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12-27-2018, 05:48 AM | #11 |
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Oh yeah, Magical Girl Beast was a good show. Hell of a prologue though with that Haruto dude and his lackeys.
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12-27-2018, 12:15 PM | #12 |
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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.
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12-27-2018, 12:55 PM | #13 |
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Best New Show of 2018
Gonna cheat and say Build, it gave us the absolutely stellar Hazard arc and shit this year too Best New-to-You Show of 2018 Kyoryuger, I thought I was going to hate it but turns out everyone and their mother just highly exaggerated it's flaws because they hate fun I guess Best Rewatch of 2018 Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don't remember if I saw Fourze this year or last year. I'll sick it there either way Best Movie of 2018 Heisei Generations Final I suppose Best Male Lead Character Sento, he's adorkable and I just want to hold him and go "Everything will be ok you poor soul" Best Female Lead Character Tsukasa/Patren 3. Likeable personality, rather relatable and does her job well and cares more about actually doing a good job instead of getting them there thieves (I like you K-Man but jeez) Best Male Supporting Character Banjo Ryuga, the best secondary Rider we've gotten. Loveable, laughable, badass and my special child Best Female Supporting Character Tsukuyomi, she hasn't been able to do much but she's more action-packed than Sougo, the fucking main character, has been so far Best Villain Evolt. Absolutely oozing with charisma and is a prick Best Returning Past Character Decade. I didn't like Decade's show but he himself was a highlight, glad to see him back Best Actor Inukai, Sento's actor. He's able to show so many ranges of emotion and his PTSD-driven grief in Build was truly a sight to behold as someone who's mother has PTSD Best Actress Tsukasa's actress I'd say as she's also able to make a 180 on her personality and have it feel natural Toku Crush of 2018 Banjo. It's nice to be reminded I'm bi and not a lesbian every once in a while Best Writer Build's writer, I forgot his name Best Director Kazuya Kamihoriuchi without a goddamn doubt, this man has so many interesting shots to the point it makes me think "Holy shit how is he stuck doing children's television this is fucking amazing" Best Suit Design Build Hazard. It's fucking terrifying and the design itself shows that it's not quite right, incomplete and rather twisted. I showed this and RabbitTank to a friend and told him to tell me what personality he could derive from tbe pictures alone and he nailed exactly what made Hazard scary in the show. Truly, one of the best looking forms for ANY Rider. It's also my go-to example of why literal children shows handle designs better than fucking Xenoblade 2, yech Best Weapon/Vehicle/Mecha Patkaiser. The design really grew on me and I really love the helmet it has. The fact I own it might have something to do with it Best Fight Scene Hazard's debut. Showing us this savage form with amazing cinematography from Kazuya Kamihoriuchi gives us both a strong form to awe at yet a sinister monster to fear. Fucking brilliant. Best Dramatic Scene I'd have to say the scene where Cross-Z Magma makes it's debut, seeing Banjo get so utterly broken down by Stark really makes you root for the guy, especially with Stark's chilling "Once again I'm taking away a loved one from you and you can't do anything" Best Comedic Scene Either the Build Recaps or the Zi-O .5 episodes, I'm too lazy for specifics Biggest "WTF did I just watch?" Moment Grease's shoulder angel/devil thing with the towels Best Song Burning My Soul, specifically the Hiroyuki Takumi version Best Piece of Merchandise I'd say my Blood Stalk Figuart's up there, gorgeous figure Biggest Surprise of 2018 Shout Factory handling Pre-Zyu Sentai. I've yet to watch any of their subs cause of the damn region codes and it may be the worst Sentai I have ever laid eyes on, but it's exciting to know that more seasons are getting exposure to the west. Discotek getting their hands on Juspion too for that matter Biggest Disappointment of 2018: Lupinranger VS Patranger. I like it but god fucking dammit do I hate what they did for most of it. It's almost entirely filler episodes meaning the plot barely fucking exists, the team focus is so one-sided it's not even funny and the fact the Patrangers got screwed over by Toei making them uncool in comparison to the Lupins, who are supposed to be the cool ones which is why they were constantly in our faces, screwed them out of a fucking upgrade. Jesus christ there are SO many ways you can fix this show The Onari Memorial Award for Single Worst Thing in 2018 Tokusatsu: That godawful gender bend episode of LvP There was SO much missed potential. They COULD have used an episode like this to help develop Sakuya so he learns he might be making Umika uncomfortable with his behaviour around her by having girlSakuya get hit on by men the entire episode to live in her shoes. They COULD have made this a bodyswap episode for both teams to have odd shenanigans and seeing how both teams react or try to avoid the others in the teams finding out they've been switched, They COULD have used the monster's Alfred Hitchcock inspiration to make an episode like when Time Force had the rangers go through movie sets. But NOPE! Instead we got this entire fucking mess. Japan, your fucking zombie idol anime showed you're better than this for fucks sake
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12-27-2018, 01:42 PM | #14 |
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I almost forgot, I give out a special trophy for the "Tokunation Fashion Queen 2018" to ZeoRangerV! You earned it!
