What 'Tokusatsu' is really all about...

            Hello there! For my first renew post it would be about my world of tokusatsu. Here we will go back to where it all began. Tokusatsu (特撮) generally means any live-action film or television drama that features considerable use of special effects (or special filming in the Japanese terms)!
                The tokusatsu genre has covered plenty of areas in tv history over the generations, from Godzilla in 1954 which leads to more giant heroes like Gamera and King Ghidorah who took turns protecting Japan from space invaders! The Kaiju (怪獣) literally translated as Monster genre leads to the production of Super Giant (refer picture above) and Moonlight Mask! This

spurs the production of a new genre of tokusatsu called Kyodai Hero (巨大ヒーロー) which literally translate into 'Giant Heroes', the genre we know and love to this day with the main hero called 'ULTRAMAN' (Produced in 1966)! Of course, Ultraman is not the only one that the Kyodai Hero series have to give out, look it up and you will find many others that shared the same genre.
       There were so many to name, but personally for me, Ambassador Magma (1966) by P. Production was one of the most influential tokusatsu at that time. Then in the 1970s, tokusatsu took another great leap when TOEI Company started Kamen Rider (1971) which was written by manga artist Ishinomori Shotarou who also create Himitsu Sentai GoRanger (1975) which translate to Secret Sentai GoRanger, and kick-started the Metal Heroes series by creating Uchuu Keiji Gavan (1982) known as Space Sheriff Gavan in the Western World.
     The tokusatsu genre hits the west when Saban took up and revamped Kyoryu Sentai Kyoryuger  (1992) (恐竜戦隊ジュウレンジャー) which Saban turned it into the world-famous 'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers' (1993) that we all know to this day. Of course, with Power Rangers being so successful, the other alternative was to port Kamen Rider as well. Saban chose Kamen Rider Black RX (1988) (仮面ライダーBLACK RX) and revamped the story as well. Saban called it 'Masked Rider' and it ran from 1995 to 1996. Unfortunately the 'Masked Rider' series didn't do too well, not to mentioned the second time Saban did it 'Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight' (2009), the series did not even get to finish. (Last two episodes of the series was not shown on TV, too bad~)
    In my next post, I would talk about how tokusatsu changed my view on life and how it works for me generally. Hope you all enjoy reading what I wrote up there and if you have any questions, look it up or contact me for more answers!
That's all for now, matta ne~♪

The famous 'GO GO POWER RANGER' music ringing in my head. XD