Unofficial Tarzan films: guess which film becomes PD first?

Unofficial Tarzan films: PD status

The Adventures of the Chinese Tarzan: 1992 (China), 2012 (Germany), 2022 (Spain) 

The Chinese Tarzan: 1993 (China), 2013 (Germany), 2023 (Spain) 

Tarzan goes to Delhi: 2038 (Taiwan), 2048 (India), 2058 (Australia), 2068 (Spain) 

Tarzan and the Treasure: 2043 (Taiwan), 2053 (India), 2063 (Australia)  

Zimbo, Zimbo Comes to Town and Zimbo Finds a Son: 2055 (Taiwan), 2065 (India) and 2075 (Australia) 

Tarzan Penunggu Harta Karun: 2072 (Taiwan), 2082 (India), 2092 (Australia) 

Who’s Your Jakarta Magic?

This one article wasn’t even fully written until September 2022. 

Gue Sihir Lu is more than being a short lived weekly MockBuster Sinetron (aka Indonesian Soap Opera); it is a super strange take on Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s own legendary classics Sally (or Sunny) the Witch and Princess Comet, as well as of all Toei Animation Originals, Takashi Ijima’s unremarkable Chappy the Witch. Unfortunately, the rather decent actress Nia Ramadhani is otherwise so guilty of being addicted to a deadly illegal drug like meth, which means she’s currently in prison for the rest of her own life. 

Behaviour and fashion wise, the character Sofie only superficially resembles her other inspirations, Melissa Joan Hart’s iconic portrayal of Sabrina the Teenaged Witch and Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s manga version of Princess Comet. Otherwise, she is most obviously a physical Chappy expy in all but name and age, including the goddamn hair buns.

In other words, despite being created and written by the outspoken Instagram celebrity Tisa TS for both MD Entertainment and SCTV, the live action story is cliche as hell. This means a superior trilogy of animated remake films (albeit set in Newcastle in NSW, Australia instead of Jakarta in Java, Indonesia) will lead to another work in the form of a future animated series focusing on blending East European Romani folklore with contemporary Australian surroundings. 

As it is, said animated film trilogy and its tv sequel will feature bits and pieces of Romani culture such as; the Butyakengo (a kind of soul-type spirit living inside one’s body, usually a human one) and countless others. 

The end. 

Tomio Sagisu’s Kaijū Island

The plot of a possible revised take on Tomio Sagisu’s Kaijū Island. 

Once upon a time, a scientist married his ex-spinster school teacher, a middle aged local woman, on an island where she and her fellow villagers lived in. Unfortunately, even though she bore him fairly healthy boy triplets, she still died of exhaustion related to overworking and really awful paying times. Afterwards, he had two of his triplets being taken care of by his brother and sister in law, while only keeping the middle one, whom he bottle fed until he turned two. 

Fair enough, the scientist and his middle triplet son had to survive for a rather long time on such a dangerous island, so much so that said middle son became unlikely friends with a bunch of variably sized beasts whom his dad studied. 

A potential PD list

The list of potential Copyright Free and PD novels with animated adaptations 

Grigory Adamov’s Chroma 

The Conquerors of the Far Underground 

The Legend of Green Atlantis 

The Brutality of General Winter 

Alexander Grin’s Grinlandia 

The Road To Nowhere 

The Scarlet Sails

She Who Runs On The Waves  

Mister Designer

Reno Island 

Jessie and Morghiana 

The Shining World

The Golden Chain 

The Jukan Series (first eighteen books soon to become PD in 2028 for most nations) 

Jukan 

Jukan, the Puma’s Brother 

Jukan in the Great White City 

Jukan in the Kingdom of the Giants

Jukan in Rio de Janeiro 

Jukan and the Gold Volcano

Jukan in Nuke Island 

Jukan in the Land of Mists

Jukan in the Underground Kingdom 

Jukan’s Adventures in the Sargasso Sea 

Jukan and the Air Pirates

Jukan and the Desert Riddle 

Jukan’s Return 

Jukan and the Atlantis Folk 

Jukan and the Primeval Forest Enigma 

Jukan and the Nuke Rocket 

Jukan in Stanley’s Footsteps 

Jukan and the Earth’s Twin Sister

Kenya Boy: Square Enix Edition

Kenya Boy, The internationally forgotten Kamishibai prototype behind a series of Emonogatari graphic novels, a radio drama, a live action film, a live action tv series, a companion manga and an anime film. 

The Ultimate Square Enix Edition is defined as a light novel saga with fourteen volumes; with each one containing five individual mini stories. The first volumes explain how Joe landed in Kenya as a child with his father Shotaro, who left him behind with manager family friend Daisuke, his workaholic wife Molly and their student daughter Jasmine. The other volumes focus on him surviving in the country (plus parts of Tanzania and Uganda) with unlikely friends Zega and Kate, and then had his family friends go to America to escape their would be imprisonment by the Japanese military, shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbour came along. The main story transitions into its own sequel with an amnesiac Joe fighting off extremists of all kinds in India nonetheless. 

The prequel explains Shotaro and his partner mating each other, resulting in Joe being born and a few years later, him leaving India to work in Kenya. 

The sequel focuses on grownup Joe being stranded again, but in Uganda, while trying to find out where his parents are. He in turn meets Kate again after a few years. After that, Joe and his own wife (who technically isn’t Kate) become feral newlyweds living in the jungle with an adoptive daughter and son. 

Unlike the first one, it is much darker and edgier, because it’s filled to the brim with nonhuman animal violence. 

A decently translated Summary of Bastian Steel

Sinetron Summary

In the wizarding world, Abad is an evil wizard who always wears a mask and intends to get rid of Bastian, the baby of a female witch named Juli, who is married to an ordinary human man named Tora. According to the prophecy, Bastian can defeat Abad as the number one magician. Juli and Tora died while trying to protect Bastian. Abad himself was finally defeated by the power of the infant Bastian. Abad's mask was successfully opened and his face was revealed, but only baby Bastian saw Abad's face, which had been known to be mysterious in the wizarding world. Baby Bastian's hand also managed to seize the star-shaped black crystal stone, which is the source of the power of the Century.

Meanwhile, Juli, in the midst of the rest of her strengthened peak, had enough time to put Bastian into a magic cupboard. Juli stays on guard to protect Bastian from Abad, and sends him to the world of mortals. Juli also had a bit of time to leave a gold bullion as a fee to guarantee Bastian's life later, along with a letter to anyone who found Bastian. After witnessing Bastian being sent to the human world through a magic cupboard, Juli dies.

Bastian, who entered the magic cupboard, was finally thrown into the human world. He was found by a husband and wife, Fuad and Yuni. They were very surprised to find the baby along with gold bullion and a letter telling them to take care of Bastian & use the gold as living expenses. Fuad and Yuni, who lived on a mediocre basis, immediately brought baby Bastian along with the gold. Even though at that time, Fuad and Yuni also had a son of Bastian's age, named Dudung.

Time flies. Bastian grows up to be a cheerful teenager, even though he has to live unhappily in the former chicken coop which has become his room. Fuad and Yuni regard Bastian as their long suffering housekeeper and not a son. When both became ready for actual school time, the snobbish parents had only sent Dudung, their only birth child, to a school nearby. Fortunately, Bastian was suddenly visited by a guest, who claimed to be a friend of his late parents, Pak Yanto, who delivered a scholarship letter and all school supplies for Bastian. Bastian was beyond happy, because finally he could go to school. Although the mystery of his parents' death is still a mystery to him.

Initially, Fuad and Yuni did not agree with Bastian going to school. However, because they didn't pay any money at all and Bastian kind of promised to keep doing the housework he used to do, Fuad and Yuni sort of agreed to disagree. But Bastian also lives his new life as a student. Before long, Bastian also experienced extraordinary things, where he turned out to have extraordinary magical talent. He also learned to master it. As a teenager, who just found out about his power, Bastian often does silly and funny things with his magical abilities. Not infrequently, he also helped some of his friends. Even Bastian himself sometimes uses his power to steal the heart of his newfound favourite girlfriend, Jelita.

Bastian's scatterbrained behaviour irritated Abad’s own arrogant son Guntur, supposedly the most handsome and strongest boy in his school, who falsely told Jelita not to get close to Bastian. Guntur also tends to be rather unfriendly with other teens and makes bad pranks upon them. That said, he discreetly remembered having a few good times with his own screwed up dad, who turned out to be Abad. Thus he sneakily tries to steal Bastian’s gold bullion, who had absorbed Abad’s power for good in the past, but at the plausible cost of turning him into a greedy, unpredictable warlock. 

Tarzan actors’ hair colours: Minority World

Not written until barely two years later. For Minority World Tarzan actors. 

Brunettes and Titians 

Elmo Lincoln: With his faint blue eyes, chubby build and plain brown hair, Elmo Lincoln was the first major adult Tarzan actor onscreen.  

