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Super Sentai Series to end after this season

• Master Blaster
  Oct 31, 2025
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Who are the Power Rangers going to get content from now?

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• Japan
• (Bandai Namco • business • Pretty Cure • Super Sentai • tokusatsu • toys • TV Asahi • TV shows)

Japan’s super colorful Super Sentai Burger is here, but can this crazy thing actually taste good?

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 16, 2025

Celebration of 50 years of tokusatsu action catches the eye but also worried our mind.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • crazy • Dom Dom Burger • fast food • food • hamburgers • Himitsu Sentai Gorenger • power rangers • SNJO • Super Sentai • taste test • tokusatsu)

Dom Dom Burger releasing Power-Ranger-themed Super Sentai Burger

• Master Blaster
  Sep 6, 2025

Try not to get any sauce on your spandex or rubber monster suits.

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• Japan
• (Dom Dom Burger • Domzou • fast food • food • hamburgers • Himitsu Sentai Gorenger • power rangers • Super Sentai • tokusatsu)

Cosplay in front of explosions and flames at the upcoming fiery Baku Festival

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 23, 2024

Experience the thrill of being an action movie star while posing in front of professionally controlled explosions.

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• Japan
• (action • Baku Festival • cosplay • experience • explosion • film • Hitachiomiya • Ibaraki Prefecture • quarry • special effects • tokusatsu • TV)

Dom Dom’s Squid Devil Burger is here to shake up the gourmet scene like a tokusatsu bad guy

• Oona McGee
  Jan 21, 2024

Join us as we go head to head with Japan’s baddest black burger.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • Dom Dom • Dom Dom Burger • fast food • Kamen Rider • P.K. Sanjun • review • Shocker • SNJO • squid • taste test • tokusatsu)

Black-bun Squid Devil Burger set to shock Japan with tokusatsu-inspired delicious evil

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 12, 2024

Dom Dom goes devilish with Kamen Rider crossover.

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• Japan
• (black burgers • burgers • crazy • Dom Dom Burger • fast food • food • hamburgers • Kamen Rider • squid • tokusatsu)

Tokyo has an anime character-themed perfume shop, and we stopped by to talk with the creator

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 30, 2023

Fairy Tail takes inspiration from anime’s biggest series and stars and turns them into unique fragrances for fans.

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• Japan
• (anime • fragrance • manga • perfume • SNJO • tokusatsu)

Godzilla, Evangelion, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider have formed a giant robot in tokusatsu clip【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  May 20, 2023

Witness the birth of Shin Universe Robo!

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • crazy • Eva Unit-01 • Evangelion • Godzilla • Hideaki Anno • Kamen Rider • S.J.H.U. Project • Shin Godzilla • Shin Kamen Rider • Shin Ultraman • tokusatsu • Ultraman • video)

The new Shin Ultraman movie is out, and here’s what both an Ultraman fan and nonfan think of it

• Dale Roll
  May 19, 2022

Is the new film something only for fans, or can anyone enjoy it?

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• Japan
• (COK • Hideaki Anno • movie • movie review • movies • Shin Ultraman • SNJO • tokusatsu • Ultraman)

No CG here! Clever camera trick has Ultraman towering over the buildings of a real Japanese city

• Casey Baseel
  May 13, 2022

The tokusatsu icon gets a visual boost from a Yokohama landmark.

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• Japan
• (clever • cool • Landmark Tower • photography • tokusatsu • Ultraman • Yokohama)

1:1-scale Ultraman artwork appears on headquarters of Japan’s biggest toymaker【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 2, 2022

Other anime and tokusatsu heroes can be seen on the sidewalk below.

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• Japan
• (awesome • Bandai • COK • cool • life-size • Shin Ultraman • SNJO • tokusatsu • Ultraman)

Ultraman title logo generator set up online by McDonald’s Japan

• Master Blaster
  Apr 23, 2022

What’s old is Shin again!

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• Internet, Japan
• (Chicken Tatsuta • cool • fast food • kaiju • McDonald's • movies • Shin Ultraman • tokusatsu • Ultraman)

New McDonald’s burgers pay homage to an icon of the kaiju genre

• Oona McGee
  Apr 23, 2022

A favourite returns…with some surprising new ingredients.

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• Japan
• (burgers • chicken • Chicken Tatsuta • COK • food • limited edition • marketing • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Mr. Sato • nanban chicken • new • SNJO • taste test • tokusatsu)

Hideaki Anno’s Shin Ultraman gets May 2022 release date, new preview video

• Master Blaster
  Dec 14, 2021

That’s only 72,086 Ultraman fights away!

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• Japan
• (Hideaki Anno • movies • release date • Shin Ultraman • Shinji Higuchi • tokusatsu • Ultraman • video)

The anime cosplay DJ in Tokyo’s crazy Nakagin Capsule Tower apartment【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 26, 2021

Koe finds the perfect space in which to find her creative voice.

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• Japan
• (anime • apartments • architecture • COK • cool • cosplay • crazy • music • Nakagin Capsule Tower • SNJO • tokusatsu • weird)

The often untold story of cleaning up dead kaiju finally coming to theaters next year

• Master Blaster
  Oct 15, 2021

♫Where do daikaiju go when they dieeeee?♪

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• Japan
• (Daikaiju No Atoshimatsu • kaiju • Kaiju Cleanup • movies • Ryosuke Yamada • Satoshi Miki • Shochiku • Tao Tsuchiya • The Great Kaiju's Remains • Toei • tokusatsu)

Kamen Rider Revi’s hoverbike is a real thing that’s on sale now, delivery by early next year

• Master Blaster
  Oct 1, 2021

By far the most expensive toy the long-running series has ever featured.

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• Japan
• (A.L.I Technologies • hoverbike • Kamen Rider • Kamen Rider Revice • technology • tokusatsu • transportation)

First-ever Super Sentai Restaurant opens in Tokyo thanks to high-end karaoke chain Pasela Resorts

• Dale Roll
  Jul 29, 2021

Power Ranger fans, it’s snackin’ time!

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• Japan
• (COK • curry • food • Ikebukuro • power rangers • restaurants • Super Sentai • themed restaurants • tokusatsu • Tokyo)

Here it is: the first look at the new Ultraman movie from Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 29, 2021

First came Shin Godzilla, and now comes Shin Ultraman!

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• Japan
• (Evangelion • Hideaki Anno • kaiju • movies • Shin Ultraman • tokusatsu • Ultraman • video)

Godzilla vs. Dry Indoor Air

• Master Blaster
  Nov 4, 2020

Let them fight.

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• Japan
• (Burning Godzilla King of Humidifiers • Godzilla • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah • humidifiers • movies • novelty goods • tokusatsu)

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