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Tag Archives: Toei
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
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Jul
All good things must come to an end, which also goes for the Kamen Rider 50 Years Exhibition. The final venue, announced to open in Kagoshima, Japan, has been billed as Kamen Rider Exhibition FINAL. Since March 2022, the Kamen Rider 50 Years Exhibition has been on a road trip through the major cities of […]
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Jan
Jan
Join us for a Shokugan Modelling Project double feature: a detailed dive into the SMP Blue Beet and PB King Kyoryujin Minipla sets! Hello, once again, toku toy lovers! We have been blessed from the team at Bandai Japan with a detailed look at two upcoming sets in the Shokugan Modelling Project line: the Blue […]
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Nov
They appeared, the Insect Warriors! Let’s dive in with a detailed look at the Shokugan Modelling Project Blue & Black Beet! Bandai have revealed a closer look at the upcoming Shokugan Modelling Project (SMP) Juukou B-Fighter kits, coming soon. Juukou B-Fighter is part of Toei’s Metal Heroes series; to western audiences, it’s more recognisable as […]
Android Kikaider (人造人間キカイダー), or simply Kikaider, is the 1972 series that was created by Ishinomori and is one of the quintessentially iconic tokusatsu shows, being one of the first to air in the West. It sees the android Jiro fight for justice, and revenge for his creator, against the despicable DARK and their Dark Destruction […]
Robotack begins as most of these robot buddy programmes do… without any context as to where the robots came from. This one is a dog and a detective as well, though, so I guess everything is alright? Tetsuwan Tantei Robotack (テツワン探偵ロボタック) is actually the last of the Metal Hero Series’, bringing to a close the […]
Yojutsu Bugeicho, or… Something, I can’t find anything about this nuts-o chambara show online other than it’s soundtrack so your guess is as good as mine when it comes to release and the history of the show. Shout-out to one great commenter on the video though for giving me the name of the leading man! […]
Glacier Warrior Gaislugger (氷河戦士ガイスラッガー), or simply Guy Slugger, is a 1977 Toei animation that feels like a parody of Japanese anime of the 70’s. The characters looks like something out of Cyborg 009, they’re a sentai-esque team, there’s a child and animal mascot duo, and the aliens are green and spiky. It’s proper generic anime […]
Joining the ranks of programmes on Toei Tokusatsu World to blatently plagiarise Hollywood blockbusters is Pettonton (ペットントン), the third entry in the Toei Fushigi Comedy Series. It starts as many of the Fushigi alien encounter series does… 1) Boy finds alien, 2) Boy inexplicably loses conciousness 3) Boy wakes believing the encounter was a dream, […]
Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue (真・仮面ライダー 序章 (プロローグ), also known as Masked Rider Shin, is a 1992 V-Cinema that came about in the period between what we now know as the Showa and Heisei eras. Technically part of the former, the V-Cinemas of Shin, ZO, and J are all stand-alone and really stand apart from both […]