Gene Pollar: Sky blue eyed nerdy brunette Gene Pollar played Tarzan only once. 

Percy Dempsey Tabler: Aka the sky blue eyed, titian brown haired Perce Dempsey Tabler, he was also the first Tarzan actor shown with a typical dad body. 

James Pierce: Although a bulky natural blonde himself, James was both the first official Tarzan voice actor and likely the heaviest ever Tarzan actor from a minority world Anglophone country. 

Frank Merrill: as one of the few brown eyed Tarzan actors from the minority world, hunky old Frank, with his shaggy golden brown hair, likely inspired his somewhat lesser known cartoon counterpart in Three’s a Crowd, a Merrie Melodies short.  

Johnny Weissmuller: Fellow brown eyed Johnny was the most popular Tarzan actor in black and white films, not only due to his athletic ability, but also because of his swarthy chocolate hair. Even though his skin colour was usually in a faint mix of peach, olive and salmon, he’s likely one of the first to be of a mixed ethnic background, as he was a Roman Catholic man with both Banat Swabian and Romanian Ashkenazi Jewish roots.

Herman Brix (aka Bruce Bennett): As he lived for nearly a hundred and one years, he’s likely the longest lived cool blue eyed, titian haired Tarzan actor in history. 

Glenn Morris: Even though the dark brown eyed Glenn Morris played Tarzan only once, he was clearly an odd exception amongst the Tarzan actors, as his hair was nearly always of a brownish raven colour. 

Lamont Johnson: Soulfully blue eyed, brownish blonde Lamont Johnson was the only official Tarzan voice actor of the nineteen fifties, until the much better Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle show began to air decades later. 

Gordon Scott: Partly due to strongly disliking his initial Tarzan portrayal, Gordon Scott was both the second last brunette Tarzan actor and the second to last official brown eyed Tarzan actor. 

Mike Henry: Since Mike Henry was both the last official brunette Tarzan actor till the 21st Century and the heaviest known brown eyed Tarzan actor from a minority world Anglophone country, he also would likely inspire the Buscema Brothers’ ballsy badass Tarzan designs. 

Steve Hawkes (he was another natural blonde): Steve Hawkes, aka Steve Šipek, played Tarzan unofficially for two films. Even though his eyes were still in a bright shade of grey blue, his hair was heavily dyed in a darker brown shade than that of Ron Ely, who preceded him. 

Richard Yesteran: Brown eyed, ruddy brunette Richard Yesteran, aka Jose Luis Ayestaran, was drugged out when he unofficially played Tarzan for two films. 

Christopher Lambert: As a formerly titian haired beauty, who’s also one of the few Tarzan actors with uncommon coloured eyes in the minority world (a pair of brownish green and greyish blue partial hazels in this case), he has likely done his best to portray Tarzan as a sympathetic anti hero in the super boring Greystoke. 

Joe Lara: Despite being a lot better than Johnny Weissmuller in so many qualitative ways, it’s a shame that Joe died in a cult ridden plane crash along with his notorious second wife Gwen Shamblin. Even though he was a natural blonde with brightly cool grey eyes, his hair was frequently dyed in a much darker colour for his two Tarzan stints. Thus, it was soiled to the point of becoming a dark brown curl for the rest of his life. 

Casper Van Dien: Titian haired, green eyed Casper Van Dien has largely left the world of acting, which was when the so bad its good Tarzan and the Lost City flopped too hard in cinemas. 

Michael T. Weiss: Cool old Michael T Weiss is the first official Tarzan voice actor with both brown hair and brown eyes. 

Giles Panton: Pretty much much the last known brunette actor to play Tarzan. 

Typical Drab Blondes

Denny Miller: While not the first known blonde to play Tarzan, he’s still the first and only drab blonde actor to play Tarzan on film until Miles O’Keeffe stole the show. 

Robert Ridgely: Drab blonde haired Robert was the first official Tarzan voice actor in history. 

Miles O’Keeffe: Being a drab titian blonde mix, Miles is the first and only known light haired Deep Southern Tarzan actor in the films, who also is the heaviest living Tarzan actor from a minority world Anglophone country. 

Wolf Larson: the retired German born Canadian actor Wolf Larson was the only official drab blonde Tarzan actor in television history, until the boring WB Tarzan shit show was made and destroyed in a single year.

Travis Fimmel: Travis is a cool grey eyed Aussie dude who thankfully has gained fame as a talent in his own right. One of his awkward early outings has had him as the last known drab blonde actor to officially play Tarzan onscreen, which was years until his own hair has currently gained its golden brownish hue. 

Platinum and Ash Blondes

Buster Crabbe: Bluish grey eyed Buster was an oddity amongst Tarzan actors, in which his hair colour, before he greyed out, was an unlikely sign of things to come. Well, he’s a platinum blonde Cool Guy at his prime, who would likely inspire the blonde haired explorer stereotype in its definitive glory. 

Redheads

Kellan Lutz: Another rarity on the list is auburn haired Kellan, who also has golden brownish amber-hazel eyes. 

Strawberry Blondes 

Lex Barker: Lex was likely the first and only known official blonde actor to play Tarzan onscreen, up until Jock Mahoney’s Tarzan duology came along. He’s also the first official strawberry blonde actor to play Tarzan, by the way. 

Jock Mahoney: Jock was the schlumpiest actor who officially played Tarzan onscreen. As he was also the second to last official strawberry blonde Tarzan actor until the 2010s happened, he only did it for two films anyway. 

Ron Ely: Until he greyed out decades later, Ron dyed his hair in a considerably darker colour, but that was mainly for the beginning of his stint as the first official Tarzan actor in television history. It otherwise showed its actual blondness from season 2 onwards.

Tony Goldwyn: The most famous of living Tarzan actors and voice actors, the grey blue eyed sex symbol Tony Goldwyn, with his crafty Southern Polish Jewish roots, has given his soulfully deep voice to what’s now the most popular Tarzan variant of all time.  

Alexander Skarsgard: As a ruddy blonde and greyish green eyed talent in his own right, Alexander Skarsgard is also the sultriest living actor to officially play Tarzan onscreen. 

The most common category turns out to be simply for both the Brunettes and Titians, which is partly due to the fact that they often complement each other, thus being hard to distinguish when not seen up close. 

Cyberpunk Tarzan’s potential casting shenanigans

The Cyberpunk Tarzan reboot desperately needs a crapload (mostly) of tv actors rather than totally A-list celebrities. 

Since a lot of living Tarzan actors and voice actors are growing old within decades, the last resort, in terms of portraying a grownup version of the main Tarzan, will probably be Ryan Buggle once he becomes an adult. 

You’ll also have another actress portraying Jane Porter when she becomes an adult as well.

Sandaukan reimagined

Sandaukan reimagined 

The novel series is finally having a continuity reimagining sometime in the 2020s. With the stories being over a century old and rather values dissonantly full of old stereotypes, even if the whole series was quite fair for its day, it is time to reimagine all of them in epic detail. Moving the location southwards from Malaysia’s Sarawak and Sabah into Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan may help matters, due to the fact that the actual late Sandokan was most likely a man of Kadazan-Dusun nobility, who believed in Momolianism, the native religion of Kadazans and Dusuns.

A coming of age story also focuses on a new characters like Marianna Capaldi, Louise Stapleton, and Gabriela Gusmão plus mainstays like Sangam, Lien Guillonk and Pau De Gomera. The spinoff, following the coming of age origin story, focuses on the somewhat dysfunctional marriage of Lien and Pau De Gomera, plus the birth and growth of their twin children Dan and Mae De Gomera, as well as a majority of the screwed up Guillonks actually going to intentionally kill her because her father was the CHIP WILSON of his time. 

The prequel, focusing on Sandaukan growing from infant to adult, is basically his origin story. Also, the reimagined Sandaukan isn’t going to be a kingly pirate, but rather a character who begins life as an infant who lost both parents to a rampage of psychopathic landlords having a poisonous fan-celebrity relationship with an infamous sultan. Also, he is partly raised by many of Kalimantan’s various jungle animals, but usually the Mawas, a cryptid much larger than a human, thus becoming an adept climber at a young age. It is hinted that he is of predominantly Dayak Ngaju ancestry. 

Norman Lear’s All In The Family: Where are they now?

The thing that made All In The Family great was wonderfully, socially conscious entertainment. No virtual signalling, just wonderful entertainment without many pitfalls. 

Archie Bunker’s mother Sarah Longstreet was a serial terrorist, who both knocked up and married his unlucky dad David for money. Said dad was also a mean bigot, even though his much colder hearted wife treated him much worse than others, which explained why he in turn neglected their also unlucky kids (a lot) until a few years before he passed away in regret. Fred Bunker became quite a pervert, but was nonetheless an amicable divorcee later on. Youngest brother Philip Bunker was a real computer nerd, and their much older sister Alma was a b movie actress. 

