Hisui Dream Diary #3

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I don’t regularly remember my dreams or keep any sort of dream journal but I have learned the trick to remembering your dreams is to repeat what happens in the dream to yourself out loud as soon as you wake up. It commits the dream to a longer term part of memory. And so I do not know how often I will be able to write posts like this but I consider this part one of an irregularly updated ongoing series. It is all dependent on when I remember dreams that are worth talking about on the blog.

Just because I documented the greatest dream that will ever be does not mean that the Hisui Dream Diary segment has to come to an end. If nothing else the hits on the blog show that the dream I recently had is far more of a universal dream than anything else that has been documented in this segment before.

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Binbougami ga!: Almost a Shojo Manga

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OK. That title is certainly a bit exaggerated. You would have to search for quite a bit to find a shojo manga were the main character’s nick name is Tit-chiko (maybe some odd title in Betsucomi). In the end Binbougami ga! is very firmly a boy’s manga with a distinct appeal to dudes. It is in Jump Square for heaven’s sake. It is hard to get more shonen than that.

But the reason I bring this up in the first place is that unlike a lot of shonen titles with a little tweaking you could actually convert the whole Binbougami ga! premise into a popular girls manga.  There is pretty much no way you could remake To Love-Ru as a girl’s manga without some colossal reworking of the manga’s base formula. In fact I might be a little be afraid of any manga magus that could attempt such a feat. On the hand without really changing any of the core principles of the manga (that is not Sakura’s bodacious boom boom body) there is a decent shojo manga premise at the core of Binbougami ga!

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Your Fate is Mine to Decide

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UCHUU KITAAAAAAA!!

While I am hardly Mike Dent when it comes to tokusatsu I do keep my eye on it. So when everyone was talking about how cool Kamen Rider Fourze was I had to check it out. It turns out they were right. It is pretty out of this world (thankfully I do not constantly make puns like that in the podcast.) When the series was about half done Patz from Insert-Disc mentioned we had to get together and do a podcast on this. We then teamed up with Dave Cabrera as he was periodically talking about the series on his own blog, Subatomic Brainfreeze.

In the premiere episode of the Cockpit podcast we discuss exactly what makes Kamen Rider Fourze so darn super cool. We also go into a bit of the general Kamen Rider franchise as well as the newest entry called Kamen Rider Wizard. So if you like Kamen Rider, tokusatsu, or just campy but awesome things in general you just might want to check this out.

“Space…a wondrous world, filled with infinite cosmic energy. Using the Astro Switches, these young people will open the door to the future of space. Space on your hand! Reach out and seize the universe!”

The Cockpit – Episode 1 – It’s Space Time!