Imagine another Toei/Marvel partnership

[FieryRed]

As we all know, Toei had worked with Marvel in the late 70's for the toku series Spider-Man, and the first officially-recognized Super Sentai series Battle Fever J (1979). There seems to be no plan from either company to rekindle their partnership over 30 years ago, but if you have to imagine a new era of collaboration between the two companies, what would it be?

To make the speculation easier, you can name one Marvel superhero property a la Spider-Man for Toei to convert into a toku show, and one Super Sentai or Kamen Rider series a la Battle Fever J that Marvel can use their creativity toward which will be inducted as part of their respective franchise.

Here are my speculations:

1) Iron Man - I know Japanese love Spider-Man, but I think after the Iron Man Anime, and the fact that IM embodies several of the traits that Japanese love (robotic suit, cutting edge technology, infinite energy source like Enetron), Iron Man could be the ideal toku series for Toku to make. I think Kamen Rider Birth is almost like Toei's homage to Iron Man in the Kamen Rider OOO series, and with today's technology they can use a combination of practical and CGI effects to create the look of Iron Man. It may turn out to be more Metal Hero than Iron Man, but I think it will be done well for today's audience.

2) Sentai series: Agentrangers: I know that Go-busters have a spy motif, but I think if Marvel were to make a sentai series, they might look into their own creation the SHIELD for inspiration, and create a team of special agents with power "suits" to transform them into deadly specialists of nuclear proportions. They can pay homage to Battle Fever J, by assigning nationality to each of the five agents, with Red (Japan), Blue (France), Yellow (China), Green (Italy), and White (United States). Both Yellow and White can be female members of the team. Using their henshin devices, the agents can be suited up like a sentai team, and use technology-based attacks to take down a toku version of the HYDRA organization. They can later introduce a sixth member, who is Silver and represents the Interpol or international assembly, and they're overseen by a mysterious figure much like Nick Fury.

Anyway, these are just some of my ideas. Feel free to chip in if you have any.

 

[NeonZ]

At this point, there isn't much incentive for Toei to go along with this. In Japan, Marvel Studio's movies do about as well as the Rider movies, in spite of their astronomically higher budget. The one exception is Spider-Man, whose movie rights aren't with Marvel.

I think it'd need to be Marvel the one looking for Toei's help, and I can't see that scenario happening either.

 

[icecreamhendrix]

Probably, but it's fun to speculate!

I think Thor would work as a henshin hero if they integrated Donald Blake into it. 'Course they'd have to fiddle with the costume a bit, so it had a mask and stuff. Or maybe not. Are there any henshin heroes who don't have mask?

I've never read Moon Knight, but from what I've heard and from the design it seems like it could fit.

The only one I don't think could be done well is Hulk. I can't imagine a Toku-style transformation that isn't anything but awkward. But maybe I have a bad imagination.

 

[kokowaks]

during the seen on the Iron Man 2 movie where tony shows the judge clips of failed attempts of other parties in copying his iron man technology I was kinda waiting to see a clip of G3 being trashed around...

 

[Toku Prime]

Nah, team up with DC and make a live action Blue Beetle :thumbs:

 

[FlameDragon]

i would LOVE to see Leopardon in a new Spider Man Comic/Film, they could pull it off as a storyline where some villain creates it to destroy the city and it's spiderman's duty to take over it to save the town. then then create something to make them bigger so spiderman would have to play tribute to the 70's spiderman tokusatsu and fight with the robot Leopardon.

 

[Bigdog]

Probably, but it's fun to speculate!

I think Thor would work as a henshin hero if they integrated Donald Blake into it. 'Course they'd have to fiddle with the costume a bit, so it had a mask and stuff. Or maybe not. Are there any henshin heroes who don't have mask?

I've never read Moon Knight, but from what I've heard and from the design it seems like it could fit.

The only one I don't think could be done well is Hulk. I can't imagine a Toku-style transformation that isn't anything but awkward. But maybe I have a bad imagination.

At best ,a tokusatsu version of the Incredible Hulk would like the first television series, but with bad CG like the 2003 film. If they keep the premise the same that is. I recommend you to see the 70s show because its awesome and really resembles the format of a tokusatsu series, though he goes green and becomes Lou Ferrigno, the effects aren't that bad.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIqG3Mq-E3A"]THE INCREDIBLE HULK - THE FIRST TRANSFORMATION - YouTube[/ame]

Compare that to the American Spiderman series and the Japanese version, which the latter blew the former out of the water, but was a little better than the Hulk effects wise. At least Spiderman in the Japanese version walked on walks and used web...and had a robot.

Thor could easily be like Battlehawk, but with a scarf and a modern outfit:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Battle_Hawk_DVD_1.jpg

Black Panther could be done just like Captain America, but the former would be neater because:
-its never been done as any adaptation
-the suit could easily get a henshin belt and be done.

And Cap was kinda already done in Battle Fever, though a newer more accurate version could be good.

If they do bring it in the third or fourth film in order to cross it with the Avengers [well they got a Helicarrier and alien beings, so why not giant robots?] , have Leopardon be the creation of the race of Spider creatures that are the basis for Venom and give Spiderman some powers and a robot to fight.

 

[Shougo B'Stard]

I always thought a Toei toku version of X-Men would be cool. I realized that when I once read someone liken Yutaka Hirose's Changerion character to Gambit (they both throw cards) and thought "Holy crap, Yutaka Hirose as Gambit would rock! There needs to be a Japanese X-Men!"

 

[Ziginz Zegell]

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Marvel_Comics

The Doctor, in the Den-Liner, with the candlestick. Any questions?

The adventures of the Tokusatsu Doctor could be interesting. I mean Doctor Who is already a Toku in its own right minus martial arts fights (Unless you're Tom Baker...)and maybe a henshin (Optional). The Doctor from another dimension gets stranded in Japan, he gains a henshin due to his regeneration being effected somehow, and the tardis adapts to a giant monster attack by turning into a giant robot. Make a few toku references, throw in The Master as a rival, and poof! You got a fun ride that would make all die hard Whovians everywhere scream in horror. All of them that is, except this guy right here.

 

[Bigdog]

I always thought a Toei toku version of X-Men would be cool. I realized that when I once read someone liken Yutaka Hirose's Changerion character to Gambit (they both throw cards) and thought "Holy crap, Yutaka Hirose as Gambit would rock! There needs to be a Japanese X-Men!"

So basically, you are talking about Denjiman?

I can see it working , but would play like a Sentai series.