[Henshin-Man] Barom One (2003) 1-2 torrent

Here is a bit of an oddity I found lying around the web: the 2003 anime adaptation of the old tokusatsu series "Barom One."

This torrent contains the first two episodes as MKVs, which use older DVD rips as their source.

The first episode was subbed by Kingmenu AGES ago, and I had to include that fansub in this torrent, because it was a) hardsubbed and b) there are no raws available for this series, and the R2 DVDs went OOP a long time ago.

The second episode is courtesy of yours truly, who salvaged an old ARR torrent and edited their subs for clarity, filled in any lines they missed, and fixed any translation errors. Didn't need to do much re-timing since I was using the same video the sub file was timed to. This episode is a softsub MKV.

This Barom One anime reboot was produced between 2002 and 2003, and aired for 13 episodes. It features a similar setup to the original Barom toku series--two high school boys are tasked by the wizard Kopuu to combine into the superhero Barom One and defeat the evil Gomon--but the anime is different in many respects. For one, it takes place in the future year of 2013 (snicker), where holographic screens, electric cars, and touch pad newspapers are the latest technology (but, somehow, the heroes still have flip phones). The hero boys--Kentaro and Takeshi--are possessed by a strange power while surfing the Internet, and the voice of Kopuu comes through their PCs and gives them the run-down on what they need to do to save the world...and promptly disappears from the web forever. When the boys are joined as Barom One, our rebooted super-hero has a whole new appearance, and doesn't say a single word, aside from various shouts, grunts, and other such things. He also only seems to have one "Shining Fingah"--style move that is supposed to defeat every monster-of-the-week in one blow...but it doesn't always work.

This clunker showed up on Enoki Films' U.S. website shortly after it aired and languished in their back catalog for years. Don't know if it'll ever get licensed now, but for the time being, we have these old, old DVD rips (and subs!) to keep us (mildly) entertained.

Enjoy this rare piece of what will soon be "old-school" anime, and be sure to seed for a while after you're done!

Information:
http://henshinmansubs.blogspot.com