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Xelkelvos posted:Why hasn't there been a food/cooking themed Sentai or Kamen Rider? The merch practically sells itself Because Toei knows no show they make will ever be as good as Fighting Foodons 
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Oct 19, 2015 05:29
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Kamen Rider Batali pours a pot of Stockons into the Soup Driver and stirs to create new broth forms
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Xelkelvos posted:Why hasn't there been a food/cooking themed Sentai or Kamen Rider? The merch practically sells itself If Kabuto were in a watchable state, you'd essentially have your show. Hell, after watching one episode, I decided I was gonna figure out how to make fried whole potatoes because they looked so drat good.
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Xelkelvos posted:Why hasn't there been a food/cooking themed Sentai or Kamen Rider? The merch practically sells itself Grandma once said that poster Xelkelvos is wrong. E: beaten.
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Oct 19, 2015 11:26
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I want a Hunting Action kamen rider. Like, where all his forms and upgrades are made out of salvaged kaijin parts, and he's just kind of a blue collar type of dude who slays monsters professionally. Like if Hibiki and Ultraman X combined.
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deadly_pudding posted:I want a Hunting Action kamen rider. Like, where all his forms and upgrades are made out of salvaged kaijin parts, and he's just kind of a blue collar type of dude who slays monsters professionally. Like if Hibiki and Ultraman X combined. Kane Rider Megaman would own.
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Oct 19, 2015 14:45
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I liked the Dinocharge Blue cameo. I also liked how he was rescued by Yakamo. Blue Ranger Solidarity. Was this Jiraya show any good? It seems pretty old school, but like, in a good way, not in a bad way So Kyuuemon basically pretended to be dead for a grand total of like two weeks. I'm glad we got exactly two weeks of other people doing stuff before Kyuuemon came back
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Maybe one of you guys can help me remember the name of a series; I used to watch this on Manchette (brasilian tv channel, I'm from Argentina) in 80's, early 90's, and the only things I can remember about this particular series was: -Team of good guys (3 at the least, probably 4 or 5?) -Law Enforcement related? -They got into their armour/combat gear inside a van/truck, in some tubes. -One of the team members was a girl -At some point, is revealed that one of the team members was actually from the bad guys' race (can't remember if he never knew or if he hid the fact, but he was actually a good guy, only an alien). -This reveal may have come after the girl from the team falls from really high and this dude catches her without wearing armour, and he leaves feet impressions on the concrete. I remember that catch but not 100% sure it's from this series. 90% sure though. That's it. It's a looooong shot, but any info would be appreciated. /edit: well poo poo, I actually found it: Dennou Keisatsu Cybercop I found a nostalgia site that listed the toku series that ran on Manchete at that time and scrolled until I found the one that fit the bill.  Stallion Cabana posted:Was this Jiraya show any good? It seems pretty old school, but like, in a good way, not in a bad way  I used to love those shows as a kid, them being in another language wasn't even a concern. Having said that, I'm not sure I would go and watch them again now, to be honest. Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Oct 19, 2015 |
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I've finished Gaim. Ending is a little "that's it?". Madoka and Fate/Zero both had extremely complete stories with epic conclusions, even if you add in Rebellion, at least for me. And most of the characters have complete arcs I guess, but the way the Helheim threat is defeated does not cap off the story well from either a story or emotional perspective. At least if I understand it. It's like... just sending everything to another planet? That's all you need to do to stop a helheim? What bothers me about it is... well, why didn't the civilization the overlords came from do that? The king was trying to stop the helheim invasion. What did he try to do? It doesn't bother me from a character point of view that Helheim continues. The story did not provide any way to deal with the threat in a permanent way. I think the story is weaker for it, though. I mean, at least in Madoka and Rebellion the cycle of hurt continues but it's been altered. And I think you could say a bit of the same for Fate/Zero at the very least there's stuff set up for the next battle - yes, it's a prequel to a story I'll probably never bother reading but at the very least it felt like the bloody war that nobody won and cost so much still would affect the next one. Really this ending felt like it wasn't the one that was planned. I don't know that and I don't know if anyone does, but it just FELT that way to me. I think in a way the story felt watered down even if you remove that horrible soccer episode that made no sense at all and the android episode. Like beyond those, tying how well people fight to which toys they own meant that many of the riders besides Kouta stagnated in progress until they found a loophole for Kaito. I've got a lot of thoughts about Gaim but I've gone on long enough, and though I was disappointed with some parts of the series it did turn out to be a worthwhile watch just for how loving audacious it was. The other two stories I mentioned have invisible wars that only the characters know about, here were get the entire loving world involved and it's great. And I don't know of a toku series that has as many beatdowns on unsuited humans as this one. The problem is one of the other two Urobouchi series is about Magical Girls and the other has its origins in a porny visaul novel, I had hoped to have a really Urobouchi series to show people without caveats to worry about. Not only is this not the best Urobochi series, I kind of feel like it can't really reach someone who hasn't watched other Toku because of how much stylistic fluff there is that would probably be confusing and silly instead of cool. --- unrelated: How do toys that "scan" things like the ooo scanner and the wizard belt work. Are there little magnets in the medals or something, I'm confused.
