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Hasbro's Power Rangers era and General Tokusatsu discussion

Yeah, I know about the stuff on ShoutfactorTV, that's where I've been watching Jetman.
Where did you find Kamen Rider? I was looking for it earlier today and I couldn't find it on there.
 
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Where did you find Kamen Rider? I was looking for it earlier today and I couldn't find it on there.
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At the link I provided, which is the results page for my search for the title "Kamen Rider." I couldn't find a dedicated show page either, but those individual episodes are up.
 
That would explain it.
I did follow your link, I just didn't realize it was search results, rather than a show page.
 
On Twitter a Japanese fan spotted someone else running beside the rangers in the opening. Now it could very well be a stunt double or a bad rendering. But from what it looks like it’s a girl wearing a purple version of the teams suit.

https://twitter.com/lefty_ss/status/1239892326698246145?s=21

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The opening

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Toei- I see your effort TokuShoutsu and one up you.

Toei has just announced that beginning from Monday, April 6th 2020, they will begin a new YouTube channel named "Toei Tokusatsu World Official", where they will upload classic episodes from their 1960s-1990s tokusatsu live-action and anime back catalog - daily, subbed in English, available worldwide, and with 140 episodes on the first day!

You can check out the official press release from Toei below (https://www.toei.co.jp/release/public/1217460_1140.html)

The channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7pddu3yyzkzFEiXfQLex3w

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TOEI COMPANY, LTD. (hereafter TOEI) is creating a new YouTube channel for worldwide viewing! (Please note that depending on the show, there may be viewing limitations in certain areas and countries.) It will provide nostalgic TOKUSATSU shows from the 1960s up to the 1990s. Uploads will start on Monday, April 6, 2020.

Daily updates with TOEI TOKUSATSU Hero Series from the 1960s to the 1990s!
To kick things off, the first two episodes of all 70 shows will be released at once (with English subtitles)!


WHAT'S ”TOEI TOKUSATSU WORLD OFFICIAL”?
This official Toei YouTube channel will have a lineup of various shows, including “NATIONAL KID” (1960), Super Sentai Series such as “GORENGER” (1975), Metal Hero Series including “SPACE COP GAVAN” (1982), and robot anime such as “VOLTES V” (1977).
We will update daily to share TOEI’s TOKUSATSU with the world. At launch, we will have the first two episodes of all 70 shows available with English subtitles! Further episodes will be available in Japanese for now, but there could be frequent updates. We plan on making a public call for subtitles in any language.


RELEASES (FIRST ROUND)
  • Monday April 6, 2020 -- Episodes 1 and 2 of all 70 shows (with English subtitles)
  • Monday April 13, 2020 -- Episode 3 and 4 of NATIONAL KID (updated on Mondays)
  • Tuesday April 14, 2020 -- Episode 3 and 4 of SUKI SUKI MAJO SENSEI (updated on Tuesdays)
  • Wednesday April 15, 2020 -- Episode 3 and 4 of ROBOT 8-CHAN (updated on Wednesdays)
  • Thursday April 16, 2020 -- Episode 3 and 4 of SPACE COP GAVAN (updated on Thursdays)
  • Friday April 17, 2020 -- Episode 3 and 4 of JASPION (updated on Fridays), episode 3 and 4 of HARD GUMI (updated on Fridays)
  • Saturday April 18, 2020 -- Episode 3 and 4 of MAGICAL GIRL CHUKANA PAIPAI (updated on Saturdays), episode 3 and 4 of WINSPECTOR (updated on Saturdays)
  • Sunday April 19, 2020 -- Episode 3 and 4 of COMBATTLER V (updated on Sundays), episode 3 and 4 of GORENGER (updated on Sundays)
OTHER SHOWS (PARTIAL LIST)
  • From the 60s: CAPTAIN ULTRA, YOKAI BUGEICHO, and more
  • From the 70s: JAKQ, DEAR ROBOTTIE!, MESSAGE FROM SPACE, and more
  • From the 80s: SPACE COP SHARIVAN and more
  • From the 90s: POITRINE, CHANZERION, and more
  • Anime: DALTANIUS, DAIMOS, and more
 
It doesn't say whether the YouTube channel will be free or not.

I am curious about Gavan, since I've seen the revival movies, and the original actor was pretty charismatic, at least as an older man (I didn't find his younger self impressive as "Battle Kenya" in Battle Fever J from the mid-'70s, but that's partly because it was kind of a racist character, a guy representing "Africa" who was a jungle wildman and was played by a Japanese actor).
 
