Never thought I'd dislike a show WITH the lead actor, but there you go. Here here Odagiri, Kuuga is overrated and a bit poop.

I agree. I think that Godai returning would be seriously undermined by the fact that it's public knowlege that he doesn't enjoy the role. There's plenty of actors who love being Riders, like Decade, Double or even Rider 1, so why spend time, effort and money to get back someone who doesn't?

And I personally thought Godai was a rubbish character to begin with. They could put in a scene officially replacing him with Yuusuke Onodera from now on and we'd have a better character whose actor might actually want to come back.

Agreed, Yusuke is everything Godai actually claimed to be and in turn was able to be a greater hero, despite barely ever getting to transform, than Godai was in his entire series.

Well if you click the link right under the first one you will see that he in fact warmed up to his role. He wasnt a fan of Tokusatsu when he did the part but after working with the Staff and doing Kuuga he warmed up to the genre.

He was at a cast reunion in 2008 and even agreed to come back to a Kuuga reunion film that unfotunately never happened.

Oh that's good to know. I wish there was a cast reunion that would be so much fun.

Well I think it would be something else if he did come back since he says that he's warmed up to the role, I honestly want all the past riders to come back who can.

Honestly, I think the complete opposite, Yusuke is everything that Onodera wishes he could have been. Godai is basically if Kuuga was Batman and Onodera is if Kuuga was Robin. Not saying that I don't like Onodera I just thought Godai is the Superior Kuuga who lived up to his potential. His friends helped him evolve and grow, he managed to achieve his ultimate form through his kind and gentle heart, not through anger which is something that I'll always love about Kuuga. Now see I watched Decade before I watched Kuuga which leads to some of the bias but Kuuga is one of my favorite series and from the moment I watched the first episode of Kuuga, I thought Yusuke was one of the best main characters ever and as the series went on he just got even better and better.

Did we watch the same show? Everything you described never once played a part in Godai's character in the show. He was the same character in the first episode, as he was in the last. He learnt nothing, lost nothing, gained nothing and was so disconnected from the Kuuga suit actor he may as well have been in another show which was disgusting and insulting as literally THOUSANDS died while he made curry. My hatred for both his terrible characterisation, and the blind defending of this abomination will never stop infuriating me.

Despite the the fact that Yuusuke doesn't want to solve things by brutal force
- Godai has to do it because he was the only person around who had the power to deal with the situation.
- Onodera had a choice not doing it because Decade took the load off from him already.

He didn't like it on the production end. Never heard his thoughts about watching his own show though.

Despite my loathing of Decade, I agree. I found Yusuke to be a far better character.

Anyway, I don't know why he seemed so down on playing Kuuga. Are toku roles not seen as good roles for budding actors?

I've heard that they're like a stepping stone to getting even bigger roles, at least on Kamen Rider.