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Waffleman_ posted:What's red and white and coming to Crunchyroll in like an hour? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaXzYBAjN9s
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Reports are saying that Ninnin will have the worst sales since Timeranger. And nobody shed a single tear.
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Feb 11, 2016 16:30
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I'm not sure they could pull a go busters and go "well we're NEVER doing anything this series did again!!!!", especially when it used a theme that's worked before, so I hope they notice how horrible the whole takaharu thing was and just don't do that. Probably, though, means that mecha's going to be very simple looking from now on.
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Feb 11, 2016 16:46
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John McClane posted:Reports are saying that Ninnin will have the worst sales since Timeranger. okay now I feel like all my complaints are justified now that I can point to numbers and say 'no, it was just American Goons saying this sentai was bad, even Japanese kids didn't like it'
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John McClane posted:Reports are saying that Ninnin will have the worst sales since Timeranger.
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Feb 11, 2016 22:17
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Blaze Dragon posted:Oh whoops. Meant Akaranger, not Akared. My bad! Pretty sure you mean Akaninger, not Akaranger as that would be even stranger.
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Feb 12, 2016 00:49
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Ghost was kind of boring this week until Aran used the Nekrom Eyecon to posess Spectre and from there the whole episode suddenly got good. If I have one hope right now, it's that Akari and Igor get to be SCIENCE rivals, and that Akari gets to legit try to one-up him and help fight against him with her own SCIENCE abilities. Probably won't happen, but one can dream, yeah?
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Feb 12, 2016 01:03
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AzraelNewtype posted:Pretty sure you mean Akaninger, not Akaranger as that would be even stranger. Akarenger does appear in episode 7.
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Feb 12, 2016 01:07
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Akari's science armor today was just a bootleg Tackle cosplay, wasn't it 
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Feb 12, 2016 01:16
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Stallion Cabana posted:Akarenger does appear in episode 7. (guess who didn't actually watch a single episode of this show at a rate slower than zipping through every 50 frames to find trim points, welp me)
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Feb 12, 2016 01:43
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AzraelNewtype posted:(guess who didn't actually watch a single episode of this show at a rate slower than zipping through every 50 frames to find trim points, welp me) It's fine, you didn't miss anything, Ninninger was terrible.
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Feb 12, 2016 01:49
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What else is red and white and on Crunchyroll? Ultraman Gaia!
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Feb 12, 2016 02:10
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AzraelNewtype posted:(guess who didn't actually watch a single episode of this show at a rate slower than zipping through every 50 frames to find trim points, welp me) You actually came out ahead of me in this exchange because that means you didn't watch the show at all.
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Feb 12, 2016 02:26
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Akari's "science skills" continue to be useless but she still has more guts than Takeru ever will. She also believes in herself considerably more than he does despite the catch phrase. Pity that Onari's similar self-confidence was so misdirected, though. I dunno what his contribution will be now that they don't really need to track down the ganma events, but it sure as hell won't be to fight.
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Feb 12, 2016 04:27
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Takeru doesn't put in a tenth of the effort the other two do. He just sits on his rear end all day while Onari does all of the investigation work, then he punches Ganma and says he believes in himself despite acting like a wimp all of the time and is handed more power-ups. At least Spectre has the benefit of having some kind of internal Ganma radar that lets him appear out of nowhere at any time when Takeru isn't around. I miss riders having monster radars, it saves a lot of time when you can just run straight for the monster rather than dealing with a victim of the week.
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Feb 12, 2016 04:32
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It honestly surprises me how this series had me go from "Onari and Akari are the worst support characters in Kamen Rider since Wizard" to "holy poo poo Akari and Onari are great even if they end up failing". It's like the first few episodes were a totally different show. Except in Takeru being lame, that keeps being true.
