John Paul Cassidy

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John Paul Cassidy

@ryuuseipro

Originally from the Bronx, now residing Richmond. I'm an independent cartoonist and occasional animator/filmmaker.

Richmond, VA Katılım Kasım 2011
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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
At last, the first official teaser for my original kaiju project, REKIRA THE SUPER-MONSTER! Animated in Blender. And yes, that's Rekira's new original roar (which was completed last year, after 15 years in the making)! #RekiraTheSuperMonster #indieanimation
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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
This concept sci-fi artwork of Daimajin done for Volume #8 (Fall 1981) of UCHUUSEN Magazine is a little bit like the DAIMAJIN KANON series version!
植岡喜晴アーカイブ計画@ueoka_archive

WONDER WALL（’80） …この作品を見た人の反応は2つに大別できる。一方は退屈して最後まで見ないか、見ても訳がわからんという人、もう一方はとにかく面白かったといい、作品中の台詞をやたら喋りまくる「WONDER WALL病」に罹る人である。やはりカルト・ムービーなのだ。… 「宇宙船」’81年秋号より

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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
“Hard Times for Haggis” is a laugh riot! One of the best Games-era episodes! 🤣
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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
The Tokyo Bay sequence of THE RETURN OF GODZILLA (Toho; 1984). This scene is one of the film’s greatest highlights! Director of special effects: Teruyoshi Nakano.
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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
@jblacksomething @KaijuShots Ifukube did the most Zatoichi scores out of any other composer. There are plenty of great scores throughout the franchise that would be perfectly at home in a Toho tokusatsu movie! ZATOICHI ON THE ROAD is another of my favorite Ifukube scores in the series.
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Jayce@jblacksomething·
One of my favorite things about the Zatoichi movies is how Ifukube would just use the same motifs and pieces from the contemporary Godzillas and scifi flicks, and this bit of Zatoichi Challenged (1967) is SO close to Rodan’s (Varan’s) theme! So lovely!!
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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
The Rider costumes in the new footage aren’t even up to cosplay standards (Riderman was particularly pitiful), the fight scenes were awkward, the FX aren’t even up to Teruyoshi Nakano standards, and the oddly-placed WTF ending would’ve made Osama bin Laden proud.
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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
@KKAkuoku @masked_elone Ironic, right? This might have been after Bonnie Hammer took over, with the main programming looking more like boring prime time dramas.
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KK Akuoku@KKAkuoku·
@ryuuseipro @masked_elone And yet they not only aired Godzilla movie marathons every single year but also Gerry Anderson’s big 3 (STINGRAY, THUNDERBIRDS, CAPTAIN SCARLET) on their weekday morning animation block.
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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
Exactly why Tsuburaya Productions has had the toughest time trying to market Ultraman in the US, mostly because of this kind of cynical all-American bullheadedness.
Klenda V - going to Kaiju Brooklyn, May 30-31!@Klenda_V

My coldest take is that Ultraman isn't bigger in the US bc it's rooted in reckless love & emotional vulnerability (the latter in part just bc it's Tokusatsu, a medium where ppl can go 'but I can see the wires/seams/etc"). We're raised to dismiss/dislike those things as Cringe.

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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
@mossanmoppi Indeed, SHIN ULTRAMAN came to the US early the next year! Even for a limited 2-day release, it was #6 at the box office, beating the second BLACK PANTHER movie on opening day! It cracked the top ten!!! If that isn’t impressive, nothing is.
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もっさん@mossanmoppi·
@ryuuseipro それでも、COVID-19のパンデミックが終わりかけていた2022年の5月にシン・ウルトラマンが劇場で公開されてYoutubeにPVが上げられると「これはいつアメリカに来るの？公開初日に見に行くんだ。今から待ちきれないよ」って英語でコメントを書いてくれた人を見たときは個人的にとても嬉しかったよ
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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
@BBally81 I’ve known about these! Damon Foster covered some of them in his ORIENTAL CINEMA fanzine. The GOLDEN MAN one I saw screenshots of and a low-quality version before it was properly restored! (Fascinating that it was inspired by GOLDEN BAT!) And has the same composer as YONGARY.
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BBally 🇪🇬 🇬🇧 ☪️@BBally81·
“was the first anime series to be outsourced to South Korea” That might explain why there were several South Korean Golden Bat knockoffs (yes, the last one was indeed made as a Golden Bat cash in)
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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro

Rare South Korean Golden Bat commercial from the late 1960s! THE GOLDEN BAT (Daiichi Animation; 1967), based on the character created by Ichiro Suzuki and Takeo Nagamatsu, was the first anime series to be outsourced to South Korea.

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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
Rare CinemaScope footage of Kohan Kawauchi, creator of MOONLIGHT MASK, 7-COLOR MASK, RAINBOWMAN, DIAMOND EYE, and CONDORMAN (pictured right)! Did you know that he was also the original creator and screenwriter of Seijun Suzuki’s TOKYO DRIFTER (Nikkatsu; 1966)?
妖奇七郎・一休ちゃんでありんす@ikkyujapan

#特撮作品といえばこの人選手権 日本のヒーローが多いのは、この方のおかげです。 川内康範先生！ｌ

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Gigan Posting Is Back@giganposting·
Godzilla vs Gigan 2010
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G-MAN@Kaiju_Fanatic·
@ryuuseipro @AndroMEGA18 Reminds me of a certain panel from Kaiju Brooklynn last year where the two panelists kept making fun of the medium and the crowd joined in. Even though the whole point of the panel was supposed to be about bringing it respect or something......
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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
@HazimAmzar21050 @masked_elone Especially when "the way it was" was working just fine, before the Star Wars era, when Hollywood and the US decided to double down on their global hegemony, and try to bury Japanese stuff (particularly tokusatsu). POWER RANGERS was the icing on the cake.
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King of Mon@HazimAmzar21050·
@ryuuseipro @masked_elone Oh Hollywood and US companies, Never change. Always tried to fit their own "narrative or view" instead of letting the way it was.
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但馬オサム@simondylan1962·
@ryuuseipro ＞戦後、銀座にアニメ・スタジオをオープンし多忙を極めていた森川に、ある日こんな連絡が入った。１９６５年の日韓基本条約締結に伴う技術協力のひとつにアニメーションが加えられ、その指導員として森川に白羽の矢が立ったというのである。 note.com/spectreman555/…
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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
Rare South Korean Golden Bat commercial from the late 1960s! THE GOLDEN BAT (Daiichi Animation; 1967), based on the character created by Ichiro Suzuki and Takeo Nagamatsu, was the first anime series to be outsourced to South Korea.
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@masked_elone Shortly before the Chaiyo quagmire, there were rumors that Saban or some other studio wanted to Americanize the Ultra Series (ala POWER RANGERS), but Tsuburaya refused, because Japanese cultural identity was important.
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John Paul Cassidy@ryuuseipro·
@masked_elone But the biggest monkey wrench, since 1997 or '98, was Chaiyo Productions' legal war over the franchise, where they tried to block Tsuburaya from the overseas market. You can imagine how hard it was for Tsuburaya to market more Ultraman in the US...
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