How would you picture a Pokemon version of OOO?

Combos:
Fire:
Water:
Grass:
Electric:
Poison:
Flying:
Steel:
Ground:
Psychic:
Rock:
Ice:
Bug:
Fighting:
Ghost:
Dark:
Normal:
Fairy:
Legendary-Dragon:

I picture Mewtwo as the "Ankh".

Mewtwo as Ankh fits as well as a tumor in a body.
Ho-Oh as Ankh.

What about for combos? Starter combo would be the TaToBa.

Which pokemon would suit those combos according to the list?

Any Normal/Flying type amiright

Well, let's just use the general animals as basis and work from there.
Taka=Staraptor or Hawlucha
Tora=...Shockingly, we don't have a real tiger Pokemon yet (Beyond maybe Litten), so Luxray for now
Batta=Seriously Pokemon, the fuck? I'd say Kricketune, but no. Leavanny, I guess?

I'm actually gonna go against the list, and pick Pokemon more according to OOO's medal line up, because I'm a jerk.

Red-
Taka=Staraptor/Hawlucha
Kujaku=GODDAMMIT POKEMON. Ho-Oh is the best proxy I could come up with due to the rainbow wing thing, but I see Ho-Oh as Ankh, and not the red medals themselves, so...Moltres?
Condor=Mandibuzz

Blue-
Shachi=I'm torn. Kyogre has more of a killer whale influence than Wailord, but legend...But eh, screw it. Kyogre!
Unagi=Milotic or Dragonair (Eelectross is a lamprey. "But Milotic is an oarfish!" Shut up)
Tako=Octillery

Green-
Kuwagata=Vikavolt (It's like a one for one~)
Kamakiri=Scyther (So clean~)
Batta=...Oh yeah. Damn...Leavanny? Kricketune?...Hitmonlee?

Yellow-
Lion=Raikou
Tora=Luxray ("Isn't Luxray more of a lion?" Jesus, stop nitpicking...)
Cheetah=Liepard (Because it fit better than Persian)

Grey-
Sai=Rhyhorn
Gorilla=Slaking (Be real. It's more of a gorilla than a sloth)
Zou=Donphan

Purple-
Ptera=Aerodactyl
Tricera (Oh, excuse me. "Torikera")=Bastiodon (Since Pokemon likes to avoid being predictable, apparently...)
Tyrannosaurus=Tyrantrum

Orange-
Cobra=Arbok
Kame=Kamex! (Blastoise)
Wani=Krookodile

I'm not saying Luxray is more of a lion, but I'm saying Raikou's more of a tiger in design. Not to mention Solgaleo fits perfectly because sun lion

When Human Villains was more interesting than Monster Villains?

Recent Super Sentai always relay on Monster Villains while Recent Kamen Rider have Human Villains but is Human Villains more interesting and more threatening than Monster Villains?

I was making the list mostly taking the Greed into account as existing beings, too.
So Ho-Oh wasn't picked as peacock because he represents Ankh as a whole, for example.
I only used Kyogre as Shachi/Orca because it's basically an orca with hands for fins, which was just too close to justify using Wailord in it's stead.

However, I do agree that Raikou would better fit Tiger, and slot Luxray into Lion.

Are you asking 'When have human villains been more interesting?'? Your grammar made it a little tricky to understand (I know English isn't your native language so it's okay)
It honestly depends, Heart was more interesting than Banno, but that had nothing to do with Banno or Heart being humans or roimudes, It's how they're written, what roles they've been given in the story, their personalities and motives, etc.

OOO's combos were types of animals.

Pokemon OOO combos are types of elements.

