How a forgotten 1990s V-Cinema trilogy redefined heroism with a smoking gun and a tear-stained helmet In the pantheon of Japanese superheroes, the color blue usually represents the calm, collected, and occasionally arrogant second-in-command. But in 1994, director Kenjiro Tsumura released Sentai Senki Buster Blue , a direct-to-video trilogy that took the tropes of Super Sentai and executed them by firing squad.
Decades later, the series has crawled out of obscurity to become the ultimate cult artifact: a gritty, rain-soaked noir about a man too broken to save the world, but too angry to die. Traditional Sentai shows are about friendship, primary colors, and combining mecha. Buster Blue is about what happens after the final episode. sentai senki buster blue
A+ Where to stream: Nowhere. Buy the bootleg. It looks better with tracking errors. How a forgotten 1990s V-Cinema trilogy redefined heroism
How a forgotten 1990s V-Cinema trilogy redefined heroism with a smoking gun and a tear-stained helmet In the pantheon of Japanese superheroes, the color blue usually represents the calm, collected, and occasionally arrogant second-in-command. But in 1994, director Kenjiro Tsumura released Sentai Senki Buster Blue , a direct-to-video trilogy that took the tropes of Super Sentai and executed them by firing squad.
Decades later, the series has crawled out of obscurity to become the ultimate cult artifact: a gritty, rain-soaked noir about a man too broken to save the world, but too angry to die. Traditional Sentai shows are about friendship, primary colors, and combining mecha. Buster Blue is about what happens after the final episode.
A+ Where to stream: Nowhere. Buy the bootleg. It looks better with tracking errors.