Joey Stivic became a commuting accountant with a wife, a daughter and a pet cat. 

When Good Times very happily ended in 1979 after a few years of relatively poor scripts and blandly executed episodes, the characters ultimately became different from what they were. 

Florida sadly had her fate coming from the start of her life; albeit one which remained unnoticed until after the show really ended. After the finale, she was bludgeoned into the void by her own, even more virulent, JW kin, themselves also responsible for abandoning her in the first place. Not only was that situation sick, it was also really questionable. 

The formerly (at times) irresponsible JJ got a formerly irresponsible ex hoodlum girlfriend, albeit one who’s only four years older than him, and also a nerd. Optimistically, they’d have been slowly and steadily showing the incredible queer hots for each other, all the way through marriage and having fraternal twins together. 

Thelma and her husband Keith have a nerdy son, who also has a son of her own with an anime fan wife whom he met at uni and whom he is married to. 

Michael Evans renounced his own militant angry young man status for quite a while, perhaps because he was witnessing his more militant former friends become way too drunk to control themselves properly, and that experience might have scarred him and his life quite a lot. He became a calmer but still firm political activist after the show ended, even as he’s been diagnosed with mental health issues as well. 

A look at the Kulafu mythos

The Kulafu Mythos is one of the most iconic Philippine comic franchises. 

The mythos has Kulafu, a Tarzan boy, as its eponymous titular character. 

Disney’s Tarzan: the cast

The casting candidates for a large portion of the cyberpunk Rough Draft-storyboarded and animated, Critical Role-voice acted and ERB Inc-coproduced, Disney Plus-webcasted Tarzan reboot 

The main 

Daniel Frogson as the main Tarzan 

Matt Cornett as Tantor 

Shelby Simmons as Torkina

Lara McDonnell as Liz Doyle (youth and adult) 

Sophie Simnett as Margaret Durham 

Hazel Doupe as Vera Parker 

Jade Jordan as Robin Doyle 

Chloe Coleman as 

Octavia Spencer as Carla 

Sunny Suljic as The Gorilla Tarzan (aka Peter Wrightson)

Pádraic Delaney as James Parker 

William Brent as Kago 

Paul Mescal as Roland Shiels  

Travis Willingham as Hieronymus Holt

Zeno Robinson as 

Yvette Nicole Brown as Lucille Link 

Shiloh Fernandez as Kublat 

Laura Bailey as Sarah Lyle Holt 

The recurring  

Kayla Maisonet as Naranee 

Nazneen Contractor as Kisha 

Ainsley Bailey as Miranda Kenton 

Lucas Neff as Thorag and Bruce Bayliss 

Brandon T. Jackson as Dungy 

Buddy Lewis as

Tony Revolori as Manu 

Nyah Marie Johnson as 

Valentina Gordon as 

Erica Ash as Jaqueline Rye

K.C. Collins as 

Emilia Fox as Gwendolyn Durham 

Mallory James Mahoney as 

Landon Liboiron as Derrick Carne 

Anders Holm as Torglat 

Aimee Carrero as 

Vella Lovell as Nicole Carne, Rosanna Miller, 

Isobelle Molloy as 

Noah Lomax as  

Cree Summer as Minnie Carne

Oliver Alexander as Manu (youth) and Cristopher Diaz 

Brock Brenner as Flynt (youth) 

The minor 

Eva Birthistle as 

Emmy DeOliveira as 

Micah Hauptman as Michael Hauser 

Danielle Galligan as Lisa Parker 

Kevin Michael Richardson as 

Jacob Batalon as Flynt 

Sarah Paulson as 

Kelly Hu as 

Tom Hopper as 

Benjamin Alves as Gorlak (aka Bruno Rosas) 

Michael Garza as Kago 

D.J. Hughley as Zugor 

Katt Williams as Matt 

Colin Morgan as 

Arica Himmel as Cheechak 

Jeremy Maguire as Tantor (youth) and Kroog 

Ace Rosas as 

Francesca Capaldi as Eleanor Gillis 

Meg Donnelly as Sheila Ross

Jillian Shea Spaeder as Sarah Lyle Holt 

Brayden Cross as Utor 

Christian Keyes as 

Lyriq Bent as 

Phil LaMarr as

Dawnn Lewis as 

Michael Evans Behling as 

T’Keyah Crystal Keymáh as 

Bella Samman as 

The guests

Honor Kneafsey as Baroness/Viscountess Azalea Waltham Maxwell 

Kate Walsh as Mary Jane Wrightson

Dylan Moran as Ray Parker 

Sharon Horgan as Ashley Brennan Parker 

Rainbow Sun Francks as Wesley Wrightson 

Ford Kiernan as Baron Frederick Waltham 

Shirley Henderson as Baroness Lana Newton Waltham 

Miles Butler Hughton as Viscount Herbert Maxwell 

The Tarzan Weight Club

For Minority world Tarzan actors 

The ‘64-77 kg’ club 

70 kg: Michael T Weiss (in Disney’s The Legend of Tarzan) and Joe Lara (in Tarzan: the Epic Adventures) 

72 kg: Giles Panton 

73.9 kg: Casper Van Dien 

75 kg: Michael T. Weiss, Denny Miller, Jock Mahoney (last years) and Tony Goldwyn (in Disney’s Tarzan) 

The ‘78-98 kg’ club 

79 kg: Jock Mahoney (in most Tarzan films) 

79.8 kg: Lamont Johnson and Kellan Lutz (in Constantin’s Tarzan) 

80 kg: Tony Goldwyn 

81 kg: Travis Fimmel (in WB’s Tarzan) 

82 kg: Gordon Scott (in later years) and Christopher Lambert (in Greystoke) 

83 kg: Tony Goldwyn (in Scandal) and Michael Terry Weiss 

83.9 kg: Frank Merrill (in both Tarzan films) and Glenn Morris 

85 kg: Robert Ridgely 

85.7 kg: Travis Fimmel (currently) 

86 kg: Johnny Weissmuller, Elmo Lincoln (in most Tarzan films), Travis Fimmel (in World of Warcraft) and Lex Barker 

88 kg: Kellan Lutz, Christopher Lambert (currently) and Ron Ely 

90.7 kg: Herman Brix (aka Bruce Bennett) 

92 kg: Elmo Lincoln (in the first Tarzan film’s making) 

Barely 93 kg: Alexander Skarsgard 

97.5 kg: Gene Pollar and James Pierce (in his last years) 

98.8 kg: Gordon Scott (in his early years) 

The ‘99-119 kg’ Marvel Comics heavyweights club 

99.8 kg: Mike Henry and Jock Mahoney (in Tarzan the Magnificent’s making) 

102 kg: Alexander Skarsgard (in The Legend of Tarzan) 

103.4 kg: Steve Hawkes (in two Tarzan films)

104 kg: Elmo Lincoln (in his later years) 

108.7 kg: Miles O’Keeffe

117 kg: James Pierce (in his later years) 

Disney’s Cyberpunk Tarzan: things to do!

There are a lot of objects in the Disney’s cyberpunk Tarzan reboot. 

Weapons 

Spear - A brown spear is the main Tarzan’s improvised weapon, as he made it from a sharp bladed stone, a bunch of strings, and an abandoned brown pole stick when he was about eight. 

Dagger - Tarzan has a brown dagger, which he made from a sharp bladed stone, a bunch of strings and a pole twig. 

Hunting Knife - A brown hunting knife is a weapon whom Roland inherited from his mum. 

Bowie Knife - One of main Tarzan’s friends, the Gorilla Tarzan, has a big steely Bowie knife, which he has inherited from his dead camper birth parents on the day he first visited their would have been holiday cabin.  

Bow - The main Tarzan made a brown bow in order to ensure that his newfound arrows needed a companion to catapult out of somewhere, whereas his friend Roland had to rescue them from a destructive weapons owner instead. 

Arrows - When he was a preteen, the main Tarzan found a bunch of arrows abandoned by a fleeing deceased hunter, which was a few weeks after he was bludgeoned to destruction by grass men. As a result, he had to clean them very carefully. When things seemed to get worse, he improvised a brown bow to ensure that the arrows have something to catapult out of somewhere.  

Grass Rope Swings - The Bankondi of the grass men are the main reason why there are a crapload of predominantly long grass rope swings tied into variable and varying tracts of dying old jungle trees. Roland and the main Tarzan have also made a ton of them in order to hang on them and swing through the canopy even when brachiating, tree surfing or vine climbing. 

Lasso - As most jungle lassos are made out of short-mid sized grass ropes, they are the most frequently shared of the main Tarzan’s improvised weapons. 

