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Best 1 Choujin Sentai Jetman

Choujin Sentai Jetman is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei and broadcast from 1991 to 1992 as an installment of the Super Sentai franchise. Its five bird-themed heroes use powers derived from Birdonic Waves to oppose the interdimensional organization Vyram. Alongside its costum...

2 Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris is a 1999 Japanese kaiju film directed by Shusuke Kaneko. It serves as the final installment in the Heisei Gamera trilogy, following a young woman seeking revenge against the giant turtle Gamera. The film is noted for its dark tone, complex narrative, and groundbreaking pra...

3 Kamen Rider Build

Kamen Rider Build is a Japanese tokusatsu television series broadcast from 2017 to 2018 as part of Toei's Kamen Rider franchise. Its story follows physicist Sento Kiryu, who transforms using Fullbottles and combinations known as Best Matches while investigating his missing identity and the origin of...

4 Ultraman Mebius

Ultraman Mebius is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and first broadcast in 2006, the fortieth anniversary year of the original Ultraman series. It follows the inexperienced Ultraman Mebius, who assumes the human identity Mirai Hibino and joins the defense orga...

5 Gamera 2: Attack of Legion

Gamera 2: Attack of Legion is a 1996 Japanese kaiju film directed by Shusuke Kaneko and produced by Daiei Film. Serving as the direct sequel to Gamera: Guardian of the Universe, the film pits the giant turtle against Legion, a massive extraterrestrial insectoid creature that arrives on Earth via a m...

6 Kamen Rider Kuuga

Kamen Rider Kuuga is a Japanese tokusatsu television series, marking the tenth entry in the Kamen Rider franchise. The show debuted during the Heisei period and served as the initial installment of the revived Kamen Rider series following Kamen Rider Black RX. It represented a transition into the 21...

7 Ultraman Gaia

Ultraman Gaia is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and first broadcast in 1998. It follows scientist Gamu Takayama, who becomes Ultraman Gaia to defend Earth, and Fujimiya Hiroya, who transforms into the initially antagonistic Ultraman Agul. The series is disti...

8 Gamera: Guardian of the Universe

Gamera: Guardian of the Universe is a 1995 Japanese kaiju film directed by Shusuke Kaneko and produced by Daiei Film. It rebooted the Gamera franchise with a more serious, science-fiction-oriented approach compared to the Showa-era films. The movie was the first installment of a trilogy of Heisei-er...

9 Ultraman Nexus

Ultraman Nexus is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and broadcast from 2004 to 2005. It follows members of the secret Night Raiders organization as they fight Space Beasts, while the power of Ultraman Nexus passes between human hosts known as Dunamists. The ser...

10 Ultraman Orb

Ultraman Orb is a 2016 Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions as part of the Ultraman franchise. It follows the wandering hero Gai Kurenai, who transforms into Ultraman Orb and combines the powers of earlier Ultras by using their cards with the Orb Ring. The series wa...

11 GARO: Makai Senki

GARO: Makai Senki is a Japanese tokusatsu television series first broadcast in 2011 and the second full television installment centered on Kouga Saejima. Kouga serves as Garo, the Golden Knight, using armor and a sword to hunt supernatural beings called Horrors. The season continues his established...

12 Denkou Choujin Gridman

Denkou Choujin Gridman is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and broadcast in 1993 and 1994. It follows Naoto Sho, who merges with the electronic being Gridman and enters a computer world to fight monsters created by the program Kahn Digifer. The series combines...

13 Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger

Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger is a 2012 Japanese tokusatsu comedy produced by Toei as an unofficial parody of the Super Sentai franchise. It follows three enthusiasts from Akihabara who transform into color-coded heroes and initially experience their battles as elaborate delusions. Made for adult franc...

14 Ultraman Dyna

Ultraman Dyna is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and first broadcast in 1997. Set after Ultraman Tiga, it follows Shin Asuka, a pilot in the defense organization Super GUTS who transforms into the giant hero Ultraman Dyna. The series combines miniature effect...

