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Tokusatsu "Best ofs" 2018: Those future kings everyone's talking about edition
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12-26-2018, 02:22 PM
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Kiwami
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Alright, I've been looking forward to this!
Before I unveil my winners, I got to start with saying that if SSSS. Gridman would qualify it would win a lot of these awards. A lot. It was definitely my highlight of the year. So it gets the "You're technically not allowed but kinda Toku and you rock"-award. It’s simply fantastic.
Now let's get into the actual Toku stuff:
Best New Show of 2018
Not that great of a year for new Toku I'm afraid. Build ended which sucked, Zi-O isn’t all that good, LuPat is okay at best, R/B is fun but can’t really follow up Geed and Orb.
Second seasons don’t count, right? Otherwise I’d say Thunderbolt Fantasy takes it. But since it has to be a new show, I'm going with Ultraman R/B. The only thing wrong with is that it isn’t as serious and story-driven as Geed and Orb were before it. Its still lots of fun to watch though.
Best New-to-You Show of 2018
Kamen Rider Kiva! I had to finally check it out once rumors of the Figuart release started circulating again (and were serious enough for me to care) so I gave it a go and was very surprised. An all-around fun experience, two different time sets with two casts of characters, both enjoyable as hell, cool suits and action and just a world with people in it that made me care.
In my opinion it doesn’t deserve its bad rep, I liked it a lot!
Best Rewatch of 2018
Thunderbolt Fantasy. I rewatched the first season to get me into the spirit for the second season which started this year and I loved watching it a second time. It’s such a weird show for me, I was very afraid of puppets as a kid but now that I'm grown up I'm just baffled by the amount of work and passion necessary to give them life.
The only puppets I liked as a kid were marionettes and somehow Thunderbolt Fantasy gives me the feeling of watching these back, only much more awesome. I dig the characters, especially Chinese asshole Gandalf aka the Enigmatic Gale and our main character: Shāng Bù HuÃ*.
All of it was great but this guy is the best, the second-to last episode of the first season were it is revealed what the deal with his dull sword was is just the best, I keep rewatching that scene every now and then just because.
I could go on about how great this show is, but instead I want to urge those who do not know it to check it out. It's on Crunchyroll, for free, give it a try.
Best Movie of 2018
Without having watched it, I vote for Heisei Generations Forever. I can’t wait to watch that movie.
Best Male Lead Character
Build still counts, so it's either Sento Kiryu or Ryuga Banjo. The first if you don't count Banjo as a lead character and the second if you do
Best Female Lead Character
I'm not much a fan of Misora honestly, and neither Sentai nor Ultraman have strong female leads this year. Maybe Umika from LuPat?
Nah, I'm going with Tsukuyomi from Zi-O. One of the few categories where Zi-O wins but I just like Tsukuyomi a lot, she's great.
Best Male Supporting Character
Ushio Minato from Ultraman R/B. I just like that guy; he's so nice and fun. A relatable father figure made extremely likable due to his quirks and there are some strong episodes for his character which is not all that common for father-types in Toku.
Best Female Supporting Character
Saki Mitsurugi from R/B. She's acting all evil now but we all know she really isn't. I think she's adorable, just the whole way she acts and how Asahi interacts with her, those scenes are always great. She did "kill" Makoto Aizen who was extremely entertaining but she made up for it very quickly IMO.
Best Villain
Build was this year, so Evolto. Such a great, fantastic bad guy. Active and scheming from the very beginning, continuously one-upping his assholery and just all around entertaining. Probably among the best villains Rider ever had. Makoto Aizen get's an honorable mention though
Best Returning Past Character
It has to be Kuroto Dan for me. Man this guy was so awesome in Zi-O. So glad they got him back and directly involved him in a plotline.
Best Actor
Kamen Rider Build was full of amazing actors, and I do like some of the LuPat actors a lot, R/B isn’t too shabby either... but I think I'll choose Atsuhiro Inukai as Sento Kiryu. He was really, really good at what he did.
