Beginning in 2005, a dramatic upswing in the frequency of theft and violent crime occurred in some major American cities, despite continuing economic prosperity. Noting that many of the new perpetrators fell into the “under 18” age class, rather than the 18-25 age class that has historically been responsible for the majority of crimes in the U.S., and that many of the thefts involved personal consumer electronics, most notably Apple’s iPod MP3 player, a new term was coined to describe the trend: “iCrime”. iCrime is best defined as the theft, often accompanied by violence, of personal items emblematic of a lifestyle of “conspicuous consumption”. In the lexicon of the urban United States, iCrime is the “theft of bling from the clueless”, i.e. those who are unaware of their surroundings due to interaction with extravagant personal electronics.
Although some argue that the term iCrime is only applicable to the theft of personal electronics used for the transfer of information (e.g. cell phones, iPods, laptop computers, portable automotive satellite navigation devices, GPS units), others claim that iCrime represents a broader social phenomenon—an anti-capitalist reaction to the ostentatious displays of unearned opulence associated with the hip-hop lifestyle.
Although some argue that the term iCrime is only applicable to the theft of personal electronics used for the transfer of information (e.g. cell phones, iPods, laptop computers, portable automotive satellite navigation devices, GPS units), others claim that iCrime represents a broader social phenomenon—an anti-capitalist reaction to the ostentatious displays of unearned opulence associated with the hip-hop lifestyle.
is a fictional character exclusive to the Japanese tokusatsu direct-to-video release, GoGo Sentai Boukenger vs. Super Sentai. He is the embodiment of all prior Red Warriors of the long running Super Sentai series. AkaRed is portrayed by Keizo Yabe and voiced by Toru Furuya.
Design
His costume pays homage to Himitsu Sentai Goranger, the original Sentai, with a high collar surrounding his neck, much like the battle suits seen in the original series. He also pays homage to AkaRanger, the original Red Warrior, with a large V across his chest. His visor has a "V" symbol, representing "V Cinema" (the name given to the VS specials). He has the 30th Anniversary logo on the left-hand side of his suit, as well as a belt with three X's as the buckle, XXX being the Roman numeral for thirty.
Biography
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AkaRed, the representation of the Red Warrior of the 30 Super Sentai, first appeared in the movie, watching over Time Demon Chronos and High Priest Gajah as they plot to defeat the Boukengers. He then made his first contact with the Boukenger team by giving BoukenSilver the Super Sentai Address Book after the rest of the team is abducted by Chronos into another dimension. This book contains information on the whereabouts of every Super Sentai member there is. He then leads BoukenSilver and the past Super Sentai warriors to the rescue of the trapped Boukengers and MagiShine. The Super Sentai warriors break the Boukengers and MagiShine free while AkaRed fights the villains with his ability to fight as any of the past Red Warriors. Afterwards, after Ultimate DaiBouken and SirenBuilder are defeated by an enlarged Chronos, AkaRed acted as a vessel to power up DaiVoyager into its Burning Legend form with the powers of the five recruited Sentai members and Eiji. This allowed Burning Legend DaiVoyager to defeat Chronos. After the credits, AkaRed was shown reading off the Super Sentai Address Book while overlooking the Earth from outer space. He leaves the world to the current group of Super Sentai, the Boukengers, to them and goes into a deep sleep until he is needed again.
Weapons and Abilities
Soul Advent - Being the representation of every Red Warrior there is in Super Sentai for the past 30 years, AkaRed has demonstrated the ability to transform to any Red Warrior of his choosing even without an external transformation device. In the movie, he only transforms into two Red warriors: MagiRed of Mahou Sentai Magiranger and GaoRed of Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger, using their respective attacks against the villains. In the role call, he transforms into the Red warriors from each team that appeared in the movie, except BoukenRed. He seems to be able to recreate the Red Warriors attacks such as the Red Fire of MagiRed and the Blazing Fire of GaoRed. He also recreated Hurricanger's group attack Kage no Mai.
Weapon Recreation - AkaRed can also recreate any weapon a Red warrior has handled before, either which he or another warrior can wield. In the movie, he recreated the TyrannoRod of AbaRed from Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger to use against Chronos. He also recreated the D-Magnum of DekaRed from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger and the Hayate Maru of Hurricane Red from Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger for BoukenRed's disposal.
Super Sentai Ball - It is a dominantly white soccer ball with rings of the Super Sentai colors around it and the 30th Anniversary logo. With this ball, the Super Sentai warriors were able to execute a similar finisher from past Super Sentai teams who used a ball for a team attack, ending with BoukenSilver hitting a flying kick to propel a burning Super Sentai Ball to the target. This is also pays homage to the original Super Sentai, Himitsu Sentai Goranger, the group attack, "Goranger Storm".
