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Burkion posted:If Sentai ever gets to the stage where the robots are ultra cute mascots that become super rounded off baby toy robots, panic. Panic hard. 
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Craptacular! posted:And even when I did eventually watch Sentai, I watched the seasons immediately after Gaoranger and they dealt with stuff like, "Red's been poisoned with a toxin and will die in 12 hours!" or even "Abarekiller is a psychopath who enjoys hurting people because he sees it as a game and he's got the cheat code" and I just can't see them, at least as Kyuranger is constructed, touching on topics such as these. Stinger's brother committed genocide of their race just because he wanted to be more powerful, and he destroys Champ shortly after trying to kill Stinger (though Champ is a robot so they were able to rebuild him of course). I'm not saying Kyuranger is gritty or serious or anything, it's not, but if your bar for grim and scary is "a person gets poisoned and will die" or "a villain likes hurting/killing people" then Kyuranger absolutely has that.
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Sep 11, 2017 23:17
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Craptacular! posted:I think the idea is, "if people don't see the toy being cool, how will they want the toy." It's also been brought up that if all that matters is toy sales and the show is unimportant, then it doesn't make business sense to spend money producing a show when they can just make the toys.
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Sep 12, 2017 15:24
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Regarding the latest episode of Kyuranger, while Lucky is probably just Orion's descendant, I can't help but feel that maybe Orion's newborn son somehow is Lucky.
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Sep 12, 2017 20:10
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Sep 13, 2017 02:33
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Delta's belt wasn't actually meant to be a cell phone, if I remember correctly it was a prototype Gear and so they had no need to try and disguise it like they did with the Faiz and Kaixa Gears, so it's just a gun. e: Looking it up, the handle that's inserted to transform has an antenna, so it's possibly based on a walkie-talkie, and the barrel of the Delta Blaster is meant to be a camcorder. Twelve by Pies fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Sep 13, 2017 |
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Sep 13, 2017 03:24
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I like some SIC stuff but not a lot. i really like the Blade SIC figures, especially since they have King forms for Leangle and Garren.
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Sep 14, 2017 22:14
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Diamond is not a machine!Blaze Dragon posted:I'm a lot more annoyed with Kyuranger, last week and this one felt like watching Ninninger all over again, with the only real difference being that Lucky's actor is far more charismatic than Takaharu's. At least next week is back to the good plot that I actually care about. I don't agree that it's as bad as Ninninger. Sentai has been red-centric for a long time and Lucky has always played a role in supporting his other teammates so it wouldn't be surprising that when he's in trouble they're all going to talk about how they rely on him. This is a far cry from "Wow Takaharu is the best ever how will we ever be as good and awesome as him?" It does seem to be a shame that the powerup is going to be exclusive to him instead of being able to be shared around, but then again powerups that can be shared haven't happened very much since I started watching Sentai during Go-Onger (which didn't have a powerup form). The only ones I recall off the top of my head are Shinkenger and ToQger.
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Sep 19, 2017 21:13
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Eh I still can't agree. If anything the Lucky situation is much more comparable to Daigo from Kyoryuger than Ninninger, especially considering it was explicitly stated multiple times that Daigo was the strongest and best of everybody, it's just he treated his teammates like teammates, unlike Takaharu. And Lucky has consistently done the same thing throughout the series, with the slight exception of "I'm going to go back in time by myself to save everyone." But even then it was partially because "I need you guys to stay here and try to help Naga."
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Sep 20, 2017 00:46
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Regarding episode four of Build, I'm going to assume that we're supposed to think Boss is Blood Stark, which would mean that he actually isn't. Still, I really hope he is because that would be awesome.
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Sep 25, 2017 22:04
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Blaze Dragon posted:I'm so glad Naga got to keep the Metal power-up, even if it got lamer in its good form. Yeah that was actually pretty awesome. Since he doesn't really qualify as a Sixth Ranger, this is the first Sentai I can think of where a non-Red/non-Sixth character gets a unique power up form.
