Kinchan no Kasoh Taisho
I used to watch this show when I was in Japan. You have got to hand it to our Japanese friends for their totally out-of-this-world-ideas and the effort they put into making these ideas into something a lot tangible and sugoku sugoi! Remember Matrix Pingpong? Well, the popular Kinchan no Kasoh Taisho has spawned new talents this year. I find this the most “sugoi” one: Japanese Human Art – Why Is My Girlfriend Mad?...
Movie adaptations bastardizations
Look who recently dropped out of the Punisher role. In an e-mail from the man himself, Thomas Jane shares this sentiments: I regretfully and painfully had to pull out of P2. I can’t tell you how completely broken up I am about it. Punisher fans are already fighting an uphill battle as it is. And I’ve always felt a responsibility to fight that fight for them and with them so that Frank Castle gets the treatment he deserves....
F4 turns JVKV
Thanks to Kirby for the tip! Naks, may mga informants na kami 😛 Anyway, because of the Japanese drama Hana Yori Dango’s increasing popularity, the producer behind the Taiwanese version Meteor Garden has decided to rename the group F4 (a.k.a. Jerry Yan, Vic Zhou, Ken Chu, and Vanness Wu). You know, THAT group that made many Pinays (and the rest of Asia… but don’t include me) drool and/or swoon, and boys take a salon...
Transformers: Animated series to launch on the Cartoon Network
With all the new Transformers brouhaha with the impending release of the live-action/CGI movie (sure, Optimus Prime will be cool again), here’s news for Transformers fans. They’d be doing another animated run called Transformers: Animated which will launch on the Cartoon Network by fall in the US. This would be the newest installation on animated Transformers since they’ve turned Optimus into a butt-scratching cyborg...
Wing Zero does Village People
Wala kayo sa Gundam ko! Enjoy!
GMA is remaking Shaider
Photo courtesy of JapanHero.com As an 80s baby, I can be very sentimental. And since we’ve recently gone nostalgic, even more so. Imagine my shock when I found out that GMA has acquired the license for one of the most-loved icons of that time: Shaider. From GMANews.TV: GMA-7 acquires Shaider, to air Pinoy version 05/08/2007 | 12:26 PM Shaider, or Uchuu Keiji Shaider (English translation: Space Sheriff Shaider), is a Japanese...