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I liked how the Dairanger monsters felt like a unique race, that's always neat when they do it in Sentai.
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Burkion posted:Here's the thing about Kuuga. Kuuga is the best, and Godai is one of the few riders that feels like a real hero because boy you get to see the sacrifices he makes in spirit and in his own life to do the thing he has to do to help people. What I'm saying is Phillip and Ankh should have stayed dead.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 08:04 |
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I loving love Kuuga a lot. I really do. It edges Kamen Rider Black out as my second favorite Rider series of all just because while I think Black's story comes together much more coherently and easily, Black also has literally 20+ episodes you can just completely skip and miss nothing of value. Also Black has RX hanging around its neck and having watched all of RX, that's a hell of a loving stone. V3 is my favorite, but Kuuga is much better made. V3 is my favorite just because it's this awesome blend of the ridiculous and over the top, while also very somber and serious, in a way that's never really been matched since. Kuuga is the better made series over all, if only thanks to time, and I would love to see a proper remastering of Kuuga at some point like they've said they would. Maybe for the 50th
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 08:18 |
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I thought your favorite Kamen Rider was Bioman
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 10:04 |
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So the first enemy in Agito is Guin? Actually the first three enemies are Guin. Now I have the unrealistic expectation that all the enemies in this season will be references to Japanese fantasy novel series.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 13:16 |
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Slightly related but I'm the guy who loves ryuki's ending because I love to be sad about gays.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 14:57 |
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John McClane posted:Slightly related but I'm the guy who loves ryuki's ending because I love to be sad about gays. I kind of prefer the movie ending myself (Shinji and Ren go down fighting as a swarm of monsters consumes the world). It's a bit dark I'll admit but I've always hated endings that pretty much render the whole series pointless by hitting the Reset Button and can't think of a single show that's ever done that well. While not one of my favorites Ryuki wasn't a terrible series (though despite having plenty of faults of its own I think Dragon Knight handled a few things better). I just wish there was a better way to watch it besides through TV-Nihon (for example, I only recently learned that the old woman who lived with Yui was actually her aunt as opposed to her grandmother like I first assumed). Larryb fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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Golden-Josuke-Robot is now my favorite Kyuranger
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 18:02 |
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Larryb posted:Kuuga is a very different beast from pretty much every Rider show that came before or after it (though Shin kind of comes close). In fact, the actual Kamen Rider portion of the show is more secondary than anything else, usually just shoved in at the end of an episode and wrapped up in the beginning of the next (the final episode in fact is one of the only times I've seen in Tokusatsu where there are no costumed action scenes at all). It's also the only Heisei series to only feature one Kamen Rider, every show afterwards had at least two. Faiz was actually similar in some ways. In most Faiz episodes, there isn't any Rider battling until the last five minutes of the show, which gets wrapped up in the five minutes of the beginning of the next episode, and then terrible drama for the majority of the episode. It had a lot more fighting towards the end, though, but the beginning and most of the middle is pretty much just drama bookended by short fights. Ex-Aid was really good this week although I am extremely disappointed we didn't get to see Hiiro use the Mighty Action X gashat. I'm curious if the writers just didn't know how it would work and thus just wanted to make sure the situation didn't happen, or if it was a purposeful decision to keep each Rider having their own identity, so there isn't something like Faiz where belts were constantly swapped between the characters. I also enjoyed Brave turning from a generic knight character into a mage, that was great. Gonna be real interesting to see how Super Hero Wars handles the whole "Jark Matter has taken over Earth" with the Ex-Aid characters running around. "Wait, you mean Earth actually got taken over by aliens? We've been so busy fighting Bugsters we haven't kept up with politics!"
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 19:51 |
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Twelve by Pies posted:Faiz was actually similar in some ways. In most Faiz episodes, there isn't any Rider battling until the last five minutes of the show, which gets wrapped up in the five minutes of the beginning of the next episode, and then terrible drama for the majority of the episode. It had a lot more fighting towards the end, though, but the beginning and most of the middle is pretty much just drama bookended by short fights. True enough, but at least in Kuuga the non-Rider parts are decent and the main characters aren't all terrible people in some way or another (though to be fair, some characters in Faiz were better than others).
