#Denjiman

[prehistorichyes]

i also drew some Sentai Keyblades, Sun Vulcan is my favorite lmao

[disastardly]

Watching the first episode of Turboranger and wow, Toei really has been doing just whatever the fuck since the start huh

[outofcontexttokusatsu]

[tokusongs]

"Shine! Denjiman" (Kagayake! Denjiman), from Denshi Sentai Denjiman (1980). Performed by Uchida Naoya, Koorogi 73, and Columbia Yurikago Kai.

[nines82]

Denshi Sentai Denziman: Marvel but isn't Marvel.

Denshi Sentai Denziman is the first Showa Sentai I've reviewed in while, and thankfully is the latest of this initial batch of Sentai and Rider to have been completed.

After achieving that spark of Battle Fever J, Toei had seen that by formally removing Sentai from direct involvement of Ishinomori and even not having Masami Inoue write the show does wonders for your franchise. Denziman was made, but unlike with BFJ which had direct Marvel Involvement we see that only a copyright persists but not actual communication. Denziman is a Sentai that plays in its strengths, and is so much fun to watch. A lovely cast of characters of both hero and villain fronts as well as some stellar mech designs. It's so good, and I was rather sad to say goodbye to it when the day came to watch the final episode. Yet, that sadness came from a place of affection towards a rather engaging show with memorable stories, music, and action. It feels so complete, whole, and not with real repetitions to it.

[seatopian]

omg it's an episode about me

[mtmtedatabase]

Super Sentai Robot Art Collection 1975-1985

[thevvking]

Rest incoming, I'll do a champion contest next week.

[sentairiderconfessions]

"There’s something about Denjiman’s opening and ending themes that feel so oddly nostalgic."

[itzgg777]

[luckykittenpirate]

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[outofcontexttokusatsu]

[tokusongs]

"The Superweapon from the Stars" (Hoshi Kara Kita Chou Heiki), from Denshi Sentai Denjiman (1980). Performed by Narita Ken, Koorogi '73, and Columbia Yurikago Kai.

[sodascii]

denjiman.

[sunshinemoonrx]

Okay so Skirts on Sentai Suits

Part of a tokusatsu 20 questions going around recently was "do you like skirts on sentai suits?" Here's the thing: Not all skirts were created equal.

(Preface to all this: I know I am going to be unruly suit-horny here so for the record, give them to the boys too. Obviously.)

Broadly there are four colour schemes:

Suit is all its primary colour, including skirt (e.g. Ryusoulger, Denjiman)

Suit body and skirt are primary colour, legs are secondary colour (black or white) (e.g. Gokaiger, Dairanger)

Suit body is primary colour, skirt and legs are secondary colour (e.g. Goseiger, Liveman)

Suit body and skirt are primary colour, legs on the non-skirted suits are also primary colour, but legs on this suit are a secondary colour--THIS IS THE HOT STUFF BABY LET ME EXPLAIN WHY

Okay so it's about "something hidden" or "something you're not supposed to see". If the skirt and legs are the same colour, it all registers as the same 'layer'. If you have a pink/blue/whatever skirt over black or white legs, that more suggests "clothing over body". However...

The non-skirted suits also have black legs, right? So clearly, that colour/layer is also "okay to see". Symbolically, that's black pants. (Of course, tokusatsu suits aren't only hot in imitating the human form. But we're talking about tight bodysuits in this post, not big sexy monsters, so follow me here.)

But if you've got a skirt over black/white legs, and the non-skirted suits have solid-colour legs...now that's a symbolically "lower" layer than the 'costume' shape.

So thank god for ninjas. See, in Hurricane the solid colour is the 'clothing', and the grey is 'beneath'; the shoulders of the sleeves emphasise this (contrasted with the Gouraigers' black pants, whereas even they have grey sleeves). In other words, that's a colour that has to be covered on certain body parts to be 'appropriate', like skin does. In Ninnin, solid colour is 'clothing' and black is 'beneath'--extra emphasised by the thigh-highs, which as I recently posted about, Jesus Fucking Hell.

Like, this is all an illusion. Obviously, the colour 'beneath' is just a bodysuit. ShiroNinger's black legs under there look exactly the same as, say, ShinkenRed's. And let's not forget, nice legs in a tight bodysuit are nice in and of themselves. But the concealment...the suggestion of something forbidden...the whole colour scheme lining up to reinforce this...(And well, Hurricane Blue does even have blue 'panties' under there...which again, if you took away the skirt would just make the blue a leotard-style shape like the Flashman etc. suits and not feel like underwear at all, but the fact that it's hidden and you get brief flashes...)

Interestingly, there's a third season that achieves this effect a different way--Jetman:

Now, all the suits here have secondary-colour legs--but uniquely in all of sentai, here the boys get a short-shorts/leotard/something shape, not too far off the girls in, say, Bioman. This means that at least for the lower body, white is an 'underlying' colour (or pink for White Swan, a common colour-scheme-swap for white rangers in a team with white as a secondary colour). So you do get the layered/"this colour has to be hidden above the thigh so it's intriguing" effect...sort of...the upper-body colour scheme confuses this and makes it hard to equate it to an outfit shape, as I also recently posted about. (And ofc, imitating an outfit is not the only objective of a sentai suit--the Jetman suits look great!)

Potentially post 1/3 if I can be bothered to post the other two. Yes there is more to say about this. Yes you will get my opinion on every single team in the third one if I do. Yes there is something wrong with me