Types of Tokusatsu?

[Transfotaku]

I was wondering what are all the types of Tokusatsu heroes there are? Or perhaps to phrase it another way: Did I forget any type of Toku Hero from what I have listed below?

Kyodai/Giants - Like Moonlight Mask. Maybe like Daimaijin too, not sure what he would count as otherwise. Statue Hero?
Local Hero - One of the 'new fads' of Japan where towns make suited hero characters as a way to gather up notice.
Magical Girls - Sailor Moon in particular, but Card Captor Sakura would also seem an example.
Animed Toku - Like Gatchaman and Ronin Warriors and Knights of the Zodiac. They have pretty much all the tropes, but are animated and not live.
Ultraman - Which is really a type of Kyodai that basically became its own style.
Kamen Riders - Not much explanation needed here.
Metal Hero - Such characters like Juspion and Winspecter, in USA you may have seen them as Beetleborgs or VR Troopers.
Sentais - less explanation needed here. Power Rangers.
Makai Knights/Horrow Hero - Stuff like GARO mostly. Darker, edgier, tend to fight evil using evil in some way. Akumaizer 3 also.
Space Sheriff - Gavan, Shaidar, Sharivan, a protoype of Metal Heroes with a strong scifi and space travel motif.
Kaiju - Godzilla and various Monsters of the Week.
Extra Hero - Something that doesn't particularly fit with any of the above, that is probably an extra not fitting the theme of the team/allies he works alongside and not likely as strong, but still an able character on their own. Someone like Signalman from that one car Power Rangers.
Robot Heroes - Things that look like humans but are really robots, like Robo Detective K, and Android Kikaider.

Would there be any other type of Toku Hero I'm missing?

 

[SquidKing]

Since Tokusatsu is specifically for special effects, doesn't that disqualify animation? I know people include PureCure and all that, but isn't that more an association than actual inclusion?

 

[SquidKing]

Also, didn't they do rescue heroes for some non-Toei line? Like super-firemen or something in that range?

 

[arnoldmcguire335]

1st off, Moonlight Mask is not a Kyodai hero- he's only human. Another example of a Kyodai hero would be Toei's toku version of Giant Robo, Daitesujin 17, Meteor Human Zone, and Gridman. Magical Girl heroes are mostly the Toei Fushigi Comedy's last batch of shows from its last few years, the example being Poitrine. Other space sheriff- like heroes include Juspion and Spielban. Finally, Robot heroes need not be limited to one type- Metalder, Janperson, Even Robotack, Kabutack, Robocon (both the original and the 90's reboot) and his Toei Fushigi Comedy ilk (from the 1st few years of it) count as well.

 

[Toku Prime]

The problem with trying to catagorise things like this is that over the years many toku heroes have adopted characteristics from each other. To use a character you mentioned as an example, Signalman is an extra hero. He's also a robot. He's also a policeman from outer space. So that's three of your catagories right there. So then you have to start deciding which gets priority.

I would also suggest that you are mixing catagories with franchises to some extent. Janperson, Jiraya and Blue SWAT are all part of the Metal Hero franchise but one's a robot hero, one's a mystical ninja, and the latter are police officers wearing uniforms that they change into rather than transforming. If you look at the long running franchises the individual series vary so much that it's difficult to call them a "catagory".

Also, didn't they do rescue heroes for some non-Toei line? Like super-firemen or something in that range?

I'm guessing you mean the two Tomica series: Rescue Hero and Rescue Fire. The same team had previously made Ryukendo.

So random idea: Perhaps there should be a catagory for Heroes that are part of some sort of recognised, official organisation (emergency services, official branch of the military etc) as opposed to heroes that act in secret?

 

[SquidKing]

The problem with trying to catagorise things like this is that over the years many toku heroes have adopted characteristics from each other. To use a character you mentioned as an example, Signalman is an extra hero. He's also a robot. He's also a policeman from outer space. So that's three of your catagories right there. So then you have to start deciding which gets priority.

I would also suggest that you are mixing catagories with franchises to some extent. Janperson, Jiraya and Blue SWAT are all part of the Metal Hero franchise but one's a robot hero, one's a mystical ninja, and the latter are police officers wearing uniforms that they change into rather than transforming. If you look at the long running franchises the individual series vary so much that it's difficult to call them a "catagory".
I'm guessing you mean the two Tomica series: Rescue Hero and Rescue Fire. The same team had previously made Ryukendo.

So random idea: Perhaps there should be a catagory for Heroes that are part of some sort of recognised, official organisation (emergency services, official branch of the military etc) as opposed to heroes that act in secret?

Never saw them, but you're probably right. Also, sweet Lupon jam you got there.