Vintage Henshin, founded in 2019, is devoted to giving attention to classic tokusatsu media, as well as independent tokusatsu creators, through video essays and articles.
4:50 I didn't actually know that Tiga is actually reference to Malaysia/Indonesia's 3. Because as a kid, we always joke about the name Tiga as (Three) not knowing that's what actually means for the Ultraman Tiga.
13:16 The stock footage of the Sherman tanks did not come from the Mysterious, it's the first time in a Godzilla or any Kaiju film that they were shown in
If you clicked on this video, congratulations! you have won a (slightly-damaged) 1993 Bandai Megazord! To claim this,watch this channel & I’ll probably find it.
Very well presented. Also interesting stuff to see as someone who started out in this industry (SFX, VFX) in the early 80s as a model builder and matte painter. It seems the Japanese model makers working on these movies never managed to make their vehicle models non-wobbly, but maybe that was a budgetary issue. We used to build all our vehicles (or any moving models) on very rigid and heavy steel frames to counter the dreaded wobble that is so prominent even when filmed at 60-90 frames per second.
As a Power Rangers fan, it hurts me knowing that played a part in Ultraman Towards The Future not being as successful as it should have been. After being reminded that us Ulttaman fans have come a long way with more releases, I'm still hoping Guyver will make a comeback. Well done man.
Wow - really chuffed to have this appear in my recommendations! I've always loved these and wished the kits and toys were more widely available outside of Japan (at prices cheaper than a kidney!!!). 😊
I remember seeing an episode of Star Fleet during my last year of boarding school in England 🇬🇧 in 1984. I remember the black puppet had a cone-shaped jaw which my schoolmates found to be hilarious! Has X-Bomber ever been released in a subtitled format on DVD or Blu-Ray? 📀🤔
Despite the VHS release of English-dubbed (and laughable) tokusatsu shows on VHS, as a purist, I still prefer the original Japanese, subtitled releases. One wonders if some if these will be released on DVD or Blu-Ray? Time will tell. . .
There's a bootleg brazillian Blu-Ray set made by a guy on ebay called otakuplayer includes both Spectreman subbed in English & also has the English Dub. I only know of the existence when i won the set at an anime convention back in 2019 in Canada of all places. I've watched through the episodes & when I shown the subtitles to my Japanese friend he told me that the subs seem to be expertly translated.
Whatever if it's the Sandy Frank episode or not, I'm excited for what you've in store. From Ultraman's home video history, to the ode to Maser tank, passing by the lawless VHS zone , the Shogun Warriors, Toys that made us, Toei's Spiderman and Ultraman Tiga, thank you! [subs, after all this time]
tsuburaya understandably would not do this, but it would be a funny act of pettiness if they use Dave Rodger's version of Take Me Higher for the opening as a middle finger for Johnny's.
To say the whole situation regarding Daigo is BS is an understatement, especially when it comes to streaming. Ultraman Tiga was only released just last year on streaming services here in the US, and on both Tubi and Shout TV, they have majority of Ultraman media up to the end of the Heisei era, but when it comes to Tiga, the only things were Daigo makes an appearance are the Tiga series itself, the final two episodes of Dyna, and Superior 8 Ultra Brothers, while Final Odyssey is completely absent (yet almost every other movie from the Heisei Era is present). Seems like the issues are still ongoing even in 2024.
Ultraman has had a rocky history in the west, which is caused by a mixture of different factors. Power Rangers really wasn't one of them, which is ironic considering Super Sentai is arguably Ultraman's main competition, so had Tiga been localized back in 1997 or so, it would have been the perfect competitor in the west to Power Rangers. But unfortunately, that was also when the Chaiyo lawsuit started and pretty much made it so that Power Rangers was the only Tokusatsu in the west... well, unless you want to count early 2000's superhero movies, which is REALLY stretching things. In fact, Ultraman would have come to the west much sooner had it not been for Chaiyo, because unlike Toei with Kamen Rider (to which you can blame Saban's awful "adaptation" of Black RX for that), Tsubaraya was always open to break out into foreign markets. And it's because of Chaiyo and several of the disastrous attempts to bring Toku to the west that the genre is a LOT more niche in the west than Anime is, probably because the early attempts to bring Anime to the west weren't nearly as disastrous as with Toku, even when you factor 4Kids and the aforementioned Saban into the mix.
I found your channel today and I’ve been binging like crazy. You are doing a fantastic job. I’m so sorry for your loss of your dad. Your words made me tear up. You seem like a really, really nice dude. ❤
Johnny’s got exposed and is now restructured, Tiga came back to streaming (sans Take Me Higher outside of Japan), and Ultraman Trigger happened as a kinda-sorta homage
I don't follow any Toku stuff regularly. My experience is mostly osmosis from volunteering at anime cons. However, I love this channel. The depth of the topics covered, the passion, and the level of production is top notch. It keeps me coming back to watch every vid.
