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Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger
is a Japanese Tokusatsu drama and the 40th entry of Toei Company, Toei's long-running Super Sentai metaseries, following ''Shuriken Sentai Ninninger''. It aired from February 14, 2016 to February 5, 2017, replacing ''Shuriken Sentai Ninninger'' and was replaced by ''Uchu Sentai Kyuranger''. The program joining ''Kamen Rider Ghost'', and later, ''Kamen Rider Ex-Aid'' in the Super Hero Time line-up on TV Asahi affiliate stations. Released as part of Super Sentai's 40th anniversary and Toei's "Super Hero Year", ''Zyuohger'' is the seventh series in the franchise whose central theme is animals, after ''Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan'', ''Choujyu Sentai Liveman'', ''Chōjin Sentai Jetman'', ''Seijuu Sentai Gingaman'', ''Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger'', and ''Juken Sentai Gekiranger''. The series also has a Minecraft-inspired and Rubik's cube motif. The lead screenwriter for the series is Junko Kōmura. The cast and characters were revealed at an event at Tokyo Dome City on January 23 and 24, 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokusatsu
is a Japanese term for live-action films or television programs that make heavy use of practical special effects. Credited to special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya, ''tokusatsu'' mainly refers to science fiction film, science fiction, War film, war, fantasy film, fantasy, or Horror film, horror media featuring such technology but is also occasionally dubbed a genre itself. Its contemporary use originated in the Mass media in Japan, Japanese mass media around 1958 to explain special effects in an easy-to-understand manner and was popularized during the ":ja:第一次怪獣ブーム, first monster boom" (1966–1968). Prior to the monster boom, it was known in Japan as or shortened . Subgenres of include ''kaiju'' such as the ''Godzilla (film series), Godzilla'' and ''Gamera'' series; superhero such as the ''Kamen Rider Series, Kamen Rider'' and ''Metal Hero Series, Metal Hero'' series; Kyodai Hero, ''Kyodai'' Hero like ''Ultra Series, Ultraman, and Gridman the Hyper Agent, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Tokyo Area
The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, consisting of the Kantō region of Japan (including Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis and the prefectures of Chiba Prefecture, Chiba, Gunma Prefecture, Gunma, Ibaraki Prefecture, Ibaraki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanagawa, Saitama Prefecture, Saitama, and Tochigi Prefecture, Tochigi) as well as the prefecture of Yamanashi Prefecture, Yamanashi of the neighboring Chūbu region. In Japanese language, Japanese, it is referred to by various terms, one of the most common being . As of 2016, the United Nations estimates the total population at 38,140,000. It covers an area of approximately 13,500 square kilometre, km2 (5,200 mi2), giving it a population density of 2,642 people/km2. It is the second-largest single metropolitan area in the world in terms of built-up or urban function landmass at 8,547 km2 (3,300 mi2), behind only the New York metropolitan area, New York City metropolitan area at 11,642 km2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juken Sentai Gekiranger
is Toei Company's thirty-first entry in the ''Super Sentai'' metaseries. Production began on September 29, 2006, with principal photography beginning on October 6, 2006. It aired on TV Asahi's 2007 Super Hero Time programming block with '' Kamen Rider Den-O'' from February 18, 2007, to February 10, 2008, replacing '' GoGo Sentai Boukenger'' and was replaced by '' Engine Sentai Go-onger''. Its footage was used for the American television series, '' Power Rangers Jungle Fury''. ''Gekiranger'' was subtitled into Korean as ''Power Rangers Wild Spirit'' for South Korean television. Story Four thousand years ago in ancient China, a form of Chinese styled kenpō martial art called was created by a man named Bruce Ee, who came to Japan and built the hidden village . Jūken is a martial art in which one mimics the abilities of animals as well as trying to attain spiritual peace. However, dissent grew among the creator's ten students; three of them believed that they should use the su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seijuu Sentai Gingaman
is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. It is Toei Company, Toei's 22nd entry of the ''Super Sentai'' metaseries. The series aired from February 22, 1998, to February 14, 1999, replacing ''Denji Sentai Megaranger'', and was replaced by ''Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive''. Its footage was used in ''Power Rangers Lost Galaxy''. The lead screenwriter for the series is Yasuko Kobayashi. Toei given the name for international distribution is ''Gingaman''. At the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con, Shout! Factory announced that they would be releasing ''Seijuu Sentai Gingaman'' in Japanese with English subtitles on DVD. It was released on January 30, 2018. This is the seventh Super Sentai series released on Region 1 DVD in North America. In July 2018, Shout! made the series available Video on demand, on-demand on their website. Plot Three thousand years ago, the Space Pirates Balban invaded Earth. The Starbeasts and the first Gingamen, warriors of the Ginga Forest, fought them with a mystical powe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chōjin Sentai Jetman
is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei Company. It is the fifteenth entry of the ''Super Sentai'' metaseries, following the previous series '' Chikyu Sentai Fiveman''. The series aired on TV Asahi on February 15, 1991, to February 14, 1992, with a total of 51 episodes replacing '' Chikyu Sentai Fiveman'' and was replaced by '' Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger''. It was the last Sentai series until '' Ressha Sentai ToQger'' to not get adapted into a ''Power Rangers'' series. It was also the first series to have a third robot, Tetraboy and paid tribute to the anime series '' Science Ninja Team Gatchaman'' and the US teen drama movie: '' The Breakfast Club''. The international English title is listed by Toei as simply ''Jetman''. Shout! Factory released this series in North America on September 25, 2018. This is the 10th incarnation of ''Super Sentai'' to be released in North America and was the first series released that did not have a ''Power Rangers'' counterpart. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choujyu Sentai Liveman
