#kamen rider for ts

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REAL TOKUSATSU IS BACK

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saw a beautiful woman on twitter before realizing it was actually tetsuya iwanaga 💀

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top ten "they aired this on television" tokusatsu moments of all time

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since hiroki uchida's one of our main writers for kamen rider gotchard i have to mention that i've been thinking about this tweet for a whole year

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open your eyes 👀

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doesn't get better than this

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ideal woman

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gaim on hbo? what's next, dynaman on nickel— WHAT THE

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So I'm doing listicle type stuff for Toku Source, mostly with an agenda of getting people to watch older shows. One that I'm working on is "Vintage Heated Drama."

What are the oldest shows with proper m/m or w/w power in your mind? Jetman and Changerión are already on the list.

if we're taking older to mean pre-2000, of the series i've seen:

liveman's premise of a team of heroes being betrayed by their former classmates lends itself to heated drama enjoyers, though i should mention it's been nearly a decade since i've watched it. don't remember mazenda/megumi getting much, and kemp is pretty hard to take seriously, but jou and gou's story particularly resonates

kamen rider x is a bit of an unfocused mess (and i never got around to finishing it), but it is one of the earliest examples i can think of of a tokusatsu villain who so transparently wants to fuck the main hero. apollo geist is a treat all on his own, and his ~fated rivalry~ with keisuke was some of the most fun i've had watching a showa series

speaking of trendsetters, fujimiya and gamu's arc in ultraman gaia feels like the precursor to a lot of the edgy secondary rival types who grow to respect and bond with the hero that heisei rider would especially run with and never look back. much has been made about gaia and agul kissing with tongue, and for good reason

i was about to write a whole thing about how i couldn't think of any older shows with heated drama between women beyond one-off episodes before i remembered these two and screamed "DAIRANGER!" out loud. one of the all-time funniest fake-outs in tokusatsu is thinking they're setting up kujaku to be daigo's love interest only to reveal she's actually been yearning for gara for thousands of years. paired with the brief but iconic jin/ryu arc from our boy inoue, im offended at myself for almost not including this

dan and gen from ultraman leo are heated drama for the enlightened viewer who can watch a man run his subordinate over with a jeep and think "this too is yaoi"

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THIS IS INSANE

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calling her suit actress her eternal partner. she is so real as always

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everyone else: sensei please this isn't your heart, you mean so much to us and we wouldn't be the people we are today without you

spanner: WHO'S THE FRAUD NOW PUSSY

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little guys alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!