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Tokusatsu, merchandising and rampant consumerism (yipee!)
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11-02-2020, 07:16 AM
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TheRaizin
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Jesus, this post has really made me recount the trash fire of 2015-2016 where I bought up so many of Gundam IBO kits. In short, I got really into the anime and wanted to buy so much of the coolest designs I could get. It started with just the Astaroth Origin and now I'm stuck with a lot of them. I managed to trim it down substantially by either throwing some away, selling them, or giving them to friends, depending on the condition of the kit. I had plans to trim them down severely this year but, it's obvious why not.
Sometimes I think I want an almost clean-slate. Make all the model kits I bought disappear, keep only the expensive figures. Get into painting, caring for each individual kit instead of snap-fit and go.
Going back to the topic of tokusatsu merch. I'm starting to not be a really big fan of large rider casts. Zero-One was the catalyst for this but I didn't really mind since I found all individual characters interesting, but Saber, coming with seven riders out of the gate put a bad taste to my mouth.
I wanna buy SHFs of the riders, they're really cool designs but I also don't wanna buy almost all of SOL since I know that a season is a yearly thing and these characters would either just become irrelevant or get a mainstay upgrade that makes my previous purchase irrelevant (FF Jin vs BF Jin).
It's also why I don't buy DX toys. It looks painful for a lot of people. Let's say the DX Zero-One driver is released, people buy it en masse since it's the spiffy new belt, regardless of the price. People buy the rest of the upgrades too, full price. Then the show ends, and now you have Mandarake being flooded with the same toys you bought, just now dirt cheap.
But this shines a light on something I'm slowly be aware of in modern day society. The consumerism aspect that we have grown accustomed to that are further enabled by things like Netflix, shows that it becomes extremely difficult for something to be a "classic".
You'd watch Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, you buy merch, show finishes, move on to Build, rinse and repeat. It's a scary and unsustainable of consuming media.
At the end of the day, it's a kids show. You yourself have the ability to control yourself if you wish it so. And also, I gotta go and clean up my gunpla flood.
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