Japanese Primetime is now on IBC-13

August 8, 2014

Remember of anime series as Battle of the Planets, Voltron, G-Force, Starblazer, Heidi, King Arthur and the Knights of The Round Table, Ron Ron, Woody the Wooden Doll, Marine Boy, Bioman, Shaider, Voltes V, Bioman, Maskman, Turboranger, among others.

After earning huge success with fantaseryes, teleseryes, sitcoms, gag shows, political satire, talk shows, variety shows, film showings of Viva Tagalog movies, game shows, reality shows, telenovelas, Asinovelas and sports events, sequestered TV station IBC-13 which is stands for Ito'ng Bagong Channel 13, is now also reaping huge success with the best that Japanese television has to offer by the way of one popular anime seryes and two very popular tokusatsu and sentai series.

These include the anime Ghost Fighter (weekdays 4-4:30 p.m.), the tokusatsu hits are Kamen Rider Ryuki (Satrudays 5:30 p.m.) and Ultraman Tiga (Saturdays 6 p.m.) which goes on primetime slot on IBC-13.

Yusuke Urameshi of Ghost Fighter

Ghost Fighter is an action-packed martial art anime that appeals to a favorite televiewers of all ages. It became a hit among young viewers despite that a prime time show. And the kids enjoy watching his adventures everyday. It began its second run on Philippine television broadcast. Ghost Fighter has reigned Japanese supreme TV ratings since its premiered in December 1990. Here in the Philippines, Ghost Fighter will be seen from Monday to Friday, 4 to 4:30 p.m. on IBC. It all started when a delinquent 14-year-old boy named Yusuke Urameshi died in a car accident who tried to save a young boy's life. His spirit roamed around for a while and he decided to take a peek on his house to see what's going on after his death. Surprisingly, most people who went to his burial seem to be laughing. Most of them were Yusuke's enemies from school and his teachers who hated him, except the school's dean. The dean went to Yusuke's burial and mourned which also surprised Yusuke because he used to get scolded by him often. Atsuko and Keiko also mourned for him. Kuwabara came to his burrial with his blood boiling. His friends were already holding him back. Kuwabara still kept saying that he and Yusuke still have a score to settle. He said this with tears. Yusuke realized that there are still people out there who cared for him who began promoting anime.

Jerome Ponce provided the voice of Shinji Kido of Kamen Rider Ryuki

Kamen Rider Ryuki is the Japanese tokusatsu that also appeals to viewers of all ages. Kamen Rider Ryuki has reigned supreme in Japanese TV ratings since its premiered in February 2002. It also airs in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Korea and Singapore and will soon come to the Philippines. Kamen Riser Ryuki will be shown on IBC-13 on Saturdays at 5:30 p.m., starting August 9. All over the city, innocent people are being mysteriously abducted, never to be seen again. During his investigations of these incidents, Shinji Kido – an intern at the online news service ORE Journal – discovers one of the Advent Card decks at an apartment where every reflective surface has been covered by newspaper. He is soon sucked into the Mirror World, discovering the terrifying truth behind the disappearances: people are literally being pulled through mirrors by the monsters of the Mirror World so that they may feed. He is about to be killed by a powerful dragon named Dragredder when he is saved by Kamen Rider Knight: Ren Akiyama. Ren seeks to win the Rider War at all costs. He works with a young woman named Yui Kanzaki, who seeks her missing brother: the master of the Rider War, Shiro Kanzaki. Seeing Ren's strength, Shinji enters the Rider War not for the prize, but so that he may protect innocent people from the threat of the Mirror World, and stop the senseless fighting between the Kamen Riders. With Dragredder as his Contract Monster, he becomes Kamen Rider Ryuki. Ryuki: Shinji Kido will be dubebd in Filipino. Popular young actor Jerome Ponce will provide the voice.

Josh Padilla lends his voice as Ultraman Tiga

Ultraman Tiga is another tokusatsu as the superhero kids show, it will be a televiewers of all ages. Ultraman Tiga wil be premiered on August 9, Saturdays at 6 p.m. on IBC. Ultraman Tiga's human form, is passionately naïve, wide-eyed, eager, earnest and good-hearted with the right kind of DNA that makes him worthy of being Ultraman Tiga. He is Rena's love interest, and later becomes her husband. Though not necessarily physically strong or particularly bright, he accepts and embraces his destiny to be Ultraman Tiga and shows that Ultraman Tiga's strength comes from his very human courage, love and spirit. He was able to enter GUTS after he was recruited by General Sawai for being able to prevent General Sawai's kidnapping by an invader's UFO. He believes that humanity is not a weak existence that always repeats old mistakes, but can make a brighter future for future generations. He fights to protect humanity and the world as Ultraman Tiga based on that reason. By this point, Daigo proved he is not invincible or a special existence, despite being able to transform into a giant of light and just a feeble human outside. Masaki, who is also a descendant from the ancient human race like Daigo, continues to manipulate the Spark Lance and change his body into light particles and merge with the giant statue he found. Ultimately, Daigo was able to recover the Spark Lance and defeat Keigo Masaki/Evil Tiga with his very human feelings and strength. Daigo finally confesses his true identity as Ultraman Tiga to Rena in episode 50 and transforms in front of her. After trying hard to fight Ghatanothoa "the Ruler of Darkness", Ultraman Tiga was defeated and turned back into a lifeless statue. The voice of the super-action Ultraman Tiga will be provided by popular actor Josh Padilla.