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Kamen Rider Hibiki coming to Blu-Ray
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11-08-2018, 09:35 AM
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As much as I admire Takadera's craft and the love he put into the show while he was around, in retrospect I wanna ask Toei why they picked him, cause I am sure they were aware of how much an auteur he is. I guess the scratch-built chapel he burned to the ground for THE MOST EPIC DEBUT OF A SUPERHERO aka episode 2 of Kuuga wasn't a clear indicator. *scratches head*
That was, um not really his fault.
For Kuuga, they wanted to come out of the gate with a straight up "not the Kamen Rider you remember" kind of debut, and this was before the full advent of digital effects to that kind of degree. Practical was preferred back then.
And tbh, his push on Kuuga is what got him Hibiki. An auteur is exactly what was needed early on with how it was planned and the push on sound to set the initial tone and perspective. And how he framed it around Asumu's choice was brilliant.
He gets a lot of blame for those two things, but he really wasn't doing anything more than he was asked to do. And because of both those things pushing boundaries, more became possible later in the franchise as a whole, and people became more accepting of wider ideas.
Honestly, without those things, we wouldn't have gotten Den-O, Kiva, Decade, Gaim, Ex-Aid, Ghost, Build, and more. Even chunks of Agito would have been different, and how that impacted Drive. Probably many more too. So hiring him back then was the right choice.
And to really set the tone of the modern Heisei, that Kuuga church henshin is still freaking iconic and glorious.
If you ever notice, the fan "hate" areas that condemn don't ever seem to line up to Toei. So internally, they know more about those things than fans that talk about them. Same as how Toei has faith in the current Zi-O writer, otherwise they wouldn't have given him as big of a task as Zi-O. So they don't hold Nin against him even though fans do. Because Toei knows that was out of his hands and he did the best to what he was asked. The same applies here. They hire based on what they know, not what fans think they know. Internally, Toei knows more about the ins and outs of different things than what's publicly known.
Hibiki may have been trashed by fans back then, but now, once how "new" it was has finally settled, it's seen for how groundbreaking it really was. That's one of the bigger issues to dealing with fandoms. "New" tends to be all they say they want, but give them new and different, and they complain until years later when they can finally open up to looking at it with open minds. Same tends to be true for any franchise. The more it diverges, the more it's lambasted, until later when it's looked at fondly. Rinse and repeat. We see it pretty regularly with all franchises. Whether it's Spider-man, superman, or Transformers, and anything else.
Fans say they want new, but what they really want is the same thing over and over again(which is actually creatively stifling). Give them actual new, and they complain. But once that "new" has been done, later boundaries are open to be pushed even farther. Sadly it's part of what fandoms are in their views and acceptance tolerance. Besides, we kind of needed that Kuuga bookmark and the bent corner it left in the page for other reasons.
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