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04-29-2021, 08:25 PM | #11 |
Fangirl-Type Humagear
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I love the sheer unadultered passion you see behind so many shows. Now obviously, this is hardly universal and in franchises this big with corporate toy-advertising control this tight there is going to be a lot of cynicism somewhere; but more often than not I find actors throwing themselves into a role, scriptwriters having fun with the premise, producers and directors feeling an importance for the position they've found themselves in and treating it with a lot of respect. Countless scenes and interviews I've seen of actors, writers, stuntmen and all the rest of the creative team leaving the show with tears and hugs and a sense of satisfaction and hope for what they've achieved.
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04-29-2021, 08:32 PM | #12 |
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the fandom, even with disagreeing opinions.
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04-29-2021, 10:07 PM | #13 |
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I mean, gosh, where do I even start? When I first watched a tokusatsu show a few years ago, I felt like I had found something I had been looking for my whole life! Kamen Rider W was the first show I watched and it had it all: I laughed, I cried, I had a great time. I think part of what makes toku so great is that nothing else is quite like it. It draws attributes from stage acting, comics, animation, film, and has its own unique elements that nothing else really does.
There is such great variety in toku too. Even within a single franchise like Rider, it explores the central themes of the series from a huge variety of angles that makes things feel fresh every year, even if the implementation sometimes falls flat. You could say it has a degree of experimentalism that is rare in this day and age, especially considering how established so many toku franchises are. Even shows I totally hate are often interesting in their own way. I like the variety of characters too. You can have heroes ranging from subdued and kindly to brash and loud to anything else you can imagine. You can even have giant atomic dinosaurs and moth goddesses become heroes. It is pretty rare to see such variety, and conveys a nice message that we can all be heroes in our own way. I think a lot of toku shows are good at conveying positive themes like this, while also doing deep dives on difficult subjects. My favorite toku shows hit that ideal balance of humor and drama that makes the story sing. I could go on and on. Tokusatsu is great, and I love it and the community around it.
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04-29-2021, 10:21 PM | #14 |
Stronger Than You
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For as bad as the writing is, Kabuto's fight scenes are just so damn nice thanks to clock up.
And Tendou pulling the Hyper Zector through time? Chef's kiss Beautiful.
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04-29-2021, 10:56 PM | #15 |
Kamen Ride Or Die
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Fun idea for a thread! Thanks, Deepsea!
Off the top of my head, there's one big thing I love about Kamen Rider, and one small This Literally Just Came Up In Conversation thing. The big thing is that, for as much as Kamen Rider shows are stories designed to sell toys to children, they never skimp on the stories or the toys for children. Like, the balance between art and commerce in Kamen Rider is exemplary. Series are built around themes like friendship, empathy, living with failure, trying to understand other perspectives, recognizing the limitations of organizations, the difficulty of marginalized groups to argue for their culture, and so on. But episodes are still able to introduce collectibles, role-play items, and suits you'd pay 7000 yen to have as an action figure. It's never this tacky attempt to wring money out at the expense of a coherent narrative; but it's also never some high-minded drama that forgets to make you salivate for merch. It's this impossibly perfect blend of resonant themes and FOMO-inducing aesthetics that is filling up my brain with reactions to art and draining my bank account to get more Figuarts. I love it all. The small thing is the exasperated way Yuuji says Kaido's name in Faiz. It's this hill he climbs and slides down, this KAIDO, and it's the best. Yuuji is constantly trying to wrangle Kaido, and his whole Harried Mom approach is as charming as it is hilariously, constantly, ineffective. I can hear it again, and I'm smiling from it.
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04-29-2021, 11:27 PM | #16 |
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I love that the Ultra series is still committed to practical special effects. There's something really special about the amount of care and detail that go into the miniatures and models that make up the setting for the average kaiju battle. I especially like it when the shows edit characters into the model sets to really drive home the scale (one of the recent shows, I want to say Taiga, did this really effectively for one of its fights). Also, any time we get a cool shot that puts the camera into the set, like that brilliant slow motion car flip in Z.
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04-29-2021, 11:33 PM | #17 |
Suprise Gamma Future
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We might be getting more and more CGI as time goes on, but the martial arts and stunts will always be there. Stunt performers really don't get enough credit!
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04-30-2021, 01:38 AM | #18 |
Yodonna oshi
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The thing I've always loved about tokusatsu is our little cottage industry of a fandom; from fansbubbers to teenagers writing OCs on fanfiction.net, from the early days of trading VHS tapes, uploading RealPlayer clips, and writing lengthy meta on geocities about Jetman and its mythical manga sequel, I feel that we have absolutely excelled in the face of adversity, taking this one thing that was never considered for us and making our own fun with it. Even tough I am a stock villain and hate all human life, I constantly find the creativity of this scene to be inspiring and uplifting.
So here's to all the translators, fic writers, artists, forum mods, and cosplayers, here's to everyone who watched these children shows and thought that maybe they could do better as a person in their everyday life because of these embarrassing morals that we all pretend not to have taken onboard. Thank you, friends, for your service. I'm not crying, you're crying. |
04-30-2021, 03:50 AM | #19 |
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I will say, it has seemed sad to me in the past when some fans on the internet have seemed to almost basically like ''hate everything'' in a way, it's like why are you into tokusatsu?! But then in Britain/Europe you are kind of reliant on the internet for toku so I suppose the opinion side can be a bit unavoidable.
But I agree there is certainly nothing like tokusatsu. You could compare it to other countries' long-running TV shows, you could compare it to anime, you could compare it to other Asian dramas, plus some people might be into Marvel/DC but other than the occasional thing that's not quite so much my cup of tea But that's not descriptive enough is my point! I suppose for specific things I particularly like returning actors when you don't expect it, like I wouldn't have thought even that the cast of GARO would reunite for a sequel show 6 years after the original and I always like to see what happened to certain characters after their show actually finished, like Gokaiger and Zi-O had some quite satisfactory tribute episodes in my view! |
04-30-2021, 03:59 AM | #20 |
Stronger Than You
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I remember, when some anime series had the leads perform the Dairangers' role call, and someone had posted a side by side comparison. When the vid was first uploaded, the comments were "The girls did it better" and it really broke my heart.
Last I checked, the comments were nothing but love towards Sentai, and it makes me smile. Anyway, I love Zyuohger. It's my second favorite Sentai behind Gekiranger, and it's a better anniversary than Gokaiger. Gokai is all flash and flare with no character and little heart vs one of the best Sentai casts. It's probably one of the most endearing series that exemplifies what's best about Sentai, rather than being all "Hey, it's [Actor], please applaud."
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