Just a wild guess, but it occured to me that the rumored line "if Gavv is soft, Zeztz is hard" could refer to their personalities, with Zeztz not showing as much emotion, holding people at more of a distance, or even being more ruthless to his enemies compared to Shouma who is such a sweetheart. I wouldn't want him to be a total jerk or for the story to get overly grimdark, but a protagonist like that could be interesting!

If so, I assume we'll get someone similar to Takumi/Faiz or Hoeru/Gozyu Wolf personality-wise. I do wonder if it may also be referring to its costume aesthetics, Gavv being soft like gummies while Zeztz is more "edgy" for a lack of better words.

In the case of Zeztz, I am sure that the connection with insects will be to one degree or another. That is, it is impossible to say his name, so that it does not turn out to be buzzing.

If it helps, I pronounce it as "Zettz" based on how the katakana is written.


On another note, apparently, both Satoshi Jinbo (who played Prof. Kagawa/Alternative Zero in Ryuki) and Kaba-chan (who played Yu the donut shop owner in Wizard) appeared on an episode of Gaki No Tsukai and got Thai-kicked by Naoki Tanaka (who played Herlock Sholmes in the Lupinranger vs Patranger summer movie). For those not in the know, Tanaka is a comedian who is a regular cast member on Gaki no Tsukai, and pre-pandemic would always get literally kicked in the buttocks by a legit muay thai practitioner whenever the show did their "Do Not Laugh 24 Hours" year-end specials, thus the term Thai kick.

So sorry, I accidentally made a new post. Please ignore.

Didn't know where to put this, but Joe Odgiri came back for the Kuuga 25th exhibition as the narrator, proving that he doesn't hate Kuuga, he's just not into tokusatsu (which is fair, he's allowed to like other things).

https://i.imgur.com/6BrJUXA.jpeg

Yeah these "did you know they hate their role"-rumors cling to actors who don't fancy their appearances in popular franchises, often applied by others to spread rumors, but the reality of the situation in most cases is that these actors just don’t want to be associated with one single thing forever, no matter how much they enjoyed working on it.

This is true especially in Toku which is a medium were many actors make their first big appearance to get a hold in the industry. At some point after that you preferably have much bigger projects in your career to work on.

Some actors are of course perfectly fine reprising their role, others don’t want that image stuck on them, and then there are those that quit acting altogether because it wasn’t for them. All of this is valid.

It is however, nice to see that Odgiri is working on the project. For the longest time I personally wanted for him to return because the character of Yusuke Godai would fit wonderfully for a single crossover movie role, as someone who casually drops into a story and then leaves again.

That picture is awesome by the way, so good to see these legends reunited.

Takatera promised Odagiri a gamechanger of a show, and promised he did. Further proof that Odagiri didn't hate Kuuga for me was when he had a brief cameo for Daimajin Kanon, Takatera's post-Hibiki endeavor. Show wasn't something to write home about, but Odagiri appearing in it brought a smile to my face at the time.

Odagiri has stated in interviews that he never hated Kuuga, just that he didn't want to act in toku productions anymore, was all.
He dipped his toe into things, found it wasn't for him, and moved on.

It's just that the internet is a giant game of telephone, and since most of these kinds of interviews aren't translated, we only have 2nd hand info to go off of. And they interpreted "I'm not interested in returning" as "I hated my time doing it"

It has just occured to me, and I find this hilarious, that Saber Crimson Dragon isn't actually crimson. I don't think there's even a speck of crimson on that suit.