Tokutember 2024 Day 29: Animation and FX auteurs Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi bring Hollywood-style FX techniques to the Big Three of Tokusatsu (Godzilla, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider), here as the highly-acclaimed Shin Japan Heroes! #tokutember2024#tokutember#tokusatsu

But BLACK wasn't a "prequel," it'd have to come after BLACK RX for that. BLACK RX is a sequel to BLACK, which was very popular.

Tokutember 2024 Day 28: After 1991's JETMAN saved the then-flagging Super Sentai franchise, the next entry, at least what would ultimately happen to it, would make an even bigger impact in the world! Here's DINOSAUR TASK FORCE ZYURANGER (Toei; 1992)! #tokutember2024#tokutember#tokusatsu

Tokutember 2024 Day 27: This Kamen Rider changed and updated the look of the franchise, in the twilight of Japan's Showa dynasty. Here's Shotaro Ishinomori's KAMEN RIDER BLACK (Toei; 1987)! #tokutember2024#tokutember#tokusatsu

Tokutember 2024 Day 26: By 1982, tokusatsu has entered the Star Wars age, and with it comes new characters, including the first of the Metal Heroes (the one-time brother franchise of Super Sentai), SPACE SHERIFF GAVAN (Toei; 1982)! #tokutember2024#tokutember#tokusatsu

Tokutember 2024 Day 25: The beginning of the Super Sentai franchise (at least noted in the early 1990s)! Here's the 5 heroes of Shotaro Ishinomori & Toru Hirayama's SECRET TASK FORCE GORENGER (Toei; 1975)! #tokutember2024#tokutember#tokutsatsu

Tokutember 2024 Day 24: This Ultraman once became the face of the Ultra Series franchise for a couple of decades, more or less, but is nonetheless fondly regarded by many fans! Here's Ultraman #6, ULTRAMAN TARO (Tsuburaya; 1973)! #tokutember2024#tokutember#tokutsatsu

Tokutember 2024: Day 23: One of my personal favorite moments in tokusatsu, the handshake between the two heroes, the giant hero/Mazinger-inspired robot Jet Jaguar and the King of the Monsters Godzilla, of GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (Toho; 1973)! #tokutember2024#tokutember#tokutsatsu

Tokutember 2024 Day 22: Considered by many superhero fans to be the best tokusatsu hero of the 1970s! Created by Shotaro Ishinomori and Toru Hirayama, here's the powerful (albeit incomplete) robot of justice, ANDROID KIKAIDER (Toei; 1972)! #tokutember2024#tokutember#tokutsatsu

Tokutember 2024 Day 21: Tsuburaya Productions' first non-Ultra superhero! The being from the 2nd Dimension, MIRRORMAN (Tsuburaya; 1971)! Earlier commissioned by Tsuburaya as a manga in 1969! #tokutember2024#tokutember#tokutsatsu