#tokusatsu superhero fantasy

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SHIN KAMEN RIDER (2023) Japanese superhero reboot - trailers

Shin Kamen Rider is a 2023 Japanese tokusatsu superhero fantasy film based on the titular character from the TV series and its spin-offs. Written and directed by Hideaki Anno (Shin Godzilla; Sugar Sugar Rune; Petite Princess Yucie; co-writer of Shin Ultraman) based on the original character created by Shotaro Ishinomori. The Toei Studios production stars Sôsuke Ikematsu, Minami Hamabe, Masami…

[thepariahcontinuum]

Fuck it asks and DMs are open, anything goes any subject.

But send me music, comic, web Novel and fanfic recs..... It's fun to see the image people have of me in their heads and the recs are usually pretty good too.

[whiteguardian]

Kamen Rider Kabuto and Blue Beetle.

The idea to draw this artwork.

It's to celebrate upcoming superhero movie Blue Beetle. Since he related to beetle species, so i have idea to bring another superhero from Tokusatsu/Kamen Rider, the right one is Kamen Rider Kabuto that have bettle type too.

These two superhero beetle will be tag team to fight against the bad/evil guys.

[curiousrentals]

Karas | 鴉, 2005-07

“You will continue to live as long as there are those in need. Otoha, your soul was born precisely because this city needs you.”

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Go! Go! Loser Ranger Vol. One Review

Go! Go! Loser Ranger Vol. One Review: The Perfect Book for a Sentai Fan! #竜神戦隊ドラゴンキーパー #GoGoLoserRanger #Reviews #Manga #anime #アニメ戦隊大失格

A Special Thanks Goes Out To Kondansha For The Opportunity To Review This Title. We’re trading in the Gothic Horror for some Super Sentai fun and suspense, it’s one of the hottest manga on the market today, and now the anime adaptation is already a fan favorite. From the creator of The Quintessential Quintuplets, Negi Haruba comes Go! Go! Loser Ranger! A crazy take on the world of Superheroes,…

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Quick concept painting

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Legacy in Black, The Wall of Defense

[ratwavegamehouse]

Doing work on This is Your Lifepath season 2 has got me thinking about lists of inspirations again. So I rounded up some lists in upcoming projects.

(Ritual Magic for Besties isn't here as its bibliography is fairly short and more explanatory rather than list-y, also like it comes out later this month so you can just wait)

PSYCHODUNGEON

The games listed are primarily about mechanical influence (which is why they're mostly a very large slice of Belonging outside Belonging games). Big exceptions are Subway Runner and DD.TV which are both there for post-dungeon fantasy influence. ACWtM is there for the influence on the asymmetric roles, which are a divergence from how BoB setting elements tend to work, and so my own Fear the Taste of Blood is there because working on that is how I understood that element better.

Probably should clarify Moonstruck is the comic (as like loose setting influence) rather than the film (which bangs but doesn't relate much to PSYCHODUNGEON).

NHSmackdown is a wrestling/performance art show by a friend of mine which was focused on being a nurse. The influence is in how it got me reflecting on being trapped in job which is nominally doing good but isn't protecting you and is honestly actively harming you.

Nemesis Revealed

Nemesis Revealed is a storytelling game of great rivals, where you play someone's nemesis, their dark counterpart and follow their story. It has multiple playsets which frame a different hero to create your nemesis in opposition to.

So the game influences are either in mechanics or in the structure of a book basically. Whereas the other section primarily focuses on specific influences for different playsets (there's a sort of conventional street level superhero, a gender-twisty tokusatsu inspired story, as well as strange space knights and near-distant future mecha crews). It's a scattershot and probably reads very opaque without context (I think that's how all my bibliography lists look which is probably why I place them at the back, where a reader will find them already armed with context, rather than at the start as a taste setter).

Transgender Deathmatch Legend II: Grand Slam

TDL2 actually has two separate lists. There's a traditional bibliography. I referenced my own work I've drawn on because it seems honest. Fox in the Forest is there for influencing the original mechanic. Hieronymus influenced how i wanted the shape of the book to be. Stealing the Throne influenced some non-fighting mechanics.

The other references are more for how they influenced specific scenarios (like one is loosely Raid inspired but turned into smashing up a GIC, while another is a direct Warriors-riff).

