PreCure Fans: "I wonder if Mana would marry Regina or Rikka?"
Official Promo Gag Manga: "She marries Kamen Rider Wizard."
PreCure & Kamen Rider fans: 🤨
This still puts a smile on my face 12 and a half years later.
The legendary Kenji Ohba as:
Shirou Akebono/Battle Kenya
Daigoro Oume/DenziBlue
Retsu Ichijouji/Space Sheriff Gavan
[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Uchuu Keiji Gavan The Movie]
Futari wa Pretty Cure OP
"Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure"
20 years ago, Nagisa Misumi & Honoka Yukishirou became Cure Black & Cure White for the first time and began a legacy that continues to this day.
Together, they are Pretty Cure!
#precure
Yuka Motohashi has sadly lost her battle with cancer.
She was 46 years old.
I wanted to share a short moment of one of my favorite scenes of hers from Super Sentai to celebrate her life.
[Gekisou Sentai Carranger]
With great sadness, we've come to learn of the passing of Yuka Motohashi, who played Natsumi/Yellow Racer in
#Carranger
and Sonona in
#Donbrothers
.
After a three year battle against cancer, she passed away today at the age of 46.
Rest in peace, Yuka 💛 #本橋由香
Toei to Western Fans: "Here are sequels to Kamen Rider W and the Yes! Pretty Cure 5 duology."
Fans: "That means we get W and Yes too, right?"
Toei: "Enjoy Fuuto PI and PreCure Full Bloom on Crunchyroll!"
Fans: "What about W and Ye~"
Toei: "FUUTO PI AND PRECURE FULL BLOOM..."
Imagine getting a job landing you two kid of week guest roles on Kamen Rider in the late 80s. Then 2004 hits and, for their anime division, you become one of the main faces for what becomes their biggest magical girl franchise & get to enjoy voice work on it over the next 20 yrs.
The only thing I love about the Shinkenger/Samurai discourse is the shock or disbelief with some people when I mention that Toei happily dubbed Samurai for DVD release and streaming in Japan.
speaking of misinformation/unconfirmed stuff
The claim that Samurai Sentai Shinkenger was made to be as Japanese as possible so that it couldn't be adapted into Power Rangers and then it got adapted into Power Rangers Samurai anyway is really funny
> 2025
> Hasbro has yet to release Power Rangers reboot
> Be Toei
> Think of a way to profit off Power Rangers SPD's 20th
> call Power Rangers SPD cast
> Dub Dekaranger in English
> Sell exclusively through Japanese retailers that just so happen to ship internationally
> PROFIT
Toei having Crunchyroll release Fuuto PI but only they themselves only ever officially releasing TWO EPISODES of Kamen Rider W internationally on their Toku World YouTube is only eclipsed by the weirder move of having Otona PreCure '23 on Crunchyroll...but not have its 3 prequels
Speaking of, I still remember back in 2016 when Saban Brands was promoting Power Rangers & Glitter Force on their website, they properly acknowledged GF as an adaptation of Toei's Pretty Cure while PR was "the brainchild of Haim Saban". No acknowledgement to Toei or Sentai at all
Toei actually embraces and promotes Power Rangers. Try getting Saban or Hasbro to say the word “Sentai” outside of “We adapted this from Sentai XYZ.” once a year.
Embrace more magical girls being mentored/supported by or given their transformation devices by their parents and/or grandparents (who are/were also magical girls).
English Natalie: Hannah is so smart and pretty. It's no wonder all the boys crush on her.
Japanese Nagisa: Honoka is so smart and elegant. She's my type and I'd date her.
#precure
"I hope Kamen Rider never gets woke/political now that it has American fans"
Kamen Rider 1971: Shocker formed by Nazis & has ties to Illuminati. Experiment on captured humans to create enhanced soldiers/kaijin that do their bidding. Hero escapes before turned & declares justice.
I get some are gonna say this & that about what they think Mirai Days is gonna do based on what they saw from Otona PreCure '23, but let me remind you, MahoPre2 is airing at 2 AM on a Asahi Broadcasting channel, not 6 PM on an NHK educational channel
Different audiences
#precure
#PowerRangers30
on TTFC is no joke.
Toei finally re-releasing episodes of their dubs of Power Rangers In Space, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy and Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue as a regular part of their 2023 schedule on TTFC makes me very happy.
#PowerRangers
#パワーレンジャー
Happy 20th Anniversary to Futari wa Pretty Cure!
The show that kicked off the still ongoing PreCure Series first aired on Japanese TV on Feb 1st 2004!
Cure Black & Cure White recently appeared in the "PreCure All Stars F" movie & "Power of Hope: Otona PreCure '23" anime in 2023
The openings to to the first entries in the Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Metal Hero and PreCure franchises.
