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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Apr 10, 2021 10:08:08 GMT -5
Given Jun's recently really bad injury, I'd say his chances of failing stage 1 are substantially higher. Really bad injury? What? He tore one of his leg muscles, can't remember which off the top of my head, but it's one of the big, nasty ones.
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Apr 1, 2021 9:29:35 GMT -5
Looks like they're moving SASUKE videos off the TBS channel and onto the one linked in this tweet - sounds like Inui has ambitions to put other side content on it in the future too: 'latest player information, auditions, new projects'.
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Feb 16, 2021 19:05:30 GMT -5
Sasuke Does 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Do you actually want to torture Nagano more than the time he was on Viking 2 and had to get through the numbers round after the first stage?
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Feb 13, 2021 15:57:28 GMT -5
I'd never heard of Raven before. That was cute. I loved the sharp-blade sound effect on the swinging axes, as if they're really going to scissor a kid in half on TV. Watching Nagano or Urushihara run that course would be hilarious. As would watching Sasuke competitors disappear in a puff of blue CGI as soon as they touch the water, while the announcer solemnly intones that they have been consumed by the spirits of Mount Midoriyama. It was a BBC children's show between 2002-2010, with a revival in 2017, so if you weren't in the UK at that time, your chances of having seen it are basically nil! I don't believe it was ever subbed or optioned anywhere else, which is honestly a bit of a shame. They loved their hammy sounds: big scare chords, slicing sounds, treasure chimes, the works. Lots of great examples even within the first 30 seconds of this: While I don't think the SASUKE competitors would have a lot of trouble with WotW, I do feel like a surprising number would go out on the shields (everyone always failed the shields...) it's just like a more vicious fishbone! I was just thinking before I saw your comment that the one disadvantage is that if you win, there can't be anyone there to cheer for you because they've all been vaporised, which is rather sad xD I would however, love for the announcer to solemnly intone that those who fail have been consumed by the spirits of Mount Midoriyama, you got the vibe in one!
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Feb 13, 2021 15:27:35 GMT -5
ArbuthnotBlob this is actually genius. I used to view Raven as how I view Sasuke now when I was 9-10 years old so this really resonates with me. I used to want to be one of those kids who had loads of lives and rings going into the final episodes, in the same way that I train for the 3rd stage now. I remember re-watching Raven with a few uni friends when I was 18 and I realized how hilarious it was with the dramatization and the CGI, more so laughing at how seriously I took the show back in the day; I faked being ill for an after-school swimming class so I could watch Raven, as an example. I think combining those effects and the mystical backstory with Sasuke-related obstacles and stage structures would make for a compelling watch to say the least. Also watching interviews with 9/10-year-olds is definitely much more comical now than it was when I was of a similar age. The f***ing Demons as well omg! One thing though: The Way of the Warrior and the Final Stage aren't direct comparables because as I remember the former was forced upon the competitor who was doing the worst (i.e. had the fewest lives and rings); if they failed they'd be eliminated but if they succeeded they'd go straight to the final round (if I remember correctly?). It was a punishment for poor performance that returned a reward if the competitor redeemed themself (I wonder if anyone did badly on purpose just so they could be granted a chance to reap that reward, then again we are talking about 10 year olds so not sure if they thought that far ahead). I guess figuratively you could say Yuuji and to a lesser extent Ryo went through the Way of the Warrior and succeeded (i.e. he was on the verge of retiring but then rekindled his passion for the show through an insane redemption). I wouldn't say anything similar could be implemented for Sasuke given that it's purely man vs. course and competitors are never really ranked against one another; also the basic formula works so well that I cherish how it's remained untouched over 20+ years. I mean ANW extrapolated massively on the formula and look where that ended up; bs safety passes and mega walls etc. that are just so cheesy. I'm glad you like it xD Raven was also absolutely my gateway drug into obstacle shows and SASUKE, I watched the early seasons religiously as a kid, no matter how cheesy they got! The second I realised you could equate timing out with being caught by a demon I knew this crossover needed to exist, at least in this thread xD WotW was forced on the lowest-placed warrior at the end of each day, and it didn't even transport you to the final, it just allowed you to stay in where you otherwise wouldn't have! Although I think most of the warriors who cleared it either went on to win or came very close, anyway. So yes, it's not a parallel to the Final Stage, but it was the only place in Raven (bar literally dropping to 0 lives, which I think happened like, once) where a Warrior could be eliminated entirely, SASUKE style. I only brought it up for the clear rate comparison, it wouldn't work at all in a SASUKE tournament (not least because it's designed for kids), and I agree, I wouldn't want it to be utilised as a safety-pass style thing either! But doing a SASUKE course with the Raven set dressing and atmosphere, demons and cheesy CGI, and letting James McKenzie unleash the full force of his after-challenge snark? I'd love to see it.
