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Joel

@toku_gami

4 years

If you aren't mad, you aren't paying attention. I'll say it again. If you aren't mad, you aren't paying attention.

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Joel

@toku_gami

1 year

It's important to note that this suit actor has to: 1. Land an aerial somersault onto uneven ground and hit their mark 2. Pretend to fight three people and hit the squibs at very specific locations on their bodies 3. Do all of that in a closed helmet with limited visibility.

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@SpiderKen1995

1 year

The sparks in power rangers are not cgi

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@toku_gami

1 year

So like, I get it, they mean they sell Gunpla, but using the Victory logo makes it really funny

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@toku_gami

3 years

The funniest image on the internet is Security Gamera

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Joel

@toku_gami

2 months

oh god I never noticed that in the closeup of the guy looking back, you can clearly see his head sliding along the cut across his neck. Man.

Tokusatsu GIFs

@tokugifs

2 months

Kamen Rider Kuuga (2000) Episode 23

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Joel

@toku_gami

9 months

In a world where "piloting robots is a metaphor for sex" has been done to the point of being a cliche, Bang Bravern dares to ask the question "what if piloting a robot was a metaphor for GAY sex?" and the crowd roars with glee that the answer is yes.

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Joel

@toku_gami

5 years

Still as powerful as it was nearly 50 years ago.

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@toku_gami

2 months

Every year this kit stays in production, the funnier it gets. It hasn't aged poorly or anything, it can routinely be had for like $10, but also it's TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD.

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Joel

@toku_gami

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Love how Tomino's made shows where the message is "the younger generation has it right and we should abandon old power structures to make way for them" for 45 years, but the younger generation he's talking about has changed 3 times because the old power structure is STILL THERE.

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Joel

@toku_gami

6 years

A commercial made for a job-change agency called Sanko in 2009 done in the style of a 1970's super robot anime opening: POWER ROBO, the robot who can't change his job. Subs by me.

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Joel

@toku_gami

5 years

Iconic.

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Joel

@toku_gami

1 year

And the enemy suit actors have to land reactions to those hits and THEN do their own flips onto UN-PADDED concrete stairs. Toku is an art form, not a genre.

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Joel

@toku_gami

2 years

THIS IS FALSE! I have also perpetuated this misinformation at points. The actual effect was achieved with titanium tetrachloride, a common SFX chemical. It reacts with the water in the air to produce very fine white titanium dioxide suspended in hydrogen chloride vapor!

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Joel

@toku_gami

4 months

Looks like Shin Kamen Rider is going to get a TV airing as 5 episodes with newly shot segments! IMO, it functioning more like a TV show would solve a lot of the problems with the movie.

(株)カラー 2号機

@khara_inc2

4 months

／ ✅11月20日発売「#シン・仮面ライダー」Ultra HD Blu-ray＆Blu-ray収録映画本編を全5話に分割・再編集し、テレビ放送フォーマットのように構成した特製映像「各話フォーマット版（全5話）」には新撮パート有り📢 現在撮影快調！＼【 #ANNOcamera 特典映像編 01】

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@toku_gami

2 months

Guys will see this and go hell yeah

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@toku_gami

3 years

Shotaro Ishinomori's cameo in the first Kamen Rider BLACK movie.

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@toku_gami

11 months

That time Hiroshi Fujioka sang Let's Go!! Rider Kick and TRANSFORMED ON STAGE (2008)

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@toku_gami

7 months

Bang Brave Bang Bravern (2024)

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Joel

@toku_gami

1 month

Mobile Fighter G Gundam is always played 100% straight, zero irony, never winking, and its sole operating principle is "rule of cool". It is a series built with immense dedication to genre and respect for the history of Gundam, and yes, I'm serious.

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Joel

@toku_gami

11 months

This right here is why Toei's Spiderman isn't as much of a departure from the traditional as people think. He makes time to quip, but he's got a sense of theatrics about it.

