I'm your crazy but loveable guide Sawbones Quad, whom you HJU people may remember as The_Next!!!
I created this blog as a tokusatsu blog inspired by Shogo B'Stard's Them's Fighting Words. I might be generally rambling on tokusatsu some posts(I'm an equal opportunity fan when it comes to toku), but I mainly created this blog to do ravings, fanboy gushings and sometimes angry, frothing rants about my pet tokusatsu franchise, Ultraman.
I guess I should start with a post on why I choose to fanboy for the Ultra franchise so hard.
Ultraman gets no love from the big fansites and that's a huge shame IMO.
I've heard complaints Ultraman is too formulaic and relies on tradition far too much. I really take that accusation with heaps of salt. Tokusatsu in general is a formula and tradition-based art. Furthermore, there are just as many risky shows with Ultraman as with Sentai...they just tend to get fought over less by the fandom. Even going back to Ultra Seven, which was an almost Star Trek-like show in terms of how it used the world of the show to make points about social issues and gave the crew dynamic more thought than most Ultra series, the franchise has been just as risky, if not moreso for a while.
Besides being the "underdog" of the tokusatsu franchises in terms of fandom lifecycle, I've always felt the Ultra franchise stands out by making the monsters the biggest setpiece and merch opportunity rather than the henshin trinkets, mecha etc.
Furthermore, there's the heart of the franchise. Ultraman has always kept true to a certain philosophy- the optimist view of inner light in humanity, and that alone makes it a series worth defending.
Hope you enjoy more of my fanboying. SHUWAT!