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Feb 13, 2021 13:46:46 GMT -5
I thought about this a bit, and even though it's super locally obscure, for me, there's only one answer: CBBC Raven!
SASUKE x brilliant Scottish Fantasy gameshow, what is not to love??
We transplant the full SASUKE course into a Scottish adventure park, all forests and rivers and castle ruins. The stage timers serve a dual purpose where if you're too slow, the demon (extra in a hooded monk robe) following you around the course catches up and vanishes you in a flash of mid-2000's TV budget CGI. Pull a Shingo and course out? You also vanish in a flash of mid-2000s CGI!
James McKenzie and Aisha Toussaint can be there in full Raven costume doing the commentary and after-course interviews, and making pithy remarks when competitors mess up. They could even sound off the start of each run with the absolute classic line, "Let the challenge... begin!"
If you wanted to get some of that VIKING Parley vibe, classic wit challenges like Riddle Bridge or Dwarf Mine could be upgraded for adults and slotted into the course easily enough, and the wide variety of water obstacles in the catalogue would surely make Inui happy xD
The original elimination challenge, Way of the Warrior, has the same clear rate (4 people in history) as the SASUKE final stage, so the shows are even equivalent in difficulty - it's a perfect match! BBC, TBS, commission this already!
(For reference:
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Dec 28, 2020 16:40:05 GMT -5
Even though the prize money isn't the object for most of the competitors, I don't think it's exactly fair to say that £20,000 is a small amount!
More like 1 million is kind of ridiculous!
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Dec 24, 2020 16:11:49 GMT -5
Can't remember precisely which tournament it was, somewhere in the 30s, where the really young competitor got to the TIE Fighter and didn't have the wingspan so it just... left without him xD
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Dec 15, 2020 18:35:53 GMT -5
I always get a chuckle seeing the helmet on the reporter's head in Stage 4. As if that'll save them if they fall. You laugh, but it well might! People can and have survived falls from that kind of height and having a helmet on will only help.
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Dec 14, 2020 18:15:22 GMT -5
I might be able to tough my way through Rumbling Dice because I can support my body weight hanging from a static bar for a fair while, but there's a 0 percent chance I get past Body Prop, my core strength is shockingly bad!
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Dec 7, 2020 20:53:14 GMT -5
Honestly I could vote for about half the entries on this thread in equal measure, but I went with Kong in 23. That man was robbed by the safety rope tangle in 24, to the point that I think he would almost certainly have had a victory with a clear shot.
Outside of that, Nagano in 21, Akiyama in 12, Bunpei in 13 and Takeda (especially in 17) are all also basically straight-shot picks. Morimoto might have done it in 29, but with how he was struggling with some of the obstacles I reckon he might have been too gassed to get a straight shot up the final.
I also want to say Shingo in 5, because the idea of having two revival tournaments back-to-back is hilarious xD
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Dec 6, 2020 16:16:08 GMT -5
I second Ryo's Cliffhanger save in 36, and You-Know-Who's Rolling Hill save in 31. Those are two of the ones I remember best. Also, wasn't there an impressive Balance Tank save at some point? My memory is fuzzy, but I seem to recall there being one. I was watching 12 yesterday, and I can't remember who, but someone jumped from the Balance tank, fell backwards when landing on the mat, but the tank caught up with them and boosted them back onto the finish mat safely! EDIT: Although I suppose the difference there was that it was accidental, rather than deliberate.
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Dec 6, 2020 15:41:39 GMT -5
The two that spring immediately to my mind are Ryo's one-handed save on the UCCH in 36, and that Rolling Hill save by [redacted] in 31 with the double-back, immediately after Shingo and Takeda both yeeted off the top.
