Animated Toku?

[garfield15]

Can Shinzo Ningen Casshern can be considered as animated toku?

If it wasn't so post-apocalyptic (yes both of them), I would. His design is Toku enough.

What about Karas? Or just about anybody from the Tatsunoko side of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom?

Oh, and Cyborg 009 maybe?

 

[Dark Kabuto]

4 pages of this topic, and NO ONE'S mentioned Space COmmand Dogwon yet?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wcA6evUzEI[/ame]

 

[KamenRiderShinzo]

Yep many toku references there. Especially Cure Black's voice actress.

Can Shinzo Ningen Casshern can be considered as animated toku?

Nice Casshern avatar and signature! The movie is awesome! In fact I got my name from the "Shinzo" in Casshern's title, because I thought that it would make it mean "Kamen Rider Neo", like how "Shinzo Ningen" means "Neo Human". But I'm not really sure if the meaning applies in my name, since I don't know that much Japanese.:laugh:

 

[Raida|23]

Nice Casshern avatar and signature! The movie is awesome! In fact I got my name from the "Shinzo" in Casshern's title, because I thought that it would make it mean "Kamen Rider Neo", like how "Shinzo Ningen" means "Neo Human". But I'm not really sure if the meaning applies in my name, since I don't know that much Japanese.:laugh:

Off topic, just to say that yes, the movie is cool, but I still prefer the animated series -the first one.

 

[ryuuseipro]

Negadon the Monster from Mars - Nuff' said.

Virus Buster Serge - One of the more realistic attempts at the Super Sentai formula!

There's also Otaku no Video and Prefectural Earth Defense Force, which make references to tokusatsu (superheroes, daikaijuu, etc.).

 

[Dark Kabuto]

Sonic Soilder Borgman:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r64K5tO2kg[/ame]


Tekkamen Blade:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmX564UTabE[/ame]

...would Saint Seiya count?

 

[Lynxara]

Or just about anybody from the Tatsunoko side of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom?

A lot of the Tatsunoko heroes actually predate or are concurrent with the initial big 70s tokusatsu boom. Their similarity comes from being inspired by the same source as a lot of Japan's 70s heroes-- translated editions of the Lee/Kirby Marvel comics of the 60s! Likewise, Cyborg 009 generally predates but heavily influences the development of tokusatsu.

Tekkaman Blade looks henshin hero-ish, but watches more or less like a Gundam clone. Viewer beware if you go there expecting Metal Heroes in space or something that isn't fundamentally gritty and bleak. If you don't mind watching a Gundam clone, of course, I'd say Tekkaman Blade is one of the better ones from that era.

I wouldn't consider Saint Seiya tokusatsu-ish at all, though it ultimately exercised a very big influence on the genre. Saint Seiya is more or less the direct result of Kurumada-sensei combining themes he'd started developing in his Ring ni Kakero boxing manga with those being popularized (at the time) by Fist of the North Star.

Dagwon contains a lot of tokusatsu homage elements but is absolutely fucking terrible. Like, far worse than any actual tokusatsu I've seen from the 90s or 00s. It can be fun to watch if you like to give it the MST3K treatment or if you want to write slash fiction about the protagonists, but otherwise I'd give this one a pass.

As far as tokusatsu parodies in the vein of Sunred go, Shinesman is an absolute classic and not to be missed by any fan of what Super Sentai did through the late 80s and early 90s. It's a painfully dead-on parody of the writing tropes and character types that era of production loves to recycle. It also neatly skewers the oh-so-serious mentality of the beloved 80s shows.

 

[garfield15]

Virus Buster Serge - One of the more realistic attempts at the Super Sentai formula!

I honestly could not get past the first episode of that. Even though Nobuyuki Hiyama was in it, it was just soooo boring.

You know, technically, Digimon Frontier is labeled as Sentai in genre descriptions...

 

[Lynxara]

You know, technically, Digimon Frontier is labeled as Sentai in genre descriptions...

Western genre descriptions, right? I've never seen a Japanese source use "sentai" even as an informal genre descriptor because it's military jargon in its non-Toei brand usage (for "squadron").

Western sources generally like to use "sentai" as a genre descriptor, though, basically as shorthand for "that weird Japanese super hero team stuff." Denoting that is a lot less useful for a Japanese audience, obviously.

 

[Gryphman]

Samurai Pizza Cats

not to mention Voltron/GoLion, one of the first anime with a combing mecha

No it's not. Getter Robo did it 7 years earlier, and there were several combining robot anime between the two shows.