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Trogglodyte posted:Full transformation is: That makes perfect sense, thank you!
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Darth TNT posted:Wasn't Goku a hick in Japan? Hank Hill would have a notably different accent. He doesn't sound like a hick, he sounds like a middle class Texan. Goku is meant to sound like some backwoods hillbilly from up in the mountains.
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The first Zero-One update of Ganbarizing is out and with it comes a lot of nice previews of what's to come, not to mention a brand-new overlay as per usual for a new Rider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNl1cnZkX0s Zero-One Rising Hopper. Shows another one of his finishers, with the Attache Saber, the "Rising Bag Strash". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiBx7Qjceis The second of Zero-One's forms, Biting Shark . Also shows what the relationship between the two first Riders will be (bad). No sounds, weirdly enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifsj589V1-0 Said second Rider, Vulcan. This finisher is so cool, I hope it's like this in the series too. The Rising Impact was copied perfectly so I'm guessing it will be. Also that's a really forceful way of opening that Progrise Key. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvkwDqLVvuk Third form for Zero-One, Rising Falcon (I'm pretty sure this is actually his second form but this was the order of videos). God, he's such a dork about flying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HknHnvR9nA4 Second form for the second Rider, Punching Kong. Again no sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ3GQjWgeQM And our third Rider, Valkyrie. That's a neat fighting style. Also, I just noticed both Vulcan and Valkyrie have little claws on their coloured arm and leg and that's adorable. That's all for Zero-One, but there are some neat cards of other Riders too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhANbr3Ripc Den-O Liner Form/Zeronos Zero Form team-up. Nice combo move at the end and nice opening too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ANw4wW_QYM Some Showa goodness too with Satan Sabre Black. A solemn entrance, and a solemn ending. I need to actually watch Black someday if he's this cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ0CeioIJmE Build RabbitTank Hazard. Most of it is uninteresting but the finisher is so incredibly brutal I had to share it.
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Someone who knows japanese please place this hank hill accent and settle the debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JH4YIXfNeA
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Did people keep uploading subs for Ultraman Taiga after what happened to R/B? Because now episodes 7 and 8 are down from the official channel.
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Blaze Dragon posted:I need to actually watch Black someday if he's this cool! https://i.imgur.com/idcKwtC.mp4 You need to watch Black, he's that cool.
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Relevant cross-post from the PYF Cute Thread: https://thumbs.gfycat.com/RecentFlimsyBarasingha-mobile.mp4
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Blaze Dragon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ0CeioIJmE They sure got all the little details of Sento murdering a dude. Although it seems like Mach is hated by everyone so no big loss apparently. I wonder if they did all that work for Cronus. His kick is some mid-90s SNK poo poo.
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So Zero-One episode 2 kept up the momentum of the first episode with that same pace of "All comedy and calm build-up is purely to lower your guard with multiple sucker punches of varying qualities." Aruto making goofy stand-up while being investigated by A.I.M.S. for the recent Magia problem? Simple, follow it up with an innocent deliveryman getting Metsuboujinrai'd and told to kill every human. Aruto having a heart-to-heart with a kind security guard HumaGear for protecting people from the deliveryman Magia? That one's a double-whammy. Because it's followed up with Isamu telling Aruto about a horrific robot apocalypse - complete with flashbacks to show us in detail - he lived through, and at the same time that same kind security guard gets taken over by the Zetsumeriser as well. And it just builds on that, and replaces the shocking sucker punches with hype ones. Aruto reaffirming to himself his love for HumaGears while Isamu reaffirms his hatred of them, all while giving these heavy-handed but excellent passionate speeches before they each transform. And then it gets even more hype with Vulcan's transformation because he just loving rips open the Progrise Key and the transformation involves him punching a bullet out of the air! And the fights, oh goodness. Every fight this episode was even better than the fight we got last episode. Nawata, being a young buck compared to the now old and nearly-retired Takaiwa, has a lot more capacity for acrobatics and it shows. The show's maintaining strong promise, I'm beyond excited.
