#shotaro ishimori

[chernobog13]

A man and his chicken.

Publicity shot of actor Tatsuya Nanjo as Hayate, and suit actor Bunya Nakamura as Hayate's alter ego, Henshin Ninja Arashi.

This show was created by Kamen Rider creator Shotaro Ishimori as a feudal Japan version of Kamen Rider. As such, I'm surprised writer/director Hideaki Anno didn't include some version of Arashi in his film Shin Kamen Rider (2023).

Or maybe Anno-san is saving Arashi for the sequel.

[afnews7]

Cyborg 009 Vs Devilman al cinema solo il 9,10 e 11 settembre l'elenco dei Cinema

Dopo la pausa estiva riprende la nuova Stagione degli Anime al Cinema, il progetto esclusivo di Nexo Studios distribuito in collaborazione con Yamato Video, il primo titolo che verrà nella nuova stagione, per la prima volta sul grande schermo solo il 9, 10 e 11 settembre è CYBORG 009 VS DEVILMAN, la versione cinematografica inedita doppiata in italiano del crossover del 2015 che mette a confronto…

[redsnerdden]

The Main Cast Revealed For Kamen Rider Gavv!

It's Snack Time! 🍫🍬 The Main Cast Revealed For Kamen Rider Gavv! #KamenRider #KamenRiderGavv #Tokusatsu #仮面ライダーシリーズ #仮面ライダーガヴ

[wuxiaphoenix]

Some Stray Worldbuilding Elements

Someone pointed out to me recently that a lot of movie fights are constrained by what will fit in a camera frame. This leads to, among other things, often misleading or minimal visual examples of the proper use of long-distance weapons. So if you plan to have proper use of arrow volleys or tank battles, make sure you read up on their historical use in warfare. The wonderful thing about a book is we can make the view as wide as we like. Take advantage of it!

If you want a good visual of a pretty realistic, desperate life-or-death struggle between two characters at melee range, though, you might be interested in checking this movie out. 

Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojrHZqBFX1E

In Edo, a group of masked samurai storms a seafood wholesaler and commits murder, but the deaths have only begun....

Information I’ve found says was broadcast in 1981, as part of Fuji Television’s “Jidai Geki Special”. The plot was based on Shotaro Ishimori’s popular comic, specifically the story “One Leg of Darkness”.

It’s the last about 15 minutes that have the showdown between Sabu as an okappiki and a mad samurai. It’s long; I’m told it’s brutal. I personally didn’t have that reaction, when you’re fighting for your life you do what you have to and there was relatively little blood or injury compared to a lot of modern movies. But it does show someone having to take minutes to wear an opponent down long enough that the enemy finally collapses. Writers, take note!

Another few bits of interest. Want to see an example of a smart monster luring prey?

A green heron who figured out how to use bait to lure a fish!

Or real examples of what cavalry horses can do, and would know how to deal with?

Cossack trick riding. I was particularly impressed that they could get horses to jump the fluttering banners. And slashing bottles at head height, spraying water on horse and rider? Yes, a cavalry horse would need to be used to that, think about it....

[thek0ifish]

Want to know why I don't suggest Voltron? It is for a good reason the fanbase is extremely rude to the Power Rangers and Super Sentai fanbase especially in versus debates. How they keep making fun of the power rangers mechas with insults like clumsy and slow and being a terrible rip off of their series. The biggest difference is creator Shotaro Ishimori helped birth Super Sentai alongside Kamen Rider. Whatever the Voltron fans say negative is nothing compared to knowing who helped give two of the greatest tokusatsu series around. Voltron isn't anything original either since it borrows from original Star Wars trilogy story elements Episodes 4 to 6.

Bruh idgaf about voltron at all everything is ruined thanks to the new voltron show I was more into fucking gundum than the trash heap. I'll take tokusatsu and gundum any day in the week my guy. By the way power scaling and power scaling debates are as cancerous and wacky as it gets. Fuck all power scaling debates I'm not a child in a playground flexing about my dad working in Nintendo.

[xinu1941-1966]

「マンガ家入門/龍神沼」 石森章太郎 秋田書店　1966

shotaro ISHIMORI

[anamon-book]

幻魔大戦 東宝・出版事業室 製作＝角川春樹／石森章太郎、原作＝平井和正／石森章太郎、監督＝りん・たろう、キャラクターデザイン＝大友克洋

[hanakodo]

[curiousrentals]

“Ichi, you should value your life more!”

Sabu and Ichi’s Detective Tales | 佐武と市捕物控

Original Airdate: October 3, 1968 – September 24, 1969

[myself-85]

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5kNbVh_Rhsから)

[2000megashock-blog]

Hakaider

by Unyokku

Source: https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=369225

[farmerinthesky]

Another piece for my Shotaro Ishinomori first battle series, this time featuring Henshin Ninja Arashi! I always loved the intro chapter for Arashi, there's so much going on at once with such amazing paneling!

[vintagejapanesebaseball]

Shotaro Ishimori Soreyuke! Red Vickies

[redsnerdden]

TV Asahi Reveals First Teaser PV of Kamen Rider Gavv, Special Presentation To Follow on August 11

TV Asahi Reveals First Teaser PV of Kamen Rider Gavv, Special Presentation To Follow on August 11 #仮面ライダーガヴ #KamenRiderGavv #KamenRider #Tokusatsu #Television #仮面ライダーシリーズ

[tokupedia]

Remember a few years back when DC did an animated montage to celebrate Superman’s 75th birthday? Ishimori Productions has done something similar!