I came to watch this as both a mecha anime fan & vintage toy collector. I have a weird story of how i read the comics as 5 years ago i found a colo(u)r omnibus of the comics at a thrift store that was leather bound & with golden lettering in all caps saying SHOGUN WARRIORS OMNIBUS on both the spine & the front cover on the leather binding. I purchased it for $20 Canadian & to this day I can't find any info on it online. Worth noting is that it is made from scans as the barcode area on the front covers of the comic are covered up with a black bar. P.S. I still have it in my possession but i have it in storage so I'd have to go find it before I can make a video about it.
Great video on a topic I thought was too obscure for someone to bother. Learned a lot. Who knows, with these new Toho suit shorts on youtube, maybe someone will break them out!
Randomly peeped at your channel after a two year or so hiatus after marathoning all of your content. This channel is fantastic and I encourage you to keep at it. Your production quality is top notch, and I think this is capable of being a 1M subs channel. I am going to start keeping a close eye again for new content. I AM SO GEEKED UP! Best of luck to you, creative sir.
Ban Dai/Tamashii Nations has a pre-order up for a newly retooled Jumbo Shogun Mazinga and they've already done Godzilla. Not that dumb, inaccurate one Mattel did in the 70's. A totally new version that looks like he should have looked all along. And, Super 7's Jumbo Shogun MechaGodzilla sold out immediately. So, I gotta disagree with ya. The Shoguns do deserve a reboot and we're getting it right now. They are one of the few toys from my past that I wish I'd held onto, and now I'm getting my wish. Great video! Excellent storytelling matched with top notch production quality.
Fun fact, modern science may make maser weapons relevant again in Godzilla movies, allow me to educate you all: Simply put, maser weapons always looked less like a purebred microwave laser, and more like an electrolaser, the microwave laser ionizes the air creating a path which an electric current can be fired down. This is real experimental technology being tested for long range taser weapons, but magnify the concept by several hundred times and the end result would look a lot like a maser tank firing. On another note, my favorite maser tank is still the upgraded type 90 "hypermaser" from tokyo sos, they actually looked somewhat realistic in appearance, and they had the best beam effect. A pity they only made Godzilla angrier.
Well I can definitely agree with this. I don't know who was in charge with the editing like cutting to random sentai shows when they are discussing a specific series will confuse toku fans and audiences who aren't that deep into sentai including myself during 2019 (the year I discovered super sentai). Also the use of fansubs can be excused if it was a youtube video but for an official documentary that is absolutely lazy.
This is just a fantastic channel. It has helped me paint such a clear picture of the media I enjoy, and clarified why I do in the first place with absolutely stellar research. The history of something (and in some cases its obscurity) has always improved its own viewing experience for me personality, and you do an incredible job at adding those layers to the things I enjoy. You have my deepest condolences and I wish you strength.
It’s very bizarre in hindsight that he managed to get volumes 1 and 3 of the Ultraman Tiga Funimation DVDs, given that now those are by far the rarer and more expensive ones. Volume 3 in particular is almost impossible to find for under 100 dollars, bizarrely more rare than the other sets. Maybe because it has the Akio Jissoji directed episodes? I don’t know. These DVDs are also the only American release that has Take Me Higher on it so that’s great.
It was honestly just dumb luck from back in the day.. As for why they’re asking for ridiculous prices now, your guess is as good as mine. The same thing happened with the last volume of Aura Battler Dunbine.
@@VintageHenshinSince you responded just want to throw out there that I love the channel. Always super informative, and it's a great resource for showing how wild and interesting the world of Toku really is.
Hey Mike, do you know why the Ultraman Z dub suddenly changed voice actors from the ones that were in “ultra galaxy fight: the absolute conspiracy/the destined crossroad?”
Well, at least the ones for the Ultras themselves. I don’t mind the choices that they picked for the human cast, it’s the Ultras I have a problem with. Z, geed, Belial, and zero sound nothing like they are ultra galaxy fight counterparts. Considering Z picks up right about where the absolute conspiracy left off, I have a problem with this.
Different dubbing studios i think. The studio who made English dub for UGF Trilogy is like from Japan, when the Ultraman Z one made by the studio from USA/Canada(?)(Which is why the voice actors are someone you've familiar with).
Hmmmm, the anime sampler sounds like what I do occasionally when I have an anime potpurri night. I just hit an anime streaming site and just pick some random anime I get interested in and just watch one episode.
Honestly, the stolen suit story doesn't really seem all that far-fetched when we take into account that one of the 84Goji suits and one of the GhidoGoji suits were stolen. And while the GhidoGoji suit was recovered and repaired, that 84Goji suit never made it back to Toho. So, while Leopardon wasn't actually stolen, the story itself isn't too out there.
It's good to see you again and it was cool topics you bought for this video😙 My favourite would be Silver Jaguar ones , mostly because hearing about father and son stuff were wholesome😊.
as a massive toei Spider-Man fan that rumor about Leopardon being stolen has always bothered me cause I never saw any source for it but it's hard to really look into these things when you don't know japanese so I appreciate such a thorough analysis of that rumor. (also where would I be able to find this podcast episode?)