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Feb 12, 2016 05:09
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Akari never gives up trying to understand this whole ganma thing with science, because she believes in herself. Onari does everything he can and is willing to risk his life to help people, as though he is intent on making his life burn bright. Takeru whines and mopes a lot and then wins fights because he was given incredible power. I guess he can also provide life-saving hugs, though he hasn't done it in a while. That's something, at least?
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Feb 12, 2016 05:20
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Looks like I didn't miss much when I stopped watching Ninninger. The only thing I'm still curious about is the End Shuriken. What was it's deal? I can't find much info online. Was it just an omnipotent wish-granting macguffin or something?
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AtheistMantis posted:Looks like I didn't miss much when I stopped watching Ninninger. The only thing I'm still curious about is the End Shuriken. What was it's deal? I can't find much info online. Was it just an omnipotent wish-granting macguffin or something? Yeah, basically. It did whatever the owner needed it to so long as the owner was the Last Ninja, otherwise it wouldn't appear. Kyuuemon uses it to summon monsters then the Ninningers use it to unsummon monsters and destroy the End Shuriken itself. At one point the idea of using it for world peace is brought up but it's immediatly shot down because erasing it was better because ??? (okay, the reason was that The End Shuriken was apparently the cause of everything so the world would be at peace so long as it didn't exist, which makes about zero sense because Gengetsu did not attack for The End Shuriken, and the plots of Goranger, Kakuranger, Hurricaneger and Magiranger had nothing to do with it either). It also kept Yoshitaka alive after he apparently died years ago.
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Feb 12, 2016 05:34
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AzraelNewtype posted:(guess who didn't actually watch a single episode of this show at a rate slower than zipping through every 50 frames to find trim points, welp me) That still makes you a martyr in my book, that show was awful. You guys were wasted on that piece of dreck.
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Feb 12, 2016 05:49
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Serious Frolicking posted:Akari never gives up trying to understand this whole ganma thing with science, because she believes in herself. Onari does everything he can and is willing to risk his life to help people, as though he is intent on making his life burn bright. Takeru whines and mopes a lot and then wins fights because he was given incredible power. I guess he can also provide life-saving hugs, though he hasn't done it in a while. That's something, at least? you guys are being really hard on takeru
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Feb 12, 2016 06:14
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What's the best Ultraman series on CrunchyRoll right now, since they've been adding so much?
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Feb 12, 2016 06:52
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Elfgames posted:you guys are being really hard on takeru probably cause he came right after a really strong main character in Shinnosuke
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Feb 12, 2016 06:52
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RealFoxy posted:What's the best Ultraman series on CrunchyRoll right now, since they've been adding so much? Nexus
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Feb 12, 2016 06:56
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EDit: Three times? What the gently caress SA.
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Feb 12, 2016 06:56
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Elfgames posted:you guys are being really hard on takeru You try to sell me on Takeru. He barely has a personality. "i believe in myself" and "i should protect my friends" is not a personality. Takeru's power progression is exactly the type I dislike: he's handed more power whenever things start to get tough rather than solve the problem through his own power. It's kind of mandatory these days since we have a shitload of power-ups to sell, but Takeru completely blew through his time limit lazing around doing nothing for weeks at a time and was handed power having overcome no adversity. Takeru has not convinced me that he's done enough to earn his power. Getting a you stronger form that renders your base form completely obsolete and screws over the second rider very quickly is a constant problem in new series.
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Feb 12, 2016 07:48
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He had come to terms with his own mortality. However, while Takeru was fine with dying his friends definitely were not fine with it. But instead of trying to get them to accept it he just kinda chilled while they desperately tried to find a way to save him. He did this for weeks! Then, the whole issue was resolved without Takeru doing a drat thing so he didn't learn anything from it. Dude is lazy as hell and he never has to face any consequences, so he has no reason to grow as a person. The funny part is that Takeru probably isn't supposed to come off as lazy at all, but he is still much worse than Tomari whose entire initial personality was being lazy and unmotivated.
