#ohga man

[coffinwoodx]

ok so for those of you who don’t know, there’s this twitter account of a japanese local hero mascot named dentman who went viral recently due to this tweet

but yeah he saw the tweet. and his response went viral as well (which is how i found his account)

and he just has like. hourly posts reminding you to brush your teeth

oh and his rival? his name is mr. mutans. whenever dentman posts he makes a post of his own, ofc

but THAT’S NOT ALL. literally while making this post i found a THIRD ACCOUNT that’s all about taking your meds

safe to say i’m losing my mind

anyway the point of all this was that people are ALREADY beginning to draw them ship art 😭

and the reactions are everything

I CANT ADD ANY MORE IMAGES BUT TRUST ME THIS IS SO FUNNY

toxic one-sided dentman yaoi wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card but it DEFINITELY IS NOW!

[thepictoblr]

ive been a lot of meds recently and it's becoming a lot to deal with, so mr ohgaman on my twitter feed seemed to be a blessing to me

[toskarin]

they don't even know about dentman and mutans-kun. they don't know about ohga man. what do they know about?

[heartvisor]

on-site pictures with the suits from arakawa fumie, working on the direction for dogengers spin-off "a day of ohga-man"

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Kaiju Week in Review (February 19-25, 2023)

Those of you who've been around here for a while may recall the Kickstarter campaign for a documentary called Kaiju Gaiden, which aimed to interview directors of underseen independent kaiju films. I stress the campaign because despite clearing its $25,000 funding goal, the documentary was never completed. Director David Hall apparently took the money and ran, and while producer Mark Jaramillo vowed to finish the film, his last update was in 2018. Jaramillo also stopped posting on his personal Facebook page the same year. Myself and pretty much everyone else who gave the project a backwards glance figured he had simply given up and withdrawn from fandom to avoid further embarrassment. Or perhaps something had happened in his personal life that was more pressing than chronicling the adventures of a wolfman and some funny lizards. Kaiju Gaiden entered the (alarmingly voluminous) annals of kaiju vaporware, alongside the likes of Godzilla Zero Hour and Colossal Kaiju Combat.

Well, something did happen in his personal life. Fucking hell, did it happen. As Jules L. Carrozza revealed last Saturday, Jaramillo was in prison until recently for distributing child pornography online. I've been in touch with someone who's looked into this horrid story beyond what's available through Google (i.e. PACER), and they've confirmed that this is no case of mistaken identity. They also shared excerpts from the sentencing report. I will spare you the vile details. Suffice to say the man is a monster of the kind I wish only existed in the movies. He had started posted on Facebook again in October like nothing had happened, and I'm extremely grateful Carrozza came forward before he could stage some triumphant return at G-Fest or another con.

I aim to have Wikizilla's Kaiju Gaiden page updated by early next week; I feel bad for taking so long, but I want our citations to be unquestionable and can't search PACER myself until Monday. I also regret not including all this in the last week in review, since it did fall under its scope, if only just. Truth be told, I didn't know how the hell to present it alongside more routine kaiju news, Godziban especially.

I also wanted to give good old @kaijusaurus time to complete his Edward Snowden act. Back at G-Fest XXIII in 2016, Jaramillo transferred to him a bunch of indie tokusatsu obscurities and asked him to keep them to himself. Well, suffice to say that promise is off, and he's deposited the lot on archive.org and (when possible) YouTube. Give them a watch and let their lo-fi simplicity remind you why you fell in love with this stuff.

I'm glad they can be out in the world. Kaiju Gaiden ultimately made many of them less visible than they could have been until now. If you couldn't make it to G-Fest, you were shit out of luck. For those of us who could, those memories are thoroughly tainted. Mark Jaramillo didn't make any of them, and they don't deserve to be associated with him. His most enduring contribution to the kaiju genre will be playing a CIA agent in the excruciating God Raiga vs. King Ohga: War of the Monsters... alongside David Hall. Good fucking riddance.

[toku-explained]

The Members of Aku no Himitsu Kessya

After Shin Dogengers I will update these posts with stuff from that and try to find info for the specials I lack info for.

