Within the past few days Premium Bandai teased its next Complete Selection Modification release. The release itself being based on the transformation device and arsenal of Kamen Rider Garren, as seen in “Kamen Rider Blade.” In the series, Sakuya Tachibana used the Garren Buckle and Garren Rouzer to become Kamen Rider Garren. However in episode […]
As we get ready to pile into movie theaters for the new Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse film, we return to an old gem in the annals of live-action special effects TV, with the strange anomaly that was 1978’s Spider-Man. A rare Japanese-produced adaptation from an original Marvel Comics creation, this Spidey bears some similarities to […]
“If Kamen Rider were available, which series would you want to see first?” This is the question posed to the Twitter audience last week, in a poll provided for fans of the live-action special effects genre by TV and streaming service TOKU. The Olympusat Inc. venture has been providing tokusatsu aficionados with an array of […]
The Kamen Rider franchise is getting even more generational with the latest in their series of movies based on the ongoing action hero franchise, Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FOREVER. And here’s the poster to prove it. As previously mentioned, they keep trying to end this Heisei Era, but something’s always standing in the way. A […]
It’s that time again. Those lethal mutations with a talent for dismemberment are back for another season, now available in this official streaming release. It’s the second chapter of Kamen Rider Amazons. (Or Amazon Riders, if you’re feeling international). The reimagined series, loosely based on the classic 1974 title Kamen Rider Amazon, garnered enough success […]
What, you expected the last movie to be the final installment just because it contained the word “final” in the title? How little you know this franchise. The heroes of Kamen Rider are back yet again, in this latest crossover blowout film promising to gather up the heroes from several incarnations of the long-running property, […]
It’s that time again. A new Power Rangers incarnation is on the horizon, and fitting with recent tradition, we’re treated to an early trailer of what lies ahead for us in the coming year for this long-running franchise. In keeping with that tradition, of course, this video features no footage of any members of our […]
Kamen Rider Black RX was a bit of an anomaly in the tokusatsu television landscape. After the success of the previous year’s Kamen Rider Black, Toei Company decided that it would break with tradition on their long-running franchise and forego the usual process of creating a brand new series with a new lead hero at […]
How many time puns can one blogger cram into the span of a few weeks? Guess we’ll find out, as the pink carpet gets rolled out for the newest hero in the ongoing Kamen Rider super-saga from Toei Company. Kamen Rider Zi-O is time-slipping his way up and down the last twenty seasons of this […]
It’s that time again. The 20th entry in the Heisei Era’s official Kamen Rider television series franchise is quickly approaching, and ahead of it comes a flood of new images and bits of information from which to glean early opinions. And as we feast our eyes on the new Kamen Rider Zi-O, we wonder what […]