China has Armor Hero, there's a Thai thing called Bima the Garuda Warrior, are there any Korean toku series that aren't just dubs of Japanese stuff?
>>13985592
I'm still sad that Rayforce never happened.
>>13985610
>looks up Rayforce
Aw damn, now I'm sad too.
Korea's got Legend Heroes which recently started airing.
>>13985592
I tried getting into Armor Hero, but I just couldn't. It was just awkward and was trying way too hard.
As far as chinese Toku goes, Giant Saver is way better, in that, it's still bad, but is almost a parody of itself (and sentai series in general) and is actually a fun watch if you don't want something serious.
Also, the company does it's own subs on youtube, which I'm ninety percent sure are just the chinese scripts run through google translate, sometimes with hilarious results.
>>13985592
That middle one looks like Den-O, and the one on the far right reminds me of Tiger.
>>13985650
Why is it that all the other countries have so much better-looking Mechs than Japan?
>>13985766
Japan stopped giving a shit to their mech design and just roll with whatever toy they could get from the bargain bin.
>>13985799
>tfw we'll never have a Sentai with mech designs as good as the ones from Toho's toku shows
>>13985650
>LxC's Angel tried the show and expressed the interest of subbing it at some point, if no one else does by the finale
I hope that he/she is more efficient than the QCer that the group is constantly waiting after, otherwise that'll take years.
>>13985592
Bima is actually Indogs stuff. Also malay got Ultraman Storm or something.
>>13985592
Where was the NTR-Rider from again?
>>13985650
Links?
Any info about the Armor Hero Captor King movie?
Why can't Saban just waste his money on making an original American toku? Like, Mystic Knights was pretty okay... right?
>>13989081
>original american toku
>>13989088
Something not stupid, that is.
>>13989095
You asked for an original american toku and you got one. Are you not satisfied?
>>13989126
can i ask for something that's actually /m/ instead?
>>13989135
Exactly, because Americans are not /m/.
>>13989135
Iron Man? It counts.
Second Armor Hero (XT) is my favorite. You can find the whole thing dubbed into English on Youtube.
I definitely think they learned how to make a proper show after the first series - after all, it was the studio's first hero show.
>>13989081
>Mystic Knights
>American
>>13985710
>That screen
Are they in Starfleet?
>>13985592
There's that CGI furry sentai thing and one where kids ride bikes. Maybe they're one and the same even.
I grew up in Korea in the 90s, and it was a weird time.
The series I grew up with was MMPR. Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
Not Zyurangers, but Saban's Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. So we had Jason, Billy, Trini, Kimberly, Zack, and Tommy.
I grew up watching a Korean dub of an English dub of a Japanese tokusatsu show. Fucking meta, man.
>>13992327
Not as meta as Machiko Soga redubbing her own character in the Japanese dub of MMPR.
>>13989081
Because he progressively cut the funding on his own original shows in favor of his main cash cow.
>>13992461
>Japanese dub of MMPR
What?
How?
Why?
Why Korea and China never replicated the success of tokusatsu? Worst Korea make a lot of money with theirawfulK-dramas and its studios have what Japanese studios never had, total support from the government. Meanwhile, China has a long tradition of stunt actors way bigger than Japan.
>>13992689
Probably because it's fun for them to compare Power Rangers entries with their sources.
I tried the Chinese stuff, but every time they open their mouth I cringe a little. Is this what my homeland has become?
>>13992720
Too busy being normies.
>>13992720
they prefer their "heroes" costumeless.
>>13992886
Korea and China love toku way more than modern Japan does
>>13992877
No it has always been this way since the "Great" Cultural Revolution.
>>13992720
Mainly >>13992900, though they do try it out sometimes. The most noteworthy case is China having a superhero movie from Shaw Brothers called Infra-Man, and it wouldn't feel out of place among other older toku productions.
>>13985592
Seems South Korea had a fair amount of "toku" shows but they go forgotten or unnoticed. So finding them as an English speaker isn't easy.