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Dec 4, 2020 16:45:35 GMT -5
A number of reasons really, the main one being what's already been said - the number of people willing to buy them, domestically or internationally, is just too small to justify the production cost of 38 (and counting) DVD sets. Especially given the length of the later tournaments, which would mean one tournament per DVD or possibly even 2 DVDs for the 4+ hour crew like 24 and 37.
To release them internationally, I imagine TBS would be required to provide subtitles, which they will not want to spend money on, and they would have to re-edit to remove the unlicensed music tracks (which is basically all of them). So there's a production overhead before you get into physical production and shipping.
In the end, this is a crying shame, as I know I would shell out for anything and everything they put out that I could get my grubby little Northern Irish hands on, but it is simply not to be. As is the fate of most TV shows, to be honest - UK Gladiators was a much beloved staple of the 90s here, in the same kind of vein, but you don't see anyone producing DVDs of that either.
The only small chance we have is that after the show folds for good they decide to make some sort of documentary/retrospective/greatest hits and release that, but given how they have now made things like the Yamada documentary for digital-only, region-locked Paravi, I'm not holding my breath.
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Oct 22, 2020 18:31:22 GMT -5
I don't think that's true because Kongu also competed on KuroOvi and competed in SASUKE 35. Either way, all I'm saying is that hopefully we'll have a higher influx of new guys and/or those returning from hiatus that could actually do well and create some new excitement beyond the usual Morimoto, Hioki, Sato etc. reaching Stage 3. Joke competitors continuously failing the Rolling Hill gets boring after about 5 minutes hence my above statement. I'm cynical enough to believe Kong's retirement was perhaps also a consequence of his being on KuroOvi, but hopefully not! Oh yeah, I agree, some returning strong local competitors to beef up the roster would be nice. I re-watched 24 recently and the first 30 minutes to an hour are excruciating with the sheer volume of joke competitors and bad celebrities and comedians. Thank goodness the current New Years Special theme of the recent tournaments didn't carry that over from 24!
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Oct 22, 2020 17:22:50 GMT -5
Yeah with the state of the world this was to be expected, if Rene hasn't been invited, and while it's a terrible shame I don't think there was a lot they could do about it, the safety of the production and competitors had to come first.
I wouldn't hold your breath for Anastase, the theory has been he got blacklisted after appearing in KuroOvi and we haven't really seen anything to disprove that, but it would be a nice surprise if he reappeared, assuming he still lives in Japan.
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Oct 20, 2020 10:16:07 GMT -5
2 degrees Celsius = 35F 16 degrees Celsius = 60F sorry I thought that the temperatures were in imperial and I was wondering what that was in metric. 16 doesn’t sound that cold (where I am it’s currently 7, not freezing), but what do I know You can go into cold water shock in bodies of water around 15 degrees Celsius or lower, so for water, it's cold enough! I think it's all relative - even though 16 isn't that cold of an air temperature, water we think of as being even tepid is probably a lot warmer than that. But yeah, having just looked up cold water shock temperatures, I guess they must do something to the water, because it would be quite hazardous otherwise. Although maybe they think it's mitigated with the lifeguards?
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Oct 17, 2020 19:52:55 GMT -5
I would say the 7-17 version was the optimal one, but I really like the moving panels in 5-6 so I voted for that xD
I also like the current one - I know a lot of people think it's outdated/slow, but Spider Walk is one of those obstacles I have a real soft spot for, I'd be sad if it got taken out completely
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Aug 19, 2020 10:01:41 GMT -5
What it says on the tin - a baby girl (if auto translate can be trusted!)
Congratulations!
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Post by ArbuthnotBlob on Jul 29, 2020 20:27:36 GMT -5
Shingo! As I always say, he (or rather, his theme music), was the entire reason I found SASUKE in the first place so he's sort of inextricably tied up in my love of the show. I watched a good chunk of his runs first, and his near misses on the final, perfect attendance and distinct outfit really made him memorable.
The first competitors I came to love through really sitting down and watching whole tournaments were Nagano, Takeda, Kong, Ryo, Asa, Tomohiro and Morimoto. Shingo is still my favourite though - even though I know he's beyond Kanzen now, I'm still holding out hope to see him step foot on the Stage 3 entrance again.
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