As a kid, we used to imitate the Henshin Pose Transformation. It was so cool. Then we do the Rider Punch and Rider Kick finishing moves by jumping on the high grounds. It would sometimes lead to bruised elbows and knees. Mother will then unleash the true Rider Kick after going home when she sees the bruises.
I'm a toku fan and a Ultraman big fan thanks to them many of the most famous anime became impactful to this day thanks to them my childhood and teenagehood became very amazing Aot,evangelion,SsssGridman, Gundam ect 🔥
Ultraman is like Japan's equivalent of Star Wars in terms of its sheer impact/influence on their pop culture and media. The highest grossing media franchise of all time (Pokémon) was inspired by Ultraman. It is almost unrivaled in that aspect.
Speaking about Star Wars, I don't know if this is true, but I've heard that George Lucas wanted Tsurubaya Productions to handle the special effects for Episode IV, before he and his team decided to found Industrial Light & Magic
Mari's inclusion in the cast was unnecessary; given her lack of development in the Rebuild films anyway, that screen time would've been better spent developing Asuka and Rei's characters and evolving their relationship with Shinji. The "shipping" wasn't a priority for me in this story, but with the right writing and without the weird 14-year time skip between movies 2 and 3, either one of those girls would've been a more satisfying mate for Shinji to share his happy ending with - though I lean a bit more for Asuka, simply because she's not a clone of his mother.
Lmao Im so glad you included this shot at 5:32 from Patlabor Early Days. I remember laughing out loud when seeing this. Great stuff as always Blunova. Your videos are incredibly well researched and I have no problems watching them from start to finish. Yamato Takeru at 25:47 looks like a really interesting watch. I'm always up for 90s Toho kaiju movies so thanks for bringing this to my attention.
I think you’d need to revisit the Garo anime series (and movies). Those are among the best written stories in the franchise, and was produced by studio MAPPA before they became the shonen action hype studio.
The two industries have really been pretty closely linked from day one - Kenzo Masaoka, one of anime’s great pioneers, made optical animation for Princess Kaguya, which along with Great Buddha Arrival was among the first tokusatsu films. Tomio Sagisu also dabbled in both industries and knew both Tsuburaya and Tezuka intimately. It also goes both ways and what was popular in anime inspired tokusatsu trends too like Devilman influencing the Occult Boom, Mazinger Z influencing the creation of Jet Jaguar and Mechagodzilla and The War in Space being a live action Yamato movie in all but name.
HeartCatch Precures Grunt Monsters the Snackies Are a Nod To the Shocker Grunts in Kamen Rider and in Yokai Watch Fuyunyan Is Based on Kamen Rider (Obviously)
man, japanese entertainment culture history is very fascinating, inspiring and inspired, one of very few country with soft power that grow naturally, its very beautiful
surprised you didnt mention uuultra c by adelta, eventho its a bl visual novel, the plot is heavily insipred by tokusatsu and specifically kamen rider, its very well written and the gameplay tries to make it seem like youre watching a tokusatsu series in the 80s