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Hello thread Let's talk about UltraSeven What I want to talk about today is ‘Heisei’ UltraSeven, which for simplicity I’ll refer to as UltraSeven Evolution. Though that was only the subtitle given to the last of the 90s and early 2000s UltraSeven series, it does broadly fit the whole of Heisei UltraSeven and it also keeps me from having to constantly use a Japanese term that I’m going to wager some of you don’t really understand. What it is, for UltraSeven’s 25th, 30th and 35th anniversaries, more or less, Tsuburaya brought back the character and setting for brand new adventures and stories. But that’s not really fair to newcomers who have no idea what any of this even is to begin with! So let’s take a step back. What I want to talk about is some poo poo made in the 90s and 2000s in Japan, but what I’m going to talk about in this blurb is the context for all of that to make sense. Let’s roll the wheel of time back a few decades to 1954. Less than ten years after WWII went down, Japanese and American relationships were still wounded, not made any better when an American H Bomb test went way out of control and caught fishing ships in its wake. Sadly it would leave no survivors, the sailors dying from radiation poisoning not long after. This would inspire Toho Studios, one of the largest film studios in Japan, to set to work on Gojira, which would eventually come to the US as Godzilla, King of the Monsters in 1956. We have to tie things back this far because the man who brought Godzilla to life, the effective creator of the Tokusatsu Genre for Japan, was none other than Eiji Tsuburaya. For you new comers, as I’m going to be posting this in more than just the Toku thread, Tokusatsu is basically just ‘Live Action Special Effects’. The CW Super Hero series are an example of American Tokusatsu, as would the X-Files be and other similar shows. It doesn’t strictly mean super heroes, but that is what it has become closely associated with. There are, in theory, examples of these movies before Godzilla in Japanese history, but all of them have been lost to time sadly. Godzilla changed the game and Tsuburaya was the man behind it all. Using his clout and influence, Tsuburaya established his own special effects studio that would begin developing projects for TV, while also aiding him on Toho movie projects. Due to this, while constrained to a weekly budget, Tsuburaya was able to pull off some impressive stuff on the small screen, and had access to top of the line recording equipment and special effects artists. Due to his unique and personal relationship with Toho he could even reuse suits, props and sound effects for his own personal series. The first of which being the classic black and white 1965 series, Ultra Q. Ultra Q is an interesting beast of a series. We won’t spend too long on it because it is in many ways Tsuburaya getting his feet wet and proving that his plans could work on a weekly TV program. It is in effect Japan’s answer to the Outer Limits or the Twilight Zone, closer to the Monster of the Week formula of the former though some episodes dip further into the latter. Never an overly serious show, the episodes range from twenty five minute monster movies, to out there fantasy fables and bizarre sci-fi tales with almost zero continuity in between. The reoccuring cast do not grow, merely acting as audience cyphers across the strange and weird tales that run the gambit of furry mole Godzilla fighting feathery Rodan, an actual giant mole monster, the Giant Octopus that fought King Kong and Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s children getting his own adventure, and a magical train that goes to the fourth dimension where walruses exist. Also crippled old ladies are suddenly able to walk again because of radiation and a little boy rides on a flying turtle to fight Manda in space. It’s a weird series. But it also ran out of steam quickly, Tsuburaya growing discontent with the program. He felt that they needed something else, something more to add. Real heroes, to combat the alien invaders and kaiju week after week. So, after a lot of design work and a lot of testing, Ultraman 1966 was created. Ultraman is a whole story all on its own, one of the most influential things in modern Japanese culture that is omnipresent across Japanese media. Largely considered the Superman of Japan, Ultraman is up there with the most recognizable and popular of Japanese fictional heroes. Without Ultraman, there would be no Kamen Rider, no Super Sentai/Power Rangers, no Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, probably a very different Dragon Ball, and so much more. But Ultraman is an interesting show to talk about. The thing with it was, it was never a very serious show. There were serious episodes, one of them is a stand out for being so dark and somber and touching on very real, very bitter concerns and emotions. But by and large, the show had a very fantastical feel to it, fitting better as Science Fantasy than anything. There was very little gravitas to the whole endeavor- Ultraman was a near invincible space God who could do drat near anything, the heroes were good and pure, and the aliens were all a bunch of bastards. Kaiju are inherently dangerous and must be wiped out and the show didn’t really care about the morality of things. Except for one episode. That stand out episode mentioned before, episode 