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The series saying he can’t fly seems to mainly refer to him not being able to power up off the ground which isn’t really how condors fly anyway and also we’re shown him doing little hops or jumping and then extending his cape wings to achieve a sort of glide

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You ever think about how Condorman trying to fly by hurling himself off high places is very accurate to how real condors fly and it probably would have worked if he’d actually had wings with a 10 feet wingspan?

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Kamen Rider: We have masked heroes on motorbikes

Sentai: We have heroes in teams

Ultraman: We have giant heroes and kaiju

Kawauchi heroes: We have *putting head together and furiously whispering* RELIGION

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@KaikiSubs8939 @ryuuseipro Oh Jaguar’s Eye is the show that got Gekko Kamen slot after it was cancelled, also starring Ose Koichi. It’s more of an adventure show but it IS one continuous narrative (it also has a masked hero although Senkosha insists it’s not a hero show)

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@KaikiSubs8939 @ryuuseipro Jaguar’s Eye in 1959 was realized with 38 episodes although I don’t know if I would say it’s toku exactly. Rainbowman in 1972 maybe?

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Actually TV toku hero shows began as serialized dramas and adopted the episodic format later

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*taps mic* I think the entire toku community should watch Gekko Kamen

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Condorman simultaneously having pretty basic female representation for a Kawauchi hero show and going okay so here’s a little girl and all the little boys gotta listen to her

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Rider this and Rider that guys guys when is Toei going to give us a modern remake of Nanairo Kamen in which they make Lan Koutarou a cynical asshole who kills all the villains

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Instead of Starfish Hitler, Mr K from Rainbowman should be the new “toku is/isn’t political” discourse guy

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When you’re the lead in a hero show but first you gotta be humiliated on national TV

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But seriously have you seen the amount of dangerous things they do on that show

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Miyauchi Hiroshi would have loved being in Diamond Eye, a show whose entire gimmick is “what if the hero didn’t henshin” but I don’t think he would have loved that first scene where Raiko gets spanked by his mom for dirt bike racing and then a bunch of people photograph him

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Zubat looking so much like color swapped Diamond Eye gets funnier when you remember these shows came out 4 years apart and were made by different studios

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Gonna tell everyone this is Kaiketsu Zubat

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Sorry but according to Mr Ose Koichi of Gekko Kamen fame, ikemen in TV hero shows have been a thing for as long as TV hero shows have been a thing

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We could have a billion versions of subbed Gekko Kamen now wouldn’t that be the dream

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Maybe if we had more “wow Kawauchi heroes are so cool and interesting and absolutely everyone should know about them” people in the toku fandom we wouldn’t have to rely on one set of Rainbowman subs and one set of Condorman subs

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Not that I’m rooting for the bird to get roasted but they wasted so much time doing this whole interrogation thing when that IS what he really looks like. He’s a birb. That’s it that’s the show

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They gotta take turns using one braincell