Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club

This article is about a website in the Tokusatsu genre.

Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club (東映特撮ファンクラブ, Tōei Tokusatsu Fan Kurabu), often stylized as TTFC for short, is a premium subscription service launched by Toei, allowing registered members to stream their massive library of tokusatsu productions, chiefly the Kamen Rider Series, the Super Sentai Series, the Metal Hero Series, the Toei Fushigi Comedy Series, as well as various other properties owned by Toei Company. The service also includes exclusive drama or spin-offs, cast interviews, audiodescripted episodes, and functions as a news site for series/movie releases and events as well as contests and merchandise, parallel to other official sites.

History[]

It was originally launched in October of 2015, when Kamen Rider Ghost joined Shuriken Sentai Ninninger as part of Super Hero Time. It costs ¥960 [JPY] a month (roughly $7.30 [USD] as of January 2023) although some media require a separate fee (see further down). Alongside Kamen Rider 1 and Akaranger at a press conference announcing the app was Kamen Rider 555-star Kento Handa. The app was later updated on December 21, 2020 to allow viewers to download videos for offline viewing. In 2022 Summer, the exclusive drama's intro was changed to its current version.

Included series & films; additional paywall[]

Nearly every tokusatsu series, movie, and stage show produced by Toei is included, with a few exceptions:

There are no Hyper Battle Videos except for Kamen Rider Gaim: Fresh Orange Arms is Born! ~You Can Also Seize It! The Power of Fresh~
Gekko Kamen (although the feature films adapting the series are)
Spider-Man and its feature film

For nearly the first five years of its existence, all summer movies from the 2001 Summer Movies lineup (Kamen Rider Agito The Movie: Project G4 / Hyakuju Sentai Gaoranger The Movie: The Fire Mountain, Roars), all Super Sentai winter movies from Engine Sentai Go-Onger VS Gekiranger onwards, all filmed stage shows (ex: tapings of the Final Live Tour stage shows), and media related to Kamen Rider Amazons required an additional rental fee, usually around ¥490 for thirty days although stage shows rentals are only for seven days. On April 1st, 2020, most of the films became available without a separate fee. Currently, only stage shows, Kamen Rider Amazons, and films released to video for roughly less than a year still require a fee, with newer films losing the separate fee as they age and replaced by newer films.

Quality[]

In short, the quality ranges from standard definition to high definition, matching their most recent DVD or Blu-ray release with some caveats:

Shows completed in HD are on TTFC in HD as well, even if they never received a Blu-ray release.
- Nearly every Kamen Rider series, film, and special is remastered in HD, even if they had never received a Blu-ray release and before all of Toei's material switched to HD.
- Many films are available in HD, even ones that never received a Blu-ray release.
Regardless of the highest quality available, all shows and films can also be played from 180p to 480p/1080p, depending on the internet connection speed and user preference (for example, using a lower quality to save on data).
- The download function also has different quality settings, depending in how much storage a device's internal storage or SD card has.

Most of the HD releases are in 720p quality, although newer shows and films released after (or re-released in HD after only being in SD) Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger are all in 1080p. While most of the 720p releases mostly resemble the quality of 1080p releases, a few series and films released around 2012-2017 with 720p video have slight ghosting issues that may or may not distract people when watching. However, in addition to most of the 720p shows and films not having this problem, 720p shows can be upgraded with 1080p masters (case in point being Kamen Rider Gaim when Gaim Gaiden: Kamen Rider Gridon VS Kamen Rider Bravo was released).

List of specials exclusive to TTFC[]

Kamen Rider Outsiders ep.1 Mirror World Treasure and Ouja's Return

Mashin Sentai Kiramager Spin-Off: Yodonna 3: Yodonna's Valentine

Kamen Rider Outsiders ep.2 The Omen of Destruction and Desast's Awakening

Kamen Rider Juuga VS Kamen Rider Orteca

Avataro Sentai Donbrothers: Don Final: We Have Made True Bonds Director's Cut

Geats Extra: Kamen Rider PunkJack

Together with Moffun

Geats Extra: Kamen Rider Tycoon meets Kamen Rider Shinobi

Boiling is the Best! Revice Anime: Steam Paradise A GO! GO! episodes 4-5

Kamen Rider Outsiders ep.3 The Battle Fight Resumes and Zein's Birth

Geats Extra: Geats Anime Another Grand Prix episodes 1-5

Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger with Donbrothers

Kamen Rider Outsiders ep.4 Mad Time and Zein's Identity

Geats Extra: Emergency Special Taken Out of Storage! DesiGra Special

Rita of Gokkan: Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger

Avataro Sentai Donbrothers vs. Avataro Sentai Donburies

Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger: Adventure Heaven Full Version

Three Dark Sisters Presents: Kamen Rider Gotchard Unfinished Plan New Year's Eve Special

Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club

Contents

History[]

Included series & films; additional paywall[]

Quality[]

List of specials exclusive to TTFC[]

See Also[]

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