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DARKSEID DICK PICS posted:Drive episode 3 is out. Dream Vegas is officially my new favorite form just for that hilarious CGI on the finisher. "You can try to be menacing all you want, but you still henshin with a Bop-It".
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Serious Frolicking posted:Drive is rather underwhelming thus far. Two episode arcs, lovely hot wheels constantly popping in, a supporting cast that tries way too goddamn hard to be zany and a boring main character. Not wizard boring mind you, but still not interesting enough to care about. I'm also suspecting it's going to be fairly rider-heavy, since the secondary rider showing up in the third episode is pretty drat early if he's the only one around. Birth didn't show up until the mid-teens in OOO, right? And even then, that arc was dragged out for way longer than it needed to be.
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Oct 22, 2014 00:54
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Is Den-O worth watching? I wanna find another series in between waiting for GBF:Try and KR:Drive episodes, and Den-O seems to be one of the only old-Heisei series I haven't seen or heard much about, except that it's overexposed. (If it's crap, I might give Kuuga another go, I guess.  )
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Oct 25, 2014 20:57
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Darksaber posted:The main thing I dislike at this point is that tire changing breaks up the flow of fights too much for me, but that'll probably get better as the show goes on.
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Oct 27, 2014 11:55
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mikeycp posted:Apparently this is the prototype Ninninja suit.
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Oct 30, 2014 18:29
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Waffleman_ posted:It's Kamen Rider Mach!
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Nov 3, 2014 18:53
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It's pretty drat likely, then, that Chaser is Proto-Drive.
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Nov 10, 2014 01:46
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DiscoJ posted:Wouldn't the belt recognise Chaser's human form if it was the case? There's obviously a connection, but I'll be surprised if it's as simple as Chaser=Proto-Drive.
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Nov 10, 2014 16:57
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Yeah, at the least, they used the Proto-Drive systems. Not just because of the shift cars, but also because, if you look behind the stuff, Chaser has identically-shaped eyes to Drive. I think I've previously mentioned that Chaser definitely looked like a junkyard wreck, and like he'd eventually get 'tuned up'. Looks like I had it backwards.
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Nov 10, 2014 21:24
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Kamen Rider OOO was my first as well, and I don't know if it's the best modern series (that's probably W) or my favorite KR series (that's definitely Fourze), but it's probably the one that best encapsulates for a new viewer what Kamen Rider is about.
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Nov 14, 2014 06:42
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And subs are up, too.
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Nov 16, 2014 19:39
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Thoughts on Drive 06, and Drive in general: I knew the cliffhanger was gonna be resolved really quickly and in a pretty silly way, but a double Shift Car Ex Machina is really kinda pushing it. And then the rest of the episode went basically exactly how you knew it would. The secondary characters are trying to be interesting, but there's still nothing that separates them from the stereotypes that they gave off on the first episode. This whole thing is reminding me a lot of OOO (because it's following almost exactly the same beats from an upgrades/villains perspective), and Fourze (because it's also trying to support itself on a cast of 'genre archetypes taken to their logical extension'), but I've yet to see any real depth from either the plot or the characters. I feel like you could completely shuffle 3-4 and 5-6 and aside from the "look at the new
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Nov 16, 2014 20:45
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By this point in Fourze (which this show keeps reminding me of, as you may have noticed), we were on our way into the secondary characters' arcs already. I'm not expecting Gaim-level plot advancement here, but a decent start would be nice before the inevitably slow middle bits. And now that I think about it, OOO was killing Greeed off by seven or eight. I think the next couple episodes will really define how I feel about the start as a whole.
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Nov 17, 2014 15:20
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Light Gun Man posted:New transformation?
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Nov 22, 2014 03:37
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I think whether or not I keep watching Drive will depend almost entirely on how they resolve the 7/8 cliffhanger.
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Nov 25, 2014 01:44
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Stallion Cabana posted:there's at least three things that happened in 7 that I feel like should be addressed or something.
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Nov 25, 2014 02:20
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Even when they're terrible, the crossover movies are a gift to humanity. 
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Nov 25, 2014 16:13
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:The truly strong never die. They live on in their acts and our hearts.
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Nov 30, 2014 22:01
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Zedd posted:I rather like them a lot!
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Dec 2, 2014 16:00
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SpazmasterX posted:Apparently the little shurikens become heads for the mecha, like the Zeo Megazord.
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Dec 6, 2014 21:09
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I think the color scheme and design is very old-school in general, at least. Maybe not Showa specifically, though.
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Dec 15, 2014 03:54
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Burkion posted:Solid white as a suit design wasn't really possible on suits like this back in the day- more on Sentai style ones, as those were infinitely easier to keep clean.