Starter Combo:
- Head: Charizard
- Body: Blastoise
- Legs: Venusaur

That combo also has a special ability to go into Mega Evolution.

red=Flying
yellow=Fighting
green=Bug
grey=Ground
blue=Water
purple=Dragon
Couldn't think of anything for BuraKaWani
My reasoning!
Ankh's medals were birds
Kazari picked fights with the other Greeed iirc
Uva's a bug
Other than the gorilla, rhinos and elephants in Pokemon are Ground
Mezool's aquatic
Dinos are extinct, and dragons are mythical, so eh

But this is a different OOO I'm talking about.

ex.
Fire Combo:
- Head: Charizard
- Body: Camerupt
- Legs: Infernape

http://orig02.deviantart.net/9c75/f/...59-d8ea6lz.png
http://omega-king-dx.deviantart.com/...mbos-507719159

So, just any mon we can imagine?

Based on their element.

Actually English is my native language but I do have a difficult of finding a right word

I'm assuming you mean human actor vs. monster suit. I think having an actual person as the villain is far more effective because they have a greater ability to act and emote than a guy in a rubber suit with a static face. It's easier to identify with another person, which in turn makes the villains easier to understand or emphasize with. It also makes it much more effective when a normal-looking person does something truly horrifying.

I generally think most of Kamen Rider's most memorable villains tend to be human or at least have a human form: Doctor Shinigami, Apollo Geist, Shiro Kanzaki, Dr. Maki, Heart, etc.

:D

So I've been wondering lately...is all the posing in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure inspired by Kamen Rider? Or is posing a fairly common thing in Japanese media? I know the Great Saiyaman in DBZ is a homage/parody of Henshin Heroes, and Ginyu force targets Sentai. What else owes something to Kamen Rider's poses?

I think a lot of basic tokusatsu / shounen / superhero elements like poses, announcing special moves, and implementing forms or transforming to use different skills all basically come from wuxia books and movies from the 1950s and 1960s. Kamen Rider definitely took it a specific extreme, though, and made it its own.

Unrelated question: do I need to watch Kuuga before Agito? I'm still sampling the different Heisei Riders. I know that the two shows are connected somehow but I'm a little hesitant to watch a direct sequel without checking out its predecessor.

No, it's only a really minor reference. It's not a sequel series.

To me Kuuga to Agito is like Frankenstein Conquers the World is to The War of the Gargantuas. There are some references to it, otherwise you don't need to watch Kuuga to watch Agito.

As far as I know JoJo posing has nothing to do with Tokusatsu, the creator of JoJo loves fashion magazines and copies the poses he likes, or is inspired to make new ones based on them.

But Toku references in manga and anime are a common thing, yes.

It's not a direct sequel; Kuuga is mentioned (not even by name) as the reason Japan prepares to fight monsters in Agito, that's literally it. You could even argue that Agito is not even a sequel at all, since said reference is the only one and no character form Kuuga reappears in Agito.

So you don’t need to watch Kuuga before Agito if you don't want to, but if you want to check out both you might as well start with Kuuga, just to see how the franchise evolved.

Why does every Kamen Rider with a supernatural motif like Kiva & Ghost fail? AND Wizard!?

I personally like all three. It’s all subjective to taste, really. :)

Also, Agito heavily deals with the supernatural, and it doesn't suck at it IMO.

Yeah. It really just depends on who's writing it.

Probably one of the few shows Inoue does not get hated on I guess.

Which series would you say has the best first episode?

I've always found most Kamen Rider shows take two episodes to really establish themselves, so this is really easy to narrow down for me.

Wizard's first episode is a great done-in-one, Gaim's was really solid, and Drive's is an awesome superhero origin story in 22 minutes.

Other than that I don't know what'd even be close. There's memorable moments in plenty of premieres but it tends to immediately get overshadowed by something cool in the next one. Just for example, in Kuuga you've got that whole fight with the helicopter and that's cool and all, but episode 2 is where Yuusuke really decides to be Kuuga, and that fight in the burning church is one of the most memorable scenes in Kamen Rider.

All my opinion, of course.

Black, hands down.

I just started up college again and will likely be joining the anime club. If it's anything like the last anime club I was in, we'll be watching a bunch of first episodes. I was thinking about suggesting an episode of Kamen Rider, but I need help deciding.

