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LINKS
Update: 26 June 2001
The
Sailor Gallifrey Homepage -- Don't ask.
NOTE: You will need a Japanese capable
browser or filter to view these pages!
Favourite
Enemies: The Daleks -- As far as I can tell, this is the only Doctor
Who fanpage in Japanese. It primarily deals with a description
of the Daleks, but also gets a little into the history of Doctor Who
itself and briefly reviews the five translated novelizations.
Hayakawa Publishing Online -- Publishers of the Doctor Who novelizations.
OTHER APPEARANCES
Update: 17 October 2000
Timestranger
This 1988 anime film involves a group of modern day Japanese school
kids and their teacher who encounter a boy from the far future. The
boy is on the run from the authorities of his era and so in desperation
attaches a device to their school bus, which turns it into a time machine.
There are numerous sequences of them flying through the space-time vortex,
all of which look to have been lifted directly from the Seasons 11-16 title
sequences. In particular, one of these sequences (of the time-traveling
bus coming at the viewer) looks exactly like the part of the DW
title sequence where the TARDIS is coming towards the viewer. It
is believed that this sequence in particular was included as a nod towards
Doctor
Who by the Japanese creators of the movie. I have also heard
from a number of people who claim to have spotted a TARDIS lurking in the
background during one of the segments (1945 Tokyo), but I have yet to spot
it.
King Kong Escapes
While strictly speaking not a direct reference
to Doctor Who, this 1966 monster movie from Toho (the guys that
brought you Godzilla) deserves at least a passing mention.
This movie is a sequel to the infamous wrestling
match flick Godzilla vs. King Kong. This time around, however,
Kong has to fight a robot version of himself called Mechakong. The
villain behind Mechakong? None other than an evil scientist by the
name of (drum roll, please!!) Dr. Who! What is more, this Dr. Who
wears an outfit rather similar to the First Doctor's, and even has hair
reminiscent of Hartnell!
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Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon
In Sailor Moon, there is a minor character
named Iron Mouse who travels around in a spaceship that looks like a phone
booth. This phone booth spaceship dematerializes in a manner very
similar to the TARDIS.
No pictures of Iron Mouse's phone booth at present,
but here are a couple of pictures of the character:
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Denji Sentai Megaranger
Denji Sentai Megaranger was a Sentai series
from Toei that ran from 1997-1998, with a total of 51 episodes; it later
provided the basis for Saban's
Power Rangers in Space TV series.
In the original Japanese version, it appears that the main bad guys (the
Nejirena; PsychoRangers in the Saban version) use the sound of a dematerializing
TARDIS whenever their spaceships appear (maybe they're allied with
Faction Paradox?). Apparently, the sound
effect is on a collection of sound effects that the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
sells to production companies, so that is probably the source.
Here is a clip from the first episode of the series,
showing the arrival of the Nejirena. If you listen very closely at
the beginning, you can hear the TARDIS sound as the bad guy's ship materializes.
The rest of the clip is typical Sentai, err, action.
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Real Video, 747kb, app. 1:13 min |
Thanks to Shawn Robinson, Robert Mannion,
and Margaret Best for the information.
Clip courtesy of the Sentai
Network.
Other Manga and Doujinshi
Daleks and the TARDIS are rumored to have been drawn into the backgrounds
of some manga titles, but no one has yet come up with an example.
I have heard from one or two people of the existence of a doujinshi
(fan press) Doctor Who comic, circa 1984 and starring 4th Doctor,
Romana II, and K-9, but again I have not seen it.