toku & toku inspired animes Discussion
 

so i don't know if someone has made this type of thread before but i thought it would be a neat idea to talk about toku anime and toku inspired anime.

with the ultraman series having animated series and movies, official and unofficial, (if you know, you know) Garo having animes and the kamen rider series having a few animated series gamera had the rebirth series, heck Even the big G godzilla had animated series and even been in a crossover movie it seems the only one of the Big 5 toku series to not have a anime is super sentai.

back in 2005 Tatsunoko had there own toku inspired OVA series in Karas (if you haven't seen that go find it and watch it)

so in closing what toku anime and toku inspired animes did you like and what toku series would you like to see as animes.

editor notes: i would like to mention that french animation studio ZAG Entertainment was working with Saban to make a Power rangers movie called power rangers origins but it was cancelled.

I watched Fuuto PI, the comedy short Kamen Rider SD 1993, The Ultraman 1979 and Ultra Kids 30 Million Light Years in Search of Mother. To one degree or another, I liked everything.

Seeing Fuuto PI these days really has me wishing Kamen Rider Spirits becomes a thing.

does super sentai have a manga?

There's Gorenger for starters, and throughout the 80s and 90s some shows would get a one-shot manga as part of a magazine and stuff iirc. The Dekaranger and Magiranger summer movies were adapted into manga, that I remember.

I watched the Kamen Rider SD manga and Samurai Flamenco for the more obvious ones. I think it's more common for anime to have toku references than be entirely toku, for example Dragon Ball Z with the Ginyu Force and Great Saiyaman

https://tokusatsu-fc.jp/contents/news/0363/
It appears that Ryusoulger adapted the story of its Final Stage Show as a Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club exclusive manga because the show was canceled at the time due to COVID.

wow fellas thanks for all the info.

No one mention titles like The Guyver, Devilman, Boah, and Zetman yet?

As for my picks, aside from the well-known ones like Saint Seiya and Samurai Trooper, I would have to go with these for now.
Astro Fighter Sunred: Need I say more? :lolol
Bad guys who try to defeat the red ranger of a disbanded sentai team attempt to attack only to get beat up and scolded every time. Honestly, the real title should be Ganbare Florshiem at this point. Most notable toku alumni would be the voice behind Florshiem's leader Vamp, the guy with the orange helmet and purple gown, Louis Yamada LIII of comedy duo Hige Danshaku who played Shuichiro Amachi, Nozomu's dad, in Goseiger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPwXsd_7IEM

Sonic Soldier Borgman: Three cyborg henshin heroes, Ryo, Chuck, and Anise, who work as elementary school teachers as a front fighting monsters, with character designs by Kia Asamiya of Silent Moebius fame. (Also did some X-Men issues back in the 2000s, I believe.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkv9anSMtd8

Ganbarugar: The second of the Eldran series which is the most toku-inspired. This one in particular though is unique in that there are three only and they have to wear sentai-ish costumes because for some reason the bad guys cursed them and if their identities are out they will turn into dogs because of said curse. :lolol
The way their robots are deployed is very Thunderbirds-ish too, which is cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X4TiSNfoUs

Shinesman: A sentai-inspired henshin hero team composed of white-collar workers with an interesting color palette, Red, Moss Green, Gray, Sepia, and Salmon Pink. I love how they throw their business cards like shurikens. :lolol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DsFRWSbzng

Guyver 1989: This version I think is the best one, though I have no hate for the 2005 adaptation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WHPT-zE1hI

Brave Command Dagwon: The 7th Brave Robo show that HEAVILY is inspired by tokusatsu throughout its run. You have henshin heroes, giant robots, alien invaders, and the episode titles are a direct nod to Ultraman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Ajh989z0M

Reideen: The Superior: As the 90s reimagining of the 70s robot anime Reideen, it is about a 5-member pop boy band that transform and fight monsters, and aired the same year as Dagwon. Here, Reideen is more of their transformed state and the reimagining of the titular robot from the 70s is a Daijinryu-like entity called God Reideen for a lack of comparison. Their rivals are another group of Reideens who are a 5-member rock boy band. They start off as a one-side sentai-ish team at first but later go into Heisei Kamen Rider shenanigans when the rival Reideens pop up years before it was ever a thing. The story is nothing special, but the henshin hero aspect was interesting.
* I originally had a reference video clip here just like the rest, but felt some of the scenes with rapid flashing lights were too much so got rid of it.

Just watched the first episode of Red Ranger Becomes and Adventurer in Another World, it rules so far. I love all the Sentai tropes it plays with and how they fit into a medieval fantasy type of setting. This show is gonna be fun.

Red Ranger isekai anime is finally here. I'll admit that I I found the manga far funnier, but I'm willing to give the anime a chance.

I seriously hope they do an April Fool's spoof this year of this show where the voice cast of the Kizuna Five cosplay as their characters. It would be a waste if they don't.

I looked. Well, it was interesting and funny, although some of the jokes seemed too forced to me. And one-sided, because it’s not like fantasy doesn’t have plenty of its own absurdity, which is also worth noting. Perhaps the main minus for me: missing the first six months spent by the hero in the new world. After all, this is the most interesting thing. And the comments from a peasant/simple swordsman sounded more natural than from a sorceress. That is, a complaint from a sorceress about strange gestures and screams, when literally a couple of minutes later she uses a spell in a similar way - this is the same attraction. But the joke that the Rangers' weapons look like toys seems quite natural. 3D looked very constrained. Plus, to my personal misfortune, I watched it in dubbing, where the studio, in order to be the first, left at least half of the episode without translation. The pieces are also mixed together, especially so that they are unnoticeable when rewinding. I will never choose this voiceover again.
But these are all just nitpicks, and the overall impression is positive. I'll keep looking.
https://static.hdrezka.ac/i/2025/1/1...3vl94i78t.jpeg

I had a similar thought at first, but I've decided that I think it's for the best that they skipped it. One strength of this anime, for me, is how it inverts the standard isekai "fish out of water" trope by having the main character react to the fantasy world around them. In this case, the fantasy world reacts to the absurdity of the tokusatsu tropes presented by the main character, and that wouldn't have been possible had they shown him exploring the new world.

Perhaps, but you can combine both. The episode had a good example of this in the case of the Burnt Trophies, which laughs at the unrealistic elements of both fantasy and tokusatsu alike.

I tried the manga, dropped it as soon as I realized its generic isekai trash.

Toku hero in a real fantasy world would’ve been cool, not the same old videogame-world nonsense. Power levels for characters, EXP-points are a thing and monsters drop items – wow, so original, we haven’t had that a billion times already.

Sad times when even Toku-inspired anime sinks that low.

Eh, maybe next time. It's a start.

Yeah I mean I hope they parody both, and I expect they'll expand upon the world as the series goes on. But I do think that this was a good place to start.