I mean, that's not the only reason I'm asking this question - it's something I've wondered for a while - but it was what really motivated me to actually go out and post it.

Well if that's the case it probably comes down to what the crowd's tastes are like. I think the only first episodes that you'd particularly want to stay away from are, maybe Agito because it's all setup, Blade because lol early Blade, and W because it's not that great (the episode I mean, not the show).

Also, is the intent that whatever you guys like you keep watching? Because something like Wizard might end up boring people in the long run. I hate to be Mr. Obvious but why not Gaim? It's got the Urobuchi-hype for anime fans and it puts the "drug" in gateway-drug. Once you hook someone on that show, they're hooked until the very end.

Well, last time I made people watch Evangelion, Dragon Ball (not Z), and Patlabor. Some liked it, some hated it. I didn't care. But the idea here is to find an episode that catches people's interest, so a show with a really solid first episode is probably a good choice. If it fits their individual tastes, then cool. If it's not their thing, oh well

Yeah, the idea is to introduce people to anime, who then go off on their own and continue watching the ones they like. So Wizard may not be the best idea. Gaim is probably the best choice here.

I liked Ghost's first episode. It did a good job setting the scene and getting you ready to see what came next. At least, I thought it did.

I did a live action day at my Anime & Manga club at my community college two years ago in 2014 and it turn out pretty well. I did mostly modern stuff like Kamen Rider W, Ultraman Ginga, Kyoryuger, Cellphone Investigator Seven and Garo. I also did live action TV show adaptions of Anime and Manga like Sailor Moon, Detective Conan and Ouran High School Host Club. It was better than the first time we did live action day in 2013.

It depends on your club. I remember the first time we did live action day at my Anime & Manga club in 2013, we played the original Ultrman, Kamen Rider X, Giant Robo and Japanese Spider-Man. People end up laughing and didn't take it seriously.

That's funny, I'm like the biggest Ghost apologist on this forum and I thought it had a pretty rough premiere, though it wasn't bad by any means.

You probably couldn't ask for a better crowd-pleaser than Gaim. It's got highly serialized storytelling and other stuff like that people tend to like. With something like Drive I think the viewer has to already be into it early on but Gaim actively works to pull you in with all its mysteries and whatnot.

And also it's new. Which helps. Even the first few Hesei shows are probably a bit "dated" for a lot of people, at this point. I still think it's so sad people see Japanese Spider-Man as just another wacky Japanese thing to point at and laugh, considering how influential and successful that show actually was.

>2 years ago
>2012

Um....

Well, your problem is that you showed a bunch of old, dated, and cheesy stuff.

Well, Ghost was the first Heisei series I started. I've seen more since then, but when I originally watched it I had nothing to compare it to aside from the original. Episode 2, however, was the one that sucked me in.

Yeah, I'm thinking Gaim would be a good choice. Now I just gotta make sure I actually can show it.

He never said he was a math major. :p

Damn it, I fixed it now. I think the modern stuff would be good. When I show Kamen Rider W, it turn out pretty well and people like it a lot.

Den-O. The first time I heard that Ore Sanjou BGM I went nuts.

If you were actor from Super Sentai/Kamen Rider Show and once the show is finished, Will you criticized the show?

Just like for example

If I was cast in Kyoryuger and once the show is done, I will say this.

"I'm disappointed in Riku Sanjo because I like his work from Kamen Rider W, I felt he really didn't give other Kyoryugers a chance to showcase themselves because most of Kyoryuger episodes he wrote was very Red-Centric Episodes. I know Red Ranger is supposed to be Main Hero but give others a chance! He make Daigo the Mary Sue Character! His only flaw was rubbish! He is too perfect! I think the whole sudden romance between Daigo and Amy was very unnecessary. No buildup and no hinting at all. I think Riku Sanjo is better off of writing Kamen Rider than Super Sentai"