Not quite. Both V3 and Kuuga have Ryugen-styled Lockseeds. Nought that might be a coincidence.

Looking back on the Heisei era, it feels like they got it right first time, and then spent a decade or two failing to understand what worked about Kuuga and doubling down on misinterpreting those facets.

I've actually never seen the show with English subs before, so I was really quite pleased with the novelty of the subtitles for the Grongi.

Naruhisa Arakawa just GETS what makes tokusatsu work more than just about every other writer in toku today. I've long accepted that Kuuga will forever be my favorite toku series.

Credit given where credit is due, it's a great show. I think I might have liked Agito a little more if they had leant a little more into the promise of a connexion between that and Kuuga that is present in the first few eps.

this week, SkyRider takes flight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahPWk7bRTRo

Honestly I often forget Skyrider exists, but I enjoyed it! If they ever make the whole series available somewhere I'll check it out.

Interesting note: in the description it says that the subtitling was subsidized by the Japanese government. Maybe increased culture exports to boost the economy could lead to more toku availability.

And now Blade

https://youtu.be/XvdaX5-aXBk

So this time they're releasing both episodes at once?! This makes the whole thing even more confusing..

No it looks like they just accidentally put out Episode 2, it quickly went private once they realized it.

You can call upon him to defeat evil, it’s Kamen Rider Stronger.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pcWHAy8Nmao