Monday, July 9, 2012

Tokusatsu

yes toku, it's Japanese live action that usually have people in costumes fighting other people in costumes
Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger/Mighty morph'in
Shinkenger/samurai
shinken red/ red samurai ranger
in america we have "power rangers" (which people tend to like mighty morph'in(based off of Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger) just because it was the original) where it's looked down as a babies show, power rangers is based around the japanese toku known as "super sentai"(super sentai translates to super task force or team) and the current series "samurai" is based around "super sentai: Shinkenger" where they use phones that transform into brushes, samurai uses phones and beams of light. most of the fighting scenes are from super sentai. Saban, the creator of power rangers also created "masked rider" based off of "kamen rider black RX" originally aired in the late 80's (kamen rider translates to "masked rider, the Chinese translates to "masked super-man) masked rider failed, there was a power rangers mighty morph'in crossover ep with masked rider. we all know the success of power rangers today but kamen rider has been put into the shadows in america. 
Fun fact: kamen rider is one of the most long running tokusatsu in the world started in the early 70's

Ryuki/dragon knight

Kamen rider fourze
Kamen rider Wizard
we have had attempts to bring one of the series to america, kamen rider ryuki.(FUN FACT: the anime "madoka magica" was inspired by KR Ruki) the name of the series "kamen rider dragon knight" Ryuki translates to....dragon knight, it followed the series pretty good and the main characters name "Kit Taylor" is a reference to ryuuki, the main character of ryuuki was "kiddo taylor"(or something similar to "Taylor") the trailer for dragon knight had the original logo of ryuuki, it's at the end and morphs into the translated logo. the transformation or Henshin of dragon knight was a little better than the Japanese. DK and Masked rider shared the same demise, people thought it was a rip-off of power rangers, which it's not, in japan kamen rider was first, and both sentai and rider are made by toei.  The current rider series in japan is "fourze" the 40th anniversary rider. the next rider "kamen rider wizard" will make his debut in the movie "kamen rider fourze: everyone it's space time!" he henshins with rings, and his design is basic but cool. there are plans to bring fourze to america as "power rider".
if you haven't watched toku, you should!

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