We start off with a few animations of characters Shotaro Ishinomori created, including Cyborg 009 running and Kamen Rider 1 fighting Spider Man (the Shocker one, not Marvel). We then get a montage of Ishinomori’s life, then known as Shotaro Onodera. Doodling his own comics as a child in the late 1940s with his mom watching. We then see him submit his first manga to a contest in the early 1950s, which he won. Shotaro then showed his older sister Yoshie his strip in the newspaper. She is very proud of her little brother, Yoshie had asthma and at times was very sick, but seeing her brother draw pictures made her very happy. 

Shotaro began working on his own manga, but Mr. Onodera was against his son’s talents. Like many typical Japanese parents of the era, Shotaro’s father wanted his son to get his head out of the clouds and obtain a “real job” like a practice in medicine as a doctor. Thankfully, Yoshie still loved her little brother’s work and never stopped encouraging him, telling Shotaro to follow his dreams. These words of encouragement helped Shotaro decide to leave home and be an assistant to Osamu Tezuka in Tokyo at the Tokaiwa-so building!

He met many interesting people there that he later became friends with: Hiroo Terada, Fujiko Fujio, Suzuki Shinichi, Naoya Moriyasu, Fujio Akatsuka, Norio Yokota, Hideko Mizuno and George Yamaguchi.

Best of all, his sister Yoshie would drop by to visit and hang out with the artists, seeing what fantastic new artwork her little brother was making. As the years went on, Ishinomori became more skilled at drawing and had happy times with Yoshie and his co-workers. But those happy times ended abruptly... 

In 1958, Yoshie died from a fatal asthma attack, leaving behind a devastated Shotaro who blamed himself for her death. But he knew his big sister would have wanted him to keep drawing and soon he gained his legendary super-speed drawing skills that manga fans knew him for. But this didn’t make him happy, the loss of Yoshie was still there in his heart and Shotaro was often depressed, he needed a break to recover.

While he loved manga, Ishinomori wanted to try to be a filmmaker. So whenever his editors gave him the chance to, he would take vacation trips around the world and study his surroundings. He visited Egypt, France, the Painted Desert in Arizona, New York City, London...anywhere just to capture the wonders of this world and take notes and pictures.

During one trip to the USA in July of 1960, Shotaro came across an unusual word in an article of Life Magazine he was reading, “Man Remade to Live in Space”: “cyborg” 

A brand new word created by the writers of the article, a merger of “Cybernetic” and “Organisim”. Definition by the writers: A modified human with mechanical parts implanted. This science-fiction idea fascinated Shotaro and this coupled with his world travels and raced in his mind into the primordial spark of an idea. And oh, what an idea it was!  An entire team of cyborgs from different parts of the world and different backgrounds! And there would be...9 of them..like on a baseball team!

Unfortunately, his publishers at the time thought little of this concept and tossed it out. So Shotaro shopped around for publishers and eventually, Monthly Shonen King showed interest in the work and agreed to publish it. So on July 19th 1964, Cyborg 009 hit the stands! 

4 years later, a black and white animated 009 TV show came in 1968. 2 feature films also came about in the late 60s and the children of Japan were in awe at the adventures of Joe Shimamura and his friends. The animation then flashes forward to 2012, showing newer generations of fans watching 009 Re:Cyborg on the big screen!

We then see a familiar looking belt, ‘cuz its April 3, 1971! The day Kamen Rider was born! The animation then goes through some time and morph transitions. Showing that no matter what era it is, Ishinomori’s characters still resonate with and are beloved by the public. One even shows two teen girls reading Cyborg 009 on a tablet, showcasing the power of the Internet spreading Mr. Ishinomori’s stories across the world!

The scene then transitions to Ishimori Pro, which was founded in 1968 and all the super heroes and fun characters its staff created, including Sea Jetter Kaito! Finally, we see Ishinomori as he was in his later years, holding a smaller version of the studio in his hands and smiling.

Happy 80th birthday Ishinomori-san!

[thek0ifish]

The story and the concept for creating Kamen Rider 555 and its main rider is inspired from Kikaider which includes a homage to its original live action series that includes Clover J as the four kaiju referencing them as the praetorian who accompanied live action Kikaider's main antagonist professor gill. This is no surprising as Shotaro Ishimori created Kikaider and Kamen Rider with Kamen Rider Kuuga as Shotaro Ishimori's last directed Kamen Rider. Kamen Rider 555 is meant to be a tribute to the father of Kamen Rider and Kikaider. Kamen Rider Dragon Knight director wanted to pitch anyone to do a live action USA adaptation of Kamen Rider 555. Steve Wang had to be careful who to hand it to as Steve Wang is an asian director who wanted to be sure his Kamen Rider 555 universe is faithful to its source material.

Kamen rider 555 bring us feels bro, it's so fucking good and the fact it also inspired from kikaider brings a tear in my eye this is also why I added Horrors in the present as ancient darkstalkers because horrors fits the makai aesthetic and in the far future in the story ALL the other tokusatsu monsters from both the creators of garo and of course other tokusatsu I consumed.