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 20:15 |
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I really liked what I saw of 555, though I only watched like 10 eps or so (that was my original intro to Kamen Rider). I'm actually looking forward to getting through Agito and Ryuki so I can get back to 555 and finish it. I really liked the unicorn guy plot especially.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 20:21 |
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Getsuya posted:I really liked what I saw of 555, though I only watched like 10 eps or so (that was my original intro to Kamen Rider). I'm actually looking forward to getting through Agito and Ryuki so I can get back to 555 and finish it. I really liked the unicorn guy plot especially. As a fellow 'started with 555' person, let me just say I apologize for the ending. I am so sorry.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 20:45 |
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Faiz was my first Rider series as well. I liked it okay enough but yeah, that ending is really bad. Rider series have had a bit of a history with the endings being bad but Faiz stands as one of the worst. Hibiki and Ryuki are really the only competition.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 21:00 |
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Twelve by Pies posted:Ex-Aid was really good this week although I am extremely disappointed we didn't get to see Hiiro use the Mighty Action X gashat. I'm curious if the writers just didn't know how it would work and thus just wanted to make sure the situation didn't happen, or if it was a purposeful decision to keep each Rider having their own identity, so there isn't something like Faiz where belts were constantly swapped between the characters. I also enjoyed Brave turning from a generic knight character into a mage, that was great. He didn't turn into a mage. Genm said it last episode, Taddle Fantasy is a game where the player is the Demon Lord, fighting the hero. Hiiro showed exactly what happens when you get to play as the Final Boss, but not AI controlled. Beautiful things.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 21:26 |
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The original Kamen Rider is finally fully subbed. http://ukiyaseed.weebly.com/ukiyaseeds-other-blog/1971-kamen-rider-series-now-fully-subbed I've never heard of XIG, are they any good?
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 23:08 |
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Dexie posted:The original Kamen Rider is finally fully subbed. They've done a few series. Notably they've done Super 1 From what I've seen they do good work, but I know very little about them Regardless unless these start espousing the views of Hitler and decrying the Jews, this is excellent news. Having the entire original Kamen Rider series finally subbed is fantastic and I think it's the last of the Showa Riders needed to be subbed besides the back half of Sky Rider
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 23:12 |
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Also of important note, spoilers for the Kamen Rider Brave spin-off: I guess I should catch up on Ex-Aid now. Burkion posted:They've done a few series. Notably they've done Super 1 Excellent. This is fantastic news.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 23:14 |
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Burkion posted:They've done a few series. Notably they've done Super 1 Has anyone made decent subs for Kamen Rider X yet?
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 23:20 |
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Hiiro is apparently such a good surgeon that not only can he 100% cure cancer by himself he can literally force broken bones to regenerate in the span of days.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 23:50 |
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Larryb posted:Has anyone made decent subs for Kamen Rider X yet? eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee There's a torrent at the usual place that collects the good subs X has gotten and then the rest are from the Indonesian set which are For HK subs, they're not bad. The grammar isn't the best but if you can get past that, they're understandable and accurate. They're not quite as good as the Metalder HK subs, but they're close enough.
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# ? Feb 22, 2017 23:54 |
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Dexie posted:Also of important note, spoilers for the Kamen Rider Brave spin-off: Well poo poo, I thought they had given up on that plot thread.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 00:02 |
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Waffleman_ posted:Well poo poo, I thought they had given up on that plot thread. If they drop it again, I'm going to be rather upset.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 00:09 |
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Dexie posted:If they drop it again, I'm going to be rather upset. Same. I watched Double and OOOs and Fourze all really close together before Wizard came out and the thread connecting them all, like X doing research on Core Medals near the end of W and such, was just so cool and it was really disappointing when it up and vanished with Wizard.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 00:32 |
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Burkion posted:eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yeah those are what I watched when I first saw X, I was just wondering if anybody else had picked it up since then (I didn't know the Metalder subs were HK subs though as they were actually pretty good, in fact Metalder itself is a good series worth checking out, especially if you ever watched VR Troopers and were dissapointed by the lack of any kind of closure). So yeah, of you count those then every Kamen Rider show except Skyrider has technically been fully subbed now. Off the subject, Gridman is another good series that I really hope gets subbed one day (hell, it's basically an Ultra show in all but name so why not put it up on Crunchyroll or something), In fact I haven't even been able to find it in Japanese (the version I watched was a Thai dub that was up on Youtube). I kind of like how Naoto's family actually exists and plays a role in the story in this one as opposed to Syber Squad where, when not at school, Sam basically lives in his basement and occasionally we hear his little sister call down from upsairs. One thing