#the circumstances that got me into tokusatsu in general are kind of insane too since the genre is still niche

[asilosmagdalena]

Changerion fucks me up so much because like this was a show that got canceled and cut down by 13 episodes in its first series because of low ratings and as I watched it for the first time I kept asking myself what the target audience was supposed to be - obviously it was aired as a children's show but had too much adult humor that just wouldn't make sense to kids, but it was too stupid and campy to be enjoyed by edgy adults like other mature tokusatsu, it didn't have much of a plot but the plot it did have was too avant garde.

I don't think Changerion was confused about its target audience but rather it was simply made to appeal to a small handful of people. So it's less surprising that it got canceled and more surprising it ever got on air in the first place. Which makes me appreciate the miracle of Changerion even more and how it would not be as special as it is to me if it did try to appeal to a wider audience and lose all of that strange charm.

Even beyond how much of an anomaly Changerion was for tokusatsu in general, I am amazed of the circumstances which lead to me as an American watching the show for the first decades after it aired. If my life trajectory had gone even slightly differently I would have never even heard of Changerion much less tried watching it. So it holds such a special place in my heart because of all that