15 Kamen Rider Amazons

Kamen Rider Amazons is a Japanese tokusatsu web series released in 2016 and 2017 through Amazon Prime Video in Japan. It reinterprets elements of the 1974 television series Kamen Rider Amazon through a darker story about engineered creatures called Amazons and the people who hunt or coexist with the...

16 Ultraman Max

Ultraman Max is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and originally broadcast in 2005 and 2006. It follows defense-team personnel confronting giant monsters and extraterrestrial threats with the aid of Ultraman Max, a giant hero from space. Created during the Ultr...

17 Power Rangers SPD

Power Rangers S.P.D. is the thirteenth season of the Power Rangers television franchise and was first broadcast in 2005. Adapted from the Japanese Super Sentai series Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, it is set in a future where humans and extraterrestrials coexist on Earth. The story follows recruits in t...

18 Ultraman Geed

Ultraman Geed is a 2017 Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions as part of the Ultraman franchise. Its protagonist, Riku Asakura, learns that he is the son of the recurring villain Ultraman Belial and transforms into Ultraman Geed by combining powers associated with ea...

19 Tokusou Winspector

Tokusou Winspector is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei and broadcast in 1990 as part of the Metal Hero franchise. It follows the Special Rescue Police Winspector, led by police officer Ryoma Kagawa, who transforms into the armored hero Fire and works with the support robots Bi...

20 Ultraman X
Ultraman X

Ultraman X is a 2015 Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions as part of the Ultraman franchise. It follows defense-team member Daichi Ozora, who merges with Ultraman X and fights alongside the organization Xio against monsters and extraterrestrial threats. Digital tech...

21 Kyukyu Sentai GoGoFive

Kyukyu Sentai GoGoFive is a Japanese live-action television series produced by Toei and broadcast from 1999 to 2000 as the twenty-third entry in the Super Sentai franchise. Its five heroes are the Tatsumi siblings, members of a family trained for rescue work who use emergency-service vehicles and eq...

22 Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey (2000)

Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey is a 2000 Japanese tokusatsu film produced by Tsuburaya Productions that serves as the dramatic conclusion to the Ultraman Tiga television series (1996-1997). The film explores the darker aspects of Tiga's backstory, revealing that the Ultraman host Daigo Madoka must...

23 Tokusou Robo Janperson

Tokusou Robo Janperson (1993) is a Toei Metal Hero TV series featuring a standalone robot detective with no human host, drawing visible aesthetic influence from RoboCop.

24 GARO: Red Requiem

A 2010 theatrical film in Keita Amemiya's GARO tokusatsu franchise, presenting a self-contained horror-action story featuring golden knight Kouga Saejima against a powerful Horror.

25 GARO: The One Who Shines in the Darkness

A 2013 GARO television series introducing a new protagonist, Ryuga Dougai, as the latest golden knight Garo, set in a city where Horrors proliferate with unusual density.

26 Tokusou Robo Solbrain

Tokusou Robo Solbrain (1991) is a Toei Metal Hero TV series and sequel to Winspector, continuing the rescue-police format with an enhanced robot-centered task force.

27 Ryukendo
Ryukendo

Ryukendo is a 2006 Japanese tokusatsu series produced as a Takara toy tie-in, centering on a police officer who wields a magic sword to battle a demonic organization.

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28 Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger

The 1992–1993 dinosaur-themed Super Sentai series, Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger was the first Sentai adapted into Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, launching the franchise to international audiences.

29 Hakaider
Hakaider

A 1995 Toei tokusatsu theatrical film recasting Hakaider—the villain from the Kikaider franchise—as an anti-hero fighting a tyrannical ruler in a dystopian walled city.

30 Kidou Keiji Jiban

Kidou Keiji Jiban (1989) is a Toei Metal Hero TV series featuring a detective resurrected as a law-enforcement cyborg, and the first entry in the franchise's police sub-series.

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