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Feb 12, 2016 08:19
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The real parallel to draw with Takeru is Eiji, our last boring personality-devoid rider held up by the strength of the supporting cast.
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Poison Mushroom posted:The real parallel to draw with Takeru is Eiji, our last boring personality-devoid rider held up by the strength of the supporting cast. Eiji being an empty shell of a person was a plot point, albeit a poorly executed one. The show actually acknowledged that he had problems even if they didn't really do much with it. Takeru lazes around and waits for plot to show up while the supporting cast fawns over how wonderful he is. I don't expect Takeru to be perfect, but it is maddening how his incredibly obvious flaws are never mentioned. How is he supposed to develop if the show treats goofus like he was gallant? I guess I just don't see why the protagonist has to be terrible when most of the cast is not.
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Feb 12, 2016 08:53
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Poison Mushroom posted:The real parallel to draw with Takeru is Eiji, our last boring personality-devoid rider held up by the strength of the supporting cast. Eiji at least had a good actor behind him who played the part he was given well. Did Takeru ever get to the point where his line about burning up was ever believable? I dropped out some episodes into Starninger appearing. With Ghost I didn't last much longer to be honest, but that was more the show just not grabbing me and missing episodes due to working on the weekend. Robin Hood was the last one I saw there. I'm super excited for the new Sentai this week, though!
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Reds posted:You try to sell me on Takeru. He barely has a personality. "i believe in myself" and "i should protect my friends" is not a personality. i'm not saying he's great but you guys make him out to be awful. also we actually don't know what he was doing during the time skips as time was skipped but i assume it would be pretty hard to find a person with an item of the hero's who's also super passionate about them, like whenever a case came in he was always the one investigating using his ghost powers. also he was gifted his power through his self sacrifice+his dads sacrifice for him. it's way better than kouta(?) from gaim literally being given power or hell even gentaro didn't really earn any of his power untill the final one. also maybe it's just me but i always took his spouting "I belive in myself and gonna make my life burn bright" as more fake it until you make it deals. edit: also i didn't watch drive, gaim had killed my interest in rider and i thought the suit was ugly so i skipped it Elfgames fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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Feb 12, 2016 10:12
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Drive is good.
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Feb 12, 2016 11:47
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Skipping Drive to watch Ghost is a bad deal and if it were me I wouldn't take it.
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Feb 12, 2016 11:50
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Poison Mushroom posted:Drive is good.
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Feb 12, 2016 12:05
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I'm quite fond of Ghost and I still wouldn't skip Drive for it.
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Feb 12, 2016 12:31
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Ghost is a mixed bag so far. Drive is very good aside from the first few lackluster episodes.
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Poison Mushroom posted:The real parallel to draw with Takeru is Eiji, our last boring personality-devoid rider held up by the strength of the supporting cast. Eiji was good.
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I think Takeru has a chance to become interesting. Like I think he's a fine character; the new time stuff with it running down to his death after he saved Kanon made me think that there was a kind of Zen Acceptance of his death. There are issues with him being motivated, I can agree, but to me his current 'slump' doesn't really feel like a slump, but more like confusion; he doesn't want to fight, which I think he's made pretty clear, and he sees a way out; Aran and Makoto used to be friends, so surely they can become friends again, but he's unsure how to make it work, because it's kind of hard to get into the head space of an Invulnerable Super Ghost Kamen Rider who hands you your rear end whenever you try to fight him and doesn't seem particularly interested in a conversation. It can probably be portrayed better, but I can understand what they're going for. And the supporting Cast and Fighting are both top notch at this point so it can kind of make up for his weaknesses. It's not Drive good but it's gotten better since like episode 4 (When Spectre showed up to start to punch Takeru in the face) but there's no denying it could become even better.
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I think that the old sage guy and Yurusen are the weakest parts of Ghost so far: they have a chance to add to scenes or give Takeru some direction to help flesh him out and...they're just there saying vague poo poo.
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