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I think there are little chips inside of the transformation collectibles that are read by the belt and it then churns out the appropriate sound.
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Oct 19, 2015 22:48
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the belt has all of the sounds preloaded inside of it most of the time, and whatever is put into the belt is either a barcode, punchcode or rfid chip that tells the belt what sounds to play in some cases such as the Double Driver or the Sengoku Driver, the collectable is large enough to have its own sound chip and lights so the device only plays some basic sounds and as long as you can keep making new collectables you can make an infinite number of sounds for the belt
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Rei_ posted:the belt has all of the sounds preloaded inside of it most of the time, and whatever is put into the belt is either a barcode, punchcode or rfid chip that tells the belt what sounds to play
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Flameingblack posted:I have the Sengoku Driver and the sounds come from the Lock Seeds, the Gokai Morphers had an extension or something you could put on it that would recognize all the new keys. Why weren't toys this cool when I was a child? The new Mobirates were actually complete reissues (With a new color scheme, no less).
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So I watched the Garo Goldstorm movie. This explained a few things I didn't care about when I took a sneak peak at season 5's first episode. Let me get this out of the way. I hate the characters. I hated them all through out season 3, they are the most incompetent, worthless, useless motherfuckers in the world who can never fight their own battles and can say the dumbest things possible at any given time. WHO I hate the most at any given time is determined by who has been speaking the longest at any given time. The only good character in the whole of season 3 and this movie is Zaruba- and he doesn't even talk for over an hour in this piece of poo poo. I loathe everything about these characters and that they never get any better and never actually develop or change or grow or adapt or do anything resembling justifying the time they waste. This is not the sole reason I hate this movie, though. This is not the primary reason I despise this movie. Even if these characters were great, characters I loving loved and wanted to see more of and wanted to never say a bad thing about, this would still be a dogshit of a movie. Why? This movie is an hour and twenty two minutes long. This movie's plot is that of a regular episode. MAYBE a two parter if you want to stretch it out and include the stupid subplot about Ryuga needing to cleanse his armor for some dumb reason. At absolute best, this movie is merely twice as long as it should be- at worst it is an hour longer than it should be. And most damning of all, it's just a lame carbon copy of the plot from season 2, but with added cliches and a lack of any of the human drama or interest that made season 2 so good. So basically this movie is Red Requiem, the second movie, all over again. Where Red Requiem's horror plot was a cheap imitation of the Horror plots of season 1 and only had enough substance to last as long, this is exactly the same. And like Red Requiem, it's a total piece of trash. Unlike Red Requiem however, I don't even have Kouga to root for or Zaruba to enjoy the snark from. Which is really weird considering Zaruba is in the goddamn movie. The ONLY plot point I'm going to touch with this, because this alone ruins the whole mess, is Rian's character arc in the movie. Her character arc is hilarious. She gets upstaged by simple human thugs, and then she spends most of the movie moping about being useless- and then that's it! Ryuga tells her it's OK that she's useless and that's her character arc! Congratulations Rian, you are officially cleared to feel fine about being a worthless load who never does anything to meaningfully help. I'm sure some one thinks you're fanservice and that justifies your existence to them, but I don't really give a drat about that and just what is the point of you. What is the point of any of this why is this why did any of this I don't know why this was made, I don't know for what purpose it was made. But the end result is a total waste of time that just explains why Ryuga's armor looks different now and why Zaruba has a stupid loving cover that keeps him from being cool. It's just not good.
