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Yeah, I recommend Tiger & Bunny and Heroman. The former has been covered in previous post, while the second one is a modern-day superhero robo anime collab between Stan Lee (Spiderman) and Bones (Soul Eater)
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we still need samurai pizza cat love
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I only have experience with 2.
Tiger & Bunny Gatchaman CROWDS If you want stuff that's closer to Toku storytelling (i.e Monster of the Week) You have many options there. GaoGaiGar (Super Robot) Star Driver (Super Robot/Magical Boy) HeartCatch! Precure (Magical Girl) |
More toku style animes:
Golion Reideen GaoGaiGar Samurai Flamenco Machine Robo Tekkaman Gate Keepers Zillion Hyper Police Futari wa Precure Tiger & Bunny Shin Mazinger Shougeki Zoids Mobile Suit Gundam Macross Guyver Star Driver Kagayaki no Takuto Casshern Sins Blue Seed Burst Angel Black Cat Psycho-Pass Vividred Operation Captain Earth Scryed Kakumeiki Valvrave Gear Fighter Dendoh HeatGuy J Arc the Lad Gun x Sword Mobile Fighter G Gundam Tokyo Underground Dirty Pair Trigun Witchblade World Trigger |
I dunno, I feel we're just getting into "if it has a robot, it's toku-styled" with some of these suggestions. Star Driver especially is just anime cliches through and through.
I guess that's what comes with a topic so broad that it can encompass nearly anything... |
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If it has henshin style heroes of some nature, specifically riffs on the nature of tokusatsu heroes or their genre, or features mecha of a truly similar variety then that's one thing. But some of the stuff mentioned is just people being like, "yeah super powers and robots". |
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More has to be, the more the better suggestions. Even if the anime only slightly resembles , but must be quoted, Yes, must be. |
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Seeing that mecha anime and manga did giant robots against giant monsters long before Super Sentai, I don't consider most Mecha anime similar to most toku shows and movies.
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This is why I was hesitant to put Digimon as a spot on the list. While it is obviously mon-based it has pretty much the same layout of your standard toku: group of characters get powers (Digimon), characters activate powers during fight in climax of episode (Basic Digivolution), main character is most likely to unlock new mode during story (High-level Digivolution) while other characters get neglected, all with explosions happening in the background. Being a Bandai-Toei production also gives more credit to this thought. But how do you all feel about it?
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Am I that old that I am the only one remembering Bubblegum Crisis?? Nobody mentioned it so far, yet the Knight Sabers are 100% Metal-Heroines!!
There is also a comedy/parody called Dokkoider ( Sumeba Miyako no Cosmos-sou Suttoko Taisen Dokkoida), the TIME BOKAN series from Tatsunoko, & another Tatsunoko comedy "Tondemo Senshi Muteking". |
I haven't seen any of it, but I think it would be safe to say that The Ultraman has a pretty strong tokusatsu flavor to it.
Also, Garo: Seal of Flames. |
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Or else we can list every bloody action-adventure anime here, because "Toku" is one of the vaguest terms to use. |
Golion, is a TOKU-ANIME, more than Samurai Flamenco.
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Have you even watched Samurai Flamenco? It has DIRECT elements from tokusatsu incorporated. The shows arcs mirror various sub-genres of toku as well. Local Hero, Kamen Rider, Sentai, Ultraman. It runs the full spectrum of henshin heroes all in one show. It is literally the definition of what a toku styled anime is. TO say otherwise is frankly just wrong. |
It's a shame that I find Samurai Flamenco to be absolutely terrible.
I enjoyed it more when it was playing it straight with a toku styled hero in a real society but then it just became a huge joke that just parodied one toku after another with no real additions to the plot. Sure it went back to the core of the story with the two characters near the end but having to slog through all that senseless parody was such a pain, especially as the animation budget had also dropped by a huge amount. So if anything it does count as a tokuanime in that it's just a clusterfuck of tropes. If you wanted something a bit more serious that are more akin to an actual toku series go for stuff like Guyver, Zetman, Skullman, Garo etc |
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Den-O, you mentioned so far only Samurai Flamenco. No other anime that looks TOKU for your? Only Flamenco?
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So when I see this thread asking for Toku styled anime, in theory, you could list any magical girl, shonen, or supernatual drama series because they feature a specific aspect that overlaps with a Sentai or Rider series, so the list has to be culled. |
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you know what toku should be an anime?
Spirits. you wanna know an anime based toku? Gaim. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTVj-4uiOt4 Takegami: Guardian of Darkness is also similar to Ultraman with the idea of a hero that can grow giant to project humanity from evil giant monsters. Even episode 2 has a homage scene of Ultraman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJViltnsYX0 Those are the only anime that I can think of that feel close to Ultraman. |
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Aren't like half of Tatsunoko's shows toku based?
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Although Gatchaman and a good number of their hero shows that aired before Goranger pre-dates super sentai, tokusatsu heroes were around since the 60s starting with Gekko Kamen or "Moonlight Mask". http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/g/gekkokamenlive.jpg |
Wouldn't Guyver fall under Toku-based Anime?
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Here is a list of anime & manga that are inspired by Toku superheros and kajiu series or feel close to being a Toku superhero or kajiu TV show or movie. 8 Man (Even got a Toku live action film. 8 Man is the first robot superhero coming nearly a decade before Kamen Rider) Apocalypse Zero Astro Fighter Sunred Baoh Borgman Bubblegum Crisis Casshern Cybernetics Guardian Dokkoida?! Demon Lord Dante (Go Nagai mention that his love for Kajiu films help inspire him to create Demon Lord Dante from what I can recall) Detonator Orgun Devilman (At least the 1972 TV series) Gatchaman Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor Junk: Record of the Last Hero (manga only) Karas Hikaruon MetalJack Microman Ratman (manga only) Sadamitsu the Destroyer Samurai Flamenco Shinesman SoulTaker Takegami: Guardian of Darkness Tekkaman Tiger & Bunny Wingman Yatterman Zetman That's all I can find for now. People told me that both Active Raid and Concrete Revolutio are inspired by Toku superheroes or at least feel like it. I haven't watch them yet. |
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The Guyver seems to be inspire by both Kamen Rider and the Devilman manga (Sho and Akira both have another life form fuse inside them, both kill various monster opponents that can morph into humans with similar levels of ultra violence and must keep their humanity intact to avoid becoming total monsters). |
well there is that one OVA Campus Special Investigator Hikaruon and that anime short for gridman
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Moldiver is another Toku superhero style type of anime. It deals with a female superhero who can henshin with the "Mol-Unit" device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nasofB06is |
I think I remember something about Moldiver yeeeeeeaaaaaaars ago. Isn't the female hero a bit of a ditz?
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I know Digimon was brought up before but season 4 aka Frontier really is a Digimon flavored Sentai.
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Devilman Lady does a much better job of that even if I think it's mostly perverted garbage. |
does samurai troopers aka ronin warriors count as a henshin hero?
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Not quite in the same vein as say, Riders or Sentai, but yes. They fit the trope. |
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