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12-31-2016, 01:45 PM | #11 |
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Anyway, my list:
Best New Show of 2016: Ultraman Orb. For the second year running Tsubaraya has been knocking it out of the park with their new Ultra shows and I honestly feel that Orb is even better than X. Best New-to-You Show of 2016: Kaiketsu Zubat. Haven't actually finished it (I've been having more trouble lately finding time to squeeze in tokusatsu - or a lot of things, really, I'm still only halfway through Luke Cage), but it is goddamn magnificent and a big part of why I love Orb's protagonist so much (see below). Best Rewatch of 2016: Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. It counts. Kinda. Best Movie of 2016: Actually haven't seen many of this year's films, but I did like the Kamen Rider Chase movie. Best Male Lead Character: Gai from Ultraman Orb. Obviously inspired by Ultraseven and Zubat, but still a really interesting and engaging character. Very charismatic and likable with a rich backstory. I'm really excited that we'll be getting more of him with the Orb Origin series next year. Best Female Lead Character: Naomi from Orb. She's basically Garo's Kaoru for the most part and I loved Kaoru. Naomi is fun, she's amusing, and she's also capable of good emotional depth. Best Male Supporting Character: This was another year where I kind of fell out of watching the current Super Sentai. I liked the show, but I fell behind and just never found the will to catch up. That said, the most disappointing part of that for me is that I've missed out on the continuing mopey misadventures of Misao/Zyuoh The World. That guy never failed to crack me up. Best Female Supporting Character: Asuna/Poppy Pippypeterpiperpickedapeckofpickledpeppers. I cannot remember her full name to save my life, but this is how you do comic relief, Kamen Rider. Occasionally annoying, often very confusing, but also capable of being a serious contributor to the story. Very fun character. Best Actor: Hideo Ishiguro. Do you see this face I'm making? Does this expression say that I take back most of what I said about his acting abilities coming out of Den-O? I think that's what this expression says. Best Actress: Yasue Sato was in a thing this year, so yeah. Biggest Toku Crush of 2016: I watched the Ginga S movie, so Yukari Taki is still eligible. Best Villain: Jugglus Juggler from Ultraman Orb. A very interesting and complex villain, occasional creepy troll, and presumably a guy that drinks a lot of Faygo. Best Returning Character: This is a really tough call for me. On the one hand, the Gokaigers returned to Super Sentai and Captain Marvelous, in particular, was especially fun to see again. On the other hand, we got to see Kouga return to Garo, after the actor had previously implied he was done with the role. I'm probably going to go with Marvelous, though, because he had more screen time while Kouga was more of a cameo appearance. Best Suit Actor: Hideyoshi Iwata (Ultraman Orb) Best Writer: Yuya Takahashi (Ex-Aid) Best Visual Designer: Whoever did the monsters for Orb. Best Hero Suit Design: Honestly not a banner year for hero costumes between Ghost not knowing how color theory works, Zyuohger's animal onesies, and whatever the hell Ex-Aid is. Amazons had some great suits, though, as did Orb. It came down to Orb Thunder Breaster vs. Amazon Alpha for me, and I think I'm going to go with Alpha because I'm a sucker for metallic red. Best Monster Suit Design: Galactron from Ultraman Orb. Best Weapon: Amazon Omega's cool scythes. Best Vehicle/Mecha: Kamen Rider Lazer. Best Fight Scene: Orb Thunder Breaster vs. Galactron. Both for how brutal of a fight it was and for how intensely dramatic it was. I was sure that Orb would come to his senses to avoid hurting Naomi. I was wrong. Best Dramatic Scene: Oh god , Mamoru, don't eat that. No no no no no no no. Best Comedic Scene The multiple spit take scene from the Chaser movie. Belt-san spitting in Gou's face put it right over the top. Biggest "WTF did I just watch?" Moment: The Poppy/Ex-Aid/Brave Jingle Bells scene from the most recent episode of Ex-Aid. That is totally a thing that happened. Best Song Orb has some good music and I really like Ex-Aid's opening theme, but this year is all about Armour fuckin' Zone. Best Piece of Merchandise: Shodo Vs. wave 3. I have a small Kamen Rider Black and Shadow Moon standing in front of my TV and it is awesome. Still bummed that Stronger was shortpacked, though. Biggest Surprise of 2016: Garo getting licensed for a US release. The real show, not the shitty cartoon. And, because not everything in 2016 was as delightfully welcome as a Gai Kurenai harmonica entrance: Biggest Disappointment of 2016: Garo Makai Retsuden. It still had its moments, but I went into the show expecting some great, visually stunning standalone episodes like we got in Makai no Hana. Instead we got a whole bunch of throwaway low budget stuff like the episode where Rian bums around an apartment with some dude for 20 minutes and Mayuri talking to a chef. There were some cool episodes, but most of the series felt like wasted potential. Single Worst Thing in 2016 Tokusatsu: Onari: Damn straight. SECOND Worst Thing in 2016 Tokusatsu: Tempted to say "Also Onari" or "Kamen Rider Ghost as a whole," but I'll be generous and specifically narrow it down to the episodes where Akari becomes an idol. Congratulations, Ghost, you managed to be the first Kamen Rider series where I fastforwarded through scenes on the first viewing. Well fucking done. |
12-31-2016, 02:07 PM | #12 |
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As always, my list is gonna be pretty barren, not knowing (Or paying attention much) about the likes of writers and producers. Anyway, let's morphing.