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Sep 26, 2017 05:44
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Dexie posted:Didn't the same thing happen with Den-O's actor too, Yeah from what I've heard he really wants to play Ryotaro again but his agency won't let him. GuyUpNorth posted:Trying to put it in more universal terms, Sentai and Rider is regarded as stepping stone AFAIK. Gentaro/Kouta/Philip got their break there and agencies want them to keep going higher in addition to whatever actors themselves think. And then you have situations where a famous porn actress played one of the villains in a Sentai (Nao Oikawa in Go-Onger). e: Ha, I was watching the new episode of Kyuranger today and said "Huh isn't it about time they got their midseason mecha? Maybe they're not doing that this season" and then I saw the preview for the next episode.
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Oct 3, 2017 21:32
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Champ becoming a luchador is great. He really is the best character.
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Oct 17, 2017 01:34
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Waffleman_ posted:In the middle of Build, but they've basically confirmed that Sento is a bodyswapped Katsuragi at this point. I'm still undecided as to whether they're doing that or going for a fakeout, but him thinking the omelet was delicious after Ryuga said it was awful is a pretty strong sign they're actually going for Sento being Katsuragi.
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Oct 23, 2017 19:12
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I was about to type that that seems pretty unlikely, but then as I was typing it it seems somewhat plausible I guess. I was going to say it was probably a direct swap between rocker guy and Katsuragi, which would mean he was dead, but someone else had to be there to kill "Katsuragi" meaning it could've been a three-way swap. The only problem I have with this theory is there'd be no real reason for rocker guy to join Faust. I do agree that he's very likely a character we've seen before which is why they're still hiding his identity, and if nothing else this episode confirmed that the glasses guy who hangs out with Rogue isn't Stalk. On another note I had to look it up, and I was right, Hoshi Minato from this week's Kyuranger is indeed Tsubasa from Magiranger/Jin from Go-Busters.
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Oct 23, 2017 19:43
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Burkion posted:Wait is that going to happen in the show Ghost had the Rider Eyecons mostly be confined to their own specials but I think they used them in one of the last episodes of the show. So it might be a similar situation where there's mini-specials where Build uses the Rider bottles and it's a tossup as to whether they show up in the show itself.
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Blaze Dragon posted:No, all of the Rider Eyecons were only used in either the Legendary! Rider Souls special or the Kamen Rider 1 movie, with Ex-Aid appearing, obviously, in Heisei Generations. In general, the previous Rider stuff will never appear in the series proper, with the obvious exception of Decade and the more unexpected exception of Wizard's last two episodes which may as well have been a special considering they had no connection whatsoever with the series' actual plot. Ah, okay, I couldn't remember fully because Frey and Freya did actually appear in the series, and I thought maybe that may have meant they used a Rider Eyecon. That said, Ghost actually did have a flashback to the final episode of Drive in episode four, when Takeru was remembering how he got the Newton Eyecon.
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Oct 28, 2017 23:02
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It's never explained in the series but personally I always assumed that the Human Undead won the Battle Royale by just hiding behind a bush and watching everyone else destroy each other.
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coconono posted:I loved Faiz/555, don't get what all the thread hate is about it tho. It's the usual Inoue crap of "No characters ever talk to each other" thing, also Faiz is just kind of a combination of all the things people complain about in Heisei Rider series. We all know how women Riders get treated in Rider, Faiz has one of the worst with the extremely competent and cool Delta woman getting killed off so an incompetent man can take her place. Rider series have a bad habit of not quite sticking the landing, Faiz is probably the second worst behind Hibiki. Rider series are generally self-contained, so Faiz also ends on a cliffhanger on top of that (although it is somewhat followed up on in Heisei vs. Showa and Kamen Rider 4). Bikes are horribly underused in Heisei Rider, and Faiz's bike turns into a robot which gets used I think maybe twice in the entire series. I like Faiz okay but it has a lot of problems.
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Nov 9, 2017 18:35
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i think a female red would break a lot of brains in a very fun way They already did that once! Even if it only did last for an episode and a half before they brought Takeru/whatever the gently caress Samurai Red's name was back. Also while it's not quite the same thing, from what I understand (I still haven't watched it), Tsuruhime/Ninja White in Kakuranger is basically the leader of the team, even though she's not red.