Blowtorch -

Sling - The main Tarzan made a sling when he was about seven years old, about five years before he found a bunch of arrows and improvised a bow for them. 

Thinks to see through and think about 

Binoculars - 

Things to wear 

Grass Nappy - Many of the Tarzans each wore a grass nappy in the first few years of their lives.

Loincloth - Loincloths are worn by the many Tarzans in the cyberpunk reboot. Some of them may wear them as skimpy outerwear in order to cover their really obvious briefs, others just have them as they are. 

Disney’s Cyberpunk Tarzan: a cinematic walkthrough

Disney’s cyberpunk Tarzan reboot needs both a cinematic walkthrough and a bunch of galleries.

Here’s a gallery of Tarzans. 

The Gorilla Tarzan, inspired by John and Sal Buscema’s design portfolio, is raised by a pack of gorillas (albeit western lowland gorillas this time, since they’re increasingly better studied in the past ten years alone than within the past fifty) since he was a school child following his parents’ murder by poachers years after they plane crashed into the jungle. Terk is his adoptive sister, Flynt is his adoptive brother in law, and Mungo is his adoptive cousin. 

The main Tarzan, inspired by the version that many millennial and older Generation Zed fans know about, is raised by an old member of the skunk apes, dangerous primates known for their foul odour due to living in swamps. Given his really screwed up relationship with animals, he only has three regular human friends, Gorlak, Vera Jane Parker and Roland Shiels. 

Gorlak was found by chimps following his parents’ untimely death in the hands of loggers, but was raised afterwards by a loving, literate wild family in the jungle.

Kenya Boy Cast Members

Here are the cast members of the upcoming Kenya Boy multimedia project. 

The heroes (Japanese) 

Yuki Kaji as 

Jo Onodera as 

Seiru Onodera as 

Hiro Mizushima as 

The heroes (English) 

Neel Sethi as Joe Moriyama

Jordanne Jones as Kate O’Connell 

Maya Erskine as Molly Mizuki 

Griffin Gluck as 

Janice Kawaye as 

Ruairí O’Connor as Mara O’Connell 

Tala Ashe as Shohreh Baboli 

Trina Nakamura as 

Derek Assetto as Zega 

Doreen Kemunto as 

Avan Jogia as 

Melinda Shankar as 

Supinder Wraich as 

Landon Liboiron as 

Meagan Rath as 

Masumeh Makhija as Dana Baboli 

Daisuke Tsuji as Daisuke Murakami 

Chrishell Stause as

Glenda Braganza as 

Micah Solusod as 

Loreto Peralta as 

Travis Willingham as 

Laura Bailey as 

Riya Ramaswamy as 

Nazneen Contractor as 

Sheetal Sheth as 

Sujata Day as 

Michelle Rojas as 

Melanie Chandra as 

The villains (English) 

Dylan Moran as 

Sharon Horgan as 

Eva Allen as Lenora Van Halen 

Iliza Schlesinger as Galina Yelchin 

Maxey Whitehead as Irma Meyn Van Halen 

Disney's Cyberpunk Tarzan: growing up

The multimedia Disney's Cyberpunk Tarzan reboot project. 

Tarzan’s mother was marooned into the jungle along with her husband. Born in Bristol (seven years after his mum and her husband wed), the main Tarzan survived his parents’ murder by Skunk Apes in the jungle. 

Tarzan and Jane are a strong and fiery married couple. Mvumvumvum and Uwauwauwau are the Vili words which mean something wild really well. The latter was deep into her motherhood. Lungululubu is a Vili word which means that she breastfed her growing kids. 

Tarzan: location candidates

Since there’s so much debate, which of the tropical African locations are some of the Tarzan novels most accurately set in? 

The least accurate locations seem to be central and northern Angola below Cabinda, which are often depicted in old Tarzan maps and not much else. 

The Northwest and Southwest parts of middle Cameroon are perhaps the only Cameroonian states controlled by the chiefdom-unaware Brits, which partly explains why there’s considerably more corruption in both of these states than in the rest of middle and southern Cameroon. There’s also southeast Nigeria, mainland Equatorial Guinea, southernmost Central African Republic and the rest of middle and southern Cameroon, as well as much of northern Republic of the Congo (excluding the small easternmost parts of both Sangha and Cuvette, plus the state of Likouala, which are all closer to much of both the CAR and the DRC, than to the rest of west central Africa as a whole) and northern Gabon. Despite not being the most accurate birthplaces and childhood homes of Tarzan, they do strongly serve as the beginner’s bases for some of the Weissmuller-Henry era films, some of Gold Key’s Tarzan comics, parts of WB’s two Tarzan tv shows and a part of its film Greystoke, plus the first volume of Christophe Bec’s Tarzan comic books and a very artsy comic book in the form of Dynamite’s second regular Tarzan comic, Lord of the Jungle. 

Likouala and the middle, north-central and west-central DRC rainforests are often depicted more frequently in Dell, Marvel and older Dynamite versions than in any other retelling, apart from some of Dell’s and DC’s Tarzan comics and a part of WB’s The Legend of Tarzan. Then came along the southwest Ugandan, western Rwandan, western Burundian, western Tanzanian, northeast-central and east-central DRC jungles and woodlands, the beginner’s bases for some of the silent films, some of the Weissmuller-Henry era films, some of Dell’s and Marvel’s Tarzan comics, parts of Filmation’s Tarzan Lord of the Jungle, the 3 Disney films, Disney’s The Legend of Tarzan tv show, Constantin Film’s Tarzan 3D, Netflix’s Tarzan and Jane web show and Andy Briggs’ trilogy of teen novels. 

Much of Gabon and central Republic of the Congo seem to be the next most accurate birthplaces and childhood homes of Tarzan. They are the beginner’s bases for some of the silent films, some of the Weissmuller-Henry era films, many of DC’s Tarzan comics, a few of Marvel’s Tarzan comics, parts of both CBS’s tv film Tarzan In Manhattan and TF1’s Tarzan tv show, parts of the Peter Rodgers Organisation’s Tarzan: The Epic Adventures tv show, and parts of both WB’s film Tarzan and The Lost City and its reboot The Legend of Tarzan. 

Well, the most accurate location turns out to be the Mayombe realm, encompassing southernmost Gabon, southern Republic of the Congo, Cabinda and westernmost DRC. They’re the beginner’s bases for some of Marvel’s Tarzan comics and many of Dark Horse’s Tarzan comics. 

Natsuzora: THE Anime Expy Maker that everyone can die for!

Natsuzora by NHK is a docudrama tv series released in 2019. Inspired by the life of Reiko Okuyama, the late wife of Yoichi Kotabe, the man who designed Bowser of Super Mario fame, this docudrama focuses on her fictitious expy, who herself animated expies of many famous pop culture characters including Little Orphan Annie and Devilman.

The most popular part of the whole series overall is about Annie the Witch, who is basically an expy of Mako Chan and Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Sunny and Sally, with other elements from Majokko Meg Chan, Chappy, Fujio Akatsuka's Akko Chan, and Little Orphan Annie.  

The history of Akim

From the source: http://www.lazonamorta.it/lazonamorta2/?p=10835

“Akim” is a very particular comic book character: he is certainly the most famous Italian tarzanide (characters inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan") and he crossed over with the fantasy spectrum much more willingly and often in his stories, in all its forms and meanings, from fantasy to science fiction, from weird to horror to mystery, than his "literary progenitor" had in film. "Akim" was also one of the most enduring and long-lived series of the comics scene in our country of Italy: in all its "career" it had the beauty of four editorial lives for a total of around 2300 issues.

Its first issues were the so-called "strips" and were published in Italy from 1950 to 1967 by the M. Tomasina Typography on a weekly basis on texts by Roberto Renzi and drawings by Augusto Pedrazza for a total of 894 issues. The publication was divided into two periods, the first series includes 99 issues from 10 February 1950 to 28 December 1951, while the second series had 795 issues from 3 January 1952 to 31 March 1967. Furthermore, from 1954 to 1968 the strips were reprinted by the M. Tomasina in “Akim Gigante”, a publication consisting of five series of books including then-unpublished stories for another total of 508 stapled books.

And these were the first two lives of "Akim".

Eight years later, "Akim" returned to newsstands with a comic series in a Bonellian version: released between 1976 and 1983, this third life of the character took up the homonymous version of 1950 and was published by the Altamira publishing houses (the current Sergio Bonelli Editore) from 1976 to 1980 and Quadrifoglio from 1980 to 1983, for a total of 84 monthly issues plus a special register. The texts were once again Roberto Renzi and the drawings were always made by Augusto Pedrazza, who was assisted by Pini Segna.

The fourth and last life of "Akim" is recent history, given that for some years If Edizioni has been proceeding with the complete reprint of the Bonellian version in double albums with new unpublished covers by Corrado Mastantuono, which has so far reached just under a dozen issues.

