Toku Rant #2 Marvel and Toei

Well, today's time for another toku rant. Today I'm gonna talk about the relationship between:

and

Well, first of all, many of you will point out the obvious. Marvel and Toei produces superheroes! We have spiderman, fantastic four, avengers on one side, and we have Kamen Riders and Super Sentai on the other. Did you think it stopped there? Of course not, silly!

Marvel and Toei once had a licensing agreement lasting 3 years. Basically Toei would be free to take anything from Marvel and give their own twist, likewise for Marvel. So Toei took one of the best assets from Marvel:

Supaida-man. Spiderman. Here's the opening:

At o.55, we see that spiderman has this.

A. FREAKING. GIANT. ROBOT.

But believe it or not, without

We would have no

Yes, one relationship between Toei and Marvel is that Spider-man was one of the first superheroes to get a giant robot. And yes, he got it even earlier than Super Sentai.

Speaking of which.

The second relationship between Toei and Marvel is this:

This is Captain America. Toei 'decided' to adapt Cap into Japanese format. Oh...based on the Spider-man experiences, I guess you can see where this is going...

BATTLE FEVER J.

One of the most interesting things about BFJ is that it was the first Super Sentai show to use the name Super Sentai. Before that, the 2 sentais were creations of the late Shotaro Ishinomori. By this time, Toei were somewhat out of ideas. To remedy that, they created BFJ.

So, in a convoluted way:

Without

There would be no

And without Battle Fever J, there would be no

And without Zyuranger, there would be no

Aaaaand without MMPR, there would be no

Yes.....Power Rangers Samurai came from Captain America.

By the way, without

we would have been spared of

Yes....Toku fans out there, next time you see a ridiculous mecha from sentai like this:

Which makes you want to swear and give up sentai,

Thank him.

Excelsior.

By the way, guess what Marvel took. Kamen Riders? Gorangers? Inazuman maybe? Zvatt?

They took giant robots. Wrap your head around that.

Henshin-ing ALL DAY LONG

Recently found out that my blog hasn't been updated in months.

Well, what am I doing nowadays? Basically, I've been Toku-ing. This is tokusatsu:

Alot of people don't know the fine distinction between Toku and Kiddy shows. Here's an example of a REAL Toku:

On the other hand, this is what you call a kiddy show:

It's an american remake of Kamen Rider Ryuki. Now, I know there are Toku Fans out there, screaming out that this is insane! Why remake Ryuki? Why not Faiz? Blade? Kabuto? Heck, why not make AmerGito (American Agito)?

Because this allures them:

Za 13 Riders. Ryuki. Knight. Zolda. Odin. Scissors. Ohja. Verde. Raia. Imperer. Tiger. Gai. Femme. And Ryuga. 13 riders, 13 toys. Collect them all!!

You see, Merchandising has been behind all American remakes. Look at What they did to power rangers.

For the best part of my knowledge, Super Sentai only had 1 season with a battlizer. That season was Dekaranger, and they borrowed that concept for the American. The Japanese did it for the Deus Ex Machina effect, but guess why Americans want a battlizer?

TO SELL TOYS!

The noble mission again. Why, its as if Japanese show aren't good enough without toy opportunities. But lately, the Japanese had picked up this habit.

There's been a trend nowadays as I map out the seasons of these few years:

Kamen Rider Decade: ONE deck system

Kamen Rider Double: TWO USB Drives simutaneously

Kamen Rider OOO: THREE Medals simultaneously, interchangeable

OOO however takes it a tad too far:

Basic Form- 3 medals, differing Greeeds. (OOO Gets his medals from enemies called GREEEDS.)

There were 5 Greeeds initially, but now 2 more have emerged. Kids, Cosplayers, Collect them all!

So, will this habit last, or will it just disappear? Only Time will tell.

MY HERO!

Hell yeah,Roxas for life.