SCOOP: New DAIMAJIN Announced by Kadokawa!

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No .. You didn't. So Kadokawa screwed up Gamera AND Daimajin. Pretty lame.

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Well...I haven't had time to watch the entire series yet, but I did watch the last four episodes just because I wanted to see the grand finale.

Don't get me wrong...on its own merits, the show is a lot of fun. But besides flashbacks, Daimajin really doesn't awaken until the very last episode!!! And when he does? He sings while he fights.

Again, a fun show...but I know a lot of you guys would be very disappointed.

[MouthForWar]

[kiryugoji04]

So I finally got around to watching the first episode subtitled and... I kind of love it. It's beautifully shot, the special effects are promising, it's got a little edge of horror to it, the action is hard-hitting (unsurprising, given the action team working on it), and, mother of GOD, the women in this show are gorgeous. Just sayin.

I'm hoping I can take in the second episode later tonight.

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Maybe because I'm just not as cynical as some of you folks around here? It's a mystery.

Anyway, saw the second episode. Second verse as excellent as the first. Taihei's farting was still a little annoying and unnecessary but it was a lot less noticeable now that I can fully follow and concentrate on the drama at hand. On the whole, really good stuff.

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Finished the whole show recently, a refreshing spin-off the Daimajin franchise, which is a total different take.

The Daimajin here was given life by kindness of humanity (given the formula seen in the series, the big guy was probably a big stone statue that was gently care for by his human keeper or something...), instead of punishing bad guys with a vengeance, he decided to use his life to protect and help the puny human (Them human love me, me Daimajin love them back ).

The story kinda drag and was really slow at some part, but the built-up was pretty good (though not dramatic enough). ~ the atmosphere is akin to the earlier 30 episodes of Kamen Rider Hibiki. And yeah, a few bits from the Yokai franchise.

Anyway, the big guy fights gigantic demons who were formerly human but twisted and corrupted beyond the reach of normal human or other good Yokai (with origin similar to Daimajin - looking up to the great Daimajin as their leader and the first of their kind). And he does so while singing to reach out what-ever trace of humanity that is still left within the corrupted poor soul. ~ He sings his heart out, trying to communicate, because despite being a gigantic living stone statue, fighting and violence was never his thing.

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Just finished episode three. Man, this is gonna be a helluva slow-burn series but I'm actually digging it quite a bit. I'm reminded very much of Bio-Planet WoO, my favorite post-70s tokusatsu series, in the quiet, slow nature of much of the series, punctuated by really well-executed action.

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Fourth episode also solid stuff. Definitely more drama than action but I find it all pretty compelling. It continues to have gorgeous cinematography.

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When I went into this, I expected to see the Majin often. When I didn't, I felt like I should have been disappointed, but I wasn't; I really liked this show. I thought it was slow at times, and there were a few unnecessary things here and there, but there's a lot of good shows like that. It's definitely worth a look, and I'm glad I did.