Favorite Tokusatsu shows?

Jet_Jaguar · Post by **Jet_Jaguar** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 21:03 -0700

Mine would probably be Ultraman since I can't name very many others. I enjoy watching episodes of the old Ultraman show a lot. At their best, they're almost like 20-minute mini-Godzilla movies with most of the draggy parts (which, IMO, even the good Godzilla movies have) cut out (I think it's rather telling that when Ishiro Honda recut Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster for re-release as part of an early-70s children's film festival, he duplicated most of the cuts that AIP made to the American version).

Speaking of Ultraman, here's something fun I found on YouTube:

Ukelele ULTRAMAN:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Px8Rdb3LSGk

And here's one of my favorites cartoons from the (sadly discontinued about a year ago) web cartoon Dr. Fun:

ardashir · Post by **ardashir** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 16:05 -0700

I remember two shows titled Space Giants and Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot. Good old fashioned monster-smashing fun!

Jet_Jaguar · Post by **Jet_Jaguar** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 20:35 -0700

ardashir wrote:I remember two shows titled Space Giants and Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot. Good old fashioned monster-smashing fun!

Ever seen the anime series Giant Robo? It's one of my favorites. You can get get a box set of the whole series for about $15, which is a pretty good deal.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y9iH1lnlsm0&feature=related

I watched parts of some Johnny Sokko episodes on YouTube, but most of them were removed for some reason. I'd love to see a good DVD set of that series.

Jet_Jaguar · Post by **Jet_Jaguar** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 22:14 -0700

Hey, I just discovered that Hulu.com has some episodes of Johnny Sokko that you can watch for free! Awesome!

http://www.hulu.com/show/285/johnny-sok ... ying-robot

ardashir · Post by **ardashir** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:57 -0700

Bless you. I know a lot of people who will love that link even more than I do.