The core creators of Samurai Sentai Shinkenger will reunite to work on the upcoming 2014 Super Sentai season, Ressha Sentai Tokkyuger. This includes head producer Takaaki Utsunomiya, head writer Yasuko Kobayashi, and main director Shojiro Nakazawa. All three will return in those exact same roles for Tokkyuger. They will be accompanied on Tokkyuger by “new” […]
Ratings for various tokusatsu and other programs that air on Japanese TV are more abundant and easily-obtained than ever. Where once fans had to wait for magazines to print the ratings, now ratings for a program can arrive as quickly as 24 to 48 hours after a program has aired. They’re usually shared first on […]
A new year in Sentai means a new team, a new story, and sometimes a radical departure from last year’s approach. It also means a renewed interest in ratings, to see how the new show is doing compared to the last one, and the inevitable debates about what the ratings really mean and if they […]
Gokaiger has had a lot of nostalgic cameo guest-stars, but one major disappointment for some fans is the simple fact that the returning heroes can’t fight alongside the Gokaigers. The plot calls for all of them to have lost their powers as a result of the Legendary War, after all. At least for the upcoming […]
There was some consternation when it turned out that next year’s Kamen Rider, Fourze, was going to be Astronaut-themed. Well, it turns out Fourze is going to have some part-time jobs, too. Scans from the next quarter’s retailer toy catalog have surfaced online, revealing that Fourze will be able to transform into two previously unknown […]
A leak of the official announcement for Tsuburaya’s next film project, Ultraman Saga, has appeared online. Fans expect the move to be the final film in the “Ultraman Zero” trilogy. Â Ultraman Saga will prominently feature the Ultramen Zero, Dyna (last seen in Mega Monster Battle), and Cosmos (who is celebrating his 10th anniversary). You can […]
We’ve known since late April that Kiba: The Dark Knight Gaiden was in production, but we had no idea what the special would look like. A new wave of production and toy stills for Kiba have just hit the Internet, though. Now we know that Kiba’s look is everything you’d expect of a direct-to-video Garo […]
Toei seems to be going sequel-happy. Goseiger is going to follow in the footsteps of Shinkenger with its own V-Cinema sequel special called Come Back! Goseiger: The Gosei Angels are National Idols?! The special will hit Japanese rental stores on DVD June 10, followed by a general release on June 21. There’s no Blu-Ray release […]
New cast photos have surfaced confirming that Keiichi Wada will reprise his role as Ryo, a.k.a Dairanger’s Ryu Ranger, in Gokaiger Goseiger 199 Hero Great Battle, a.k.a. The Longest Versus Movie Title Ever. Not only Dairanger fans have reason to be excited about Gokaiger’s earlier-than-expect team-up with Goseiger and every other Super Sentai team ever, […]
Some scans have floated up online that confirm Goukaiger’s members can transform into colors besides Red. The scans, which I’ve placed behind a cut, detail which Ranger turns into which characters from prior seasons. The quality’s not the best, but it makes it pretty clear that fans of Blues, Blacks, Greens, Yellows, and Pinks have […]
