History Manga / TentaiSenshiSunred

A DestructiveParody of {{Toku}} created by Makoto Kubota in 2005, Tentai Senshi Sunred (Astro Fighter Sunred) runs on ''Young [=GanGan=]'', a {{Seinen}} magazine. Currently there are 12 Volumes published. In 2008 the manga got an AnimatedAdaptation running for 26 episodes, later in 2009 a 2nd Season was made, also with 26 episodes.

Sunred is a bit of a jerk who wears his mask at all times. While mooching off of his girlfriend Kayoko, he deals with Florsheim on a daily basis, just not as you'd expect. He's on (grudgingly) friendly terms with General Vamp, and helps him move into a new house, clean his place, and occasionally meet to fight as heroes and villains do. The support cast consists of several monsters from Florsheim and other evil organizations going about their daily lives, as well as several of Sunred's fellow heroes. Expect a lot of {{deconstruction}} of tropes that are usually found in {{toku}}satsu.

Created by Makoto Kubota in 2005, Tentai Senshi Sunred (Astro Fighter Sunred) runs on ''Young [=GanGan=]'', a {{Seinen}} magazine. Currently there are 12 Volumes published. In 2008 the manga got an AnimatedAdaptation running for 26 episodes, later in 2009 a 2nd Season was made, also with 26 episodes.

Sunred is a bit of a jerk who wears his mask at all times. While mooching off of his girlfriend Kayoko, he deals with Florsheim on a daily basis, just not as you'd expect. He's on (grudgingly) friendly terms with General Vamp, and helps him move into a new house, clean his place, and occasionally meet to fight as heroes and villains do. The support cast consists of several monsters from Florsheim and other evil organizations going about their daily lives, as well as several of Sunred's fellow heroes.

** However, when the Devil Eye Army moves into town and tries to become Sunred's new villain group, he convinces them to handle matters with Florsheim first. When he gets home that night, Kayoko is horrified and chastises Red that he has sent much more competent villains to essentially wipe out Florsheim for him, considering one of them was said to have killed three heroes before. Elsewhere in town, General Vamp comes across the Devil Eye Army while out shopping, and when they realize he's with Florsheim, the hero-killer uses his finishing move on Vamp [[spoiler:only to get [[NoSell No-Selled]] by Armor Tiger in a track suit showing up in the nick of time. Back at their apartment, Red reassures Kayoko by telling her that Vamp and the others aren't incredibly weak, he's just much, much stronger than all of them. Cut back to a post-CurbStomp Devil Eye Army, with Armor Tiger upset he's severely hurt Devil Eye's monsters, while Vamp gives the leader a lecture on [[FelonyMisdemeanor his poor manners and how they act like juvenile delinquents]].]]

* MidSeasonUpgrade: In the ColdOpening of Episode 14 (a usual half-way point in any 26-episode TV series), Vamp is over at Red's apartment tidying up for New Year when Vamp spots a box labeled "Firebird Form" in the closet and asks what it is. Red explains the whole MidSeasonUpgrade trope and mentions that Firebird Form is his ultimate form. He then pushes the box farther back into the closet, only for Vamp to exclaim that he won't be able to use it if it's got too many things in front of it. The opening sequence later shows off Firebird Form, once the theme song switches to the second verse.

* MundaneFantastic -- Nobody sees the presence of evil organizations, monsters or masked heroes of justice as being too out of the ordinary.

* RealSongThemeTune {{Invoked}} -- Twice, for a SpecialEditionTitle, a real song has been used. The first season had a polyphonic ringtone version of the incredibly popular (at the time) song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACoHX00x-dk "Shuchishin"]], by the [[MrFanservice male idol group of the same name]], when Vamp had it as his ringtone. The second season used the Kawasaki city anthem [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f7tqUm8q7s "Suki desu, Kawasaki, Ai no Machi"]] in an episode where the song was annoying one of Florsheim's monsters.

