Sunday, January 31, 2010

Current music...

(This feels separate from the topic of the previous post, so I separated them)

Currently listening to Chou-wakusei Sentou Bokan Daileon, from Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion, sung by the ever-awesome Kushida Akira. The video uses clips of it in action, and even though it's all 25+ years old, the wirework and special effects are still pretty fun to watch - compared to the over-reliance on CG in giant-scale Tokusatsu sequences nowdays. I find it refreshing to see a time when live-action Giant Robots(tm) were agile enough that they could be expected to do an on-screen backflip. Most impressively, starting from 1:59, Daileon pretty convincingly throws a monster into the air and uppercuts it into an explodey end (the "Cosmic Crash" attack is normally the hover-dash double punch that starts at around 2:45).

Note that the post and comments are in Portuguese. Japanese shows often have a mix of commercialism and quality that allow for universal appreciation, and a number of Metal Hero shows were aired in Brazil. (To say nothing of Power Rangers in the US, and the various Anime aired in all corners of the world.) The bare minimum for these shows is to sell toys/merchandise/advertising time, and yet in the US, very few kid's shows (or TV shows in general) have soundtracks worth buying.

Also: 21 Accents. (Note that a few of them incorporate jokes about the culture. For example, the New Zealand accent: something about not really paying attention to minor things like your age, etc.) I tried to show this at work, but the computers we use aren't designed to project sound very well, so it didn't work too well.

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