23. My Home Is Earth. A mysterious alien in an invisible spaceship comes to Earth and starts attacking the UN during important peace talks. The Science Patrol are tasked with stopping this alien without letting the world know of his true origins- namely the fact that he’s not an alien at all. His name is Jamila, and he was a human astronaut who was stranded in space, abandoned by his own people. He found himself on an inhospitable alien world with no water and ended up mutating into a grotesque, horrifying new form and eventually repaired and upgraded his ship to return to Earth and reveal the crimes of his country, who hid what happened to him. It is a dark story that sees the comic relief of the show, Ide, go from being eager to kill this rogue alien to finding out the truth of him and having an emotional breakdown. Ultraman is forced to drown the poor man in the end, and the peace talks go on without a hitch, Jamila’s true fate kept secret from the world. Ide remarks bitterly that this is always the way with politicians and angrily leaves, to the cries of his fellows. This is the only episode of Ultraman like this. Most of Ultraman is very silly and fun, very light hearted. It is a grand show with a lot of imagination and heart, but by its very nature it was limiting. Creatively stifling. Episodes like Jamila were what appealed to Tsuburaya more, and so he decided to cut Ultraman short at 39 episodes and move on. The TV stations begged him to keep the show going, but he felt he had done everything he could with the program like Ultra Q before it. He wanted to explore new ideas, go further than Ultraman ever had, and tell stronger, better stories. Which brings us to 1967, UltraSeven. UltraSeven, it needs to be said, is not a sequel to Ultraman and does not take place in Ultraman’s universe. The two are not connected at all, and as of this period of time, UltraSeven is not an Ultraman. He is Agent 340, a cartographer from the M78 Nebula- Ultraman only ever referred to being from the Land of Light- whose original name wasn’t even going to be Ultra related. In progress names had him as Redman, UltraEye and others. Even the name UltraSeven does not refer to Ultraman at all. In UltraSeven, there is a Terrestrial Defense Force, a kind of world wide military, with a specialized unit for dealing with alien attackers, the Ultra Garrison. Each member are denoted as Ultra One, Ultra Two and so on. With his job to map the Milky Way Galaxy, Seven wandered to Earth and found an inspiring sight- a mountaineer sacrificing himself so that his partner could live, cutting his own rope when they were in trouble. Saving the man before he died and shape shifting into his form, Seven took the human name Dan Moroboshi. From there Dan would join the Ultra Garrison as Ultra Six, which left his true form as, of course, UltraSeven. UltraSeven the series and character are far more serious and nuanced- the characters in Ultraman are largely archetypes or very flat, while the characters in Seven can be a lot more dynamic and fleshed out. To a degree of course, this is still the 60s. The series is regarded as Japan’s Star Trek, tackling sci-fi plots and far more serious stories than Ultraman was ever able to. It is also widely regarded as superior to the original Ultraman, and UltraSeven is often cited as the more popular of the two in Japan, and even at Tsuburaya the company itself. UltraSeven would be made an Ultraman after his own series ended, in 1971, when he was brought back twice to save Ultraman Jack from certain death in homage to the recently passed Tsuburaya, who claimed UltraSeven as his favorite of his TV series. Not hard to see why given all of the love and affection given to the show- unlike Ultraman and Ultra Q, UltraSeven was kept going as long and as far as it could, lasting a full 49 episodes until Tsuburaya oversaw the grand finale personally. Some of the episodes in UltraSeven are slower than others, bog standard sci-fi adventures with cunning alien invaders and brave heroes. But some of them go the extra mile. One of the best is the expertly shot and filmed The Targeted Town, episode 8, about people from a specific town going murderously insane for apparently no reason. Extremely well done visuals and cinematography coupled with a memorable villain and a down right awesome coda all come together to make it one of the best episodes of the franchise, despite the fact that it features almost no fighting at all. All of the two parters in UltraSeven are enjoyable for their own reasons, and all feature threats that rival our hero in power. Because Seven predates Kamen Rider and what most know as Modern Toku (Power Rangers and the like), the series works more like a comic book super hero than what most think of as a Japanese one. There’s no random posing, no calling of attacks, no inexplicable power ups or training to get new abilities. No toys, beyond just the iconic things found in the series itself. Seven has a set bunch of powers that he uses in clever and brutal ways to fight whatever comes his way. Often his battles with the aliens come down to a game of wits, his alien foes knowing they’re not strong enough to face him in battle. And unlike Ultraman, UltraSeven does not waste time fighting. If a fight lasts more than a minute, it’s because the enemy is dangerous or has some kind of trick up their sleeve. Because what really mattered to the series was the story, not