We say goodbye to another legend today 😔
Rest in peace to Hikaru Kurosaki, our eternal Jaspion 🤍
Japanese actor, singer, and stunt performer Hikaru Kurosaki has passed away at the age of 64. For tokusatsu fans around the world, especially in Brazil and Latin America, he will always be remembered as the hero who brought Jaspion to life.
Kurosaki became a defining face of 1980s tokusatsu through Toei’s Kyoju Tokuso Juspion, known to many fans as The Fantastic Jaspion. His athletic screen presence, martial arts background, and expressive performance helped turn the space hero into one of the most beloved figures in the Metal Hero era.
Before becoming Jaspion, Kurosaki trained through the legendary Japan Action Club, the action troupe founded by Sonny Chiba. He also worked in early stunt and suit roles, including projects like Japan’s 1978 Spider-Man, Battle Fever J, and Denshi Sentai Denjiman, before stepping into the role that would make him a tokusatsu icon.
After leaving the entertainment industry in the 1990s, Kurosaki chose a quieter life in Okinawa, where he became part of the diving community and shared his love for the ocean.
For many fans, Jaspion was more than a TV hero. He was a childhood memory, a symbol of courage, and one of the characters who helped open the door for generations of fans to Japanese tokusatsu and anime culture.
Thank you for everything, Hikaru Kurosaki.
Rest in peace, legend 💔
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if you’re a trans woman and you make art people don’t like they don’t even compare your shit to steven universe or voltron like other queer people they just straight up tell you you’re the same as one of epsteins associates
At 9:13 a.m. today, June 26, our brother Joe Doering passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family.
Though his time on this earth lasted only 44 years, Joe packed a thousand years’ worth of living into every one of them.
Joe is survived by his beloved wife, Lindsay, his family, and leaves behind countless friends and devoted fans around the world who will forever remember his strength, courage, and spirit.
Rest in peace, Joe. You will never be forgotten.
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I've rarely been this angry on this app, but making up fake screenshots to try to get me off this app to frame me as a legit pedophile goes too far and I've enough of it... so let's look at the supposed apology "tweet" and why the tweet, wording and screenshot makes zero sense
1. The fake apology tweet claims I was 18 years old at the time. In reality, on that exact date in February 2021, I was 17 years and 2 months old as I was born on December 8th, 2003. Nobody ages themselves up when defending their character against serious allegations like this. If needed, I can show my ID with my birthdate.
But that is something I've noticed over the past few days, that seemingly nobody of that side that was trying to frame me, knew how old I am. I saw even some claim that I always "faked" my age to be older than I was, which was never the case. I was always open about how old I was when I was asked to. Making such a major mistake when trying to frame me with fake screenshots is almost hilarious.
2. At the bottom of the cropped "apology" screenshot, the user @.Kiwi__011 is visible. I know for a fact that Kiwi and I didn't interact much or had any closer connections until after that incident. I've screenshots, in German, of me & Kiwi talking back in 2023 that we have not interacted until he replied to a tweet of mine on the NXT TakeOver: Vengeance Day 2021 Card. The Twitter search engine shows that exact same thing. The first reply on February 11th, which was a day AFTER said incident, was me talking about the Takeover card. (Image 2)
3. The tweet shows that Kiwi's pfp on Feb 9/10th has been Unagi. Quick searches show that Kiwi didn't use an Unagi pfp until nearly 1 1/2-2 months later. When he originally joined the Joshi Bubble, which was around March 2021, he started off with an AZM pfp. Everyone who was around that time can prove that. By the time Kiwi used Unagi pfp, it not only was two months AFTER the apparent incident, but also I had a different pfp as well.
The second image shows that in March, Kiwi still had an AZM pfp, while I already changed my pfp. It also shows that it was in APRIL, where Kiwi started to use that pfp, which is 2 months after the alleged screenshot. Imagine four shows that the interactions on April 16th, 2021, which was 5 days after Kiwi changed his pfp to Unagi happened with that exact pfp and me having a completely different one.
Time Wise, it's straight up impossible that Kiwi & I interacted on February 9/10th together with him having a pfp that he used two months after the alleged screenshot was made.
4. A thorough check of X’s advanced search and web archives (Wayback Machine) shows absolutely no trace of this alleged drama. If a tweet of this nature had actually dropped in the wrestling fandom, there would have been a major outrage with a ton of comments. Instead, all actual replies from that week, especially that day, are completely unrelated and mostly about the AEW Women's Division (https://t.co/zZtDk2mqYq)
5. The formatting of the edited tweet is absolutely horrible. Not only is the "Peps" name way too high above @, but also the pfp is way too blurry. It almost looks edited. I ran it through a a site that spots digitally modified images & the percentage is quite high (Image 3)
So let's break it down again - my alleged aged is wrong, Kiwi's involvement in the screenshot makes zero sense in the said timeframe when the tweet has occurred.
What has clearly happened here that someone used WayBackMachine to find an old tweet of mine, edited over a caption in a way, where it makes me look terrible and posted it.
This is a targeted defamation campaign relying on easily generated fake templates to ruin my reputation in this bubble and I'm ashamed that happened. Nothing speak for the accusations to have any kind of truth to it.
I need to admit, that I was wondering about the first Rina tweet as well when I first saw the screenshot, because I had no recollection of that happening in the first place, but was put under so much pressure and had so much on my mind that I needed to. At the same time, it led to them faking another screenshot and exposing them as liars, which is not surprising considering the account has been known for that.
It makes ZERO sense that this is the first time this tweet has been brought up and it makes ZERO sense that after 3 hours, someone found an "apology" tweet once they realized that a lot of people believed me. If that was an actual tweet with actual evidence, would that really be the first time it was brought up? C'mon..
The only thing in this case that I've done wrong is not believing myself right out of the gate and letting myself getting talked into apology. I should have taken 2-3 days offs, thought about it, look at the evidence and post a bigger statement like this instead of trying to weather a storm, when nobody was ready to hear me out. That's on me.
I've said my thing about the other tweets, where I either used dumb ways to describe my excitement on Pro Wrestling, which in fact I've seen happening.. a ton of times SINCE I got called out for it 4 days ago, including from some big account
OR it was screens of me jokingly had interactions with mutuals & friends of mine that both sides always accepted & was seen as jokes. When they weren't dms were open, we told each other to calm down, and then we did, because that is how things work.
Yes, I was an unfunny edgy person. Yes, I know that was not cool, but I can't change what I've said years later. I can only change my behaviour now. If you don't like me, because of that, then I accept that. What I don't accept is trying to paint me as a pedophile through fake screenshots.
Anyone, who continues to frame me as such after today, might get actual problems. That's the last thing I'll say on this topic.
With that, hope you all have a nice day
-Gets cancer
-Refuses someone paying for his treatment
-Cooks crystal meth
-Ruins his family & poisons a child
Congrats Vance Gilligan, you wrote the worst teacher representation possible