That's actually brilliant lol, what on earth.

'Brave' is also an English word used by fantasy games/anime for 'yuusha', which means 'hero' or 'warrior', and is typicaly applied to knights/heroes in shining/magic armor. Coincidence? I think not!

Despite liberties being taken in terms of color schemes and design specifics, the Meteokaiju from Ultraman Omega are loosely based on the Four Symbols, didn't click for me until Valgeness appeared and Gamedon was announced. For those not familiar, the Four Symbols are the four mythical beasts also used as the inspiration for works such as, most notably, the OG 1st gen Beyblade (the Bit Beasts of the OG Gen 1 Beyblade protagonists). In toku, right off the bat, Rio's four Genjyuken lieutenants from Gekiranger, the Seishinjyu from Justiriser, and some of the Invess from Kamen Rider Gaim come to mind.

Rekiness = Azure Dragon
Trigaron = White Tiger
Valgeness = Vermilion Bird
Gamedon = Black Tortoise

So I just remembered Yuuki Furukawa who plays Nox in Zeztz is THE Yuuki Furukawa who can speak English fluently and was the co-star of Honoka Miki (Mezool's human form in OOO) in Itazura na Kiss 2013 (that one romance manga adapted to live-action like crazy in many countries alongside Hana yori Dango and Hana Kimi).

Why is it that I fear he's gonna tag along with other toku alumni in English-speaking conventions and he's gonna double as a guest and a translator. *Googles next Power-Morphicon schedule* Uh oh. :lolol

More of a reminder to myself, but just remembered how it's crazy Battle Fever J has two prolific individuals within the genre at its core roster through Daisuke Ban and Kenji Ohba, respectively. That's Kikaider and Gavan right there.

I just found this out today, but the Kasshine from Zi-O are actually based on cuckoo clocks! The head is a bird, the face is the beak, and the chest vent things (which I always found weird) are the claws.

It's smart how they continue Zi-O's clock theme with these guys and, yeah, I appreciate them a lot more with this revelation, even if they're serving as everyone's henchmen now with little regard to their original motif.

I think the concept worked better in the concept art though.

https://i.imgur.com/uMcaG89.jpeg