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Can't help with Legendary War since I haven't watched it though :D
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TokuERA 2018 |OT| Building a new ERA
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Can't help with Legendary War since I haven't watched it though :D
What's not to love about the Legendary Battle? It was hyped for a good two years and by JDF himself. It had a damn good Sentai series' worth of footage to roll with. They had a good chunk of time to organise and prepare for it unlike with Samurai. People still had vivid memories of how bad the last anniversary teamup was so we told ourselves that no one could possibly create anything worse than Once a Ranger.
Then after slogging through two terrible seasons, the actual Legendary Battle was just as Pluto says it is. The main battle has been won. The Emperor has already been killed either on his ship or on ground by a barrage of Ranger Key transformations (depending on the version of the finale you watched) and the past rangers show up just to beat up some stragglers left behind. It's essentially janitorial work at that point. At least with Once a Ranger, the past rangers have their moment of glory in equal contributions against the alliance of villains in that particular teamup instead of just needlessly turning up after the main event is over to take out the trash.
Even the appearances of the faced PR alumni who were able to make it to New Zealand were wasted. You have characters like Carter and Dana do rudimentary heroic things while ones like Karone just stares doe-eyed at this worse Countdown to Destruction rip-off and Wes and Damon just kind of nod at each other. Some of the returning alumni don't even have lines. JDF naturally has the longest heroic scene and it doesn't even make sense. That car is teetering precariously off a bridge. The kid is alone at the backseat of the car and there's no sign of his parentsor whoever kidnapped him. Why is this kid alone in the car?
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Then after slogging through two terrible seasons, the actual Legendary Battle was just as Pluto says it is. The main battle has been won. The Emperor has already been killed either on his ship or on ground by a barrage of Ranger Key transformations (depending on the version of the finale you watched) and the past rangers show up just to beat up some stragglers left behind. It's essentially janitorial work at that point. At least with Once a Ranger, the past rangers have their moment of glory in equal contributions against the alliance of villains in that particular teamup instead of just needlessly turning up after the main event is over to take out the trash.
Even the appearances of the faced PR alumni who were able to make it to New Zealand were wasted. You have characters like Carter and Dana do rudimentary heroic things while ones like Karone just stares doe-eyed at this worse Countdown to Destruction rip-off and Wes and Damon just kind of nod at each other. Some of the returning alumni don't even have lines. JDF naturally has the longest heroic scene and it doesn't even make sense. That car is teetering precariously off a bridge. The kid is alone at the backseat of the car and there's no sign of his parents
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There's not really much I can say about this episode besides the usual consistency of Build. It's another solid, enjoyable episode and the fiery spectacle of Cross-Z Magma is a delight to behold. Grease getting bodied and being the first to job this week is just the tertiary Rider being the tertiary Rider, though he's fared a lot better than Necrom so far at least.
All too often Rider concentrates too much focus and mystery on their central protagonist at the expense of everyone else. The secondary Riders are often quickly shafted, given very little to do and wind up looking very vestigial to the plot. Some shows handle this better than others. Gatack for example is very much on equal foot with Kabuto by the latter half of their show and is arguably the actual audience surrogate character. On the other hand you have Specter, who constantly struggles to find any sustained relevance. How Build has handled Ryuga so far is especially commendable, because he's not being given some kind of B plot that is barely connected to the main story. How many secondary Riders out there can confidently claim that they're instrumental to the A plot and in driving it forward? The journey and development Ryuga has undertaken from the very first episode up to this point easily rivals any titular Rider of their show. If anything, Grease feels more like the secondary Rider of this show. Sento and Ryuga are full-on co-protagonists.
I really do wonder what Evolt's ultimate goal is - and indeed what he even is. Was he a Martian mad scientist who wanted to advance his civilisation only to end up destroying it? But given his gleeful and methodical long game in setting everything up from Faust to Nanba's current direction in order to gather all the pieces of the Pandora's Box and the bottles together along with the ultimate homunculus and Driver, I think he just wants to be God. That's usually how it goes. I've seen this kind of plot many times before, so fingers crossed that Build puts its own unique spin on things.
All too often Rider concentrates too much focus and mystery on their central protagonist at the expense of everyone else. The secondary Riders are often quickly shafted, given very little to do and wind up looking very vestigial to the plot. Some shows handle this better than others. Gatack for example is very much on equal foot with Kabuto by the latter half of their show and is arguably the actual audience surrogate character. On the other hand you have Specter, who constantly struggles to find any sustained relevance. How Build has handled Ryuga so far is especially commendable, because he's not being given some kind of B plot that is barely connected to the main story. How many secondary Riders out there can confidently claim that they're instrumental to the A plot and in driving it forward? The journey and development Ryuga has undertaken from the very first episode up to this point easily rivals any titular Rider of their show. If anything, Grease feels more like the secondary Rider of this show. Sento and Ryuga are full-on co-protagonists.
I really do wonder what Evolt's ultimate goal is - and indeed what he even is. Was he a Martian mad scientist who wanted to advance his civilisation only to end up destroying it? But given his gleeful and methodical long game in setting everything up from Faust to Nanba's current direction in order to gather all the pieces of the Pandora's Box and the bottles together along with the ultimate homunculus and Driver, I think he just wants to be God. That's usually how it goes. I've seen this kind of plot many times before, so fingers crossed that Build puts its own unique spin on things.
