Oh dear god so many gorgeous people. Kamen Rider, Power Rangers, Garo, Ultraman, Chouseishin Series, etc. It doesn't matter, all the casting directors seem to love them some pretty.

And it's not all the same, either! There's all kinds of variety and it seriously doesn't matter what your type is, there's someone out there to push your buttons ( Read more... )

It's an amazingly expansive genre, with a really strong experimental region ( Read more... )

The inexplicable queer resonanceGranted, this is mostly in reference to Power Rangers, but it is still a thing I love ( Read more... )

Have we gotten a single series without any ridiculous behind-the-camera drama? Have we? I bet it sucked, because ALL the series have ridiculous production stories, of the sort that make you wonder how anything wound up on the screen at all, yet there they are, airing when they should ( Read more... )

The absolute number one thing I love about toku shows, the thing that most attaches me to the genre, I think, is this:

The shows do not care if they make sense.That doesn't mean that they never do! Some of the best have excellent plots that leave few, if any, holes ( Read more... )

So Remix happened. I wrote Kamen Rider W fic, which was weird because I am like never interested in ficcing Toei shows for some reason. (Then estirose wrote W fic about the main characters being a family of choice and I am ALL OVER THAT. My buttons, they has been pushed ( Read more... )

So, my original plan was just to summarize the shocking and amazing discoveries that second_batgirl made while watching Dekaranger (and then Carranger) drunk, but the chatlogs are kind of a thing of glory so I might as well share the whole thing ( Read more... )