I will give the American version credit for (aside from having more entertaining characters all around) is (what should have been) the ending. Sam goes from being kind of a self-serving douche to a true hero that basically sacrifices his humanity in order to save everyone (seriously, if I interpreted it right he's basically stuck in cyberspace as Servo with no idea how or even if he can ever come back), it's actually pretty dark for a kid's show (just ignore the last 5 minutes where they essentially hit the reset button and undo everything that happened in the two parter leading up to it). In fact, if you ever decide to rewatch the show I'd reccomend watching episodes 38 and 39 last and stopping the latter episode right after he says his last goodbye to Malcom and Jennifer and as soon as you see him back in the basement with his friends, it makes the whole thing work a lot better. Gridman's ending is a bit happier by comparison (though ironically that show has a bit darker tone overall) where the title character (who unlike Servo is a seperate being that is in constant contact with the kids and is basically a digital cop) saves Naoto from a similar fate and then takes off back where he came from. Larryb fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Feb 23, 2017 |
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Foundation X has been abandoned for so long, I'm pretty sure the target market doesn't even know they exist.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 01:13 |
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It's likely that same target market hasn't seen the special, so it's cool
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 04:31 |
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https://twitter.com/Evilspacewhale/status/834604870904774656 Oh my god I forgot about Legacy Rider forms in the Ex-Aid aesthetic.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 05:50 |
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i'm not so sure about about taddle fantasy. hiiro just kinda waves his hands and then random stuff happens. that kind of vague bullshit is usually reserved for ultimate forms.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 09:19 |
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There's a bunch of stuff going on in Taddle Fantasy and most of it is video game references.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 10:01 |
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Larryb posted:Yeah those are what I watched when I first saw X, I was just wondering if anybody else had picked it up since then (I didn't know the Metalder subs were HK subs though as they were actually pretty good, in fact Metalder itself is a good series worth checking out, especially if you ever watched VR Troopers and were dissapointed by the lack of any kind of closure). So yeah, of you count those then every Kamen Rider show except Skyrider has technically been fully subbed now. Getting a complete set of the Gridman toys is still one of my White Whales/Holy Grails, along with the black/gold Ultimate Daibouken set(although for the latter it's more about finding one for a not completely retarded price)
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 14:04 |
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Looking at the Kamen Sentai GoRiders. This. This is art.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 19:04 |
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Twelve by Pies posted:Faiz was my first Rider series as well. I liked it okay enough but yeah, that ending is really bad. Rider series have had a bit of a history with the endings being bad but Faiz stands as one of the worst. Hibiki and Ryuki are really the only competition. I think my favorite "bad ending" is Agito, if only because of the epilogue from the novel. After everything is said and done, despite life seeming to conspire against him for 40+ episodes, Ryo (Gills) finally escapes his suffering, even adopting a little puppy! Life is great puppy loving dies like immediately
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 19:34 |
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TFRazorsaw posted:Looking at the Kamen Sentai GoRiders. what the gently caress
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 20:03 |
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TFRazorsaw posted:Looking at the Kamen Sentai GoRiders. Post it so the rest of us can see what you're talking about.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 20:14 |
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Phimose Knight posted:I think my favorite "bad ending" is Agito, if only because of the epilogue from the novel. Yeah that's about as bad as that one Digimon Tamers CD Drama that immediately torpedoes the hope spot left in the final episode
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 20:32 |
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Phimose Knight posted:I think my favorite "bad ending" is Agito, if only because of the epilogue from the novel. On the one hand, that is hilariously bad. It's just amazingly appropriate for how much life craps on Ryo constantly that I kind of love it. Agito is my favorite bad Rider series in my opinion. It's got 2/3 amazing protagonists (Hikawa, Ryo), a really bizarre and not in a good way one (Shouichi) and the dumbest villains and plot points imaginable at times. It is excellent riffing fodder with friends.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 20:36 |
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And boy howdy does that monster theme get stuck in your head.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 20:38 |
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Xelkelvos posted:Post it so the rest of us can see what you're talking about. Larryb fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Feb 23, 2017 |
# ? Feb 23, 2017 20:38 |
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What's that from? I haven't been keeping up with toku so I dunno if they're still doing Hero Taisen/All Rider feat. latest Sentai-type movies.
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# ? Feb 23, 2017 20:45 |
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Motto posted:What's that from? I haven't been keeping up with toku so I dunno if they're still doing Hero Taisen/All Rider feat. latest Sentai-type movies. It's from the new Super Hero Taisen movie that's coming out soon and is also a nice little throwback (the original idea for Goranger was a team of 5 Kamen Riders).
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