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Maskman
is Toei's eleventh entry of the Super Sentai metaseries. It aired on TV Asahi from February 28, 1987 to February 20, 1988, replacing ''Choushinsei Flashman'' and was replaced by ''Choujyu Sentai Liveman'' with a total of 51 episodes. Its international English title as listed by Toei is simply ''Maskman''. It was the first Super Sentai series that showcased each members having their own individual vehicles that forms their robot, it also introduced non-Japanese martial arts discipline. Plot Commander Sugata is a scientist and sage who excels in mental reinforcements and is a master of every martial arts discipline. He discovered the existence of the Underground Empire Tube, a once peaceful kingdom that has turned into a malignant force under the mysterious Zeba, who desires to conquer the surface. In order to stand against them and thwart their plans, Sugata recruits five young people to become the Maskmen. Each becomes specialized in a style of martial arts, and Sugata teach ...
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Super Sentai
is a Japanese superhero team metaseries and media franchise consisting of television series and films produced by Toei Company, and Bandai, and aired by TV Asahi ("Sentai" is the Japanese word for "task force" or "fighting squadron"). The shows are of the ''tokusatsu'' genre, featuring live action characters and colorful special effects, and are aimed at children. ''Super Sentai'' airs alongside the '' Kamen Rider'' series in the ''Super Hero Time'' programming block on Sunday mornings. In North America, the ''Super Sentai'' series is best known as the source material for the ''Power Rangers'' series. Series overview In every ''Super Sentai'' series, the protagonists are a team of people who – using wrist-worn or hand-held devices – transform into superheroes and gain superpowers – color-coded uniforms, signature weapons, sidearms, and fighting skills – to battle a group of otherworldly supervillains that threaten to take over the Earth. In a typical episode, the her ...
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Choushinsei Flashman
is the tenth installment in the ''Super Sentai'' metaseries produced by Toei Company. It was broadcast on TV Asahi from March 1, 1986, to February 21, 1987 , replacing ''Dengeki Sentai Changeman'' and was replaced by ''Hikari Sentai Maskman'' with 50 episodes. It was the first Sentai series that introduced a second giant robot, Titan Boy. Yutaka Izubuchi designed all the characters in the series. He would return to design characters for ''Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters''. Storyline In 1966, five children were kidnapped by an alien group known as the Alien Hunters for the Reconstructive Experiment Empire Mess, who wanted samples of humans from Earth to experiment on. The children were rescued by Mess' arch enemy, the Flash alien race, which took each one to a different planet of the Flash solar system for training. Each child was trained separately in a range of superpowers that will allow them to fight Mess, their bodies also adapted to the atmosphere of the Flash Solar System makin ...
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Hironobu Kageyama
is a Japanese singer and composer prominent in the soundtracks for anime, video game and tokusatsu productions. He is sometimes called Kami (Kei) by his fans. Kageyama got his big break at age 16, as lead singer of the rock band Lazy. By the early '80s, the band split and Kageyama went solo. He found major success once he started to sing the theme songs of anime and tokusatsu shows. Becoming immensely popular soon after, Kageyama went on to be dubbed the "Prince of Anime/Tokusatsu Songs" and is a main fixture for shows to this day. Kageyama gained notoriety for his opening songs of ''Dengeki Sentai Changeman'', ''Hikari Sentai Maskman'', ''Chōjin Sentai Jetman'', and '' Dragon Ball Z''. He is the original member and current leader of the anisong band JAM Project. Along with Masaaki Endoh, Kageyama hosted ''Anipara Ongakukan'', a TV show aired on the Kids Station Channel that showed live performances of the theme songs of recent anime and tokusatsu shows. The show was canceled i ...
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Chōjū Sentai Liveman
is the twelfth entry of Toei Company's Super Sentai metaseries. The last Super Sentai title of the Shōwa Era, it aired on TV Asahi from February 27, 1988 to February 18, 1989, replacing '' Hikari Sentai Maskman'' and was replaced by '' Kousoku Sentai Turboranger''. Its international English title as listed by Toei is simply ''Liveman''. It was the first Super Sentai series to have a female Blue Ranger as well as the first Super Sentai series that introduced animal-based mecha. It was also the first Super Sentai series that introduced a super-combined robot (that is 2 or more robots put together); the first Super Sentai series to have three members from the start, with two additional members joining later on; it was the last Super Sentai series that had its mechas transported to the battle through a flying fortress on a regular basis, which would not occur again until '' Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger''; and it was the first Super Sentai series to have both a Green Ranger and a ...
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Choujyu Sentai Liveman
is the twelfth entry of Toei Company's Super Sentai metaseries. The last Super Sentai title of the Shōwa Era, it aired on TV Asahi from February 27, 1988 to February 18, 1989, replacing ''Hikari Sentai Maskman'' and was replaced by ''Kousoku Sentai Turboranger''. Its international English title as listed by Toei is simply ''Liveman''. It was the first Super Sentai series to have a female Blue Ranger as well as the first Super Sentai series that introduced animal-based mecha. It was also the first Super Sentai series that introduced a super-combined robot (that is 2 or more robots put together); the first Super Sentai series to have three members from the start, with two additional members joining later on; it was the last Super Sentai series that had its mechas transported to the battle through a flying fortress on a regular basis, which would not occur again until ''Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger''; and it was the first Super Sentai series to have both a Green Ranger and a Black Ra ...