I included the Party of One episode i did cause it helped clarify how i felt about the game. British lads hitting each other with chairs is there because it's a mood.

Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats was a fringe theatre show I did set up for and it ended up influenced the content of a work-in-progress show I did called Crossface (which was a wrestling inspired character comedy performance drama). Some of the content for Crossface has been recycled into some personal essays I have in the book. So paying tribute to that root felt important.

But before that section TDL also has a Recommended Reading list. It's mainly stuff that I think conveys what's enjoyable about wrestling. I wouldn't say everything was a direct inspiration, but if you read the book and played the game and wanted to know more about wrestling; there's a little roadmap in the book.

(Though being serious this appendix is obviously super subject to change before release if anything horrific comes out about anyone featured, obviously the danger in recommending any wrestling tbh)

[pzfr]

𝟑-𝟓 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐄 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘.

𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐒:

Red

Green

Blue

Yellow

Four-Color Comics/Primary Colors Costuming joke

𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒:

"Eau Du Afterburner" (scent acquired from whenever he's just finished flying at mach speeds or performed atmospheric re-entry)

"Tropical" deodorant, nothing expensive

Summer grass after storm rain (quality of his aura)

𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐎𝐍:

Comfy, colorful clothing (Casual/Athletic)

Suits (Formal worn reluctantly, colorful looser fit worn gladly)

Alien alternate form with metallic teal body, three eyes, sometimes additional arms.

𝐎𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐒:

Arcade tokens

Fast food/junk food

Comic books & sci-fi/fantasy novels

𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐔𝐀𝐆𝐄:

Slouching when standing and slumping in seats

Boxing/Martial Arts stance when in action

Limbs spread out, relaxed, while gently floating for fun

Limbs pointed and held tensely during high-speed flight

Scratching head

Hands in pockets

Gesturing while discussing interests

General cartoonishly exaggerated expressions (ex. Donald Duck type frustration, yelping fear, boisterous relief after escaping trouble)

𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒:

The mundane and the fantastic inform each other

Life after a great and terrible wrong or tragedy

Personal Ideals versus Popular Opinion

Superheroics as a fusion of charity and artistic self-expression & superpowers/skills that turn inward feeling into change in the physical world

Stylized animation/video games/comic books/tokusatsu

Late 90's light, architecture, design principles-- if a little weathered by the years that have gone by

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TAGGED: Stole it.

TAGGING: You want it? It's yours my friend. As long as you have enou

[loiterer87]

And number two of today's posts, the one that's actually for today's prompt... Tokusatsu!

Tokusatsu is a Japanese term for tv and films which use a lot of special effects and mainly are sci-fi and fantasy. Outside of the Kaiju stuff, the other big example of this is their Superhero shows. The Super Sentai series for example, which Western audiences like myself will know from the Power Rangers franchise.

I also included the Masked Rider, which I have vague memories of and a Beetleborg, again, only vague memories of. Shoulder's still a bit tender though...

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SHIN KAMEN RIDER (2023) Reviews of Japanese superhero reboot

Shin Kamen Rider is a 2023 Japanese tokusatsu superhero fantasy film based on the titular character from the TV series and its spin-offs. Written and directed by Hideaki Anno (Shin Godzilla; Sugar Sugar Rune; Petite Princess Yucie; co-writer of Shin Ultraman) based on the original character created by Shotaro Ishinomori. The Toei Studios production stars Sôsuke Ikematsu, Minami Hamabe, Masami…

[thepariahcontinuum]

Okay it has been a rough/challenging/Fucking Chaotic week.... But now things are looking up and also it's pride so fuck it.

So I'm gonna have a few drinks and chill cos I've earned it, asks are open.

I'm not making any Worm OCs for people tonight though, I don't have the bandwidth. More general Q&A stuff only please.

[sepublic]

         Back to the Escapees! Meet… Monarch Man!!!

         Oof, another superhero character? Don’t worry, this is the last one (I’m pretty sure), and while Dioclius (Man) has more of a Tokusatsu leaning to him as well, Monarch Man is ALL classic comicbook superhero, or rather supervillain! He and Dioclius (Man) are two sides of the same coin, opposites and yet parallels, arch-nemeses with one another!

