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Now Streaming: Tiger & Bunny 02: A Good Beginning Makes A Good Ending.

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I just want to remind everyone that Hector (that's Fire Emblem's real name btw) is described on the main site as cool-headed and runs his own company. All the tech he uses is made and sponsored by him. In short, except for the fire, he's essentially Batman.

Thus he is more than just a token gay stereotype. Maybe not much more, but still.

Don't forget the un-pc Fire Emblem. He's both a token black guy and a walking gay sterotype. For crap's sake. They literally made the gay character a 'flamer'. As I said in another post, they grouped two of Japan's ostracized groups, African Americans and gays, into one character. That's double your Japanese prejudices and stereotypes in one character. Of course it's the foreign black guy that's gay. Much more comfortable for the masses than an actual Japanese character be gay. A gay friend said that there's a common idea in Japan that homosexuality is an American thing, not something in Japan. All the gay Japanese guys he met there point to that being a myth.

Of course my other concern about the series is the whole corperate superheros aspect. Can they really criticize corporate superheros when they're using real companies like Soft Bank and Pepsi? If anything I DO want at least one of them to be just a corporate shill, a hollow standee pop star and not a real hero. That's certain one idea this show can mine if they have the stones to. That or they'll just tow Japan's pro-corporation right wing politics and make the series less interesting. (And mind you I say that as someone financially right of center politically.)

I'm hoping the dub will be awesome, and that Sentai gets it. Funi is going to get it, most likely, but I have doubts of them executing Tiger properly. Funimation seems to have 2 types of male voices--the higher-pitched "hero" voice of Todd Haberkorn & the venerable Vic, and the deeper voices of Sabat, Stoddard, and Elliot.

He certainly took the apparent death of his daughter quite well.

So expect the VA's to be L.A. or Vancouver if the show comes out dubbed (because it's VIZ and they don't seem to care about putting out shows on physical media anymore so who knows if they'll even dub it to begin with Sad ).

I'm actually surprised that western anime viewers really like this show... I mean there is an actual weebo character in it. I guess if he's Russian it's ok to laugh at his useless ass?

Don't forget the un-pc Fire Emblem. He's both a token black guy and a walking gay sterotype. For crap's sake. They literally made the gay character a 'flamer'. As I said in another post, they grouped two of Japan's ostracized groups, African Americans and gays, into one character.

Are you complaining because he remained upbeat throughout the episode after that incident? Instead of being cheery and emotionally stable enough to resolve the incident, while putting a young wayward hero on the path of justice to boot, did you want him to be a frazzled emotional wreck?

That wouldn't match his persona at all--he's done nothing but rant about the ideals a proper hero should hold himself to, ideals that he tries to hold himself to, and having an emotional breakdown during a crisis is NOT one of those ideals.

If he actually cared about the kid he would be a wreck.