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How were you introduced to Toku?
How did you discover Toku shows? I find it interesting because it is such an uncommon niche.
I grew up in Naples Italy in the 80's and that's what was on t.v. for kids, a bunch of Toku. As an american child I had no clue that it was actually Japanese. I always thought it was Italian (it was poorly dubbed). I loved old shows like, Thunderbirds are go, with miniatures and pyrotechnics. Power Rangers came out when I was just getting too old for the cheese ball childish side of it and it never really interested me. But, I did realize that this was the stuff that I watched as a younger child in Italy. Without the internet at the time I never really made a connection. Fast forward 10 years and I was living in Japan and in the internet age. BAM! I discovered Toku and never turned back. I Love the mid 90's and earlier. The bad computer graphics of later stuff just ruins it. Anyway, that's my story. Tell me about yours :) |
I looked up Power Rangers or something on Youtube once and I saw Faiz Blaster. I had no clue what was going on and never clicked it again.
TIME SKIP I was excited for Sonic Colours one day for no reason and accidentally came across a video that pointed similarities to Kamen Rider W. Then I did research and watched some shows |
yeah, I basically did the same thing while living in JP. I saw a poster or something,I looked up Kamen rider becauseI remembered the "grasshopper guy" from Italy and just kept clicking.
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Well I grew up on the 80s so in my area, I'm from the Midwest, outside of the Godzilla and Gamera movies that aired during the weekend the only real source for tokusatsu was a show called Spectreman, one of the Ultraman-esque show that aired in Japan during the 70s. I also remember seeing the original Ultraman a bit afterwards, although being a dumber, younger me my first thought was it was a Specterman tip off lol, and the comedy dub of Dynaman which for some reason they first four episodes into a two hour movie, which was what I caught. I didn't see any more until I say segments during this show called Night Fright I want to say but I think I'm wrong there. Then the well kinda tried up until Power rangers started airing, and again being an 80s kid and despite being a teenager I was like "A giant robot and giant monster? I'm in" The rest kind of steamed rolled from there once we got the internet and I started looking up Specterman to see if anybody else remembered it.
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I grew up on Power Rangers, watched regularly through the end of Time Force, tuned in semi-regularly for Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder and SPD, then dropped out after that. Flash forward to 2009, and I see this thing called Kamen Rider Dragon Knight at my local TRU. It's neat and they're roughly in scale with G.I. Joe (which I'm heavily invested in at the time), but pass and never give another thought.
Flash forward to 2011. One of my favorite Sonic fanartists cuts his art stream short in favor of showing us all an episode of this show called Gokaiger. Specifically, the Megaranger episode. Skip forward another two years and he streams Super Hero Taisen Z, and I am immediately floored by the designs of this character called Kamen Rider Wizard and these Rangers known as the Go-Busters. I decided to give Gokaiger another look. And since then I've been hooked. |
As I’ve said elsewhere, I never liked Power Rangers growing up.
I didn’t discover Sentai until 2008―via RandomDCE’s Handy Dandy Guide to Power Rangers―but actually didn’t decide to give it a watch until 2011. I just suddenly had the urge to type “Super Sentai” into Google one evening and decided to check out Goukaiger, as that was the series airing at the time. And I’ve never looked back♪ |
Power Rangers happened. That's how I was introduced.
There was a TV special that was basically Jason and Zach's actors talking about Zyuranger, and I remember a clip of Bandora singing. That spurred interest in Sentai, but this being before the internet was widely available, I couldn't act much on it. In the early 2000's, I came across a VHS of Kamen Rider Couga, about 3 unsubbed episodes of Kuuga (Note: It wasn't a bootleg.) My family frequented a Japanese video rental store (Grandmother is Japanese), so after getting sick of browsing anime that I probably shouldn't have been watching, anyway (They had tons of the edgy 90's OVAs), I stumbled upon this not-Power Rangers looking guy and rented it. Didn't understand a damn thing. While this was technically my first foray into Kamen Rider, I was only about 13 and didn't know what was going on, so I don't really count it... They also allegedly had B-Fighter Kabuto. I recognized that as Big Bad Beetleborgs, however it was always unavailable so I never got a chance to rent it (I think someone just bought it and the store just never bothered removing it). Meanwhile, Lost and Found in Translation happened in Dino Thunder. This spurred interest in my brother and I for Sentai, and eventually (Read, years later) we ended up finding Magiranger subbed. I hated it but still, technically my first. I would later try to watch Shinkenger subbed (Alongside KR Decade, which I watched in full) due to Shinkenger's crossover. So, yeah. Power Rangers, Japanese video store, and an episode of Dino Thunder X-teen years later. |
Like a lot of people, I watched Power Rangers for a few years when I was a kid, but it didn't really go beyond that. I was aware of the fact that these shows existed, knew a few people who watched them, but I didn't really think of checking them out myself. It was in 2014 that I really started getting into toku. The summer of that year I got into figmas, and I got into them hard. I bought a number from things I wasn't familiar with but thought looked cool. One of the earliest ones I got was the Kamen Rider Speat figma (big fan of its design). So eventually I got curious about the show the design came from, so I watched and very much enjoyed Ryuki. It took a while for me to start another one after that, but I haven't stopped since.
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Power Rangers and Godzilla are responsible for this curse I have of loving tokusatsu.
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Oh man, I was only thinking of Henshin Heroes.
I've been a huge Godzilla fan since I was in diapers simply because my mother was a huge Godzilla fan. I rewatched Godzilla vs Megalon and Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla so often. It's odd how Mothra became my favorite monster :lol |
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