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Gotenks0053 posted:So, new Drive Forms
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Raserys posted:So, I've never watched a Kamen Rider series extensively, what's a good start? I hear W is a really good series. OOO is very... prototypical, in that it's a decent series that has most of the attributes that you're going to run into in all of them, just emphasized. Good music, nice suit design (mostly), entertaining secondary characters, a really boring main character, decent fight coreography, a filler-ish middle and a somewhat rushed ending. Basically, it's the series you watch when you want the experience of watching everything Kamen Rider in the last fifteen or so years all condensed into one series. Grade: B Fourze is infectiously optimistic, and has, in my opinion, the best secondary cast of any Kamen Rider series. Its plot, however, isn't very deep, and it suffers very badly from 'monster of the week' syndrome. Great if you want something light-hearted, and not too self-important. It's also my favorite series, though I recognize that W is probably the better-written series. Grade: A- Wizard is awful. Decent special effects, a cool concept, and a great secondary rider... that they proceed to do absolutely gently caress-all with for forty episodes. It's not the worse Kamen Rider series ever, but it's definitely one of the most forgettable. Grade: D Gaim is rather unlike any other Kamen Riders, because it's written by the guy who did Madoka Magicka. Personally, I feel like it's a bad choice for a first series, because it works partially on twisting your expectations about how a Kamen Rider series will go. But nothing's really stopping you from watching it, I guess. Still, when you do finally watch it, very good, just with some problems sticking the landing at the end. Grade: A- Drive is the current, ongoing series. It's still only 1/4 of the way in, so it's hard to judge whether it will be a good series or not. For now, the thread seems fairly fond of it. I'll also say this. No matter what you watch, do not watch the TV-Nihon dub unless you have no other choice. They read like their QC team is "whatever dumbasses volunteered on the forums that week" because that's literally what it is. For W to Fourze and Drive, your best bet is probably Over-Ti.me. TL;DR: Watch W, or Fourze if you want something goofy, and either way, watch the Over-ti.me sub.
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I dunno. Between his over-the-top Bruce Lee yells, his actually-pretty-decent mini-redemption-arc, and his upgrade being a goddamn Beyblade, it's kinda hard to stay mad at the guy.
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Mraagvpeine posted:Judging from the thread title, can I assume that Kamen Rider Decade is not very good? Kamen Rider Decade is what would happen if you wrote fanfiction about your super special self-insert character who went back and fixed everything you thought was wrong with the endings of the previous seasons, while at the same time being the most important and most powerful rider ~ever~, and even though he's such a good and important guy, everyone wants to kill him! I'm not making a word of that up, that's literally Decade's plot. Edit There is exactly one scene in Decade worth watching, and it requires no context whatsoever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap_CRESxNFE girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Dec 23, 2014 |
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Dec 23, 2014 07:14
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RE, what to watch in OOO, a list I posted in the Gaim thread a while back:Poison Mushroom posted:If you're going to watch OOO, stop watching after Eiji gets the Gatakiriba combo, or after the first fakeout about Gotou getting the Birth Belt. Then start watching again about 20 episodes later when Gotou finally actually gets the Birth Belt, because absolutely nothing happens in the middle.
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Dec 25, 2014 18:02
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Stallion Cabana posted:He seems so far out there that you aren't supposed to take him seriously. (For reference, I love all of them, especially Date, but oh Lord are they goofs.)
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Dec 30, 2014 20:09
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Abaranger wasn't too bad? I don't remember much but the Abarekiller, but he was cool and Dino Thunder was drat good. Does "the first 2/3s of Kyoryuger" count as an answer? Edit: Gekiranger and/or Decaranger are my real answer. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Jan 3, 2015 |
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Jan 3, 2015 07:05
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Tae posted:It's not kamen rider until Sentai copies those really awkward and somewhat bad camera shots during battle. I'm pretty sure it's Kyoryuger, actually.
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Literally The Worst posted:A whole bunch only have TVN subs so don't do this. It ain't worth it.
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Jan 6, 2015 16:50
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DiscoJ posted:I think I could do a 'better' job of subbing certain shows than TVN but the risk of receiving similar levels of ungratefulness kills any motivation. Even doing something as 'bad' as TVN takes a lot of time and effort and this fandom (at least, as represented by SA, 4chan's /m/ board, RB and HJU), really doesn't deserve it.
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Jan 7, 2015 04:47
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Oh my God, this is the best derail.
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Jan 8, 2015 05:47
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Literally The Worst posted:Dan Slott's a giant loving wenis, glad we all agree, now let's talk about literally anything else, including whether the toilet paper should be over the top or under the bottom. TheBee is still one of my favorite suit designs, period.
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Waffleman_ posted:Wizard's not too far behind, in my opinion.
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Jan 9, 2015 22:04
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Literally The Worst posted:I'm reserving judgment on Kabuto until it actually has subs. 
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:The base Kiva suit is pretty cool lookin' too.
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Simon The Digger posted:So Studio Trigger recently submitted a short based on Denkou Choujin Gridman (which some of you may remember better as Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad) to the Japan Animator Exhibition and it's sweet as hell. Light Gun Man posted:drat, was Gridman always so obviously Ultraman?
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Cliff Racer posted:Speaking of toys, I actually brought one despite my general hatred of adults paying money for this poo poo. Now it was a Figuart so it wasn't as bad as idiots paying sixty dollars for a dinogun or shilling out for a gadget that says "Heat" in a funny voice. 15 bucks at S&C so I decided why not and got Shinkenred. Big takeaway? I didn't know Figuarts are so tiny. I thought they'd be like eight inches or a foot tall, as is the box is as big as a regular sized alarm clock and the figure is smaller than my hand. Still looks neat I guess. Gonna sit it on my shelf and never touch it because that is the adult way to play with toys.  "Honestly, though, yeah, Figuarts are definitely on the smaller side.
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Cliff Racer posted:I blame Kamen Rider's success with selling garbage for this trend and am pretty annoyed by it. I'm fine with KR sitting in its own lovely corner but I'd rather it stop infesting sentai with its bullshit.
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