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My best Toku memory was my sophomore year of college (in 1999 to 2000). My roommate was from Malaysia and his parents shipped him dozens of VHS tapes of Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Ultraman and other Toku. My dorm was mixed gender and had a large atrium on the 2nd floor just outside our room. The atrium also had a 60" DLP tv and VCR setup and we started watching the shows. Neither of us had any idea what was being said as they tapes had no subtitles and we didn't speak japanese. My roommate spoke Chinese but his Dad spoke many languages and was a Toku fan. What started off as just the two of us grew quickly grew into just about the entire dorm watching the shows together on 'Spandex Wednesday'. It got to the point where we started to MST3K the shows and different folks got assigned different roles. Through the year we watched Dynaman through Megaranger, Kamen Rider Black & Black RX, The Metal hero show that Bettleborgs was base on and a few Ultraman and other shows that to this day I don't know what they were. It was a fun time that I will never forget and it cemented my love of Toku.