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Dante Logos posted:I don't know how weird it is but has anyone noticed that no one has referred to Gaim as a Kamen Rider. It is Beat Rider, Energy Rider, and so on. Might be interesting if he has to earn the title in order to be called a full fledged Kamen Rider. And Armored Rider. It's not that strange. We just came off Wizard who was always a mahoutsukai.
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I don't think anyone in OOO was ever called a Kamen Rider, outside of the movies.
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Mar 5, 2014 04:46
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Yeah, it's not atypical for a Heisei Rider to never actually be called one in his series, but since Gaim has had so many "x Rider" names, I'm expecting Kouta to declare himself a Kamen Rider at some point.
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Mar 5, 2014 04:46
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I have a feeling we're building to Kamen Rider. The first arc was the Beat Riders arc, the second was the Energy Riders arc, the third might be something new (Helheim Riders?) and the fourth might culminate in the Kamen Rider arc. This is a heroes journey, and Kouta ain't there yet. He's conflicted, he's still trying to figure out what his role is.
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Mar 5, 2014 04:53
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Motto posted:Yeah, it's not atypical for a Heisei Rider to never actually be called one in his series, but since Gaim has had so many "x Rider" names, I'm expecting Kouta to declare himself a Kamen Rider at some point. Which is bizarre because W, OOO, Fourze, and Wizard are all in the same universe and one assumes Gaim is too but in the near future. Fourze established Kamen Riders as a Known Thing and I assume that someone would make the connection at some point. Of course, maybe they're just called Armored Riders because they share the aesthetic but they aren't the solitary heroes that Kamen Riders are known to be.
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Mar 5, 2014 05:04
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Potsticker posted:You're an idiot I was clearly talking about the kids in the show who buy lockseeds and battle with the monsters. But it isn't kids who are the ones buying them in the show at all? It's the teenage beat riders who don't see it as a collectathon game but as a way to control territory so the fact that the monsters are all similar doesn't actually matter at all.
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Mar 5, 2014 05:17
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:But it isn't kids who are the ones buying them in the show at all? It's the teenage beat riders who don't see it as a collectathon game but as a way to control territory so the fact that the monsters are all similar doesn't actually matter at all. I hate to break this to you, but teens are kids.
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Mar 5, 2014 05:25
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SpazmasterX posted:Of course, maybe they're just called Armored Riders because they share the aesthetic but they aren't the solitary heroes that Kamen Riders are known to be. They're Beat Riders with armor. That's it, that's the entire reason. By the time Oren stepped in the name had caught on with the community in-show so now it's a blanket term for everyone with a similar getup.
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Mar 5, 2014 05:26
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Apparently neither Kaito or Kouta are teens, they're both 20. Which only makes Kaito's wardrobe and attitude more hilarious.
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Dante Logos posted:I don't know how weird it is but has anyone noticed that no one has referred to Gaim as a Kamen Rider. It is Beat Rider, Energy Rider, and so on. Might be interesting if he has to earn the title in order to be called a full fledged Kamen Rider. Lots of Heisei series don't use the Kamen Rider title in-series. Only Ryuki, Blade, Decade, Double, OOO (and only for Birth) and Fourze use it with regularity. Kiva had a single reference to it (Nago saying he uses a Rider System to become Ixa), Kabuto has "Masked/Rider Mode" but never uses the proper term, and Wizard only uses it during the crossover episodes and movies, never during its own plot. It's likely Gaim will use it only in crossovers, just like Wizard.
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Mar 5, 2014 05:41
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Motto posted:Apparently neither Kaito or Kouta are teens, they're both 20. Which only makes Kaito's wardrobe and attitude more hilarious. Age is just a number, man.
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Mar 5, 2014 05:43
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Potsticker posted:I hate to break this to you, but teens are kids.
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Flameingblack posted:Kaito and Kouta both look like they're easily in their early 20's. I don't know about the rest of the cast, but the two main riders are definitely not young teenagers, and don't act like it. Which honestly explains why Kouta is running around trying to get a job. Really doesn't explain Kaito though. Blaze Dragon posted:Lots of Heisei series don't use the Kamen Rider title in-series. Only Ryuki, Blade, Decade, Double, OOO (and only for Birth) and Fourze use it with regularity. Kiva had a single reference to it (Nago saying he uses a Rider System to become Ixa), Kabuto has "Masked/Rider Mode" but never uses the proper term, and Wizard only uses it during the crossover episodes and movies, never during its own plot. Ah. I was drawing this from Double, Fourze, Decade and OOOs since those are the ones I have watched. I thought that was a thing.
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Dante Logos posted:Which honestly explains why Kouta is running around trying to get a job. Really doesn't explain Kaito though.
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Mar 5, 2014 06:09
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Flameingblack posted:Especially since his backstory is his parents losing their jobs but Baron's hangout looks high class as heck and Kaito never really seems to do anything. Seriously, have you SEEN that car they have just sitting around in their pad? Thing looks like it costs a million bucks alone. Guys, I think Kaito might have been secretly working for Yggdrasill this whole time. 
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It's entirely possible Yggdrassil inbursed the workers they displaced with a large sum of money so that they didnt go broke during construction or something. Of course, the most likely reason is we need visual cues to establish Baron as the top dog team and what better way to do that then show off Baron's swanky pad compared to a shot of team Gaim's run down garage.