Up to here the editorial history of "Akim", but now let's see who exactly this character is.

Inspired partly by Salgari's novels, partly by Kipling's “Kim” and “The Jungle Books” as well as being partly by Burroughs' "Tarzan", Akim has aristocratic origins and in reality his name is Jim (like the orphan boy he will later adopt): son of an English consul in Calcutta, which is now Kolkata, Count Fredrick Rank, he was shipwrecked as a toddler child off the coast of Africa and was saved by reaching the mainland with his mother. However, the woman is immediately torn to pieces by a hungry panther, while the child is saved and raised by a village of monkeys and great apes, headed by the gorilla Arab (later renamed Kar due to many factors). The child grows up and learns to talk to all the animals of the jungle, being accepted and respected by all species and soon becoming their king.

In the newly written stories produced for France (a total of 756 numbers added to those of the Italian edition, bringing the tally to over 2000 published stories, or in short, 2256 stories, the most official Italian and French ones of any non-Anglophone Tarzanide character on record other than Zembla), the authors begin the saga with some variations: here we find an airplane in trouble falling into the jungle, igniting a crash; a young child named Jim is saved by the gorilla Kar, son of Udug, who adopts him and gives him a new name, Akim.

If at first glance it seems the same script as "Tarzan", in reality "Akim" differs from his Burroughsian ancestor, both for the unprecedented anthropomorphism of the various animal species that he meets in the stories and for a strong ecological sensitivity of the series, with frequent references to a more balanced relationship between man and Nature.

The appearances of members of Akim's clan are numerous and vary from episode to episode: the core is however more or less constant, with the gorilla Kar and the mischievous and lazy monkeys Zig and Ming. They are often joined by two human characters: Rita, Akim's partner, and Jim, an orphan boy adopted by the king of the jungle. Minor roles are also occupied by the kings and queens of the various animal species: in particular the elephant Baroi, the lion Rag and the bear Brik.

Akim's historical enemies are also numbered by the dozen, and all of great character and figurative weight: the hungry and devilish black panther Orrg who killed his mother; the bloody Gabon tribe led by the invader Matù, a follower of the idol of Kaha*; science fiction (mad) scientists like Mister Gold, Genius and Doctor Xor; the transforming alien Mixor; the invisible Professor Winter; the masked Atomix, Kadabras and Mysterior; General Samura; the pirate Cin Fu*; the occult Black Spider; the warmongering colossus Kid Motimbo; the monstrous Tiger Prince, Drug and Terror. Not to mention the incursions of disappeared peoples, such as the ancient Romans, Mongols, Vikings, Indians, Arabs, Africans, Martians from Mars and (even) unicorns, minotaurs, monstrous dinosaurs and carnivorous plants. In short, everything and more!

*Armed with rather questionable implications, characters from the fictitious Gabon tribe are likely adapted loosely from uncomfortably outdated Portuguese, French and Spanish depictions of the Beti Pahuin, a widespread Bantu ethnic group in most tropically forested parts of West Central Africa.

*Although violent piracy is still a highly questionable thing in many tropical waters regardless, Cin Fu’s design was likely outdated even for its day and also by European Union standards.

To get a better idea of ​​the fantastic 360-degree character of the series, just take a look at many of the titles of the books that leave no room for doubt on the issues addressed: "The Timeless Island", "The Hawk Men", "Terror Comes in the Rain", "The Sorcerer's Revenge", "The Vampire Trees", "The Lord of Darkness", "Space Base", "The Queen of the Galaxy", "The Ice Swords", "The land of giant iguanas", "Genius and the super robots", "The man who came from space", "Black ghosts", "The robot idol "," The reptilian men", "Insects invade the world", "Axor, the planet of diamonds ”, and “The Pharaoh's curse" are just a few examples, but certainly not all! Totally, Fantasy was at home in "Akim" and has been for a long, long time!

Tarzan in European Cinema

Let’s look at the films featuring Steve Hawkes and Jose Luis Ayestaran (aka Richard Yesteran) as Tarzan! 

The first film that Steve Hawkes appeared as Tarzan was in Tarzan and the golden Grotto, a campy part time Mockbuster set in the then contemporary Sexual Revolution. Tarzan and the Brown Prince was its sequel which got released three years later, in 1972.

Tarzan and the Jungle Mystery was even more vacuous. Made in 1973, it was filmed in the Ivory Coast with Richard Yesteran as a pretty but dull Tarzan closely resembling the variant of Joe Kubert. Its sequel was Tarzan and the Treasure of Kawana, which was released in 1977 but made three years earlier.

A Long Essay of Buruuba

The plot of the film based on Baruuba. Credited to a Japanese reviewer. 

In the early Showa period, Seiichiro Watanabe heads to Africa with his daughter Reiko, Reiko's uncle and entomologist Kenkichi, in an attempt to find the whereabouts of her lost friend Dr. Shiga in the hinterland of Africa. Seiichiro's purpose was to find the whereabouts of Dr. Shiga, but in reality, he was looking for the diamond mine leaked by Dr. Shiga's wife.

Seiichiro and three others visited another village as an interpreter for Tokio Shimamura, who was born locally. Then he met a supportive chief and decided to have him serve as a guide for the indigenous people. However, the chief says Dr. Shiga died after being eaten by a lion. Still, Seiichiro tries to go to the hinterland. Tokio asks Seiichiro about the true reason for continuing his safari (exploration trip). On the other hand, the natives tell the party the fact that even the chief did not know. They say that after the death of Mr. and Mrs. Shiga, their son was raised by an old lioness. It is true that Shiga's wife wrote that his son's name was "Takeji" and moved on.

After leaving in search of a shining mountain, the party was attacked by a human-eating race, and Reiko and Kenkichi escaped. However, the remaining Seiichiro and Tokio are caught. The party was supposed to be burned at the stake, except for Reiko and Kenkichi, but since Dr. Shiga had given them a stake in his lifetime, he was taken as a guest. Eventually Kenkichi will join.

Reiko is attacked by a gorilla on her way out. A half-naked young man appeared there and she saved her. The young man always shouted "Buruuba", but he didn't know the word. When Reiko examined Buruuba’s knife, it belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Shiga. Even when Reiko was attacked by the snake, Buruuba stretched her body to get rid of the snake and gradually became intimate with Reiko. As they ride on an elephant and play in the jungle, a gun-shot child appears. Buruuba San, who pulled out the bullet, knew it was the work of a Ningen. Finally, the party found Reiko with Buruuba. Tokio shoots a gun, so Buruuba disappears and only Reiko is brought back.

Eventually, the party found a glowing mountain (diamond mine), but was attacked by part time cannibals. The majesty of Dr. Shiga did not reach their chief. Immediately before being almost executed, Buruuba sends beasts such as lions and elephants to a cannibal village to destroy the village, and Tokio is also eaten by the lion. Seiichiro and Reiko try to bring Buruuba back to his hometown of Japan, but Buruuba, who cannot believe he is a barbaric young Japanese man, jumps into the river and returns to the jungle. Whilst Shaking off her bored stationary father Seiichiro, Reiko follows him and disappears into the jungle.

The terrible Yuru!

A Peruvian reviewer made a review on one of the worst Tarzan inspired tv shows ever. And, it's a freaking Peruvian one. Check It Out! http://pakobardales.blogspot.com/2007/02/yuru-un-bodrio-seudo-amaznico.html

They arrived one day in Iquitos, without having previously made a real and constant research and reconnaissance of the work site, they arrogantly developed the details of “its production”, they took a luxury cruise to arrive at a hostel (also luxury), they stayed a couple of weeks having a relatively cool time, the owners of the jungle freaking out, and they immediately sent to move to Lima. Then they worked the post production with all the gags, stereotypes and reiterations of bad stories and thus they launched “their miniseries” based on the story of a supposed jungle girl who talks to monkeys, dresses as a girl version of Sheena and tries to save the world from a brotherhood led by a duo of baddies who badly imitate Pinky and the Brain and speak with an impossible accent, to the point that they look like sad dogs barking. Now it leads the ranking of the most watched programs of the primetime of 9 at night.

"Yuru, the Amazonian princess" pretends to be a tribute to our jungle (now that, they say, we are in fashion) But in reality, the program of yore ends up being the most complete symbol of the daring ignorance with which certain individuals treat the provinces, and even more so to the Amazon. Produced by Michelle Alexander and broadcast by Latina Tv, I had never seen in recent times a production of considerable financing that shaped inconsistent plots, unspeakable characters, situations that border on nonsense and a supposed environmental message that does not penetrate even preschool children.

