Choriki Sentai Ohranger celebrated the Super Sentai franchise’s 20th anniversary. But two different tragedies affected its production. Trigger Warning: The following post contains graphic images depicting real life violence. Choriki Sentai Ohranger celebrated the Super Sentai franchise’s 20th anniversary and the production team sought to create a show similar to the original series: Himitsu Sentai Goranger. The Gorangers were a secret team assembled by the United Nations to combat the Black Cross Army.  Likewise, the Ohrangers are a squadron comprised of career soldiers. The production te ..read more

Director Shinji Higuchi won best director at Japan’s Academy Film Prize for Shin Godzilla (2016). His production team returns to take on the silver giant who will be getting his own reboot on the silver screens: Shin Ultraman. A Future of Light Director Shinji Higuchi Like many tokusatsu works from the post World War II era like Godzilla, the original Ultraman (1966) series depicted the issues of the world at the time. Higuchi wanted to take the ideas from the old series and bring them into the modern world. One of the issues though, was the fact that he had 39 episodes worth of content. Lucki ..read more

Ryuta Tasaki, who is currently directing Avataro Sentai Donbrothers, shares his thoughts about the future of Super Sentai. Ryuta Tasaki has directed many of Toei’s tokusatsu series. In a recent interview, he was asked about the future of the franchise. Here’s what he had to say. You once said that Ultraman is high quality candy packed into a pretty box. But Kamen Rider is cheap candy full of artificial flavors and coloring agents. But what about Super Sentai? I did say that didn’t I? (laughs). I think maybe instead of “Rider”, I should say “Toei Hero”. Tsuburaya’s Ultraman are all sophisticate ..read more

Read a detailed summary Ankh’s origin story as seen in the Kamen Rider OOO novel. Warning: The following story contains violent content that some may find disturbing. The Ancient King and Ankh The story takes place 800 years ago before the TV series, in a small country surrounded by larger ones. Despite the world being at war, the small piece of land was never taken over and continued to flourish. This is because it acted as a hub for medicine and herbs, thanks to the alchemists who resided in the area. They found ways to make them exportable for war and even enhanced its healing effectiveness ..read more