As an avid Super Sentai and Power Rangers fan, there’s something very comfortable about Choudenji Mashin Voltes V (超電磁マシーン ボルテスＶ). Perhaps it’s the squadron of five individuals coming together as one, perhaps it’s the alien invasion force who send their bad guy of the week to try and defeat the forces of good, perhaps it’s […]
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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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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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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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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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
Robot Keiji or Robot detective is a 1973 tokusatsu show from, who else, but Shotaro Ishinomori and is an homage to the works of Asimov. After all his cyborg heroes an android seems like the logical next step. The series is a superhero crime show and puts more effort into being a crime show than […]
Space Ironman Kyodain (宇宙鉄人キョーダイン and also written as Space Ironman Kyodyne) is another series in the Toei Tokusatsu World Official lineup with some big Kamen Rider connections. Co-created by Shotaro Ishinomori and Toei producer Hirayama Tôru, the 48-episode series starred Yūsuke Natsu and Takeshi Sasaki (Hayato Ichimonji/Kamen Rider 2) in the lead roles. Its heroes […]
For an incarnation of the long running Metal Hero Series, B-Robo Kabutack (ビーロボカブタック) is rather a strange one. Broadcast alongside Denji Sentai Megaranger in 1997, Kabutack was created mostly as light-hearted, comic relief, following in the footsteps of Gekisou Sentai Carranger the previous year. The preceding Metal Hero Series, Juukou B-Fighter and B-Fighter Kabuto, were […]
Hey boy! Uchu Keiji Sharivan, a.k.a. Space Sheriff Sharivan, is the 1983 sequel to Space Sheriff Gavan and second installment in the metal heroes series. It follows Den Iga and Lily on their mission to protect earth from the evil Space Crime Syndicate Madou. To do this they travel to Den’s home world of earth after […]
Isn’t toku supposed to be live action? Can an animated series actually be considered tokusatsu? These are the questions that adorn the lips of many people within our community, including my wife, but I’m here to tell you that yes, yes it can. Taken at surface level, tokusatsu directly translates as special filming and, yes, […]
Changérion, aka Choukou Senshi Changérion (超光戦士シャンゼリオン) is notable for a number of different reasons. Written by Tokusatsu royalty Toshiki Inoue, the 1996 series had video game giant SEGA attached as its main sponsor – who has previously worked with Toei to co-produce Mechanical Violator Hakaider. It stars Takashi Hagino in his first lead role, who […]
Let’s be honest, the large majority of tokusatsu fans in the UK, the US and the wider Western community are really only familiar with the modern, popular annals of tokusatsu history, like Super Sentai, Kamen Rider and, maybe, Ultraman, at a push. The release of so much classic content on the Toei Tokusatsu World YouTube […]
No matter how good you think you are at something Ken Hayakawa is better. Or at least that’s what the show would have you believe. Kaiketsu Zubat or The Extraordinary Zubat is a 1977 toku show from the prolific Shotaro Ishinomori and tells the tale of detective/cowboy/scientist/all around renaissance man Ken Hayakawa and his quest […]
Unlike the Kamen Rider, Super Sentai and Metal Heroes franchises, the Toei Fushigi Comedy Series are mostly unknown to your average Western tokusatsu fan. Like it’s more well-known brothers, these Shotaro Ishinomori-created series also included costumed superheroes – but with a bigger focus on laughs rather than action. La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine (美少女仮面ポワトリン) also […]