Ziryab wrote:And there's Satira Garuda Bima. An Indonesian production with official Bandai backing and an extraterrestrial/extradimensional foe whose invasion-plan-of-week involves various ways of destroying the economy.
This show looks pretty cool. I'll have to give it a look.
Most of what I've been watching here lately has been stuff from the Ultra Series, considering so much of it has official English subs now. I'm watching Max and 80 on Crunchyroll, and Ultraseven on DVD. Ultraseven's pretty awesome. 80's theme song is the kind that gets stuck in your head for hours.
I've seen a decent bit of Kamen Rider. So far, my favorite series is Agito. I've watched 555 and Kabuto all the way through. I'm halfway through BLACK, Amazon, Kabuto, and Kiva; I have a bad habit of starting these things and never finishing them. To be honest, I prefer the production values of the Showa shows. Heisei does have the benefit of ongoing stories that get a lot of focus, but those fail as often as they succeed in toku. OTOH, those first 13 eps of the original Kamen Rider are some good stuff, and are all episodic. Being episodic isn't anywhere as big as a detriment as I used to believe.
Super Sentai, I haven't seen much. Only one I've finished is Jetman, which I absolutely loved. I'm also really enjoying Sun Vulcan, which is a completely different beast; one episode has the villain lady hunting down diamonds and eating them due to a dream she has where a group of catty women insult her for not wearing any. Dairanger is some good stuff, too; I'm just waiting on Shout Factory to release their DVD set before I watch more.
Since everyone who's been into toku long enough has a few shows that they wish could translated but probably never will be, I might as well mention mine. Spectreman's original Japanese version is some good stuff and has a great soundtrack (at the very least, it stood out to me over the old dub's). Kaiketsu Lion-Maru is also a nifty show from what little I've seen in English. Of course, people have limited interest in Showa stuff to begin with, and the fact that they aren't KR or SS just compounds that.