The 38th Super Sentai team has been fully revealed!
Our new Rangers are:
Tokkyu 1 (Red)-Raito, played by Jun Shison
Tokkyu 2 (Blue)-Tokatsuchi, played by Jin Hiramaki
Tokkyu 3 (Yellow)- Hikari, played by Riria
Tokkyu 4 (Green)-Mio, played by Ryusei Yokohama
Tokkyu 5 (Pink)- Kagura, played by Ai Moritaka
Looks like this new group is all aboard for their heroic duties!
With the debut of the 38th Super Sentai team drawing ever closer, Nippon Columbia have revealed details about the opening and ending themes for Ressha Sentai Tokkyuger!
As is typical for many Sentai series, the opening will simply be named “Ressha Sentai Tokkyuger” and will be performed by Ise Daiki (who performed the song “Kamitsuki Brave” on the Kyoryuger: Gaburincho of Music soundtrack). The ending is named “Byun Byun! Tokkyuger!” and will be performed by Project. R, specifically members YOFFY, Takayoshi Tanimoto and Showgo Kamata.
Previews for the songs will likely surface in the coming weeks but in the meantime be sure to join in our ongoing Ressha Sentai Tokkyuger discussion thread!
Pirate and Ninja become one. This is the official Shuriken equipment!
We’re back with another gallery from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger! This time we’re looking at DX Gokai Machine Furaimaru! Furaimaru is a tribute to the character/robot of the same name from Ninpu Sentai Hurricaneger and the Grand Power of that sentai! Furaimaru is also more than just an homage to his previous self but in fact incorporates elements of the main mecha from Hurricanger, Senpuujin! And the very overt shuriken theme of the figure is a direct himage to Shurikenger and his personal mecha, Tenkuujin! When used in conjunction with the DX Gokai Oh you can create Hurricane Gokai Oh!
Of course if you post in this gallery’s thread by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” you’ll be entered into our Toku Toy Box Giveaway! All it takes is a single post in any of our applicable threads and you could win free tokusatsu prize packs! By posting in this thread you’ll be entered in for the:
Kamen Rider Magically Delicious Prize Pack
-S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Wizard Infinity
-S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Abyss
-Special & Copy Candy Toy Wizard Rings
-Inflatable Kamen Rider Gaim Pine Arms Flail
-DX Grape Lock Seed with Ryugen Belt Plate
Good luck to you all! We’ll see you in just a couple days for our final Gokaiger gallery, DX Gokai Machine Engine Machalcon!
Tokumei Sentai Gobusters finally steps into the lime light with the latest magazine coverage from their up coming team up movie with Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. These new scans reveal that the two teams will be joining powers creating a new mecha combination: Tategami Raiden Kyoryuzin!
Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger VS Gobusters: Dinosaur Great Battle! Farewell, Eternal Friends will be making the samba jump into theaters January 28th 2014
For the Power Rangers fans who have looked at, dissected, analyzed, and maybe even obsessed over the era that is known as “the final episodes of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers season 1 and the first handful from season 2″, this is, honestly, akin to finding the Holy Grail. For those of you who do not follow Power Rangers that closely, you’re probably wondering what the heck “zyu2” means. Well, let’s get in to that real quick.
When Mighty Morphin Power Rangers first hit the airwaves, no one expected it to become the huge pop-culture phenomenon – not Fox, not Saban, and not TOEI. The thing was it DID become the huge major success that has lasted 20 years now. Now for a bit of a history lesson.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was an adaption of Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger. The Sentai show lasted 50 some episodes, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers took just about every usable piece of footage they could from its Sentai counterpart. And that’s when the unthinkable happened – there was no more Zyuranger footage to use – and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers had become the biggest toy line and kids show of the 1990’s. Frankly, Saban couldn’t afford to let the show end. It was at that time that Saban reached out to TOEI (the creators of the Super Sentai franchise) and they struck a deal – new footage would be filmed by TOEI for use in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Saban then negotiated the rights for use of Gosei Sentai Dairanger, which result in both the Thunderzords and the White Ranger, as well as all the monsters.
