WEBVTT 00:00:00.650 --> 00:00:03.430 Every Henshin Hero story carries a ritual, a 00:00:03.430 --> 00:00:07.690 shout, a gesture, a pose, a button press. More 00:00:07.690 --> 00:00:10.490 than a trigger, it's a declaration of self. From 00:00:10.490 --> 00:00:12.750 Ultraman and Kamen Rider to Power Rangers and 00:00:12.750 --> 00:00:15.250 Giver, these moments of transformation have evolved 00:00:15.250 --> 00:00:18.350 from simple activation to sacred ceremony. They 00:00:18.350 --> 00:00:21.070 turn technology into theater, emotion into action, 00:00:21.210 --> 00:00:23.870 and intention into identity. Even when this ritual 00:00:23.870 --> 00:00:26.710 seems to vanish, it lingers, reminding us that 00:00:26.710 --> 00:00:28.969 every act of transformation It needs that one 00:00:28.969 --> 00:00:33.049 moment before it becomes real. I've been thinking 00:00:33.049 --> 00:00:35.630 about this lately. The necessity of ritual and 00:00:35.630 --> 00:00:38.189 transformation. Why it feels so essential in 00:00:38.189 --> 00:00:40.789 Henshin Hero stories. Sometimes the device has 00:00:40.789 --> 00:00:43.250 to be activated. Sometimes the hero just wills 00:00:43.250 --> 00:00:45.570 it to happen. But every time, it feels like there's 00:00:45.570 --> 00:00:47.670 something hidden underneath. Something meaningful. 00:00:48.130 --> 00:00:51.469 And honestly, even at the surface level, it just 00:00:51.469 --> 00:00:55.210 looks cool. It looks cool. It feels cool. And 00:00:55.210 --> 00:00:57.960 that matters. If it's flat, It doesn't grab you. 00:00:58.460 --> 00:01:00.899 But when someone raises their arm, hits that 00:01:00.899 --> 00:01:03.320 switch, shouts a word, and suddenly becomes an 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:04.879 armored figure ready to protect the innocent, 00:01:05.060 --> 00:01:10.939 you feel that. You get why it's good. I remember 00:01:10.939 --> 00:01:13.299 watching BioBooster Armor Guyver on those old 00:01:13.299 --> 00:01:15.900 ADV VHS tapes, or maybe it was Manga Entertainment 00:01:15.900 --> 00:01:19.099 at the time. Charles Fonz performances show screaming, 00:01:19.260 --> 00:01:23.799 while transforming stuck with me. Unlike Power 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:25.620 Rangers, Guyver always showed the transformation 00:01:25.620 --> 00:01:29.950 in scene. It was destructive, explosive, sometimes 00:01:29.950 --> 00:01:33.230 even wiping out the enemy outright. It made the 00:01:33.230 --> 00:01:35.390 transformation itself part of the action, and 00:01:35.390 --> 00:01:38.349 that mattered. Later, when Guyver III transforms, 00:01:38.689 --> 00:01:42.650 he just says, Bio -boost. Quiet, controlled, 00:01:42.950 --> 00:01:46.030 no screaming, no jumping. The difference hit 00:01:46.030 --> 00:01:48.769 me. Two heroes, two completely different rituals. 00:01:48.989 --> 00:01:53.250 One feral, one calm. The ritual defines who they 00:01:53.250 --> 00:01:56.730 are. I used to tell my friends that Guyver was 00:01:56.730 --> 00:01:59.569 like rated R Power Rangers. Gory, brutal, darker. 00:02:00.549 --> 00:02:04.010 But I didn't know the word tokusatsu yet. By 00:02:04.010 --> 00:02:05.530 then I had already seen several Power Rangers 00:02:05.530 --> 00:02:09.069 seasons, maybe even Turbo. Those shows held on 00:02:09.069 --> 00:02:11.789 to that sense of wonder. You had the kid Blue 00:02:11.789 --> 00:02:14.629 Ranger, Justin, who literally grew into an adult 00:02:14.629 --> 00:02:16.789 form when he morphed. Their rituals got more 00:02:16.789 --> 00:02:26.060 elaborate. all of the unfulfilled self -nourishing 00:02:26.060 --> 00:02:32.120 rituals and currents. Deludering power rangers, 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:37.439 side by side, to keep streams of earth. To choose 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:41.060 transformation is to kill him, to serve him, 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:45.219 to them, and raise to our survival. Here, in 00:02:45.219 --> 00:02:51.639 his music, cries as ritual, or fear, the money. 