"Yuru" stands, however, as a powerful misinformation agent of character and reality. A few days ago, I decided to take a tour of the presentation of the actors held in the Mega Plaza of the northern cone of Lima and, although there was no suffocating crowd, a large number of people approached them and treated them like little stars. But, thanks to their efforts and the ineffable texture of the libretto, reality has been changed and all the pseudo characteristics they present about Amazonian life on the small screen are perceived almost as true by a large legion of admirers. And, therefore, it is true that in the face of a rather poorly inclusive policy of the State and in the face of a pretty poor intercultural educational content in schools and various academic centres, some sector of the public opinion may believe that the inhabitants of Iquitos, Pucallpa or Tarapoto speak as mentally weak or we dress in such a terrible way.

It is probable that they will never find a typically Amazonian girl who speaks with a valley girl accent like the rather pretentious Mayra Goñi (who surely can act well, but remains a fairly spoiled young woman from the channel who somewhat expanded on her childishness in a fairly deplorable interview with Cecilia Valenzuela.); that there is a grandfather who dresses with feathers on his head and speaks an Andean language (which is a factoid, as there are indeed speakers of the Quechuan language family living in the Amazon, it’s just that they mostly live in parts of both the Napo River valley and Madre De Dios); and that the bars and houses of the most humble people have the appearance of lodges for gringos. It is likely that there is no more unpleasant character like the one that plays Culebra (a funny jester, but with tics of the worst and most boring kind) and that the bad guy in the series is called “Tunche” (with “e”) and not tunchi (with “i”, as the famous spectral creature is usually called in the jungle), among other thick details that give an idea of ​​how bad the subject has been treated.

Nobody asks that a fictitious history could be a faithful reflection of reality, or a squared panorama of it; but from there to deform everything, to pretend to reflect microcosm in a loose and distorted way, to believe that a light and fun product can be made by making fun of the ignorance of others just because they have the power to access the national level through a channel television, there is a very long stretch. While efforts to expose our worldviews from within are not easy (despite the support received from sincere and dedicated advocates), there floats palpable examples that true cultural change and mental decentralization has yet to take place in our makers of stories. "Yuru" is a shoddy mess, a lacklustre caricature and an example of what not to do (and follow) in these globalized times of jarjachas, kharisiris, yaras, chullachaquis and tunchis (with "i", as they are known in the Peruvian jungle).

Otherwise, Tunchi and Tunche are interchangeable.

In fact, in 2007 a film entitled Tunche, a production effort by the Huancaino Nilo Inga, premiered, something which maintained the terminological meaning generally used in the Peruvian Andes, in an extremely valid way. However, if one wants to enter the Peruvian Amazon, especially in the huge northeastern state of Loreto, where the activities of the aforementioned miniseries take place, they will understand that the generalized and almost unanimous form of denomination is "tunchi", with "i". Uses and customs vary in each region of the country.

Classic Kamen Rider Amazon

A hypothetical international adaptation of the classic Kamen Rider Amazon by Shotaro Ishinomori will be produced by AdNess, Katuni and Bluefin, if it’s going to be made at all. 

Kamen Rider Amazon in the international version has more diverse vocalisations and sounds than in the older versions of both live action and manga kinds. He is a beastly man, pounding his chest for different purposes. 

Ben Davis is an action survivor who has a rather heart breaking beginning, made worse by the murder of his ageing birth parents by a mentally hypnotised mad scientist, who was originally caring but got sold out into a scary mega corporate world, and ultimately bought by the abusive former master to Gargash, Dr. Geddon. Ben is also a significant mixed race character with brown eyes, whose paternal aunt Wanda brought him over to Peru before she died in a plane crash. After losing both his uncle and aunt, he was raised by a family of wild men living in the Jungles of Ucayali in Peruvian Amazonia. Later on, he had to survive by foraging for essential stuff like foods and clothing. Amongst his other jungle friends are Kunks and other mythical creatures.

Over time, he made friends with various part time nomads, a family of snowbirds, an ecologist and a mechanic. Unfortunately, the mechanic, who taught him some Peruvian Spanish, had also been killed off. As a teenager, he was trapped into a bio trafficker’s snare and had to be rescued by a Yacuruna, who bit his legs to lessen the snare’s unpleasant effects as he frees him. 

Even sadder, he lost his adoptive parents a few years later, as a chest pounding young man. As a result, he courageously protects his own friends from extensive exploitation by large corporations. It seems likely that Sande nuts and the meats of ice cream beans are amongst his favourite foods. Being an avid tree dweller, he lives in a treehouse near Taichi’s house. He is perhaps the first and sole openly bisexual Kamen Rider of the Showa period.   

Fellow Urbanites 

Lucy Jones is the brunette older sister of Francis, who has long wavy hair with varying fringe lengths. Her maternal grandparents are ethnic Croatians from Dalmatia who immigrated to the US for a better life elsewhere. She is fifteen years old. 

Taichi Tachibana’s nearly adult daughter is named Jess, who is a quad biking aficionado. She has a long straight hairdo with side parter bangs. 

A jungle dwelling preteen named Ray is a boy with brute strength raised by the same adoptive tribe as Ben in the southwest Amazon jungle. He is most likely orphaned by the mechanic’s killer, a depravedly corrupt boss who killed his grandma when he was a young baby. Like Ben, he sometimes pounds his chest when he’s excited or angry. He is almost certainly Ben’s adoptive younger brother. 

Veronica 

Will Scott is a seven year old boy who is a newcomer to an otherwise sleepy suburban town infested with relatively corrupt cops. As his parents are former spinsters, he is largely not welcomed by fellow youngsters except for Kay. 

Francis Jones, an eight year old boy, is an ally of Ben Davis, as well as being the younger brother of Lucy. 

The other Allies  

Roger Drake is the eight year old younger brother of Val Drake and the son of Rusty Drake. 

Val Drake is a goth with short brown hair, who happens to be the daughter of Rusty Drake. 

Eric ‘Rusty’ Drake is one of the ecologists whom Kamen Rider Amazon befriended years before. 

Louise, basically one of Donna’s fellow friends, and a plucky neighbour of hers, is a lady ecologist in her twenties (later thirties). 

Mimi is Kamen Rider Amazon’s lover. When she first met Green, she was bedraggled, living in a squalid house next to a dumping ground for plastic. His badass nature ultimately persuades her, culminating in a rather plausible if very unlikely marriage to the young wild man she ultimately comes to love, which results in Beth being adopted. After her husband leads her to the Ucayali jungle, she also adores his lodge and will dare to go out for a birdwatching hike! 

Green’s immediate family 

Jasper Davis, a war veteran, was Ben’s birth father and Christina’s partner. 

Christina Yamamuro, a middle aged cubicle rat, was Ben’s birth mother. Shortly after he was born, Christina and her black American partner were forcibly experimented upon by devious scientists gone wild, and as a result they died in sadness knowing that they’re assaulted to smithereens. 

Beth is Ben’s adopted daughter. She’s been orphaned like her adoptive father since she was baby. Otherwise, she enjoys the jungle scenery as she grows to be as tough as her adoptive parents. 

Joe Pickens, Ben’s dead paternal uncle, was a cubicle rat ecologist who plane crashed to death along with his wife Wanda. Their friend was a well meant aviator. 

Wanda Pickens, Ben’s dead paternal aunt and his father’s sister, an explorer who ensured that Ben lived privately in the thick jungles near Pucallpa for much of his early life. 

Lila Pickens, an urban reporter, is Ben’s long lost older cousin. She is about thirty six years old. 

Simon Keats, Lila’s husband, is a workaholic Schoolteacher at an elementary school where his son Joey attends. 

Joey Keats, Lila’s son and Ben’s nephew, is both a preteen and a class clown. 

Donna Davis, a thirty two year old woman, is a lady who was kidnapped by Gargash before he died. Then she was freed by Kaza and Zeba from their own bad methods, so that she can reunite with her long lost little brother, Ben. 

The Monsters

Garvey, a clumsy mole monster who speaks English in a somewhat broken fashion, is a character who was once a senior human being before being reincarnated into a beast. He was a workplace reject who lived in a shed and frequently had nightmares of future upcoming scientists being sold out into a corporate world. He sacrifices himself to save Amazon Green from being obliterated by a very depraved monster, Malicia’s boss. 

Lyn, a llama monster who was one of a bunch of shanghaied monsters that Amazon Green had seen. Barely spoke much because of her worsening Alzheimer’s and was accidentally killed by the mantis monster. 

Gunna, a monster born into the infamous science experiment by Vandal BigWig that ultimately killed almost everyone, including Green’s birth parents. Is a non verbal, highly wild beast known to turn into the most powerful Beast rider of all. 

Reynaldo, a jaguar monster, was one of the unwilling recruits of Gargash before exiling from his wicked boss. 

Reynaldo’s daughter was named Josefina, who was forced to become a black Jaguar monster by the machinations of Dr. Geddon before the main story begins. 

Fan Made Kamen Rider and Super Sentai Ideas!

