (沢田謙)  Illustrator: Takao Hashimoto (橋本隆雄) Picture story Princess of the Jungle (密林の王女)  Author: Osamu Hashimoto (蓮本おさむ)  Illustrator: Omizu Suzuki (鈴木御水)  Picture story Children of the Forest (森の子どもたち) Author: Kiyoshi Shimizu (清水暉吉)  Illustrator: Goichi Yanagawa (梁川剛一) 

Kamen Rider Eve is a so bad it’s good marvel at how the universe of the Kamen Rider manga really works. It’s not completed for a generally good reason due to the lengthy development hell of its concept character as a Kamen Rider himself.  Otherwise he looks like Sōji Yamakawa’s Tiger Boy, especially the postwar version in illustrated story form. I'd review this book next time! 

There is no major way that the anime industry would debut 4 whole generations of innovators and influential animators, without Sakuga for money. It sounds like overwork and quasi-slavery in an unsympathetic light, but those workers remain smart enough to have gained tons of money, so I am deeply thankful that Tokyo is recovering slowly but happily from WW2. 

I wish I had a very small car that looked like a budgerigar.  Well, my favourite cars are pretty small, what do you think? Essentially, turning a city car into a parade float still is more relevant than we thought. 

Now, if anyone can remember watching Disney’s Tarzan this frequently? If so, remember that the Johnny Weissmuller movies were much further from the sources (except the canon elements) than even the Disney films and tv show. That’s why the Disney version has become the most accessible and successful depiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan brand in recent years, admittedly still loose but great enough not to offend most of the staunchest relative purists, who have forgiven the Disney version for that reason.  The same might not be said for the Universe canonists, since they frankly do not publicly tolerate anything that’s not canon, which is perhaps why they still basically revise the frick out of canon Tarzan in order to keep the (Fundamentalist Christian soul frying) fanservice as the only intact point of the story, partly thanks to the Shōnen Jump meme worthy implications of the ERB Universe Tarzan being an orc-like destroyer of both humans and nonhumans alike, which perhaps is ...