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Larryb posted:There are also some teams like Goseiger and ToQger who don't really have an established leader (hell, both of them had an entire episode devoted to that fact), though Red still usually takes point in battle anyway because tradition. Yeah, Hyde was probably the closest thing to a leader the Goseigers had since Alata just kinda goofed off and ate candy most of the time.
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Though I'm wondering how this week's episode fits into the Sento is Katsuragi theory. There's a couple of ways it could go from here. One is that Stalk gave rocker dude the appearance of Katsuragi, and gave Katsuragi the appearance of rocker dude. He may or may not have made himself appear like Katsuragi as well, I guess it depends on if he used his human form to make people think he was the real one for a while, or if he's just been in a permanent transformed state and just is saying he's Katusragi. Another way they could go is that he actually is Katsuragi, and Sento is someone who hasn't been revealed yet who was changed to look like rocker dude, and rocker dude was changed to look like Katsuragi.
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Nov 13, 2017 01:31
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The energy card that shoots out for Blade/Garren/Leangle's transformation actually was a barrier that stopped Undead, and sometimes they even used it offensively to knock the Undead back. So I gotta say, Lucky's dad being a fake sand guy is nowhere near as interesting as it would have been if it had actually been his dad. Maybe they were just worried that it would come off as a repeat of Scorpio. Oh well.
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Larryb posted:I think Dynaman was used like once or twice in the series proper as far as I can remember. http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Gokai_Changes They list them per episode rather than by series, but it looks like not counting the final episode (since each series gets one use in the final battle), Dynaman was used in 11 and 32. Still, Dynaman was used more than Goggle V was, as that was only used in episode 8. Other low use keys: Bioman got only two uses in series, Gokai Green turning into Green2 in episode 19, and a full team use in 28. Outside of Turboranger being used as a gag in the Carranger tribute episode, it was only used in episode 9. Jetman was only used in two episodes with a full team, and only one single use outside of that. Changeman only had one full team change, and was only used in two other episodes by individual Gokaigers. Also, Changeman was the Sentai they took longest before changing into, as there wasn't a Changeman Gokai Change until episode 32. So yeah. As far as I can tell, the least used team was Goggle V, as there was only one team change for that series, and no individual changes outside of it. Even Bioman got one individual use outside of the single team use. Also something else of note: quote:Only Denziman, Dynaman, and Bioman have never had a special introduction in any way, not even unintentionally as in the Turboranger change in episode 14 or in a solo transformation as in the five Basco-abducted teams as in episode 49.
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I assume that Stalk helped out Sento and Banjou because he doesn't want Rogue to get the remaining bottles he needs. Good debut of Cross-Z.
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They even managed to sneak in a Fist of the North Star reference into this week's episode. It also sounded mostly like what Kenshiro says, though a word or two sounds slightly different so I'd be interested to see how they compare from someone who knows Japanese. Also next week's episode of Kyuranger seems to be Dragon Quest which I am always down with.
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gourdcaptain posted:I actually did see that one coming to a degree due to the timing of Owner's arrivals and exits from the cafe with Blood Stalk's activity, and the one time Banjou took Misora out of the cafe, Stalk interfered in the exact right way to keep Misora from being recaptured. Yeah, I was always pretty suspicious because every time he left the cafe was when Stalk showed up, plus his best excuse for activating Pandora's Box originally was "Well gee that sure was weird of me to do, I have no idea why I did it!"
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Hemingway To Go! posted:I was hoping that since Sento is the SMARTEST HESEI RIDER he'd be able to figure this out himself instead of getting an informant. Why would Stalk have let this person know who he is, anyway, he doesn't even let ROGUE know his identity Yeah, now that you mention it, this bugs me too. I can only think of two explanations, neither of them very satisfying. The first is that Stalk figured the guy's memories would be wiped, so it didn't matter if he revealed his identity to him. Again, given how much Stalk has been plotting, this isn't very satisfying since sometimes the memory wipe is selective, or minimal depending on how long the person is a Smash, so it doesn't seem like the kind of risk he'd take. I guess another side of this is that Nabeshima accidentally found out who Stalk is, and Stalk wiped his memories as a defense. The second is that Stalk purposely revealed his identity to Nabeshima as part of his plan, possibly to demoralize Sento when Sento found it out, which would make him less of a threat. This theory works, but the problem is it relies on some real heavy gambles, such as Nabeshima actually getting his memory back (this wasn't a guarantee, especially since Sento still doesn't have his, unless Stalk has the power to restore lost memories but that hasn't been hinted at in the slightest), and that Nabeshima would only have gotten his memory back after all the bottles were purified (and the same applies here). Again, it definitely could have just been a huge gamble that paid off, but the plan seems like it'd have too high of a risk of failure. They might explain it, but somehow I doubt it, Nabeshima just knew who Stalk was and the audience is supposed to accept it and move on.