* RealSongThemeTune [[Invoked]] -- Twice, for a SpecialEditionTitle, a real song has been used. The first season had a polyphonic ringtone version of the incredibly popular (at the time) song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACoHX00x-dk "Shuchishin"]], by the [[MrFanservice male idol group of the same name]], when Vamp had it as his ringtone. The second season used the Kawasaki city anthem [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f7tqUm8q7s "Suki desu, Kawasaki, Ai no Machi"]] in an episode where the song was annoying one of Florsheim's monsters.

* RealSongThemeTune -- Twice, for a SpecialEditionTitle, a real song has been used. The first season had a polyphonic ringtone version of the incredibly popular (at the time) song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACoHX00x-dk "Shuchishin"]], by the [[MrFanservice male idol group of the same name]], when Vamp had it as his ringtone. The second season used the Kawasaki city anthem [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f7tqUm8q7s "Suki desu, Kawasaki, Ai no Machi"]] in an episode where the song was annoying one of Florsheim's monsters.

** However, when the Devil Eye Army moves into town and tries to become Sunred's new villain group, he convinces them to handle matters with Florsheim first. When he gets home that night, Kayoko is horrified and chastises Red that he has sent much more competent villains to essentially wipe out Florsheim for him, considering one of them was said to have killed three heroes before. Elsewhere in town, General Vamp comes across the Devil Eye Army while out shopping, and when they realize he's with Florsheim, the hero-killer uses his finishing move on Vamp [[spoiler:only to get {{No-Sell}}ed by Armor Tiger in a track suit showing up in the nick of time. Back at their apartment, Red reassures Kayoko by telling her that Vamp and the others aren't incredibly weak, he's just much, much stronger than all of them. Cut back to a post-CurbStomp Devil Eye Army, with Armor Tiger upset he's severely hurt Devil Eye's monsters, while Vamp gives the leader a lecture on [[FelonyMisdemeanor his poor manners and how they act like juvenile delinquents]].]]

* EvilerThanThou -- One short involves an Evil Organization called Devil Eye Army wanting to set up shop in Kawazaki and becoming Sunred's ArchEnemy. Sunred points out he already ''has'' an 'arch-enemy', so Devil Eye Army decide to beat up Florsheim. [[spoiler:They get completely trashed by Armour Tiger on his day off.]]

* HarmlessVillain -- Florsheim has the appearances of this, particularly General Vamp, as Sunred is easily able to defeat the entire monster creations Vamp has at his disposal with simple dirty fighting techniques. Even Vamp has said that the Florsheim Kawasaki Branch is lucky that Sunred is such an honest archenemy. However, when Devil Eye moves into town tries to become Sunred's new villain group, he convinces them to handle matters with Florsheim first. Kayoko is horrified and chastises Red that he has sent much more competent villains to essentially wipe out Florsheim for him. Red responds that [[spoiler:Florsheim isn't insanely weak just because he is able to take them down with little effort, it's that he's just that much stronger than them. Cut to Armor Tiger in civilian clothes delivering a CurbStomp battle to the Devil Eye group while General Vamp [[FelonyMisdemeanor berates them about their poor manners]].]]

* HarmlessVillain -- The entirety of Florsheim, with Vamp as the crowning example. Considering that Vamp has said they're lucky to have such an honest archenemy like Sunred, the odds of him actually being truly mean are very, very low.
** This is subverted half way through the first season when Sunred convinces the new villain Devil Eye that in order to become his new archenemy he has to kill his first archenemy: Vamp of Florsheim. When Kayoko learns of this, she is quick to think that Vamp and the rest of Florsheim are in danger until [[spoiler:Sunred reveals that Florsheim isn't weak; he's just much too strong for them. Cue to Armor Tiger thoroughly kicking Devil Eye and his minions' asses [[FelonyMisdemeanor while Vamp berates them about their manners]].]]

