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chickdigger802 said:
How does that work economically? What is cheap in Japan that balances things out? Socks?
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Maybe they have high wages that equal it out? I dunno. I know that the justification for prices here in Australia (e.g. RRP of $120 for PS360 games, not that anywhere but EB Games actually tries to sell them for that) tends to be that the average wage is considerably above America's. Or maybe they have a strong rental market that makes media ownership a more specialist pursuit like in the start of the home video thing in the 80s?
 
I do know games over there drop in price extremely fast.

Hmmm only experience I've had doing stuff over there was my 6hrs at narita airport.

A coke was like $6. That's way higher than airport prices in the states.
 
Like, to use a TokuGAF relevant example, I didn't mind paying ~$60USD for All Rider Generation 2 because while that might be expensive for a PSP game to you guys it's a pretty decent new-release handheld game price to me keeping in mind that PSP games retailed for 80 bucks when the thing first came out here (I have a copy of Tales of Eternia that I got on the cheap from a garage sale that still has the $79.99 receipt from EB Games in the case). It's why I didn't even mind paying the price for the Great Battle Fullblast Twin Box.

Though really, that's just games. Their DVD/Bluray prices are crazy even to me, even though we still get bent over compared to the US and UK.
 
Box of Bunnies said:
Maybe they have high wages that equal it out? I dunno. I know that the justification for prices here in Australia (e.g. RRP of $120 for PS360 games, not that anywhere but EB Games actually tries to sell them for that) tends to be that the average wage is considerably above America's. Or maybe they have a strong rental market that makes media ownership a more specialist pursuit like in the start of the home video thing in the 80s?
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This question's come up before, I think. The answer has something to do with how collecting TV shows is more of a hobbyist thing, so they expect to make a decent profit by selling to a small number of people. Japanese publishers sell movies for relatively lower prices because they already made the bulk of their profits up front. Japanese publishers do sell some shows for low prices when they don't expect to make any serious profit off of something, like how Bandai was selling re-issued volumes of Ultra Q for 1800 yen/$18-20 a pop. And even then, they sold the box set for around 21000 yen/$220. I've forgotten the details on how all this stuff works, though.

As for games, keep in mind that the used market and retail stores in Japan are a little more fluid than the ones in Europe and the US. The prices for those games are jacked up for day one profits, but tons of people flip them within a few days - and like chickdigger said, games drop in price in retail stores super quick.

chickdigger802 said:
Hmmm only experience I've had doing stuff over there was my 6hrs at narita airport.

A coke was like $6. That's way higher than airport prices in the states.
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Yeah, stuff like that gave me a case of sticker shock when I went there once. Candy's dirt cheap, though. Priorities!
 
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Ya know, Phantoms are pretty stupid in hindsight. Why not just chase Gates outside of Wizard's jurisdiction? Why won't they make consecutive attacks?
 
So is it safe to say that DaGOLD is actually
KyoryuGold
? That would explain why Chaos gave him the battery and his reaction after receiving it.
 
Boss Doggie said:
Ya know, Phantoms are pretty stupid in hindsight. Why not just chase Gates outside of Wizard's jurisdiction? Why won't they make consecutive attacks?
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Why do any of the evil organizations in Kamen Rider limit their activities to one specific area, which the hero also happens to reside in?
 
Boss Doggie said:
I always thought it was sorta averted in Kamen Rider, what with 2 going overseas.
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Now see, I had originally put "And yes, I know about Shocker having worldwide operations, but I'm talking about Heisei stuff here" in my post, but then I took it out because I figured it'd be clear I was talking about Heisei. I guess not. :lol
 
Don't worry I get what you mean :P

Still, you'd think the operations would at least involve the whole Japan. In Wizard it seems like moving out of the city is already enough.
 
jwk94 said:
Wait, Shocker went overseas? Who stopped those guys? Masked Rider?
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It was a clever way to explain how Ichigo and Nigo weren't actually dead when they came back later in V3, despite episode 2 establishing that they had died saving V3, if I remember right. Basically, "Oh we weren't dead, we just went overseas to stop Shocker's international plans after that explosion that you thought killed us. We probably could have told you we weren't dead, but we didn't because of reasons".
 
It's also how they covered for Fujioka's bike accident in the original show. They said Hongo went overseas to battle other branches of Shocker while Rider 2 fought in Japan.
 
Slayven said:
Hyper Beast was a let down. It is like they said just give him a gun and call it a day.
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Theres gotta be some gimmick... right? It's so weird... its not like wizard doesn't have a gun...


hmmm.. has wizard ever gokaired it in combat (sword and gun)? Dont' remember... but it feels like an obvious thing.
 
Maybe the gimmick is that... his rings has a mouth?

I mean damn, even Meteor could use some of Fourze's switches. Poor Beast feels like getting shafted earlier to make up for Meteor not getting easily shafted.
 
Seraphis Cain said:
It was a clever way to explain how Ichigo and Nigo weren't actually dead when they came back later in V3, despite episode 2 establishing that they had died saving V3, if I remember right. Basically, "Oh we weren't dead, we just went overseas to stop Shocker's international plans after that explosion that you thought killed us. We probably could have told you we weren't dead, but we didn't because of reasons".
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Wow...that's....interesting.
 
i like hyper beast. much better than the ugly secondary forms that wizard got(especially land)
 
So I'm watching the 12 hour YouTube "Best Video" nominees thing from April Fools.

At 1 hour and 11 minutes, they pull 3 fansubs of Shinkenger back-to-back. (They're just reading cards with the 'nominees' on them)
 
Wizard and beast have cool stuff and potential, it's just the writers and choreographers don't see to care what to do with them.

It still is kinda weird that wizards summon all form toy has no freaking drawback of any sort. At the beginning of the show, haruto is out of juice just from charging the girl twice. Now he can invoke his super form 4 times with no issue.

Makes you wonder how op his final form gotta be to stay consistent.

Now that I think about it the amount of times haruto struggled in combat is really low vs other shows.
 
So it is pretty much a lock for ninjas next year for sentai? Which would be interesting since next year is a techbased year.
 
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