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Y'know I'm glad I didn't get into Garo at all. It seems like every post about it is just about how disappointing the sequels have been.
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Cernunnos posted:Y'know I'm glad I didn't get into Garo at all. The first movie, third movie, second season, fourth season are all unquestionably great if you want unique toku stuff. I have not seen the fifth season so I can't say anything about it beyond not caring for the characters out the gate. It DOES have Decade's actor though
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Cernunnos posted:Y'know I'm glad I didn't get into Garo at all. Literally everything without Ryuga in it (and the current anime, it seems) is actually really good...okay, Red Requiem is not, but it can be safely skipped and it is the one exception in the Kouga series, usually very high quality products. Skip The One Who Shines in the Darkness and the Goldstorm anime and movie and you actually have a lot of really good episodes, both in toku and anime form (admittedly, much less in the second). Also JAM Project. Lots and lots of JAM Project.
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In Kamen Rider news: Ghost 3 is out and it seems to be bringing things more together now. Akari gets to do some SCIENCE! and isn't all "ghosts aren't real!" now and Onari proves his worth as more than just a joke too. From the preview: Looks like we really are going to be blowing through some number of Ghost's forms pretty quickly (someone mentioned he gets 10 and the other riders split the other 5? I think?). It also looks like we'll get a look at our villains maybe. It's not as good as Drive was but it certainly has more going on than Wizard did at least. The characters, while a bit much at times, at least do things and interact well. Takeru seems to be getting better as things go too. The villains don't seem to be doing much yet but they're still vague and not upfront about their plans/goal (unlike Wizard which was the whole problem with Wizards villains) so we don't know how Ghost beating the Ganma is really affecting them if at all. Not sure how I feel about the pace so far, though. Feels like we're blazing through things a bit. Maybe I'm just too used to it being all 2-parters. Maybe things will slow down a little in a few episodes once Ghost's got his base power set and has a proper confrontation with the villains.
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So as I've mentioned before, in the standings of Tokustasu, Ultraman is pretty much Number 1 as far as world wide recognition goes. One solid reminder of this fact? http://ukiyaseed.weebly.com/ukiyaseeds-other-blog/director-guillermo-del-toro-gushes-over-ultraman-xs-planet-guillermo Del Toro is a noted giant nerd of anime and, it seems, Ultraman itself. So when X gave him a shout out, well... I do wonder what sets Ultraman apart as a franchise from Kamen Rider and Super Sentai- Kamen Rider has, in the past, attempted similar things to what Ultraman has done but it's never really stuck. Especially when the current Ultraman shows are pretty well as toyetic as any Rider gimmick.
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No I absolutely agree that it feels like we're going at breakneck pace, which is just weird. I guess they're desperately trying to get the first batch of toys out, and it might slow down after that, but it's still weird. Like the fight with Hatchet Horse Man showed that like, choreography isn't going to be an issue if they just let the fighting happen instead of having five second fights where someone runs away. It looked really loving nice when they let it occur. I also liked the giant rear end bow thing, probably liked it too much given it was like 'hey buy this thing then by this other thing and you can make this', but it still looked nice.
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Burkion posted:Ultraman is pretty much Number 1 Number 1? NUMBER ONE did you say?  Hayakawa Ken is number one in all Japan.
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They're going to get 14 eyecons and then spend the next 30-something episodes looking for number 15.
