> Episode 01: The Red Shadow and the Mountain Monkey, Kotaro
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This is not mine and it's not new.
It's [**kingmenu**'s 2015](https://kingmenu.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/kamen-no-ninja-akakage-anime-is-here/) release. [Or was it by [Shockwave2015](https://i.imgur.com/ydUMvQc.png)? edit: [link](http://jetemperor.blogspot.com/)]
I saw that the [mediafire link](http://www.mediafire.com/watch/xncnl5dc58x0wn2/1987_True_Kamen_no_Ninja_Akakage_EPISODE_01.Official_Shockwave_2015.mkv) surprisingly still worked, so thought it best to put here for archiving before that inevitably goes down.
And for visibility - I am personally very thankful for this and could have easily overlooked it.
Unfortunately it's potato resolution, hardsubbed, not the best translation, and only 1 episode.
But entirely watchable and enjoyable to me.
Someone [uploaded it to youtube](https://youtu.be/s4wcHlSMDi0) [which is how I came across the release].
Here are [some screenshots](https://imgur.com/a/sLeSFoz).
[](https://imgur.com/a/sLeSFoz)
The show looks so cool! Hopefully one day we get a proper release.
I only found it because I was looking for the [1967 tokusatsu show](https://tokusatsu.fandom.com/wiki/Kamen_no_Ninja_Akakage) of the same name [[which is really well seeded](https://nyaa.iss.one/view/940587)].
It too looks great and is also without subs I think.
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1987 True Kamen no Ninja Akakage EPISODE 01.Official Shockwave 2015.mkv (63.5 MiB)
I found something cool from the wikipedia page for Akakage re: the tokusatsu show.
> [Development](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akakage#Development)
> This was Toei's first color tokusatsu superhero show and Japan's first color live-action ninja TV series.[1] Aokage's footage from the series was used to create several Watari films with the titles like *The Magic Sword of Watari* (not to be confused with the unrelated 1966 film *Watari, Ninja Boy*).
Following the External links:
> ["watari-akakage"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100325080803/http://cscentrl.com/watari-akakage). Archived from the original on 2010-03-25. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
> It's popularity extended beyond Japan in the form of three English dubbed movies - basically edited & compiled episodes & footages of the TV series. They soon became known as the WATARI movies due to the rising popularity of Yoshinobu Kaneko who starred in his own ninja-adventure-vehicle entitled NINJA BOY WATARI. Unimaginatively & consequently, they were named WATARI: NINJASCOPE, WATARI THE CONQUEROR & WATARI & THE FANTASTICKS.
[and all three films are on archive.org!](https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Akakage%22)
I'm a huge fan of Watari Ninja Boy, and through following the actor is how I learnt of Akakage.
Cool to learn that I'm not the only one.
No wonder I liked this anime so much given its lineage.
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