Video Warrior Laserion (ビデオ戦士レザリオン), or simply Laserion, is a 1984-1985 anime series from Toei that tells the story of a young boy’s video game robot come to life and only he can save the Earth from the evil Jack Empire! It’s a pretty standard wish-fulfilment story that borrows heavily from other mecha anime of the […]
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Kamen Rider The Ride Review
The Ride Review with Ethan: Kamen Rider Gavv Episodes 33-40
Snacks are served up, Riders. Ethan returns to bring you some overdue Gavv goodness. This [...]
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Sep
Sep
Power Rangers
RUMOUR: Power Rangers Reboot in the works at Disney, Toei Not Involved (+3 Things I Want From the Reboot)
Let’s address those Power Rangers Reboot rumours and, while we’re at it, take a look [...]
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May
May
Super Sentai
No.1 Sentai Gozyuger: S.H. Figuarts Gozyu Wolf Revealed
With No.1 Sentai Gozyuger in full swing, it’s time for Bandai to reveal their yearly [...]
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20
May
May
Message From Planet C Super Sentai
The Final Message from Planet C: A Nogizaka46 Primer ft. Boonboomger’s Sakurai Reika
By the time you read this, Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger will have drawn to a close, [...]
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20
May
May
Super Sentai
Super Sentai 50th Anniversary Exhibition Announced
An ‘All Super Sentai Exhibition’ will tour nationwide across Japan, starting in August 2025! We’ve [...]
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May
May
It was just a matter of time before I suffered reviewed one of the Toei Fushigi Comedy series like my colleagues Sharp-O and Alex before me (see Hard Gumi or Batten Robomaru, for example) and the fifth entry in the series, 1985’s Katteni! Kamitaman (勝手に!カミタマン), didn’t disappoint. The opening episode begins with schoolboy, Shinsuke Nemoto, […]
Hello, tokusatsu community! It’s Joshua Perry here to talk about SODO figures on my fortnightly series, SODO Sundays. Today lots and lots of SHODO! Kamen Rider Zero-One AI-07 will be continuing with Kamen Rider Ichi-gata from Reiwa: The First Generation movie! This figure is a great one to pair with Kamen Rider 001 in AI-06. […]
The Toei Company sure love their robot detectives and police officers, especially in the Metal Hero Series, and so here’s another one: Tokusou Robo Janperson (特捜ロボ ジャンパーソン). Unlike other Metal Hero Series, and tokusatsu in general, Janperson doesn’t follow the usual monster of the week format with the title character instead opposing semi-regular criminal forces, […]