ShadowSwordmaster
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Newest Entry In Ultra Series, Ultraman Geed, Airs July 8
Pretty stoked for this.
Pretty stoked for this.
Netflix Japan??
You is good people.
Yeah, the Super Sentai selection is pretty sparse and is mostly movies but they have a TON of Kamen Rider up now.
Off the top of my head I saw Kuuga, Agito, Blade, Ryuki, Den-O, Fourze, OOOs, W, Kabuto, and Kiba. I might have overlooked one or two as well.
I ended up jumping into Fourze last night after finishing Kuuga (SO GOOD!). Enjoying it so far and its nice to have something more light-hearted after the melodrama heavy Kuuga.
You're living the dream right now. By any chance, do they have English subs?
So I posted this on the Twitch Marathon thread but I'm watching Zyuranger at least once a day since starting a couple of weeks ago. I reached the halfway point not to long ago and decided giving some Kamen Rider a shot too. So I'm watching Kabuto.
...And it's the best shit I ever watched in ages! Its like Invasion of the Body Snatchers but with sick af anime fights.
I want to walk the path of heaven with Tendou forever. How do you manage to be such an arrogant smartass but be so endearing?!?
The suits are baller af too. Even the Worm enemies. Love the moment when Kabuto and TheBee casts off their outer layer. I wonder how much that's CG.
Last episode had my boy Kagamiand it was the most hypest moment ever.get TheBee zecter
Holy shit I love the transformation theme when it jacks up too.
This is the best. I am all the way in now.
Also, I'm following Kyuranger as well. Balance is the best Kyuranger and that's all that needs to be said.
So ClickHole made a video about Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. In the video, you can see a Kamen Rider G3X (from Agito) action figure!
Newest Entry In Ultra Series, Ultraman Geed, Airs July 8
Pretty stoked for this.
I do agree the goofballs were pretty annoying, but I enjoyed the core cast with Tomari, Kiriko, Go, Chase, Belt-san, Heart and even Brain towards the end had his moments (I just felt that he should've gotten the development set up a little better than it did). Though at this point after sitting through filler hells like Wizard I'm going to be pretty much happy with any KR series that actually does something on an episode-by-episode basis that isn't the drizzling shits.Too many goofy characters in Drive and the first half of the show wasn't very strong. Other than that I thought it was ok.
Drive's first half was "eh", to the point that I dropped out for a bit, but they absolutely sold everything in the second. The ending felt like there was strong closure and an emotional payoff for the characters.
[*]While I did enjoy the whole plant alien invasion plot, I felt the explanation to why Helheim is invading Earth to be rather weak. Like what is even Helheim supposed to be, some super-evolved plant lifeform hivemind that plays God? It was just kind of left out there other than Sagara explaining WHY it was invading Earth rather than explainining why it NEEDS to invade Earth.
In regards to the Kaito/Mai thing it was revealed in a novel that they knew each other as kids and she's the inspiration for his quest for strength.Still haven't watched the Wizard movie...
Kamen Rider Gaim (COMPLETE)
Hrm what can I say about this series that hasn't already been said before? There isn't much I can add other than I thought it was fantastic and it's definitely the best written Kamen Rider series. Everything about Gaim from top to bottom is polished...except for the CGI.
All the characters are fantastic though there's a few strange things sprinkled in there that I'll talk about. The plot, the lore, the setting was all very fresh for a Kamen Rider series. Gaim is literally a better version of Ryuki, in the very least.
At Gaim's worst, it's good. At it's best, it's fantastic. However that doesn't mean I don't find issues with it.
With that being said I enjoyed the series a lot overall. Gaim provides everything you'd expect out of a great Kamen Rider and then some. It's amazing how a series so toy-centric could also do something fantastic with those toys as well as actually make the theme of those toys work.
MIcchy is a fucking cunt, and while his character development was overall good, I really felt like he lucked out on actually getting his dues for the shit he pulled throughout the show. He had it waaaaay too easy despite the character arc being great. He needed to lose something and he never did. I mean it's like...come on. I can understand the first time, but why did he need to come back at the end?Takatora dying and coming back to life over and over again is comical.- Yoko is seriously one of the sexiest KR females ever and she doesn't even have any fanservice. Love how we finally get a strong female rider as one of the central characters of the show. She was awesome and the fact she did her own stunts is awesome, BUUT I felt like her having "more potential" as hinted by the Professor Ryoma really went nowhere for her character. I was expecting her to have some stuff revealed about her past or some other big secret to come out of it, but nothing ever did.
Speaking of I honestly felt like Mai's relationship with Micchy and Kouta were pretty half-assed. The whole love/desire triangle going on with Kouta, Micchy, and Kaito with Mai was pretty meh cause I felt like Kaito was the only one out of the three that actually have any reason to have a real emotional bond with Mai. Kouta and Micchy were just her friends she danced with, so why were they even more invested in her than Kaito was? While I did enjoy the whole plant alien invasion plot, I felt the explanation to why Helheim is invading Earth to be rather weak. Like what is even Helheim supposed to be, some super-evolved plant lifeform hivemind that plays God? It was just kind of left out there other than Sagara explaining WHY it was invading Earth rather than explainining why it NEEDS to invade Earth.- I would've liked to see more of
Yggdrasil's other branches worldwide that we got brief glimpses of.- Speaking of where in the hell did
actually disappear to briefly?Ryoma- Oren being an overtly gay stereotype is pretty offensive, but I can kind of forgive it cause he's actually a genuine badass and pretty funny at times. His role on the show was primarily based on comedy but still enjoyed him int he end. Either way props for first gay Kamen Rider?
