#kikaider

🐎Happy Year of the Horse!🐎

just some stuff i pulled from a tamotsu shinohara art book. I never know how to talk about it but there's something about the specific aesthetic and industry conventions of tokusatsu monster suit design and construction that is just so cool; The pace they churn those things out at for Saturday morning shows. The way they're so detailed despite most only showing up for one episode. The whole niche of the suit actor as a profession. The creative ways they find to play with and work around the limitations of having to fit a guy into whatever other silhouette they can concoct

I dropped off half of the orders at the post office this afternoon (you should have gotten a tracking number in the mail). I'll be working on packing the rest of them tonight and tomorrow.

I read kikaider

A belated-birthday tribute to Kamen Rider creator, the late great: SHOTARO ISHINOMORI; who would’ve been 87 this past Saturday! A legendary manga ka in his own right, Ishinomori would go on to create numerous transforming (henshin) heroes whose legacies continue to inspire anime, manga, live-action series, movies and even comics abroad to this day! For those not in the know, these characters are: Kamen Rider (top) Inazuman (center) Cyborg 009 (left), Akarenger of Gorenger (right), Skull-Man (bottom right) Android Kikaider (bottom center), Robocon (bottom right) and Grondzel and Skyzel (very bottom center)!

Grimreaper Robot from Kikaider 01