is a Japanese tokusatsu television series and the twelfth entry of Toei Company's Super Sentai metaseries. The last Super Sentai title of the Shōwa Era, it aired on TV Asahi from February 27, 1988, to February 18, 1989, replacing '' Hikari Sentai Maskman'' and was replaced by ''Kousoku Sentai Turboranger''. Its international English title as listed by Toei is simply ''Liveman''. It was the first Super Sentai series to have a female Blue Ranger as well as the first Super Sentai series that introduced animal-based mecha. It was also the first Super Sentai series that introduced a super-combined robot (that is 2 or more robots put together); the first Super Sentai series to have three members from the start, with two additional members joining later on; it was the last Super Sentai series that had its mechas transported to the battle through a flying fortress on a regular basis, which would not occur again until '' Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger''; and it was the first Super Sentai seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan
is a Japanese television show and the fifth series in Toei Company's ''Super Sentai'' tokusatsu metaseries. It was broadcast from February 7, 1981, to January 30, 1982, replacing '' Denshi Sentai Denjiman'' and was replaced by ''Dai Sentai Goggle-V''. The program first ''Super Sentai'' series to serve as a direct sequel to its previous series ('' Denshi Sentai Denjiman''). It is also the first and only series in the franchise to have an all-male ''Super Sentai'' team and the first to have fewer than five members in the core team. Its international English title as listed by Toei Company is ''Sunvulcan''. This is last entry in the Super Sentai tokusatsu metaseries to be produced in partnership with Marvel Comics and possess a Marvel copyright, despite no Marvel influence. Plot The threat of the Machine Empire Black Magma causes the United Nations to establish the Taiyo Sentai at a summit. From the UN's Guardians of World Peace's (GWP) air force, navy, and rangers, Commander Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Hero Time
is a programming block on the Japanese television network TV Asahi featuring new episodes of tokusatsu television series from Super Sentai and Kamen Rider. Both series have decades of history and have been intertwined in the public imagination for some time, not least of all because the driving creative force behind both was manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori and both were produced by the same production company, Toei Company; however, they did not air together until 2000 with '' Kamen Rider Kuuga'' and '' Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive'' (which was quickly replaced by ''Mirai Sentai Timeranger'' 2 weeks later), though at the time they were not acknowledged together. Super Hero Time airs every Sunday morning, from 9:00 to 10:00 JST. The block is shown all over Japan via the All-Nippon News Network. Though, in other prefectures, one or both shows can be seen on other stations which are not affiliated with ANN. History Starting in the late 1960s, the hour was originally meant for edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid
is a Japanese tokusatsu drama in Toei Company's Kamen Rider Series. It is the eighteenth series in the Heisei period run and the twenty-seventh series overall. Toei registered the Kamen Rider Ex-Aid trademark on June 13, 2016. The show premiered on October 2, 2016, one week after the finale of '' Kamen Rider Ghost'', joining ''Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger'' and later, '' Uchu Sentai Kyuranger'' in the Super Hero Time line-up., it's the first series marked the debut of a video game motif. Story Emu Hojo is an intern in the Pediatrics Department at Seito University Hospital and a genius video gamer who goes by the alias "M". Emu was inspired to practice medicine after a doctor, the future minister of health Kyotaro Hinata saved his life from an illness when he was a child. Kyotaro also gave him a WonderSwan handheld video game console as a reward that ignited Emu's interest in video games. Recently, a video game company known as the Genm Corporation, or Genm Corp. for short has become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamen Rider Ghost
is a Japanese tokusatsu drama serving as the 17th Heisei period, Heisei Kamen Rider Series, and 26th series overall. Takuro Fukuda serves as ''Ghost''s lead screenwriter, with Satoshi Morota as director. It premiered on TV Asahi and affiliate stations throughout Japan on October 4, 2015, the week following the finale of its predecessor series ''Kamen Rider Drive'', joining ''Shuriken Sentai Ninninger'', and later, ''Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger'' in the Super Hero Time programming block. The motif of the series is centered around ghosts, historical figures, and eye-based themes. The series focuses on the protagonist, Takeru Tenkuji, who becomes Kamen Rider Ghost after dying and being temporarily resurrected. He is tasked with collecting Eyecons, which contain the spirits of famous historical figures such as Thomas Edison, Isaac Newton, Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ludwig von Beethoven, and more. Story Takeru Tenkūji, whose father was a ghost hunter who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metaseries
A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program, or a video game. Bob Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, defined the word ''franchise'' as "something that creates value across multiple businesses and across multiple territories over a long period of time." Transmedia franchise A media franchise often consists of cross-marketing across more than one medium. For the owners, the goal of increasing profit through diversity can extend the commercial profitability of the franchise and create strong feelings of identity and ownership in its consumers. Those large groups of dedicated consumers create the franchise's fandom, which is the community of fans that indulge in many of its media and are committed to interacting with and keeping up with other consumers. Large franchis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