Best New Show of 2016: Dobutsu Sentai Zyuohger Best New-to-You Show of 2016: This one is a little difficult, as I didn't ride the Toku trains very much this year...I guess, by default, Seijuu Sentai Gingaman Best Rewatch of 2016: Ninja Sentai Kakuranger (Didn't rewatch it entirely, but I checked out, like, 9 episodes on YT and joined in on the stream on Shout's website ) Best Movie of 2016: Shin Godzilla (Didn't get to see it, but I'm drooling at the teeth to) Best Male Lead Character: Misao Mondou/Zyuoh The World Best Female Lead Character: Sela/Zyuoh Shark Best Male Supporting Character: Yuuta (Technically cheating, but he was new to me) Biggest Toku Crush of 2016: Sela, again. Best Villain: Bunglay Best Returning Character: Gai Ikari. Seeing him beg at the ToQger's feet was great Best Hero Suit Design: Zyuoh Whale. My god that's a beautiful suit. Best Monster Suit Design: Once again cheating, but Budo from Gingaman Best Weapon: EagRiser Best Vehicle/Mecha: Wild Tousai King Best Fight Scene: The airport fight in Civil War Best Dramatic Scene: Yamato's breakdown after seeing his friends die Best Comedic Scene: ALL OF GHOST AMIRITE Best Song: The English version of Gingaman's theme. Best Piece of Merchandise: Legacy Ninja Megazord. I don't even have it and I love it Biggest Surprise of 2016: Zyuohger being good And, as always - Single Worst Thing in 2016 Tokusatsu: Ghost My list would have probably been a lot more varied if I watched Ghost and Amazons, and started Ex-Aid, but it is what it is.
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Best New Show of 2016: Kamen Rider Ex Aid
Best New-to-You Show of 2016: Kamen Rider OOO Best Rewatch of 2016: Kamen Rider Drive Best Movie of 2016: Kamen Rider Chaser Saga Best Male Lead Character: Kamen Rider Chaser Best Female Lead Character: Asuna from KR Ex-Aid Best Male Supporting Character: Taiga/KR Snipe from Ex Aid Best Female Supporting Character: NA Best Actor: Taiko Katono Best Actress: Rio Uchida Biggest Toku Crush of 2016: Asuna Karino Best Villain: KR Genm Best Returning Character: Shinnosuke Tomari/KR Drive Best Suit Actor: Yasuhiko Imai (Suit actor for KR Chaser/Mashin Chaser) Best Writer: Riku Sanjo Best Director: Directors for Ex-Aid as a whole Best Producer: NA Best Visual Designer: NA Best Hero Suit Design: Kamen Rider Ex Aid Best Monster Suit Design: None Best Weapon: Break Gunner with Core Rhino Best Vehicle/Mecha: Rider Chaser Best Fight Scene: Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, Brave, Snipe, and Lazer as lvl 5 vs Graphhite Best Dramatic Scene: Chase removing angel feather and henshins back to KAmen Rider Chaser Best Comedic Scene: Christmas scenes from Ex-Aid holiday episode Best Song: Ex-Cite Best Piece of Merchandise: Figuarts Kamen Rider Snipe Biggest Surprise of 2016: Powers Rangers Movie Trailer Single Worst Thing in 2016 Tokusatsu NA
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12-31-2016, 03:33 PM | #14 |
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Put some spoilers over that last point please, that episode is barely a week old.
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12-31-2016, 06:56 PM | #15 |
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Actually watched a bunch of stuff this time...lots of Kamen Rider of course, as well as Sentai and Ultraman for the first time, even Thunderbolt Fantasy. Fun year.
