#toku gifs

[buddyup1]

no comment...

[skeletonfumes]

Shin Kamen Rider (2023) Hideaki Anno

[llamawrites]

Me: When a Tokusatsu theme song plays while they are fighting the villain

[tokujenny]

NO GYAOS DON'T DRINK THE BONG WATER

[kaijugifs]

[short-wooloo]

The fact that Shimo wasn't evil and was in fact a tortured slave of Skar King was a pleasant surprise for me, I'm a sucker for a good kaiju design and I didn't want Shimo to just get offed, I was expecting/hoping for her to cut her losses and run when Skar King was defeated, so what I got was very satisfactory, can't wait to see more of Shimo

But that said, I wouldn't mind if in a future film we got to have a pair of evil monsters fighting on the same side out of shared goals or even mutual friendship (mutos don't count, they're just doing as animals do), just two kaiju who are buddies in evil

As it happens, there is a pair of classic monsters who fit the bill

[kittysmittens]

Just seal me already.

You know I can’t do that…

[princess-viola]

[hidengifs]

Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger (2023) ↳ Episode 5: “The King of Winter is Here”

[yuliangs]

Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger

Gira in Episode 1

[chocobocha]

The Super Inframan (1975)

[buddyup1]

i just think he's neat :)

[skeletonfumes]

Shin Kamen Rider (2023) Hideaki Anno

[kinasin]

Kamen Rider

[tokujenny]

Jiger might be one of my favorite Kaiju in the Gamera franchise so far btw. Like, I actually quite enjoy all of them, they're very zany and unique, but Jiger in particular is interesting to me.

She's hard to describe, design-wise, but to me she's very much a foil to Gamera in a way most of his enemies aren't. She's a large, prehistoric reptile, has a heat based long range attack (her "magnetum beam" to Gamera's fire breath), and while Gamera propels himself with flaming jets, Jiger sprays saltwater jets to achieve a similar effect.

She also has a pretty fun ability to fire parts of her little nose spikes like rockets, which are described as "solid salvia." Delightfully icky.

And to top it off, that spike on her tail isn't just for show! It's an ovipositor, a small needle like appendage present in some creatures (like parasitoid wasps, for example) which she uses to inject Gamera with her offspring. That's right, she's a mother, and Gamera is the unwitting baby daddy.

In an homage to 1966's Fantastic Voyage, two boys on a mini sub travel inside Gamera to remove the parasitic Jiger larva, and it's... Kind of adorable? It's a similar size to the small children and sprays a web-like substance from its nose, having not developed the solid saliva rockets yet, I suppose. Maybe it's just because I'm a big nerd and get excited over fun biology, but a silk-producing, parasitoid lizard is just too much fun for me to NOT be weird about. Has Bogleech talked about this one? This feels like it should have a Bogleech article if it doesn't already.

And I haven't even touched the wild magnetic suckers!

[prettydecejosh]

Kamen Rider Gotchard episode 9 was easily my favorite episode of the series so far, so here are some of my favorite moments from it.

THIS is what I want out of a high school age Kamen Rider: a group of friends getting up to hijinks and having a blast, unbridled enthusiasm for _everything_ and a monster/evil force working in the background trying to take them down.

I especially loved getting to see Minato in a role that wasn't just showing up at the end of the episode to mind-wipe everyone. He was protective of his students and looked like a true badass here.

I'm so excited for this Kyoto field trip to continue next episode.