They began with Kiva. As did the final stage getting a DVD release (Den-O started them, it just didn’t get any form of release, as far as I know).

Anyway, the HBV is the one live Den-O production I haven’t seen (I also haven’t seen the Imagin anime beyond a clip from the episode with Ultraman Taro). So I’ll just talk about something you mentioned when talking about episode 44: the all forms showcase. That’s something Japanese shows made to sell toys tend to do near the end of the show, basically the last opportunity the writers use to pump the toyline, before the last few episodes go nuts with what they do to the merch (I’m currently coming up to such a string of episodes in Hurricaneger). And since most of the shows start in February and last the year round, the “last chance” generally coincides with Christmas.

Hyper Gatack?

That was my thought. There's also Mini-Hibiki, which needs a Seihou more than any other suit in existence.

EDIT: also blade but with a scarf

Well ok, maybe I was reading too much into it, it was refering to "the type of chemistry that I think the show wrongly assumes that Yuuto and Airi have" part of that post, unless of course, the idea of improvement isn't "turn Airi into someone like Shouko".

BTW, well, again, how about the long rambling in ep. 44 I wrote? Especially the part of Ryotaro's view that I'd like to discuss.

I mean, that's two separate pieces of criticism? I wasn't trying to suggest that Yuuto and Airi's lack of chemistry was because of Shouko, as though Shouko was the right way and Airi was the wrong way. I was saying that Shouko/Yuuto have chemistry AND Airi/Yuuto don't. Those tow groups aren't dependent on one another, and there's no one right way to tell a romantic story. There are, however, a whole bunch of wrong ways, and that includes two actors not having any chemistry between them. That's the Airi/Yuuto problem.

Like, I for sure wasn't trying to say that Airi needed to act more like Shouko. She just needed to feel believably attracted to Yuuto (or vice versa), and she definitely does not.

I'm really sorry, but I read that part twice and I don't know what I'm supposed to be responding to. Can you maybe boil it down for me?

They don’t count as new suits.

Maybe you missed the part where the Blade duplicate had a scarf.

A. Scarf.

How that didn't end up as Blade's final form instead of King Form, I will never know.

I was a little less harsh on this one, naturally:

I feel like I need to go back and rewatch that Build HBV at some point though; you talk it up every chance you get and it always makes me feel bad for barely remembering anything about it.

It's unnecessarily smart, which is maybe the highest praise I can give an HBV.

Yep. But hey, at least Faiz gave us the boombox of death AND a musical. :lolol
Fun fact in case it was not brought up, that boombox was a winner of a design contest by Terebi-kun if I recall so props to that kid who is probably a grown-up by now. Imagine that kid putting that fact in a resume. :lolol