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06-28-2023, 01:03 PM | #261 |
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You know who I would really like to see as the main writer? Shinji Oishi, who worked on the first half of Hibiki and Daimajin Canon. His relaxed storytelling style is perfect after Takahashi's drama. In addition, the same Hibiki gave out a good comedy, and touched on serious topics, without turning the life of the characters into an endless series of suffering. Plus, Gotchard is destined to coexist with the serialized Sentai, which means the show can afford to be episodic.
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06-28-2023, 01:06 PM | #262 |
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Something just came to mind I read a while back that the reason why there's been less toys in the main toyline & more p-bandai releases is because of the pandemic kneecapping them a bit + the declining birthrate so they've had restructure/reduce production on stuff (keep in mind I'm not 100% true that is so don't quote me on that, but it seems plausible enough as it would explain why Revice & Geats are way more P-Bandai heavy than usual and had pretty barren Q2-Q4. Especially Revice...).
Assuming that's true, I have to wonder if that possibly influenced Bandai's decision go back to cards since I imagine they're much easier to produce than electronic gimmicks like with Zero One-Revice and big hunks of plastic + electronic gimmicks with Geats. |
06-28-2023, 01:17 PM | #263 |
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Something just came to mind I read a while back that the reason why there's been less toys in the main toyline & more p-bandai releases is because of the pandemic kneecapping them a bit + the declining birthrate so they've had restructure/reduce production on stuff (keep in mind I'm not 100% sure how true that is so don't quote me on that, but it seems plausible enough as it would explain why Revice & Geats are way more P-Bandai heavy than usual and had pretty barren Q2-Q4. Especially Revice...).
Assuming that's true, I have to wonder if that possibly influenced Bandai's decision go back to cards since I imagine they're much easier to produce than electronic gimmicks like with Zero One-Revice and big hunks of plastic + electronic gimmicks with Geats. Also: something really interesting I just noticed: Both Steamliner and Madwheel have a purple Vehicle symbol on their cards, whereas Pilets has a human, and Hopper has a bug . I wonder if this means there will be categories for various types of cards (Vehicle, Human, Bug,) |
06-28-2023, 01:21 PM | #264 |
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My initial reaction to the design is... meh. But I'm sure by August or September I'll be fully into it. That's almost always how it goes.
I do think the gun is ugly as sin. The belt is... fine? Definitely shocked the cards are just... cards. And that you just stick them in the belt. Question: I haven't started Geats yet, but isn't it also a Build/W-style two-in-one gimmick? And we're doing that twice in a row? |
06-28-2023, 01:27 PM | #265 |
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My initial reaction to the design is... meh. But I'm sure by August or September I'll be fully into it. That's almost always how it goes.
I do think the gun is ugly as sin. The belt is... fine? Definitely shocked the cards are just... cards. And that you just stick them in the belt. Question: I haven't started Geats yet, but isn't it also a Build/W-style two-in-one gimmick? And we're doing that twice in a row? So geats feels more like it has mono-forms that can be upgraded, rather than inherently two-part forms I.e. most riders only have one item inherently linked to them, they can just add a random second buckle for more armor Last edited by TheJaz; 06-28-2023 at 01:35 PM.. |
06-28-2023, 01:27 PM | #266 |
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Nah, both Zyouhger and Lupin/Patranger were on the more serious side, and the Zenkaiger writing was absolutely inconsistent (remember when robot racism was the focus for the first three episodes? Or when defeating the SD world was the priority to restore the brothers and then they just decided "Eh, we'll just keep them portrayed as SD instead of anything changing." Or when the father finally got reunited with Kaito only to just leave about an episode or two after?). It doesn't help that literally every show had the same format: Villains that sit around until the final episode to be defeated, Monsters that just attack people without much purpose other than their gimmick, Plot points introduced early on with massive implications that are not even acknowledged until the last few episodes, and focus on only one or two members of the cast in which the rest of the members are stuck in side-character territory. At best I wish she would take a break from Toku for a few years and return with a fresh new take.
