Thanks

I'm loving this song from the Solbrain famicom game right now.

Due to my birthday in January (still fell under the rat year in lunar year) I was actually a Rat sign even though the sign of my year was Ox.

Are you asking what place cats have in it? Well in real life the stories vary but basically say that the cat was excluded from being among the favored chosen animals. So it is natural for the left out cat to be the villain. Eto Rangers goes with the version of the legend that states there was a race to determine who were the fastest of the animals, and only 12 became the Eto animals. I won't go into why exactly the cat lost just now. There was a whole episode devoted to the race for the 12, just as many other shows had flashback episodes. I'm thinking of a thread with a spoiler warning (or a new section to my website) where I'll just tell everything I can figure out from watching all episodes.

Also Tenka Muteki no Yattarou is not translated.

The deputy service does most of that work for you. It seems scary at first but later you get really used to it. I sent an email placing the bid and then sent a paypal payment of half my max bid. If I lost they would either hold it in my account with them or send it back to me if I asked. If I won I would have to pay the rest of what the shipping invoice listed. Then when I had enough items I told them to ship it as a bundle.

You are referring to the European relabeled Catatonic, correct?
To get the original version you might have to try a deputy bidder and Yahoo Japan Auctions. Someday I should start my own service specifically for SPC fans.

Deadfrog seems to be back, but the seeders can't be seen because they are on DHT. To use DHT you need a port forwarded for your torrent client.

Episode 2 is in the works.
Also, episode 1 might be available for direct download.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16AF241BCBF7767E

MugenX is working on subtitling Eto Rangers for English audiences.
http://mugenx.livejournal.com/
Episode 1-16 completed.

An Important Note:
To the owners and creators of the show, I would still say I hope to see a DVD release. The distribution of the episodes online is not intended to replace a future possibility of DVD sets. I know there are others in several countries who would love to see DVDs of the localizations for where they lived, and even more versions in areas were it never aired. If a DVD release occurred, I would ask fans to please buy it to show support in numbers. Besides, a DVD set with extra features or special items would make a great collectible.

There was indeed an official release for SPC/KNT, so why not Eto Rangers? I can wish.

Well, Cream especially is. I guess the comparison using the 2 rabbit characters is not the hardest link between them.

If anyone happens to be going to an upcoming anime convention in Orlando, Florida sometime this year, let me know.
Like, say...MegaCon. It is February 16-18. Come see me, I'll be the redhead in a KNT or Eto Ranger t-shirt, probably with a friend alongside.

Eto Ranger's full name is Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Etoranger (12 Warrior Explosion Eto Ranger). The short name Etoranger is a reference to the sentai squadron shows with the name 'Ranger' in the title. The show could be described as a 'furry' anime (kemono), with the population of the Eto Rangers' home being almost all humanoid animals, just as the Pizza Cats world is inhabited by animals. The character designs are similar, as Noritaka Suziki worked on both shows as a character designer. 5 years after Kyattou Ninden Teyandee began in 1990, Eto Rangers was on public broadcast satellite (NHK BS2) in 1995. Unfortunately, it never made its way beyond the NHK satellite to terrestrial airwaves. Even though it was well received by early satellite anime fans (who would later enjoy Card Captor Sakura on satellite), it did not get as much of a chance as KNT. There were international versions but it never made it as far as an English version, which is why the UK/Canada/USA Samurai Pizza Cats fans are not as familiar with it. There was a version airing in Mexico, so it did make it to part of the Americas. It had a Chinese, Korean, Philipino, and Italian version as well.

In the show, the floating island continent of Mugen hangs over the sea. It is held to the sky by the Novel Pole. Princess Aura watches over Mugen from her palace, which she cannot leave or her powers would be stripped. The Eto Rangers are 12 animal spirits (Seirei) of the Chinese zodiac chosen to defend the Novel Worlds. The Novel Worlds are the stories and legends of the human world, and their destruction would mean calamity for the human realm. The Evil-Spirited (Jyarei) Monsters from beneath the sea emerge to attack the Novel Worlds, distorting the stories by posing as a character and changing the world into an alternate version of itself. Their commander is the cat, Queen of Evil Spirited Monsters, Nyanma. She watches from the depths in the undersea shell fortress. The Eto Rangers travel to the Novel Worlds and have adventures trying to find and purify the Jyarei Monster in each world. Kirinda, their space-time vehicle, takes them through the hyperspace within the Novel Pole.

The similarities to Pizza Cats include the character of Cream, who is reminiscent of Princess Vi/Usahime. As a kind of younger cousin show to KNT, it has a place of its own on Edoropolis Emporium.

Check out the in-game footage on YouTube.

So it was WB, ahh. Thank you.

Someone on 2ch wanted a To Be Yourself midi.

Ah, then I guess that person did not find those ones. Sorry if I seemed to be implying they were not good enough.

It's 88 MPH because of a Buckaroo Banzai reference.

A good birthday to you.

They don't like taking off their stuff because like the Big Cheese they look too much like stick figures.

I'd have to agree with them about Otama. Why isn't there an Otama one like that? If there is, show some pics.