Best Actress
Shieri Ohata as Tsukuyomi from Zi-O. She does a great job, mostly because if you watch the Complementation Project, you do get the idea that she's a rather lighthearted and fun person in real life so her hard-boiled and mentally scarred Tsukuyomi act is the exact opposite, but she pulls it off so well. Her performance has lots of character and I like that.
Toku Crush of 2018
I hate this category, but I'll choose one... Tsukuyomi is great but I think I like Tsu-chan aka Saki Mitsurugi better.
Best Writer
I rarely know these by names, so whoever was in charge of Build.
Best Director
Same as above.
Best Suit Design
Also Build. LuPat isn’t doing it for me really, I do like the R/B-designs even though I hear lots of people don't, Zi-O isn't completely awful but yeah - Build rules supreme. So many gorgeous suits in that show.
Best Weapon/Vehicle/Mecha
The Magma & Blizzard Knuckles from Build. We don’t get knuckledusters all too often and they are attached to my favorite forms. If it's too much Build in a row now I'll choose the Ruebe Halo from Ultraman R/B, it's a cool weapon.
Best Fight Scene
As much as it pains me to say it - nothing comes to my mind really. Gridman just blew me away and nothing else compares. I guess Grease's final fight from Build just because? I can’t decide, there's probably lots of awesome stuff I'm passing on right now by not remembering it but it's true.
Best Dramatic Scene
The scene from Build after what's left of our heroes gathers on top of Pandoras tower to mourn their lost friends. That was just too sad.
Best Comedic Scene
A lot of stuff that's going on in Zi-O's Complementation Project is hilarious as hell but I don't think that counts. The one that I can remember right now is from LuPat where that Gangler had the power to make the characters worry about the stupidest stuff, and when they think how their friend could die in a restaurant they imagine he eats so much that his belly grows into a balloon and then a bird come is in and makes him explode. It's as stupid as it sounds and I love it.
Hey, LuPat won something! Yay!
Biggest "WTF did I just watch?" Moment
LuPat wins again! Because of the genderbend episode, you know the one.
Best Song
I do admit that I like "Over Quarzer" a lot more than I thought I would. So that one I guess.
Best Piece of Merchandise
SHF Ultraman X, I love that thing. A figure I feared would be lost in the transition between Ultra-Act and SHF finally came round and it's glorious. The included, swappable MonsArmor parts take this over the top, it's so good.
Biggest Surprise of 2018
SHF Kiva became a thing. That was definitely my highlight this year as far as announcements go. Related to actual media I think it's both Zi-O and Heisei Generations Forever with their arsenal of returning actors.
Biggest Disappointment of 2018
I think it's Zi-O sadly. I don’t feel like being invested in Sentai enough to care if it's good or not, I just watch LuPat and enjoy it enough to do that again next week, but Zi-O is just disappointing to me. I like watching it, but the premise is boring and the returning actors feel wasted really. Too many of them don't even get the chance to transform on screen and it sucks.
The Onari Memorial Award for Single Worst Thing in 2018 Tokusatsu
Huh. Nothing that irritated me enough to deserve the Onari Award comes to mind. While it isn’t the best year for Toku it’s far from the worst too. I guess my biggest gripe is that so many cool concepts of R/B get pushed into the movie instead of happening in the show. It does have a good deal of filler they could’ve cut to further implement story-driven events.
But that's not really an Onari-worthy thing either...
wait...
WAIT
! I got it! Of course! My personal single worst thing in Tokusatsu 2018 was that the Kamen Rider Ghost-themed episodes of Zi-O were way better than they deserved to be. To further taunt me they were among what I envision a perfect tribute episode to be. It had everything, character references, returning actors, transforming into their Rider-self (plus secondary Rider!) a genuinely cool story behind it and flippin' Decade with a new belt was in it as well.
And I hate that. This ghostly ghouly shit nugget of a Rider show doesn’t deserve this. And no, I will not watch it again Takeru, get lost! Here's your Onari Trophy, give it to the man himself for safekeeping!
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