Obscure Adventures in Geek and Nerd Culture

As sad as so many young people around the world still feel, Akira Toriyama has finally joined the Goat Pop Culture Heaven as of this writing.  Mitsuteru Yokoyama died at nearly 70 years old in April 2004, when I was only turning three. He was an overworked smoker, who otherwise made Babel II and the most iconic Romance of The Three Kingdoms manga in the world. He truly was the father of the mons trope, but with a super robot named Tetsujin 28Go, who is so cute even grannies wanna hug him. Giant Robo’s also an honorary candidate, since it has one of the greatest miniseries in anime history and one of the most memetic Tokusatsu hits before the birth of Super Sentai.  Sally the Witch, although a sleeper hit in the world of Shōjo manga oldies, had the first of magical girl anime adaptations, which gained a surprisingly more mature remake/sequel for the Heisei period’s beginning. Princess Comet was a pioneer for fellow girly franchises, which came in both Tokusatsu and manga forms....

This is a reissue for Hakusensha which will contain 10 books about Barumba himself in a lot of detail.  For Hakusensha (all revised and drawn by Shinobu Ohtaka)  Barumba To the Rescue!  Japanese (バールンーバが助けに来る)  Foreign, non-English versions: Croatian (Barumba u pomoć!), Danish (Barumbar til undsætning!), Dutch (Barumba schiet te Hulp!), German (Barumba zur Rettung!), Italian (Barumba Alla Riscossa!)  Barumba and The Incoming Expedition  Japanese (バールンーバとこれから来る遠征隊) Foreign, non-English versions: Italian (Barumba e la Spedizione in Arrivo)  Barumba’s Journey  Japanese (バールンーバの旅)  Foreign, non-English versions: Croatian (Barumbino putovanje), Dutch (Barumba's reis), German (Barumbas Reise)  Barumba’s Strong Stench  Japanese (強い悪臭のバールンーバ)  Foreign, non-English versions: Croatian (Barumbin jak Smrad), Dutch (Barumba’s Sterke stank) German (Barumbas Starker Gestank)  Barumba the Globetrotter Japanese (地球の旅人バールンーバ) Foreign, non-E...

Hi there musical fans, did Tarzan appear in a couple of non-Anglophone Germanic Musicals? I guess they’re all based on the Broadway model.  The Dutch Scheveningen musical has a lot of actors. Ron Link and John Vooijs played the Dutch Tarzan, while Jane Porter was played by the Dutch Chantal Jantzen.  The Dutch dudes who played Young Tarzan are Tim Koper, the Indonesian-Dutch Jai Wowor, Machiel Verbeek, Ralf Mackenbach, Marc Molenaar, Sander Pieterse, Jary Beekhuizen, Wessel van der Kraan, Nicky Luyten, Bas Kerst, Floris Draaisma, Melle Rigter, Lars Molengraaf, Remy Borsboom, Peter de Kroon, Tjesse Bleijenberg, Willem Schenk, the Swedish Pelle Nelissen, Luuk Hartog, Max van Alphen, Enzo Coenen, Valentijn Hoogwerf, Brenn Luiten, Tjeerd Melchers, Christian Nieuwenhuizen and the Italo-Dutch Vinni Peverelli.  The Hamburg part of the rather well loved German Hamburg/Stuttgart/Oberhausen musical first appeared in 2008 and featured two hot guys as the Hamburg Tarzan, Anton Zetter...

The Square Enix World Adventure Classics Line will consist mainly of adventure stories from around the world. Singular Stories  Shunro Oshikawa’s The Mysterious Shining Tower  František Flos’ The Congolian Frontier (1932) Jan Paul Valkema Blouw’s The Dark Amazonian Wilderness (1938)   Jan Paul Valkema Blouw’s The Great Safari (1944)  Shunro Oshikawa’s The Hero and The Beauty of the Trees  The Mysterious Amazonia Series  Gastão Cruls’ The Mysterious Amazonia (1928)  The Apemen’s Island Series  Jan Paul Valkema Blouw’s The Apemen’s Island (1926)  Franjo Fuis’ The Twitching Rainforest (1938)  The Mistress of the World Series  Carl Figdor’s The Mistress of The World (1919)  Carl Figdor’s Robbers, Gods and Madame Adele (1927)  The Princess Suwarin Series  Ludwig Wolff’s The Kanon of Okadera (1921)  Princess Suwarin (1922)