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12-27-2018, 02:28 PM | #15 |
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I'm just going to sit in the corner because my laptop broke around the time build started so I've basically seen no toku this year cause the streaming sights dont work on my phone (and I dont want to put torrents on the house shared computer)
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12-27-2018, 03:06 PM | #16 |
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This is the greatest honour I could ever ask for.
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12-27-2018, 03:41 PM | #17 |
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Best New Show of 2018
I would say Build, but that came out last year, so it'll have to be SSSS.Gridman Best New-to-You Show of 2018 Probably Gekiranger. It had a great serialised story, great characters and we'll developed villains. I wish more Sentai had it's story structure. Best Rewatch of 2018 Didn't rewatch anything this year, or not often really. Best Movie of 2018 Heisei Generations Final. While I wasn't the biggest fan of Dr Pacman (Almost non existing story, boring action, and No Kouta), this one gave me what I wanted (Good story, great action and Kouta). Not only that, it actually gave some development to Ryuga on what he'll will fight for as a Kamen Rider. Plus has to two great casts from two great series made this No.1 for me Best Male Lead Sento. Even though he encompasses every male rider lead, he stands out from a lot of them. He's intelligent, has a great and funny personality, plus has an ego that's not obnoxious from other characters. Best Female Lead Tsukasa (Patren 3). Mostly for being insanely competent and level headed (Seriously, why isn't she the leader of the Pats) Best Male Supporting Lead Ryuga. He may be a secondary rider, but he was just as imported as a main one. He stuck by his friends no matter what and was just an all round awesome rider. Best Female Supporting Lead Can't really think of any ATM, sorry Best Villain Evolt. A cunning mastermind all through out, and also a very charismatic one too Best Returning Past Character Even though I was very happy that my favourite rider Kouta came back on not only Final, but Zi-O, It has to go to Tsukasa from Decade. He's a rider that just does what ever the hell he wants, and I love it. Plus he made Zi-O watchable and enjoyed him smacking around the Zi-O riders. Best Actor Atsuhiro Inukai AKA Sento Kiryu. To think he got his start in a KR show, and he knocks it out the park in his show. The stand out for me was the PTSD episode, you can really feel the guilt and defeat in him, and he pulled it off great. Best Actress Kaho Takada AKA Misora. Not only does she have good comedic timing, she has really good dramatic scenes. The scene with Sento with the Proto Genius Bottle and telling him not to throw his life like that was a stand out, where she delivered the anger and sadness in it. Toku Crush of 2018 Umika or Tsukasa in LuPat. Oh God I can't choose. Best Writer Shogo Muto. Not only great storytelling but great comedic moments Best Director Kazuya Kamihoriuchi. The episodes he directs of Build have some terrific cinematography and shots, plus great action, especially episode 21 of Build Best Suit Design Build RabbitRabbit form Best Weapon/Veichle/Mecha Ehhh, I don't think there were any that stood out so pass Best Fight Scene Hazard Form's first fight Best Dramatic Moment Episode 21 of Build, all of it Best Comedic Scene Kazumin's towel scene Biggest "WTF Did I Just Watch" Moment Episode 45 of LuPat, all of it Best Song LuPat theme song Biggest Surprise of 2018 Kouta's cameo in ep 10 of Zi-O Biggest Disappointment of 2018 Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: True Ending. For a movie billing itself as the true ending, it didn't really have any sense of closure to anything. Another Ending was the real true ending of Ex-Aid, funny how that works out. If True Ending was called Another Ending, and Another Ending was called True Ending, It wouldn't have been so bad The Onari Memorial Award for Single Worst Thing in 2018 Tokusatsu The Another Rider concept. While it is cool that they went with twisted evil versions of Kamen Riders as the main monsters of the show, I'm not a big fan of the whole "Past Rider's show never happened" thing. It makes it feel like you were wasting your time watching the other Rider shows, on how much crap they went through to get their ending and then to just erase it like that. The reason we love those riders was because of their development and how they grew over their own shows, without that, you rob them on what made them special. Last edited by IndigoArms; 12-27-2018 at 03:48 PM.. |
12-28-2018, 06:44 AM | #18 |
Avi by @CSarracenian
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For Toku Fashion Queen I'm afraid I'm going to pick Lucky from that RPG Kyuranger episode. That was 2018 right? Either way, Lucky in drag is surprisingly hot
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12-28-2018, 06:52 AM | #19 |
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Toku Fashion Queen can only be Gentoku. The man has fashion sense, what can I say?
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01-01-2019, 03:19 PM | #20 |
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I'm changing my vote on Best Dramatic Scene to the final scene from Jinga. No spoilers here, but it was a really moving ending to an episode that had already thrown a lot of dramatic haymakers at the viewer.
Honestly, I think my top five dramatic moments may be mostly taken from that episode and the end of the one right before it. |
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