Yabai Kamen is the CEO of Aku no Himitsu Kessya Co. Ltd, who always winds up losing in the end and forced to make public apologies for the trouble they cause. Japan's most in debt Kaijin, AHK only stays afloat thanks to merch sales. His personal vehicle is Kuruma to Koi wa Kyu ni Tomeranai Man, and his weapon is the Gindara Blade, he also has a knife. Initially he used the Power of the Golden Seal to power up into Service Zangyo Ver, the version of him when he do just a little more work, armed with the Last Train Breaker and Only My Railgun. When he steals all the remaining Golden Seal power from AHK members he upgrades into the Greeting Ver, until after his defeat he manages to hold on to his power just a bit, and upgrade into COMIC Ver. for the final battle.

When empowered by the Affect System, Yabai Kamen is enhanced, and gains some new weapons. While still able to use the Gindara Blade, and now able to properly wield the One-Man Jogi he was given as part of filming for Great Z, he also now has use of 2 Walther P881 pistols.

At the end of High School Yabai Kamen makes use of the stolen national treasure, Heshikiri-Hasebe. The overrun of power from the sword destroyed the Sheath it had been stored with, and he struggled to control it, and sought to seal it by other means. After his defeat, he replicated the power in Return of Heshikiri-Hasebe but was defeated by the Dogengers again. At the conclusion of Metropolis, he stole Yuz-Yuz's SSA and used it to enhance himself, and despite his subsequent defeat he retained the ability to use the SSA in A DAY OF OHGA-MAN.

Shaberryman is AHK's head of Public Relations, and also the series scriptwriter, addressing the audience at key moments. Unlike his allies, he is actually a human being, Sasai Hiroo, disguising this with his helmet and keeping his humanity hiddenz. His weapons is Tanjobi ni Moratta Buki, a sword with a microphone attachment. Unlike his allies who were enhanced at the end of Nice Buddy, his only enhancement is switching to a gold necktie. Shaberryman is unaware that his backpack has housed the remaining power of the Golden Seal since Episode of I-Doll, causing it to go berserk on a couple of occasions, powering up into a giant state while Shaberryman is chained to it, possessing huge power, even moreso when it restored Fukuoka Castle under the power of Heshiki-Hasebe.

Maid Shitsuji is AHK's secretary and Head of Finance. They hate being compared to a goat by KitaQMan. In their initial form they rely on the Genwakuken Butler sword. Maod Shitsuji was the first AHK member to be upgraded by the Affect System, forced to ally with the Dogengers to rescue Yabai Kamen from Great Z. in this state they wield the sword Ao Sobiken Applause, the old weapon remaining in storage.

The Karamis are the general workers of AHK, acting as soldiers for the various monsters. They wield Karamiswords, 12 of which are stored on the back of Yabai Kamen's Service Zangyo form.

[heaven4d]

OHGA MAN @satellite_ars https://twitter.com/satellite_ars/status/1182250454601760768

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[tyrantisterror]

Oh man, the Americans in God Raiga vs. King Ohga.

[itsmebilly]

Ohga Chaka Ohga Chaka Ohga Ohga Ohga Chaka

The tone of the call amps up. Billy echoes your words. He gets into the chanting. Then, suddenly, the man breaks out into a high-pitched singing voice and starts spouting lyrics.

"I can't stop this feeling! Deep ins-iii-de uh me! Girl, you just don't realize what you do to ME!"

His voice cracks. It's awful and so, so passionate.

[generalragepanda]

Throw back to the old days of video games. only a few will remember who this is and the struggle he came with haha XD

I god i would spend hours trying to complete games like this.

Man those were the days...

[siscosfavoritecomics]

Time for some Kaiju action for today's #SundaySciFi flick. Came across this beauty on @tubi entitled Zillafoot. Here is the synopsis:

"A UFO lands on Earth, unleashing a giant creature that is half lizard and half gorilla. As the monster decimates any military response, scientists and members of an elite squad race to save humanity from inevitable disaster."

Based on the opening, is this movie is part of the same world as other kaiju movies such as Raiga, Gappa, Konga, Reigo and Ohga? Man, the opening montage was first class compared to the acting that followed it. 🤣🤣🤣 I just want to see what Zillafoot looks like.