* GoodIsNotNice -- Despite being a hero, Sunred is a bit of a jerk. The other heroes seen to have the same problem (one group from Hokkaido decided to wipe out their entire villain group on a drunken bender).

* TheFaceless: Sunred is never seen without his mask. He even seems to sleep with it on.

* VitriolicBestBuds -- Sunred and Vamp. Vamp's life goal is to exterminate Sunred, which (perhaps understandably) makes Sunred somewhat upset. Sunred, on his side, is a jerk and (perhaps understandably) rather rude towards the Evil Organization who's trying to kill him.

* EmbarrassingRingtone -- Vamp gets a new cell phone and uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfN5pnDs2G0 an instrumental of "Shuchishin"]] (a dated OneHitWonder even at the show's release date) as his ringtone. The combat goons immediately point out how stereotypically 'old man' this is of him. Vamp later gets stuck in Sunred's closet while trying to hide from two of his drunk {{jerkass}} colleagues and the phone promptly goes off with Vamp unable to figure out how to turn it off.

* EmbarrassingRingtone -- Vamp gets a new cell phone with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfN5pnDs2G0 an instrumental of "Shuchishin"]] (a dated OneHitWonder even at the show's release date). The combat goons immediately point out how stereotypically 'old man' this is of him. Vamp later gets stuck in Sunred's closet while trying to hide from two of his drunk {{jerkass}} colleagues and the phone promptly goes off with Vamp unable to figure out how to turn it off.

* EmbarrassingRingtone -- The nominal head villain gets a new cell phone with a ringtone that pegs him as an old guy--and later it goes off when people are trying to hide, and of course the hiding people can't figure out how to turn it off.

* EveryoneHasStandards -- The Animal Soldiers are almost never sent to fight Sunred because they're so weak that local children bully them...yet when Peeled Shrimp asks if he can join them, they're very reluctant in hearing him out.

* TheFriendThatNobodyLikes -- Peeled Shrimp. Despite his senior status (he's been in Florsheim's Kawasaki Division longer than even Vamp), he gets no respect and is often left out of Florsheim's Aqua Monster meetings. However, he isn't treated as such because he's weak -- it's because he's unbelievably arrogant, has a short temper and is all around unpleasant. The closest thing he has to a friend is Durtle, and it's clear that Durtle would rather be doing something else every time they hang out.

* GoKartingWithBowser -- The series in its entirety

** The Ceiling monster is voiced by then {{AKB48}} members Tomomi Itano and Tomomi Kasai, and they sing a song in season 1, although it was simply the B-side to the opening theme song.

'''''Tentai Senshi Sunred''''' (Astro Fighter Sunred) is a story of the battle between the masked {{Sentai}} hero Sunred and the evil Florsheim organization run by General Vamp.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The only big names in the series are Kurumi Mamiya (Anime/{{Hamtaro}}) as Usacots, Hidekatsu Shibata ([[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Führer King Bradley]]) as General Hengel, and Louis Yamada LIII and Higuchi-kun (a French-themed [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine manzai duo]] called Hige Danshaku[[note]]Baron Beard[[/note]]) as General Vamp and Mook #1. Yamada is now the bungling professor in ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger''.

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* GoKartingWithBowser

* HypocriticalHumor -- The monster in the ceiling is a consistent source of this, often berating Vamp's henchmen (and on one occasion, Sunred himself) for being "freeloaders" when he is probably the biggest freeloader in the series. Lampshaded by Vamp's Combat Goons.

* IneffectualDeathThreat -- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSAujonWr1Q&t=00m34s "Omae-tachi! Kolo-chu!"]] ("Kolo-chu" is an extremely cutesy-sounding mispronunciation of the word "korosu", which means "to kill")

** Antkiller is also a noted dick.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter -- All of the Animal Soldiers

* WellExcuseMePrincess -- Kayoko towards Sunred. She's the household's breadwinner, owns their apartment, and is in no way afraid of Sunred or outright criticising him.