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Fish Sandwich rewatches Kamen Rider Kuuga
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05-21-2020, 05:14 PM
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Fish Sandwich
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Originally Posted by
Kamen Rider Die
I hereby rescind all previous compliments based on this unprovoked attack.
In all seriousness, I legitimately found it interesting that we had that little spat about our opinions on vegetables, and, after ALL this writing, the thing I eventually landed on was basically that Kuuga
is
vegetables. It's okay Die, I understand. Kuuga was just too much of a shift for someone who got into the franchise with the premium layer cake that is Ex-Aid, it can't be helped that you don't want to eat healthier, and I get that now.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
DreadBringer
Didn't think I will do this here, but can you answer to some of my replies and question above? (If you can't ok, just want to clarify) Really invested into the Gadoru part, before going into the best portrayal of final form in the franchise ever.
I will try and get on that right now!
Quote:
Originally Posted by
DreadBringer
Yusuke's a superhuman, but he's the one tripping?!
Hey, just because he has superhuman strength doesn't mean he has superhuman
balance
.
Quote:
I think I would like to see the cops trying to use a stronger weapon before rather than just relying on bullets and guns, such as missiles, grenades, etc.?
To be fair, cops generally don't have access to stuff like that, and Kuuga liked to be as realistic as possible with them. Playing pretend for a second that they managed to get their hands on heavy explosives, I'm pretty sure it would just end with a Grongi still being perfectly fine, and some civilians filing complaints later about all the chunks of buildings and sidewalks that have been destroyed because Ichijou was firing off a bazooka in a densely populated area.
I think it's better for everyone they stuck with bullets and gas this whole time.
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Can you list known Yusuke's skills with their numbers as much as you can after finishing the rewatch? I wish there would be a supplementary material that touches on this.
Gosh, I don't think I really can do this? I think there are under a dozen explicitly confirmed skills Yuusuke has, and it's pretty unclear what exactly counts as a "skill". In a promotional event for the Blu-ray release, Arakawa and Takatera even joked that the "look over there!" move he pulled in the first episode might've been one. I'd love it if there were a proper list somewhere myself (if there is, I'm not aware of it). For now, I think we'll have to make due pretending basically everything we see Yuusuke do is a skill.
Quote:
So which one actually creates Rising form? The defibrillator, willpower, or both?
Both. The idea as the show presents it seems to be that Yuusuke wishing to become stronger caused the Amadam to start using the electricity as extra power, since the stone reacts directly to his will, which is how he does things like transforming to begin with.
Quote:
I guess Yusuke means maintaining 30s for Rising only for 1 base form before and not like, each base form can get Rising for 30s each in 1 henshin?
Yeah, rolling with the electricity theme, I'd imagine the idea is that Yuusuke runs out of "juice" pretty quickly, and needs time to recharge. I don't think simply trying a different form after he runs out in a fight would work.
Quote:
And you sure really not seen in tokus other than Kuuga, including other Kamen Riders?
What I mean with that part is that I haven't personally seen a lot of tokusatsu that takes the time out for something so...
domestic
, I guess? There might be one out there, and some of the other early Heisei Riders have a few elements of stuff like this, but the Enokida plotline would feel more at home in a daytime soap opera than a superhero show, and that's exactly why I love it.
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Originally Posted by
FreshToku
Alright, Fish Sandwich, what this thread really needs is you revealing and showing off how much Kuuga merch you've collected. I'll be disappointed if you don't own at least three different figures.
Prepare for disappointment then! The number is exactly zero!
I've yet to really get much into Rider merch, for a few different reasons. I've legitimately been eyeballing the Figure-Rise kits quite a bit though. One of the joys of getting into Gundam a few years back was realizing there's affordably priced merch of all this stuff that's just readily available. You can buy a kit of every lead mobile suit in that entire franchise overnight, because kits generally get frequent reissues, and ever since learning that, it's always been a dream of mine to have an equivalent thing... for Sentai robots. But nice figures of Heisei Riders is a darn good second place! The absurd rigmarole of lining up a purchase of a super expensive Figuart for the five seconds those are available is
way
too much for me (how do you people even touch those things without having a heart attack?), but casually dropping like $30-40 for something on Amazon basically whenever I feel like? They can't make a Ghost kit fast enough!
I was even legitimately thinking about getting myself a Kuuga when I finished this thread, but, uh, I'm not in much of a rush to make that happen right now...
Someday soon, hopefully!
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Originally Posted by
DreamSword
Even though "Deconstruction" is a phrase that Fish doesn't really like
Is that how that came off? I probably should've specified I don't think it's inherently a
bad
thing either, then? I do think it's a perfectly apt description of Kuuga, which is one of the other things about that term that I think gives it a bad rap sometimes: being applied a little too liberally.
But man, the final showdown being anticlimactic? I just can't buy that. If Yuusuke went up that mountain and had a fight with Daguva as Kuuga where he threw fireballs at him until he won and then walked back to say "I did it!" to Ichijou or something... I mean,
that's
the anticlimax, in my book. That kind of ending would be so generic
and
horribly inappropriate for the story, I wouldn't know whether to be angry, or just fall asleep.
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