the fights or monsters. Early, early on it is established that humanity are no angels, and that Seven would be forced to make hard choices if he decided to stand beside them. One featured an alien city traveling towards the Earth, unaware that the inhabitants of the planet weren’t able to move their planet like they could. It comes down to Dan trying to reach the aliens and convince them to move before the Ultra Garrison destroys their city- or the aliens destroy the Earth. Sadly for Dan the aliens are unable to be reached, and the Ultra Garrison destroys the city, killing billions. Another famous story sees a parallel to the Cuban Missile Crisis, with Dan fighting to bring peace as best he can, ultimately futile. In the end the victim of humanity has to be put down and the human race only learn to fear the horrors of the universe even more. Finally for this talking point, we have the most somber of all the Seven episodes. Aliens begin sending warnings to the humans to avoid the ocean, to leave it be. Turns out they have underwater cities and are trying to live peacefully, but recent testing has badly harmed them. Dan ends up having to side with humanity or the aliens, and chooses to save his human friends- leaving them to wipe out the aliens. Only, it’s revealed that the aliens were not invaders. They weren’t even aliens. They were the Nonmalt, the original and rightful inheritors of Earth. They claim that Humanity’s ancestors came to the planet as invaders, forcing the Nonmalt into the ocean and taking the earth as their own. A horrific crime, and one that leaves Dan questioning if humanity is worth fighting and suffering for. One that would have ramifications into the Evolution series, along with the other sins of humanity. Unlike with Ultraman, who was unceremoniously defeated by a new monster of the week in a single episode to shuffle the series out the door, Seven was given a huge send off with a two parter that had greater stakes than ever before. After so long fighting for humanity, Seven is dying. His physical injuries have caught up to him and he’s unable to absorb solar energy anymore. Just as this starts happening, the worst alien invasion in the history of the franchise kicks off, the Goth Aliens wiping out New York, Moscow, London and Paris in underground explosions, declaring that they will wipe out all of humanity if they do not bend at the knee. On their side is their super monster, Pandon, as well as their volcano base where they operate. Seven takes on Pandon but finds his powers are failing, unable to use his energy attacks or control his famous Eye Slugger, a blade built into his head that he normally could telepathically control. Instead Seven has to take it in hand and in a difficult struggle, lops off Pandon’s arm and leg, passing out after. But this does not stop the monster nor the aliens. The Aliens retaliate by turning Pandon into a cyborg and capturing Soga, Dan’s best human friend. Dan’s health is failing rapidly and even his superior warns him that if he transforms and fights, he will die before reaching home. Unable to abandon his friends and loved ones, Dan transforms in front of Anne, his love interest, one final time. He rescues Soga as the volcanic base is destroyed by the Ultra Garrison and then fights Reconstructed Pandon one final time, managing to kill the beast for good by lopping off its heads. After that the weary hero leaves the Earth, his human friends unsure if he will survive the trip back to his homeworld. One laments that if Dan dies, it’ll be their fault. He’d have died because of them. Furahashi however believes that Dan will return, Anne backing him up. They know Dan will live and Dan will return to them, one day. His fate uncertain, the series draws to a close. For 1967 UltraSeven, it is unmatched in my eyes compared to its contemporaries. The aliens didn’t always look the best, but the storytelling was tight and powerful, the characters well realized, and the effects for the time honestly as good as they possibly could have been. It stands up there with the best of 1960s sci-fi, and is one of the best super hero media out there. Seven as a character is not naive, having lived for 19,000 years, but he believes the best in people and wishes to see the best in others. He also would do anything for the people he has grown to love, choosing humanity over his own happiness and well being time after time even though he knows how flawed they are. Its long lasting appeal and outstanding quality is why it has stood the test of time and become one of the primary pillars in the Ultraman franchise and beyond. For as much as Ultraman has inspired in media, UltraSeven has inspired even more. It stands as one of the best super hero properties out there, and is my favorite superhero period. And with that preamble out of the way, soon I will go into the UltraSeven Evolution series, broken down into their individual eras. We have four to cover- two TV movies released in 1994, three direct to video movies released in 1998, six direct to video movies released in 1999, and a five episode mini series released across 2001 and 2002 to finish it off. Tying that with the UltraSeven X series made in 2007 for Seven’s 40th, if you lot don’t mind, I’ll walk you all through the slightly lesser known aspects of UltraSeven’s story. Not what came before, but what happened after he left the Earth that fateful 1968 night. Be seeing you soon.
