Tokusatsu Thread (Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Ultraman and the likes)

@Jarkes  
I can just imagine how the Lupinrangers would react if they heard Hongo’s infamous speech to the Heisei kamen riders about their obsession over the dead.

@09MurphyM
 
Hiroshi Fujioka apparently hated Hongo’s characterization in KRT so much that he insisted on co-writing the Kamen Rider 1 movie to make sure Toshiki Inoue (the main writer for that movie) didn’t fuck things up.

@Jarkes  
Its especially confusing when you consider that in kamen rider movies before and after Kamen Rider Taisen, he immediately agrees to team up with Heisei Kamen riders to fight the movie villians.

@09MurphyM
 
Not to mention half the Showa Riders have lost loved ones and it took them most of them a while to make peace with it.
 
I GET the idea of needing to move on and look towards the future. But it was done in the dumbest way possible.

@Jarkes  
I also question why General Schwartz of the shadow line was even in the movie. He appeared out of nowhere to help Badan but didn’t even fight the Toqgers when they showed up during the climax.

@Jarkes  
It’s only THE WHOLE REASON some of them became Riders, even! It’s even in V3’s theme song.

@09MurphyM  
Because the Taisen movies need to squeeze cameos in however they can.

@Dex Stewart  
It would have made sense if the Toqger vs Gaim special showed him taking notice of Badan’s activities in Zawame and decided to help out. Instead, he just randomly shows up during the movie for seemingly no reason.

Speaking oddness from the movies.  
You think the next time we Hongo he will use the “power up” form?  
Or just drop it for the normal look of Ichigo?
 
Because as much as I like the look of it, it was just odd to see it compared to his normal form.

@Prof.NightJack
 
Apparently the reason the new suit was so bulky was because it was padded on the inside so that Fujioka could do his own suit stunts again and not have to worry about another accident like the famous motorcycle accident that led to the creation of Rider 2.

@Jarkes  
Ya I read about that, but still it looks odd when compared to the normal look, and I mean just on there own.  
And I don’t mean just the bulk but the overall look of the design.

@Prof.NightJack
 
Especially since there wasn’t some kind of “arc” of him getting the upgrade through the movie or something, he just has it through the whole thing.
 
Then again, it’s canon that he’s constantly getting stronger over time. So this is just an extension of that.

@Jarkes  
But it;s also noted as being an upgrade and not just from him getting stronger over time.  
Other then the “Sakurajima 1” form he had for a short time all times his form changed was from upgrades made to him.

The first of my Rider figures has arrived!  

Also, here’s another thing about KRT that bugs me: Shotaro only transforms into Joker (since they couldn’t get Masaki Suda), but later his Rider Lockseed is that of Double and when all the Riders are summoned back via the Lockseeds, he’s Double.

@Jarkes  
I guess he got in contact with Philip offscreen.

@09MurphyM
 
Most likely, since we never see him turn into the Lockseed…

So Jarkes, where are you at in Gaim right now?

@Prof.NightJack
 
Got through episode 23 (Kachidoki Arms’s debut) the other day.

Earthly is going to be releasing a Ryuki scrub soon.
 
They’re also teaming up with OZC to do scrubs of Kiva and Decade with the Blu-ray raws, like how OZC is using the Den-O Blu-rays to release Earthly’s scrubs for that.

Watching episode 26 of Gaim right now and I just got to the part where Mai slaps Mitchy, causing him to go full psycho.

Wow, Baron Lemon Energy Arms is UGLY.

@Jarkes  
I remember somthing about how Kaito was originally be killed off or somthing but they changed it and went with giving him a Genesis Driver, but they didn’t have the time to make a new suit so it’s just the modified a helmet and put the Duke Lemon Energy armor part on the Baron suit, then the emblem was just made and attached to the armor unlike ever other one where the emblem is actully painted on.
 
Good thing they had a lot of time for what happens with him later.

At this point I’m going to watch 5 episodes of Gaim a day, then I should be done by Monday or Tuesday.

Unpopular opinion: Kamen Rider Ex-Aid is better than Kamen Rider Build.