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What do you think of Tokusatsu shows and what was your first exposure to it?
I love tokusatsu shows! I've been a fan for years, but last decade was when I started to really get into it.
Like a lot of western fans, my first exposure to it was definitely Power Rangers, albeit I'm not completely sure which was my first full series. I remember watching some bits of Lost Galaxy as a kid, and some Wild Force, but Ninja Storm was when I really got into it, enjoying the tropes and the like. Didn't quite make the jump to Dino Thunder right away, but I got to see the Abarenger episode and it was very entertaining.
My proper return to tokusatsu roughly started around 2011 thanks to a friend very much into it, leading me to read about Gokaiger and Fourze, but my proper return was with Kamen Rider Gaim, very interested about the idea Gen Urobuchi of all people was writing a Kamen Rider series. It really made me a big fan of tokusatsu as a whole and got me to start watching ToQger once it began, and since then I have been following each Toei yearly series to one degree or another, while recently starting out Ultraman from Blazar onward (I did dip my toes into other entries but not regularly enough to stick).
As for what I think of them, I quite appreciate them as fun, often well-directed action shows: I do think starting Kamen Rider with Gaim kinda spoiled me some since it made me a bit reluctant to enjoy Drive due to, frankly, stupid tribalistic reasons, but nowadays I'm fairly open to various styles of tokusatsu, being able to find something to enjoy from both something very serialized like Kingohger or an episodic show like Gotchard. All in all, a very fun time I'd recommend anyone to at least try.
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