Yattaman is flaming now

I found three foreign "Are you okay?" news. This is very serious, "Air Pollution Could Shrivel Sperm's DNA". It will be in only urban area in China but still it is much, much bigger than Japan, we need to take this issue our global issue. This is not my problem; "oh brother", I don't know how much they spent for trial; it might be more than the land is worth. Hmm I don't like this idea, let Col. Sanders sleep in peace: "PETA Headstone Hides Anti-KFC Secret Recipe"..

I wrote about Japanese TOY "bowlingual" and "meowlingual" but this seems a serious one: "Scientists develop computer that can 'translate' a dog's bark". Ohh dog say "ball", "alone", "play!" cuuuuuuuuuuuute. cuuuuuuuuuuuuute. too cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute.

Yattaman is now "enjo" (Flaming). Yattaman is an anime TV series aired in 70s. It was one of TIME BOKAN series of Tatsunoko production (you know them by G-force or Speed racer). The OP and ED themes were made by Masayuki Yamamoto and he sang by himself. This year, Yattaman was remade and aired on TV again, and other singers now sing the OP theme with their own original arrangement. But that new theme fell completely into disrepute. Singers were 50s rocker and 40s guiatalist. The melody is slow and a little bit low-key. People just say "Ossan kusai!" (smell of old men??), here is it, check it out. Finally, a few days ago, Masayuki Yamamoto wrote in his blog, "I was so disappointed to listen to them, I heard that a young idol singer would sing it, and it was my fault that I accepted it easily without making sure of everything"...something like that. Today TV production which makes Yattaman released the following comments "We got a lot of mails and comments about our TV show Yattaman's theme music, we listened sincerely to those opinions and we will use them to make a better show." Hmm this means they will change the theme song?? It's interesting. By the way, Yattaman will be made into a movie this year, Sho sakurai of Johnny's group Arashi ("nino", who acted in "A letter from Iwojima", joins the group and will play Gan chan, Kyoko Fukada will play Doronjo, (people say he was miscast!). Here is a good cosplay of Yattaman. To tell the truth, nobody is looking forward to it. We had a lot of bitter experiences on live-action movies based on animation: Casshern, Devilman, Gegege no Kitaro etc,.

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Incidentally, I believe there's another Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro series that started this season: Hakaba Kitaro. I haven't looked at this yet, so I don't know how it compares to the earlier Kitaro shows.

I'm thinking that there don't appear to be any eagerly awaited new anime shows on Japanese tv for the season starting in January. Perhaps they're waiting for Spring?