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The Toku Ladies return with new theme music! We do a roundup of current toku, give our opinions on the movie costumes, and we review Dairanger.

In Mara's first episode as a cohost, we cover everything from why bees don't have boobs to hypersexualized lady villains, to the phallic imagery of many toku monsters. (And mecha.)

In this episode, the Toku Ladies discuss the most recent MMPR movie news, and talk about the endings of some shows and beginnings of others. We also talk about other fandom things we're excited for, including Ghostbusters, Transformers, and Hamilton.   Sadly this is PunkPinkPower's last episode with the podcast, and we wish her the best of luck with her future fandom endeavors.

The Toku Ladies finally get to interview a Power Ranger, and we start off strong with one of our favorite Pink Rangers, Erin Cahill! Erin takes time out of her incredibly busy schedule to talk to the Toku Ladies about Time Force, Jen as the leader of her team, feminism, supporting women, her upcoming work, and her charity work.  Talking with Erin was a fantastic time and a great honor, and the Tok...

The Toku Ladies are back after a 4 month hiatus with new microphones and lots of Toku News to discuss. We talk about our favorite parts of Dino Charge, rage about the ending of Kamen Rider Drive, TerrierLee fills us in about how the TQG movie didn't have enough Grita, and PunkPinkPower convinces the rest of the Toku Ladies to give Ninninger another shot. In this extra long episode we also cover th...

With special guest host UndiesofWondy, the Toku Ladies talk about Body Positivity; what it is, why it's important, and how it's related to the wonderful world of fandom through cosplay and representation. Follow UndiesofWondy! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/undiezofwondy?_rdr=p Website: http://undiesofwondy.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/undiesofwondy Tumblr: http://undiesofwondy.tumblr.com...

In this Toku Transformer Ladies Interview we talk with Mairghread Scott, writer of The Transformers: Windblade comic and many other Transformers titles, in addition to the recent Boom! Studios Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers exclusive 6 issue comic released at SDCC this year.   We pick Mairghread's brain about the Zords, who would win in a fight, the process of creating comics, women in comics and f...

In this much belated episode of Toku Ladies Podcast that sat in technical editing hell for over a month, listen to the Toku Ladies bullshit about things that are no longer relevant to current Toku events, but which might still make some interesting listening and possibly some decent fanfiction at some point.     (I'm really sorry about the incredibly long delay on this one peeps; in addition to my...

In this special interview episode, the Toku Ladies talk to actress and teacher Royce Herron, who portrayed the character of Ms. Appleby in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers seasons 1-3.   From behind the scenes of the original show to discussing feminism, humanism, and her current work, Royce Herron captivates and entertains the Toku Ladies with her experiences and reflections of her outstanding and l...

On The Toku Ladies Podcast's 1 Year Anniversary, we do an episode full of celebrations.   Talking about ourselves, our favorite things, things the podcast has accomplished and our goals for the future, Toku Ladies is leveling up in this special extra length episode.   Join us in celebrating our year milestone with giveaways on our twitter, and be sure to let us know how excited you are for year nu...

Episode 14 finds the Toku Ladies discussing the large amount of jerks in recent Toku episodes, while also lamenting hiatus's, arguing about who Tyler's father might be, getting passionate about the Jake vs. Chase debate, and generally being our sassy, giggling selves.   Stay tuned for our next episode, The Anniversary Episode, where we celebrate doing whatever this is we've been doing for a whole...

Featuring former Time Force Pink Ranger Erin Cahill, this panel was recorded for us by RiderJetFire from DTR during UCLA's first annual Geek Week.   A stunning array of qualified and talented fangirls talk about Super-Shero powers to combat sexism, Nerd Girl Identity, Misogyny and Racism in Geek Spaces, How to be an Ally, and Representation in Media.     Uploaded here with the panel moderator's pe...

How do we Fandom, and why?   It's a universal question, and the Toku Ladies (finally) tackle it in this episode, the long awaited conclusion to Episode 10.   What makes Fandom unique?   What attracts us to certain Fandoms?   What's important about Fandom?   We answer these questions for ourselves and ask them of you in this episode. --- The novel mentioned in this episode is The Song of Achilles b...

