/r/Tokusatsu
A place to discuss Tokusatsu, Japanese special effects. Popular franchises include Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Ultraman, GARO, Godzilla, etc. Please join us in discussing this fantastic genre!
Tokusatsu (特撮) is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and makes considerable use of special effects (tokusatsu literally translates as "special effects").
Everything from Super Sentai to Godzilla!
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Where can I watch tokusatsu? - Megalist #1 | Megalist #2
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This list is if I magically had hd/widescreen footage. I'm not saying we need one but if someone would, this is the ranking.
!How dare you trick us, Toei President Fumio Yoshimura! You said that two Gokaigers Captain Marvelous/GokaiRed & Ahim de Famille/GokaiPink are supposed to help Taiya Hando/BoonRed & Mira Shifuto/BoonPink in the next episode, but why will Jou try to attempt to regain all of the BoonBoomger's powers & to defeat Warudo Spindo in a rematch instead? This production is but a (Censored)ing mess! Totally a screw-up!!!!<
Today, I saw Kamen Rider The Next (2007), and… I had mixed feelings with this movie… This Movie is takes place 2 years after Kamen Rider The First (2005), and while it was an adaptation of Kamen Rider V3 from 1973, it had a lot of dark, mature, and scary moments for a Kamen Rider Movie… While the music and action are good, the writing, horror, and drama were stupid… While it had a dark and mature tone like a Horror Movie, the pacing was stupid and out of context… The Chiharu subplot was the biggest mistake of this Movie! I think it was because The Ring and The Grudge were popular in Japan during that time, but I feel like they screwed it up and made it too cringy… Shiro Kazami’s backstory was different from the Series, like his Family Members, including his Sister Yukiko, were killed by Destron, so Shiro transforms into Kamen Rider V3 after Takeshi, who was his Science Teacher, saved his life, but this Version of V3 was actually better then how he was in the actual series. Kotomi was an unlikable Character, but at least she changed throughout the movie… I like Ichimonji’s return, but him treating his only friend Takeshi and avoiding his death and refusing to help him from his condition was so uncool and infuriating! It had a lot of mature and dark moments, especially the Chiharu Victims, the truth about what happened to Chiharu, beheadings, full-frontal nudity, rotting corpses, and lots of blood and gore! The climax and ending were superfluous where Shiro betrays Shocker and teams up with Ichimonji and defeated the Shocker Members including the Jaguar Kaijin and Shiro as Kamen Rider V3 defeats Chiharu while Kotomi feels sorry for her when was listening to her cursed Song Platinum Smile, Ichimonji dies at his Ginza Bar, and Hongo gets fired from his career as a High School Teacher and he and Kotomi go home together! The after-credits Scene was stupid where Chiharu kills another victim at a pachinko bar, meaning that the curse never ended, leading to the cancellation of the third Movie! Overall, I give it a D!
Hopefully in my next lives, I get to be reborn as all-powerful and nigh invincible Goddess-Empress who can make China and Japan the most advanced civilizations in the universe.
When it comes to international relations and defense manufacturing, I believe that it would be better if China, Japan, and the United States are better off under a strong, independent, and ruthless absolute monarch for a Goddess-Empress like me to make the whole world my oyster.
Rather than accept defeat and wallow in the miserable state of our universe, I instead idealized an eternal paradise where nobody is happy because everybody is truly happy.
But then I finally realized how humans are fickle and ungrateful creatures. That is why it is best for me to desire a genuinely better world and an eternal paradise for myself and nobody else.
I am proud of being Chinese and Japanese. But the way I see things happening both China and Japan, I always imagined how much enlightened absolutism could help both civilizations into surpassing perfection and into infinity.
Hopefully, in my next infinite lives, I will finally get a chance to become a benevolent and enlightened absolute monarch for a Goddess-Empress of both China and Japan.
If only Super Rising Ultimate Kuuga, Hyper Kabuto, Decade Absolute, Gaim Kiwami Arms, Cross-Z Build, Ōma Zi-Ō, Xross Saber Almighty, and Geats IX were here to grant me godhood.