Whoops wrong threa.d

I'd be very happy to know at least somebody out there came to the same conclusion as me then!

(If you want to go back and check, by the way, a good place would be the scene directly after the theme song in 17, which has him saying it several times in a row.)

The true star of Den-o was Shiratori Yuriko's lipgloss.

Of all the "What If?" versions of Kamen Rider shows out there, I think the one I'd be most interested in seeing (after the obvious one, of course) is the version of Den-O where she didn't leave. Either that or Aikawa's back half of Decade.

Standard disclaimer for the original ending of Hibiki aside, I agree! I really liked Hana as a character, I found her really warm and relatable in a way that a lot of token not-quite-a-love-interest female characters are in the series, and although I don't have an especial problem with Kohana, I didn't really enjoy Den-o half as much after Shiratori's departure.

Yeah, the dumpster fire of an agency that mismanaged her career at the time is a place called A-Team. Hideaki Ito who plays Kamen Rider Eden in the Zero-One movie is one of their top billing actors currently and Yuji Kido who played Ayase/Time Blue in Timeranger is still there. Ryo Yokoyama who was Sakuya/Patren 2 from LuPat was there till last year but seems to have transferred to a new agency. Hopefully in the case of Yokoyama it was end-of-contract stuff and I hope management is different there now cause it was 14 years ago after all. If not, to hell with that agency for messing around with the show and her career. Apparently they made her film Den-O AND do other stuff as well to "further boost her popularity" it seems, which again is a bad move. I guess the party involved with scheduling had no concept of fatigue at all.
At the end the Kohana stuff didn't bother me at all, cause who knows, could have been worse. But yeah, it was unfortunate.

This is sadly pretty standard idol stuff. I won't go into a lengthy discussion on my feelings about the idol industry, and in the mental gymnastics it takes to participate in support of idols whilst knowing that the industry is horrid and incredibly damaging to young girls, but such a story as this is sadly very familiar.

I hate it, I really hate it. I love these girls, I love what they do, but the industry is in dire need of reform.

Pretty much a case for most of japanese work fields. Going into shops and noticing some signs of tire with the people there, it's unfortunate.

No, I'm aware. It's that in the case of Shiratori it was taken up a notch from the usual expected workload for a new entertainer in Japan. They BOGGED HER DOWN with a ton of work on the side it seems. They pretty much were doing the equivalent of using a blowtorch to light a candle cause matches and lighters don't cut it.

The Ranger shows are episodic with a yearly series end game objective.