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Tokusatsu "Best ofs" 2018: Those future kings everyone's talking about edition
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Fish Sandwich
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These things are always so much fun. This year I'm going to try and actually pick a winner for every category.
Best New Show of 2018
Lupinranger VS. Patranger for sure. I adore everything about that show. It's
absurdly
fun and has a genuine energy and spark to it on a level I haven't seen from Sentai since Kyoryuger. Whatever genuine gripes you can have (and indeed, even I have sometimes) are totally eclipsed by all the frenetic action and surprisingly down-to-earth human drama, as far as I'm concerned. It kills me a little seeing how many around here have totally lost whatever love they had for it lately.
Best New-to-You Show of 2018
You know, the fun thing about making these lists is that I can't always remember whether or not something actually happened that year or not.
Case-in-point, I was ready to say Gridman, but I had the good sense to go and check my posts about it, and it turns out I watched that last December, just barely disqualifying it. So, by default, this award has to go to Kamen Rider Amazon, which I'm pretty sure is literally the only other "backlog" type Toku show I've watched the entire year. I'm definitely enjoying it (although I'm not quite finished yet), but honestly, trying to pick something for this category has just been a depressing reminder of how much I slacked off on watching shows I want to get around to. I was gonna watch Ryukendo back in January and it just hasn't happened yet.
Best Rewatch of 2018
Earlier in the year I got around to rewatching Go-Busters in full, something I've been wanting to do... pretty much since I first finished Go-Busters, so you can imagine how much fun that was for me. It's only my favorite Tokusatsu series ever, after all.
Best Movie of 2018
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid True Ending. I've watched it twice already and it's probably my favorite Rider summer movie at this point. In the interest of brevity I won't do another review of it here, but needless to say I think it really nailed everything it set out to do pretty much perfectly. It's a stellar coda to Ex-Aid.
Best Male Lead Character
Best Female Lead Character
I'm gonna go with Tsukasa from LuPat on this one for her sheer professional competence. She's far and away the most level-headed character on that show, and while that should just make her boring, it somehow makes her that much more interesting.
Best Male Supporting Character
Hilltop from LuPat. He doesn't get a whole lot of screentime, unfortunately, but he's admirably followed in Ramirez's steps as "extremely likable token foreign guy", a character archetype Sentai should probably be using more often if it's always going to work this well.
Best Female Supporting Character
Asahi from R/B. She has a very nice presence in that show I was not expecting at first, and despite being a show about two brothers, the family dynamic probably wouldn't work without her. A supporting character in the truest since of the term.
Best Villain
Orb Dark from R/B. Although he's so pathetic and adorable it almost feels weird calling him a villain. Almost.
Best Returning Past Character
My man Tsukasa Kadoya showing up in Zi-O to be as great as ever. His gives-no-f***s attitude is the stuff of legend and he's made every one of his four episodes so far count.
Best Actor
Really this could go to any of the main 4 Riders in Build. It's a tight contest between Atsuhiro Inukai and Kouhei Takeda especially, but, and I hate to do this, because Inukai was amazing, I'm going to give it to Takeda, because while I think I would've loved Sento just as much with the same writing and a worse actor, Takeda's strong performance sold me on Kazumin's many gag scenes, all of which could've easily come off as obnoxious in the hands of someone with less talent and charisma. And that's on top of Grease's more dramatic scenes, which have the kind of acting that makes me sit back and really appreciate all over again how these silly, capitalism-driven kids' shows we're all obsessed with can get a bigger emotional response than so many Hollywood films and the like.
Best Actress
Speaking of emotional responses, I've never felt the urge to hug a fictional character quite as hard as any time Misora started crying in Build, so Kaho Takada is
definitely
taking this one home.
Toku Crush of 2018
Uhh... hang on... No, wait, I've totally got this... Err...
Screw it, I'm going with Sento. He's got the winning formula... for stealing my heart.
Holy s*** that was so embarrassing. Why is this a category?
Best Writer
Shougo Mutou, who gets the endurance award for the same reasons Yuuya Takahashi did for Ex-Aid. I don't think Build turned out to be as consistently solid as that show, but the highs were so extremely high I can't be bothered to care that much.
Best Director
After watching the Gaim episodes of Zi-O, it's become apparent to me Kazuya Kamihoriuchi is a name to look for. Namely because when I looked for it, it turned out he had already directed a ton of other things (including quite a few episodes of Build this year) I thought had unusually stunning visuals.
Best Suit Design
Something from Build, definitely. Divorced from context, I might say Genius, but my opinions are inevitably colored by the portrayal in the show, which would make any of the Hazard forms the winner. Despite not being particularly creative, the sheer coolness factor of the all black, pointy evil look just pushes it over the top for me.
Best Weapon/Vehicle/Mecha
The Magma Knuckle from Build. I have a huge soft spot for transformation devices that double as weapons and a big honkin' knuckleduster belonging to a guy like Ryuuga is so perfect I don't know why they even bothered giving Cross-Z a sword to begin with.
Best Fight Scene
And this is the point where I realize just how much Build spent 2018 spoiling us with memorable moments. Making me choose one is just cruel, but at the risk of sounding like a broken record, Hazard Form's (full) debut was just amazing. That bit with the ceiling light alone makes it worthwhile. No points for guessing who directed that episode.
Best Dramatic Scene
Making me choose one is just cruel, but at the risk of sounding... Uh, I mean... look, it's episode of 21 of Build again, alright? If you've got a problem with that, go complain to Toei for making such a phenomenal story. Narrowing it down to a specific scene is once again hard, but Sento and Kazumi's conversation is sort of like the symbol of that whole episode, so I'll go with that.
Best Comedic Scene
Orb Dark chewing out Rosso and Blu when he shows up. All the fun meta-humor of the Zi-O Complementation Project, except way more impressive because they somehow
seamlessly worked it into the actual plot of the show
.
Biggest "WTF did I just watch?" Moment
The Episode of LuPat That Must Not Be Named. Although other people here have already mentioned it. Man I hated that one, which sounds like it contradicts my earlier statement about adoring everything about LuPat, until you realize I pretend it doesn't exist when at all possible.
Best Song
This is something of a dark horse pick, I suspect, but I'm inordinately fond of Ready Go! from Build. Despite the excessively direct lyrics, it's a great theme song for Sento and I really wish the show had used it more than twice.
Best Piece of Merchandise
This is the one category I really can't say anything about even if I want to, so I'll just reiterate my point from last year that Bandai is basically showering fans in a constant rain of cool products. The best piece of toku merchandise is probably whichever one made your wallet cry the least.
Biggest Surprise of 2018
Takeru Satoh actually coming back to play Den-O again. Somebody must've strapped some wings to a pig somewhere or something.
The Onari Memorial Award for Single Worst Thing in 2018 Tokusatsu:
No subs for R/B! I guess if the Ultraman shows on Crunchyroll weren't doing great or whatever it can't be helped, but man, what a bummer. A major disappointment for English-speaking Ultra fans.
Biggest Disappointment of 2018:
I'm so upset about R/B's international treatment, actually, that I'm cheating a bit and using this category to also complain that Tsuburaya region-locked all the episodes after the first on Youtube, which isn't as big a deal to fans at large, but really hit my enthusiasm personally, considering how eager I was to watch every episode raw right after they put them up just like I did with Geed.
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