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Burk, we love and are slightly terrified of you.
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Caphi posted:Did people keep uploading subs for Ultraman Taiga after what happened to R/B? Because now episodes 7 and 8 are down from the official channel. Color timer dropped it, idk how far genm is
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Zero-One keeps hitting all the right notes. Also, all those videos I posted earlier make more sense now, since Fuwa forcefully opening his key, as well as both the Zero-One/Vulcan and all three conversation come from episode 2. That said, Vulcan's Galactic Donuts kick is not used in this episode, but it's a separate finisher, Shooting Blast vs Shooting Blast Fever. Impressive shooting (heh) this time too, with how the episode kept switching between Aruto and Fuwa, giving us their contradicting ideologies and their respective fights. I loved how broken Aruto sounded when he did his "only one can defeat you and that's me" catchphrase, we're only two fights in and he already hates what he's forced to do. But he will, for the sake of HumaGears and humanity. Meanwhile, Fuwa is perfectly content with the same, for the sake of humanity and humanity alone. I'm heavily interested in Yaiba's reaction to Fuwa transforming though. Despite being heavily against it because he's a dangerous loose cannon, once he did, she started filming him and said that "it has finally begun", so Fuwa becoming Vulcan was always part of whatever plan she's working on. Also, we have official concept art of Zero-One Shooting Wolf, which I'm guessing won't happen in the show. He looks neat. https://twitter.com/shininghopper/status/1170579094007767041
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https://twitter.com/Belmot10/status/1170539675519373313 New meme spotted.
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Ignis posted:Color timer dropped it, idk how far genm is GenmCorp recently released episode 9, they are about a week behind actual releases so they're doing pretty good. They're also still releasing the audio dramas that provide background for Fuma and Titas that we don't see in the main show. In these dramas we learn that Titas belongs to an offshoot of Ultramen from the Dark Nebula and that Fuma is considered a 'loser's son' because his family came to O-50 but was never able to complete the climb to Warriors Peak. Looking forward to Burk's focus on the Evolution series as it was a better sendoff for Seven than what he is now.
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I really appreciate that Fuwa is the one person who seems to like Aruto's jokes but can't bring himself to laugh out loud without ruining his tough guy exterior.
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Was wondering how they would do a gun Henshin, and while I understand why they don't want to have kids mimicking shooting themselves in the face... *shrug* I guess punching a boomerang nano-bullet is okay too.
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Failson posted:Was wondering how they would do a gun Henshin, We just had gun-based transformations in LuPat. 
