being an artist go crazy bc i can do this and dont have to answer to nobody
"Let us march forth... Sonic, when you're ready."
"YEAH! NOW WE'RE TALKIN'! You guys ready?"
"The only ones that can take you down... is us! HENSHIN"
PROGRISE | ZERO-TWO RISE
blows my mind that people actually thought they were.
Neither were explosions
Neither was the colored smoke
Neither was Yellow here, flipping off a trampoline and landing on a flight of stairs with a helmet on
old fashioned tokusatsu knows what it’s doing
America laid its head on making fun of anything with effort put into it. “It’s cheesy” “it’s rubber suits”. America has made fun of anything not “real” or foreign since forever
Japanese works, including and especially Ultraman have never let up and pave the way still today
One of Tokusatsu's biggest problems in the US will always be the fact that so many people are raised to believe that the "best" special effects are the ones that most closely resemble reality and that not achieving this is some kind of failure of technique.
will never get over Power Rangers having less and less budget every year
being told you only have THIS amount of money. That’s it.
And even knowing the limited budget, Disney turned this into T H I S
Wild Force with no powers at all, channeling their Ranger personas so hard that it sets off an explosion is some of the hardest shit in Power Rangers
The meaning is THERE
DISNEY
MICKEY MOUSE DID NOT EVEN
W A N T POWER RANGERS
but did it for about 8 years and made what many consider to be the strongest era for the franchise
today was unbelievable
I went to the city to do a pose reel, and a security guard in front of the courthouse said “let me guess..Kira Ford. Dino Thunder”
I was like WHAT
and then said “remember this one?” and did the Tyranno Ranger pose I was STUNNED I WISH I RECORDED
If Power Rangers loses Super Sentai, it loses that heart.
I’ve always felt Rangers is an alternate universe to Sentai, one that breathes American culture into rich visuals, by incorporating diversity to resonate with our wide audience, while spinning things in a different flare
out of Power Rangers, Kamen Rider, and Super Sentai
I still stand by the best structured transformation “posing” for a group being Ninja Storm
The fact that each faction waits for their que in every situation, and it’s always in the correct order is so stimulating to watch
First teaser for ‘SONIC 3’ at
#CinemaCon
reveals Sonic, Tails and Knuckles facing off aganist Shadow, as well as Sonic & Shadow fighting in the sky on Shadow’s motorbike.
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It’s so funny to me when ppl just now find out Johnny Yong Bosch was a Power Ranger for years cuz in my head like ‘bro we BEEN KNEW’
And I ALWAYS show them his Overdrive return, bc his ADR is crazy
that “POWER AXE!!!” was hard
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I’ve told this story before, but I’ll never get over us going downtown to some skating shop, a guy bursting through the door sweating
he said “I RAN AS FAST AS I COULD. THEY SAID THERE’S A POWER RANGER DOWNTOWN” and came to get a picture
how far he ran I’ll never know
this is very much tokusatsu inspired in general
but it’s crazy that Sonic just now essentially became a Kamen Rider, in the Sonic Riders storyline of the comics
even calling himself the “Phantom Rider”
Kamen Rider Build is the best written, best-acted series of the later Heisei era.
So many moments they’d be holding what we know as a toy, but holds real world threat to them as an actual weapon, and we’re given scenes that will absolutely give you chills.
To this day.
Kamen Rider Memory of Heroez was hilarious bc it’s the BEST Kamen Rider game in years that Bandai did NOT want you speaking of
If you posted a screenshot, it had a Bandai watermark on the image
Footage couldn’t be saved and if you filmed anything you’d be copyright claimed
SEGA also "brought to life" the Dark Rider as part of the Fearless Year of Shadow celebrations. You can see it animated with some extra facts on the official website:
🔗
the falling voice clip starting after the dummy is already falling
the voice clip itself of him pretending like he’s falling off a cliff
the dummy breaking its arm backwards halfway down just for the guy to be perfectly fine
comedy in Kamen Rider has hit a new peak
Ultraman and Kamen Rider have always been blessed with suit performers that understand the characters and nuances of who they’re playing, even when they don’t work on the show
In stage shows, press events, whatever it is, they immediately snap in and never let up
awe inspiring
Watching some clips of the Ultraman Blazar movie premiere. It's genuinely my favorite thing that Blazar doesn't seem to understand human things. Just awkwardly mimicking the audience clapping. 😂
it’s so weird Super Sentai gives each Ranger their own signature pose that follows them, and Power Rangers obviously continues that
yet you’d be hard pressed to find any Power Rangers actor (outside of their suit) actually doing their pose at all outside of Yoshi Sudarso
it’s so nice when people genuinely have no idea that someone in this big popular show or thing , was a Power Ranger
when for the most part, that’s all WE’VE ever known
like that always bring a smile to my face
I’m like “YES! THEY SAVED THE WORLD!!! ONCE A RANGER”
Henshin is a Japanese word that they shout when transforming, a transformation
Morph is a english word, meaning transformation
Kamen Rider and Power Rangers are both tokusatsu
I PROMISE you
you will be alright 😘
a lot of people still cant tell the difference between Power Rangers and Super Sentai footage and that’s a little crazy to me, especially for the Disney era
Rhett and Link bought Smosh to save it from being taken advantage of by greedy companies
And now Ian and Anthony have bought it back.
You couldn’t ask for a better ending from anything or anyone
We sold Smosh.
