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Zi-O November Scans
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I appreciate your posting scans whenever they pop up, but I truly don't really understand why it's sometimes these weirdly resized versions. There are much higher quality pictures available.
In any case, I feel like every new Another Rider is better than the last. I really like the rest, OOO in particular, but Another Gaim may be the first to really make me feel like I need a figure of it. It looks great. Also glad that I was right after all about the Gaim Armor forming a giant head, albeit they did make it pretty obvious. |
So I guess Geiz just decided to become Zi-O 2? Thing that intrigues me most about all this is how the hell Build exists in the movie. Shame we won't know till like, May.
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I'm guessing there will be a point in which Zi-O needs his past self's help to beat another Gaim?
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The time majin upgrades look sweet. Hope they do miniplas of them.
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So we got to wait 2 weeks to see if they actually have guests for the Gaim episodes?
Bummer. |
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Oh, and the Time Majin upgrade vehicles for now are Time Jacker things.
Whether that carries over to Zi-O and Geiz later is unknown though. For now at least, Zi-O gets Rider specific upgrades to his, while the Time Jackers get the vehicles. Castle Doran is Ora's. Captain Ghost is Uhr's. Quote:
*Edit* With the way Lockseeds work, and how Zi-O/Geiz and their ride armors work, it was the only option for Gaim. The Ride Armors are instilled concepts of their riders. Like how Ghost is the Eyecon Ghost hoodie. Or Fourze is the rocket. So things with a more visual physical device aspect or influence will likely lean into that for the Ride Armor. Not sure why I have to explain something so obvious. Which for Gaim is the lockseeds and how they drop over the head. Which means the only option for him is a giant double lockseed head. Quote:
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Yeah, haven't we already seen Uhr's Captain Ghost Majin?
Hopefully they use the Time Majin updates more. The Machine Decader could turn into other bikes but only did it, like, twice. |
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Even not reading what it says, you can tell a lot by picture positioning. That's the way they do their media in general(print and motion) to heighten awareness and get the point across farther to make it more apparent and obvious at even a glance. So before a word is spoken or read, you get a rudimentary understanding of the implications. Like how Uhr and Ora's pictures are by their respective combined Time Majins, but also lack Ride Watches. Showing those are likely unique to them and not Zi-O or Geiz as yet. With their media and marketing, every detail matters to sell the concept or idea or build hype/excitement. Quote:
That and Geiz in episode 1 are also when we see the Ride Watches impact theirs. That their normal Ride Watch is why it has their faces, so it was rather expected that Ride Armor ride watches could enhance the Time Majins too. I think they even implied as such in toy scans and announcement stuff. But right now at least, Zi-O, Geiz, and any other riders(Woz potentially being an exception that has access to all), only get the ride watch enhancements. While Time Jackers get the wider equipment style. Though as with any show, that can always evolve later too. It looks like the style of it is relatively cross compatible for easy retools and additional enhancements. |
I would love it if Another Gaim ends up being Yuuya.
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I was initially bummed that Eiji won't appear in the OOO arc due to how Kuroto dominates the guest spot. |
Something else interesting here is the Zi-O working with himself pics.
If he is indeed crossing his own timeline to support himself, and it almost looks like Woz is in some of those pics too. Could this be foreshadowing an even more growing rift between Tsukuyomi and Gates/Geiz to Sougo? Like to the point he's now going so far as to cross his own timeline to support himself? Could this be more Woz pushed ideas? Really curious how that's going to play out. Woz is pushing more and more to try and make Oma Zi-O happen like it's supposed to, but also doing it in ways that seem very innocuous. He doesn't seem to be actively forcing it, but gently nudging in subtle ways to make sure it happens as it did. |
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The Gaim transforming ride watch makes me think we might see Watermelon arms for the Time Majin/Mazin.