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Hayato Tani
is a Japanese actor and television presenter best known for his career as General Tani in Takeshi's Castle and Commander Sugata in Hikari Sentai Maskman. Biography He was born in Kirishima, Kagoshima, Japan and raised in Sasebo, Nagasaki. He married his first wife in 1971 and married his second wife, Kikko Matsuoka, in 1981, after they appeared in several television shows together. Tani is currently writing a dining guide wherein he discusses maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Tani's roles include General Tani (General Lee in UK and Indian versions) in ''Takeshi's Castle'' ("Captain Tenneal" in the U.S. version '' MXC'') and Commander Sugata in the 1987 ''Super Sentai'' series ''Hikari Sentai Maskman''. He is also sometimes credited as Hayati Tani. Filmography Film *''Rampaging Dragon of the North'' (1966) *'' Zoku Soshiki Bōryoku '' (1967) *''School of the Holy Beast'' (1974), Kenta Aoki Television * ''Key Hunter'' (1968–73), Tatsuhiko Shima * ''Tokugawa Ieyasu'' (1983), Ō ...
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Mina Asami
is a Japanese TV actress and former pink film actress. Life and career Asami made her onscreen debut in a small role in Teruo Ishii's released in October 1979 by Toei. She primarily rose to prominence in six Nikkatsu Roman Porno films in the period 1983–1984. In the 1983 ''Roman porno'' ''Erotic Confessions'', she played the role of a farmer's daughter stranded with a group of sex hungry travelers by a flood in this Edo period historical film by Shōgorō Nishimura. In the 1984 ''White Uniform Story: Molestation!'', Asami plays a nurse brutalized by a psychotic patient. According to film critics Thomas and Yuko Weisser, she "plays a wide-eyed perky virgin impeccably". In her final film for Nikkatsu, Asami starred in the improbable ''College Girls' Dormitory vs Nurse School Students' Dormitory'', which the Weissers call pleasant but "ultimately very dumb". Moving into mainstream film, Asami had a small role in the June 1986 costume drama/comedy . More notable was her taking on ...
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may refer to: Places *Hikari Station, a station on Sanyō Main Line in Hikari, Yamaguchi *Hikari, Chiba, a former town in Sousa District, Chiba, Japan * Hikari, Yamaguchi, a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan People *Hikari (name), people and characters with the name Film and TV *Radiance (2017 film), original title ''Hikari'' * Hikari TV, IPTV provider and production company Music * ''Hikari'' (Maaya Uchida album) * ''Hikari'' (Oceans Ate Alaska album), or the title song by Oceans Ate Alaska, 2017 * "Hikari" (Mai Hoshimura song), a 2008 song by Mai Hoshimura * "Hikari" (Hikaru Utada song), a 2001 song by Hikaru Utada *"Hikari", a 2006 song by Yui Horie *"Hikari", a 2012 song by BT from ''If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I'' * "Hikari" (Pentagon song), a 2017 song by Pentagon Other uses *Hikari (company), a brand of flake-style fish food *Hikari danio The Hikari danio is a new species of danio recently discovered in Burma, and first exported in 2002/2003. It is st ...
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Mecha
In science fiction, or mechs are giant robots or machines controlled by people, typically depicted as humanoid walking vehicles. The term was first used in Japanese (language), Japanese after shortening the English loanword or , but the meaning in Japanese is more inclusive, and or 'giant robot' is the narrower term. Fictional mecha vary greatly in size and shape, but are distinguished from vehicles by their humanoid or Biorobotics, biomorphic appearance, although they are bigger, often much bigger, than human beings. Different Genre#Subgenre, subgenres exist, with varying connotations of realism. The concept of Super Robot and Real Robot are two such examples found in Japanese anime and manga. Real-world piloted humanoid or non-humanoid Robot locomotion, robotic platforms, existing or planned, may also be called "mecha". In Japanese, "mecha" may refer to mobile machinery or vehicles (including aircraft) in general, manned or Mobile robot, otherwise. Characteristics 'Mec ...
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Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of ''hiragana'' and ''katakana''. The characters have Japanese pronunciation, pronunciations; most have two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing character components derived from other Chinese characters. After World War II, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as shinjitai, by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the common folk. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characte ...
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Buggy (automobile)
Buggy is generally used to refer to any lightweight automobile with off road capabilities and sparse bodywork. Most are built either as a kit car or from scratch. History Originally used to describe very lightweight horse-drawn vehicles for one or two persons, the term was extended to lightweight automobiles as they became popular. As automobiles became increasingly sophisticated, the term briefly dropped out of use before being revived to describe more specialised off road vehicles. Types * Bennett buggy, a Canadian, depression era term for an automobile pulled by a horse * Dune buggy, designed for use on sand dunes * Baja Bug, a modified Volkswagen Beetle * Moon buggy, nickname for the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on the Moon during the Apollo program's Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17 missions * Sandrail, a variant of the dune buggy * Swamp buggy, designed for use in swamps * Rock buggy, designed for use in low-speed rock-crawling applications * Rock bouncer, simi ...
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Suzuki RG250
The Suzuki RG250 was a two-cylinder, 250 cc, two-stroke sports motorcycle produced by Suzuki Motor Corporation from 1978 until 1982. First released in 1978 with the RG125 and RG250 to replace the popular GT125 and GT185. The RG250 was a completely new bike when compared to the GT series. Power was improved slightly over the GT250 X7 and weight was reduced by 20 kg leading to a standing 1/4 mile (400m) acceleration of 14.2 seconds. The success of the RG250 was followed by the release of the RG250 Gamma The Suzuki RG250 Gamma was a two-cylinder parallel, water-cooled 250 cc two-stroke motorcycle produced by Suzuki from 1983 to 1987. One of the major features of the RG250 Gamma was its large power-to-weight ratio. Able to produce up to 45 ... in 1983. References RG250 {{Motorcycle-stub ...
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