It's Wacky Watari!

I really love my new job (teaching at the Elementary Schools in Watari) but there is one snag to the whole gig. My commute takes me by several geeky venues at which I am sorely tempted daily to pick some geeky items.

Case in point, this 1986 DorMei  Godzilla figure purchased at Second Street, a second-hand store. Awesome looking though slightly off-model.

Speaking of Godzilla, I saw this poster in the window of 7-11 suggesting you buy advanced tickets. The bad news is that the Mecha-Godzilla mentioned at the bottom of the poster is no longer available to win.

Across the street is the incomparable Mandai. I was there when I first started the job in April and managed to depart without buying a thing. During my last trip, I was not so fortunate.

3 mini-discs of Pink Lady, a disco duet from the 80s. Click that link and you'll understand my obsession.

Two Dynamic Game Blocks of Go Nagai's characters. Though I'd heard of シスタージル Sister Jiru, I've never seen ゴール Goal before. If I can find the others as cheaply as 150￥, I plan to get the rest.

A couple of Dark Knight Bearbricks. The Catwoman was twice as expensive as the Batman.

A couple of packages of loot, one of some Ultraman figures et al. and one of Attack on Titan stuff. I'll open those later.

And the best for last, two cars from Wacky Races; the Japanese version is called チキチキマシン猛レース (Chiki-Chiki Machine Fierce Race). I got the best two of these probable Gacha-capsule cars, #1 is the Boulder Mobile driven by the Slag Brothers and #2, the Creepy Coupe driven by the Gruesome Twosome. 

Now that I know these exist, I have to track down the others!



That is one Wacky theme song!

Golden Years.

If you're reading this, it means that I survived my surgery and from now on no one can accuse me of having a "lot of gall". That's one less organ for the zombies to feast on when I succumb to their appetites.

Months back, I came across this record in a Recycle shop and just had to have it. Unfortunately, some weasel had stolen the album from within and I only have the cover! At least I talked the dealer down to giving it to me for a buck.

It has lots of cool artwork from various shows. Sorry, I don't have the time to find links or videos for all of them, you'll have to do that yourself.

ゴールデンテレビまんが大行進 Golden TV Manga Daikoushin #15.

I need to research this more fully.
Dororon Enma-kun, also known as Satanikus!, is a Japanese horror-comedy anime and manga series created by Go Nagai. It's one of Nagai's most famous works in Japan, although not very well known in the rest of the world.

Hey, there's a bunch of figures based on this:


Guess what I'll be looking for once I'm on the mend.

I'm really not sure about this one. Inazman or Anusman (?)

 Totsujin Tiger Seven (?)

 Kyashyan (?)

 Miracle Girl Rimitto-chan. (?)

 Cutie Honey!

Pretty cool, huh.
Now if I could only find the album within...
Hey, there's one here for under 1000yen!
Doh, This one is only 200!

Devilish Fun.

On Thursday (cheap movie day), I had the opportunity to watch a crossover between Go Nagai's characters,  Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman.

For those too lazy to click that site, here is the trailer from their webpage.


I suspect that this will be shown on TV at a later date in 3 episodes for the movie was split into three segments each with identical opening and closing credits. There were far too many villains running around and it made it rather confusing at times although the fight scenes were excellent. Some very cool monsters (a manticore, a succubus, etc.), great animation, a good score are some of the highlights.

I picked up a couple of Clear Files (of course), I like the adorable little Devilman and 009. What cuties!

 

Here are some clips from the movie:

And a few more trailer goodies...



Unfortunately this was on a limited release so I don't know when you'll get a chance to see it. Seek it out though, it's worth it.

Let's Go Nagai, Let's Go!

The fine folks at Mitsuya All Zero Cider teamed up with PansonWorks again to bring us a sextet of 永井 豪, Gō Nagai characters.

The first two are デビルマン/Devilman, I'm afraid that I'm not well-versed in the mythos so I don't know why there are two different ones. I did like the movie though!

My favourite of the batch has to be キューティーハニー/Cutie Honey of course. I liked this movie too.

I am unfamiliar with the witch, えん魔くん Enma-Kun but based on the anime, she looks pretty cool! (Take that, Wendy, the Good Little Witch.)

I suppose this one could be deemed a real Go Getter. ゲッターロボ or Getter-Robo and apparently it's a Giant-Robot vs Mecha-Dinosaurs thing!

Finally is Mazinger Z, one of the original Giant Robots!