Super Sentai Soul - As stated earlier, AkaRed can act as a vessel to power up DaiVoyager by receiving the Spirits of Friendship, Passion, Justice, Courage, Love and Hope respectively from Nanami Nono/Hurricane Blue, Asuka/AbareBlack, Tekkan "Tetsu" Aira/DekaBreak, Tsubasa Ozu/MagiYellow, Hikaru/MagiShine and Eiji Takaoka/BoukenSilver, each representing a part of the Super Sentai Spirit. With these Spirits, DaiVoyager is upgraded into Burning Legend Form.
Design
His costume pays homage to Himitsu Sentai Goranger, the original Sentai, with a high collar surrounding his neck, much like the battle suits seen in the original series. He also pays homage to AkaRanger, the original Red Warrior, with a large V across his chest. His visor has a "V" symbol, representing "V Cinema" (the name given to the VS specials). He has the 30th Anniversary logo on the left-hand side of his suit, as well as a belt with three X's as the buckle, XXX being the Roman numeral for thirty.
Biography
:
AkaRed, the representation of the Red Warrior of the 30 Super Sentai, first appeared in the movie, watching over Time Demon Chronos and High Priest Gajah as they plot to defeat the Boukengers. He then made his first contact with the Boukenger team by giving BoukenSilver the Super Sentai Address Book after the rest of the team is abducted by Chronos into another dimension. This book contains information on the whereabouts of every Super Sentai member there is. He then leads BoukenSilver and the past Super Sentai warriors to the rescue of the trapped Boukengers and MagiShine. The Super Sentai warriors break the Boukengers and MagiShine free while AkaRed fights the villains with his ability to fight as any of the past Red Warriors. Afterwards, after Ultimate DaiBouken and SirenBuilder are defeated by an enlarged Chronos, AkaRed acted as a vessel to power up DaiVoyager into its Burning Legend form with the powers of the five recruited Sentai members and Eiji. This allowed Burning Legend DaiVoyager to defeat Chronos. After the credits, AkaRed was shown reading off the Super Sentai Address Book while overlooking the Earth from outer space. He leaves the world to the current group of Super Sentai, the Boukengers, to them and goes into a deep sleep until he is needed again.
Weapons and Abilities
Soul Advent - Being the representation of every Red Warrior there is in Super Sentai for the past 30 years, AkaRed has demonstrated the ability to transform to any Red Warrior of his choosing even without an external transformation device. In the movie, he only transforms into two Red warriors: MagiRed of Mahou Sentai Magiranger and GaoRed of Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger, using their respective attacks against the villains. In the role call, he transforms into the Red warriors from each team that appeared in the movie, except BoukenRed. He seems to be able to recreate the Red Warriors attacks such as the Red Fire of MagiRed and the Blazing Fire of GaoRed. He also recreated Hurricanger's group attack Kage no Mai.
Weapon Recreation - AkaRed can also recreate any weapon a Red warrior has handled before, either which he or another warrior can wield. In the movie, he recreated the TyrannoRod of AbaRed from Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger to use against Chronos. He also recreated the D-Magnum of DekaRed from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger and the Hayate Maru of Hurricane Red from Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger for BoukenRed's disposal.
Super Sentai Ball - It is a dominantly white soccer ball with rings of the Super Sentai colors around it and the 30th Anniversary logo. With this ball, the Super Sentai warriors were able to execute a similar finisher from past Super Sentai teams who used a ball for a team attack, ending with BoukenSilver hitting a flying kick to propel a burning Super Sentai Ball to the target. This is also pays homage to the original Super Sentai, Himitsu Sentai Goranger, the group attack, "Goranger Storm".
Super Sentai Soul - As stated earlier, AkaRed can act as a vessel to power up DaiVoyager by receiving the Spirits of Friendship, Passion, Justice, Courage, Love and Hope respectively from Nanami Nono/Hurricane Blue, Asuka/AbareBlack, Tekkan "Tetsu" Aira/DekaBreak, Tsubasa Ozu/MagiYellow, Hikaru/MagiShine and Eiji Takaoka/BoukenSilver, each representing a part of the Super Sentai Spirit. With these Spirits, DaiVoyager is upgraded into Burning Legend Form.
Kelly Magill was born October 10, 1968 in Key West Florida. Kelly is an alumnus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee.
Kelly Magill is a magazine publisher in Nashville, Tennessee who publishes the award-winning annual Nashville Interiors Consumers' Guide® as well as a new magazine, Positively Green which launches in 2008. Nashville Interiors Consumers' Guide has been in print since 2000 and is considered the authority on fine homebuilding in the Middle Tennessee area. Positively Green is a women's guide to "greener" living.
Kelly is also a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional.