Ian & Anthony, the original founders of Smosh, have reunited and bought back the wildly popular brand they founded 18 years ago! We are extremely proud of everything we and Ian accomplished during our time working together, and will continue to be fans and
i will say it again
this is the best execution of summoning a Kamen Rider, or just summoning a hero in general that the show has done since Kamen Rider Decade
I nearly jumped out my seat hearing how Steamliner and Hopper 1 shouted the form name by just talking
Everytime they tried to “recreate Mighty Morphin” or the essence of that, they’re using a formula that worked in 1993 as opposed to right now
we need bulk and skull characters, we gotta be high schoolers, go go Power rangers, this that
and look what happened
I’ve said before
But the sheer effort and attention put in by suit actors even in local STAGE shows, to stay perfectly in character and being able to snap into any situation is endlessly endearing
I think the issue with Power Rangers designs from comics and what not is they never take in mind that Super Sentai always have a motif. Animals, cars, police, every year is a new theme
This helmet has deteriorated for about 20 years with no official replacement
to the point ppl are creating lore justifications for having aged poorly and are confused why others don’t like that it’s grossly damaged
There were a lot of ppl I know that wouldn’t count Power Rangers as superheroes because “they’re Power Rangers”
when the literal point of their existence..is saving the world..
..the same thing American “superheroes” do
YOU not liking them doesnt mean they aren’t what they are
Honestly the discussion on transforming superheroes was not the weirdest one I had on Kamen Rider, I still remember when people legit tried to argue he was somehow not a superhero because....he protects a specific place over the world.
“This is tokusatsu. Here is our retelling, and also look how unique and different this genre is compared to what we’re used to here”
That’s what I’ve always appreciated about Power Rangers. It has always been so loving and faithful to the genre, despite the culture differences
Sonic needs to lean into the cringe for it to hit different
Yes it’s cringe, yes the lore can get so weird and serious it’s funny, BUT IT JUST HITS DIFFERENT MAN
TELL ME SHADOW VS MEPHILES WASN’T COOL. COWARD.
This is exactly like when Kamen Rider Decade and Diend’s actors were selling clothing matching their Rider colors and Decade’s actor made his shirt 1 yen more expensive than Diend’s to be petty
I’m not watching Kamen Rider so I can get into arguments, so if you disagree with my takes or my reactions I might reply once but if you straight up insult me I will be ignoring you in favor of enjoying myself.
you missed out if you didn’t grow up a Disney kid in the 2000s
Power Rangers made jetix they home
They moved in, put all they furniture down, paid rent, mowed the lawn
that was their crib and we was there for it
Super Sentai will always be here.
But for what I grew up with, the effort put into it, doing what no other show for kids was doing here in the states and exceeding that, Power Rangers now at this point is a lost art. And I miss it.
Ninja Steel being nowhere in my memory is hilarious
But it reminded me we JUST HAD
A BLACK INDIVIDUAL
AS THE WHITE RANGER
SIX YEARS AGO
AND IT WAS A FUCKING MILESTONE CELEBRATED
yet Hasbro believed having a black man as the white ranger was a problem
wtf is wrong wit ya’ll
Sakamoto is known for his form rushes anytime he’s put on a show for a couple episodes mid way through
I think it’s WILD he not only pulled a form rush for Legend, but technically a speedrun through phase 1 of Heisei Rider in its entirety
like they did not PLAY
omg what if at some point they pull a Den-O situation
where Hopper1 and Steamliner represent Platina Gotchard as their own Kamen Rider separate from Hotaro, and have him as Rainbow and they fight side by side
I’m so serious I would scream my head off
what kills me about this is they obviously looked up “time force quantum ranger” or something to that effect to get the footage
and then went back to get the mighty morphin theme song
his solution to a malfunction with his powers
was to plug in his Morpher upside down to create his ending pose explosion so fuckjng big it breaks the issue entirely
RPM GOT ME SPEECHLESS
Hasbro takes indefinite *hiatus* from their collector’s Power Rangers line
refusing to even post social media for Rangers
Licensing it out to a different toy company to make Power Rangers toys
instead
it’ll be kid-focused starting with Mighty Morphin again
THE worst era
The amount of Japanese fans confused when BoonBoomger tweets are bombarded with Power Rangers RPM not knowing there’s a reason why beyond “we adapted that” is gonna be crazy
Ishinomori’s true vision for Kamen Rider.
Knowing he unfortunately passed 6 years after this expression makes this such a fascinating piece of history stamped in time.
someone who’s never seen Kamen Rider, you show them Gotchard and then this and it’s almost unfathomable
They used real chains, which added to the weight of Kiva form, especially considering the chains were mainly on the top half, and weren’t placed evenly on the legs
This is the legitimate reason the final form debuted earlier than ever before, and Kiva form was barely used again
I am begging you
please tell your children in 50 years that at the game awards in 2022
a kid said he wanted to nominate bill Clinton and they took him to jail
Kamen Rider truly embraced its strangeness, its out-there designs, and capitalized on it
Made it it’s own thing and in turn created some of the most out-there, amazing designs and physical suits for super hero ANYTHING
Watch them get this kid as the main actor for Kamen Rider Gavv, and legitimately write in a lore connection to Gaim despite this being a commercial having nothing to do with it
Imagine you’re a Kamen Rider in one of those movies, and another Rider you’ve never met in your entire life pulls out a little gadget thing with your face and everything on it
put it in their belt and it shouts your name out and the form jus look like you
you be like