That footage that TOEI created became known to the fandom as Zyu2 – short for Zyuranger 2 – and for years fans have speculated on a literal frame-by-frame analysis. See, there’s a number of monsters from the Zyu2 period that were filmed fighting the original Megazord and Dragonzord, but Saban introduced the Thunderzords early (yay toy sales!), meaning a handful of monsters at the tail-end of the Zyu2 footage had cut/paste battles (ie: you see the Thunder Megazord throw a punch, then cut to the monster who sparks and falls back). The editing was sloppy and at times you can easily make out the original Megazord in the battle when the Thunder Megazord is what the show is intending you to think is fighting the monster. Or in some cases, the monster didn’t grow to super-size to fight the Megazords, which was almost a 100% certainty in the show.
And an announcement came from GrnRngr of GrnRngr.com that he has come in to possession of never-before-seen Zyu2 footage and will release it via his website soon. To prove his point, he released a short video clip show-casing the Bloom of Doom and Invenusable Flytrap growing for a Megazord battle – something they didn’t do in the actual episodes. The footage is in forms of episode blocks, and he states that for each block, there is anywhere from 20% to 50% brand new footage that has never been seen. This could be anything from fight scenes with the Power Rangers to Megazord battles with the Dino Zords and Dragonzord that was cut out in favor of copy/pasting Thunder Megazord footage.
It’s kind of a big deal for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fans. You have to see it to believe it – click here to check out the GrnRngr.com teaser! So what do you think? Are you excited about this never before seen footage? Do you care? As GrnRngr.com updates the fandom on the Zyu2 footage, we will feature his updates. Until then, check out his site – it is an excellent resource for toys and Zyu2 and Zyu 1.5 footage.
If you thought the delusional adventures were over then it’s time to think again! Well maybe. Ryuta Tasaki, the director behind Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, has announced that he’s currently in negotiations for a third season of the critical and commercial hit series for 2015! It still may not happen, but it’s a definite possibility now if the negotiations with Toei go well.
The biggest surprise is that if Season 3 happens he’d like to introduce a 4th Akibaranger! It was an idea tossed around during Season 2 that never materialized but it’s very likely to happen if Season 3 is put into production! No word yet on why they’d be skipping a 2014 production but time will tell as the negotiations move along.
Credit to the fine folks at Rangercrew for pointing us to the original J-hero post about this.
Our friends at Bluefin Distribution has announced that they will be making the Web Exclusive S.H.Figuarts MMPR Blue Ranger/Tricera Ranger release available for North American retailers.
The good news is that the US Release will be happening the same month as the Japanese one in May though no word on Price was given. Given the pricing of past Mighty Morphin releases, collectors should expect somewhere between $40-50 price range.
Our very own MoonBaseTom is back with yet another gallery of the popular Mini Pla figures from the Super Sentai toy lines! This time he’s bringing us, from Tensou Sentai Goseiger, a Mini Pla Gosei Ground gallery! The joy of these Mini Pla toys is that they retain the same transformation and gimmicks seen in the larger DX Mecha, but feature more articulation. There’s so much to this particular Mini Pla that it’s borderline crazy – the Groundian Headder even changes in to an itty-bitty Gosei Knight!
To see all 17 images in this amazing gallery, please click here or on the ”Discuss on the Tokunation forums” link on the bottom right of this news post. What do you think? How many galleries do we have to throw at you before you become a fan of Mini Pla toys?
Thanks to a new Japanese magazine publication, we may finally know some details about the creative minds behind the 38th Super Sentai Series!
The producer for Tokkyuger is one Takaaki Utsunomiya who has previously worked on Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger and Kamen Rider Blade.
The head writer is Yasuko Kobayashi whose resume includes Mirai Sentai Timeranger, Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters and Kamen Rider OOO.
And the director of this new series is Shojiro Nakazawa who has worked on several Sentai movies including “Gokaiger VS Gavan” and “Gekiranger: Hong Kong Decisive Battle!”
Definitely a team of accomplished veterans! So far it sounds like Tokkyuger is on the right track!
This is by no means a new gallery (Den-O actually did this back on New Year’s Day to start off 2013), but we thought it was fitting today to bring up this gallery and share it with you again. When Ikari Gai – aka Gokai Silver – learned that he had the power to change and combine his Ranger Keys if he concentrated enough, he decided to combine the keys of Captain Marvelous and Doc to create Gokai Christmas, a half-red and half-green Gokaiger!
Click here to check out the gallery! Don’t forget to let us know what you got for Christmas this year! You can find that on-going discussion thread by clicking here! Once again, Merry Christmas to all those celebrating today!