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[ColtraineGF]

Yeah, I did like that teleporting effect, pretty cool. Although the ice creams

And is there a reason why they can't just use the same camera/settings that the folks that made the sentai footage used? The switch between the footages is super apparent lol.

Ah yes, that really stood out - I guess they just shoot in slightly cleaner quality over here, or they just got LQ footage for integration...

Yet another thing shared with MMPR

 

[A Pretty Panda]

If I ever finish Dairanger I'll move on to watch Jetman.

 

[WillyFive]

Yeah, I did like that teleporting effect, pretty cool. Although the ice creams

My same reaction.

And is there a reason why they can't just use the same camera/settings that the folks that made the sentai footage used? The switch between the footages is super apparent lol.

No reason. Both Shinkenger and Samurai/Super Samurai used the same cameras (the RED cameras), and that made both the footage and new stuff look good together (although the colors were still a bit off, mostly because the footage went from a quarry with grey rocks in Japan to a quarry with dark grey rocks in New Zealand).

But they dropped the RED cameras for Megaforce, using the Filmscape Arri Alexa and Ultraprimes instead. Who knows why, but I could tell now where Megaforce footage ends and Goseiger begins, especially when the suits suddenly start getting a bigger contrast in the grooves and the color balance of the footage turns into a different hue.

Ah yes, that really stood out - I guess they just shoot in slightly cleaner quality over here, or they just got LQ footage for integration...

MMPR Productions and Toei shoot things differently. Saban's crew like to use effects like depth of blur to make the background soft, as well as reducing whiteout to make the sky blue with clouds instead of being all-white like in the Sentai (at the expensive of having dull colors and low brightness); while Toei likes to use lighting techniques that make the suits shiny and cranking up color to the max at the expense of whiteout levels.

Here's what I mean, using Shinkenger vs. Go-Onger and Clash of the Red Rangers as an example:

Toei also sends out terrible quality masters to them. They've done this with every show since MMPR (and was almost laughable in the early Disney shows like Dino Thunder and SPD, where the white sky was chuck-full of grain, while being squeaky clean on the original masters), but figuring as the Shinkenger footage in S/SS looked great; I was disappointed to see the Goseiger footage look so bad in Megaforce.

Anyway, behind the scenes, both shows look the same. Here's a set photo of Megaforce, and here's one of....Dekaranger?

 

[ColtraineGF]

Toei also sends out terrible quality masters to them. They've done this with every show since MMPR (and was almost laughable in the early Disney shows like Dino Thunder and SPD, where the white sky was chuck-full of grain, while being squeaky clean on the original masters), but figuring as the Shinkenger footage in S/SS looked great; I was disappointed to see the Goseiger footage look so bad in Megaforce.

Ah, intriguing. Nevertheless, I doubt the kids'll notice too much (I don't think I even paid attention to footage differences in earlier seasons, lol - though it's gotten much better recently).

 

[WillyFive]

Power Rangers Megaforce is also available on Hulu.

 

[chickdigger802]

Power Rangers Megaforce is also available on Hulu.

interesting, does it come out same day or day after?

 

[WillyFive]

This is better than the actual show:

Gosei and the Robot Episode 1

Gosei and the Robot Episode 2

interesting, does it come out same day or day after?

Day after.

 

[Edag Plata]

Go-Busters is really ending on a high note. I still insist that the only negative about the show is Hiromu (and that stupid bike Pokemon he has running around that only knows two phrases).

 

[Boss Doggie]

Go-Busters is really ending on a high note. I still insist that the only negative about the show is Hiromu (and that stupid bike Pokemon he has running around that only knows two phrases).

wut, Nick is an awesome Buddyroid! Second best (best beign J) even!

And yeah, today's ep was really tight. And I'm glad

Spoiler

Dark

Red Buster is still going to be used.

 

[A Pretty Panda]

Dark Red Buster looks like something out of Megaman.EXE

 

[WillyFive]

I love Sentai finales. They always get to me.

 

[chickdigger802]

btw.. whats a vamola? :X



hmmm who subbed kuuga? Think im gonna watch that.

 

[jwk94]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO1Tef1prHc

MegaForce ep 2 Clip - Roll Call

Why does the audio sounds weird?

 

[WillyFive]

btw.. whats a vamola? :X

Brazilian Portuguese for "Let's Go". It's also the name of the theme song for Kyoryuger.

hmmm who subbed kuuga? Think im gonna watch that.

Midnight Crew Subs

 

[chickdigger802]

Brazilian Portuguese for "Let's Go". It's also the name of the theme song for Kyoryuger.

Midnight Crew Subs

where is the best ranger? T_T

 

[Boss Doggie]

where is the best ranger? T_T

Someone is taking the picture.

Activating my Camera System!

Also apparently there's a movie called Returned Spec-Ops Sentai Go-Busters vs. Animal Sentai Go-Busters

...is that spoiling the ending?!

 

[jwk94]

where is the best ranger? T_T

Gai is probably taking the picture =P

 

[Edag Plata]

Why does Yoko always look like a nun in all the behind the scenes pictures they take?

 

[shaowebb]

Needs more Chou Climax Heroes listed on the OP in games

 

[Platy]

Brazilian Portuguese for "Let's Go". It's also the name of the theme song for Kyoryuger.

A friend said once that the new Sentai would feature Samba as a subtheme .... this "Vamola" (wich is really "Vamo La!") makes me wonder if she was not joking ....

 

[Edag Plata]

A friend said once that the new Sentai would feature Samba as a subtheme .... this "Vamola" (wich is really "Vamo La!") makes me wonder if she was not joking ....