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@Spider_Kaiju

11 months

This absolute unit of a man

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@toku_gami

4 months

Fun fact: The first one is the voice of Dante from the Devil May Cry Series

シ龍 (EPISODE 43)

@NAGAE98101256

4 months

#虫の日この4人大好き #ビーファイターカブト

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Joel

@toku_gami

8 months

Same energy

長門 GENESIS

@albireo710

8 months

このグレートマジンガーは✨復興のシンボル✨になりますね‼️ This Great Mazinger will be a "symbol of reconstruction". ‼️ Great Mazinger figure removed from the "Go Nagai Memorial Museum," which was destroyed by a massive fire after the earthquake.

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@toku_gami

1 year

I'm so tired... When will people get past starfish hitler

レイナ(reina) @ home :(

@tarantunya

1 year

I HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT THERE’S A VILLAIN IN KAMEN RIDER CALLED STARFISH HITLER WHYYY

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@toku_gami

10 months

Funny Lobster. (Spotted at Galactic Toys in Grand Rapids, MI)

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Joel

@toku_gami

2 years

Pics that go hard

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Joel

@toku_gami

1 year

THEY MADE A LIVE-ACTION SUIT OF IT????

Joel

@toku_gami

1 year

This is real?? The Shin Universe Robo, a combiner made of all 4 Shin Japan Heroes Universe projects??

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Joel

@toku_gami

10 months

The instructions for SMP Gurren Lagann tell you to "please maximize your Spiral Power" before installing the drill part for Giga Drill Break.

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@gokin_z

10 months

SMPのこういうとこ好き

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Joel

@toku_gami

2 years

Shin Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider Shin, Kamen Rider (Shin), and Kamen Rider's shins. Know the difference!

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Joel

@toku_gami

9 months

This scene goes so hard not just because it's Fujioka, but also the fact that the other Rescue Force members have to transform at their base. He just comes in with a special car and transforms right in the middle of battle. Chad.

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@psychicprism3

10 months

トレンドに入ってるレスキューフォースですが、あの特撮界のレジェンド俳優の藤岡弘さんが1号ライダー以外のヒーローに変身した貴重な作品なんだよね。

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Joel

@toku_gami

6 months

dude this slaps. i'm high and it's like watching tokusatsu for the first time again

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Joel

@toku_gami

1 year

MICHIGAN REAL??

Akai Neko ~🇯🇵 in 10 Days!!!~

@redworldNeko

1 year

MICHIGAN CONFIRMED IN KING-OHGER??

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@toku_gami

4 years

You think you know the tricks of resourceful filmmaking, but then you see a rollercoaster used as a camera dolly

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@tokugifs

6 years

Dengeki Sentai Changeman (1985) Episode 27

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@toku_gami

3 years

Diaclone Powered Convoy Toy Commercial (1984)

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Joel

@toku_gami

3 years

This screenshot of Hiroshi Fujioka holding a dead clown probably has good meme potential, but I've no idea what.

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Joel

@toku_gami

5 years

The smoke effect here was achieved by applying dilute acid to the brown sections on the suit, causing gas to be released!

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@tokugifs

5 years

Kamen Rider Black (1987) Episode 10

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@toku_gami

5 months

Truly an out-of-pocket crossover. Apparently when Ken Matsudaira was offered to reprise his role from Abarenbo Shogun, he said "Wait, why Kamen Rider?"

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Joel

@toku_gami

2 years

marvel bros watch literally any toku ever challenge

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@therealsupes

2 years

This is honestly one of the hardest suit up scenes in a comicbook movie.

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@toku_gami

2 years

I was reading though some of Shirakura's older Donbrothers producer comments, and this line really stuck out to me:

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Joel

@toku_gami

5 years

Toku was full of furries between 1967 and 1974 You shall not deny their existence

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Joel

@toku_gami

7 months

The reason this is the last Rider opening theme to contain the title of the show is that after Agito, the record label for Rider changed from Nippon Columbia to avex mode, which decided to produce a theme song that could reasonably blend in with other 00's pop-rock.

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@toku_gami

1 year

Even says "gender-neutral" in katakana, so there's no way to misinterpret this.

