Japan's Ordinary Hero Battle
This shows exactly how these shows were really made to sell toys. Just look at that plastic.
The biggest media franchise succeeded massively by doing exactly that, so there's no reason not to copy it.
I feel like Super Sentai is older than Pokémon.
By decades, yeah. The first Sentai series, 'Himitsu Sentai Goranger', came out in **1975**.
"By decades, yeah." Oh, so you're going to say some super old year. "1975" Ah... that's after I was born, huh.
Japanese villains follow combat rules. That's all I can explain.
Villains really deserve credit for not attacking while the heroes transform or power up.
That's part of the deal. The heroes let the villain finish his monologue, and in return they do their power-up scene. The last true chivalry.
And the heroes agreed to start in giant robot form and not stomp on the villains. Going giant always has to be the villain's move first.
In one Spider-Verse comic, Superior Spider-Man is tasked with recruiting Japanese Spider-Man Takuya Yamashiro. Yamashiro was fighting a giant monster while piloting a giant mech. The busy Superior Spider-Man convinced Yamashiro to "stop dragging it out and use your finisher from the start." When Yamashiro used his finisher, the monster died instantly, and Yamashiro said that using such a trick felt dishonorable. Fun fact: Japanese Spider-Man is the origin of the giant mechs in sentai shows!
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