If you can find it, give the first few episodes a try. The 12 characters are split into 4 groups based on an elements (air, fire, earth, water), so there are some rivalries, twists (especially near the end), team combos, and character building here and there. To fight the returning alien alliance, these dozen use the Gransazer armor and their mechas (called Chouseishin). They're well known for their trademark transformation phrase 'Souchaku' (equip).Ĭhouseishin Gransazer follows 12 people who don battles suits made by ancient humans, who were destroyed by an alliance of aliens millions of years ago. They were meant to compete with Kamen Rider and Super Sentai, so you can see some similar tropes that you'd see in Toei's big named franchises. I admit I made it sound lame, and I've only seen 2 of the the 3, but each one does have its own spin on things (at least from the ones I've seen). Chouseishin trilogy - A trilogy of shows (Gransazer, Justiriser, and Sazer X) that basically surround there's a group of people who are given powers and fight aliens, come come equipped with a number of weapons and mechas.

If it's interesting to you, give a watch ( or if you want to get a better opinion look at this video).Ģ. To fight them, he uses a talking sword to become the dragon warrior-Ryukendo, joined by other allies, he fights them! It does have some typical toku tropes you'd see more in Sentai (the more somewhat goofy ones), and it does drag it's story by the end, but it is interesting with its mythos, rivalries between characters, and the powers our heroes use (plus, that theme song is awesome!). Ryukendo - an interesting series I watched back in 2007 that involves a young man returning to his home city to become a cop only to be entangled in a fight against an army of monsters who want to steal the fear from people and use it to resurrect their master. What I'm going to talk about is give a summary about each series down below and mention story and characters, not so much on suit and mecha design as I'm not much of a critic for that (I'm almost 'anything goes' when it comes to design).ġ. This can include toku outside of Japan as well. Alright, with toku having such a long history, let's talk about toku that isn't relatively as known as these.

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