Maxman (맥스맨)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJeISnpaarQ
Sparkman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w7AuYfv0ZI
Vectorman (지구용사 벡터맨 1기)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ERL_KUzsY
Wild Force (환경수비대 와일드 포스)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOeo_0rEQII
Genta Force (환경전사 젠타포스)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=342L1RliSbI
Newer stuff is:
K-Cop (케이캅 오프닝)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KazyM9exMSs
Gunblade was made into a pilot but never got off the ground. Koichi Sakamoto directed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=236i57oggkw
>>13993382
Forgot to add
Erexion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41SDfsTRJzk
>>13993440
>Erexion
The title sounds like it was sponsored by Viagra or something.
>>13989081
Speaking of Mystic Knights, I wonder why that's the only Saban live action show not on Netflix. Frickin' Next Mutation and Big Bad Beetleborgs got in, but not Panty Shot: The Show.
>>13993382
http://forums.henshinjustice.com/showthread.php?63352-SPARKMAN!!-Korean-Tokusatsu-Hero
>suitmation
Sparkman ought to be tracked down if only so this can be witnessed.
>>13993382
Had no idea there were that many
>>13994351
One reason is Saban signed away distribution rights long ago to a company called MarVista Entertainment and it will be awhile before they will get them back.
But, two rumors I have heard from people who use to work for Saban Brands (take with a grain of salt) is Saban Brands worked with a small Irish production company but never gave them credit. Second rumor is a lot of Irish actors and extras were under paid or not paid at all. And to avoid lawsuits they've never put the show in syndication or gave a full home video release.
>>13985766
Yeah, but the actual mech fights use a lot of shitty cg padding. The actual live action parts of it are..... Charming, in a real shitty way.
>>13988668
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8lZeURETyi1ITXZX1_x35-TTNnMRCZwn
>>13992689
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBX88lYivxg
>>13992877
>>13992907
Context? Is it the language, or the dialogue spoken?
Are there anyrussianshows? Doesn't have to be tokusatsu-esque, but generally some live action hero shows like Smallville, Flash, Arrow, or Daredevil.
>>13986159
How the hell are they going to sub it without a translator who knows Korean?
>>13995505
Incidentally, Angel knows Korean to an extent, otherwise he/she wouldn't understand a thing.
https://twitter.com/lovexcare/status/708483229154566144
>>13995378
Chinese is a very diverse language. So much so that a person from one area of China might have difficulties understanding a person from another area. For nationally broadcast shows like Armor Hero, various dubs of the show are made and the actual spoken dialogue of the cast itself is never heard,
A lot of the voices the characters are given don;t actually match them. Like, at all.
>>13994597
Right given the filming in Ireland it probably has to do with some sort of contractual stuff.
>>13995505
>>13995528
Someone ask Angel how good her Korean is
>>13993382
S. Korea seems to have a complicated love-hate relationship with Japan. Its nationalism is built around the hate toward Japan for the occupation and the Koreans endure the horrible dictatorships and abusive elites with the hope of taking Japan down to the ground (k-pop is the official propaganda for maintaining the status quo) but at the same time they seems fascinated with the Japanese culture
>>13995555
>Chinese is a very diverse language. So much so that a person from one area of China might have difficulties understanding a person from another area.
Imagine if the EU declared one day "The only language spoken in Europe is European." and that English/Welsh/Finnish/German/etc. were just dialects with a few local differences in spelling and pronunciation. That's basically what happened with Chinese.
>>13992900
>>13992927
The wuxia dramas are basically Chinese tokusatsu but they suck almost as much as modern tokusatsu. They say 80s/90s wuxia dramas were great but there aren't subtitles available, just some low quality raws oin youtube
>>13995668
The same thing happened with Germany and Italy after the unification. They're still struggling until now. The racial/cultural unity is a pipe dream, a romantic fantasy and nothing more
>>13995664
That is all of East and South East Asia in a nutshell and not just Korea.
