Spring Anime 2019 Preview: One Punch Ultra Titan!

Hello everyone! This is my preview for the upcoming Spring anime 2019 which begin this April! (Some of the series synopsis are taken from other sources)

Kenja no Mago: Shin was reincarnated into the grandson of the most powerful wizard in the land. With amazing talents in magic, Shin will begin his adventures as the strongest wizard!

Isekai Quartet: A fun and cute crossover series featuring the cast of Overlord, Konosuba, Youjou Senki and Re: Zero!

Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai: Watch Yuiga Nariyuki tutors 3 different girls who are genius in one subject field but failed in another or more field!

Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!?: A cute and ecchi comedy about 4 boys who has the worst luck with their hated teachers but always end up together in all sort of embarrassing situations!

Kimetsu no Yaiba: Tanjiro's family was murdered by a mysterious vampirc demon and his sister, Nezuko has been turned into one. However she was able to retain her humanity and a demon slayer instructed Tanjiro to become a demon slayer himself in order to slay the demon and undo his sister's curse.

Fruits Basket 2019: A remake of the popular 90s shoujo manga/anime series. Tohru Honda lost her mother recently and she pitched a tent next to the Sohma residence. Honda also discovered the Sohma has a family curse and got involved in it...

Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga Dekinai: Ao has a terrible childhood since her Erotic author father name her Ao claiming A is for Apple and O is for Orgy. Years later, Ao who has little interactions with boys was confessed by her male classmate, Kijima and her mind started wander all sort of erotic thoughts...

Fairy Gone: A war between fairies and humans has ended but the government created Dorothea in order to investigate the remnants of the fairies who hide in the shadows...

Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san: Nakano, a salaryman working for an exploitative company, is suddenly intruded upon by Senko-san, a 800 year old Fox spirit who promise to take care of him physically and mentally!

Nobunaga-sensei no Osanazuma: Nobunaga is a middle school teacher when a young girl named Kichou who is supposedly the real life wife of Oda Nobunaga appeared through a time slip and want to mate the present Nobunga in this romantic comedy!

Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO: Based on the 90s adult PC game of the same name, it tells the story of Takuya who discovered a device that his missing father left behind which enable him to travel to alternative dimensions!

Gunjou no Magmel: A mysterious island appeared in the middle of the Pacific ocean and now every superpowers is competing to discover the secret of the Island!

Carole and Tuesday: Mankind has made Mars a living colony. Two complete strangers, Carole and Tuesday meet by fate and learn they want to play music together!

Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine: Girls and Baseball, nuff said!

Han-Gyaku-sei Million Arthur S2: 2nd Season of the wacky adventures of our 6 warriors who has to destroy the Million of fake Excalibur in order to get back home!

Laidbackers: Kumi moved into her grandmother's dagashi shop and met 3 people who claimed to be reincarnations of heroes who are after the demon king in present time and true enough, the demon king existed inside a little girl!

Cannon Busters: S.A.M, a friendly droid and his fellow allies goes on an adventure to save S.A.M's friend who is a heir of a fallen kingdom!

Strike Witches: 501-butai Hasshin Shimasu: Watch as the 501 squadron aka Strike Witches carry on their everyday lives while they are not battling Neuroi!

Chou Kadou Girl ⅙: Amazing Stranger: Haruto bought a 1/6 female action figure named Nona who suddenly came to life and begin the everyday life between Haruto and Nona!

Attack on Titans S3: The 2nd half of Season 3 continue!

One Punch Man S2: The continuing adventures of Saitama who is unknowingly is the strongest hero as new allies and enemies appear in the new season!

ULTRAMAN: Years ago, Ultraman came to Earth to defend from aliens invaders and monsters. After Ultraman separate from his human host Hayata and returned to the stars, Hayata started a family and has a son, Shinjiro. It was then both father and son inherited the Ultra genes which gave them superpowers and now new threats has appeared on Earth again!