Didn't get around to watching episode 9 until today, and the foreshadowing of the Hawk ride watch with these scans and the preview, along with their showing the Gaim green transforming one here but not what it does makes me think that might be a later surprise upgrade for the Time Majin/Mazin. Quote:
One of the design producers kinda jumped ship on that one very early on(but kept signing off on the checks), and really only phoned in the concepts to begin with, including quick bench marks and cameos to toss in. How the crew and other producers made it work with what they had is really fantastic considering. A lot of shows have kinda had that though too tbh. Gaim was even more free reign and it came out fantastic. So nin was kinda in that middle place of too many stipulations, not enough freedom, and not enough of a worked out plan. But for what they had to work with, they did really well. Every so often there's one of those "F U BoA/Saban" seasons to blow off steam. Nin was one of those. Toq, and Zyohger are too. Which is ironic in other ways considering BoJ & Toei are who signs off on different things and pushes it forward. Nin in particular was built on attempting to simplify some concepts for kids as well. And all around was more quirky design emphasis with entire chunks that had to be cut from the final product. BoA and Saban had already lost influence at that point because of how the market share in their markets were dropping. Ninja Steel was their last hurrah so to speak, and so they tried to throw in some big things for fans like the oversized Lion fortress and a few other things. Like at one time there was supposed to be more Kaku stuff interwoven in too. When you end up with a cowboy ninja that has a hamburger morpher and a mecha type that's a throne within a throne, you can kind of immediately tell this is a steam blowing off season that's not meant to be taken seriously. So nin's problems I don't blame on the writer at all. He did the best he could with what he could. In many ways, Ninja Steel suffers from this too. It had basis to grow to become bigger nods, but the dwindling market share and other issues held it back a bit more because the passion wasn't there, though the creative teams still gave it their all. They are supposed to be more outlandish campy throwbacks and not to be taken seriously at all. *Shrug* So I blame that prelim concept design producer more than anything, but then again, that same design producer has given us a lot of good stuff too over the years. So whatever. I mean this is the same area that's given us stuff like Blade, Hibiki, Kabuto, Den-O, Kiva, OOOs, Gaim, Gekiranger, Bouken, Magi, Lupin, Akiba, Amazons, First, Next, Build, go-on, Go-buster, Kyu, and way too many more to list across the board. Since roughly Hurricane/Aba or so. So a few "oopsies" are kind of whatever. The upcoming Dragon Sentai is from the same area again(and some of what's coming after), and the next riders should be too unless they get bumped back again. You'd probably be surprised how many things you praise across different industries and also curse across different industries all track back to the same source. So I tend to feel it's really unfair to pin the blame squarely on Shimoyama's shoulders. Borderline mean really too when it was out of his hands and not his fault. |
I'm not sure production design speaks to all the most serious things wrong with Ninninger's scripting. (Although we can just blame Takaharu on the casting director and leave it at that.) I don't doubt it's a factor, but it's not the entire thing.
I'm certain you're right that there's a significant amount of push and pull surrounding the toy line, actor availability around cameos, etc. However, one of the reasons Ninninger is so poorly-regarded is that there was almost nothing interesting going on with its villains. Villains allow a section of the story to be told that skirts the toys and speaks to the serialized elements of the show. Ninninger mostly wasted these opportunities. Only Kyuemon had much of anything interesting going on, but that story wasn't given anything like enough meat until the final few episodes (plus a movie.) By comparison, Zyuohger's villains were unbelievably flat until someone on the writing team dreamed up Bangray, and suddenly, the show was churning out some of its most interesting episodes. So far, Zi-O's Timejackers are failing to intrigue me. I get that we're in the early, mustache-twirling section of the show, but we're seeing essentially the same scenes reiterated over and over, and it's giving me unpleasant Wizard flashbacks. |
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It's kind of thing that could suddenly stop, and leave us with random Another Riders again in spite of what they said this week, but that hasn't happened yet. |
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Wonder how you'd picture...
Another Gaim - ? Another Double - ? Another Kiva - ? Another Den-O - ? Another Kabuto - ? Another Hibiki - ? Another Blade - ? Another Ryuki - ? Another Kuuga - ? Sadly Another Agito is already used. Bet an episode where the Zi-O riders get confused with Kino-san's rider name. |
I could kinda see Another Hibiki being Kiriya while he was still competing with Asumu for the apprentice role.
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Oh, who am I kidding? It's probably going to be another two-off character. |
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