         Like Dioclius (Man), Monarch Man’s origins lie as a human experiment. Once a young adult, he entertained himself with the fantasies of his favorite comic books, but alas one day the Phantom Alliance was looking for test subjects, the disposable kind that society would not miss… And thus, the young adult was kidnapped, with everyone figuring the orphanage wouldn’t miss him.

         The Phantom Alliance at this time was looking into seeing if they could bond souls to other objects, bodies, etc., and they were making decent progress lately. Thus, their experiments got bolder; While at first they were content to bond souls to things like suits of armor or living creatures, they wanted to get a bit more creative. The young adult had his soul reaped from his body, absorbed into a piece of Soul Stone; And that soul stone was then carefully ground up and crumbled, mixed into the feed of a genetically-engineered species of poisonous moth, originally created as a lethal bioweapon.

         The moths devoured the feed, and after a while, something miraculous happened. All previous test subjects hadn’t survived the process, their souls were rejected and they were reaped once more to be used for other purposes. But this young adult persevered, was there a certain quality to his soul? A powerful will that drove him to acclimate? Regardless, the young adult’s soul survived the conversion. It became one with the eclipse of moths, as an unprecedented creation; A being whose soul was bonded and spread across multiple living creatures!

         This wasn’t the only aspect of the Phantom Alliance’s experiment, either. They moved onto the next phase… See, Phantom researchers had noted that the soul seemed to possess a ‘memory’ of sorts regarding the body it originally inhabited. This was influenced by the mind, for which the soul acted as a vector towards; Part of the reason the soul rejected new bodies was because they were too dissimilar to the last one it had been acclimated towards. But what if, that soul had the power to change the new body to something more familiar, to become comfortable? What if you gave the soul that extra power it needed, through magic, more soul energy, and other experimental techniques?

         You didn’t just have someone whose soul was bound to a new body; That new body would morph and shift itself into a state similar to the soul’s previous, original body, albeit imperfect but still a better fit. On the surface it seemed the same, seemed soft and fleshy (if the original body was), but on the inside, the true nature of the new body was hidden, and would emerge from time to time as the subject intended. The new body was distorted by the soul’s memory to imitate the previous body, but ultimately it was just that; An imitation. With some of the physical properties, a default the soul preferred; But frequently shifting between old and new.

         For those whose new bodies were living, this wasn’t as jarring nor difficult to accomplish… But again, our young adult was a special case in that he was a group of living things, rather than just one. It took him a while to acclimate, but eventually the eclipse of moths he was made up of were able to converge and imitate the texture, solidity, and properties of an actual human body, his original one prior to the experiment.

         But if memories would influence the soul, why not dreams? And if the soul transferred the memory of its past body to the new one, why not its imagination for a form never idealized, but intended to be? The young adult’s ‘human’ form began to change, his wish made manifest. Instead of his constituent moths converging into a body he once had, it created something entirely new, yet still familiar to his own mind; Ideas of his own ‘supervillain’ identity that he dreamt up, as a way to soothe the loneliness of his existence.

         Thus, Monarch Man was born, a supervillain of exaggerated, almost cartoonish proportions and shape! He now sprouted his own pair of wings in his humanoid form to fly with, not that he even needed to flap them to levitate, as he was comprised of thousands of individual moths with their own wings!

         The Phantom Alliance was fascinated by Monarch Man’s unprecedented transformation; A memory need not have been physical to manifest itself through the soul in a new body, it could be a mere memory of an idea, a fantasy or imagination! Truly mind over matter, with one’s thoughts and vision dictating whatever they wanted to be, if taken to its natural conclusion…!

         But Monarch Man wasn’t interested in that. He was now a supervillain, HIS perfect dream version of one he always had, and coupled with his past successes as an experiment, and it emboldened him. It made him believe that he truly was destined and capable of great things, of accomplishing whatever he wanted, and this gave Monarch Man the motivation he needed to escape from his captors. On the run, Monarch Man experimented, practiced, and explored the limits of his new body. He armed himself with a Destonium rapier, and set out to wreak vengeance.