From the title of this post, you know that I am anticipating these few titles but mostly Ultraman since he is one of my childhood hero and I did a review of the first volume of the manga on this blog before. Anyway, I hope that Ultraman will be good and seeing it is only getting 13 episode, I am guessing the story will probably end with the Ace Suit Arc. (The manga got better after that with the aliens went full invasion in New York and show all the main characters at their best)

One Punch Man was an absolute blast in the first season and hopefully it continue since we are getting the Gauro Arc in the second season which showed a pretty bad ass Gauro who started off as a hero killer but later become an anti hero of sort.

Kenja no Mago, Isekai Quartet, Nande Koko ni Sensei ga and Kimetsu no Yaiba are also shows that I am looking for to. Until then, see you in April for the new shows!

Let's Talk a Bit Ep 1: Ultraman

Hello 2016, everyone! I am starting a new series on my Youtube channel called Let's Talk a Bit that I will talk about some things about some of my favourites shows and series. The first one is one of my
favourite Childhood heroes-Ultraman!

My video and audio skills are not so good but I hope you will enjoy it!

Graphic Novel Review: ULTRAMAN Volume 1 (Retro Hero, New Concept)

Hello everyone! This is my review of ULTRAMAN the graphic novel volume one!

I am a big fan of Ultraman since I was a kid. I watched every series thank to the advent of Internet and with the coming of the 50th year anniversary approaching next year, Ultraman is still going strong despite tough competition from the other big two toku series-Kamen Rider and Super Sentai.

So what happen if you put Ultraman, Men In Black, X-Files, Teenage Drama and Iron Man's suit and blend them all in one? You get this manga-ULTRAMAN and I have one word to say-Awesome!

Synopsis: Years ago, Ultraman merged with Science Patrol member Shin Hayata and defended the Earth from all sort of Alien invasions. When Ultraman finally separated from Hayata and left Earth, he has no memories of him being Ultraman but decided to keep quiet about it. Soon, he got married, became the Minister of Defence and had a son, Shinjiro. However after a near freak accident which leave little Shinjiro unharmed, Hayata started to suspect something is wrong with his son and himself. As Shinjiro begin high school, he too suspected something was wrong with him but before he could find answers, an old enemy from the past attacked him and Hayata. Both Father and Son are thrown into a destiny they cannot escape any more...

If you watch one Ultraman series, you probably watched them all. Since the concept is similar with aliens invading Earth and Ultraman support team will investigate and the final act will be Ultraman battling a monster and save the day. This manga is not your father's Ultraman!

Here, the idea of what happened when an Ultra Being leave your body for good and you went back being a normal person? In the case of Hayata, he actually retained a small portion of Ultraman's powers. Named Ultraman Factor by his close friend and former comrade, Ide, Hayata somehow passed on to Shinjiro some of Ultraman's powers to him.

The first chapter is from Hayata's point of view as he tried to piece together the events before he became Ultraman and it was nostalgic to see how things went through during his time as Ultraman. The shocking twist was Hayata's former comrades in the Science Patrol already knew that Hayata was Ultraman but played dumb in order to protect him from government hands. Ide even mentioned that the Science Patrol still exist despite being a front for tourists to see the museum in the day. Ide later showed Hayata a recent airline disaster and revealed that aliens are already on Earth and the Science Patrol has covered the matter from the public. Hayata then decided to join Ide to take on the alien invaders.

The following chapters showed teenage Shinjiro as he could not explain his new powers to anyone. When he nearly killed a thug with his bare hands, he ran away from everyone however an alien named Bermular appeared and tried to kill him. Hayata appeared and tried to fight Bermular but was too weak and Shinjiro decided to help his father-Wearing a new Exo Suit created by Ide, Shinjiro became ULTRAMAN...