Websites are:
http://nashvilleinteriors.com
http://positivelygreen.com
Kelly Magill is a magazine publisher in Nashville, Tennessee who publishes the award-winning annual Nashville Interiors Consumers' Guide® as well as a new magazine, Positively Green which launches in 2008. Nashville Interiors Consumers' Guide has been in print since 2000 and is considered the authority on fine homebuilding in the Middle Tennessee area. Positively Green is a women's guide to "greener" living.
Kelly is also a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional.
Websites are:
http://nashvilleinteriors.com
http://positivelygreen.com
The Legendary Dragon Cards are a series of cards found in ' (and in particular, the Waking the Dragons story arc of '). They consist of the Legendary Dragon Timaeus, Legendary Dragon Critias, and Legendary Dragon Helmos. Like the Egyptian God Cards and the Sacred Beast Cards, the cards are considered to be powerful, and are one-of-a-kind. However, unlike the other two sets of cards, the Legendary Dragons colours would suggest that they are all Ritual Monster Cards although in practice, they are used as if they were Magic Cards instead of monster cards, allowing each Legendary Dragon to combine with other cards to form more powerful monsters or Equip Magic cards.
To date, there has been no of the Legendary Dragon Cards. Many people have made home-made version of these cards.
Story
The Legendary Knights of Atlantis were the defenders of the Atlantean realm against the forces of the Orichalcos. However, in the final battle, the three were turned into the forms of Dragons, and sealed within the world of the beasts. For a long time, the three stood as the guardians of this world, until Dartz was nearly complete in his attempt to revive the Great Leviathan.
Three of the best duelists in the world were chosen to wield the power of the three legendary dragons - Yugi Muto with Timaeus, Seto Kaiba with Critias, and Joey Wheeler (Katsuya Jonouchi in the Japanese version of the anime and the English and Japanese versions of the manga) with Hermos. Yet, Maximillion Pegasus, creator of Duel Monsters, knew the true power behind the dragons, and needed to tell Yugi before it was too late. Pegasus would be defeated by Mai in a duel and lost to the Leviathan, leaving behind only one card - a blank card that appeared to have no purpose.
Later on, when the situation grew worse as the battle against Dartz rages on, Yugi manages to draw the blank card - only for it to have changed into the Legend of Heart - a card which can unlock the power of all three dragons, and free the Knights within. The Knights, with the help of the chosen duelists, defeat the Great Leviathan and the power of the Orichalcos, and return to the world of the beasts.
Cards
Naming
The names of the three Legendary Dragons were most likely to have been derived from two Socratic dialogues by Plato (which in turn were named after two Greek philosophers):
*Eye of Timaeus - Derived from the name of Plato's dialogue. Timaeus may also be named after Tiamat.
*Fang of Critias - Derived from the name of Plato's dialogue.
*Claw of Hermos - Helmos is a mountain known today as Aroania in modern Greece. Another possibility is that Hermos is a corruption of "Hermocrates", another Greek philosopher mentioned in the two dialogues by Plato mentioned above. Due to language structure differences the letters "L" and "R" in Japanese are almost identical. It would not be incorrect for a word spelled "Helmos" to be pronounced "Hermos" and vice versa.
Abilities
Each of the three dragons are wielded by a different duelist, and the appearance of their Legendary Knight form is a spitting image thereof. The three dragon cards, unlike the Egyptian God Cards whose power they parallel, are Ritual Monster Cards. In this form, they are often referred to by their card names - the Eye of Timaeus, Fang of Critias, and Claw of Hermos. Timaeus creates new monsters by tributing other monsters, while Critias creates monsters out of Trap Cards. Hermos, however, requires a Tribute of a monster to create an Equip Spell Card which can then be equipped to another monster. Different choices of cards can create new combinations of monsters or equipment cards, and several of them have been shown throughout the story arc.
The Legend of Heart is a card that can unlock the Legendary Knights of Atlantis, by first requiring that all three Legendary Dragons be in the Graveyard, as well as 1000 life points and the sacrifice of monsters. There are three main points of view as to what is to be tributed, all stemming from the fact that Yugi had sacrificed Obnoxious Celtic Guard, his sole monster on the field:
* The most common interpretation is that only one monster is to be tributed
* Another common interpretation is that all monsters on the user's side is to be tributed
* A less common interpretation is that a Warrior monster (of which Obnoxious Celtic Guardian is one) is to be tributed
The three Knights of Atlantis are similar to their associated duelists in appearance, and are adorned in different colors of armour - green for Timaeus, blue for Critias, and red for Hermos. Each Knight has a special ability similar to that of their Dragon form effect:
* Timaeus can absorb the effect of monsters or Spell Cards that have been destroyed.
* Critias can immediately set and play any Trap Card that has been destroyed.
