Editing Kaiju (section)

===''Kaijin''===
{{Redirect|Kaijin|the Chinese and Japanese legendary creature|Hairen}}
({{nihongo2|怪人}} lit. "Strange person") refers to distorted human beings or humanoid-like creatures. The origin of ''kaijin'' goes back to the early 20th Century Japanese literature, starting with [[Edogawa Rampo]]'s 1936 novel, ''[[The Fiend with Twenty Faces]]''. The story introduced Edogawa's master detective, [[Kogoro Akechi]]'s arch-nemesis, the eponymous "Fiend", a mysterious master of disguise, whose real face was unknown; the ''Moriarty'' to Akechi's ''Sherlock''. Catching the public's imagination, many such literary and movie (and later television) villains took on the mantle of ''kaijin''. To be clear, ''kaijin'' is not an offshoot of ''kaiju''. The first-ever kaijin that appeared on film was ''[[The Great Buddha Arrival (1934 film)|The Great Buddha Arrival]]'' a lost film, made in 1934. After the [[Pacific War]], the term was modernized when it was adopted to describe the bizarre, genetically engineered and [[Cybernetics|cybernetically]] enhanced evil humanoid spawn conceived for the ''[[Kamen Rider Series]]'' in 1971. This created a new splinter of the term, which quickly propagated through the popularity of superhero programs produced from the 1970s, forward. These ''kaijin'' possess rational thought and the power of speech, as do human beings. A successive ''kaijin'' menagerie, in diverse iterations, appeared over numerous series, most notably the ''[[Super Sentai]]'' programs premiering in 1975 (later carried over into ''Super Sentai''{{'}}s English iteration as ''[[Power Rangers]]'' in the 1990s).

This created yet another splinter, as the ''kaijin'' of ''Super Sentai'' have since evolved to feature unique forms and attributes (e.g., [[gigantism]]), existing somewhere between ''kaijin'' and ''kaiju''.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}