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Fun fact – Super Sentai and Dragon Ball Super share the same production company known as Toei. Some readers may remember the original Super Sentai homage in Dragon Ball Z – namely the Ginyu Force. But some 30 years later a new homage to Super Sentai exists in the world (or universe) of Dragon Ball Super – the Pride Troopers!

In the latest arch of Dragon Ball Super there is a giant tournament between 10 different universes. From one universe comes a group of warriors who call themselves the Pride Troopers and they will remind you heavily of the Ginyu Force homage as each fighter takes a pose ending with a group shot and a colorful explosion behind them.

Check out the attached image for what we mean. And check out Dragon Ball Super, airing every Saturday, to catch up on what has become one of the hottest animes of 2017!

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under Power Rangers

In what was a surprise, but not a surprise in and of itself, a new episode of Power Rangers Ninja Steel aired in an international market today. Spain aired Power Rangers Ninja Steel Episode 09 today marking the beginning of the international spoilers for Power Rangers Ninja Steel.

We’ve screen captured the entire episode for your viewing enjoyment. Be warned, there are spoilers in these images (somewhat minor but still spoilers none the less). Click the title of the story for nearly 1400 screen captures of Power Rangers Ninja Steel Episode 09!

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Great news for you Power Rangers collectors – the black and gold Legacy Titanus and the Legacy Power Sword are now available both at your local Toys’R’Us store as well as online! If you have a spare $150 or two lying around, do yourself a favor and order today! We’ve included the direct links to order below. Happy ordering!

– Legacy Black & Gold Titanus
– Legacy Power Sword

Have you found the new Legacy Power Rangers items? Let your fellow Power Rangers collectors know in our Sightings forum! It’s broken down state by state so you don’t have to dig through a bunch of threads to find what you’re looking for! Happy hunting!

under Kamen Rider, TokuNation, TokuNation Site Updates, TokuNation Spotlights

“Fire All Core. Drive, Type Miracle!”

In an attempt to revive his fallen friend, Gou Shijima managed to do the impossible& revive one of the most powerful Roidmudes ever, Heart! Simultaneously Gou managed to merge the Cores of Medic & Brain into Heart’s new body. Uniting their hearts and Cores together these 3 Roidmudes became the Kamen Rider to surpass even Drive. Debuting in the Heart/Mach v-Cinema, and finally available in figure form, it’s S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Heart Type Miracle!

Kamen Rider Heart as you’ll undoubtedly notice, is heavily based on Drive’s own Type Tridoron form. Much like the suit in the movie, this figure reuses a majority of Tridoron’s parts. But the new components incorporated into the body are derived from Heart’s original Roidmude form. It’s an odd fusion, but one that somehow works very well. While this is a pretty sparse release, Heart Type Miracle still has plenty of charm to it. Now if we could just get the mismatched Type Speed/Wild/Technic from Bandai, then all of Hearts’ forms would be represented in this line.

We’ve attached a selection of images to this post, but you can view the complete 60+ image gallery after the jump. Just click “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post to be taken to the full review and gallery. Next time we’ll be back with another new gallery from Space Sheriff Gavan!

under Kamen Rider

RIDER….HENSHIN! 

In case you missed it, Bandai will be releasing S.H.Figuarts Takeshi Hongo in December, since the announcement, Bandai’s product page’s been updated with new info including price and a brand new accessory.

Like Retsu, S.H.Figuarts Takeshi Hongo will include an effect piece representing the moment where he transforms into Kamen Rider 1. In addition, Bandai’s finally announced the price: he’ll retail for 6,264 yen.

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While the S.H. MonsterArts line seems to have slowed down considerably over the past few years, one thing they’ve remained pretty consistent on is keeping up with variants of Godzilla himself. This trend continues in December with the release of S.H. MonsterArts Godzilla 2017, based on the King of Monsters’ appearance in the forthcoming Godzilla: Monster Planet anime from Toho Animation and Polygon Pictures. This version is listed as an “Initial production limited edition”.

