super sentai
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4 Years Later, Bright Lives… As An Anime?
It’s been four years of peace since Netflix cursed the world with the David Ayer/Max Landis orc cop nightmare Bright. The streamer has threatened since, in fits and starts, to bring us more, but in spite of the movie’s success on the platform, it’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about a continuation of…
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The Original Super Sentai Manga Is a Fascinating Tale of 2 Tones
Shotaro Ishinomori is one of the grandfathers of Tokusatsu as we know it — the legend behind Kamen Rider and Super Sentai. Without him, Japanese superheroes would be in a very different space today. But Ishinomori is equally remembered as a mangaka king: and when he combined the two, there were some truly remarkable results.
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The Indie Team Behind Beast Heart! Strikers Tells Us About Bringing the Tokusatsu Spirit to Comics
Tokusatsu is, by its very nature, a practical medium. It’s people in Spandex and rubbery monster suits, it’s special effects, it’s models of cities being blown the hell up by Kaiju. But despite being a genre ripe with superheroic figures — from Super Sentai teams, to Kamen Riders, to Ultraman — it’s never really been…
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I Can’t Stop Scrolling Through This Collection Of Incredible GIFs From Japanese Superhero Shows
God bless Carranger.GIF: Gekisou Sentai Carranger (Tokugifs) RIP My productivity, 1991-2018. Cause of death? So many good GIFs.