{"id":14534,"date":"2023-08-29T11:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14534"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:15:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:15:36","slug":"weve-got-no-bloody-idea-whats-happening-with-takeshis-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14534","title":{"rendered":"We’ve got no bloody idea what’s happening with Amazon’s Takeshi’s Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In theory, in theory<\/em>, going by a press release<\/a>, Romesh and Tom Take on Takeshi’s Castle<\/strong> ought to launch tomorrow in the UK (August 30th), we’ve seen no promo for it at all. And now it looks like we’ll be getting the original Japanese dubs with subtitles on September 26th<\/s> 27th now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quietness is a bit worrying isn’t it? One of our German correspondents suggests their dubbed version was nonsensical and pretty terrible (and sent us a link to this<\/a>), about ten minutes of people failing the same thing before moving on, and a rather complex episode arc. Nobody watches Takeshi’s Castle<\/em> for the complex narrative, but you also need light and shade – you need to be impressed by someone who can actually make the challenge occasionally, otherwise what’s the point? Hopefully our edit will be a bit smarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edit:<\/strong> Rom and Tom’s Takeshi’s Castle<\/a><\/strong> is now up! Episodes about 40 minutes, so some sharp cuts to the Japanese ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In theory, in theory, going by a press release, Romesh and Tom Take on Takeshi’s Castle ought to launch tomorrow in the UK (August 30th), we’ve seen no promo for it at all. And now it looks like we’ll be getting the original Japanese dubs with subtitles on September 26th 27th now. The quietness is\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3Mq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}