The name escapes me but its a website that sells mostly Kaiju figures, ultraman, godzilla, stuff like that and obscure off-brand japanese toys. The thing about this site is it has an all-japanese version of the site and an english version. thats kind of what sets it apart. Anyway, Im getting into YJA again and that site was really helpful because it had all the kanji for those figures and made them a lot easier to look up on YJA. If that site sounds familiar to anyone, lemme know. I remember it had a yellow background on the homepage with some monsters sitting around a table drinking, I believe.

Kaiju Taro?

you must mean kaiju-taro (ohhh the yellowness!!!)

kaiju-taro R.I.P.

God, I miss KT.

KT was terrific! But Mandarake has an English option...

I loved KT, very missed

Yeah, that sounds right. How long has it been offline?

Any of you guys know a good resource to find the kanji equivalent of those toy lines. Collection DX had a couple but not a lot.

i think it's been about a year and a half,,,maybe two years....

they closed down & had a final blow-out of all their stock for quite cheap...

To be clear, I'm not trying to patronize but I went ahead and found the characters for what you mentioned in your OP.

Tokusatsu (特撮)
Tokusatsu Toys (特撮トイ)
Kaiju (怪獣)
Ultraman (ウルトラマン)
Godzilla (ゴジラ)

You can just use wiki for a lot of the big stuff. Please do not misunderstand - I am not a Japanese speaker but I will help if I can. There are a handful of Firefox extensions out there that allow for Google machine translation on the fly. I believe Chrome also supports a version of machine translation natively. I just open two tabs (one translated, one normal) and browse that way.

Yes, I would recommend the Rikaichan add-on (it's free). Google translate is also okay at times. Just be careful with using translated versions of pages, as it can sometimes mess up links.

... a couple of kanji

ATELIER G-1: アトリエ　G-1

Bearmodel: ベア　モデル

BUTANOHANA:ぶたのはな

Dream Rocket ドリーム　ロケット

EMUPAIYA 　えむぱ屋

GIGABRAIN ギガブレイン

Hukkokudo : 復刻堂　or 復刻

KAIJU KEN :怪獣

PILOT ACE パイロットエース

POPSODA ポップソーダ

Shikaruna koubo : シカルナ工房

SUNGUTS HONPOサンガッツ

YAMANAYA :やまなや

demboku デンボク

target hearth ターゲットアース

marmit マーミット

rainbow レインボー ソフビ

elegab エレガブ



sofubi ソフビ

Not to be that guy, but kanji refers specifically to the Chinese characters adopted in the Japanese writing system (e.g., Hukkokudo's name). I don't know how people started referring to all Japanese characters as kanji, but it's not correct.

You can just say- correctly- that these are the Japanese characters for each company's name.

Not sure if this is maintained by a SB member but I often rely on this web page as a resource for YJA searches: http://www.coreyshead.com/yahoojp.html

Or you can take the easy way out and install google translate into your bookmarks bar like I do. I have it set where all I have to do is type in the english word and it gives me the japanese characters (or vice versa). Cut n paste in to YJA search and there you go. I save all my searches and give them their own folder in bookmarks. For years I kept thinking "Why doesn't the google translate page give me japanese characters to use?"...well apparently now they do!

http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

scroll to the bottom about 5th down on left side, drag "english" to your bookmarks bar.

thanks for all the info. i did end up finding the google translate and that combined with a babelfish add-on has been awesome. now i can double-click on the word and itll show the translation underneath. its been priceless. but yeah, i definitely appreciate the info and all the translations

I'd still like to track down one of the Canico cats:

http://www.lulubelltoys.com/godzilla-ya ... erman.html

nebody know a way to search them on YJA?

Heres another nice reference.
http://www.collectiondx.com/YahooJapanAuctions