The Sexy Asstronaut (formerly Blackcatula)

Wild times in 90s sentai

Trait: Boobs of Evil Sandstorm Summoning

official boob post

one of my favorite bits from this anime is when our hero admits she can’t face this week’s villain because she has a weakness for bodybuilders, so she unleashes a new secret weapon: a blindfold

one of the rarest unicorns I’ve ever seen: a 90s tokusatsu show with a female main character doing an episode about one of her classmates falling in love with her and dreaming of being rescued in a glorious lesbian flag colored daydream, who by the end of the episode gets her wish, and a kiss to boot!

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You can watch Thutmose on the official Toei Tokusatsu World Youtube page (raw, no english subs but bad auto-translated CC available on some eps)!

I don’t have any funny caption for this, I just really liked this scene of a tokusatsu devil having a nice quiet cup of tea

anyone else watch old tokusatsu shows on youtube with auto-translated closed captions or just me

i need to shake the hand of every goddamn person who worked on this show they had a vision

one of the interesting things about western styled superheroes and their interactions/depictions in japanese media is that they seem to keep getting sucked up into a larger system or organization - tiger & bunny has its corporate sponsors, one punch man has that whole hero’s office, and boku no hero academia has that on top of a whole school itself for hero training, while so much of western superheroes are wrapped up in a lack of organization. the most you’d tend to get would be stuff like the days when the avengers used to have chairmen and such or legion of superheroes election plots. so much is driven in about the individual, and operating outside of the system

even systems within this larger universe are drastically different - the JGS in marvel is hardly a school at all, the avengers academy had less than 30 students and a lot of ‘em ended up in rrrrather unfortunate circumstances, and the initiative resulted in the forcible drafting of underage superpowered teens to fight shit like HYDRA

i don’t have any big central thesis here or whatever, i’m just having fun observing and exploring differences

i’m wondering if this has something to do with sentai being part of the superhero ideal in Japanese media at all? I can’t speak for the other two because I haven’t read them yet (though I hear very good things about them both), but I always got a really sentai vibe from Tiger & Bunny in particular that was really unlike what I’d seen in western superhero fiction. 

could be, probably! sentai and tokusatsu of course has its own history with western superheroes, thanks to stuff like Battle Fever J, and toei’s Spider-Man. however, my knowledge here is weak. i’d defer to talking to pyramidslayer in these regards

i’d say if there was any one culprit w/r/t tokusatsu, it would probably be less likely to be sentai (who early on tended to be part of military organizations but not part of a broader group of superheroes running missions) and much more likely to be ultraman. namely i think that because after a few ultraman series there was a sense that all the ultramen worked for a larger ultraman organization (the space garrison, run by ultra mom and ultra dad) and on earth each ultraman was assisted by a different government science organization

buuut i think honestly short-term the thing you can blame the recent “heroes just gotta work for the government organization thems the rules” thing’s boom in popularity is probably… naruto…..

yoooo if you guys wanna see a really wild breakdown-slash-parody of tokusatsu, western superheroes, and all the associated tropes thereof, I highly, Highly, HIGHLY recommend the anime Samurai Flamenco, quite possibly one of the most unpredictable and meta-aware tokusatsu/zero-to-hero stories I’ve ever seen

BONUS POINTS: I counted at least 4 canon queer characters including an openly bi girl, it includes the same themes of hero sponsorship and company image explored in Tiger & Bunny, and you get to see our hero fight street villains with OFFICE SUPPLIES!