         See, Monarch Man had always related to the supervillains in his comics more than the superheroes; He thought they were cooler, and maybe he felt more kinship with the villains, feeling similarly cast out, undesirable, and hated by society for being a freak. He saw himself in them, and that’s why his ideal body manifested as such… And it was also why he resolved to go on a rampage, committing generic supervillain crimes for no more than the fun and fantasy of it, and as a way of lashing out at the world that had forsaken many like him. Robbing banks, destroying buildings, etc., Monarch Man quickly became a mercenary for hire, wanting to just do things without a greater goal in mind, so he’d leave that sort of thinking to his bosses.

         This earned him the attention of a member of the Wayvren family (spelling still pending), who defeated Monarch Man, putting an end to his crimes. Monarch Man was frozen in the Tower of Tears, and like many he dreamed; But his dreams and nightmares included familiar fantasies of supervillainy and his favorite childhood stories…

         When that same Wayvren’s sibling destroyed the Tower of Tears, Monarch Man escaped. He allied himself with Azayle, again operating under the same principles as he had before; To fight and wreak havoc, with the loftier ideas of purpose and meaning up to those above him. He and Dioclius (Man) encountered each other on the battlefield, and became immediate, fierce rivals, classic arch-nemeses.

         Dioclius saw himself as a twisted hero, Monarch Man embraced villainy. Dioclius was made by the Terrorbrai, nemesis to the Phantom Alliance; And he was let go, for their motive to create him was just mindless chaos. Monarch Man was made to advance a larger goal, and had to seize his freedom. One had their body fused with ichor, the other had their soul empowered and bonded to various creatures. Both controlled various bodies, but whilst Dioclius did so through his puppets with his main body acting as the default, Monarch Man controlled the eclipse of moths he was composed of.

         Dioclius (Man) and Monarch Man clashed many times, and with their leaders’ different goals regarding a young Wayvren, this would lay the battlefield for further conflicts… For both rivals, it was honestly a dream come true and deep down, they didn’t want to kill the other to end it. Hence why the other was often spared if defeated, allowed to recover and escape; It was like a mutual game between them, so there was wrath but ultimately comradery.

         …That’s Monarch Man! His and Dioclius’ rivalry and ‘two sides of the same coin’ schtick was fun for me to come up with, a lot of it happened kind of by accident but then became aware and intentional and I went through with it… The development history of both of these characters is a LONG story. What’s funny is that while Monarch Man’s appearance and exaggerated voice don’t give that impression, he’s still basically just a young adult, compared to Dioclius who was middle-aged when HIS transformation happened. So he’s comparatively throwing hands against this young punk.

         Despite his silly aesthetic and theming, Monarch Man is actually one of the deadlier Escapees; As I said before, he’s made up of thousands, if not millions, of individual moths. They’re bio-engineered, originally designed to kill and wreak havoc, but the Phantom Alliance got their hands on them and figured, why not have some fun with an experiment? They can bite hard, and converge to lift comparatively massive objects with the strength of their buzzing wings, coordinated by Monarch Man’s soul spread across all of them.

         Perhaps their deadliest feature is their ability to scatter toxic powder from their wings. As a swarming eclipse, these moths can whirl into a miniature vortex, mixing up their toxic powder with the air to create a noxious gas that they can funnel towards victims. Fighting Monarch Man as his whole or eclipse self is deadly either way, because his individual moths will constantly emit a toxic aura that poisons people on skin contact, so a gas mask won’t save you.

         As his ‘whole’ self, Monarch Man is faster, stronger, and more durable than any human could naturally be. He can fly by buzzing his primary wings, which are his fastest way of moving; But he can also casually levitate by flapping the individual wings of his moths. This makes Monarch Man ‘vibrate’ to people, who note the unusual, rolling texture to his body; Countless segments straining to shift into their true selves as individual moths.

         Monarch Man is very well coordinated, and can split apart pieces and chunks of himself to levitate and move on their own. An arm will still have the appearance and properties of an arm, it’s just now floating away from the rest of Monarch Man’s body, and you can see some of the exposed moths now too. He’s exploited this tactic to split his body apart and avoid blows that would hurt the moths he’s made up of, although it’s gonna take a LOT of damage to whittle Monarch Man down, considering how many creatures he’s made up of.