Despite preorders set to go up on August 1st Bandai have not yet done a full reveal of the figure, suggesting that a full look at this Godzilla design may still be being kept under wraps for the time being. Nevertheless, the figure will be released in December and retail for 9936 yen. No accessories are listed, but the figure will come with some sort of special card.

Check out the full-sized images after the jump!

under Kamen Rider

The very first batch of magazine scans for the 19th Heisei Era Rider Series- Kamen Rider Build has been posted online!

We now have some excellent detailed shots of Build using his Build Driver and Full Bottles to fight-along with his signature weapon the DrillCrusher and motorcycle, the Machine Builder.

When FullBottles are activated in the Driver, the resulting form is dubbed BEST MATCH signifying that Bottles have combined properly.

*Build’s first form, RabbitTank– also referred to as The Moonsault of Steel will be his default form, capable of a powerful Rider Kick attack named Vortech Finish!

*Build’s second form, GorillaMond -the Sparkling Destroyer– is also shown in detail.

Finally, we have confirmation that Kamen Rider Build will fight alongside Kamen Rider Ex-Aid in the TRUE ENDING special movie, AND Build will make a special cameo appearance in the final episode of Ex-Aid.

Kamen Rider Build will officially begin on September 3 2017! Stay tuned to TokuNation between now & then as we keep you up to date on this exciting new Rider Series!

under Super Sentai

The latest round of magazine scans has been posted online, showing us some details about the further adventures of the Uchu Sentai KyuRanger!

*A new challenge approaches in the form of the Vice Shoguns, the strongest warriors the KyuRangers have yet faced. They wield a powerful Dark KyuTama that can be used to turn Rangers evil!

*The first victim of their plan is Naga, who takes on a new form as Hebitsukai Metal!

*To fight back against these Shoguns, HoOh Soldier fuses his personal Voyagers with the other KyuRangers- creating the almighty combination KyuTamaJin! This is the strongest Mecha in the KyuRangers’ arsenal to date!

Definitely some exciting times ahead for the KyuRanger team. Stay tuned to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on all Super Sentai news!

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The crew in charge of the 19th Heisei-Era Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Build has finally been revealed!

*The head writer of Kamen Rider Build is Shogo Muto, whose resume includes several successful drama series.

*The main director of build is Ryuta Tazaki a veteran of multiple tokusatsu projects including Kamen Rider OOO, Seiju Sentai Gingaman and Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.

Some brief story elements are also revealed-

*An item known as the Pandoras Box is found on an expedition to Mars. Once on Earth, the Box unleashes the “Sky Wall” around Japan- separating the nation into 3 parts. Monsters known as the SMASH emerge after the Wall rises & attack humanity.
*Build himself is said to be a genius physicist who views fighting as an experiment- mixing various battle styles with his arsenal of Full Bottles.

Kamen Rider Build will officially begin on September 3, 2017! Stay tuned to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on this exciting new series!

under Power Rangers, San Diego Comic Con

I had the extreme pleasure of attending San Diego Comic Con 2017. This was my fourth year attending and covering the event for our network and every year by the time you go home you’re left dizzy from everything you’ve just experienced. As the sole representative of TokuNation.com my primary focus is to cover all things tokusatsu related, or in the case of American entertainment, that means Power Rangers.

San Diego Comic Con is the largest pop culture convention in the entire world. The number of attendees ranges upwards of 100,000 guests and anyone who has attended the convention will tell you that is no “generous number” … it’s a reality. And this year whispers are it was the largest convention ever. Literally every major entertainment company, regardless of whether or not they have their own convention earlier or later, brings their A game because this is the one time a year that the entire world is watching in anticipation for what you have to show.

This year the Power Rangers brand failed to not only to capture any of the magic or attention they might have acquired from their major motion picture release earlier this year, they failed to show up at all. Please click “Read More” for our in-depth analysis of why this wasn’t just one of the worst years for Power Rangers at San Diego Comic Con but why it may be the worst ever.

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