Sometimes there just so much news going on in the Toku fandom that discussing and dissecting it all supersedes whatever else we had planned.   From discussing the most recent episodes of Dino Charge, to lamenting the shortcomings of Kamen Rider Drive, to speculating over who will be The Last Ninja (and who should be), to discussing the short "Power/Ranger", the Toku Ladies are here to talk about a...

Here is it! The Dino Charge reaction episode.   Tune in for our fangirl squeeing over the magnificent goddess that is Shelby, and our general analysis of feminism in the first episode of Power Rangers Dino Charge.   Things are looking up, fans.   We also talk about the most recent eye roll worthy events of Drive and ToQger, and the Bullsh*t Weekend of 2015.  

In the 10th episode of Toku Ladies, we talk about *drum roll* representation and why it matters.   Yes, again.   Because it's important, and we miraculously keep finding new things to say about it.   Branching out into other shows and fandoms besides Toku, we talk about the ways in which media has been rapidly changing lately, and how we in fandom have contributed to, effected, and benefited from...

Episode 9, the final episode of 2014 for the Toku Ladies, talks about the Toku holiday specials, their overbearing focus on Christmas and, as always, why diversity matters.   The Toku Ladies end 2014 on a classy note as always, and will be back in 2015 with more episodes about Toku, Women, Feminism, and Fandom.   Thanks for supporting us this year, we hope you have a safe and happy rest of 2014!  

What is a "Token" character?   And what does it mean when Power Rangers and other Toku shows use "The Girl" as a token trait?   In this episode of Toku Ladies, we discuss tokenism as a concept, from token female characters to token love interests.   Since Dino Charge will be featuring Saban's first try at a Token Girl, we engage in a lengthy discussion about our hopes and dreams for Camille Hyde....

This episode of Toku Ladies spends a good deal of time rehashing current Toku events in Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, and Power Rangers.   Then we take a dive into the Listener Mail Bag and talk about the comments and criticisms we've received, and answer some really wonderful questions we've been asked.         If you're looking for the studies cited in this episode, here are the links:     Gender R...

For the Toku Ladies very first interview, we were privileged to talk to Jackie Marchand, one of the longest running writers and producers on Power Rangers.   Listen to Jackie talk about her goals of writing equality between the genders on Power Rangers, what it was like to work with Saban and Disney, her favorite seasons, rangers, and villains, and her own headcanons about feminism and your favori...

This Morphicon recap episode takes a look at the great time had by TheSecondBatgirl and PockySquirrel as they attended Morphicon 4 in Pasadena.   From interviewing Bandai Toy reps and celebrating Tricera-gate victory, to critiquing the problems of the con, to the long awaited Hector David Jr. and His Pizza story, we cover it all and have a great time doing it.     (There may be some audio leveling...

In this episode, the Toku Ladies talk about San Diego Comic Con 2k14, which led to Tricera-Gate and the much needed fandom discussion of gendered marketing in childrens toys.  Also in this episode: The Toku Ladies head to Morphicon, Solicitations for slogans to support women in Toku, Sweden, Friends Don't Let Friends Cosplay, and how to use your wallet to make your voice heard. 

The 4th installment of Toku Ladies touches upon the queer coding in American and Japanese markets, its purpose, and our favorite queer coded ladies throughout Toku. If there's something you think we missed, tweet us @TokuLadies_Pod!   Disclaimer: The Toku Ladies pretty much headcanon all your faves as queer.  This, of course, is just the opinion of the Toku Ladies, and this episode examines the su...

In the third epidode of Toku Ladies, we talk about the ways Toku portray relationships, the good one, the bad ones, and even the sometimes trippy ones. With specific focus on toxic masculinity and abuse apologist narratives, we try to explain why many of the relationships are unhealthy.  Don't worry- we also talk about the few who got it right!  Put on your shipping goggles, listeners! 

In the second episode of the Toku Ladies Podcast, we discuss the movie, why the idea of a true fan is bullshit, mock Jason David Frank, and start a campaign for Corbin Bleu to be in the movie. Oh, and we talk about what we want for a Power Rangers movie, what we hope doesn't happen, and talk about how previous reboots have gone. We keep the ranting about Michael Bay to a minimum. Mostly.