Tokyo: Whose Tokusatsu Godfather Is Such a Menace on Set?

After transmigrating to Tokyo, Higashino Yuma had just started working at Weekly Jump when he was saddled with a million-yen loan shark debt, before he could even enjoy the perks of the era!

He was under pressure from punishing KPIs and threatened by gangsters who wanted to force him into the sex trade.

Just as he kicked open the editor-in-chief's door to confront him

[Ding! The God-Tier Iconic Scene Sage System has been activated!]

[Level 1: Immersion equipped,]

And so he met Yusuke Godai, and the iconic scene “A Black Angel Weeps” was born!

He ran into Kamen Rider Decade, and the line “I'm Decade, the Destroyer of Worlds” was born!

He witnessed Daigo simmering into soup, and even saw Godzilla battle King Ghidorah!

And so Higashino Yuma traveled across countless tokusatsu worlds, becoming a war correspondent.

Years later, Higashino Yuma, renowned Jump editor, master hero-comic artist, godfather of Toei tokusatsu, and king of the world's monsters, was asked in an interview:

“Master Higashino, why did you decide to leave your job as a Jump editor and become a manga artist?”

Higashino Yuma cleared his throat and said:

“What if I told you it was so I could refuse to enter the sex trade?”