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According to the article on Io9, it will be free, and some of the shows will be posted without subtitles at first, with them being added later.
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I read that, but I'm not sure I trust them about the free part, since they don't seem to have any source beyond what was already posted here (which included the info about the subtitles). And because Internet "journalism" has no standards whatsoever and no concept of fact-checking before publication.
 
Yay :)
Bought Special Rescue Police Winspector DVD Box last fall while in Japan for a lot of $.
Thanks to this I'll hope to get it with English subtitles.
 
Zero-one episode 27 on the 27th page no less

the humagears sacrifice reminded me of the end of Terminator 2

Why did Aruto just stand by and let Thouser beat up Fuwa?

When Fua sort of stood up to defend the humagear, I was getting a tad hopeful, but after being shot down and then not continuing to defend and sorta just "ignoring" that it happened makes it hard for me to like her as a character after she became submissive and not assertive as she was built up to be at the beginning.

What’s going on writers?

At least Aruto has finally made it a point to notice Yua's subservience to Gai. I hope that there's a good reason for this and it doesn't drag on any longer.

Also the heroes had Gai! They had him! And then it’s dropped. They’ve been dragging his outright villainy for too long

I'm really starting to get annoyed by how little anyone is actually doing to stop Gai's obvious villainy.

One more contest and we’ll be done with this arc
 
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An uneven episode. The culmination of the firefighting plot was pretty powerful, with 911nosuke's heroic sacrifice being quite dramatically rendered and almost bringing me to tears. But a lot of the rest was problematical. Why did Fuwa and Yua go into the fire without transforming first? Surely Kamen Rider armor would be great for firefighting, as I said last week. And there's the randomness of Aruto and Yua just standing by and watching for the fight between Vulcan and Thouser. And in the Thouser/Jin fight, you could clearly see the fire pipes on the floor -- plus there's the incongruity that nobody called the fire department, given what the first half of the episode was about.


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When Fua sort of stood up to defend the humagear, I was getting a tad hopeful, but after being shot down and then not continuing to defend and sorta just "ignoring" that it happened makes it hard for me to like her as a character after she became submissive and not assertive as she was built up to be at the beginning.
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The lack of movement on her character is becoming frustrating. It seems that Gai must have some kind of hold on her that compels her to be obedient, but what? Is he holding her family hostage? Does she owe him her life and feel some kind of honor debt? Was she brainwashed like the Nanba Children in Build? They need to bring this to a head.


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I'm really starting to get annoyed by how little anyone is actually doing to stop Gai's obvious villainy.
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Unfortunately, that's pretty true to life when it comes to ultra-rich corporate bosses.
 
Kiramager episode 2

I saw this made up PSA on reddit. Since we have a doctor on the team this year I thought it was funny.

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Dr. Sayo also recommends avoid touching your EYE-con's ;)

So apparently the rugby themed monster is a homage to a Goranger villain

There was also a "Lupinranger VS Patoranger" homage. The manga was made by LupinYellow's friend at the end of the series. The mecha fight scene during the city night landscape looked really good.

It was odd to have blue and Pink leave so that we could get the land mage formation with just 3 team members.

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Kiramager 2: Not bad, I guess. Some decent character work, and it's nice to see there's more to Sena than just being cute and cheerful all the time. And I liked the "relay race" bit where Sena ran in and took over from her duplicate.

I'm a little confused, because they said in the press conference that Yellow/Tametomo would be the team leader. And Jyuuru is certainly an unlikely leader. A lot of Reds are in various ways, but he's more shy and timid than most.

(I'd been wondering if Jyuuru's name -- which the Wiki renders as Juru -- was a pun on "drew," since he's always drawing stuff, but now I see it's the first "u" that's doubled, so it's probably more of a pun on "jewel.")

The Land Mage mecha is interesting with the internal lighting. I like it that it's got a plausible assembly process, not just pieces floating in midair, but the kind where the vehicles actually drive or latch onto each other in a believable way. I always like that kind of sequence. Although it's disappointing that it's done in CGI instead of with miniatures. The real fun of a naturalistic assembly sequence is getting to see it done with physically real components, e.g. with the GoGoV/Lightspeed Rescue mecha.

I wonder why the CARAT building is designed to look like a palm tree. What's that got to do with jewelry?
 
