Every Henshin Hero story carries a ritual, a
shout, a gesture, a pose, a button press. More
than a trigger, it's a declaration of self. From
Ultraman and Kamen Rider to Power Rangers and
Giver, these moments of transformation have evolved
from simple activation to sacred ceremony. They
turn technology into theater, emotion into action,
and intention into identity. Even when this ritual
seems to vanish, it lingers, reminding us that
every act of transformation It needs that one
moment before it becomes real. I've been thinking
about this lately. The necessity of ritual and
transformation. Why it feels so essential in
Henshin Hero stories. Sometimes the device has
to be activated. Sometimes the hero just wills
it to happen. But every time, it feels like there's
something hidden underneath. Something meaningful.
And honestly, even at the surface level, it just
looks cool. It looks cool. It feels cool. And
that matters. If it's flat, It doesn't grab you.
But when someone raises their arm, hits that
switch, shouts a word, and suddenly becomes an
armored figure ready to protect the innocent,
you feel that. You get why it's good. I remember
watching BioBooster Armor Guyver on those old
ADV VHS tapes, or maybe it was Manga Entertainment
at the time. Charles Fonz performances show screaming,
while transforming stuck with me. Unlike Power
Rangers, Guyver always showed the transformation
in scene. It was destructive, explosive, sometimes
even wiping out the enemy outright. It made the
transformation itself part of the action, and
that mattered. Later, when Guyver III transforms,
he just says, Bio -boost. Quiet, controlled,
no screaming, no jumping. The difference hit
me. Two heroes, two completely different rituals.
One feral, one calm. The ritual defines who they
are. I used to tell my friends that Guyver was
like rated R Power Rangers. Gory, brutal, darker.
But I didn't know the word tokusatsu yet. By
then I had already seen several Power Rangers
seasons, maybe even Turbo. Those shows held on
to that sense of wonder. You had the kid Blue
Ranger, Justin, who literally grew into an adult
form when he morphed. Their rituals got more
elaborate. all of the unfulfilled self -nourishing
rituals and currents. Deludering power rangers,
side by side, to keep streams of earth. To choose
transformation is to kill him, to serve him,
to them, and raise to our survival. Here, in
his music, cries as ritual, or fear, the money.
Real transformation I feel like. Lying, lying,
lying, unfathomable. You know, that's it. Looking
forward, holding Poland in its hair bow. Hanging
like a steering wheel. In sync. In copy. In our
orderliness. Where he says transformation is
trauma. Yeah, he goes as it says. Good. Feel
how ritual deflates me. Oh my god, if we go back
to the beginning, from Kamen Rider and Gray Ranger,
even this language of ritual was born. It's simple.
Then it became a full -blown ceremony. To be
clear, this doesn't just work. I've reviewed
both the Kamen Rider and Gray Ranger manga myself.
I've talked about them in other reviews. And
I'll look for something curious. Pulling these
details from them. In their manga, how do we...
the mask and that's when the transformation works
in. He's the mask. He's just wearing the suit.
You see him pull the mask out of his motorcycle,
and then next thing you know, he's wearing the
suit as well. You see the evolution happening
there. And your mom gets similar. She just puts
on each piece and she's got like a union suit
with a zipper in the back. finishes with the
mask and suddenly he's superhuman. I had a trigger
in the beta capsule, but not original, or had
fun with it. It worked over time. It just had
the... And then the role of the presupposing
call -out came. Moji. I'm her son. At least it's
all original. I'm an instant fan of its grammar.
Mission time. I pretty much seriously... Dick.
She jingles until later. The cues, the animation,
the voice lines, all the CGI stuff going on behind
them, feel like the ritual to an end. That's
a little bit of a thrill. Although, the idea
of kid shows is what keeps them alive. Often,
you have a transformation run. And honestly,
this feels real again. The period of transformation
has nearly finished. And it reaches the gap between
who and who I'll need to become. That's horror.
And I still love it. As before the fight, that
pause. It's the moment when the hero pulls themselves
together and says, what do I have to be now?
This story is because it is what we wish we could
do. And this wants that power. And it's hurting
us to fight back. who calls their name or shouts,
Hanson, to whisper an age, a size, a past, a
fantasy, or a statement of hope. Folks who come
out to face increments, who find themselves becoming
a double ranger. There's one in two saving others
from the pain they know. Same. To be more, to
get more. It's higher than circumstances. Reachable
is the coin list. Ill -made visible. In main
action, the ritual still matters. It survives
every reboot and re -inventing. But transformation,
glory, art, women, and life, is only a moment
in its growth, and its end, going to be next.
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