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Potsticker posted:I hate to break this to you, but teens are kids. You're right, but that still doesn't make the fact that the Invess used in the Invess Game look similar a bad thing. Like that had no real baring on my point. In setting the Invess game isn't some widespread gotta-catch-them-all game it's a super expensive tool used as part of this fair exclusive group of people (Beat Riders) as a means of advancing themselves and their territory. No one outside of that group is buying them to battle monsters and they're not treating it like a pokemon game. None of them would come close to caring that the monsters look and act the same. ZenMasterBullshit fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Mar 5, 2014 |
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Mar 5, 2014 06:23
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Where Widard's Blurays and DVDs had those funky idol video things, Gaim's have this: (This is just the preview of it. Voloume 1's bonus is always the production announcement press conference)
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Mar 5, 2014 06:27
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FortMax posted:Where Widard's Blurays and DVDs had those funky idol video things, Gaim's have this: We could have had extreme mini-biking as our show's competitive activity, but noooo, we had to get dumb CGI Invess fights and amateur dancing.  Amateur at least until that last episode with the collaborative event, anyway.(Yutaka Kobayashi is the greatest person outside of his Kaito role, I swear.) melodicwaffle fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Mar 5, 2014 |
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Mar 5, 2014 06:36
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melodicwaffle posted:We could have had extreme mini-biking as our show's competitive activity, but noooo, we had to get dumb CGI Invess fights and amateur dancing.
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Mar 5, 2014 22:05
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Flameingblack posted:I just read an interview where he was in the running to be Captain Marvelous but turned it down to do something else. He would have made a drat fine Captain Marvelous. My wife and I did call him faux-Marvelous when Gaim started.
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Mar 5, 2014 22:32
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Whenever their belts announce something it's the voice of the DJ, right?
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Maxwell Adams posted:Whenever their belts announce something it's the voice of the DJ, right? No. The voices for the Sengoku drivers are done by Seiji Hiratoko (who I can't find anything on) and the Genesis Driver lines are voiced by Shinichiro Miki (has been in a shitload of things).
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jonjonaug posted:No. The voices for the Sengoku drivers are done by Seiji Hiratoko (who I can't find anything on) and the Genesis Driver lines are voiced by Shinichiro Miki (has been in a shitload of things). For Kamen Rider fans you might know him best as Sieg in Den-O.
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Shinichiro Miki is James (of Pokemon Team Rocket fame), Ryusei Date (Super Robot Wars), Lockon Stratos (Gundam 00), and Batman.
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Mikl posted:Shinichiro Miki is James (of Pokemon Team Rocket fame), Ryusei Date (Super Robot Wars), Lockon Stratos (Gundam 00), and Batman. Good Real Lockon or Fake Step-Lockon ?
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Good Real Lockon or Fake Step-Lockon ? Both of them.
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Mikl posted:Shinichiro Miki is James (of Pokemon Team Rocket fame), Ryusei Date (Super Robot Wars), Lockon Stratos (Gundam 00), and Batman. Ahahaha, so Lockon is saying Lock-On?
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Mikl posted:Shinichiro Miki is James (of Pokemon Team Rocket fame), Ryusei Date (Super Robot Wars), Lockon Stratos (Gundam 00), and Batman. Man I knew Ryouma was a nerd with his belts and all but god drat man. 
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Mikl posted:Shinichiro Miki is James (of Pokemon Team Rocket fame), Ryusei Date (Super Robot Wars), Lockon Stratos (Gundam 00), and Batman. I find it sort of hilarious that they got one of the best VOs in the industry to do a bit part like the belt voices. 
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Tessho Genda had bittiest of all bit parts: a single line for the MagiPhone in Gokaiger. (The other MagiPhone lines in Gokaiger were recorded six years earlier for Magiranger, so they don't count)
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Watched the raw of the new episode. THAT FIGHT. THAT MICCHY BEIN A SCUMBAG. SO GOOD. OH MAN EVEN BETTER THAN LAST WEEK
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So that episode. Sid is still a gigantic scumbag, Micchy is still a two-timing mother fucker and Yggdrassil has the ability to pretty much level the entire area and potentially has a plan to just ship everyone they can on some sort of ark is things get REALLY bad. Nothing about the original premise of Gaim prepared me for this.
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Mar 11, 2014 07:46
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Fruit Fighters episode 21
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Well, that's unusual. Kouta won against someone who was stronger than he was without getting a powerup. Nice change of pace, really.
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Serious Frolicking posted:Well, that's unusual. Kouta won against someone who was stronger than he was without getting a powerup. Nice change of pace, really. If my understanding of the preview is correct, Kouta is also going to use the lockseed he took after beating Sid, too. Gaim is pretty great.
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Another stellar episode, week after week man, week after week. That fight was great, I especially liked the part where they are exchanging arrows that was shot from above. And finally a rider kick used against a real villain! I wonder if Micchy was in on all of that or it was just Sid acting on his own? Does he know about the fact that Yggdrassil can just level the city in case of an Inves infestation? And a giant crack is going to open next episode? Does it have anything to do with the guy with the glowing sword in the blurry photo? Are there Inves with intelligence planning to invade or something?  Can't wait for next week. 
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Another stellar episode, week after week man, week after week.
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Flameingblack posted:Micchy must know, since that's one of the first things he asks his brother about when he confronts him about showing Kota the city. At least, I would assume that's one of the two things he mentions since I don't remember them ever explaining either of those things prior. You're right, Micchy calls one of the projects the "Scaler system" and Sid calls the super weapon the "Scaler-electromagnetic weapon" so they are pretty clearly the same thing. Still, I wonder if he has been told that it's for leveling the city or for some other purpose? Still, this is probably just me not wanting Micchy to be such a scumbag. 
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