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Pyroi posted:They're going to get 14 eyecons and then spend the next 30-something episodes looking for number 15. I'm sticking to my guns that they're gonna figure out in like the penultimate episode that the 15th Heroic Soul is Takeru, who is extra special because he burned brightest after dying.
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Burkion posted:I do wonder what sets Ultraman apart as a franchise from Kamen Rider and Super Sentai- Kamen Rider has, in the past, attempted similar things to what Ultraman has done but it's never really stuck. It's hard to say. Personally, I got into Kamen Rider because I was really enjoying Gokaiger and wanted more Toku in my life and there wasn't a currently running Ultraman series at the time. (Or at least it wasn't being subbed by OT so I didn't know.) It is definitely weird how incredibly popular it is and yet also relatively ignored among western Toku fan groups. I've wanted to try some Ultraman in the past, and I probably will watch Mebius or Ginga (not to enjoy it but to watch it straight through to X because I like doing things in order) once I have a little more free time.
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deadly_pudding posted:I'm sticking to my guns that they're gonna figure out in like the penultimate episode that the 15th Heroic Soul is Takeru, who is extra special because he burned brightest after dying. My own suspicion is that the show will get interesting when around episode 20 to 30 ghost gets all the eyecons, but gramps does a heel turn. Former is just continuing what seemed to be a trend when I was watching other recent series, latter is a shot in the dark I feel fairly confident about.
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I kind of suspect they're pulling a YuYu Hakusho/Bleach and Takeru will be resurrected partway through the series, but keep fighting the Ganma out of a sense of duty or something.
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Acne Rain posted:My own suspicion is that the show will get interesting when around episode 20 to 30 ghost gets all the eyecons, but gramps does a heel turn. I agree with your theory. There's no way the Sage is just going around resurrecting and giving people super powers with nothing to gain from it. It'll help once we find out how the other two riders got their powers, I wouldn't be surprised if they're all coming from Sage. Perhaps Sinister Man and Poor Dental Hygiene Crony are responsible for Necrom, since his name sounds more evil, but that one's a long way off.
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Some Numbers posted:I kind of suspect they're pulling a YuYu Hakusho/Bleach and Takeru will be resurrected partway through the series, but keep fighting the Ganma out of a sense of duty or something. This is what I'm feeling from things so far. Something about
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I guess the upside of Ghost is that they're doing generic Wizard-style two-parters in one episode.
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Cernunnos posted:This is what I'm feeling from things so far. 
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Acne Rain posted:I've finished Gaim. I liked how Kouta at one point went "if the system is rigged i'll tear down that system" to get one of his upgrades and then by the end works within the system Kaito Was Right
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Kazuraba Kouta's 50-episode quest to stop being a goddamn weenie. Spoiler alert: He fails.
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He tore down the system in one way - No one told him where he had to let Helheim infect.
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Burkion posted:The first movie, third movie, second season, fourth season are all unquestionably great if you want unique toku stuff. Third movie: is that Soukoku no Maryu? I was so turned off by the third series that I never got around to watching it. Fourth season: The one with Kouga's son, right? Are Legs, Black Blood, or either of the animes worth watching?
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Boy howdy, episode 3 of ghost was a mess. First, Akari only managed to be useful via recreating Takeru's dad's work, and even then she was stuck until the sage helped her out. So really, her only contribution was putting together a confetti sprayer. Then there is the weirdness of how directly following the inspiration of robin hood to steal and redistribute wealth (is receiving stolen goods not a crime in japan?) was horrible and wrong. Afterward, she decided to do the exact opposite as her public domain role model with her non-existent journalism career (have fun with that felony conviction!), which then caused the eyecon to appear. Like, I don't care that they are weird and inaccurate about robin hood, and I don't really see why anyone else would either. But the whole "stealing is wrong no matter what but we will still call a thief heroic" was just sloppy writing. It is a show for kids, so I get why they couldn't condone theft, but in that case why use robin hood to begin with? It is like if at the end of the first episode, Takeru made a speech about how killing 100 people with swords is really bad and he doesn't condone that sort of behavior.
