Animated Toku?

[wildwolf]

Japan's first cybernetic superhero: 8 Man. This came out about a year before Cyborg 009.

 

[Vitor]

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

If that's so, than what are Medabots, Poke'mon, and Monster Rancher?

 

[Vitor]

Japan's first cybernetic superhero: 8 Man. This came out about a year before Cyborg 009.

Interesting, could have sworn Astroboy had that title

 

[wildwolf]

@Vitor, Atom / Astro Boy is a robot while 8 Man is a cyborg.

 

[garfield15]

GoLion is a good one for this thread though.

If that's so, than what are Medabots, Poke'mon, and Monster Rancher?

They're all toyetic anime, I just meant Frontier specifically since it involved 5transforming heroes in a Sentai sense combined with the standard adventure aspects as seen prevalently in Digimon. I didn't really mean the franchise, half of Frontier's appeal to me was the humans-into-Digimon aspect.

also, Digimon and pokemon are two totally different shows

 

[ShinnGun]

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:

The movie is good but Casshern Sins is my all-time fave because of the post-apocalyptic setting & the symbolism of the show. Also, it has Dio & Leda.:laugh:

garfield15: Speaking of Pretty Cure, don't you know that Heartcatch is a mix of Pretty Cure, Doremi & Casshern Sins? I'm talking about the art style.

To the Digimon Frontier stuff. It's like Sentai/Power Rangers but let's face it: it's the least popular Digimon shows & brought the franchise to a 3-year hiatus.

 

[Lynxara]

GoLion is a good one for this thread though.

Well, pretty much any of the many, many Voltes V descendants is worth talking about, as far as that goes. Acrobunch, Dai-Apollon, God Mars, the J9 trilogy, the Eldrans, Yuusha, even friggin' Baldios. Super Sentai itself borrowed pretty heavily from Voltes shortly after mecha got added to the franchise.

I'd also want to mention God Sigma, since I believe its "time loop" plotline was pretty influential in terms of how tokusatsu would ultimately began treating time travel in later fiction. (It certainly inspired all of Go Lion's stock footage...)

Hell, if we want to talk about W's anime ancestors, let's talk about its 70s great-grandfather Ga-Keen, the robot that could only be piloted by two people physically transforming into the cockpit. (There's also Ga-Keen's surprisingly influential modern grandchildren, Betterman and GEAR Fighter Dendoh).

 

[Sage Shinigami]

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.

Well that's just questionable. I mean, I find it hard to believe anyone that's a fan of Sentai can watch Dagwon and somehow think its terrible but then go back and watch like, Dekaranger and go, "Epic." unless they just hated cartoons.

 

[FlashNeko]

Well that's just questionable. I mean, I find it hard to believe anyone that's a fan of Sentai can watch Dagwon and somehow think its terrible but then go back and watch like, Dekaranger and go, "Epic." unless they just hated cartoons.

DekaRanger does not have the main character continually lose a fight against a log. Nor does it feature the entire team losing a fight to a giant, immobile tree with a gun stuck in its branches.

Oh and the DekaRangers never decided to try and stop a city destroying tidal wave by throwing a giant tire at it.

 

[Sage Shinigami]

DekaRanger does not have the main character continually lose a fight against a log. Nor does it feature the entire team losing a fight to a giant, immobile tree with a gun stuck in its branches.

Oh and the DekaRangers never decided to try and stop a city destroying tidal wave by throwing a giant tire at it.

...I gotta be honest. That sounds freaking HILARIOUS. Kinda makes me wish I could watch more than what exists out there.