Is Super Sentai a Japanese show?
Super Sentai
The Super Sentai Series(スーパー戦隊シリーズ,Sūpā Sentai Shirīzu) is a Japanese superhero team metaseries of TV series produced by Toei Company, Toei Agency and Bandai, and aired by TV Asahi ("Sentai" is the Japanese word for "task force" or "fighting squadron"). The shows are of the tokusatsu genre, featuring live action characters and colorful special effects, and are aimed at children. Super Sentai airs alongside the Kamen Rider series in the Super Hero Time programming block on Sunday mornings. In North America, the Super Sentai Series is best known as the source material for the Power Rangers franchise.
Adult animation
Animated works of an erotic nature have come to be described in western fandom as "hentai", the Japanese word for "perverted", while in Japan they are more likely to be referred to as (R-18 anime) or (erotic anime). Although some associate all anime with sexual content, hentai only makes up a very small portion of the Japanese animation industry. As the result of the misconceptions about Japanese animation, some video stores outside Japan have classified children's anime as for adults only. Many video stores have also categorized all adult-oriented animation as anime, including the works of Ralph Bakshi, the French animated film "Fantastic Planet", the Canadian animated film "Heavy Metal" and the HBO television series "Todd McFarlane's Spawn". In the case of "Spawn", Todd McFarlane directly listed anime as an influence, particularly Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira", and stated his hope that the show would help encourage the rise of adult animation on North American networks. This in part lead to the involvement of the Japanese studio Madhouse in the production, in an attempt to "combine" the Eastern and Western styles.
Some of the earliest manga magazines were aimed at adults, and this provided a prime source as the basis for adult anime works. "Weekly Manga Times" began publication in 1956, and would be followed by "Weekly Manga Goraku" (1964), and "Manga Action" (1967). Anime works based on adult manga include "Berserk", "Hellsing Ultimate", "Maison Ikkoku", "Mushishi", "Golden Boy" and "Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari".
In 1969, Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto released "Senya Ichiya Monogatari" (千夜一夜物語) the first of a series of three animated feature films aimed at an adult audience. It was dubbed and released in the United States as "One Thousand and One Arabian Nights". Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto collaborated on the second film in the Animerama series "Kureopatora" (クレオパトラ) released in the United States as "Cleopatra: Queen of Sex". The third film "Kanashimi no Beradonna" (哀しみのベラドンナ) was directed by Eiichi Yamamoto alone. It was entered in the Berlin International Film Festival, but did not achieve commercial success.
In 1984, original video animation (OVA) of an erotic nature began to be released, first "Lolita Anime" by Wonder Kids based on the manga work of Fumio Nakajima, and then later in the year "Cream Lemon", a series which proved to be a big hit in Japan. "La Blue Girl" and "New Angel" are two other erotic anime to be released in United States and Europe in the early 1990s.