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[dragoknighthunterz]

Tokucember day 20: Final attack, Wing-man's Final beam.

[hantokarakida]

Wing-Man edits!!!!!!!! | They are free to use for carrds, rentry, etc, ONLY WITH CREDIT!!

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[baradhiblue]

wingman! coming in live action to a tv (or, to be real another device) near you in a month!

he does not have a fandom yet but he has me (has devoured the manga in matter of days)

[bunnymajo]

Wing Girls: An early example of an all female transforming hero team

We've all heard the take that in 1992 Sailor Moon is the first anime to focus on an all-female super heroine show akin to "Super Sentei" or "Saint Seiya", aimed at girls, and that is true. But I want to talk about another very early example I've never seen mentioned: The Wing Girls, a plot element that shows up about midway of the 1984 shonen anime "Yume Senshi Wingman"

Yume Senshi Wingman is a show very aimed at teenage boys. It focuses on Hirono Kenta, a huge tokusatsu nerd with his own hero persona, Wingman. He's chosen and gifted with the Dream Note that can make anything he draws in it come true so he can become Wingman for real and defeat and evil organization from taking over his world. Another big point about Wingman is it's focus on love triangles and fanservice, between Kenta's ladylike classmate Miku and the more bold and flirtatious Aoi, who is a resident from the world that the Dream Note came from

The opening visually explains I think what kind of dynamic they were going for here: (also if nothing else, the music in this show is really good)

In episode 33, Airing on November 13, 1984 - Kenta and his classmates are visiting a shoot of a liveaction henshin hero episode. Agents from the evil organization are rumored to be part of the cast and Kenta's not able to focus his attention on it, so the female classmates who know his secret are given their own special forms in case something goes wrong and they need to step in

Enter the Wing Girls, consisting of Aoi, Miku, along with his other classmates Momoko and Kumiko

More of a backup squad to Wingman himself, they're still given similar abilities to instantly change forms with the power of the dream note and enhanced physical abilities for punching and kicking

They make a few other appearances throughout the show but this is their big solo moment. They even get their own theme song on one of the drama CDs, and figure merch in 2009.

I just think they're a neat little part of magical girl history.

Side mg history in case someone brings it up:

The idea of female super-hero magical girls as main characters goes as far back as the early 1970s with "Suki! Suki! Majo-sensei" and "Cutey Honey" and continues to sporadically appear through the decades. But these only focus on one heroine compared to an entire team.

Another early cited example of a mg team is the Studio Pierrot crossover special "Majokko Club Quartet: Alien X from A Zone" a direct-to-video special from 1987 that shows the heroines from Pierrot's line of magical girls: Creamy Mami, Magical Emi, Fairy Persia and Pastel Yumi, team up against alien invaders and parodies sci-fi tokusatsu tropes in the process. While the original TV series are all aimed at children, and the special is still within the realm of SFW, I would argue this OVA is more aimed at adult fans of the series due to its content and release format. So that's why I tend to not think of it on the same level as Sailor Moon.

[thevvking]

Actors with multiple roles in toku: Fujioka Maito.

Hongo Takeshi/Kamen Rider 1 (Kamen Rider Beyond Generations, 2021).

Hirono Kenta/Wingman (Wingman, 2024-2025).

[akkivee]

it is time. stage bat time 😌:

hirono ryouta

hirONO RYOUTA

HIRONO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RYOUTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that’s it that’s the post lmao /j

i’ve btched plenty about kuukou’s writing in the stage but had hirono-san not been at the helm i highly doubt i would have cared for stage bat as much as i do lmao

i’ve fairly recently talked about how he defined the way kuukou moves in auxiliary media and how it brought to life how i envisioned he moved but it bears repeating hirono-san gave me everything and more lmao

like i still think about kuukou stalking up on some guy in track 3, twirling his mic and actually using it as a bludgeoning weapon with utter glee lol he’s so violent 💜

i love love love the feedback loop that quietly goes on behind the scenes with kuukou’s actors lmao

hirono-san mentioned in their cross talk that hayama-san’s 5th live performance was a frame of reference for the kuukou audition iirc, hayama-san a few years later during the 9th live imitated the way hirono-san used to bow as kuukou after nurusara’s division rep battle, and the bat actors took the bat seiyuu’s very cute 9th live blunder, missing their cue to introduce themselves in sync, and owned bat’s chaos by introducing themselves with their individual quirks in their rep live lol

lol during that cross talk, hirono-san mentioned he was endlessly amused by kuukou being tied up and angrily trying to talk in bat’s first drama track and i’m very happy he got to live it for himself after being tied up by dohifu in bat vs mtr lmao

still cracks me up dohifu had their very gay my home duet and kuukou literally went ‘REALLY???? IN FRONT OF MY SALAD?????’ lmao

i’ve been trying my hardest to talk around stage kuukou’s writing but personal bangers despite are!!!!!