* Hermos can absorb the effect of any monster in the Graveyard (it is not known whether the monster in question is removed from play or not). Hermos also has the ability of repelling any attack directed at it with triple the power by discarding three monsters.
Furthermore, Timaeus can use its special ability to combine the Knights of Atlantis into the Knight of Destiny (United Divine Dragon), which instantly destroys an opposing monster when summoned. However, the most notable ability of the Knights of Atlantis is that when summoned, they instantly remove from play The Seal of Orichalcos (as is mentioned in the show the power of the seal is completely useless in their presence) the only way in which the Field Spell Card can be removed.
To date, there has been no of the Legendary Dragon Cards. Many people have made home-made version of these cards.
Story
The Legendary Knights of Atlantis were the defenders of the Atlantean realm against the forces of the Orichalcos. However, in the final battle, the three were turned into the forms of Dragons, and sealed within the world of the beasts. For a long time, the three stood as the guardians of this world, until Dartz was nearly complete in his attempt to revive the Great Leviathan.
Three of the best duelists in the world were chosen to wield the power of the three legendary dragons - Yugi Muto with Timaeus, Seto Kaiba with Critias, and Joey Wheeler (Katsuya Jonouchi in the Japanese version of the anime and the English and Japanese versions of the manga) with Hermos. Yet, Maximillion Pegasus, creator of Duel Monsters, knew the true power behind the dragons, and needed to tell Yugi before it was too late. Pegasus would be defeated by Mai in a duel and lost to the Leviathan, leaving behind only one card - a blank card that appeared to have no purpose.
Later on, when the situation grew worse as the battle against Dartz rages on, Yugi manages to draw the blank card - only for it to have changed into the Legend of Heart - a card which can unlock the power of all three dragons, and free the Knights within. The Knights, with the help of the chosen duelists, defeat the Great Leviathan and the power of the Orichalcos, and return to the world of the beasts.
Cards
Naming
The names of the three Legendary Dragons were most likely to have been derived from two Socratic dialogues by Plato (which in turn were named after two Greek philosophers):
*Eye of Timaeus - Derived from the name of Plato's dialogue. Timaeus may also be named after Tiamat.
*Fang of Critias - Derived from the name of Plato's dialogue.
*Claw of Hermos - Helmos is a mountain known today as Aroania in modern Greece. Another possibility is that Hermos is a corruption of "Hermocrates", another Greek philosopher mentioned in the two dialogues by Plato mentioned above. Due to language structure differences the letters "L" and "R" in Japanese are almost identical. It would not be incorrect for a word spelled "Helmos" to be pronounced "Hermos" and vice versa.
Abilities
Each of the three dragons are wielded by a different duelist, and the appearance of their Legendary Knight form is a spitting image thereof. The three dragon cards, unlike the Egyptian God Cards whose power they parallel, are Ritual Monster Cards. In this form, they are often referred to by their card names - the Eye of Timaeus, Fang of Critias, and Claw of Hermos. Timaeus creates new monsters by tributing other monsters, while Critias creates monsters out of Trap Cards. Hermos, however, requires a Tribute of a monster to create an Equip Spell Card which can then be equipped to another monster. Different choices of cards can create new combinations of monsters or equipment cards, and several of them have been shown throughout the story arc.
The Legend of Heart is a card that can unlock the Legendary Knights of Atlantis, by first requiring that all three Legendary Dragons be in the Graveyard, as well as 1000 life points and the sacrifice of monsters. There are three main points of view as to what is to be tributed, all stemming from the fact that Yugi had sacrificed Obnoxious Celtic Guard, his sole monster on the field:
* The most common interpretation is that only one monster is to be tributed
* Another common interpretation is that all monsters on the user's side is to be tributed
* A less common interpretation is that a Warrior monster (of which Obnoxious Celtic Guardian is one) is to be tributed
The three Knights of Atlantis are similar to their associated duelists in appearance, and are adorned in different colors of armour - green for Timaeus, blue for Critias, and red for Hermos. Each Knight has a special ability similar to that of their Dragon form effect:
* Timaeus can absorb the effect of monsters or Spell Cards that have been destroyed.
* Critias can immediately set and play any Trap Card that has been destroyed.
* Hermos can absorb the effect of any monster in the Graveyard (it is not known whether the monster in question is removed from play or not). Hermos also has the ability of repelling any attack directed at it with triple the power by discarding three monsters.
Furthermore, Timaeus can use its special ability to combine the Knights of Atlantis into the Knight of Destiny (United Divine Dragon), which instantly destroys an opposing monster when summoned. However, the most notable ability of the Knights of Atlantis is that when summoned, they instantly remove from play The Seal of Orichalcos (as is mentioned in the show the power of the seal is completely useless in their presence) the only way in which the Field Spell Card can be removed.