TOKUSATSU ARCHIVE

Slowly re-shelving the tokusatsu of the ’90s.

Data, video, collectibles you can still buy, and context that cuts across the shows — gathered in one place. A personally-run archive, made to linger in more than to look things up.

Power Rangers Collection

What these 3 works, set side by side, begin to show

Power Rangers: The Seam Map

Japanese sentai footage crossed the ocean to become America’s Power Rangers. Trace what was reused, and where new footage begins.

Power Rangers →

Production Timeline

Arranged by when they were made, set against what else was happening in the world that year. One long river of Japanese tokusatsu, seeping outward.

Production Timeline → 03

The Memory Museum

We can’t show the real characters. Instead, the public-domain art and figures behind the designs let us retrace all three worlds, legally.

Museum → 04

The Sixth Lineage

DragonRanger, KibaRanger, Ninjaman — how the invention of the “sixth warrior” changed across three short years.

The Sixth →

Look at the shelves

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Video releases, art books, robot toys, soft-vinyl figures — what you can still actually buy, by series. Images via Rakuten (API). Click through to the product (affiliate links).