Shinjiro played the good natured teen with a sense of justice. However he could not control his strength and nearly killed a person which reveal his fear of hurting another human being. But when Bermular (who is the first monster that Ultraman faced in the original series) claimed that both Hayata and Shinjiro are ammonites and must be eliminated. The fight scenes were pretty hardcore detailing ULTRAMAN as acrobatic with his stylish moves and Bermular who fought with fury. Even the color timer on ULTRAMAN's suit bring a moment of nostalgic and his final attack- Specium Ray left me waiting for more.

But once the battle is over, more questions were revealed since who is Bermular and why Shinjiro and Hayata are marked for death? Furthermore, Ide and a mysterious Alien were beside Shinjiro's sick bed when he woke up. In the end, it is a great start for one of the most beloved Tokusatsu heroes of all time!

Overall, three and a half stars since it took four chapters for ULTRAMAN to get into action! But we are just getting started!

P.S: I actually started reading the Mandarin translated version of ULTRAMAN a while back and in this universe, Ultraman was the only Ultra Being that came to Earth. However we will be getting more characters from the original canon like a certain man whose name is Seven. Go out and get this book if you love Sci-Fi actions or a true Ultraman fan like I am! If you can read Japanese, there is actually a web comic in the Tsuburaya Channel on Youtube based on the first few chapters of this title and I will said this manga has the potential to be animated!

DIGI NEWS: Ultraman All Stars Chronicle on PSP

After having Ultraman Fighting Evolution Zero in the PSP for more than five years, we are finally getting a Ultraman Stand alone game and it is an RPG stragety game!

The game will have every Ultraman Characters (Expect Jonais, Powered and Great) in an original story where all of their enemies have gathered to take all the Ultras and it is up to our heroes to fight back and regain their power.

It will be out on March 7th 2013 on PSP (I wish it will be on Vita so that we can take advantage of it's graphics)

DIGI NEWS: Super Robot Wars Taisen OG2 will be out on 29 Nov 2012 and 2nd PV for Lost Heroes

After one year of delay, Super Robot Wars OG2 for the PS3 will be out this 29th November 2012! We now have not one but two promo videos of the game and it is awesome! Although we have yet to see how the new battle system will be but the graphics and action of our favourite super robots is overwhelming!

The limited edition will also contain the SRW OG: The Inspector entire TV series in 4 Blu-Ray Discs and a whole of goodies in it! Strictly for Hard Core Fans!

Next, we have a second PV for Lost Heroes which is coming out on 3DS and PSP this 6th September 2012.

This time, we are given an idea of the battle system and skills upgrade. Over 300 characters from Ultraman, Kamen Rider and Gundam Series will appeared. You can even perform crossover attacks with different characters to defeat stronger enemies and assist characters who will give the players an advantage!

If you get the 3DS version, it will come with a download code to download the Famicom game-SD Hero Sansuken which is the first Super Heroes crossover game by Banpresto. The PSP version will have down loadable themes and bonus items for the game play.

Can't wait for these two games and my Project X zone for the later half of this year!

DIGI NEWS: Great Battle Full Blast on PSP! (No, it's not Decade's Fault)

Look like Banpresto finally realise that the toku heroes need a good game to bring back the fans. We have Lost Heroes coming on 3DS. Using the same character design, Banpresto presents Great Battle Full Blast on PSP!

According to the screenshots, we have the following heroes-Ultraman, Ultraman Mebius, Kamen Rider Ichigo, Kamen Rider Decade, RX-78 Gundam and Freedom Gundam. What does these heroes do when they are together? What else, save the world!

There are also hero assist like Guncannon, Kamen Rider Kuuga and Zoffy helping the heroes along the way. Given that it is also the twenty anniversary of Great Battle, if you get the limited edition pack, it include a PSP game of Battle Dodgeball 3 and the graphic is really the Super NES era, Wow! Talk about Nostalgic!

I love Great Battle series and hopefully Banpresto can do a proper game with the Super Sentai Franchise and hopefully, Ultraman and Kamen Rider games on PS3 with HD graphics and kick-ass action!

Great Battle Full Blast will be out on 1st March 2012!