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Music Related & Entertainment Tokusatsu Shows

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Retired Staff

What IS Tokusatsu?!

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Tokusatsu shows are Japanese live action superhero shows that heavily feature practical special effects. The genre inspired many American television shows in the 90s including Big Bad Beetleborgs and Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills and, of course, Power Rangers which was based on Super Sentai.

The genre takes a lot of inspiration from Kabuki Theater whose over-dramatized/exaggerated movements and facial expressions are meant to give every scene and interaction on stage comedic and/or dramatic impact.

Tokusatsu is an umbrella term for all live action television/film that uses a lot of practical effects including monster mashes like Godzilla or mechs and robots but most commonly revolves around superheroes and monsters whose defy explanation
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Beside the fact that the Tokusetsu genre is some of the most surreal, inexplicable, straight out of either the worst or best acid trip kind of content out there to consume, it also includes under its umbrella the 1986 show "Photon" starring David Stay playing the now famous (thanks to Metokur) character "Mandarr"
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David's website.

Noteworthy Series

Super Sentai / Power Rangers is probably the most recognizable series and certainly contains a lot of goofy shit, but there are many series out there that make Power Rangers look like Citizen Kane.

Akumaizer 3 (1975)

Theme Song:

One of many fantastical death scenes.
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Over the course of 38 episodes, the main character Xavitan, a mutant superhero refugee from the "Akuma Clan" (a subterranean race of robot demon monsters who want to take over the surface world) and his two buddies, Iberu (The homosexual in yellow) and Gabra (the fish man guy)
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Iberu can apparently shapeshift into a candle
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Gabra can transform into a dickheaded ostrich type bird thing
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Over the course of the series they fight against other Akuma Clan members who come up onto the surface world in an attempt to conquer it only to be beaten back by Xavitan and the Akumaizer 3 team.

Turning into a snowman and money shotting construction workers is the best way to conquer your enemies.
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Episode 21: Snowman episode

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Android Kikaider (1972)



Android kikaider ran for 43 episodes from 1972-1973. It was one of the first Tokusatsu shows to run on American TV under the name Kikaida: Android of Justice.
The show follows the main hero Ichiro/Kikaider, an android created to battle the forces of "DARK" (an evil organization who kidnaps scientists, including the inventor of Kikaider to create an army of killbots called Destructoids)
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Kikaider has many powers, such as punching robot-alligator heads
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He teams up with a lady-android called Mari/Bijender who can hypnotize people with her tits who was originally sent by Biggu Shadou to kill Ichiro but doesn't.
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They battle the forces of evil and defeat Destructoid robots to save the world and stuff, including Pinku Armadilloru
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and the Carmine Spider
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And many more equally goofy monsters
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While not battling Destructoids, Ichiro fights with his evil doppelganger "Hakaider"; a gun spinning expert marksman robot
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Pewpew
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Daitetsujin 17 (1977)


As previously mentioned, not all Tokusetsu shows revolve around a team of heroes, many also feature robots and mechas, and Daitetsujin 17 is one of the most ridiculous among them. The story follows the titular character Daitetsujin 17 (Great Ironman 17), a mech-robot that is piloted by a young boy named Saburo Minami; who is the main protagonist. The evil robot 18 often attempts to beat up 17 while 17 tries to save the world from a robotic version of the loch ness monster by flying it into space for some reason
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The series ran for 35 episodes from March - November 1977

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In an effort possibly undertaken by the Japanese government to not get nuked again for supporting naughty no-no ideas one of the series main antagonists is Captain Gomez. He appears in 35 episodes and is eventually killed in a giant robot explosion
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Everyone's seen this gif, even features in most 4chan /gif/ compilations (4chan The Movie Reloaded from 2007)
Who is this flip flapping turtle? None other than Gamera and it comes from the 1969 film "Gamera vs. Guiron."
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Gamera: The Godzilla Ripoff That Surpassed Godzilla

Gamera the prehistoric turtle was, like the rest of Japan, genetically destroyed by nuclear waste and radiation resulting in a mutant giant turtle monster that can fly and breathe fire and win Olympic gold in the uneven bars.
Gamera has appeared in 12 movies, and while he was originally conceived as a competitor to Godzilla following the Godzilla franchise's success, Gamera has become an icon in his own right as one of the Grandfathers of monster movies.

The Showa Era:​

The original 8 films are referred to the Showa era of Gamera, directed by Noriaki Yuasa from 1965 to 1971 when the studio itself went bankrupt, eventually being purchased by the publishing company Tokuma Shoten in 1974.
In 1985, Sandy Frank purchased the distribution rights for American television and featured 5 of the original 8 films on the popular program Mystery Science Theater 3000 during the show's first season in 1988.
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In the Showa era films, Gamera's origin is depicted as being the result of a nuclear bomb explosion breaking open the ice in Russia and releasing him from a state of suspended animation. He is alluded to be worshipped by a tribe of polar gooks referred to as "Inuits" who keep a talisman depicting a giant turtle who they call Gamera.

Gamera: The Giant Monster (1965)​

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This is the only film in the series that depicts Gamera as a destructive and/or evil monster hell bent on destroying Tokyo.
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Everybody Gangsta until you get trapped in a rocket and sent into outer space
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Gamera VS Barugon (1966)​

This film takes place 6 months after the end of Gamera The Giant Monster where some dumb broad hatches Barugon from an egg she though was an opal by exposing it to UV radiation on a boat

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Gamera is pissed about being sent to space so he decides it's time to once again fuck up Tokyo but gets distracted by his unyielding homophobia decides to put an end to Barugon's faggotry.

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Gamera silencing Barugon's protests that he was simply "born this way"
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Barugon burning in hell for his lifestyle choices.
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Gamera VS Guion (1969)​

Gamera demonstrating the dance of his people after committing genocide.
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Gamera VS Jiger - AKA - Gamera Vs Monster X (1970)​


Gamera gives no fucks as he chucks spears Jiger the nigger through the head and chuckles in the face of his braindead enemies; peak sigma energy.


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Gamera telling the Jiger to go back where he game from.
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Gamera VS Zigra (1971)​

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The Heisei Period (1995-2006)​

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These aren't as funny, they're just genuinely good movies.
 
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