Jushen Zhanjidui

I know I am a little late to the game but I just discovered this. Jefusion reported on this back in November.

 This is a Tokusatsu from China called Jushen Zhanjidui, which means "Giant Gods Battle Attack Team" I think the series began in November and it is still going on.

 Most pics from:

http://www.jefusion.com/2012/11/jushen-zhanjidui-chinese-sentai-series.html

 There is six members but the series starts out with three members: Red, Green and Blue; the females are Blue and Yellow. Much like the Grandsezar or Goseiger, the team is split into different sub-groups.

 This is them in their cockpit, which I rather like. Red, Green and Blue are part of the Ren (Man) Team, Black and Yellow part of the Sky Team and Purple is the lone wolf of the Earth Team.

 The Sky team controls the Phoneix, Eagle, and Lion Holy Beasts, and can form the Sky Team Robo and the Earth Team controls the Wolf, Dragon, Tortoise, and Tiger Holy Beasts, and can from the Earth Team Robo.

Three mecha are Giant God Team Robot, Giant Land Team Robot, and the Giant Sky Team Robot.

 

The Ren Team controls the Gorilla, Shark, Boar, Bear, and Bull Holy Beasts, and can form the Giant Team Robo.

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New Tokusatsu (2013): Fire Leon

Pictures from the usual board that I get the caps of Super Sentai and Kamen Rider.

 Info from:

http://risingsuntokusatsu.com/?p=8412

 There is a new tokusatsu that airs on Tokyo MX on Saturdays at 10pm. Each episode features a different local hero (Like sports mascots or mascots for cities) as a guest star, the first episode featured Chojin Naider. A Local Hero is a hero created with imagery indicative of various cities or areas throughout Japan. The series follows Takeru Goudoh, a 20-year-old college student who dreams to be a professional wrestler. 

Official Website:

http://fireleon.com/index.html

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Inazuman in Kamen Rider Movie Taisen Ultimatum!

http://henshinjustice.com/2012/11/08/inazuman-in-kamen-rider-movie-taisen-ultimatum/

 Inazuman is a fictional character created by Shotaro Ishinomori. First appearing in the tokusatsu series of the same name, the mutant superhero has gone on to appear in manga and anime.

 Following Akumaizer 3and Grandain and Skydain in being re-designed old forgotten characters from Shotaro Ishinomori, Inazuman will be in the Kamen Rider Movie Taisen Ultimatum.

 It will premiere in theaters in December 8th.

 The Tokusatsu series aired from October 2, 1973 to March 26, 1974 for 25 episodes and Inazuman Flash aired from April 9, 1974 to September 24, 1974 for 23 episodes. In the manga adaptation by creator Shotaro Ishinomori, Goro Watari is a junior high school student named Saburo Kazeda.

In the first Tokusatsu series, Inazuman was college student Goro Watari, a mutant. He lost his mother as a child and had other dark moments in his childhood but when the Neo-Human Empire Phantom Army begins its attacks on mankind with its Phantom Soldiers and Mutan Robots, he puts his psionic powers to the test.

Related: http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2012/06/kamen-rider-fourze-movie-stuff.html | http://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2012/10/hero-profile-akumaizer-3.html

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Los Luchadores

 I am surprised I haven't mentioned this show. It obviously an acquired taste. It aired on Fox Kids Saturday Morning from February 3, 2001 – July 7, 2001 with just 14 episodes. For those who don't know Spanish, 'Los Luchadores' means 'the fighters' or also wrestlers. They are wrestler superheroes in the vain of the 1960's Batman series. They never revealed their true identities actually. It was a Canadian-American series that was produced by Saban Entertainment and Shavick Entertainment.

 Theme music composers were Paul Gordon, Ron Kenan, and Shuki Levy. If you find Shuki Levy a familar name, it is because he was one of the Executive Producers of Power Rangers. Even though not completely produced by Saban Entertainment, it is like the foreign cousin of Power Rangers.

The show was campy, it wasn't so horrible though. It had three heroes: Lobo Fuerte (Maximo Morrone), Turbine (Levi James) and Maria Valentine (Sarah Carter). They fought a variety of villains.

It competely shocked to me to find this artwork for Los Luchadores, with another logo and different actors and different costumes. These Key Art/Sell Sheet/Promotional Item were designed by Lauren Alpert, who designed other promo posters for Digimon and Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue and Time Force. http://www.laurenalpert.com/entertainment

What I like about the series was that Lobo Fuerte's 'Alfred' of sorts was a Black Hispanic guy who was smart and the mentor look-out in Lobo's secret cave.

Where are they are now?

Maximo Morrone

He played Lobo Fuerte. He is a former model and was acting for years. He has even been on CSI: Miami. Maximo (who modeled for Valentino and Versace) is now a professional photographer. He is still so hot!

Levi James

 I had a massive crush on Turbine, who was like the plucky Robin to Lobo Fuerte. Canadian Levi James now his own rock band called Irreverents. And he is still hot! He is a brunette and obviously he had to dye his hair for the series.

Sarah Carter

She played Maria Valentine. She is a Canadian actress best known for Fallen Skies, she has also been on Dark Angel, Undeclared, CSI: NY, Smallville, and Shark. She was 20 when she was on the show.

I have this poster my nephew recovered from the rubble of all magazines I have.

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Hero Profile: Chojin Bibyun

 The series Akumaizer 3 was followed by a sequel called Chojin Bibyun which used rejected designs from the Kamen Rider series as its hero designs. At the end of the series, the heroes' bodies are destroyed, but their souls survive to be reincarnated in the direct sequel to the show, Choujin Bibyun. So unlike the first series, they had human forms.

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Hero Profile: Akumaizer 3

Akumaizer 3 is a Japanese science fiction tokusatsu television series, created by Shotaro Ishinomori and produced by Toei Company. The series ran for 38 episodes in 1975 on NET, now known as TV Asahi. The series remains obscure outside of Japan, but was popular and renowned in its home country. 

 The program frequently alludes to the famous Alexandre Dumas, père novel The Three Musketeers.  Due to the inhuman nature of the main characters, the primary protagonists and antagonists were portrayed exclusively by stuntmen, with only their voices being portrayed by professional actors. Because of this, an unusual number of well-known voice actors star in the series, as the voices of the main characters. Makio Inoue portrays Xavitan., Kōji Yada plays Evil, and Jōji Yanami provides Gabra's gravelly intonation. 

The program follows the adventures of three mutant superhero-refugees from the "Akuma Clan" ("Devil Clan", in English), a vast empire that exists below the surface of the Earth, and their efforts to stop the Akumas from attacking the surface world. The three warriors are Xavitan, a half-demon swordsman, Evil, a somewhat vain and foppish sharpshooter, and Gabra, a slow- and dim-witted strongman. Together, they make up the superheroic team of the show's title. At the end of the series, the heroes' bodies are destroyed, but their souls survive to be reincarnated in the direct sequel to the show, Choujin Bibyun.

 Recently Bandai made S.I.C. (Super Imaginative Chogokin) figures.

They will soon cameo in Kamen Rider Wizard.

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