Toh!!
— Pretty much every character (numerous times)
Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon (愛国戦隊大日本, "Patriotic Squadron Great Japan") is an affectionate parody of the popular Super Sentai series, made by Studio Gainax (yes, that Gainax, except they weren't actually called that yet) in 1982, which is also a satire of the Russo-Japanese War.
The title team is based on Japanese culture (of course) and the villains, the evil Red Bear Empire (led by Grand Secretary Desmarx), are Russians. In this "episode", Red Bear confronts our heroes with the shark monster Minsk Mask, while attempting to brainwash the children of Japan by swapping out the pages of their textbooks with red paper. Shinji Higuchi worked on the special effects.
You can watch the whole thing online.
Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon
- Ai Kamikaze (Takeshi Jinpuu)
- Ai Harakiri (Danji Kiribara)
- Ai Tempura (Ageru Koromo)
- Ai Sukiyaki (Nikuo Shirataki)
- Ai Geisha (Yuki Maiko)
Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon provides examples of the following tropes:
- Shout-Out: A lot.
- "Toh!" is the kiai Kamen Rider uses when he jumps. The characters in this short, however, seem to use it for everything.
- Many shots are copied almost exactly from various Super Sentai series. Specifically, Sun Vulcan, Goggle V, Dynaman and even the Spider-Man tokusatsu.
- The opening and ending themes are really parody versions of the theme from Sun Vulcan and an insert song from Space Warrior Baldios.
- Standard Snippet: Knowledgable viewers will notice BGMs from various tokusatsu soundtracks.
- Theme Naming
- All the members of Dai-Nippon are named after stereotypically Japanese things.
- The same applies to the Red Bear Empire.
- Minsk Kamen is named after Minsk, the capitol of Belarus.