him trying to fight jakurai and when the man passed out without kuukou even doing anything he went, ‘bruh🧍‍♂️’!!!!!!!! him getting in hifumi’s face after being called out for his shitty attitude!!!!! him playing the bad guy to bring hitoya and jakurai together!!!!!!

kuukou: *points* HITOYA!!!!!!

kuukou: *points again* JYOOSH!!!!!!

i wish i was normal about bat’s rep live lol like while we may suspect that performance was borne out of his looming graduation, hirono-san snapped off that last remaining chain of sanity and went crazy lol

i think about him butting heads and screaming at kenta-san, one of the ddb guys who is probably the only one who could match that energy lmao, the roaring growing in frequency until he held up his jacket, nagoya side out, and yelling, ‘NAGOYAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!’ until he blacked out on stage all the time 😭😭😭

other moments from the rep live i think about lol is that skit where hitoya totally scams kuukou and jyushi lmao but when hitoya told them the statue they ‘broke’ cost like 1000000¥ or some outrageous amount, kuukou started retching and that’s so relatable LOL

and that moment during the host club invasion where he walks in and goes ‘sup btches it’s been a while 😈’ and proceeds to destroy fragrance LOL

and him stuffing like four marshmallows at once in his mouth, expecting to be able to continue being able to speak lmao

and him going so hard his rings flew off and an unplanned mini encore happened as he tried to look for them LOL

saw a report that they were going stoopid one day during their rep live run the crowd was unwilling to let them go so hirono-san convinced the producers to let them do another encore on top of the several they already had 😭😭😭

and can you believe the hype never stopped even when bat wasn’t the focal point lol i heard that man at one point needed to be dragged off the stage during bop2023 bc he staunchly said they’d have to dim the lights on him for him to stop😭😭😭😭

there’s so so many bop2023 moments i think about like his redux rock paper scissors game, or him lifting up sasara only to drop him a second later lmao, him bullying stage posse LOL, the way they let him bring the hype whenever music lulled

and ofc the nb duet lol if the stage doesn’t want to do much by way of ichiro and kuukou’s relationship, thank fck hirono-san was there to carry lmao

crying over that one day when neither ichiro nor kuukou could catch their shared coke bottle to save their lives and kept laughing at each other while performing 😭😭😭😭😭

thank you hirono-san for establishing into stage canon kuukou dropped his bandana at ichiro’s feet after their breakup and that ichiro still has kuukou’s red bandana somewhere. it may not stick but that’s such an amazing take on that bandana’s whereabouts

daigo-san’s jyushi is so BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

THE top line i always think about is him joyfully walking into hitoya’s office in bat’s rep live and going, ‘hitoya-san!!!!! i’ve come to play!!!!! 😃😃😃’

previously that had been me crying anytime i thought about him skipping into hitoya’s office in track 3, cheerfully calling for him only to switch mid sentence into vkei mode once he noticed hitoya has guests lmao

his kuukou impersonation is legendary no joke lmao

AND SO IS ANY MOMENT WHERE HE PICKS KUUKOU UP LONG CAT STYLE SHOUT OUT TO BOP2023 SPECIFICALLY WHEN HE SWUNG HIM AROUND A LITTLE BIT TOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

that’s the second most bat moment i think about lol

i like how sometimes daigo-san’s default jyushi expression is the equivalent of this lol

another top moment i think about is him yelling how much he loves kuukou and hitoya during bop2023 😭😭😭

especially when you think about those early days of bat???? his first stage role ever was track 3 and he talked about learning the ropes from ruito-san, late night train rides with hirono-san after rehearsals and sharing his insecurities, bonding with them both despite the two of them being shy and UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH

like I COULD CRY about daigo-san incessantly commenting under hirono-san’s posts after track 3 and finally hirono-san went, ‘bro what gives???’ and daigo-san went, ‘i’m trying to be your friend lol’ 😭😭😭😭😭😭

all that bonding culminated to a point daigo-san can make fun hirono-san in his most trying hours lol (he lost a lot of money gambling LOL)

forever haunted by him commenting he and sakakihara-san had an in depth conversation about jyushi after track 3 and we never had them in the same room 😭😭😭😭

i also think about this one report i read where hitoya and kuukou were beefing as they usually do so he sat himself aside and lol when kuukou asked him why’s he sitting over there he responded, ‘well i didn’t want to get in the way of your flirting 😒’ LOL

