Robot 110-Ban (ロボット110番) is another of Shotaro Ishinomori’s mascot-robot shows, which given the sheer amount of them on this Youtube channel alone just goes to show how much he and the Japanese public seemed to love them. This one ran for a total of 37 episodes in 1977, and featured the legendary Masako Nozawa (Dragon […]
Category Archives: Toei Tokusatsu World Reviews
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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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
May
With a quick Google search bringing up relatively little about 5 Nen 3 Kumi Mahougumi, I was pleasantly surprised by what I found in its first episode. This despite the fact that I’m, personally, not all that into magic related stuff and that this series is decidedly lacking in many of the hallmarks of a […]
If you’ve been following these reviews as they’ve been published, then you’ll know that the Toei Fushigi Comedy Series have been a particularly divisive topic among the Toku Toy Store writing crew. Some have been ridiculously fun, while others have left us scratching out heads. Nemulin (どきんちょ!ネムリン Dokincho! Nemurin) is whole different experience though. The […]
Henshin Ninja Arashi (変身忍者 嵐) is another series that occupies a particularly interesting place in the greater tokusphere. Created of course by Shotaro Ishinomori, the series ran for a total of 43 episodes between 1972 and 73. However fast-forward to 2003 and the early planning stages of Kamen Rider Hibiki, and there were originally talks […]
Mysterious Nile Girl Thutmose (不思議少女ナイルなトトメス), or just Thutmose for short, is the twelfth installment in the Toei Fushigu Comedy Series that was broadcast in 1991. The name Thutmose is Egyptian, meaning Born of the god Thoth, and was the name of four Pharoahs. Thutmose is to Pharoahs as Henry is to the British crown, i.e. […]
Proof that you can’t keep a good robot down for too long, Shotaro Ishinomori’s Robocon returned to Japanese television screens in 1999 in a brand new reboot. Moero!! Robocon (燃えろ!!ロボコン) occupies a particularly interesting place in the tokusatsu timeline, bridging the gap between the end of Robotack (the last of the Metal Heroes series) and […]
Guruguru Medaman (ぐるぐるメダマン) is a 1976-1977 Toei production that ran for 30 episodes and is definitely a show in the same vein as Robot 8-chan and Robomaru, which is Big Mascot Energy. I’d also go out on a limb and say this could be a precursor to the infamous Toei Fushigi Comedy series, pre-dating Robot […]
Ganbare!! Robocon (がんばれ!!ロボコン) is a 1974 comedy series by Shotaro Ishinomori and by all accounts must have been pretty popular, given that it ran for a whopping 118 episodes and was rebooted in 1999 as Moero!! Robocon. Both of these series have been released on the Toei Tokusatsu World channel, but just to make things […]
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 […]
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, […]