#as for some inscrutable reason it was part of the saturday morning rotation during his childhood in the 60s

[artbyblastweave]

You ever see or read any japanese superhero stuff (kamen rider, super sentai, ultraman, magical girls, etc)?

Kamen Rider Ryuki specifically is near and dear to my heart, to the point of fan rider designs, but that was a fluke born from having been really into its attempted rangers-style Americanization, Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight, when I was a little kid. Aside from that, toku and magical girls are mostly outside my wheelhouse. I know what I'm looking at when the allusions crop up and at a glance I know the difference between those four things, but that's about it