|
Community Links |
Members List |
Search Forums |
Advanced Search |
Go to Page... |
|
Thread Tools |
12-31-2016, 07:46 PM | #1 |
Ex-Weather Three leader
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 10,508
|
Hellllloooooooo Zawame Cit... err, Tokunatioooooooooonnnnnnnn!!!!!!!
Like I stated on the Super Sentai forum, 2016 is ending and so I thought I would like to hear what 2016 for Kamen Rider was like for you. So likewise, let's share what was the best and worst was about Kamen Rider in 2016. Here are the categories below: Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: It is a heated medical battle against the bugsters and Emu + doctors who call themselves Kamen Riders. Share with us one good thing about the show and one bad thing about the show! You MUST STATE ONE GOOD AND ONE BAD. Kamen Rider Ghost: Takeru must save people from the spoooooooookkkkkyyyyy and evil ganmas and maybe even his own life utilizing the powers of historic icons from the past. How has Ghost and his pals fared? Share with us one good thing about the show and one bad thing about the show! You MUST STATE ONE GOOD AND ONE BAD. Kamen Rider Amazons: 2016 was SUPER HERO YEAR and out of it came one of the most unexpected dark gritty hero shows in a while since GARO. Giving us not one but TWO Amazons and dare I say, this was THE STRANGER THINGS OF TOKUSATSU FOR 2016. Re-watch: Super Sentai celebrated 40, but being the older sibling Kamen Rider celebrates 45 YEARS. And we had a slew of masked riders that protected us from evil-doers every Sunday morning Japanese Standard Time. Which season still stands the test of time and which does not? The Fake Leather: While Super Sentai donned spiffy colorful spandex riders kept it heavy with synthetic leather and extra body armor. Share with us which rider's suit is the best and which sucks and should be incinerated(I will accept sub-riders and movie only riders, and bad ones as well i.e. Gold Drive. Those such as Tackle and Shadow Moon where they are not designated riders officially do not qualify). Henshin Belt: The cream of the crop, the icing on top, or simply put the core of what makes a rider a Kamen Rider. Which belt is the best and which should be chucked into a volcano? Weapon: Share with us the ginsu knife of Kamen Rider armory and which does not even qualify to be used as a cooking utensil. The Vroom-vroom-vrooms: Which bike is indeed a work of art and which is not? Accel's bike mode and Lazer's level 2 gamer form is acceptable as well. Villains: From screeching skeleton costumed-grunts to horror-inducing gargantuan monstrosities, which villain organization is still the best and which is not the best? Merch: Which merchandise that came out this year from Kamen Rider was the best and which one was the worst. Likewise, merch that was announced but not sold this year does not count and previous years also do not count unless it was Kamen Rider Ghost. Movie Taisen: Who said Super Sentai has all the fun? Which movie taisen was the best and which was the worst? Epilogues: We recently have been blessed with further adventures of sub-riders on straight-to-dvd and blu-ray films. Which was the best and which was the worst? The Battlecry: Which Opening Theme and Ending theme are the best and which just make you bleed from your ears? RULES 1. Please only select one good and one bad for each category. Don't just say I got nothing. 2. No "EVERYTHING IS AWESOME" answers. just one good and one bad. 3. select only one team or one person depending on the question. NO LISTS. That would be much appreciated AND HAPPY NEW YEARS.
__________________
Last edited by Sunred; 12-31-2016 at 08:41 PM.. |
12-31-2016, 08:04 PM | #2 |
Avi by @CSarracenian
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 4,186
|
Ex-Aid Good: The lovely 90's effects
Ex-Aid Bad: Poppi's Christmas jingle Ghost Good: Suit designs! Ghost Bad: Characters Amazonz Good: Unique in mature tone! Amazonz Bad:Can't remember the names of the characters Rewatch Good: W was absolutely amazing to watch Rewatch Bad: Oh god W has shit CGI Fake Leather Good: ZOMBIE GENM Fake Leather Bad: Kamen Rider Heart Henshin Belt Good: Amazonz Henshin Belt Bad: Ghost Weapon Good: Gashacon Bugvisor Weapon Bad: Gashacon Breaker The VROOMVROOM Good: Lazer LV2 The VROOMVROOM Bad: Houdini bike Villain Good: G.E.N.M Villain Bad: Sigma Abstain with the merch Abstain with Movie Taisen Epilogue Good: Kabuto Epilogue Bad: W. It ruined the bittersweet ending of the previous episode Songs Good: I've been listening to Action Zero a lot Songs Bad: Treasure Sniper
__________________
|
12-31-2016, 08:39 PM | #3 |
Ex-Weather Three leader
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 10,508
|
Amazons is not up there but I should add that .
