The original Ultraman also had a strong female character, part of the science team, Akiko-taiin. Hiroko Sakurai, who played Akiko, was also in Ultra Q. She was a scrappy, street-smart journalist. A great feminist icon for 60s Japan.

Space Giants. For years, I was almost convinced it had all been a weird dream from eating too much Boo-Berries at night. Glad someone else can corroborate. 

Ultraman was my childhood crack.   That at “monster week” on the 4:00 movie when they would put all the Godzilla movies on. 

Only men’s boundaries matter. 

I’m glad this finally came up here. I’m a member of several facebook groups in regards to Dragonball where he has defenders in. Thankfully though, I can say many people have denounced those asking to stand with Vic and to spread the word he’s a good guy. The people doing that won’t believe evidence for the most part,…

“If I’m a jerk and you don’t say anything, then you consent to me being a jerk. See how that works?” Wow, just wow... most adults don’t need someone else to tell them that they’re being a jerk, they know right from wrong and they know how to act like civil human beings in public. For a while I used to think “Hmmm,…

His fanbase is fucking scary, and always have been. I remember seeing stories about him as far back as... god, at least 2009 when I was in college and the WeeabooStories Tumblr was still active, if not even further back than that when I was in high school. His fanbase has ALWAYS been rabid, too—my very first con…

Thank you for this write up. I’ve been going to anime conventions since 2005, and even back then there were rumors circulating about his conduct. I’m glad FINALLY people are taking this seriously and the industry is starting to do something about it.

I first heard about all of this earlier this week and it sickens me to my stomach. I wrote about three articles on the O-deck back when Star Trek Continues came out praising the show and I’m really angry that such an amazing project is now forever tainted by him.

This whole deal is the continuation of the years of trying to eliminate the New Deal. Hootin’ Newton Gingrich admits it. Welcome to the Milton Friedman/Ayn Rand “free market” capitalist “utopia” that they dream of. They have been very patient knowing that they can’t shock us into it like they did in Chile. They lay in…

Step one: Vote smart. Two: Boycott businesses and business people who do not. Three: Save like a ninja (money). Four: spend as little as you can. Reuse, recycle. Compost, garden... When you do buy, do so carefully and consciously. Make your own stuff - it’s not that hard. And when it comes to food you’ll be healthier…

You state an admirable proposal but it comes from severely flawed assumptions.

Oh, come on. This is simple.

Trump is definitely the worst, but he also gets plenty of coverage. I honestly can’t imagine that there is much that the media is actively ignoring about him at this point (unless they just haven’t uncovered it just yet). The news is pretty much 24/7 Trump coverage at this point, there isn’t much they’re going to…

As usual, Howard Zinn is dead-on!

Stuff matters little to the real rich. It’s all disposable and replaceable with the insurance money — if it even mattered in the first place. In fact, better to get you to burn it to the ground so thay don’t have to.

That’s great for your Dad. Nice that after a year of being a terrible leader and with lingering allegations, he’s maybe starting to get sick of the Trump administration.

My parents are both pretty conservative and my dad was a freaking Trump die hard at election. Every visit home has been an opportunity for me to see if that’s the same or not. Turns out it’s not, these days he’s no longer able to stomach Fox and is finally doubting Trump as a leader.

The best you can probably do is to push journalists to continue to research and put on display all the skeletons in people’s closets. Speaking of, how come the media hasn’t been doing more of that on Trump? I would’ve thought he has a laundry list of stuff he doesn’t want in the public eye.