#Zillafoot #KaijuMovie #MonsterMovie #SciFi #SciFiFantasy #ScienceFiction #SciFiMovie #SciFiMovies #Movie #Movies #SiscosFavoriteComics

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[kabargames]

Tips Memenangkan Balapan di Need for Speed ​​Payback

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[liptonteea-blog]

Evaluation Of Infinity Blade Two

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However the franchise hasn't been entirely forgotten — not yet, anyway. Epic Games lately revealed that the famous blade itself is making its way to the company's present money cow, Fortnite, as an equippable weapon. Just one blade will spawn per spherical, however it appears like it will be the most devastatingly highly effective melee weapon the game has ever seen. Yow will discover it on Polar Peak, which is one among season 7's new places.One of my very favourite options about the system was the Tremendous Nintendo controller. The Tremendous Nintendo controller was a breakthrough in many ways. Not solely did it have twice as many buttons on the face as the original NES controller, the Super Nintendo also featured in buttons on either shoulder. It isn't hard to see where current-day videogame consoles had been born Its clear that the Tremendous Nintendo controller set the stage for the longer term.In searching for to deflect consideration from firearms to video games, LaPierre implied that digital weapons were more of a danger to society than real ones - a point that gun management advocates mentioned is absurd, and social science researchers furiously rebuked.In brief, World of Warcraft energy leveling will be conquered with ease by adhering to these fundamental leveling methods, and that's by enjoying properly rested with full blue bar, finishing your inexperienced quests first, avoiding instances and multitasking, than you may be World of Warcraft energy leveling genius your self and it is all authorized. These fundamental guidelines apply to all areas of the sport, from beginner zones to the more difficult zones. Preserve this in mind it will be all smooth crusing.

[heartvisor]

oh! as part of promotion for the "a day of ohga-man" spin-off, all episodes of dogengers metropolis are available on the akh channel for viewing on youtube until 9/24 9:59am (jst)! no english sub this time, though.

[xtruss]

'Positive Deviants': Why Rebellious Workers Spark Great Ideas

Organisations Tend to See Rebels as Troublemakers – But Suppressing These Individuals and Their Ideas Could Backfire.

— By Loizos Heracleous and David Robson | 1st June 2021 | BBC News

In the 1980s, a group of young engineers at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Houston realised that the 1960s Apollo-era mission control set-up would struggle to handle the more complex challenges of flying the space shuttle.

The engineers’ concerns fell on deaf ears; Nasa knew and trusted the Apollo-era systems, which had successfully sent humans to the moon. Undeterred, the renegade group – who subsequently called themselves ‘the pirates’ – began to code new software for the mission control sub-systems in their free time, using borrowed equipment from Nasa suppliers. Their system was based on commercially available personal workstations linked through a Unix network, in what the pirates felt was a more resilient and adaptive set-up. After several months, they physically brought their system into mission control to test it – but they were asked to leave by the flight controllers.

At that point Gene Kranz, the legendary mission control director, stepped in. He had faith in the renegade engineers, knew how important the project would be in terms of bringing in needed capability – and asked the other flight directors to give the group a chance.

To test it, the pirate system ran alongside the incumbent system for a few months. When the mainframe system crashed twice, the pirate system kept going. In hindsight, it’s easy to see its benefits; the new system could display graphics and colours, was easily re-programmable and could conduct real-time diagnostics based on multiple parameters using early forms of artificial intelligence. These capabilities were sorely lacking in the incumbent system.

The rebel engineers proved themselves and their system through a baptism of fire. All subsystems of mission control were then gradually transitioned to the pirate system, which received a “Hammer Award” from then-Vice President Al Gore for having made dramatic improvements to the functioning of government. The pirates’ system had saved $74m (£52m) in development, and $22m in recurrent annual running costs. The rebel engineers were then asked to design the mission control system for the forthcoming International Space Station.

Organisations have rules and policies designed to promote stability, predictability, efficiency and productivity – and we tend to see people who don’t get with the programme as troublemakers. Yet, as the NASA pirates show, suppressing or ignoring these individuals and their ideas could backfire, potentially depriving companies of a potent source of agility, insight and innovation.

Why Rebels Rule

There is psychological evidence that rebelliousness is essential for creativity. Harvard psychiatrist Albert Rothenberg spent more than five decades researching individuals who had made ground-breaking contributions to science, literature and the arts, seeking to understand what drove their creativity. As part of a broader research project that encompassed structured interviews, experimental studies and documentary analysis, Rothenberg interviewed 22 Nobel Laureates. He found that they were strongly emotionally driven by wanting to create something new, rather than extend current perspectives. He found they consciously saw things with a fresh mindset rather than blindly following established wisdom – two qualities that would seem to suggest a rebellious, rather than conformist, personality.

