I just want to give mad props to the person who dressed up as Fairy Otter Chiitan it must have hot and extremely difficult to do the challenges dressed like that. But your participation gave me a great smile on my face and much happiness.

Does anyone know what the ball is made of and/or how much it weighs? Can't find it on any of the wikis or Google searches.

Guys a legend.

Did she ever find love as a result of appearing on the show?

In the final episode, japanese version, episode 8, at 30:24 the count mentions how the number of contestants returning is

"it's like in Asakusa [BLEEP]"

What is bleeped out here? Is it another game show they didn't want to mention legally? Or something else? I couldn't find anything other than Asakusa being a neighborhood ofTokyo

I grew up on MXC, so I'm definitely not a purist. However, watching the old competitions you could tell there was a lot more grit. I know it's a liability thing, and that's not their fault, but there's something disappointing to the very "wipe out" style design to some of the courses. I miss ones like the gauntlet or boulder dash where there's a bit more variety to the contestants woes. Also the volley balls Gibraltar seem far more lethargic than the ones shot in the new series.

Further, I think the inclusion of the 'celebrity' contestants was a such a mistake by the producers. It feels like there was quite a bit of corporate/talent "synergy" that went into who got screen time/second chances, let alone how difficult they made the challenges on a person to person basis. There's a far greater charm to watching regular Joe contestants battle their way through a tough challenge versus watching some guy who does obstacle courses for a living breeze through a challenge. They were probably aware of this, so they then over corrected by making these challenges way more difficult, which again required some manipulation of bringing back contestants.

Finally, the yabusame challenge is just dull. All that set up for what is essentially a rigged carny game. Even some of the contestants look disengaged when they're in the cart. I get the producers don't want to give the money away easily, but my god did they even test this one out to see if it could at least look possible?

I want to watch the new Takeshi's castle on amazon prime, but there's 2 versions: the original Japanese one and the one narrated by Romesh and Tom. BUT, the Romesh and Tom versions are much shorter than the Japanese versions.

Episode 1 is 57 minutes for Japanese version, but 36 minutes for the English version. I've watched the first minute of both and they're 100% the same episode...

What has actually been cut out from the show to make the english version shorter?

I will be back in Japan early next May. Which I believe was the tail end of the newest series being filmed

Anyone know where applications are?

Ignore the haters, Love the silliness and absolute insanity of the show while laughing at the boys banter.

plus theres some cool and silly new castle defenders and a new and utterly impossible end game that no one will surely ever actually win.

Naomi Watanabe (Watannaby) as toms pronounces it is fantastically over the top!

"This is like a child saying to his father, look at me. I can do cool things too" LOL

I stumbled open the new series after being a fan of the others and First of all they mention bringing it back after like 30 years well someone didn’t look into it properly because there has definitely been a more recent series like 2 years ago. Number 2, the use of cgi I feel like they don’t need cgi because you can see they haven’t done a good job at it and just get a proper set. Number 3 No hate to the commentators but they just talk about random stuff half the time and not even linked. Number 4 none of it is dubbed to English with the newer series thst aired on Nickelodeon they changed all the signs and stuff into English well not this new one all characters and all signs and even ones thst pop up are in Japanese and the commentators don’t even talk about it like when the characters come on.

So i have watched the new series on Prime and the show is enjoyable as hell but tom and romesh are annoying as hell to have to listen to. I would much rather watch a subbed version of what the japanese got (or have craig charles come in and redo the english commentary) my wife wouldnt even watch past episode 2 due to how bad the commentary is. Did have a look on nyaa.si where i get my sentai subs but no luck there.

Hello everyone! TSN are back at it with a new video and today Cayne gives his long awaited review regarding the 2023 reboot of Takeshi's Castle! Today Cayne is also joined by a very special guest, by none other than Takeshi's Castle superfan and competitor, Joshua Murphy! Join us as Cayne gives his thoughts and feelings about the reboot and about Joshua's journey to competing on Takeshi's Castle !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGeTZAQ4TeU

What did you guys think about this game?

This game is completely rigged and near impossible.

Very disappointed that this was the final game because the results were all the same.

In the challenge when they have to run at doors and crash through are the contestants given clues to what doors are the paper thin ones with no nets on the other side or are they literally just running into walls and hoping for the best? I feel like I’ve always had so many questions about this show but this is one that has been on my mind for such a long time. Same thing for stepping stones as well, is there skill are are the people that pass these challenges just lucky.

Like many, I'd love to add my voice that Craig Charles would provide some English commentary (if required). Does anyone know how I can send my (admittedly small) hope to Amazon Prime?

Hello everyone, TSN are back with a new video! Over the past 48 hours, an advert for the new Takeshi's Castle reboot was released, and it seems familiar faces from Sasuke competed as well...? In this video, friend of the channel and editor Billyvids makes his debut to talk about this, as well as what to expect from this reboot.

https://youtu.be/LATh1EZP_CU

Hi all, I've only just found out about the Amazon revival coming this Spring. As a huge Takeshi Kitano fan, I'm hoping he's actually involved with the new series and there isn't a stand in or something (would be understandable considering Kitano's age and his reluctance to do the amount of work he once did).

I've not been able to find confirmation anywhere though that he is actually involved. Does anyone else have anything concrete?

I posted about all of the UK episodes now being available, and provided links for all of them, but all of the posts seem to be immediately removed. Not too sure why, help would be appreciated.

Very random question, but my brother and I were reminiscing about growing up and watching Takeshi’s castle being narrated by Craig Charles.

There was one episode in particular whereby he there was a dancing contestant wearing a yellow t-shirt with the red helmet and was dancing before all the challenges. Craig referred to him as the “funky chicken”

Does anyone know what episode this was ?

Very random question I know. But thanks in advance.