Best New Show of 2016: I'm gonna go with Amazons for this. There were a bunch of strong shows this year, but Amazons is just great. Best New-to-You Show of 2016: I know I'm one of very few in this respect, but I really love Wizard, and it's probably my favorite of the old shows I watched this year. Best Rewatch of 2016: I didn't really rewatch anything this year....but like, I've seen every episode of Ex-Aid at least twice now, so that's...been fun. Best Movie of 2016: Honestly none of the movies I can recall seeing for this year have been very impressive. I guess maybe...Surprise Drive. Subs just barely qualify for 2016. It was better than the other junk I watched, though I don't think it's that good either. Best Male Lead Character: Misao Mondo is a national treasure. Not sure he really qualifies as a lead but...probably. Best Female Lead Character: Naomi was a good character. Best Male Supporting Character: Bike boy. Best Female Supporting Character: Poppi, I suppose. Best Villain: The Amazons, maybe. They're like...each other's villain? Best Returning Character: Obviously I haven't seen this one, but I am really really looking forward to seeing Haruto in Generations. Nothing else really did much for me. Best Suit Actor: Whoever did the Amazons did a good job. But of course Mr. Kamen Rider has also been killing it as Ex-Aid. Best Writer: Urobuchi did very well on Thunderbolt Fantasy. The twist was simple but it worked well, the whole show was well structured. Probably not the only one worth noting but he's the only I can really name offhand. Best Visual Designer: Gonna throw Thunderbolt Fantasy another bone here, that was one visually impressive show. Best Hero Suit Design: I don't care for Orb or Zyuohger's designs much overall, so it's mostly between Rider in this category...there's a lot of great suits all around, and I'm tempted to go with Alpha (questionable hero that he is) or maybe Double Action. But, I think I'm gonna go with Necrom. All things aside, I always was a big fan of (most of) Ghost's designs, and Necrom's is one of the best. Best Monster Suit Design: So, I know he's not a kaijin which is what this is about, but Dan Kuroto is a pretty monstrous guy, and Zombie Gamer a pretty awesome suit.If not bending the rules, maybe Galactron or something. Best Weapon: Gashacon Bugvisor. Best Vehicle/Mecha: reezaa Best Fight Scene/Best Dramatic Scene: Gonna go two-for-one for this one. Orb vs. Galactron was a really strong scene. Best Comedic Scene: Others have mentioned it, but it really doesn't get better than that one restaurant scene from episode 11 of Orb. Absolutely hilarious. Biggest "WTF did I just watch?" Moment: Kamen Rider Chaser. You know the scene. Maybe. There were...a lot of weird ones in this one. Best Song: Probably Excite. Best Piece of Merchandise: I didn't get much this year, so....the Gashats are nice, you know? They're nice. Biggest Surprise of 2016: Zyuohger being really good. It's my first real Sentai (all I was exposed to before was stuff in crossovers) and I wasn't a fan of its designs going in, so I'm glad it proved a strong show regardless. Biggest Disappointment of 2016: Maybe Kamen Rider 1. It's definitely the best of the spring movies I've seen, but I don't see that as much of an accomplishment. And like...yeah, it has its moments, but overall I didn't find it that good. I was hoping I would. Could say the same about the Drive Sagas. They...weren't as good as I would have hoped. Single Worst Thing in 2016 Tokusatsu: Onari: Well, I'm not gonna go against the facts. SECOND Worst Thing in 2016 Tokusatsu: reezaa :( Last edited by barnstenchfartface; 12-31-2016 at 06:58 PM.. |
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Best New Show of 2016: Kamen Rider Ex-Aid. From the 90s color palette to the gimmicks and the plot, they really are going all out and I am looking forward to how this show concludes this 2017.
