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deadly_pudding posted:Amazons talk: Can you blame him? His very existence is a bad idea. Jin wanted to kill all Amazons...so he had a son. Who is, of course, an Amazon like Jin himself. And I genuinely doubt that Jin doesn't want his kid dead, I can't imagine that his happiness at finding Chihiro won't be followed by "now I can fix this mistake", especially seeing how violently Chihiro defends himself from anyone pointing out that he's an Amazon and not a human. That was probably born from trauma at Jin's sheer hate of the race.
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Neat! I'll definitely have use for that head! Now C'mon Fujioka!!!
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Man that just reminds me of how good the Ultra Garrison uniforms are. They are actually professional looking, with a bit of old west flare with the way the belt hangs down. They have a kind of timeless quality to them, as does UltraSeven and the original. You wouldn't really peg them for being from any specific era. There's nothing very 60s about them, though the same cannot be said about the Science Patrol uniforms and their bright orange suits and ties. I really do hope this figure succeeds and we can start getting other human alter egos. That would be just loving ideal. Though uh, maybe not some of the other Ultra hosts. Some of their uniforms are Atrocious
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Burkion posted:Man that just reminds me of how good the Ultra Garrison uniforms are. Hey, you know who has a badass uniform? 
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May 23, 2017 04:14
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Yet more reasons for Dan to succeed Let's prove we're all ready and willing to own tiny plastic depictions of Japanese men! More than we already do anyways
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Burkion posted:Yet more reasons for Dan to succeed Ichijo figure or no deal e: I'll take one of Hikawa too
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Bioman's fights are downright cool.   
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Geddy Krueger posted:Whoever makes Legend Heroes really gets Sentai.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Ichijo figure or no deal Oh yeh, Strix, if you're wanting to branch out into other Toku, I highly suggest Gavan. It's the inaugural metal heroes show, and it's really entertaining, and fully subbed by millionfold curiosity.
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:Oh yeh, Strix, if you're wanting to branch out into other Toku, I highly suggest Gavan. It's the inaugural metal heroes show, and it's really entertaining, and fully subbed by millionfold curiosity. I have it ready and waiting for me!  That said, of the Metal Heroes I'm probably going to do Juspion or Winspector first because of GOTH SATAN or adorable police robots - but we'll see~
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Man, Hammy's episode was a dud :/ Naga was good though.
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Xelkelvos posted:Naga was good though. Naga has never not been good.
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PMush Perfect posted:It's like Shinken Ha-Oh and the G-12 had a baby. A horribly top-heavy, tortured, beautiful baby.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Bioman's fights are downright cool. The Bio Robo fights are some of the best giant robot fights in Sentai, at least for the first half/two thirds of the series. They never really get bad, but after a major shake up of the villains they finally get a stock footage finisher like most other teams so you don't get the awesome unique finishers. This is helped by the fact that the MOTW are nothing but giant robots, so they're given way more focus and attention than any other Sentai. With Sentai and Giant Robot fights, more often than not they're pretty well forced in. As much as I like Liveman, it's a show that would do a lot better without the robot action. Besides Colon who is the best. Dairanger might be the worst one though just because it has some really awesome mecha and some *FANTASTIC* ideas that it does absolutely nothing with. Power Rangers made better robot fights using those suits than the Sentai did. Bioman is a really good, but really weird Sentai honestly. It's kind of super unique in how it handles things. It is flawed, and it is very clearly a kids show that doesn't even attempt any deeper meanings or complex stories, but it's also the first serious Sentai. Like, completely straight faced serious all the way through. The series prior would have almost taken that if not for the fact that it was still a baseball themed team. Here, they're just technology themed super humans who have to fight one of the more intelligent and ruthless villains in the show. Doctor Man is quite a character who I'd love to go over later, and it's a toss up for who is more completely vicious, him or Professor Bias from over at Liveman. Doctor Man might win out in that regard, if only because of how he goes out compared to Bias. With Bias, his death is really kind of tragic as he loses his mind and Gash is left to comfort him. Its entirely his own doing, but that extra bit gives him some serious sympathy. Doctor Man has no such way out. He could have, too. His son pleading for him to regain his humanity- but he refuses. He dies knowing that his will is all that matters, knowing that he is the greatest intellect the world has ever known, denying any idea of redemption or pity. Bias and Doctor Man have a fair bit in common. Doctor Man edges out in my eyes though, just because of the sheer glory that is FOR THE MAN Best villain catch phrase ever. A major weakness with Bioman is that I hope you like seeing them fight the foot soldiers, which are, to be fair, one of the better designed groups around but still just foot soldiers. Because that's 90% of the ground fights, probably because they couldn't really keep throwing the Five Beastnoids into constant battle without the suits giving out.