But I think Shirakura allowed Komura to have more creative freedom with Zenkaiger, like he did for Inoue the year after. If Komura has the right producer behind her, I'm sure she can make something good, like how Takahashi and Takebe are making it work for Geats. It does seem like Komura has a thing for villains sitting around drinking alcohol though, even extending to Warz Gill as a secondary writer for Gokaiger. Regarding the robot racism thing in Zenkaiger, that's just part of the bigger picture of the show's theme. Differences! Everybody is different and how that's something worth celebrating. It's something that came up before with her previous shows, like cops and robbers learning to co-exist, or humans and anthropomorphic animals working together to protect their shared planet. But I think Zenkaiger seriously delves in to that theme the most, in a way that its premise seems specially made to do. Quote:
Or a Den-O crossover. You know Toei ain't going to pass on a Den-O crossover.
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06-28-2023, 02:24 PM | #267 |
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By the way, I never understood the claims to favoritism in relation to this show. So the thieves have more toys of their own and also use the other team's toys? But that's why they are thieves. Do they get more episodes? But after all, there has already been a show about police rangers (and, quite possibly, there will be more), so the new motif needs more attention. The main villain was given to defeat the Patorengers, so, as for me, they were not offended.
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06-28-2023, 02:41 PM | #268 |
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By the way, I never understood the claims to favoritism in relation to this show. So the thieves have more toys of their own and also use the other team's toys? But that's why they are thieves. Do they get more episodes? But after all, there has already been a show about police rangers (and, quite possibly, there will be more), so the new motif needs more attention. The main villain was given to defeat the Patorengers, so, as for me, they were not offended.
Just because there's been more police themed shows doesn't mean the thief team needs more screen time. When the key advertisement are the teams going against each other, and you 1. Give the Patrangers no story arcs 2. Give the Patranger super mode to the Lupinrangers 3. Sideline them so hard there are episodes where the Patrangers have no dialogue Then the favoritism shines, and it kills the momentum the show has in favor of selling a few more toys by giving everything to the Lupinrangers
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06-28-2023, 02:46 PM | #269 |
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Oh right Gotchard. He looks good! Really like the aviator style goggles on the helmet, will wait and see the gimmicks in action before judging but I am still surprised the cards are just cards.
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06-28-2023, 03:00 PM | #270 |
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If this is, indeed, the main suit, then I'm very curious about the seemingly-false image from page 21 of this thread. At the time, it seemed likely it was one of the annual attempts for someone to clickbait by faking a next-Rider image. Now that we've seen what's apparently the actual suit, four major possibilities occur to me:
1. It's a different form of Gotchard. (Possible, not likely.) 2. It's a different Gotchard Rider, and Gotchard will follow the Reiwa trend of many-Rider series. (Also possible, but I think unlikely.) 3. It's a Kabuto-style "cast off" outer form for Gotchard. (Unlikely because not enough details correspond.) 4. Someone who'd seen the actual suit used its description to prompt Dall-E or Midjourney, and that was the output. (I think this is the most likely.) There are too many specific, accurate elements for it to have been a total fake: the arrow-eyes, the "Heisei-style Rider helmet on top," the overall color scheme. It's machine-produced, so it's got the uncanny valley element, but it's not a fake in the traditional sense. More like a poor drawing, maybe. The suit doesn't instantly suggest how the retail toy line will work. (It seems that much of a Rider's design is based on the retail gimmick, such as Revolve On for Geats and Fourze's swappable modules.) Maybe the front panel swings open? Maybe the helmet swings open? Looking more closely, I think it may simply be Zero-One-style swappable armor, and the individual pieces connect to the angular shapes on the limbs. I can't say I love the suit, though. Maybe it's the angle or the inexplicable white triangle, but it just seems like the bad kind of "busy." YM, of course, MV. |
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