__________________
Last edited by Sunred; 12-31-2016 at 08:42 PM.. |
12-31-2016, 08:42 PM | #4 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 194
|
Hard for me to pick one best or worst of anything, but I'll try.
Ex-Aid Honestly, I don't hate or even very much dislike anything about Ex-Aid. And I'm definitely bad at picking a favorite aspect since I like every aspect for very different reasons. I guess I'll go with the gimmicks/gadgets/designs for good and Poppy shenanigans for bad. Ghost And somewhat parallel to Ex-Aid I can't think of much I can get excited about in Ghost. When its designs and trinkets were new I thought they were awesome, but I guess it was just the hype effect since even the designs seem pretty average to me now. They all seem to have at least one awkward design choice that screw with them - or are hampered heavily by material quality, something which I rarely seem to see mentioned when criticizing suits. Anyway, I suppose I'll go with the designs/gimmicks/gadgets for best again despite what I just said, and... Onari for worst? Amazons Frankly my favorite part is probably the suits, but the whole thing is pretty good in general. Ending is the worst part for me, hopefully season 2 can make up for it. Rewatch Judging by just how much I personally would want to rewatch something, probably Kabuto for best and Agito for worst, just by process of elimination, and not counting ones I haven't seen. Just from what I've heard Kiva sounds like one of the worst to rewatch though. Suits Out of all of them? I hate picking things from Ex-Aid because I worry that I'm just saying it out of hype, but Zombie Gamer Genm might just be my favorite suit of all time if I have to pick one. As for worst, dunno really. I think I'll say Zero Drive on principle of how insultingly boring and pointless it and its circumstances are. It's easier for me to choose on those principles than simple dislike. Henshin belts Gonna say Gamer Driver for best. I don't even care if I'm only saying it because it's new and cool. It's so fun. Worst is another hard choice because of all the criteria. How boring it is, lazy design, ugly design, bad sounds, etc. When I really think about it, the Mega Ulorder might be the closest to objectively bad since the toy's severe lack of sounds is the crux of a lot of frustrating questions in the show and in tertiary media like Ganbarizing. Weapon Weapons don't really wow me in Rider, unless they're new in which case I get permanently bored of them quickly. There also aren't any I can think of that I find particularly bad, just boring. On a whim I'll say the best is the Gan Gun Saber and the worst is the punchfists Knuckle Jimber Marron uses. Bikes Bikes don't really wow me either, but at least I'm better at judging their designs - probably the Machine Ghostriker for worst and BeatGouram for best. Villains I actually kind of hate the cheesy Shocker mooks and the actual MOTWs aren't great either, so my worst villain group is Shocker. Best is probably the Undead. They're probably the most diverse and interesting in my eyes, what with the Tarantula Undead being good, the Spider possessing Leangle, and the Joker in general. Greeeds are a close second though. Merchandise Out of all kinds? I'll go with Gashats for the best and Sofubis for the worst. Movie Taisen Dunno, really, none of them stood out to me. They're all just kind of haphazardly crummy. I guess Ultimatum for best because lots of people like it, and Core for the worst since Kamen Rider Core was a pretty awful villain. EDIT: Nevermind, I remembered Ghost x Drive. That whole thing was a horrible mess that did nothing but fuck with the canon of both shows and make sudden, stupid, contrived, boring plot conveniences to keep the story moving. Worst, for sure. Epilogues If it counts, Kamen Rider Eternal Returns for best. If not, then Chase Saga. As for worst, I guess Duke/Knuckle (specifically Duke). Or if we're sticking to this year, Heart/Mach (specifically Heart). Openings Another hard choice. I can't really differentiate my favorites (Anything Goes, Life is Showtime, EXCITE) into one over the other, but I'll go with EXCITE. As for worst, Hibiki's. I was gonna say Ghost's on principle of being kind of boring and the visuals being pretty cheesy, but man. Hibiki's has no lyrics and the visuals are 70's-tier cheesy.
__________________
Last edited by Diamondmatter; 12-31-2016 at 08:45 PM.. |
12-31-2016, 08:44 PM | #5 |
Ex-Weather Three leader
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 10,508
|
If you got a word or two about Amazons feel free to update your post.
__________________
|
12-31-2016, 08:46 PM | #6 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 194
|
Just did.
