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One thing I think puts it in perspective is that Sega really didn’t need a mascot in Japan as much as they did in the west. Sega had dominated the arcade market in the 80s and had a decent amount of ips before the first sonic even released. Rather than being THE Sega game it was just another good one amongst a line up of classics. If you were to ask a Japanese sega fan to name 90s classics they would say Phantasy Star, Sakura Wars or Virtua Fighter before ever thinking of him. This isn’t me saying the games weren’t popular at all of course, the originals sold well on the mega drive and they did have some hype for the early adventure era but it’s never been consistent.

WTF is the deal with this ADHD editing style? Are you turning into a tiktok slop channel now?

Use Sonic American Artwork in the thumbnail

Man I would love it if Sonic could hit it big in Japan. He’s so anime in so many ways already. They should love him! God bless Inugami Korone!

Never knew that

at about 1:30 - I meant to say "Sonic Forces" and not "Sonic Frontiers"

I'm trying to delve to tokutatsu and sentai in general for my projects

The day I found out the Evangelion crosses are a reference to Ultraman and not some super deep Christianity theme was the funniest fucking shit

just took a look on tubi, sadly geats is not on there for the UK as far as I know

I think ONAs will eventually replace OVAs because of streaming service.

Damn, i thought Yusuke and gang stitched and wore different coloured uniforms because its a part of being delinquent and symbolic to being a rebel or an outcast to the norms established. And according to their favorite colours that suits their personality, i actually remember in one of the episode he says his favourite colour is green, i think later on they incorporated these elements into show😂 i was so wrong. Creativity is so hard, so much goes in creative process of different makers. I've deep. Appreciation for them!

This was only a 5 min video and yet it felt like I went through a life-changing TED talk

This is such an interesting look at the anime. The level of nuance you can only really get from a language like Japanese is insane, it makes me sad most people overlooked Nozawa despite her immense talent at her job

You gotta go even further back to shit like Kabuki and those samurai swordplay shows if you reeeeaaaally wanna dig deeper.

speaking of sean schemmel's Goku Black, he gave him a british accent in FighterZ and it sounds much better

makes sence when u think abiut it

Hot take: I wish there were more US Toku. Or at least, US live-action superhero productions taking more from Japanese toku aesthetics, production techniques and stylistic philosophies, given I think we could learn a thing or twenty from them. There've been a few attempts, weirdly enough the Aquabats Super Show pulled it off pretty well while playing up the camp, but none have stuck long term.

even if this isn't a bad translation, i feel like goku's character is getting worse as time goes on :( his naive joke thing when he was a kid was ok but as he became an adult, it just rubs me the wrong way when both the fans and official media make him so dumb,,, and unlikable at times. super/daima being the worst offenders in this case, even if i like them

Also, Dan DaDan doesn't just have Ultraman references in its opening: one of its antagonists, the aliens, literally do psychokinetic attacks using the Ultra Beam pose.

I disagree with classifying Doctor Who as tokusatsu, even if it was (and continues to be) a special effects-heavy sci-fi show. It's missing a key ingredient: lots and lots of martial arts stunts. Even Godzilla had that lizard dropkicking mofos. When the Doctor finally starts doing Sonic Screwdriver Punch as a special attack, _then_ maybe we can classify it as tokusatsu.

The Goku black point is very interesting. I’ve never really been able to articulate it well myself, but in Japanese Goku black sounds more similar to regular Goku but just unique enough that you get the point, like you said before it’s very good characterization via voice acting. Where as in English, although Goku black sounds cool he doesn’t sound like *Goku* it’s more like Sean is voicing a completely different character, you can recognize “Hey that’s Sean!” But you don’t think “Hey that’s an evil Goku” I hope I explained it well enough 😅

Only in Kamen Rider will the motif be about candies and eating potato chips while the plot gives you depression 5 episodes in. I love Kamen Rider and Toku

just last year at anime expo i striked a sentai pose cosplayed as momoi tarou and the cute cosplay girls complemented it as a jojo pose... (⁠ ⁠ꈨຶ⁠ ⁠˙̫̮⁠ ⁠ꈨຶ⁠ ⁠)

Ms. Masako also got the accent thing from the manga. With how Goku pronounces some words like a country guy.

Favorite Rider: Gaim. Favorite Sentai: Gokaiger. Favorite Ultra: Shin (I haven't seen all that much Ultra.) Favorite Ranger: RPM. Favorite Goji: Kotm 2016 (Not sorry. Had too much fun even though O.G, Shin & -1 are all more meaningful films.)

Read your article on Yuriko Shiratori's interview and I'm glad I found an interesting channel! Subbed!