         Because he’s all just moths, he technically doesn’t have a singular ‘brain’ or organs, so as long as a decent amount of moths survive, Monarch Man can have them reproduce with one another to replenish his eclipse and his form. But if you manage to kill enough moths, you might notice his whole form looking less tangible than usual.

         Monarch Man is a skilled fencer, and can trick opponents by throwing his rapier, only to have a few moths split off from his body and carry it for him; Wielding and slashing the rapier with not as much strength as himself, but still enough to wound and kill. It’s like fighting two opponents at once, and Monarch Man can worsen the situation by splitting various limbs apart to float and attack you with, at various angles! It’s inspired directly from the boss fight of Monsoon from Metal Gear Rising, if I’m being blunt.

         Monarch Man can split himself into different proportions of moths to lift and hurl large objects, but one of his best talents is spreading himself thin, quite literally. While Monarch Man has a limit to how far his entire eclipse can fly away from each other, if it’s just a few select moths he detaches from the main eclipse, it’s fine. They might lose his soul temporarily, but these living ‘pets’ still hold a connection to Monarch Man and the larger eclipse, and he can use them as scouts to spy on others with; Once these moths return to the eclipse, they connect back to Monarch Man’s soul, and he’s granted access to their memories.

         Monarch Man is an eccentric soul, with an exaggerated, grandiose voice different from how he once sounded like. He’s embraced being a supervillain full time, and he can be a bit of a cocky, trash-talking punk in combat. Between his toxic powder, strength, flight, ability to split apart, as well as the difficulty in killing him (you have to be quite thorough in taking down an entire eclipse of moths), and he’s a foe to never underestimate.

        Fun fact! You might ask why he’s named as if after the Monarch Butterfly, instead of an actual species of moth. Well, in real life, I somehow got confused and forgot that distinction, and by the time I realized, I was already accustomed to the name Monarch Man. This explanation applies in-universe as well, and Monarch Man gets VERY salty and angry if you bring this up. I guess if I need another name for him, I could call him Eclipse Man, for obvious reasons.

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Allies of Justice! Go-On Red Guest Stars On Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger!

Allies of Justice! Go-On Red Guest Stars On Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger! #爆上戦隊ブンブンジャー #炎神戦隊ゴーオンジャー #SuperSentai #Boonboomger #GoOnger

“Mach Full Force!! Go-On Red!” In a new announcement from Toei, we’re seeing the return of the Speed King, Go-On Red ( from Engine Sentai Go-Onger in a surprise guest appearance on the next episode of Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger! Image Credit: Toei Co. Ltd The latest promotional teaser for the upcoming episode shows the Boonboomger’s leader Taiya Hando coming across Engine Speedor (voiced by…

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More on Akira Toriyama

Childhood and early life

Toriyama has access to the older brother of a friend's manga library throughout his elementary school years. The science fiction series "Astro Boy" (1952–1968), which chronicled the exploits of a sentient android with superhuman abilities, captivated him. As he entered middle school, Toriyama's interest in live-action movies and TV shows grew. He enjoyed the 1966–1967 tokusatsu series "Ultraman" (a science fantasy anime with amazing effects). The show was centered on the exploits of a huge superhero who frequently protected Earth from monsters and aliens. He also liked watching kaiju movies, which feature enormous creatures. His favorite movie franchise was "Gamera" (1965–2006), which followed the exploits of a turtle that could breathe fire. Toriyama went to a high school that put a strong emphasis on teaching its students about creative design. In defiance of his parents' wishes, he chose not to pursue a college education. Using his artistic abilities, Toriyama was able to land a job at a Nagoya advertising agency soon after finishing high school. He spent several years creating posters, but he was getting tired of his work. He received numerous warnings for coming to work in a casual outfit. At the age of 23, he resigned from his position and began to think about pursuing a career as a manga artist. In an effort to break into the manga business, Toriyama wrote a manga narrative that made fun of the just released movie "Star Wars" (1977). In an effort to win the "Newcomer Award" from Weekly Shonen Jump, he entered the story in a competition run by the publication. Because it was a derivative work and the competition only accepted original works, the narrative was disqualified. But Kazuhiko Torishima (1952-), the magazine's editor, favored Toriyama's artistic approach. He exhorted him to provide the magazine more original content.