jyushi being hitoya’s (current) number one fanboy is my canon lol so i’m happy he got a whole solo about hitoya lol

another top moment i think about is jyushi dramatically crying he’s going to die alone in shinjuku because he got separated from kuukou lmao

will forever and always be bitter the mtc rep live with bat as guests wasn’t available for stream so we missed kuukou bullying samatoki by repeating everything he said, kuukou and jyushi getting chased around by juto and rio while samatoki and hitoya waffled (and samatoki oogled hitoya’s body lmao) and jyushi got arrested by juto so he started crying for kuukou who came out asking what was wrong as he piggybacked rio LOL

idk if you can tell but i like stage jyushi lol he’s very funny

both hirono-san and daigo-san are so down bad for ruito-san it’s so funny but i don’t blame them LIKE HAVE YOU SEEN HIM LOL

it’s so funny to see it bleed into their kuukou and jyushi like we ain’t ever getting over them essentially grinding up on him during one of bat’s songs in track 3 LOL

ruito-san is too peak for hitoya frfr lol ain’t no way we’ll get another hitoya who can do synchronised backflips with kuukou 😭😭😭😭😭😭

i almost forgot lol hirono-san commented that after track 3, he got stuck calling himself ‘sessou,’ kuukou’s personal pronoun lol, and similarly, ruito-san has a hard time not touching his chin like hitoya does LOL

stage hitoya is fascinating, simply bc of how much more adjusted he is than canon hitoya lol

like i cannot stress enough how the best morally grey hitoya was written when he scammed kuukou and jyushi into doing good deeds and favours for him lmao

since he’s so well adjusted, some of his and kuukou’s heart to heart changed in execution, but it was neat seeing him call out kuukou for assuming people can be effortlessly strong like him, and have that thought come back when he’s facing jakurai

idk if i have a preference between the stage vs canon on how they resolved hitoya’s and sensei’s relationship but i still think the stage absolutely cooked lol

will always be crying over kuukou’s jakurai impersonation lol and how he revealed it by teasing hitoya for having a date but kuukou apparently got the details wrong so he confidently corrected him that they had gone out for strawberry milkshakes

and fanboy jyushi fell to his knees crying how cute that was, he gets it LOL

there’s this motion stage hitoya does in his courtroom solo i think, where he stands with perfect posture and tilts his arms that makes him look like a scale ⚖️ and it’s so good lol symbolism in DANCING

so more on hirono-san and daigo-san loving ruito-san lol i always think about them gassing up the role he landed in a drag production 😭😭😭 hirono-san didn’t want to miss it and daigo-san eloquently used 🔥🔥🔥 in his hype, amongst other borderline thirst tweet shenanigans LOL

was that their last interview together……….???? but that video of them painting walls together where ruito spills paint all over hirono-san, daigo-san gently caresses paint onto ruito-san’s face, and hirono-san crushes daigo-san’s balls truly lives rent free i’m going to miss the three of them as bat so much 😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💔😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜😭💜

[cultfaction]

Live action Wingman opening sequence revealed!

TV Tokyo have revealed the opening sequence to its new live-action Wingman tv series. Wing-Man is the story of Kenta Hirono, a fan of superheroes and sentai television shows to the point where he dreams of becoming such a hero himself. To that end, he creates a superhero of his own called “Wingman,” and, much to the chagrin of his teachers, acts out his fantasies of being Wingman at school. When…

[gonagaiworld]

La serie live action Wingman rivela un video promozionale e altri 3 membri del cast Il video mostra per la prima volta la trasformazione del protagonista Kenta Hirono in Wingman. Read more:--> https://www.gonagaiworld.com/la-serie-live-action-wingman-rivela-un-video-promozionale-e-altri-3-membri-del-cast/?feed_id=6604&_unique_id=670a247a2843c #Liveaction #MasakazuKatsura #Wingman

[geekpopnews]

Wing-Man | Série tokusatsu escala Maito Fujioka como protagonista

Maito Fujioka protagoniza a nova adaptação de Wing-Man, mangá de Masakazu Katsura. A série estreia em 22 de outubro na TV Tokyo. #wingman #tokusatsu #toei

O filho de Hiroshi Fujioka, o primeiro Kamen Rider, será o protagonista da adaptação do mangá Wingman. O ator Maito Fujioka foi escolhido como o protagonista Kenta Hirono na nova série da TV Tokyo, Wing-Man, que estreia em 22 de outubro. Essa será a primeira vez que Fujioka interpretará um protagonista solo em uma série de TV aberta. Na trama, ele será um “tokufã” que se transforma em herói.…

[mihotose]

[leenaevilin]

[Pics]『ヒプノシスマイク-Division Rap Battle-』 Rule the Stage -Battle of Pride- (hypnosis mic -division rap battle- rule the stage -battle of pride-)

visuals update under the cut^^

Cast:

Ikebukuro Devision “Buster Bros!!!”