1971 - Kamen Rider
1975 - Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
1982 - Uchuu Keiji Gavan
2004 - Futari wa Pretty Cure
Nagisa Misumi in 2004 after recieving love letters from girls.
vs.
Nagisa Misumi in 2014 after leading teams of girls into battle for the last ten years.
#precure
Trans.
Girls.
Are.
Not.
Traps.
I don't watch Zombieland Saga but I'm pissed at ppl I see calling Lily a "Trap" or by her deadname. I was happy a pretty mainstream anime wasn't afraid to have a trans character. Then here come the transphobes & ppl who think they're being funny...
Saki going from being engaged to some guy she met off screen in OtonaPre to kissing Mai in the 20th Anniversary Live is quite the Bisexual Journey over just a few months. lol
I almost admire her for it. 😆
Nagisa Misumi
2004: Confused why she keeps getting love letters from girls.
2004: Says that if she were a guy, Honoka would be her type.
2018: Finally shouts to the world that she loves Honoka and would be no good without her.
#precure
Happy Final Day of Pride Month to these three couples in particular.
🏳️🌈
"Go! Princess Pretty Cure" & "Witchy Pretty Cure" are now available on Crunchyroll.
#precure
Toei really introduced us to the first male core Cure and the first female Secondary Rider this year.
Cure Wing 🪽
(Hirogaru Sky PreCure)
&
Kamen Rider Majade
(Kamen Rider Gotchard)
I remember randomly someone argued w/ me that PreCures automatically lose to Sentai cuz of the mechs and I was like:
1. Even evil, no Ranger is gonna escalate a fight against preteens & teens like that.
2. Did you not see what Cure Black alone could do to a mech w/ a single kick?
Pissed off Nanoha-mama tops everything in this thread. Hell hath no fury like the White Devil after you kidnap, attempt mind control and use of her daughter as the key to use an ancient super weapon.
> Sailor Moon creator shakes hands with TyannoRanger suit actor
> TyrannoRanger's main actor goes on to play the second Tuxedo Mask in the live action Sailor Moon musicals.
🦖
Reminder that Hikaru Hoshina trained/studied to become an astronaut with the hope that she would one day reunite with her alien girlfriend. That's devotion.
#PreCure
@Silverg59460799
Ryuji Sainei, DekaRed's actor, encounters Akiba Red in a parking garage while on his way to promote the Japanese dub of Power Rangers SPD
Sailor Moon set a popular style, and Madoka Magica was but a subgenre branch. As I've seen it, it's really both Lyrical Nanoha & Futari wa Pretty Cure who have set the foundations & approaches that the modern Magical Girl shows take.
2004 kinda invented the modern Magical Girl.
Kinda funny that Shin-chan once met the Go-Ongers and now he and Go-On Red guested in this week's episodes of Wonderful PreCure & Boonboomger respectively.
I was just trying to leave the amusement park after closing time and all of a sudden I see two girls fighting some Jareth from Labyrinth looking MFer. What the Hell is going on?
😐😐😐😐
Remember when Dynaman picked for 6 episodes to be done in Parody Dub style to poke fun of those cheaply made & badly dubbed kung-fu movies popular at the time.
That was in the late 1980s. Some years before Power Rangers.
They've always viewed the spandex in a negative way.
On this day in 2004, Futari wa Pretty Cure aired for the 1st time, kicking off Toei's long running Pretty Cure ("PreCure") franchise.
The franchise's 15th Season, HUGtto PreCure, concluded last weekend, with it's 16th Season, Star⭐Twinkle PreCure, beginning this Sunday (JST).
Honestly, watching Toei's Japanese Power Rangers dub is so fun!
I've been watching the Mighty Morphin "Green With Evil" arc's dub this morning & having a blast.
Here's the famous scene of Kim confronting Tommy about knowing he's Green Ranger.
#PowerRangers
[パワーレンジャー]
*villain general calls Cure Wonderful the "b" word after she blows up the Monster of the Week*
Cure Wonderful: *looks into the camera and smiles* "You're WAN-damn right." *transforms back into a 🐶*
#precure
That weird moment in 2016 where Saban Brands' official website acknowledged that Glitter Force was a Pretty Cure adaptation but Power Rangers was the "brainchild of Haim Saban" instead of an adaptation of the Super Sentai Series.
Something about child acting on Kamen Rider, then later in life voicing a lead character known for punching and/or kicking.
Yoko Honna (Black & Black RX)-
Nagisa Misumi [PreCure]
Aoi Yuuki (Faiz)-
Hibiki Tachibana [Symphogear]
Makoto Furukawa (Agito)-
Saitama [One Punch Man]
You know we as PreCure fans are deprived when a streaming service announces they're releasing Season 1, then afterward don't release its sequel or other entries, then tells you 10 yrs later they're simulcasting Season 17.
And we lose our minds like little kids hyped up on sugar.