For the casual fans of Kamen Rider, Super Sentai and Power Rangers, here’s a stunning list of fan made Kamen Rider and Super Sentai Ideas 

Amazonger/Amazon Flash - Thunder Ryo from DeviantArt did something cool about half a decade ago, with Amazonian jungle animals! In the power ranger rangers version, if it could be made for tv at all, this would be the spinoff sequel to Power Rangers Wild Force, with a new group of ecotourist Rangers following the steps of Cole Evans and the gang! Two of these will be lifelong mixed race buddies Keenan Storm and Elliot Yamada, behaviourally opposite rangers! The latter had been adopted by a Latino Mestizo Colombian family in the Llanos/Amazon border and the former, whose middle aged birth parents got murdered by CyberGas, who in turn already morphed Dr Jock Radner into a magnificent monster bastard two decades before the parents themselves even met. Such a grand theft me murder was made when Elliot and Keenan was basically a milk mothered and recently born baby who didn’t even know that he’s born in America, inside the resident village shaman’s house! Geddon in turn will be murdered by a heroic female monster named Juno, whom they befriended when they’re children. 

Kamen Rider Voodoo - With my mind still churning out amazing dreams where fan made Rangers and Riders collaborate, one of the many ideas that I’ve churned during showers is Kamen Rider Voodoo, which I’m going to base on Sugaya’s darkly comedic version of Kamen Rider Amazon. Unlike Sugaya’s Amazon however, the series will be set in a fictionalised version of Louisiana with three riders named Damon Keita and pals Elise and Sonny. 

 

Power Rangers family tree

Andros Lycan

Wife: DivaTox’s aunt Prista

Daughter: Alexa Lycan (born 2005)

Do note that Andros married Prista in law order for her to escape her really screwed up family. Yup, that’s right! 

Tommy Oliver 

Wife: Kat Hillard

Children: JJ Oliver

In an ironic twist, both Tommy and Kat likely retired as full time Power Rangers. 

Damon Henderson  

Wife: Luciana Myles 

Children: Lumina (born 2006) and Helix Henderson (born 2010) 

Rocky DeSantos 

Wife: Tanya Sloan 

Son: Roy DeSantos (born 2008)  

Jason Lee Scott 

Wife: Karone Lycan 

Son: Leandro Scott (born 2003) 

Unfortunately, both Jason Lee and Karone died in a fire. 

What if certain Kamen Rider and Super Sentai shows got adapted by Hasbro and Bluefin?

Hello you! Anyone who's a megafan could deal to the fact that certain Super Sentai shows are not adapted into Power Rangers, for reasons too numerous to count, which is similar for nearly all Kamen Rider shows as well. Also, because there are fanfics everywhere about possible sequels, I could make soft reboots to a few beloved anthologised seasons a possibility, thus making them fully distinct but related tv series.  

Amazon - Based on the revered original Kamen Rider Amazon, an animated adaptation will have both Manga and Toku elements in check, even though it is much darker and more nuanced than either one. It is set in the Washington state and around Ucayali in Peru. The story will have three prologue films, three seasons, and three epilogue films filled with AdNess, Katuni and Bluefin distributed Merchandise! Being different from the versions of both manga and live action kinds, it will basically be a cross between Ainbo, Bomba and Dragnet. 

Jewel Force - Based on Goggle V, Jewel Force is basically set in the early 1980s with a team whose members are the Algerian Berber great Selim Zidane, The West Bengali hopeful Ganesh Chowdhury, the Caucasian chess geek Lizzie Richards Wise (John’s wife), the Korean American zookeeper Joe Park, and the Filipino gymnast Minnie Chavez.

AutoDrive - Based on Turboranger, AutoDrive is set in the mid 1970s and focuses on a team whose five members are Natalie Hilliard, Korean American Conrad Kwan (Trini’s South Korean dad), Roger Houston (Mimi’s dad), Margaret Haggard, Jonathan O’Shaughnessy, Donald Silvers (Moe’s dad), and Ronald Wendt. 

Sports Fever - Sports Fever is based on Denjiman and will feature a team of sports teachers; a Caucasian soccer goalie named Moe Silvers, a quarter-Korean American gymnast named David Park who is the son of Adam Park and Kimberly Ann Hart, the Black researcher Mimi Houston, the Puerto Rican boxing coach Max Reyes, and the brunette former tennis player Marnie Jones. 

Sun Vulcan - A darker and edgier sequel to Sports Gang and an improvement of one of the weakest Super Sentai shows on record, Sun Vulcan has the smallest team in PR history, consisting of a Nigerian American oceanographer named Alice Ayoade, a humble oceanographer named Liam Rhodes and a Bangladeshi American Bengali GWP Army officer named Ahmed Iqbal. 

Star Rangers - Basically adopting the Filipino English name of its Sentai predecessor, Star Rangers is definitely set in Angel Cove of the early 2020s and has five members; a Caucasian sports brat named Silo Penn, the Black American busker in training Joey Martinson, the redhead fashionista Peggy Stoner, the Irish Beast Hunter Marjorie Higgins, and the Korean American weightlifter Benjamin Cho. 

Turbo Force - The long awaited spinoff sequel to Power Rangers Turbo will be set in Coral Bay in what is clearly the mid-late 2010s, featuring a ragtag bunch of misfits trained by Adam Park; a preppie named Lisa Valens, the half-Mexican digger Zachary Perez, the Punjab Jock Morgan Singh, the Jewish nerd Tristan Wiener and the Mulatto scientist Louise Maynard. 

Bio Fury - Based on BioMan, it is basically going to be set Shortly After Beast Morphers, with the partly cybernetic team being well led by a Caucasian computer geek named Moxie Dean, which includes the quarter-Punjabi Esper Riley Bedi, the Mulatto Monique Thompson, the Japanese American Rebecca Ono, and the Jewish martial arts nut Justin Weinberg. 

Flash Overdrive - Based on FlashMan, Flash Force has five members who are all foundlings in a spaceship; a Caucasian named Luna Nicolson, the Bengali nerd Rajesh Chowdhury (Ganesh’s son), the Half-Tamil Maisie Krishnamurthy (Samuel’s daughter), the Mulatto Louie St John, and the redhead Esper Kenny Morrison (Gerry Morrison’s son). 

Pirate Fever - A Spinoff Sequel to Super Megaforce, Pirate Fever basically focuses on the Megaforce ship changing hands to five remnant members from a benign spacefaring human alien culture which crashed hundreds of years ago. The Edenoian siblings Kea, Miriam, Boris, Natasha, Noah and Jimmie discover and explore what makes the world great. 

Operation Magic - Based on ChangeMan, Operation Magic focuses on the first PR team wholly native to the European subcontinent, which has members named Andre Lacoste, Guillermo Delgado, Lucy Graham, Sven Gustafson, and Yolanda Kowalski. 

Astro Force - Based on Kyuranger but otherwise a spinoff of Cosmic Fury, it has a naturally large team of both humans and human aliens and is set a decade after Beast Morphers. Members include the Swedish fashionista Lotta Sassoon, the blonde haired high school heartthrob Joshua McCarmichael, the Pinoy sports brat Rex Bernardo, The space android jester Jason Jewel, The mighty shining space knight Ozone, the cloudy errand space thief Nassim, the adorable helper robot Wendee, the schoolboy Terry Gillis, the Black bookworm Rob Smith, Anubis Cruger’s son Roderick Cruger, The majestic viceroy Kung Pao, the Alaskan Native Meditation Guy Wally Chandler, and the stunning Brazilian martial arts guy Oscar Machado. 

Dance Flash - Based on Kiramager, Dance Flash is a sequel to Mystic Force set in the early 2020s, with a 6 member team that consists of Aisha Campbell and TJ Johnson's daughter Molly Johnson, DivaTox and Damon Henderson's fraternal twin children Alexa and Helix Henderson, Noelle Tennyson, Teddy's younger brother Timothy Losada, and Reagan Foxworthy. 

In The City - Based on LupinRanger Vs Pataranger, this one is the first show in Power Rangers history to focus on two teams and has the first All-South African PR teams too. Because these South African Power Rangers will be of various contrasts, there's a Zulu, a Venda, and a Xhosa on the Lupin Tsotsi Team while there's an Afrikaner, an Indian, and a Griqua on the Police Team, which means that the show is going to be set in both a different continent and a continuity of its own.

Dyna Rangers - Based on Dynaman but set in the early 2000s in Angel Cove Rd, it focuses on Lora Banks, Gerry Morrison, Bradley St John (Louie’s dad), Amanda Wise and Harold Reno. 

Animal Force - Based on Liveman, the team consists of Gabriel Losada, Kimberly's sister Keri Hart, Trip's older brother Jack Regis, John Wise (Amanda’s dad) and Troy Weiner (Tristan’s dad). 