It even explicitly says in the trailers that they do samba.

 

[Box of Bunnies]

A friend said once that the new Sentai would feature Samba as a subtheme .... this "Vamola" (wich is really "Vamo La!") makes me wonder if she was not joking ....

From the second promo:

 

[Platy]

oh god


It is the universal balance for the anime conventions here in Brasil, right ?

 

[Parallax]

From the second promo:

Said it before, but that two step is killing me. Damn I hope this series holds up to the promos, because it has everything else going for it.

 

[WillyFive]

Toei posted a (slightly) longer trailer for Kyoryuger that shows off the villains and weapons.

Also, here's Kamen Rider Beast actor Nagase Tasuku backstage with Ryosei Ryo (KyoryRed):

I like how the theme song starts off slowly like the Boukenger ending and then gradually picks up pace and becomes faster and faster.

 

[A Pretty Panda]

Prediction: Koyomi is going to become someone really important later on.

 

[chickdigger802]

surprised Kuuga is in widescreen, when did KR make the transition?

 

[A Pretty Panda]

So...

Spoiler

Phoenix is totally dead next episode

and hooray Long is coming back

I might make a gif or two

 

[vareon]

Yeah Phoenix just activated his death flag.

 

[Slayven]

I like how the white wizard's belt says "NOW". Like please is for noobs.

 

[A Pretty Panda]

White Wizard's belt is a jerk.

 

[R10Neymarfan]

I actually like that two step thing. I'll watch this for my Japanese listening comprehension.

 

[chickdigger802]

man kuuga premiere. The monster suits are hilariously bad, looks like background stuff from star wars cantina... but damn this is dark stuff. This fight on a helicopter is hilarious. Gotta love how Kuuga doesn't just randomly know how to fight.


Also...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oGnkT0kKrKQ

awesome.

 

[Slayven]

White Wizard's belt is a jerk.

I am still waiting for a belt to top Kamen Rider Arc's "Go to hell!"

 

[chickdigger802]

lol this upgrade for wizard is like one of the most effortless ones ever. Wheres the passion and tears? :S

I really do wish they did more with Haruto in this show... he just seems like... he's there. Even Tendou had badass lines and did shit. Haruto just looks like swag, and that's about it.

 

[Slayven]

lol this upgrade for wizard is like one of the most effortless ones ever. Wheres the passion and tears? :S

I really do wish they did more with Haruto in this show... he just seems like... he's there. Even Tendou had badass lines and did shit. Haruto just looks like swag, and that's about it.

Yeah the dragon timer gives me a zecter mizer feel. Like it will be quickly discarded

 

[chickdigger802]

that fight was hilariously one sided though, you kinda feel bad for the phantom :X

 

[Slayven]

that fight was hilariously one sided though, you kinda feel bad for the phantom :X

Yeah he totally didn't warrant a powerup. Should have been a double rider finisher.

 

[WillyFive]

Wizard Sentai!

surprised Kuuga is in widescreen, when did KR make the transition?

Kuuga was the first one to go widescreen. It was also the first Kamen Rider show in 11 years, the last one was RX in 1989.

 

[Parallax]

lol this upgrade for wizard is like one of the most effortless ones ever. Wheres the passion and tears? :S

I really do wish they did more with Haruto in this show... he just seems like... he's there. Even Tendou had badass lines and did shit. Haruto just looks like swag, and that's about it.

he doesnt even give off a swag aura. he just looks like he doesnt care.

 

[shaowebb]

How often is Haruto interacting with anyone at all? Thats the real problem here. He's never doing anything aside from standing in the background and playing bodyguard. The rest of the cast does all the story stuff for him. I think he is gonna have to step up because his role is being stepped on by everyone else. HE should be progressing things not everyone else.

 

[fmpanda]

Crap, just realized I posted in the old Toku-GAF thread earlier, so I'll just post this here. Anybody up for designing a Toku-GAF shirt?

 

[shaowebb]

Crap, just realized I posted in the old Toku-GAF thread earlier, so I'll just post this here. Anybody up for designing a Toku-GAF shirt?

Im on it.

EDIT: Will something like this work?

...what the hell happened to my blacks ???

 

[Boss Doggie]

Oh, Digimon Fusion will be in the same channel with MegaForce.

 

[Seraphis Cain]

Oh, Digimon Fusion will be in the same channel with MegaForce.

So how many years will it take Nick to air the whole series?

 

[Boss Doggie]

So how many years will it take Nick to air the whole series?

Yeah, I'm fearing that they'll put hiatuses between arcs.

Still, what a deja vu - TMNT, PR and Digimon in the same network.

 

[Parallax]

oh god, can somebody gif beast and comic relief getting slapped then rolled down the stairs?

 

[WillyFive]

Also...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oGnkT0kKrKQ

awesome.

He really loves being the Green Ranger. He got the Ranger Key for it too.

He doesn't seem to like Megaforce though. Also, he says that if they called him he would do a few episodes.

 

[Boss Doggie]

MegaForce is pretty good compared to Samurai so far... but it really, really is a rehash of MMPR in style and theme.

 

[fmpanda]

Logo Pic

Hmnn, I would get rid of the plane, that's more of a Japan-GAF thing, specifically with folks who use that meme to signify running overseas to hook up with chicks.

I'd get rid of the believe part too, maybe replace it with Vamola! or something similar from any Toku show.

For the Gaf Logo itself, gotta throw some Sentai or Kamen Rider stuff in somehow. Maybe do a Vectorized Silhouette of a Rider in one half of the logo and a Sentai in the other half?