__________________
|
12-31-2016, 10:21 PM | #7 |
New Member
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 1
|
Kamen rider Ex-aid
Good - no new episode this week Bad - everything else about it |
12-31-2016, 10:24 PM | #8 |
Avi by @CSarracenian
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 4,186
|
Yo dip, next time you get butthurt for no reason, read the rules in the thread which pretty much say you can't do that.
__________________
|
12-31-2016, 10:44 PM | #9 |
I have a problematic type
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 10,410
|
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: I'm really enjoying the story in Ex-Aid so far. it Feels like the writers have a clear plan that they're working towards and I'm enjoying how the characters interact with each other. On the other hand, the suits are uniformly garbage. Dangerous Zombie is reasonably all right, but the rest are just terrible. Kamen Rider Ghost: Ghost was a fucking disaster. It generally felt like it wasn't going anywhere, the characters were all terrible, and the action is some of the laziest in franchise history. At this point I can easily say it's beaten Kiva as the worst Rider series of all time. For something good... um... the Necrom Driver had a cool voice? Kamen Rider Amazons: Amazons was a really fun show with some good, more adult storylines and themes. It felt like it really took awhile for it to get going, though, and the early episodes didn't impress me much. Re-watch: n/a The Fake Leather: One of Amazons' best features were the suits; both Alpha and Omega were really cool costumes. They're made even better by the fact that both Ghost and Ex-Aid have really bad costumes. I mean, most of Ghost's base forms are okay, but they're generally hampered by all of the terribly clashing hoodies. Henshin Belt: Again, Amazons is the only show that wins out here with its 40-year-old belt design. The Gamer Driver at least makes cool sounds, but it's garishly ugly and the Ghost Driver is really clunky and has way too much noise coming out of it. Weapon: Again, Amazons did this well with Omega's Violent Break while the mainstream Rider shows fell flat. With Ex-Aid it at least makes some sense that the weapons look silly, but the weapons in Ghost are pathetic, especially that stupid hand staff that Spectre and Necrom used. They may as well have shot foam darts, they were so obviously just plastic toys. The Vroom-vroom-vrooms: Amazon had a nice update to the Jungler, I struggle to remember Ghost having a bike. Villains: I'm liking Dan as the villain of Ex-Aid right now, even if I find his method of video game development highly questionable. Adel from Ghost was terrible, especially the bullshit redemption arc they tried to pull off with him in the last episode (which lasted for all of two minutes before Takeru killed him anyway). Merch: The only merchandise I got this year were Shodo vs. figures. I like all of them, but am a little bummed that Stronger is so hard to get a hold of. Movie Taisen: Haven't watched it yet. Epilogues: The only one I watched was the Chase movie, which I enjoyed. Still need to see the Drive/Crap Movie War. The Battlecry: Armour Zone is the best Rider theme in years with Excite not far behind. I always fastforwarded through Ghost's opening theme. Bonus Point: Just as a reminder, Onari is the single worst thing to happen to Kamen Rider since Toei let Toshiki Inoue write the OOO section of Movie War Core. If you disagree then that's your right, but you are objectively wrong. |
12-31-2016, 11:10 PM | #10 |
The Immortal King Tasty
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Every diner you've ever been to.
Posts: 3,833
|
Quote:
Anyway, that other list took a lot out of me so I'll just do the diet version here. Kamen Rider Ghost: Since the rules forbid me from general gushing, I'll just reiterate how much I love Mugen Damashii for the good. It's awesome. For the bad, as much as I miss Heisei Rider cold opens, Ghost's inexplicable decision to do them for the last quarter or so was pretty ill-advised. The inconsistency bugs me and the awkward fade-in means it doesn't even have the punch it's supposed to (see Kuuga for reference). Obviously there are bigger problems/qualities I could've chosen, but they'd take longer to get into, and I'm keeping this light. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: There's a lot I could pick for the good but I guess I'll go with that opening. Between a super catchy tune and some delightfully pretentious visuals, the only way I could like it more is if the show had cold opens. As for the bad... I guess its hyperactive pacing has me a bit worried about the show losing cohesion down the line, but lately it's shown it can manage itself fine, inexplicably quick villain deaths not withstanding.
__________________
|
|
TokuNation News & Rumors |
Figuarts/Seihou GRIDMAN |
SH Figuarts BoonBoomger Red |
Hasbro Licenses Power Rangers Toys to Playmates Toys |
Discotek Media Licenses Mobile Cop Jiban |
What's going on with CSM? |
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 09:05 AM.
|