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Regarding the next episode preview, "It's you, Kiryuu Sento" is, I'm going to assume, the next line after Gentoku says "Do you know who Katsuragi really is?"
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I knew Amazons was meant for an older audience but I won't lie, I really spent most of it worried that they were doing to do some dumb bullshit "Chihiro actually gets through to Iyu and she regains her emotions." I was very pleased to see what actually happened.
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Blaze Dragon posted:Is this the first time we get a Rider actor being more than one Rider (with said Riders being entirely different characters from different series that aren't Decade-style world counterparts of each other)? I don't remember it happening any time before, unlike Sentai. The first I can think of is Yuichi Nakamura, who was Kiriya in Hibiki and then Yuuto in Den-O. Also Shingo Kawaguchi was Todoroki in Hibiki, and then was the green Kamen RIder Mage in Wizard.
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So it's pretty obvious at this point but I'm going to go ahead and place my bets on next week's episode of Kyuranger revealing that he's taken over Cuervo's body.
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Watching Blade in 60i was a weird experience. It felt like I was watching someone's camcorder recording of a stage show. I know technically 60 fps is more realistic and better but it was really off-putting. I guess I'll stick to the hardsubs from now on.
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Mister Olympus posted:Even in the hardsubs I feel bad for people with motion sickness (or epilepsy for that matter). What is with this show and wobblycam strobe lights? Yeah even in the hardsubbed version there's a lot of jarring cuts and stuff, it makes the fights kind of hard to follow. I think this mostly stops as the series goes on, but it's been a while since I watched Blade so I'm not sure.
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Hey, this week's Kyuranger had a Sailor Moon reference! I also like that after the Jark Matter army found out their boss tried to destroy the entire universe and them along with it, most of them quit.
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Jan 8, 2018 05:19
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So the BOARD password in episode three of Blade is "Double Joker." That is some incredible foreshadowing.
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Episode four of Blade: Kenzaki talks about how cool it would be if the Rider System broke down his body and he sacrificed himself in the name of justice. Man, they really did have the ending planned out all along huh?
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:I mean obviously everything's going to work out because the entire point of Kyuranger is optimism, even moreso than most Sentai, but at the same time that is a loving egregiously hypocritical use of Heroic Sacrifice. I'm just impressed that they didn't have Kuervo saying "Oh I was possessed and I've done horrible things, I'm sorry I have seen the light." And then Tsurugi just straight kills him. But yeah aside from that Lucky's actions this episode did annoy me for the reasons you stated, it makes it even worse because he didn't try and stop Tsurugi from attacking Kuervo, so Lucky refusing to do the same just comes off as "I'm going to be better than you for not doing what you did."
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Cipher Pol 9 posted:It's occurred to me a couple of times now but it will never not upset me that Super Duper Hero Wars robbed us of a proper Zyuohger VS Kyuranger movie. I miss those animal pals. I don't know that Super Hero Wars had anything to do with it considering there have been VS specials for all the previous series. I've heard people say (I have no idea how true this is) that Toei isn't making very much money releasing them in theaters for a while, so they might be going back to doing the VS movies as direct to video releases, since that's how they were released before Go-Onger VS Gekiranger.
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People complain about Raptor getting shafted, and she absolutely did, but Garu had the worst of it. Poor guy pretty much never had a single episode where he was the focus, and he was constantly just there to get poo poo on and be the butt of jokes. It was really irritating in the martial arts episode where everybody got animal globes and did sweet attacks, except Garu who just rubbed up against the bad guy and got kicked in the face.
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