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Tokusatsu "Best ofs" 2018: Those future kings everyone's talking about edition
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12-27-2018, 12:09 AM
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FreshToku
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I don't know if anybody is going to look at these should I do them, and I find it more fun to read other's lists anyway. But, this will be a nice chance for me to reflect on a year's worth of tokusatsu.
Best New Show of 2018
I love both Build and Lupinranger VS Patranger dearly, and I'm very much biased towards Build with it's serialised story, and the fact that it already had it's finale. I still want to give credit to LupinVsPat for getting me excited and invested in Sentai all over again, after I had stopped caring for the franchise as a whole some time ago.
Fish Sandwich, is this how you felt when everybody around you was ragging on Ghost?
Best New-to-You Show of 2018
Technically all the shows that aired were new to me but I get what you mean. ...Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, which I started watching this year.
Best Rewatch of 2018
I only rewatched two things, and that was a large chunk of Ex-Aid, and old childhood favourite Ultraman Dyna. The latter wins through the waves of nostalgia it sent me through.
Best Movie of 2018
Heisei Generations Final, easily. If I had to count something that actually aired in 2018... Well, the only movie I recalled watching was the Go-Ongers 10 Years Grand Prix. That was okay.
Best Male Lead Character
My answer is actually the same as everyone else. Kiryu Sento is my and everyone else's hero. But you know, Banjou was just as much a lead as Build himself, so I'm giving it to both of them. They're a Best Match and possibly my favourite duo, beating out the likes of Shotaro and Philip, or Eiji and Ankh.
Though I want to give credit to Kairi because I think I might be the only person who likes him! I like Keichiro more, but still. I can't recall many Reds as layered and endearing as the both of them.
Best Female Lead Character
Does Misora count as a lead? Well, if I put her here, I probably won't have anyone to put in the Supporting Character category, so I'll give it to Tsukasa from LupinVsPat. I like Umika a lot too, but I'm biased against competent hard-workers who are friendly and have sillier sides.
Best Male Supporting Character
I would think the other Riders in Build sorta upgrade themselves to sorta 'lead' roles at some point, but I'll count Grease anyway. Whether as an antagonist or companion, I loved his charisma and drive. I also adore his wild moments during fights where he just shouts words at the top of his lungs.
Best Female Supporting Character
Misora, though I admittedly can't think of much competition since I haven't been keeping up with R/B. She was really well-rounded, managing to pull off funny, serious, sad, and down-to-earth moments all really well.
Best Villain
I have a lot of problems with Evolt, but that doesn't take away from the fact that he was greatly entertaining from the beginning of the series to the very end, along with being a magnificent threat. That he had a bunch of cool forms and powers didn't hurt.
Best Returning Past Character
This really only applies to Zi-O tributes, right? Objectively, Takeru had the best showing, and Tsukasa coming back as a recurring role is wonderful.
Best Actor
I'm going to barely give it to Kouhei Takeda as Kazumin. I would say that he is entirely what made Grease great, rather than anything particularly to do with the story that involved him.
Best Actress
I'm really just repeating other's opinions at this point, as well as my own. Kaho Takada as Misora.
Toku Crush of 2018
I really can't think of a proper answer to this. I guess... Decade is looking and sounding more dashing than the last time we saw him, eh? And I guess I'd be lying if I said Patren3 isn't exactly the kind of authority figure I'd admire. And I realise I just picked two Tsukasas and-
I don't wanna think about this any longer.
Best Writer
Shougo Mutou. Obviously Build isn't perfect by a long shot, especially a certain stretch of episodes involving Lost Bottles and an unnecessary father. But like Ex-Aid, it kept me plenty invested from start to finish.
Best Director
I really never kept track of directors before reading names on this list, so I can't really genuinely answer this question earnestly.
Best Suit Design
Build, the series, is an exception in suit designs for me, and I do feel a lot of that is due to the show wanting to be a re-imagining of classic Kamen Rider ideas. Because of that, the designs are made to have a more widespread appeal and broad idea of 'cool' rather than trying to be attuned top to bottom to a specific visual gimmick.
I really admire the genius simplicity of Build's trial forms. Each half is wholly different with a completely unique shape for it's eyepiece. Yet no matter which two you put together, it is always recognizably Build.
And I could go on about how I love every suit. Literally every suit including the Transteam Gun users, the Gear Bros, and... well, not quite the Jelly Riders, but I still like them!
If you held a gun to my head and forced me to pick one, I'd probably go with Kamen Rider Rogue.
Best Weapon/Vehicle/Mecha
I should give honourable mentions to Good Striker for doing so much while also being a character in his own right (sorta).
But I would give it to the Lupin Magnum. A standalone big gun that turns into a decent robot. It does admittedly help that mecha in LupinVsPat are as a whole pretty underwhelming when looked at as a whole, especially since so many of the combinations now use Magic and Splash as the arms.
Best Fight Scene
I don't even remember if it aired this year or not, but Cross-Z Charge showing up to stop Hazard Build in episode 22, and the two just punch each other into submission is still one of, if not my favourite scenes in Build.
Honourable mention goes to the four heroes 'destroying' Evolt in Episode 44. It was so great to see them all work together to finally take him down... even if it was negated in the very the next episode.
Best Dramatic Scene
Too many good ones from Build, but I'll give it to Gentoku's final stand against Evolt in Episode 47. It was epic, heart-wrenching, and triumphant all at the same time.
Best Comedic Scene
Good Striker booting Keichiro out of his seat in VSX and replacing him with Tsukasa.
Biggest "WTF did I just watch?" Moment
'Casual' Gentoku showing up for the first time.
Best Song
Over 'Quartzer', having become one of my favourite openings after a few listens.
For insert songs, I fell in love with MAX Power from the very moment in started playing in X's debut episode.
Best Piece of Merchandise
Let's give props to the X-Changer. Yeah it's kinda an ugly gun, but I'm impressed by how much it can do, becoming a transforming vehicle with a Mecha that boasts two unique-enough modes.
I would personally give to to the Transteam Gun coupled with the Steam Blade though.
Biggest Surprise of 2018
Um, the answer here is the same as my Biggest Disappointment, but this one is suppose to be a positive thing so... I'm just gonna repeat above statements of Takeru Satoh appearing in the new movie.
Biggest Disappointment of 2018
The slow shift towards all the merchandise in Lupin Vs Pat being shoved over to the Lupinrangers, including giving Keichiro's Power Up to Noel.
The Onari Memorial Award for Single Worst Thing in 2018 Tokusatsu
The above disappointment is honestly the only thing I'm that bummed about on a personal level. Though the stuff about Ultraman's official releases is quite the sour bit of news too.
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