Takano Akira as Yamada Ichirou (山田一郎)

Matsuda Shouta as Yamada Jirou (山田二郎)

Akishima Ryuuto as Yamada Saburou (山田三郎)

Yokohama Devision “MAD TRIGGER CREW”

Abe Aran as Aohitsugi Samatoki (碧棺左馬刻)

Mizue Kenta as Iruma Juuto (入間銃兎)

Byrnes Yuuki as Busujima Meison Riou (毒島メイソン理鶯)

Shibuya Division “Fling Posse”

Sekoguchi Ryou as Amemura Ramuda (飴村乱数)

Maeyama Takahisa as Yumeno Gentarou (夢野幻太郎)

Takizawa Ryou as Arisugawa Daisu (有栖川帝統)

Shinjuku Division “Matenrou”

Ayukawa Taiyou as Jinguuji Jakurai (神宮寺寂雷)

Araki Hirofumi as Izanami Hifumi (伊弉冉一二三)

Miyagi Koudai as Kannonzaka Doppo (観音坂独歩)

Osaka Division “Dotsuitare Honpo”

Aramaki Yoshihiko as Nurude Sasara (白膠木簓)

Satonaka Masamichi as Tsutsujimori Roshou (躑躅森盧笙)

Higashiyama Yoshihisa as Amayado Rei (天谷奴零)

Nagoya Division “Bad Ass Temple”

Hirono Ryouto as Harai Kuukou (波羅夷空却)

Katou Daigo as Aimono Juushi (四十物十四)

Aoyagi Ruito as Amaguni Hitoya (天国獄)

Akabane Division “North Bastard“

Kishimoto Yuuta as Doan Kazusato (堂庵和聖)

Nanbu Kaito as Kokuri Ryozan (狐久里梁山)

Matsuuchi Tsukasa as Saragi Kenei (蛇穴健栄)

Asakusa Division “Onigawara Bombers”

Katou Ryousuke as Hoozuki Jinpachi (鬼灯甚八)

Wada Taisuke as Komagata Masamune (駒形正宗)

Yuuki Kazuya as Yougou Doshirou (影向道四郎)

Itonokai

Uenobori Makoto as Oogumo Danjou (大蜘蛛弾襄)

Doutonbori Divers

Hoshino Yuuta as Takanashi Haru (小鳥遊ハル)

Kitano Satsuki as Watamoto Hirotaka (綿本裕孝)

Takahashi Yuuri as Akanegakubo Ryoutarou (茜ヶ久保遼太郎)

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[engekihaikyuu]

Hyper Projection Engeki Haikyuu - Flight

The newest issue of Jump finally reveals tour dates, a further list of cast members, and a title for the next production!  

Tour Dates Tokyo - Nov. 1 - Nov. 4  (Tokyo Dome City Hall) Osaka - Nov. 9 - Nov. 16 (Osaka Mielparque Hall) Miyagi - Nov. 22 - Nov. 24 (Tagajo City Cultural Center Hall) Tokyo - Dec. 6 - Dec. 15 (Nippon Seinenkan Hall)

The new cast list includes:

Shimizu Kiyoko - Ookubo Satomi Yachi Hitoka - Yamamoto Jurii Ukai Keishin - Ogasawara Ken Takeda Ittetsu - Kamakari Kenta

Kindaichi Yuutarou - Sakamoto Kouta Kunimi Akira - Kanda Masakazu

Tendou Satori - Katou Ken Shirabu Kenjirou - Satou Nobunaga Goshiki Tsutomu - Kikuchi Shuuji Coach Washijou - Kawashita Taiyou

Aone Takanobu - Arai Shou Futakuchi Kenji - Kimura Atsushi Sakunami Kousuke - Hirono Ryouta Koganegawa Kanji - Hatomi Rui

Sakusa Kiyoomi - Tsuwabuki Toshi

Hoshiumi Kourai - Kiyama Ryuu

Miya Atsumu - Matsushima Yuunosuke

[fymyu]

