[dreamcastegirl]

The thing I've always loved about tokusatsu is our little cottage industry of a fandom; from fansbubbers to teenagers writing OCs on fanfiction.net, from the early days of trading VHS tapes, uploading RealPlayer clips, and writing lengthy meta on geocities about Jetman and its mythical manga sequel, I feel that we have absolutely excelled in the face of adversity, taking this one thing that was never considered for us and making our own fun with it. Even tough I am a stock villain and hate all human life, I constantly find the creativity of this scene to be inspiring and uplifting.

So here's to all the translators, fic writers, artists, forum mods, and cosplayers, here's to everyone who watched these children shows and thought that maybe they could do better as a person in their everyday life because of these embarrassing morals that we all pretend not to have taken onboard. Thank you, friends, for your service.

I'm not crying, you're crying.