真子🔆

@MakoMattari

1 year

I sincerely hope this is the last thing I will ever say about Rita's gender here The latest volume of Uchusen Magazine by HobbyJapan includes character pages for all the KingOhger members, with the description for Rita Kaniska saying "PapillonOhger is a gender-neutral hero" 1/2

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@toku_gami

4 years

today is a good time to remind people of the rawest line ever spoken:

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@toku_gami

11 months

Robots in anime need to be designed by toy designers again.

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@toku_gami

11 months

Toei's Spider-Man only calls himself the "Emissary of Hell" five times in the show's run. If we count the movie, he actually calls himself "The Iron Cross Killer" SIX times total! He also says "the man from hell" twice, but other than that, he says something unique every episode.

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Joel

@toku_gami

4 months

Ohhh they're filming a new version of Lonely Kamen Rider!

(株)カラー 2号機

@khara_inc2

4 months

【 #ANNOcamera 特典映像編 04】「船で辿り着いたロケ地での特典映像（各話フォーマット版）用の撮影準備中の２枚。」撮影・コメント #庵野秀明ーーー ✅11月20日発売「#シン・仮面ライダー」Ultra HD Blu-ray＆Blu-ray収録ご予約は6月16日まで！

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@toku_gami

11 months

It's true! They had people of all genders audition for the role of Rita, too!

Tammy's Doodles (🪲👑 Historian)

@meganechan05

11 months

TO ALL THE FUCKERS WHO REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE RITA AS NONBINARY! THE PRODUCTION BLOG SAID GENDER WAS NOT DECIDED DURING AUDITIONS NOR WHEN DECIDING ON YUZUKI AND THAT THEIR GENDER IS IRRELEVANT!! ...so yeah. Fuck off, transphobes.

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Joel

@toku_gami

5 months

How did we just... accept subtitles like this back then?

Calvin || カルビン 🍉

@kamenridermeta

5 months

THIS MOVIE IS NOT REAL

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@toku_gami

5 years

70's Japanese spy dramas are the bomb diggity.

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Joel

@toku_gami

5 months

I think what I love the most is going from an effects shot, to reversed falling footage, to a trampoline shot, in under two seconds

Maya's bread

@ComicalLove

5 months

This is the second coolest thing Takumi has ever done

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@toku_gami

9 months

No toy companies can ever flex harder than the ones who make perfectly-transforming Getters.

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@toku_gami

3 years

@scorchedtulips The comments go absolutely nuts when he fails to land the plane at the end of the video

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@toku_gami

4 years

Now that's the color balance I was looking for! GREAT WEAPONIZER, PART 2!

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Joel

@toku_gami

2 years

I 3D-printed the weird shape from the transition sequences in Ultraman vs. Kamen Rider! Look at it one way, it's Ultraman. Look at it the other way, it's Kamen Rider!

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@toku_gami

1 year

Hiroshi Fujioka's injury during the original Kamen Rider's production was freaking brutal. (from JP Wikipedia)

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@toku_gami

3 years

Tokusatsu heroes in the 1980's had UNBELIEVABLE amounts of drip.

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@toku_gami

1 year

The shininess issue was worked out all the way back in the 80's. Gavan had a shiny chrome suit used for glamour shots, and a matte silver foam suit used for action scenes.

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Joel

@toku_gami

9 months

WAIT, ONE MORE

Joel

@toku_gami

9 months

Same designer, believe it or not!

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@toku_gami

1 year

Honestly, operating a Yamata no Orochi puppet successfully is the true mark of any tokusatsu crew, with minimum 8 people needed to be in perfect coordination to make sure the heads don't clash or get tangled.

特撮美術監督井上泰幸「9.7〜井上展@福岡県古賀市‼️」井上泰幸姪運営）

@taikouinoue

1 year

『神の筆』原作　総監督　村瀬継蔵ヤマタノオロチの操演��、須賀川市特撮塾のお子さん達。上手くてビックリ‼️ お子さんは「緊張した」「須賀川市に、産まれて良かった」総監督の村瀬さんは、とても良く出来てたと感心されてました。 #神の筆　#有限会社トエニー

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@toku_gami

1 year

Something in particular that people need to understand about TV tokusatsu is that the *producer* is often the biggest indicator of what any given show will "feel like", even more than the writer or director.