Hyper Projection Engeki Haikyuu!! Fly High Actors

Hinata Shouyou: Daigo kotarou

Kageyama Tobio: Akana Ryuunosuke

Tsukishima Kei: Yamamoto Ryousuke

Yamaguchi Tadashi: Oribe Yoshinari

Tanaka Ryuunosuke: Kanegae Kou

Nishinoya Yuu: Kitazawa Yuuma

Ennoshita Chikara: Nakatani Yuushin

Kinoshita Hisashi: Osada Sean

Sawamura Daichi: Higano Shou

Sugawara Koushi: Ichinose Ryuu

Azumane Asahi: Fukuda Yuuya

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Ukai Keishin: Ogasawara Ken

Takeda Ittetsu: Kamakari Kenta

Shimizu Kiyoko: Okubo Satomi

Yachi Hitoka: Yamamoto Jurii

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Kindaichi Yuutarou: Sakamoto Kouta

Kunimi Akira: Kanda Masakazu

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Tendou Satori: Katou Ken

Shirabu Kenjirou: Satou Nobunaga

Goshiki Tsutomu: Kikuchi Shuuji

Coach Washijou: Kawashita Taiyou

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Aone Takanobu: Arai Shou

Futakuchi Kenji: Kimura Atsushi

Sakunami Kousuke: Hirono Ryouta

Koganegawa Kanji: Hatomi Louis

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Sakusa Kiyoomi: Tsuwabuki Toshi

Hoshiumi Kourai: Kiyama Ryu

Miya Atsumu: Matsushima Yuunosuke

Amanai Kanoka: Hashizumi Ai

[recentanimenews]

Original TV Anime Akudama Drive Gets Stage Play Adaptation in March

  Akudama Drive, an original cyberpunk TV anime from 2020 about an ordinary person who accidentally falls in with a gang of ruthless criminals in the dystopic future, is being adapted into a live action stage play that will run in Tokyo and Osaka in March of 2022. The main cast for the stage play has been revealed, including:

  Tomoyo Kurosawa as Ordinary Person.

Jin Aoki as Courier.

Reo Nagatsuma as Hoodlum.

You Kikkawa as Doctor.

Ryouta Hirono as Hacker.

Haruto Sakuraba as Brawler.

Sena as Execution Division Pupil.

Takao Sakuma as Execution Division Junior.

Ryua Nakamura and Daiya Kunii as Brother. (double cast)

Rinna Sakuma and Hiroa Kouzu as Sister. (double cast)

Reo Honda as Cutthroat.

Mitsuru Karahashi as Execution Division Master.

And Toyotaka, RYO, HILOMU, Dolton, KENTA, and KIMUTAKU as Execution DIvision FORCE.

    The Akudama Drive TV anime is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi and features animation production by Pierrot. Funimation currently releases Akudama Drive in the United States, and describes the story of the series as follows:

  Many years ago, a Great Civil War ravaged Japan, leaving the country fragmented between two regions: Kansai and Kanto. In Kansai, a group of six Akudama carry out missions given to them by a mysterious black cat, while evading the police. But a dangerous journey is about to unfold when a civilian girl becomes twisted into the Akudama's way of life and witnesses their criminal drives.

    The Akudama Drive stage play will run from March 10 - 21, 2022, at the Shinagawa Princess Hotel Stellar Ball venue in Tokyo, and from March 26 - 27, 2022, at the COOL JAPAN PARK OSAKA WWHall venue in Osaka. Each performance also includes a live talk event with the cast after the performance is concluded.

  Source: MoCa

  Copyright notice: © Pierrot・TooKyoGames / Akudama Drive Production Committee

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Paul Chapman is the host of The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast and GME! Anime Fun Time.

By: Paul Chapman

[cultfaction]

New live action Wingman series to debut!

TV Tokyo have revealed that Masakazu Katsura’s Wingman manga will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a live-action tv series! Wingman is set to premiere October 23rd 2024 at 12:30am JST on TV Tokyo, and will also run on the DMM TV service a week prior starting on October 16th 2024. Wing-Man is the story of Kenta Hirono, a fan of superheroes and sentai television shows to the point where he…

[ataraxiamfrp]

Hey it's Ruki the date is 12/12 and I'd like to put in 3 drops I can be found at WingVui on twitter and tumblr and the characters are Keqing from Genshin Impact who was in arshan floor 15 Hirono Kenta from Wing-Man who was in Fenix suite 12 and Naoya Toudou from persona 1 who was housed in Fenix Suite 1 I also would like to put in a reserve for Kyo Kusanagi from The King of Fighters! sorry for the huge muse shuffle all these ones just went sleep and never woke...

hi ruki!

KEQING, HIRONO KENTA, and NAOYA TOUDOU have been dropped, and KYO KUSANAGI has been reserved for you!

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