Best New-to-You Show of 2016: Kamen Rider Amazons Best Rewatch of 2016: That super sentai from the 90s where they got baked into a pizza we know as Carranger. Best Movie of 2016: Zyuohger's movie was surprisingly fun, probably the most I had in years looking at Super Sentai movies alone. Best Male Lead Character: Yamato Kazakiri aka Zyuoh Eagle/Zyuoh Gorilla/Zyuoh Whale from Dobutsu Sentai Zyuohger Best Female Lead Character: Naomi Yumeno from Ultraman Orb Best Male Supporting Character: ONARI. ONARI. ONARI. ALL YOU HATERS CAN SAY WHATEVER BUT ONARI. ONARI. ONARI. Best Female Supporting Character: Ruka Matsuda as Poppi PipoPapo/Asuna Best Actor: Hayato Onozuka as Kiriya Kujo/Kamen Rider Lazer from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid's performance still lingers in my head and probably will for the rest of 2017 until someone else tops that. Best Actress: Ruka Matsuda as Poppi PipoPapo/Asuna. Not easy going from one dynamic to the other so kudos to that. Biggest Toku Crush of 2016: Amu/Zyuoh Tiger Best Villain: Bangray was by far the most memorable, just plain ruthless. Best Returning Character: Kamen Rider 1 Best Suit Actor: Hirokazu Iwakami as Kamen Rider Amazon Alpha Best Writer: Koumura Junko for episodes 28 and 29 of Zyuohger Best Director: Kyohei Yamaguchi for episode 12 of Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Best Producer: Shirakura AND Takebe for Kamen Rider Amazons. Say what you will about their past mistakes but you gotta give credit where credit is due. Best Visual Designer: PLEX as always. Best Hero Suit Design: Kamen Rider Amazon Alpha. The right balance of throwback and modernization. Plus it pulls off that dark cherry red color really well. Best Monster Suit Design: Ginis. Reminds me of the 80s Sentai bosses. Best Weapon: Gashacon Breaker Best Vehicle/Mecha: Tousai Zyuoh Best Fight Scene: Zyuohger and Gokaiger fighting side-by-side against the Deathgaliens Best Dramatic Scene: Kiriya/Lazer's last words and unfortunate death Best Comedic Scene: Whenever Misao/Zyuoh TheWorld is depressed or ignored Best Song: EXCITE by Daichi Miura for Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Best Piece of Merchandise: Bandai candy toys in general just get better and better each year Biggest Surprise of 2016: Kyuranger And, as always - Single Worst Thing in 2016 Tokusatsu: No sentai figuarts __________________
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Best New Show of 2016: Zyuohger what an amazing well written Sentai. After two years of disappointment with Nin and Toq it felt great to have a good Sentai again. What I love so much about it was it did different things that Sentai had not done before. It was so much fun seeing other power up in the form of visor ups I love this so much. Also the villains were very interesting with there blood game.
Best New-to-You Show of 2016: Kamen Rider Amazons I never saw the showa one so this one was fun to watch. Best Rewatch of 2016: It my first time watching it Seki Ninja Sen Jiraiya. It does not have eng subs but I love watching it a really cool ninja show. Best Movie of 2016: Kamen Rider ZO this movie had so much in it for a short amount of time. I like how deep the plot of the movie was between the father and grandfather. The little boy also made the me fell a bit sad for him for what had happen to the father in the end over all my favorite showa rider movie. Best Male Lead Character: Zyuoh Egale Yamato one of the best red Sentai in a long time. He calm, laid back, and strong just how a leader should be in Super Sentai. He was a big part of Zyuohger that made me enjoy the show the most. Best Female Lead Character: Amu Zyuoh Tiger she was very cute I like most of her acting. Best Male Supporting Character: ZYUOH THE WORLDO MISAO Best Female Supporting Character: The clown nurse from ex-aid I guess. Best Actor: Yamato Zyuoh Egale Best Actress: Zyuoh Tiger Amu Biggest Toku Crush of 2016: Amu Best Villain: Genis from Zyuohger he was different from other main Sentai villains. Atfer all he did make Zyuoh the World so I feel that was pretty cool of him. Best Returning Character: Gokaiger returning in Zyuohger it was epic to see them again in the show. I glad they came back because it made me realize how much I miss them. Best Suit Actor: Zyuoh Whale Best Writer: Person who wrote Zyuohger. Best Director: Person who work on Zyuohger. Best Producer: People who work on Zyuohger. Best Visual Designer: People who work on Zyuohger. Best Hero Suit Design: Zyuoh The World I love this suit so much. It had three animals on it and the colors of black, silver and gold which made the suit badass looking. I love the look of the helmet the most it was very very impressive design that blew me away. Best Monster Suit Design: Genis it look like two people were in the suit at the same time lol. Best Weapon: Whale gun. Best Vehicle/Mecha: Cube Whale Best Fight Scene: Zyuoher vs Kubar when Misao came to help the team out from bed wow. That entire Mecha battle was on fire it had so much going on between all of them. Best Dramatic Scene: Amazon Alpha vs Sigma Jin almost died in that battle it was chaotic. Best Comedic Scene: don't know Best Song: ex-aid opening Best Piece of Merchandise: S.H.Figuarts Kamen Rider Ryuki Survive & Dragrenzer. This was my first Kamen Rider bike that I ever got in figuarts. I love this bike so much it can open up into a dragon it can stand up on it own that's a monster as well. Wow that what was going through my head when I took this figuart out of the box. The metallic red paint with silver gives this bike a beautiful shine when it on display. This is my favorite figuart of 2016 and my most impressive one out of my collection. Biggest Surprise of 2016: The new Sentai that will start in 2017. Toei is taking a big risk with this team staring off with nine rangers at once. I wonder if there be enough focus episodes for all of them hmm? Single Worst Thing in 2016 Tokusatsu: Ghost the show the figuart everything. All round show that went to trash. |
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