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I've recently read Shin Zero, a french comics about Sentai.
Or to be more accurate, it's a mix between Godzilla, Ultraman and Super Sentai.

The setting is that in the 30s, Kaiju appeared from the sea and the Sentai were created to fight them. But the last Kaiju was killed in the 90s and since then, Sentai is no more than a job for young people who need to pay for college or don't have any skills other than throwing a punch.
They get missions like Uber drivers, but those missions are not about fighting monsters or evil organization: it's about being bouncers, or stopping drunk fights in the streets.

The story follow 5 young people living in the same apartment and being sentai from different reasons: paying for internship, paying hospital bills and college, stop being the perfect daughter, fuck the girl who wants to stop being the perfect daughter, and for one of them, proving that Kaiju still exist and be a hero instead of a loser.

There are no flashy fights for now, except in flashbacks, since the Kaiju don't exist anymore. And even in the flashbacks, those fights are portrayed in a more gruesome, realistic way than in tokusatsu.
It's more about the interactions between the 5 characters, their dreams, their flaws, their everyday lives, plus the nice bits of lore and world building that are droped here and there.

There will be 3 volumes. For now only vol 1 is done, and I have no idea what to expect, which is great. Will monsters come back or will the story keep being about growing pains? I don't know. Either way, if it's as good as vol 1, I'll happily read it.
I hope it'll be translated in english soon, so non french speaker can enjoy it as well.

The art is very good, with an incredible attention to details. It's in black and white, except for the sentai costumes, which is a nice idea.