IGN has posted a short video about some of the different American Tokushatsu adaptations.
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I remember watching VR Troopers back in the day, along with MMPR. Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog and Big Bad Bettleborgs seem familiar, so I think I might have watched them too.
 
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I remember watching VR Troopers back in the day, along with MMPR. Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog and Big Bad Bettleborgs seem familiar, so I think I might have watched them too.
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VR Troopers never impressed me much, and now that I know how it was kludged together from footage from a couple of unrelated, older Metal Heroes shows, I see why it didn't work that well (since the "team" of heroes were never all in the same scene together in armor, except in odd bits of new footage). Beetleborgs was terrible, framing the Metal Heroes footage with a really dumb show about kids and a haunted house and some sort of weird comedy-vampire magic-user who was more creepy than funny. It was this bizarre amalgam of three or four different genres that didn't go together.

I also hated Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad. The original stuff was just a generic high-school sitcom, basically, and since the action footage all took place in VR/cyberspace, there was never any real connection between the school plots and the action scenes, and you could've just plugged any action scene into any episode. Plus there's no real sense of scale when a "giant" hero and monster are fighting in what's just an abstract virtual landscape.

Mystic Knights was impressive, Saban's one fully original attempt at a toku-like series, actually shot in Ireland and using fairly expensive CGI from Foundation Imaging. I liked the writing, the cast, the music, and the production values -- but I'm afraid the action didn't really work for me, for two reasons. One, they had big swordfights in almost every episode, but the restrictions on violence meant nobody could be killed, so they were always inconclusive and kind of pointless (no pun intended). And two, the battles with the giant CGI monsters were waged by just the normal-sized heroes standing on the ground shooting their magic weapons at them, so those sequences were very static and repetitive, and also quite short due to the expense of the CGI. So the rest was good, but Saban should've left the action to Toei.
 
I vaguely remember watching Mystic Knights as a kid, I wish it was more available. It only ever had a few episodes (maybe 4?) released to VHS/DVD, so you can only find it online as VHS recorded off TV quality videos. It would be interesting to see the show nowadays.
 
Christopher said:
VR Troopers never impressed me much, and now that I know how it was kludged together from footage from a couple of unrelated, older Metal Heroes shows, I see why it didn't work that well (since the "team" of heroes were never all in the same scene together in armor, except in odd bits of new footage). Beetleborgs was terrible, framing the Metal Heroes footage with a really dumb show about kids and a haunted house and some sort of weird comedy-vampire magic-user who was more creepy than funny. It was this bizarre amalgam of three or four different genres that didn't go together.

I also hated Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad. The original stuff was just a generic high-school sitcom, basically, and since the action footage all took place in VR/cyberspace, there was never any real connection between the school plots and the action scenes, and you could've just plugged any action scene into any episode. Plus there's no real sense of scale when a "giant" hero and monster are fighting in what's just an abstract virtual landscape.

Mystic Knights was impressive, Saban's one fully original attempt at a toku-like series, actually shot in Ireland and using fairly expensive CGI from Foundation Imaging. I liked the writing, the cast, the music, and the production values -- but I'm afraid the action didn't really work for me, for two reasons. One, they had big swordfights in almost every episode, but the restrictions on violence meant nobody could be killed, so they were always inconclusive and kind of pointless (no pun intended). And two, the battles with the giant CGI monsters were waged by just the normal-sized heroes standing on the ground shooting their magic weapons at them, so those sequences were very static and repetitive, and also quite short due to the expense of the CGI. So the rest was good, but Saban should've left the action to Toei.
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I remember "Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog"

Lisa Dawn was pretty. The fights were stilted and not dynamic and exciting like Power Ranger fights were. As the show went on they added the usual things to attract kids like battlizer armor, a 6th ranger and a medieval vehicle

What I find odd about Saban's "get rich quick and cheap" scheme is that besides Power Rangers all the other franchises didn't have a way to grow.

-Masked Rider was the last Kamen Rider series before Toei made some one off movies like "Kamen Rider J" and 'Kamen Rider Zo".

There was nothing much Saban could do after all the footage of "Rx" was used

-Beetleborgs. Same situation. B-fighter Kabuto was the last series based on the "B-fighter" concept. Beetleborgs would have either had to make footage like "MMPR" season 2 or some quick cut and paste job

-Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog. Pretty expensive to film. Mystic Knights were toying with the idea of another season based around thunder

http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2012/08/mystic-knights-battle-thunder-what.html

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Someone has put up a "movie" version of the introductory episodes combined on youtube. Decent quality

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