[Matrixbeast]

Godzilla got me into Toku, and it holds a special place in my heart. I love that franchise to bits. It was my mom's fault because she loved Godzilla, so growing up I'd watch a lot of the Showa era movies on VHS (Most of them the lame cheesy ones, but hey, I still loved them ). Then there was PR, which was probably about 90% of most 90's kids Toku memories, and I was there with them.

However, that's just how I got into it. What I enjoy about Toku is the breath of fresh air it gives me. It lets me see things in real life that I never thought possible. While I know toku predates a lot of popular franchises, being an American meant I never saw a lot of the Toku first. So I thought that giant robots were only allowed in cartoons, armored heroes wore power armor larger than they were, and victories were won with bigger lasers, not by fist fights. So come Power Rangers, which showed me heroes flipping and kicking like a comic book, rather than charging in with lots of guns, and come the Heisei Godzilla, which had a lot better series of fights and a darker tone.
For me, I just love Toku because it offered me something new in an era where parental control was so heavy that guns fired lasers and swords only cut robots, and just fired lasers at other living things.