Train Station - Based on ToQGer, This one will have India's first official Power Rangers team! Made for the South Asian Market, it will feature six all-Indian Power Rangers, with a localised Conductor being a cool Indian character to watch, as well as featuring a fanservice robot named Wagon. 

Kung Fu Steel - Based on MaskMan, Its Team Members are the First PR team native to Oceania; the members are the Lebanese Australian Lola Hakim, the Vietnamese Australian Wesley Tran, Donald Headey, the Sydneysider Aboriginal Sandy Hutchinson, and a blonde named Mike Wilkinson.

Solitaire Smashers - Based on JAKQ Dengekitai, Solitaire Smashers focuses on a bunch of practically unknown adult talents protecting the world from an invasion led by the infamous Orc Breach. The members are Japanese American karate honcho Lucas Yamamoto, Costa Rican American boxing brat Teddy Losada, Caucasian policewoman Karen Miller, quarter-Irish oceanographer Melinda O’Gravy, and the Afro Caribbean playboy Oswald Harewood. 

Jetman Avian Academy - Jetman Avian Academy will be one of the few aimed at general adult audiences these days, due to its eponymous Super Sentai ancestor Jetman's rather dark nature. It will also be the first one to be set in a city that isn't in California nor in the West Coast, so that means it'll be set in a fictitious version of Washington DC (Which I Codenamed Angel And Devil Food Bay) instead and is also going to be a gritty East-Coast focused spin-off of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from California. The Team Members are Atticus Johnson’s Caucasian parents Linus Johnson and Wendy Muller Johnson, a part-Native American High School girl named Paula Louis Wheeler, the Black Virginian farm boy Daniel Morton and the 75 percent Tamil treasure hunter Samuel Krishnamurthy. 

ZEO Charge - The Long Awaited Spinoff Sequel to Power Rangers ZEO features a ragtag bunch of college aged palaeontologists; a Mulatto house brat named Jockey Mulgrave, the prim half-Puerto Rican Monica Lumley, the half-Cantonese Jock Sonny Fong, the quarter-Italian party animal Tony Abruzzo, and the Native American storyteller Imogen David Bedard, who fight to save their own world from the corrupt Alien Invaders known as Shocker, who were Hanneken Niels and Freek Merhottein’s arch-foes.

X-Ray Rider - X-Ray Rider is both the adaptation expansion (of both Kamen Rider Black and Kamen Rider Black RX) and the more faithful soft remake of the hilariously bad Masked Rider. Unlike in Black and RX, both goody X-Ray’s first girlfriend and his little stepbrother Specs have been forcibly kidnapped together by The Gorgom Corps as the former’s parents have separated (being a female vet’s daughter, her father was turned into a Kaijin sweep) and the latter has overworked, but amicably divorced parents. 

Meanwhile, poor Specs stayed for years at the Gorgon Asylum and saw X-Ray’s unluckier rival Shadow Moon doing BDSM on his maudlin ex schoolteacher. The depressed ex-school bully himself is also in a dysfunction junction, but otherwise knew that his mad scientist mother turned him into a Kaijin after making his army veteran father turn into one. 

After an epic battle, X-Ray and Shadow Moon de powered quite quickly and heavily in a brought down to normal manner, even after the former becomes a Creation King. Although Shadow Moon regrets his horrid misdeeds, the hero still can’t forgive his former bestie for his worst actions, but does love him to an extent nonetheless. It kind of means that both will calm down and move on. With the Gorgom Corps becoming defunct due to how corrupt it was, a majority of temporary Kaijins turn back slowly into the fallible humans that they are, whereas most survivors who are semi Kaijins have to deflect the flak and are getting used to their newfound powers. Funnily enough, there is a full on class conflict in the show unlike in the contentious Black Sun. 

ZX Rider - ZX Rider has a trio of insect themed heroes motorbiking around the town. 

Critter Squad - Basically the Anglicised equivalent of Zyuohger, Critter Squad will otherwise be set in a different dimension (from the Dino Charge-Dino Fury and the SPD-Beast Morphers verses) and have a plot that has more to do with accepting cultural differences in a time where both the alt-right and the alt-left run amok with impunity. Leo = Lionel (his grandparents come from Gujarat, India), Tusk = Tusker (his grandparents come from Ghana), Sela = Shelly (her grandparents come from Honolulu, Hawaii), Amu = Ananda (her grandparents come from Uttar Pradesh, India), and Bud = Roddy Redbreast (he is from California). 

Grasshopper Rider - The first Kamen Rider show in the world will have a pretty honest international adaptation, if X-Ray Rider succeeds on web television. Antenis Vandersteen will be the resident mentor to the obviously super intelligent cyborgs, the psychic Freek Merhottein (not quite a Gary Stu but still has tendencies typical of the archetype) and the cynical Hanneken Niels. 

Deja Vu Rangers - Devised as one of the spinoff sequels to the Original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, but set in the late 2010s and based partly on Dairanger like the MMPR's second season. It has a new team of misfits trained by Justin Stewart, but led by Rocky DeSantos and Tanya Sloan’s own son Roy DeSantos, who’s a nerdy fan, with the rest being plain unknown misfits named Abigail Ocampo (a Pinoy), Ruslan Tartakovsky (a Jewish house brat), Telly Wahlgren (a Minnesotan Jock) and Gina Walsh (a North Carolingian hillbilly), plus a mysterious cat boy human alien pirate named Yakhim, a fanboy of Tommy himself. 

Battle Fever - An improvement of what could clearly be Battle Fever J, one of the weakest Super Sentai Shows on record. It is going to be set in the same time frame as Power Rangers Super Megaforce but will first have five, then six, and later seven Rangers unlike the original, which is plain hideous for the costumes alone. It is also going to have the first all-international team of human Power Rangers, who are also the first Power Rangers with jobs that suit well for their general teenage audience. They also have wildly differing backstories; Mekatilili (Kenya Black) is a badass Giriama Mijikenda adoptee whose birth parents died of Aids, Diane Martin (America White) is a gymnast, Jorge Mendez (Colombia Yellow) is a Mestizo street urchin turned wrestler, Patrice Chivard (France Blue) is a fencer, Ryan O'Connell (Ireland Orange) is a quirky exchange teacher, Seiko Shiraishi (Japan Pink) is a J-pop fan, and Randy Gervais (Canada Red) is a bilingual schoolboy. 

PreHydrated - One of the MMPR’s Two Spin-off Sequels, set in the same time frame as Megaforce, PreHydrated focuses on Billy Cranston and Joel Rawlings’ own adopted son Marcus and his five friends, Maya and Cole Evans’ adopted daughter Holly Evans, the Blonde Mindy Wilde, the half-Pinoy and half-Irish Edward Kennedy, and Mindy’s brunette Boyfriend Jim Rogers.  

Solar Rangers - Solar Rangers is the decades ahead spinoff sequel to Power Rangers in Space, but set in the late 2010s and featuring Karone and Jason Lee Scott’s son Leandro Scott and his five friends, Andros’ daughter Alexa (also Leandro’s cousin), the Taiwanese American nerd Jack Pei, Max Wilson, the Puerto Rican Kelley Gonzalez and Atticus Johnson. 

 

Urban Folktales to Watch For

Not written until October 2022. 

Refreshing old Bollywood movies and internationally forgotten Japanese schlock works is a lot harder than it sounds, not just due to a ton of legal nightmares but also due to various cultural differences.

Although trademarks are abused just as strongly as copyright, so the first two Hunterwali movies are still not fully in the public domain until 2075 for almost all nations. Thankfully, a new version can still be set in Tanzania with the permission of a superb Tanzanian cast! 

Chances are almost certain that the iconic Indian Parsi merchandisers, JBH and Homi Wadia, created a character who originally was in the most popular Tarzan expy film series in Bollywood history. Originally, he was also named in honour of the savage pulp hero whom he first imitated, Zimbo is his official name from 1958 onwards, likely for reasons related to Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc being explosive as hell! Now, in a time where super strong trademarks rule the roost, even the concept of Hunterwali has been reinvented quite a lot in the South Asian subcontinent. 

If plausible licensing issues can soften up, an anime adaptation will be made possible with the help of Akihito Yoshitomi and Studio Magic Bus. 

Things not included in super pulp theatre, but otherwise belong to another franchise entirely. 

Hey, I do think the Shōnen Buruuba manga is (way) more like a (better made) sequel to the Buruuba film and a spiritual spinoff to the currently seven main Baruuba books (created by Yoshimasa Ikeda) than another one by Jun Toyama before it. Something different can be said for the Buruuba film being (way) more like a highly distinct shlock masterpiece, which was meddled too easily and got slapped rather wrongfully with (a spelling variant of) the book series’ name, disappointing the Japanese box office as a result. 

Things that belong to the Pierrot Kids Classics Theatre