The Nasa pirates' system led to the successful introduction of new technologies at Mission Control - even though flight controllers initially rejected the ideas

To investigate the benefits of rebelliousness further, a team led by Paraskevas Petrou at the Erasmus University Rotterdam recently surveyed 156 employees from various industries in the Netherlands. They measured rebelliousness via a questionnaire that asked participants to rate their agreement with statements such as:

I break rules

I know how to get around the rules

I use swear words

I resist authority

The team also questioned the participants about their use of creativity over the previous week, along with more general attitudes to their work. As Rothenberg might have predicted, the rule-breakers were indeed more creative, but the effects depended on some other traits. For rebelliousness to have a more consistently positive impact on their work, the individuals also had to be “promotion focused” – that is, goal driven and interested in personal growth – while also tolerating the possibility of failure.

“You have to be really focused on the positive that you can achieve,” says Petrou, who is an assistant professor in social and behavioural sciences. These attitudes can depend on context and the overall climate within a company or organisation, he says – and whether it tolerates failures or not.

Often these ‘rebels with a cause’ – also known as positive or constructive “deviants” – may be motivated because they care for the organisation and its mission, and feel psychological discomfort when they see that important capabilities clearly need improvement.

Observational studies provide many more examples besides NASA’s pirates. The context and actors may change, but the substance is remarkably similar. A small group of committed individuals who think differently and who have valid strategic insights can foster ground-breaking innovations that promote success of the enterprise. This is how the IBM business model transitioned to the internet, and how the Apple Macintosh was created.

These ‘rebels with a cause’ may be motivated because they care for the organisation and its mission

Thinking differently and challenging established paradigms of space flight is also how the entrepreneur Elon Musk and others in commercial space are building technology such as reusable rockets that will radically restructure launch economics and open up space for human expansion and commerce.

Fostering the Rebellious Spirit

Unfortunately, it can be hard to maintain a corporate culture that allows rebels to flourish. Over time, the rules and standard operating procedures that support uniform service delivery, efficiency and reliable processes, can also create inertia and work against adaptability and innovation. History and culture conspire to keep things being done the same way as they’ve ‘always’ been done. People judge proposed innovations on whether they agree with the established paradigm, rather than their ability to create new paradigms. Such a state is dangerous, since it stifles needed change.

Leaders need to be aware of these tendencies and fight against them. They should promote a culture in which challenging the status quo and pushing boundaries are seen as legitimate behaviours, rather than marking rebellious individuals as troublemakers and compromising their careers. If they are committed to creativity, leaders should take practical steps to ensure that progress is achievable, ensuring that the “rebels” have the available space, funding and time to pursue innovative ideas that may appear crazy, unwarranted or out of place at the time, but that could subsequently save the organisation.

NASA shows that change is possible. Today, it is a network-based organisation that partners with commercial space actors to tap the best available technology – wherever it may be. And this more open-minded approach to change owes a lot to the work of its internal renegades, who provided proof of concept of employing commercially available technology decades ago and challenged traditional ways of doing things.

For individual rebels, it might be worth considering your own motivations. As chief rebel and industry slayer Steve Jobs advised the 2005 Stanford University graduating class in his commencement speech, we have to look inside to find what we truly love, and then go for it. When we do something that we love, this emotional commitment will drive us to do the right thing when the situation warrants it, even when others are opposed to what we are doing or do not see things the way we do. In other words, don’t just rebel for the sake of it – but find a cause that really matters to you and then channel your frustrations into clear goals. As Petrou’s work had shown, that’s the secret of the “positive deviant”.

If we can connect with others who also have the drive to improve things and to create new capabilities, even better; there is strength in common purpose. Ken Kutaragi – the man behind the PlayStation – could count on Sony CEO Norio Ohga, who was himself a rebel at heart. Ohga was trained as an opera singer and conductor, whom Sony noticed when he wrote a complaint letter to the company about the quality of its tape recorders. Ohga led Sony to great success during his tenure between 1982 and 1995, summarising his approach as pursuing the unconventional: “we are always chasing after things other companies won’t touch”. So, try to look for other like-minded people within your organisation, who might help to provide the support and clear the obstacles where necessary.

Rebels may have a bad reputation, but in the right environment, and with the right motivations, they can achieve amazing things.

Loizos Heracleous is a Professor of Strategy at Warwick Business School and an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Janus Strategy. This piece is partly based on Dr Heracleous’ own research with Nasa.

— David Robson is the is author of The Intelligence Trap: Revolutionise Your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions (Hodder & Stoughton/WW Norton).