Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure

But that popularity didn't really translate into business success for the franchise at large going into the '90s.

Kamen Rider became absent from television, being kept alive by stage shows, re-airings, movies, and home video releases, and not returning until the year 2000.

It's become a yearly series ever since then, and is produced and marketed generally much the same as Ultraman and other annualized special effects television franchises, where it's financed, it's in large part by Bandai.

And as it is, the Kamen Rider franchise exists mostly as a vehicle to sell toys to Japanese children and obsessive adult collectors.

Blazar is one of the best shows.

So Blazar is one of the best shows of the last, like, 25 years of Ultraman, 20 years of Ultraman, for sure.

And then Higuchi, the '90s Gamera trilogy is, like, the best trilogy of kaiju movies, period.

And the effects in it are phenomenal.

I agree, I actually like this one.

Yeah, I think we're always chasing down the high that was fucking Mystical Adventure.

I enjoy Rock the Dragon.

I am chasing down the fucking high that was