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@toku_gami

4 months

See, The Next would be pretty rad if it actually committed to doing stuff like this instead of trying to ride the Ring/Juon J-Horror craze that was already stale by 2007.

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@otomego_loveyou

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仮面ライダー THE NEXT といえば… オッサンなのでこのシーンだけで大満足だった思い出

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@toku_gami

9 months

The concept of the ruggedly handsome super robot has been gone from anime for so long that modern robotfuckers don't know it's a thing. How have we strayed so far from the light? Your righteous beacon guides us on the one true path, Obari.

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@toku_gami

11 months

Toy commercials for the Diaclone Dinosaur Robo (G1 Dinobots).

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@toku_gami

6 years

@Cross_Ultimate @grantthethief JCRHRHCGFH DID THEY JUST

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Joel

@toku_gami

2 years

I never expected a modern Rider show, let alone a TV show, end with the message of "oppression will not go away with a change of leaders, it still exists, it is systematized, and the oppressed people need to fight back with force"

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@toku_gami

8 months

- "mystery is on the wind" - The title at the end has purple and green chromatic abberation Wow I have no clue what it could be

Spindash (Greg)

@Spindash54

8 months

The moment we’ve all been waiting for! @tokushoutsu is announcing a Kamen Rider “Mystery Rider Week” from February 12-18 with random episodes of Kamen Rider, Kuuga, Ryuki, and Zero-One. With a NEW RIDER SERIES to be announced 2/14 at 3pm EST! #KamenRider #Tokushoutsu

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@toku_gami

10 months

That time Ultraseven's actor showed up in Fight Mighty Jack under the name "Dan Chōshichi", literally "Dan Ultraseven".

King Jeremy the Wicked

@Captain_Subpar

10 months

What's your favorite tokusatsu naming pun? Mine is BoukenSilver being named "Eiji" because it's pronounced like "Ag" which is the periodic symbol for silver.

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1 year

The most eyebrow-raising thing about this cringe tweet is the implication that fucking KUROSAWA would be unable to secure funding for ANYTHING in 1964.

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@toku_gami

5 years

"Everyone has a Shocker inside them. Those who are aware of it and fight against it are heroes"

Web Magazine OPENERS

@OPENERS_jp

5 years

誰の中にも、ショッカーはいる。それに自分で気づき戦って打ち勝つのがヒーローです #MEDICOMTOY #メディコムトイ　＃仮面ライダー　＃藤岡弘

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@toku_gami

2 years

Kamen Rider W (2009) Episode 1 vs. Fuuto PI (2022) Episode 1

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@toku_gami

2 years

Columbo in "Suitable For Framing", but in Japanese!

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@toku_gami

2 years

Thank you Pop Team Epic for tricking mainstream anime watchers into watching tokusatsu.

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1 year

So there's a scene intended to be in Donbrothers episode 34, which was purportedly cut due to being slightly too disturbing. I want to talk about the other time that happened on an Inoue show!

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@toku_gami

1 year

Tokusatsu does not need to be made mainstream in the Anglosphere, it needs RESPECT as an ART FORM.

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@toku_gami

8 months

Remember in the early Figuarts era when they released a display stand that you could put Gaia Memories into?

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7 months

Gonna cut in with Occam's Razor and say that Kusaka's line in Faiz where he verbatim quotes Char was an ad-lib on Murakami's part, because Inoue didn't know who Char even was until a decade after Faiz!

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@toku_gami

2 years

WOW WOW WOW WOW MY BROTHER

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@toku_gami

2 years

Red Buster catching Gokai Red's punch is the most interesting thing to happen in a Sentai handoff and has still not been topped

Toku Power Taisen!

@TokuPowerTaisen

2 years

@LupinJay010 My nigga, almost every hand off goes like this. It’s always either swords, guns or punches 🤣🤣🤣

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@toku_gami

7 months

Did you know that the singer of this song is the guy who sings the chorus of the Fist of the North Star opening?

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@toku_gami

1 year

This theming more resembles 70's/80's anime hero and robot pilot teams than Super Sentai, what with the Leader/Sub-Leader/Big Guy/One Girl/Kid setup.