>>13995668
It's like if they declared Dutch or French or German the official language language of the EU and basically forced it down everyone's throats.
>>13995684
There is a release for the 90s version of Three Kingdoms on Piratebay.
>>13995589
That was done already, kind of: https://lovexcare.(word in the press).com/2016/01/08/status-update-2016/#comment-1103
>>13992720
>China never replicated the success of tokusatsu
Bullshit
>>13995664
Koreans are half-Japanese at this point, considering all the rape and the 35 years of occupation.
>>13996045
>Koreans are half-Japanese at this point
What's funny is that both countries would disagree.
>fuck the japs, there's no way I'm one of them
>fuck the koreans, we've made it clear that we hate them, why the fuck would we wanna fuck them?
>>13995783
That "S" at the top looks familiar though I'm not quite sure from where...
>>13995378
The dialogue. It's too cheesy for me. At least when I listen to Japanese, it takes a bit for my to process the cheese which give me time to suspend my common sense. In Chinese I immediately understand what's going on and I realize how ridiculous the whole thing is.
That's just me anyway
Zaido, flip's attempt at toku. Can't remember anything about it.
>>13996345
It's gloriously cheap. Pretty sure it was made as a direct sequel to one of the metal heroes.
>>13995684
I love the low quality of wuxia. It's charming.
>>13996345
>black ranger
>>13993382
>Vectorman
I expected green balls, and I don't know why.
>>13996345
They guys all look the same
https://twitter.com/vernuriko/status/708606510306353156
Oh good, at least Sky79 is helping (how does she manage to have so much time for multi-tasking?).
>>13986159
I'm open to the idea of translating it, but working on a 50 episode show sounds like a buttload of work so I probably wouldn't unless I 'reallyyy' ended up liking it. I still have my fingers crossed that someone else will sub it instead, but it's been two weeks since its premiere and nada...And while it's true that we've been waiting for one of our pals, he's not QC
>>13995505
>>13995528
Korean is my first language, though I honestly wouldn't consider myself a translator
>>13995589
I was born and raised in the USA, so it's at this like "much better than you'd expect me to be" level... People are usually surprised that I can speak it at all, actually. Though I'll be the first to tell you that I'm far from perfect
>>13999837
I'm sure that this sounds crazy, butwe're just watching it for fun
>>14001654
>spoiler
Well, that's fair enough. Don't count on NOP covering the show if it gets official subs though, because he vanished.
>>14001654
>People are usually surprised that I can speak it at all, actually.
?
>>14001749
Some people are ignorant as all fuck and instantly assume certain people can't speak English just by the way they look.
>>13990215
>I definitely think they learned how to make a proper show after the first series
Kinda but
It was still pretty fucking awful
>>14001664
Who's NOP? I'm not very familiar with Korean subbers, I'm afraid
>>14001749
Uh, well...I guess that people who were born here aren't usually expected to be able to speak Korean, much less fluently. It's probably because English is so prevalent here. I used to think that assumption was silly, but I'm actually one of four siblings but my sisters can't speak it at all so... Though in my case, it may also be in part to what >>14001749 said because I'm often mistaken for someone who's "mixed" and yeah
>>14004221
NOP is a guy that rips official English sub streams of various J-dramas, K-dramas and, more recently, CR's Ultraman releases.
>>13994351
Masked Rider isn't on there either
>>13990259
wait, it wasn't?!
also it fucking sucks that they canned it, it was pretty decent
>>13996345
it's not even toku
it's soap opera with special effects
>>14006744
>it's soap opera with special effects
Sounds like Heisei Kamen Rider
>>13992202
No. And they don't got there until the second series. And the enemies they fight are from under the water. The show makes zero sense, but it honestly does it in a glorious way. Also, the mecha are early 90's sentai status. It's freaking amazing. It doesn't take itself seriously, which helps a lot.
The suits are actually really cool too, some of my favorite in the genre.