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:56.099 Real transformation I feel like. Lying, lying, 00:02:56.120 --> 00:03:00.900 lying, unfathomable. You know, that's it. Looking 00:03:00.900 --> 00:03:05.759 forward, holding Poland in its hair bow. Hanging 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:10.000 like a steering wheel. In sync. In copy. In our 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:13.159 orderliness. Where he says transformation is 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:17.479 trauma. Yeah, he goes as it says. Good. Feel 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:22.620 how ritual deflates me. Oh my god, if we go back 00:03:22.620 --> 00:03:25.219 to the beginning, from Kamen Rider and Gray Ranger, 00:03:25.379 --> 00:03:28.439 even this language of ritual was born. It's simple. 00:03:29.699 --> 00:03:33.860 Then it became a full -blown ceremony. To be 00:03:33.860 --> 00:03:36.300 clear, this doesn't just work. I've reviewed 00:03:36.300 --> 00:03:38.219 both the Kamen Rider and Gray Ranger manga myself. 00:03:39.180 --> 00:03:43.099 I've talked about them in other reviews. And 00:03:43.099 --> 00:03:46.759 I'll look for something curious. Pulling these 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:49.960 details from them. In their manga, how do we... 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:00.159 the mask and that's when the transformation works 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:05.360 in. He's the mask. He's just wearing the suit. 00:04:05.419 --> 00:04:06.919 You see him pull the mask out of his motorcycle, 00:04:07.219 --> 00:04:09.139 and then next thing you know, he's wearing the 00:04:09.139 --> 00:04:11.099 suit as well. You see the evolution happening 00:04:11.099 --> 00:04:15.099 there. And your mom gets similar. She just puts 00:04:15.099 --> 00:04:17.459 on each piece and she's got like a union suit 00:04:17.459 --> 00:04:19.660 with a zipper in the back. finishes with the 00:04:19.660 --> 00:04:48.850 mask and suddenly he's superhuman. I had a trigger 00:04:48.850 --> 00:04:51.290 in the beta capsule, but not original, or had 00:04:51.290 --> 00:04:55.370 fun with it. It worked over time. It just had 00:04:55.370 --> 00:04:59.790 the... And then the role of the presupposing 00:04:59.790 --> 00:05:06.069 call -out came. Moji. I'm her son. At least it's 00:05:06.069 --> 00:05:08.709 all original. I'm an instant fan of its grammar. 00:05:12.449 --> 00:05:17.009 Mission time. I pretty much seriously... Dick. 00:05:20.099 --> 00:05:23.699 She jingles until later. The cues, the animation, 00:05:23.980 --> 00:05:27.480 the voice lines, all the CGI stuff going on behind 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:31.360 them, feel like the ritual to an end. That's 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:32.920 a little bit of a thrill. Although, the idea 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:35.439 of kid shows is what keeps them alive. Often, 00:05:35.579 --> 00:05:39.819 you have a transformation run. And honestly, 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:43.360 this feels real again. The period of transformation 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:48.149 has nearly finished. And it reaches the gap between 00:05:48.149 --> 00:05:54.269 who and who I'll need to become. That's horror. 00:05:54.490 --> 00:06:00.129 And I still love it. As before the fight, that 00:06:00.129 --> 00:06:02.670 pause. It's the moment when the hero pulls themselves 00:06:02.670 --> 00:06:05.529 together and says, what do I have to be now? 00:06:06.689 --> 00:06:09.850 This story is because it is what we wish we could 00:06:09.850 --> 00:06:13.970 do. And this wants that power. And it's hurting 00:06:13.970 --> 00:06:16.879 us to fight back. who calls their name or shouts, 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:21.279 Hanson, to whisper an age, a size, a past, a 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:24.420 fantasy, or a statement of hope. Folks who come 00:06:24.420 --> 00:06:27.079 out to face increments, who find themselves becoming 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:30.439 a double ranger. There's one in two saving others 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:34.339 from the pain they know. Same. To be more, to 00:06:34.339 --> 00:06:39.540 get more. It's higher than circumstances. Reachable 00:06:39.540 --> 00:06:45.050 is the coin list. Ill -made visible. In main 00:06:45.050 --> 00:06:48.370 action, the ritual still matters. It survives 00:06:48.370 --> 00:06:51.329 every reboot and re -inventing. 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