☆オードリーAudrey☆

@aitaikimochi

1 year

Very specific fandoms will be extremely happy about these new FFXIV Moonfire Faire gpose spots 😂

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@toku_gami

3 years

Thread of Transformers who share names with Nerf blasters specifically for the purpose of Hasbro keeping their trademarks: (pic related only because Megs changes into a gun inspired by a Nerf one)

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@toku_gami

3 years

Every time this episode goes viral, I have to mention that it was paradoxically written by TOSHIKI INOUE.

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@toku_gami

2 years

The Nouto are based on retro Toei heroes; Sonoi is Barom One, Sononi is Condorman, and Sonoza is The Kagestar. The upcoming fourth Nouto, Sonoshi, is based on the 1967 series Masked Ninja Akakage!

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@toku_gami

2 months

This aspect of Sentai is amazing to me: the staff currently working on the show are on average two, even one degree of separation away from the staff that made the show 45 years ago. That much compounding know-how allows Sentai to run VERY efficiently on ever-slimmer budgets.

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@BattyWanderer Something something something Sentai intentionally tries to give itself a much broader appeal with a very professional production and a generally more thoughtful story craft, building its reputation over decades so it has many fans of various ages something something

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@toku_gami

9 months

The lock on the barrel of the new prop-scale Magnum Shooter is tight enough that you can go full Michinaga with it with no issues!

レオンチャンネル

@LEON1ch

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道長スタイル🐮

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3 years

GOD WE'RE GONNA HAVE THIS SCENE IN AN SRW GAME AREN'T WE?

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@toku_gami

3 years

What the hell am I doing

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9 months

Good morning

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6 years

A commercial series made in 2011 by Shizuoka-based job replacement agency Sanko: The saga of MACHMAN ALPHA, the superhero who successfully changed jobs. Subs by me.

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@toku_gami

1 year

"Anyone who talks about Garzey's Wing watch it in Japanese and with full context of Dunbine and don't mention the dub" challenge, IMPOSSIBLE DIFFICULTY

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@KennyLauderdal3

1 year

I disagree.

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@toku_gami

1 year

I was talking about this in replies earlier, but it deserves expanding on. Power Rangers can be divorced from Super Sentai specifically, but it cannot be divorced from tokusatsu as a medium, lest it lose its identity.

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@toku_gami

2 years

Producer Shirakura's final Donbrothers production blog post, summing up the experience of the show.

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@toku_gami

2 years

Remember when Donbros was first announced and they pulled a fakeout saying it was called "Donfragrence" with the Nouto trio doing a perfume thing? That's a real thing that happened and I feel like we forgot?

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@toku_gami

4 years

*Looking at gold plastic on old Transformers* Me: Weird flecks, but ok

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@toku_gami

5 months

Props to the editors for nailing how Super-1's Rider Kicks are edited

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@toku_gami

6 months

Upon further developments in the show, I can actually say that in Bang Bravern, piloting a robot is actually a metaphor for love, except in the case of piloting Bravern, where it's a metaphor for love AND gay sex.

Joel

@toku_gami

9 months

In a world where "piloting robots is a metaphor for sex" has been done to the point of being a cliche, Bang Bravern dares to ask the question "what if piloting a robot was a metaphor for GAY sex?" and the crowd roars with glee that the answer is yes.

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@toku_gami

2 years

Ouja is a suit sized for the Jiro of 2002. When you look at some recent suits custom-sized for him, he looks a LOT better.

Joel

@toku_gami

2 years

Jiro Okamoto doesn't fit into the suit anymore, it's been 20 years, he's gained weight (and muscle)

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Joel

@toku_gami

2 months

Hell, even when he's NOT suit-acting a Rider!

✨Raimei王🦐✨

@raimei_oh

3 months

You can tell when Seiji Takaiwa is inside a Kamen Rider suit based on the way his hands sit when standing. His index finger is usually pointed straight compared to the rest of his fingers curling inward.

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Joel

@toku_gami

4 years

When did people stop dressing properly

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