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Burkion posted:As much as I like Liveman, it's a show that would do a lot better without the robot action. Besides Colon who is the best. That bit honestly made me feel worse for Gush than Bias. Gush despite being intelligent enough to lie to Bias in order to try to make him feel at ease in his final moments was created to obey Bias and never had a choice in the matter. Bias, meanwhile, is being comforted with the idea that his world-scale mind control succeeded and everyone is mindlessly worshipping him. What happened to Bias is nasty, but given the scale of his crimes to that point... Liveman is a favorite of mine as a Showa Sentai with (relatively) strong themes and characters. Also, the gloriousness that is Beauty Beast Kemp. :P
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The thing that I loved most is that almost every time Gash makes the monster big, the Livemen do this stop-and-drop routine to avoid being hit by the beam. Bias has some pretty great moments but his final goal seems weak in comparison to his methods. There's room for ruthless murder guys who see themselves as gods and for vain weirdos who just want to be admired by all, but don't make them the same person.
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Gash/Gush is seriously my favorite Sentai villain. He's just this ultra competent super on point bad guy that is the best from start to finish. It's fitting that he's the final fight in the end, and he even survives it no less. The Biomen themselves don't have a whole lot of character to write home about. Like, each one of them HAS their own character, but they're more archetypes than anything. Liveman is the first series to really push solid character work and emotional plot points. Well except Maskman I guess. What makes Bioman work is that every episode is a 20 minute adventure full of lasers, robots, explosions, and punching bad guys in the dick. There is a neat running storyline through the show revolving entirely around Doctor Man, which is rare and nice, but it doesn't come up as frequently.
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Bioman is pretty much the first sentai to start using serialized storytelling so that's pretty neat in and of itself (granted, Denziman and Dynaman had a bit of that too but not to the same extent). The reason the mech fights in Dairanger suck so much is (to my knowledge) that the director hated the concept and wanted to skip it entirely, so when Toei forced it in he intentionally did them as half-assed as possible. As for Liveman, my one real issue is that they never really discuss Bias' origins all that much, nor are his motivations ever fully explored (he still works as a decent villian though, I just wish we'd gotten a bit more depth to the character). Also, while the series probably could have done without the mech fights the mechs themselves still look pretty good even by today's standards (especially the Yellow Lion). Larryb fucked around with this message at 18:32 on May 23, 2017 |
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Larryb posted:As for Liveman, my one real issue is that they never really discuss Bias' origins all that much, nor are his motivations ever fully explored (he still works as a decent villian though, I just wish we'd gotten a bit more depth to the character). Also, my favorite thing in the series may be in the climax where Yuuske gets into the Brain Base, has no idea where he's going or what Bias looks like, wanders into the Brain Room by chance and has to ask if the person inside is Bias.
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https://twitter.com/RevolverUnit/status/867128003590995970 Toku twitter is wild.
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You missed the best thing about that https://twitter.com/RevolverUnit/status/867135846230614016 https://twitter.com/RevolverUnit/status/867136216000380928
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Well, Kamen Rider Chronos' intro was pretty amazing. Looks like Kuroto got out-masterminded. e: now that I think about it, this should technically render Kamen Rider Chronicle unbeatable, as there isn't a way to get Lovlica's gashatrophy if he's dead. Twelve by Pies fucked around with this message at 18:21 on May 24, 2017 |
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Twelve by Pies posted:Well, Kamen Rider Chronos' intro was pretty amazing. Looks like Kuroto got out-masterminded. I can't believe going to prison for five years was just part of his long-con. Every member of Kuroto's family, including Poppy, loving rules.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Well, Kamen Rider Chronos' intro was pretty amazing. Looks like Kuroto got out-masterminded. Given Kuroto Dan somehow pulled a DoReMiFa Beat gashatrophy out of his hat, I'm not so sure about that.
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I mean, from what we can tell, Emu's final powerup is basically a Game Genie, so he's just going to cheat his way into not having to use any continues.
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Poppy still has the Toki Meki Crisis Gashat. Maybe they can extract data from that. Unless what Chronos did extends to the associated Gashats as well.
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So I was watching Agito and I think I got things mixed up, I'm now in an episode of Ex-Aid?    
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StrixNebulosa posted:So I was watching Agito and I think I got things mixed up, I'm now in an episode of Ex-Aid? "You can't cut an hour and fifty minutes from this procedure! That's madness!" "There is nothing I cannot cut."
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https://twitter.com/JHEROCOM/status/867505554884763648 I wish this was real.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Well, Kamen Rider Chronos' intro was pretty amazing. Looks like Kuroto got out-masterminded. I think my favourite part of that episode is that our new antagonist doesn't refer to the characters by their real names or their Rider names. He refers to them by the name of the product they're using at the time. Because that's all he sees them as. Little things like that show how good the writing gets what it's trying to do.
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