I was never off in the beginning, at first I was like the only person to like Gaimu's suit.

Samurai? Awesome? Favourite colour? Check.

And just in general it doesn't seem nearly as cluttered and in your face as some of the other Riders (although I think Ryugen looks cool busyness and all), yet not quite as bland as some of the other Riders either.

Yeah Gaimu is a pretty cool fellow.

He's... JUICY!

Too easy...

I'd still say right now that Ryugen and Gaimu are the only suits that currently appeal to me, with Zangetsu being really boring and the other two being downright hideous.

I think we need to have a talk about the term overuse.

I'm not particulary fond of Baron or Griton, but I love Zangetsu even if he's kind of simple compared to the other guys.

I had this idea for a while:

When Gaimu airs we should limit the fruit puns to one for episode, for example in the thread for the first episode we only make Orange puns and so on.

I mean hell, just look at how lightning fast old the cake jokes from Portal got?

Now that I've taken some time to sit and read through all the news that's come out so far, I have to say the fruit seed thing isn't particularly appealing to me. I like Gaimu's base design, but the whole concept is a little too silly for me to take on face value. I do like everything else I'm hearing about the show though so it's not something I plan to write off by any means.

But regardless of my criticisms, Madoka's writer? Sold. Sold sold sold sold sold.

It was made worse for me when they showed off that the henshin would literally involve giant pieces of fruit falling from the sky and wrapping around them. We still have not nearly enough to make any kind of true opinion on this yet, but from what we have seen so far it is looking exactly as silly as it initially seems.

But then so did Madoka for about two episodes...

The Puns are infectious! JUICY!

Street dancing crews, fruit locks and riders, yeah...I'm out.

Why don't you find it PEACHY?

It's taking one of the things I hated most about Kyoryuger and combining it with something I find to be a really really stupid motif.

Again, like with Kyoryuger, if ya'll like it that's great, but if the show doesn't grab me after a few episodes then I'm sitting this season out.

I like this guy.

To each his own.I'm with Sentai.I think it's gonna be a good series,more lighthearted,but not so much that its a pure kiddies show.

If it's closer to Fourze than it is Kyoryuger then I will be just fine with it. Fourze did lighthearted and fun far better.

I really like this guy.

That's better.

Fruit falling from the sky henshin aside,it does seem to have a Fourze vibe to it.Sure they're street dancer,but I dont think it's going to be as heavy as Kyoryuger is.

I actually couldn't stand the over the top goofiness that Fourze brought to the table. By the end of it I was happy to see the show be over. Outside a few arcs I found it to be overbearingly "fun". The characters are somewhat memorable though Gentaro is grating. And Wizard for the majority of the series seems to have been pretty dull by comparison. Gaimu appears to have struck more of a balance between the 2. So maybe we can get back to the awesomeness of OOO with this one.

I will admit that I thought the second half of Fourze was awful, it was like they hadn't planned out their series at all which makes no sense but it wasn't just that, it was the way all the characters suddenly left their depth and growth from the first half of the series and became cardboard cut outs of themselves.

Still the first half for me is near flawless.

If I pretend this is Madoka the Rider series. Will it go away?

I think that actually it will be the opposite, and it's going to be heavier, at least plot wise (not sure if it'll affect the battles or henshin).

After all the kyoryugers are regular people with a samba motif, while the characters here are street dancers, and make part of dance crews.

Whether that is good or not, I don't know.

Apparently Griton's default seed is Acorn,followed by Pinecone and Durian.

http://www.jefusion.com/2013/08/gaim...ms-teased.html

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m9NV_xNjJK...43717883_a.png

Durian :lolol We called it!

Durian def looks evil.lol.Is it wrong that I keep hearing the word Durian said by the same guy who does the Kyoryuger scream?

No, that's very right :lol

Two words:
GEN UROBUCHI

Having come all this way just to see what Urobutcher's going to do with a kid's show, I can assure you that nothing he writes can ever be kid-friendly. Like, ever. I mean he can try to be good again, but at the very least he'll end up producing something similar to Digimon Tamers (a dark kid's show).

This is the guy who's written really really screwed up stuff like Saya no Uta and Fate/Zero, and even Madoka Magica (something that appeared to be an ordinary magical girl anime at first) is twisted.

Even if this show appears fluffy on the outside, with fruits and fairly ridiculous elements such as dancing, if you look at the plot, the darker elements are all there just waiting to be touched upon. Even the transformation sequence itself might have some kind of Madoka-esque plot twist. This is definitely intentional, and there is definitely something darker going on in the background.

It'll probably start out normally like your average Kamen Rider show, but then once the plot starts rolling and things start unfolding, you'll all see the truth - Urobutcher cannot change.

That's why instead of worrying about how kid-friendly it's going to be, you should hope that Gen doesn't traumatize the young 'uns...too much~

After reading this whole thread, it seems that a lot of people who still don't know who Gen Urobuchi is. Well, soon enough, you'll all learn his grimdark glory ^^

Well, Kirei convinced me :lol

First of all, welcome to tokunation, hope you enjoy your stay :) :


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"Bienvenido a TokuNation! Por favor, deje su cordura en la puerta, y disfruta de tu estancia!"

(How did that become our pseudo-official greeting here, also why bilingual? :lol)


Second of all, awesome username dude. :thumb:

And third, many of us are acquainted with Urobuchi work and know that his series are quite dark, I guess the main reason people are worried is the possibility of executive meddling that may force Urobuchi to tone things down, in order to keep the series profitable and so on.

Then again tons of us are also expecting it to be grimdark, because it's Urobuchi man!
Looking forward to this and hopefully to the grimdark. :D

If Gaim is half of what Digimon Tamers was, then count me as a fan.

I'm actually worried Urobuchi will overdo the grimdark. His work can be seriously messed up and traumatizing. It should be accessible and safe for kids to watch, so I'm hoping Toei actually reins him in a bit. :lol