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Hey guys, I'm going to do another GaoRanger episode watch in a few days. However I realized that it's probably difficult to understand what's going on strictly from my posts so I've written this recap of the heroes and villains and story so we're all on the same page. First, the cast. Heroes GaoRed - The Red Ranger and de facto leader of the group. He's a veterinarian in his civilian life and his connection to animals is so strong that he appears to verge on telepathy when treating them. He was the final member of the group. He's sweet, strong, courageous, and does an excellent job of keeping his head in a fight. He's also a bit dumb, and overly optimistic, tending to rely more on bromides than cohesive plans of action. However GaoRed has a big heart and immediately commits to the Gaorangers with little hesitation. Starting Zord is the GaoLion. GaoWhite - The designated girl of the group. She also tends to rely a bit on bromides to keep herself and her team going but she's also firmly independent and capable. She left a life with her family's dojo for the city because she wanted to surpass her father in martial arts. She hasn't had much development compared to her male counterparts (we don't know why she committed to the Gaorangers) but from what we see she's a gentle person that cares deeply about others while refusing to back down from a fight. She's also has the cutest apron I've ever seen in a tv show and I plan to recreate it for personal use. Starting Zord is the GaoTiger. GaoBlue - The impetuous young man. He's the designated kid and so has a lot to prove. He tends to land on the brash side of impetuous and has a pretty nasty temper. Like many young people is concerned with finding a romantic partner, but he never pushes it to the point that it gets in the way of his goals. He believes in their mission and tends to take the direct approach instead of thinking strategically, which is to say he's perfectly willing to throw himself headlong into danger to keep others safe, even at the expense of himself. He's that mixed bag of qualities endemic to youth -- smart without being wise, touchy with regards to his pride, not very humble in the face of failure, struggles to see the shades of gray in situations, but balances it all out because he wants to help. Noted best friend is GaoBlack, together they make up the Those Two Guys duo. Starting Zord is the GaoShark. GaoBlack - A former sumo wrestler that turned to a flower shop after his career ended with an injury. He has a girl he cherishes back home that he will hopefully return to when the fight is finally over. (She likes him back.) He's probably the slowest of the group but that isn't to say he's stupid -- he simply likes to take his time to think things over. He shows the most doubt regarding the Mission, and at one point is willing to abandon his team (reluctantly) to get married. Has a nasty temper when riled but also has a long fuse and the anger burns out quickly. Was the one who needed the most convincing to become a GaoRanger based on what we've seen so far: GaoYellow, White, and Blue had to needle him while in a vulnerable moment to force him to leave the flower shop and the woman he loves in order to join their team. Noted best friend is GaoBlue, together they make up the Those Two Guys duo. Starting Zord is the GaoBison. GaoYellow - Probably the most developed Ranger after GaoRed. He's surly, prickly, sincerely arrogant, and venomous, rarely missing a chance to needle his teammates with snark. But there's also the squishy at the center of his sound and fury. He's demonstrated a soft spot for children, thumbs his nose at authority when necessary, and begrudgingly let's go of his rivalry with GaoRed. He's put in the most time on the team -- he's an officer in the Japanese Air Force who was kidnapped by Tetomu in the middle of testing his fighter jet. Started off as an ordinary person: he didn't want to be a GaoRanger, was frantic to get back to base, and was utterly clueless in the face of danger. So far the show has implied that he and Tetomu were on their own for at least a year fighting Orgs, and this left him hardened and bitter. In the absence of GaoRed he lead the team. When suffering the theft of his Zords he broke down in tears. Starting Zord is GaoEagle. (GaoYellow is probably my favorite of the Rangers. He has the most pathos and starts off angry but is slowly changing into a reliable teammate and good friend. Also, watching him get clowned on is the funniest part of the show since his arrogance vanishes in a puff of air. Tetomu - Princess Fish The series' mission control. She has the Shrine Maiden motif going on. She also lives in a small lake inside the Crystal Cave that the Rangers inhabit and splashes out of it like a fish. She was raised by her grandmother Murasaki. Is actually 700~ years old and doesn't look a day over 25. She spends her days decrypting old maps and texts the Rangers find, looking for more Zords and tracking the movements of the Org Tribe. Is also loving adorable and I love her pls be my gf Princess Fish Villains The Org Tribe. Rubber suit monsters most often formed out of every day objects. Their overall plan appears to be world domination but their strategy is opaque. Their only accomplishments are terrorizing cities, troubling every day people, giving GaoRed amnesia, and overall being incredibly entertaining but not very effective. These are characters that I typically refer to using nicknames. Duke Org Yabaiba & Duchess Org TsueTsue - The Evil Couple; Evil Overlord, Evil Overlady A hilariously inept Odd Couple