I grew up in the 90s in the US where Power Rangers made it's BIG splash to the point they tried porting over dang near every type of Tokusatsu except Ultraman. Big Bad Beetle Borgs and VR Troopers? Those were the Armored Hero Tokusatsu, Masked Rider? Just Kame Rider Black RX repackaged...there was even a couple of crossover comics with Masked Rider and classic MMPR. There was even the West's own attempt at a sentai style show with "Mystic Knights of Tir na Nog" which was more medieval and magic themed....it was actually pretty good and I rather liked it. I liked the blue knight because his element was water and his main weapon was a trident. They tried one more time in the 2000's to bring Kamen Rider over with Ryuki, the one with the mirror world. It...didn't succeed in brining Kamen Rider to the US, while Power Rangers still thrives here in the West...even with the current holder not knowing what to do with it to the point one of the people who is or was supposed to be working on it going forward is known to have said he wants to try and get away from the Tokusatsu Roots....yeah, then it's NOT Power Rangers my guy...the core of Power Rangers IS Tokusatsu and if you get away from that then it's not going to be the same.

So a certain austrian painter is a tokusatsu reference?

If anything inspired Sailor Moon, it has to be Valis the Fantasm Soldier. The story is the same for the most part. Magic Girl with a magic item(In this case the sword of Valis) fights evil from other world/dimeson.

My favorite tokusatsu is Gokaiger, too much nostalgia from the other Super Sentai I've saw. Second or first if super sentai is not into the fray is Ryuukendo. But I also used to love the Kamen Rider Black and Black RX!

i honestly HATE how everyone asks: Is that a JoJo reference? It drives me insane when i hear it. JoJo got inspirations from tokusatsu, which has been around MUCH longer.

It is a BIG influence for artists/creators who shaped the Japanese culture industry for the past 40 years. Like, it's basically the childhood of every Japanese entertainment professional especially the one who steer the industry now. During my study at a college art in Tokyo, my head of faculty who's also teaching moviemaking class, specially arranged a day for us to watch Ultra Seven and to digest & discuss the genius behind the series. You won't see that kind of appreciation of tokusatsu in other countries' art college probably

can you make video about Takeshi Obata

Kinda surprised that you didn't mention the tokustatsu adaptation of spiderman, which also influnced a lot of the genre's tropes while also being the first tokustatsu series where the main character pilots a giant robot at the end of most of the episodes

shame how all this zoomers think they know it all when they like jojo or say things like ''is a jojo reference'' not knowing that is in fact a tokusatsu reference! and now disrespect tokusatsu when in fact most of animes com from this!

it's makes me ashamed that nowadays nobody knows all the tokusatsu references that anime has and still tinking that everything is a jojo reference or still view any vallue in tokusatsu thinking in it as ''trash'' but then ovacionate whne dan da dan and evagelion reutilize concepts from ultraman

What if i told you theyre the same thing 🤔

I hope to see you discuss non japanese tokusatsu in the future because there's a whole lot more tokusatsu out there for example: •satria garuda •armor hero •legend hero samgunjeon There's also another Vietnamese tokusatsu coming out this year called chien than lac hong (mighty guardian lost avian) so let's support new tokusatsu outside of the big 3 because we NEED more toku We've lost so many great tokusatsu due to lack of support such as: •Gunblade •Aduwira aduperska •Giant saver •Ray fantasy force (can't remember the exact name😅( As tokusatsu fans let us support our tokusatsu series

I ❤ tokusatsu

It's nice to see tokusatsu becoming more well known 🥹

Even jojo references tokusatsu..nut king call is a blatant kamen rider reference

As always, another fine video from you Ayaku! I'm glad this FINALLY DID THE NUMBERS!!!! Folks needs to sub to you ASAP!!!

Nuh uh it’s a jojo reference

Grid man existing

THIS! HERE! TOKUSATSU DESERVES BETTER! I can't believe that even when "japanese" is mainstream say one likes tokusatsu keep answered with confused looks that say "ok weirdo stay in your side of the room and let us keep talking about normal things" uggghh I hate when that happens

I kind of figured that the games in the anime/manga were using actual professional matches, but I would have thought that the more amateur matches would have used records from amateur tournaments, or that the records were chosen specifically in the correct level, such as Sai playing a teaching game, I thought, would have actually been a record of a teaching game. It seems a little weird to chance someone who is a professional watching this anime and it being jarring to them how these amateur and teaching games are actually fierce matches between professionals every time, meant to look good to and fool those who don't know any better.

My favorite senai is gokaiger all the way.

I've had Marvel and DC comic book roast me for watching Tokusatsu as "kid shows". But as I checked the definition of toku, they are just the same as us lmao: superhero shows with tons of special effects. The only difference being country of origin (and of course the plots as well). Those toxic fans should REALLY pipe down just because we aren't as popular as them 😌↕😌↕