[touma_karamochi]

[Changed this for people looking for information since the times were changed for the two Friday toku panels]

YAYs we have a toku actor guest! It's Johnny Yong Bosch, who was Adam in Power Rangers(but I'm sure most people know him as Vash the Stampede, and others.

Also, in addition to the two panels I'll be co-hosting:
"Henshin! A Lesson in Tokusatsu" - Friday 6pm, Florence (Hyatt)

and "Tokusatsu Tropes" - Sunday 9am International D-E-F (Hyatt)
Plus the Photoshoot Saturday evening at 6:30 at the East outdoor wall.

There are also three other tokusatsu panels:

"Godzilla: Still King of the Monsters" - Friday 2pm, Dublin (DoubleTree)

"Switch On! A Kamen Rider Panel" Friday 8:15pm (or it could be 8:30, not sure), Signature (DoubleTree)

And

"Tokusatsu for Beginners" Saturday 2pm, Charles de Gaule (Hyatt)

This post has been edited by touma_karamochi: 20 April 2012 - 10:10 AM

[Dark Spellmaster]

Remind me quickly what a toku is? Also if you're going to discuss sentai at all are you going to bring up the anniversery of sentai along with Gokaiger?

[magishine]

Toku is short for Tokusatsu. It's any form of Japanese live action tv show that has either superheroes or uses heavy special effects. Examples are Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, ChouSeiShin series. And I agree. Any talk of Super Sentai has to involve the anniversary series (Gokaiger, Boukenger, Gaoranger, etc)

[Dark Spellmaster]

magishine, on 02 August 2011 - 09:36 PM, said:

Toku is short for Tokusatsu. It's any form of Japanese live action tv show that has either superheroes or uses heavy special effects. Examples are Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, ChouSeiShin series. And I agree. Any talk of Super Sentai has to involve the anniversary series (Gokaiger, Boukenger, Gaoranger, etc)

So would you at all bring up the Spiderman live action that aired in Japan?

[SupremeKai]

Would say i liked what you did this yr, like your idea of little quizzes thrown in, like name the series or things like that, with clips thrown in on your presentation, maybe even throw in some Ultraman, but i think you did that, but also like the idea of the 2 hr panel, with Gokaiger their is alot that you all can go into simply because they cover so many past episodes just like Decade did.

[touma_karamochi]

Yeah, we want to keep the 2 hour time-slot for the intro panel, since we do have fun with that, and it's also fun to hear the discussion from the audience.

As for the other Panel idea for more knowledgeable fans, it's been decided that that the Panel will be called 'Tokusatsu Tropes' and we'll be discussing tropes that work or don't work in tokusatsu. We also plan to show clips of the various devices, and get audience participation as to their favorite tropes and other things that get used in tokusatsu.

[Chado2]

I'm looking forward for both panels.

[touma_karamochi]

YAYs we have a toku actor guest! It's Johnny Yong Bosch, who was Adam in Power Rangers(but I'm sure most people know him as Vash the Stampede, and others.

Also, in addition to the two panels I'll be co-hosting:
"Henshin! A Lesson in Tokusatsu" - Friday 6pm, Florence (Hyatt)

and "Tokusatsu Tropes" - Sunday 9am International D-E-F (Hyatt)
Plus the Photoshoot Saturday evening at 6:30 at the East outdoor wall.

There are also three other tokusatsu panels:

"Godzilla: Still King of the Monsters" - Friday 2pm, Dublin (DoubleTree)

"Switch On! A Kamen Rider Panel" Friday 8:15pm (or it could be 8:30, not sure), Signature (DoubleTree)

And

"Tokusatsu for Beginners" Saturday 2pm, Charles de Gaule (Hyatt)

[I'll be attaching this to the first post on the thread since there was a change too]

This post has been edited by touma_karamochi: 20 April 2012 - 10:09 AM

[touma_karamochi]

Sorry for the double-post (or is it triple-post by now... >_>;;

But I did some checking on one of the Japanese guests who is announced as coming, Yasuhiro Koshi, has worked on a lot of tokusatsu movies, specifically some of the Godzilla movies and Ultraman Nexus.