I was kind of meh on Hase's death, though it might be because I've already got hit hard by Kiriya's death in Ex-Aid which I felt was much more heart-breaking. Hase was a bit character. To be honest, I thought the reveal that Kouta killed his friend to be an even bigger heart-break than Hase's death.- The ending is the most Japanese anime shit I've ever seen, but it's kind of great. I mean, that was the character's goal afterall. It fits.
Kouta and Mai literally become gods. I know we've already got other KR that did the same, but I'm not a fan of those either.Gaim having essentially two stages of final form was a bit eh for me.
The movies as well were mostly pretty good, I even enjoyed the Soccer movie for what it's worth. The Wizard crossover was decent but nothing special. The Super Hero Taisen movie was surprisingly not a complete turd as well and had a pretty decent premise and idea behind it with a surprising amount of returning actors.
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Kamen Rider Drive (COMPLETE)
So uh...feels a bit underwhelming following Gaim, but I still enjoyed it a lot. We finally go back to the standard formula, but to be fair to Drive it has a lot less filler than W, OOOs, Fourze, and Wizard did. So where does it fall short? Well...to be honest, there just wasn't a whole lot there all together to fall short on. After finishing watching it I felt like, "That's all?" and the show was over, which I had a similar reaction to Wizard but after the fast pace of Gaim I had to somewhat re-adjust myself and realize Gaim isn't the standard for Kamen Rider.
As for Drive itself, I think it's mostly great. It's basically another take on W. A lot of the characters from W make spiritual re-eappearances in Drive, but that isn't to say Drive isn't full of cool characters of it's own. For the most part, the core cast of Drive is very strong and even the Roidmudes have some interesting character arcs towards the end.
Otherwise, however, I greatly enjoyed Drive. It isn't as good as Gaim or even it's predecessor W to me...maybe about the same level as OOOs? Yeah, OOOs tier is good. Regardless, it was a fun watch in the end.
A lot of the stuff about Banno felt a bit underdeveloped. Like I thought the idea was interesting but I REALLY wanted to see more backstory on it. They should've explained Banno's past as well as maybe explore how Kiriko's mother met and fell in love with him. It just felt half-baked and was summed up to him just being outright evil and vile.- As I said previously in the thread, the show would've benefited heavily from Kiriko being the secondary rider. I would've loved to see her be Mach instead of Go. REGARDLESS, she's probably the best KR female companion yet even outside of Neo-Hesei era. I might have to go back and rewatch some of the Hesei era shows to verify this though.
- Speaking of I liked Go but
I felt his reasoning to wanting to destroy all the Roidmude's to be rather half-assed. Why care so much about your father's mistakes to the point where you're willing to kill a human to get the job done? Tomari dying and then coming back to life was really lame.- I really enjoyed what came out of the core Roidmude casts. Easily the best kaijin group in the Neo-Hesei era thus-far. The only thing I disliked is that I feel like the brunt of their development was shoved into the finale of the series, when I felt it could've been done more in the middle of the series.
It just felt a bit out of place and sudden.Chase being in love with Kiriko was pretty stupid and pointless imo. If humans aren't ready for the technology, then why have they've been using Kamen Rider drivers and transformations for decades previously?Belt-san burying himself and the tech underground was really lame.
Let's talk about the movies as well. The Super Hero Taisen movie is the best one yet imo, though themwas really freaking dumb (from what I understand this is resolved in Kamen Rider 4, but I didn't watch). The summer movie however was pretty damn good. Not as good as W or Fourze's movie, but solid in it's own right and is a better movie that Gaim's summer film. The Drive and Gaim crossover was also surprisingly great and had some cool shit in it as well.killing Go
I'm aware of this,It doesn't need to invade Earth, it just wanted to do it because it wanted to see humanity's evolution through its power. That's the reason I can't accept Sagara as a neutral force. He was clearly actively evil even if he didn't want to conquer the planet or something else more traditionally villainous. Killing people just for curiosity is still evil.
It's pretty much stated in the show as well. I just thought they had the best development between the three boys, despiteIn regards to the Kaito/Mai thing it was revealed in a novel that they knew each other as kids and she's the inspiration for his quest for strength.
I just started Ghost...what the fuck @ some of the kaijin of the week being mooks in Halloween costumes.
The monster of the week are basically Ganma grunts in coats, like Ghost's form changes. Although they only actually confirm that the Ganma coats are based on historical people too in a post-series special. Some of them are pretty obvious in the show itself though.
They kind of turned that into a strength with Ex-Aid though...the Bugsters are pretty personable.
Toei's been pouring a ton of budget into the Kyuranger goons though, like that mantis guy with the giant neck and the moth with the giant arms were pretty trippy.
Earlier i said they would never use the poop deck constellation, but i am glad they proved me wrong
I'm surprised nobody ripped the Twitch stream. The quality was really good.Power Rangers isn't just shit on Netflix. I bought the first episode of MMPR on Amazon and it has the same judder/screen tearing issue. Fucking Saban.
Looking around online, apparently the Shout Factory DVD sets have their own issues.
Poppy'sDan's mom, right?
Also ever since it was revealed that Graphite has Hiro's girlfriend's memories I'm kind of wondering if he has...y'know, all of them.
That's a villain's face.Newest Entry In Ultra Series, Ultraman Geed, Airs July 8
Pretty stoked for this.
RIP Nyaa ;_;
Also, did they really censor Kyutama Dancing? oh my sides
That's a villain's face.