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I finally started catching up on NinNinjer after a few weeks of ignoring it. Episode 31 is pretty fun, but I'm disappointed that they skipped the potential joke of "Nagi has no specialty to steal". I like Machine Kyuubi's design, though. It is straight-up a gundam.
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Silver95280 posted:Third movie: is that Soukoku no Maryu? I was so turned off by the third series that I never got around to watching it. Third movie is indeed Soukoku No Maryu. It's a pretty fantastic movie, pure fun and imagination from start to finish, and exemplifies why Kouga is the Best Knight of any we've seen. It's also a pretty fitting 'end' for his story. There is one huge caveat about it though that I have to say- it is not a tokusatsu movie. This is straight up Japanese Fantasy. Like the Never Ending Story, only Sebastian is the baddest motherfucker around and is going on a quest to punch the Nothingness in the face it doesn't have. If you're looking to see Kouga fighting in armor against a bunch of random monsters, this isn't the movie for you. If you want to see him on an epic adventure through a truly unique fantasy land and then go toe to toe with a goddamn dragon, this is the movie for you. Meanwhile Zero is awesome in the real world. Fourth season is with Taiga, son of Kouga, who does what Ryuga tried to do but actually pulls it off. I actually realized WHAT the difference between Taiga and Ryuga was yesterday. Ryuga tries to separate himself from Kouga by being a kinder person, smiling, more naive. However he still rides Kouga's coattails as far as being angry, carbon copying his feelings about being a Knight, and the need for a TRAGIC BACKSTORY. Only where Kouga had a sense of maturity and wisdom that balanced out his anger, Ryuga...does not have that. So he comes off as far less competent and far more immature and kind of stupid. And where Kouga faced his tragedies and had them forge him into the man he is, for better and worse, Ryuga went through markedly lesser tragedies and STILL GETS CODDLED FOR IT. I seriously had forgotten this aspect of Ryuga's character until they met the super magic lady that should be a Watchdog but isn't a Watchdog because for some reason those don't loving exist in Ryuga's universe I guess- Ryuga is treated like a baby any time something bad happens to him. The only time he didn't was when Zaruba got him to nutt up after he lost his eyes- and then his mommy kissed him and made it all better. So I just forgot that annoying aspect of Ryuga- until he meets this lady and she goes on about how what a hard life he's had and boo hoo blublubluh gently caress a duck lady. Taiga on the flip side is cheerful and happy genuinely, because while I'm sure his childhood couldn't have been ideal- he did after all have a father whose idea of making friends is to smash them into a skyscraper while sword fighting them at super sonic speeds- it was markedly less troubled and much happier than Kouga ever had...and that's a good thing. Because Taiga's story and character has to stand apart from Kouga, far more than Ryuga did, as he's his literal son. He's in his shadow by default. So his air of confidence and humor is great and helps set him up as an individual. He didn't need the DARK AND SAD backstory because he isn't that kind of character. He wouldn't be able to wear it well. I have not seen the one off with Jabi and the Priest who's not Jabi but is still more competent than Rian, but it's got Jabi in it so I'm going to get around to it sooner or later. Black Blood is slow, but I genuinely enjoy the villains, and if you're a fan of Zero its fun seeing him operating on his own. Its a very unique horror plot that Kouga never had to deal with, so it doesn't feel like retreading anything. The first anime I am reevaluating my opinions on. I haven't seen much of it, as initially I was thrown off by the whiplash of a first episode, but the following episodes seem pretty good and the animation is great. The second anime, Crimson Moon, I did a rant on earlier in this thread. To sum up, the writing is stilted, the art is bad, the animation is bad, the CGI is bad, and the characters are bad. It's the Ryuga of the Anime Garos only with way stupider, distracting hair.
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Ignis posted:Raiga is the kid, Taiga is his grandpa I knew I was getting something wrong. God damnit Kouga why did you mostly name your son after your dad and not go all the way with it. Taiga, for the record, is the only actor I would ever have play Guts from Berserk if that ever got a live action adaptation. He's the best.
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