Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon

"Toh!!"

- Pretty much every character, numerous times

Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon (愛国戦隊大日本, Patriotic Squadron Great Japan) is an Affectionate Parody of the popular Super Sentai series, made by Gainax (yes, that Gainax, except they weren't actually called that yet) in 1982, which is also a satire of the Russo-Japanese War.

The title team is based on Japanese culture (of course) and the villains, the evil Red Bear Empire (led by Death Kremlin), are Russians. In this "episode", Red Bear confronts our heroes with the shark monster Minsk Mask, while attempting to brainwash the children of Japan by swapping out the pages of their textbooks with red paper. Shinji Higuchi worked on the special effects.

You can watch the whole thing here.

Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon

 * Ai Kamikaze (Takeshi Jinpuu)
 * Ai Harakiri (Danji Kiribara)
 * Ai Tempura (Ageru Koromo)
 * Ai Sukiyaki (Nikuo Shirataki)
 * Ai Geisha (Yuki Maiko)


 * Calling Your Attacks
 * TEMPURA JAAAMP!!!
 * Combining Mecha
 * Dirty Communists
 * Everything's Worse with Bears
 * Everything's Even Worse with Sharks
 * Excited Episode Title: Literally, since there's only one episode.
 * Finishing Move
 * Five-Man Band: Considering this is a Sentai parody, this should be obvious.
 * Humongous Mecha
 * Kiai
 * Toh!
 * Library Music: Knowledgable viewers will notice bgms from various tokusatsu soundtracks.
 * Make My Monster Grow
 * Mooks
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Death Kremlin.
 * Shout-Out: A lot.
 * "Toh!" is the Kiai Kamen Rider uses when he jumps. The characters in this short, however, seem to use it for everything.
 * Many shots are copied almost exactly from various Super Sentai series.
 * The opening and ending themes are really parody versions of the theme from Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan and an insert song from Space Warrior Baldios.
 * Theme Music Power-Up
 * Theme Naming: All the members of Dai-Nippon are named after stereotypically Japanese things.
 * The same applies to the Red Bear Empire.
 * Minsk Kamen is named after Minsk, the capitol of Belarus.