The bigger question is: will Ryuga get Gills'd? He already started the season being framed for murder and seeing his girlfriend die in front of his eyes.
GameSpot is a thing that still exists.
Gills' life was an unending train of shit from beginning to end. Ryuga has good days.
That seems to be the case with most gaming sites. Branching off to everything "nerdy/geeky" and/or doing a lot of youtube content. Nobody clicks in written articles about games anymore.
Im so far behind on the comic series but its SO GOOD GRAB IT IF YOU CAN
I already have the comixology copies lol. I just don't know if I wanna grab one to sell in a few years or even just to read as a physical thing. That cover with Jen is great.
SOOOOOOOOO my heart tells me that they are using the same cafe set from Build for the cafe the Lupinranger runs in Lupato as well. They look SUPER similar.
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There is an Ultraman Leo marathon going on right now on Twitch.
https://www.twitch.tv/shoutfactorytv
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I don't think it's the same, but both feel familiar, yeah.
However, so many series had café/restaurants that it feels more like an amalgamation of them all, lol
The colors just look the same is all
Well the sprial staircase from Ex-Aid was reused in Build I can tell you that for free.
Every cafe in toku is a precious sacred place.
cop out answer cause Ive only seen the cafes in build and lupat so far but still answer still counts hue hue hue
I'm tempted to say Abaranger's Dino House but then I remembered there's a pervert crocodile monster who in any decent society should be blown up for his shit.
Half-remembering most of these so probably full of inaccruacies: Gaim fruit parlor is disqualified because of the drug dealers. Nascita in Canon serves terrible coffee. Cafe in Kiva was supoosed to be good but was also in the 80s so that doesn't help me. Den-O you have to deal with people actively lusting after the owner in front of her younger brother which is a bad scene. OOOs you have Eiji there all the time and there is no way he doesn't smell terrible
Did Kabuto have a cafe or a restaurant? Regardless I would only wanna eat there when Tendou decided to show up and dunk on the employees.
Did Kabuto have a cafe or a restaurant? Regardless I would only wanna eat there when Tendou decided to show up and dunk on the employees.
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I don't think there's a thing as a bad toku café/restaurant, but the best...
Kabuto is pretty cool, lots of things happen there. I like Kiva's because of the people there, too.
On the Sentai side, Dino Curry is pretty cool! Sun Vulcan's is a restaurant and a safari, so it also gets bonus points, I guess.
Akibaranger is a special case, but yeah, that would win, heh.
It did have, a restaurant! Tendou even cooked there a couple times!
I would say he was just exaggerated as pretty much everything in Abaranger, but even then, yeah, it was bad. Poor Ranru.
Kabuto is pretty cool, lots of things happen there. I like Kiva's because of the people there, too.
On the Sentai side, Dino Curry is pretty cool! Sun Vulcan's is a restaurant and a safari, so it also gets bonus points, I guess.
Akibaranger is a special case, but yeah, that would win, heh.
It did have, a restaurant! Tendou even cooked there a couple times!
I would say he was just exaggerated as pretty much everything in Abaranger, but even then, yeah, it was bad. Poor Ranru.
This slayed me.
I actually forgot about Akiba's cafe somehow. Yeah, this is a strong contender.
Here is the S.H. for Kamen Rider Rogue the official images just came out today!
But more importantly... GEMN LEVEL ONE BILLION FIGUART
But more importantly... GEMN LEVEL ONE BILLION FIGUART
Gemn 1 Billion probs will cost a loooot Figuarts arent cheap I got KR Ghost and that was around 25 bucks. Ex-Aid starts at around 70 on Amazon.
I have a few but realized I just didn't have space for stuff like that. I am also happy we have purple Kamen Riders now that aren't all gun-wielders
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What does it mean by "fourth production"? There's been way more Kamen Rider productions made.
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The original Amazon show was the fourth Kamen Rider show to be made. I think that is what they are trying to say.
The original Kamen Rider Amazon was the 4th series, although it's weird to describe Amazons like that since they really aren't related aside from design and name references.
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Yeah that doesn't really make sense. I know Kamen Rider Amazon was the fourth show made, but Amazons is way past that.
""Amazon Riders", the fourth production in the Kamen Rider series, focuses on Haruka and Jin: one tame, the other, wild. The show introduces us to these contrasting Amazon Riders. The mentalities of various characters inevitably draw the viewer deeper into the the mystery of this dramatic story."
That seems to indicate that this is the fourth KR series overall. It's weird.
""Amazon Riders", the fourth production in the Kamen Rider series, focuses on Haruka and Jin: one tame, the other, wild. The show introduces us to these contrasting Amazon Riders. The mentalities of various characters inevitably draw the viewer deeper into the the mystery of this dramatic story."
That seems to indicate that this is the fourth KR series overall. It's weird.
Came to post this after work, but Shadow is already on the case.
Best in terms of quality? Probably Kabuto because Tendou is supposed to be an amazing cook
Best in regards to story? I'd go with Den-O
Amazon Rider is used on the original series, but yeah, it looks a bit engrishy. Masked Rider Amazons would be better - or just keep the Kamen Rider, since that has a more positive reputation in the west.
Just Season 1 for now? Well crap. Hope 2 doesn't take too long, still need to watch that. But hey, at least it's finally available.
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