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'''''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 [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Death Kremlin]]), are Russians. In this "episode", Red Bear confronts our heroes with [[Monster of the Week|the shark monster Minsk Mask]], while attempting to [[Brainwashed and Crazy|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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5Bszw7L5s here].

==== Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon ====
* '''{{color|red|Ai Kamikaze}}''' (Takeshi Jinpuu)
* '''{{color|blue|Ai Harakiri}}''' (Danji Kiribara)
* '''{{color|yellow|Ai Tempura}}''' (Ageru Koromo)
* '''{{color|green|Ai Sukiyaki}}''' (Nikuo Shirataki)
* '''{{color|pink|Ai Geisha}}''' (Yuki Maiko)

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* [[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.

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[[Category:Toku]]
[[Category:Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon]]
[[Category:Fan Film]]
[[Category:Gainax]]
[[Category:Fan Works of the 1980s]]