Anyway: shout-out to the people who design the suits for various monsters, aliens, robots, and other creatures, especially in tokusatsu.
Personally, I'd like to give a special shout-out to the people who made the suits for the Fangires in Kamen Rider Kiva (2008). These suits have a lot of work put into the design and motifs: each one is based off a different creature, but they all have a stained-glass pattern with a hidden bird motif. Here are a few of my favourites:
Anyway, it would be fun if people added to this post with their favourite suit designs. It doesn't have to necessarily be from a typical "toku" show, as long as it's a practical suit instead of cgi. After all, a lot of work goes into making these!
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I came to the realization a while back that for some reason at least one character in every piece of media I ever hyperfixated on has died and come back to life at least once, so I figured why not pit them all against each other!
Rules:
the character must have died and come back to life
No real people or characters from Harry Potter
Feel free to submit multiple characters, but please don't nominate the same character more than once!
You can submit multiple characters from the same piece of media (each as their own nomination)
While the "tell me more" question is technically optional, the more you ramble about them the better! Provided information will be used in the tournament as built-in propaganda :)
Robots are allowed if they are treated as sentient beings in the source material and/or have a dramatic and emotional death scene
Use your discretion if time travel is involved, things get complicated (I was including examples but it got too long, so rule of thumb- if it feels like A Death in a significant way then you're probably good, as long as it's the same version of the person that comes back)
I can do what I want, this isn't super highly structured and professional- seeding method, number of contestants, etc. will be determined once submissions are in
I'll be busy this week, so you have until Sunday, April 23 to submit nominations to this form! (Update: the nomination period has ended- thank you to everyone who contributed to over 900 submissions!)
Inspired by @the-ultimate-tournament, @fakedmydeathtournament, @number-two-tournament, @blorbopoll, @redandbluebracket, @greenguysummit, @character-of-all-time, and all the other tournament blogs!
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hiii, for a request, can we have a sleepy ranger cuddle pile with all five of them?? if its okay, hehe thank you and hope you get your groove back!! <33
This isn't exactly a pile, but yeah, movie night in the ship!!!
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Today's Canonically Autistic Character is: Billy Cranston from Power Rangers
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My latest video looks at the relationship between children's superhero shows like Power Rangers and other Tokusatsu (e.g. Super Sentai, Kamen Rider) and how effective they are at writing about heroes & hope for the future. I look at the history of tokusatsu (somewhat) before pivoting into rediscovering the joy and wonder that we tend to lose as we get older and our lives get increasingly complex as we learn more about the world, ourselves and all that other complicated stuff.
It's a love letter to the genre of toku & a reminder to protect the part of me that believes in heroes, humanity & the possibility of a future that changes for the better.
I hope you will take the time to give it a look & like/comment to help push it through the algorithm if you have the time!
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