that walks around collecting Orgs and causing trouble. Definitely the comic relief though they also have the odd moment of pathos here and there. Their primary mission is to find Orgs, set them loose in the world, and power them up when the Rangers fight them. They rarely get personally involved with conflicts and seem unable to perform when they do. Probably the first villains I've ever seen that suffer crippling social anxiety. Interestingly they appear to have no hand whatsoever in the creation of Orgs. Unlike Rita Repulsa who formed her rubber suit army out of clay models, Yabaiba and TsueTsue simply pick up Orgs wherever they appear, as if Orgs are naturally occuring phenomenon like the weather. Highness Duke Org Shuten Our lord and savior the wonderfully deep voiced and deadly serious Shuten. The first primary antagonist and known for Not loving Around. He gave the orders and sent the Evil Couple out into the world but when the time came he was perfectly willing to get his hands dirty and fight the Rangers himself. Sadly he was murdered by his successor. Highness Duke Org Ura - Mothman A villain with a winged butterfly motif and a fan. Has twice the style of Shuten and none of the cool factor, sadly. So far his most notable claim to fame has been resurrecting a very old and grumpy Org. Duke Org Rouki - MoonMoon Antagonist resurrected by Ura. He slept in a coffin for approximately a thousand years before Mothman resurrected him with a full moon. Notable for wearing a furry costume with a realistic wolf head with a unicorn horn sticking out of it. Also notable for being a brooding idiot that spends a lot of time sulking next to a river. His power level rests on what phase the moon is in. He carries a grudge against the GaoRangers because their predecessors imprisoned him in the coffin one thousand years ago. He is plagued by his memories and has been remarkably effective: he has stolen several of the Zords and sent the Rangers into turmoil and terror. However he also has a noble streak (which will likely get him killed; nobility doesn't pay.) Helped GaoWhite with a leg injury instead of killing her. He also has history with Tetomu's family, as he remember Murasaki positively. The Story So Far The GaoRangers use animal Zords to fight against the Org Tribe. The Orgs' true goal is somewhat opaque but the Rangers defeat the Orgs sent to trouble the population. It finally comes to a head when Shuten loses his patience and takes them on directly: however the Rangers defeat him. Shuten is then killed by his successor Ura, who resurrects the grim lord Rouki. Rouki sets to work stealing the Rangers' Zords and ends up revealing a secret of his own: he has Zords too, and he can go toe to toe with the Rangers on the battle field. Last we saw, he took Yellow's polar bear Zords, leaving Yellow devastated and weeping, and the team with dwindling resources. Now we have to see how the Rangers will combat this vicious foe... 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Sep 9, 2019 06:50
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Now I want to see a gun henshin where someone actually shoots himself in the face instead of shooting in front/above of them. 
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Sep 9, 2019 08:33
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Darth TNT posted:Now I want to see a gun henshin where someone actually shoots himself in the face instead of shooting in front/above of them. Gentoku as Night Rogue actually does this in Ganbarizing, he presses the gun against his temple then shoots, instead of shooting in front of him. But that part was not kept for the show itself, likely for very obvious reasons.
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Sep 9, 2019 13:59
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Darth TNT posted:Now I want to see a gun henshin where someone actually shoots himself in the face instead of shooting in front/above of them. Basically this, but henshin instead of Persona? That'd be interesting to see.
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Sep 9, 2019 14:13
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Hemingway To Go! posted:Kamen Rider also just had gun henshins in Build, Diend showed up in Zi-O too Craptacular! posted:We just had gun-based transformations in LuPat. Waffleman_ posted:Kyoryuger also had gun henshins. So did Kyuranger... I'm dumb, and my memory is swiss-cheese.
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Sep 9, 2019 18:43
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I'm not sure we'll ever see Persona 3-style transformations in the franchise where moms once complained about the MC looking like a delinquent
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Sep 9, 2019 22:08
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You heard it here, folks. Gentaro Kisaragi is not hot at all.
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Sep 9, 2019 23:41
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I would figure if Moms would be upset about anything it would be Kouta’s vaguely NEET bullshit.
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Sep 10, 2019 00:07
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I could see Garou or a rider series like Amazons having a Persona 3 like Gun henshin but kids show will never have it
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Sep 10, 2019 00:24
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Waffleman_ posted:You heard it here, folks. Gentaro Kisaragi is not hot at all. "Just The Worst"- some mom somewhere
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