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Tokusatsu Best of 2011
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01-05-2012, 03:09 PM
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Switchblade
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Again, copypastaed from HJU:
Best New Show of 2011
Gokaiger. I thought OOO was good but not great, Fourze is still too young to properly judge, and the same is pretty much true of MakaiSenki. Gokaiger, though, has been a ton of fun from beginning to end, even though it's the first Sentai I've really seen a lot of.
Best New-to-You Show of 2011
Just started watching it last week, but I have already fallen madly in love with Metalder. I love the designs, the concept is really interesting, and the villain army is made up of a lot of surprisingly engaging characters.
Best Rewatch of 2011
Kamen Rider Ryuki. I wasn't that impressed the first time around, but I decided to give it a second go and I like it a lot more now.
Best Movie of 2011
This is a tough one for me. Let's Go Riders and 199 Heroes were both great anniversary films, but they still had their weaknesses. A to Z was amazing, but I feel kind of weird picking it since it came out in summer 2010, even if it's totally allowable under my own rules. I'm inclined to go with W Returns Eternal instead, which I really, really enjoyed.
Best Male Character
This is another tough one, but I have to go with Date from OOO. He was such a fun character and absolutely stole the spotlight every time he was on screen. Ankh is a very, very close second, though, and Captain Marvelous isn't that far behind either.
Best Female Character
Luka from Gokaiger. I've always had a soft spot in my heart for plucky girl thieves.
Best Actor
Ryosuke Miura, aka Ankh/Shingo. Holy crap, this guy is amazing. Two separate characters who are worlds apart yet both believable. He was fantastic.
Best Actress
Mika Hijii from Garo. I've always loved her as Kaoru and she continues to be fantastic.
Biggest Toku Crush of 2011
Minase Yashiro, the Heat Dopant from A to Z and the Eternal movie. I'm not even a leg man, but daaaaaaamn. :wub:
Best Villain
This one is hard, too, largely because none of this year's villains have impressed me much. Never cared for the Greeds, thought Maki was too much of a joke, Zangyack has been largely boring, Zodiarts are largely still too underdeveloped, and the main baddie from MakaiSenki is still too enigmatic. I guess I'll go with Basco, since he tends to be such a magnificent bastard and savvy enough to be a consistent threat.
Best Returning Character
I'm going to cheat a little and say both Shotaro and Philip from W. I love that the producers have managed to keep bringing them back, even if they usually just get cameos. It's a nice throwback to the old days of Rider when the actors kept popping up in later series, both in and out of suit. Plus I just love these guys.
Skipping the next few since I don't really know the production side of these shows that well, although...
Best Visual Designer
Keita Amemiya is doing another series of Garo, so he easily wins this category for me.
Best Hero Suit Design
I wasn't a big fan of most of this year's hero suits, but I do love the five main Gokaiger and their pirate themed costumes.
Best Monster Suit Design
It's hard to remember all of these, but I'd probably go with Basco's monster design. Damaras isn't far behind.
Best Weapon
I love the Gokai Saber/Gokai Gun combination. The weapons are a nice blend of old fashioned, high tech, and kid friendly and they're usually used very well on the show.
Best Vehicle/Mecha
The Gokai Galleon. What can possibly top a flying pirate ship designed to travel in space?
Best Fight Scene
The one that easily sticks in my head the most is the first fight between the Gokaigers and the Zangyack in the first episode of Gokaiger. We got to see all of the characters show off their different fighting styles and the fight choreography still really blows me away.
Best Dramatic Scene
Ankh's death at the end of OOO and his subsequent lack of a resurrection or miraculous survival. I'm not one of those that got really pissed at how fast Philip came back, but I do think that Ankh's death is more powerful because it wasn't revoked within an episode.
Best Song
Predestination, the ending theme for MakaiSenki. Not quite as amazing as the original series' ending, but it's still great.
Best Piece of Merchandise
SH Figuarts Kamen Rider Knight. Holy crap, that thing is amazing. Ryuki is a close second, but Knight has to take the top prize.
Biggest Surprise
This is another one that I have a hard time picking. The unveiling of a new Garo series was a big, highly welcome surprise. So was the announcement of the Decade/Gokaiger team-up. Still, for my money, the biggest surprised had to be "Wait, the Gokaigers are teaming up with
who
in their third movie? Toei actually remembers Metal Heroes!?"
Single Worst Thing in 2011 Tokusatsu
The OOO portion of Movie War Core. I'd sooner sit through The Next again before I try to watch this without fastforwarding.
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