WWWJDIC posted:

変身 【へんしん】(n,vs) metamorphosis; disguise; transformation; shapeshifting; morphing; (P)

Literally The Worst posted:

Stop using henshin as a noun you fuckin nerdso-baka-chan-tachi.

Potsticker posted:

It is a noun you collossal idiot.

Literally The Worst posted:

Then say transformation you twit. It's not a word that there's no loving english translation for, or it's hard to translate. The only reason people insist on using it is to be giant loving weebs. It's dumb. Just loving say "transform" or "transformation" Jesus loving Christ.

ImpAtom posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2iPIPjUoBo

Pyroi posted:

Yeah, giant loving weebs.

Literally The Worst posted:

Then say transformation you twit. It's not a word that there's no loving english translation for, or it's hard to translate. The only reason people insist on using it is to be giant loving weebs. It's dumb. Just loving say "transform" or "transformation" Jesus loving Christ.

Literally The Worst posted:

Then say transformation you twit. It's not a word that there's no loving english translation for, or it's hard to translate. The only reason people insist on using it is to be giant loving weebs. It's dumb. Just loving say "transform" or "transformation" Jesus loving Christ.

Potsticker posted:

I did say transformation in my post. But I'm not going to raise a stink in a thread where the series being talked about has an iconic scene and phrase and using that phrase to describe the scene. How gigantic of a goon are you that your jimmies get rustled when someone shortens "the scene where someone says 'henshin' and transforms" to "henshin sequence" or simply "henshin?"

Cernunnos posted:

Potsticker posted:

Mods please change the thread title to- NEW Special Effects Thread: Masked Riders and Power Rangers

Cricken_Nigfops posted:

Will you two just get a room together already?*

Burkion posted:

So I just realized something.

I lost my computer a few days ago, using a spare that's a bit not good, motherboard is fried all that.

I SHOULD be able to recover everything, but God knows when that'll be.


I lost all of the toku I had on that computer. I could complain about all of my Bioman I lost, and I have been to myself, or my Juspion or my Gavan, or my Changeman so on so forth.

But motherfucker, I JUST downloaded that Kamen Rider Black torrent! That entire thing is now down the drain.

This has been "Complaining about a minor problem in the face of a much greater one" theater.

Burkion posted:

So I just realized something.

I lost my computer a few days ago, using a spare that's a bit not good, motherboard is fried all that.

I SHOULD be able to recover everything, but God knows when that'll be.


I lost all of the toku I had on that computer. I could complain about all of my Bioman I lost, and I have been to myself, or my Juspion or my Gavan, or my Changeman so on so forth.

But motherfucker, I JUST downloaded that Kamen Rider Black torrent! That entire thing is now down the drain.

This has been "Complaining about a minor problem in the face of a much greater one" theater.

RBX posted:

ToQGer is really turning it up isn't it? It's been consistently great for awhile now. I just figured out the joke about Akira today, can't believe I didn't figure it out faster. Or maybe i'm wrong.

Potsticker posted:

My favorite belt is the Faiz gear. I love its little Smart Brain carrying case and how Takumi takes it out and puts it all together before strapping it on. Every other Rider seems to have magical belts that CG around them or just materialize out of nowhere. But Takumi actually puts on his belt and for me, it makes it less of some magic thing that only the hero can/gets to use.

For sounds, GaiaMemories are hard to beat, but the DecaDriver does a good job. Picking a favorite is tough because they're both so good. I think the Memories have a bit of an edge due to how many different ones there are. They are so fun to say, too! Wizard gets an honorable mention for it's catchy shabadoobie jingle, and Faiz's sounds were great as well.

As for posing and actually transforming, OOOs is pretty tops. I love Takumi and Kusaka dialing in for their powers, but there's something about Eiji swiping down the medals and hitting his pose that I just adore. Fourze gets pretty close as well with his countdown and arm raised up towards space. And I love Kusaka's little flip he does with the Kaixa driver.

As for belt mechanisims, secondary Riders I think win out here, Zeronos especially, but Diend gets high marks as well. I especially love on Zeronos' belt how the track line motif changes letters based on what card gets used and the form it represents. Meteor also had a really interesting belt with it's crazy design and buttons. The Birth Driver was also pretty neat. On the flip side Delta and Beast both had really terrible belts. Delta spoke into the weird little handset thing and even though it kinda looked like a cool Championship Wrestling Belt, Beast really just had a big hunk of plastic with doors.

Blade, Ryuki, Kiva and Hibiki ( understandably with the final one) all are sort of in the back, though the "Advent" soundbite was especially memorable and the Ixa Knuckle I thought was kind of cool looking, though some of the actors seemed to have trouble slotting it in. Den-O's belt was kind of weak in that all the forms were decided by which button you pushed, which felt weird because theoretically Ryotaro should have been able to access his four basic forms from the get-go!

Gaim has probably the worst belt overall. Kouta strikes kind of a cool pose, but the design of the Sengoku Driver and accompanying lockseeds are all over the place. First off, it has a tiny yellow and white plastic chopping sword on it, and is otherwise a blank hunk of black plastic. The lockseeds themselves are fairly colorful, but why do the Helheim fruit turn into locks? And then the belt chops them instead of unlocking? Oh, and they have to be opened and closed first? With the chopping and juicing from the Genesis Diver, fruit is the overwhelming stronger theme, so why locks? Oh, and the Kiwami lockseed has sort of a key on it as well-- which fits into the Kachidoki lockseed both of which aren't really fruits anymore. Kachidoki especially is just a rectangular cube of orange. The sounds are okay, there's a couple of standout phrases like "Mister Dangerous," but overall it can't stand up to others which far surpass it.

Which show did I forget? Oh. Kabuto! Okay, the Zectors were pretty cool. With good sounds and simple, but neat mechanisms they don't top any categories, but don't manage to take the gold. It's okay, though because Kabuto pretty much has the best suits. It also has has Tendou, so you win some you lose some.

Finally, Accel gets props for having the most-- unique method of shouting "Henshin!" One that will be hard to top I think for a long while.

Twistys Rapture posted:

Holy poo poo that's a lot of dumb words

RBX posted:

He talks about dying in battle because most of the other 6ths died?

RBX posted:

ToQGer is really turning it up isn't it? It's been consistently great for awhile now.

Twelve by Pies posted:

I mean, yeah it's still a dumb gimmick, but they've at least been able to justify it with this episode, and the one where Right fools Schwarz into thinking the whole team is fighting when it's really just him.