Best Tokusatsu

Ultraman Z is a 2020 Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions as part of the Ultraman franchise. It follows the young Ultra warrior Z, who bonds with defense team pilot Haruki Natsukawa to battle giant monsters and extraterrestrial threats on Earth. Z regards Ultraman Z...

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...

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...

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...

Ultraman Blazar is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and first broadcast in 2023. It centers on Gento Hiruma, commander of the special monster-response unit SKaRD, who transforms into Ultraman Blazar while leading a team equipped with experimental defense techn...

Android Kikaider is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei and first broadcast in 1972, based on Shotaro Ishinomori's manga. Its protagonist, Jiro, is an android created with an incomplete conscience circuit who transforms into Kikaider and battles robots controlled by the criminal...

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...

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...

Kaiketsu Zubat is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei and broadcast in 1977. It follows private detective Ken Hayakawa, a guitar-carrying wanderer who adopts the armored identity Zubat while pursuing the killer of his friend. Drawing heavily on Western and wandering-hero imagery,...

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...

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...

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...

Return of Ultraman is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and broadcast from 1971 to 1972. It revived the Ultra television franchise after Ultraseven and follows Hideki Go, a racing driver who merges with a new Ultraman to defend Earth as a member of the defense...

Toei Spider-Man is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei under a licensing agreement with Marvel Comics and broadcast in 1978 and 1979. Its protagonist, motorcycle racer Takuya Yamashiro, gains spiderlike powers and operates the transforming spacecraft Marveller, which becomes the...

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...

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...

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...

Kamen Rider Zero-One is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei and broadcast from 2019 to 2020 as the first Kamen Rider series of Japan's Reiwa era. It follows Aruto Hiden, an aspiring comedian who inherits an artificial-intelligence company and transforms into Kamen Rider Zero-One...

Shin Kamen Rider is a 2023 Japanese superhero film written and directed by Hideaki Anno. It reinterprets the characters and premise of the original 1971 Kamen Rider television series, following Takeshi Hongo after he is transformed into a cybernetic operative by the organization SHOCKER. Produced wi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Broadcast in Japan starting in 1958 by Senkosha, "Moonlight Mask" (Gekko Kamen) is widely recognized as the country's first tokusatsu superhero television series. The show follows a masked, motorcycle-riding vigilante who fights evil organizations and monsters to protect the peace. It became a massi...

Giant Robo is a 1967 Japanese tokusatsu superhero television series produced by Toei Company, based on the manga of the same name by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. The show centers on a young boy who gains control of a massive, remote-controlled robot, utilizing it to combat a global criminal syndicate. It was...

Ultraman Leo is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions, originally broadcast from 1974 to 1975. It is the seventh entry in the long-running Ultra Series franchise. The show is distinguished by its markedly darker tone and intense focus on martial arts training, as t...

"Mirrorman" is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions that originally aired in 1971. The narrative follows Kyotaro Kagami, a half-human protagonist who discovers his heritage and merges with an alien from the Mirror World. By utilizing this extraterrestrial connecti...

Ultraman Decker is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions that premiered in 2022. It serves as a direct sequel to "Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga" and is the 34th entry in the long-running Ultraman franchise. The narrative follows Kanata Asumi, a rookie defen...