Tumblr favorite #1837: Sparkling Tokusatsu

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 005 – Sparkling Tokusatsu.” Here is what Bacchus found.

In this animation’s earliest appearance in its current Tumblr chain of attribution, it is tagged “tokusatsu”, which is more of a description than an attribution. Tokusatsu, it turns out, is the name of a style or genre of Japanese movies (usually science fiction, monster, or horror movies) that rely heavily on special effects. (The word tokusatsu or 特撮 literally means “special filming”.)

The animation, which might be (but probably isn’t) an homage to a “beam me up” moment in classic Star Trek, has the letters “MOK” faintly visible in the lower right corner of all frames. Unfortunately these three letters so commonly serve both as an acronym (for various things) and as a common name that they do not much facilitate Google searching. Neither the artist nor the original source video for this animation could be determined.