Kamen Rider 555(faiz) pose
 

This is a bit of a silly thread, but I am seriously curious as why to why Faiz has his signature as pose is. Did they ever explained why he does this pose, or just some thing that's always been there? Is it just a after finisher move pose, or just... really Faiz pose and I'm just over thinking it :o

http://www.kamenriderkuuga.com/wp-co...der-Faiz-3.jpg

I find a lot of the older Rider touches really weird. Faiz also had this weird classic Rider thing of pointlessly flapping his hands when he transformed. They stopped doing that for Neo Heisei, so going back it's really weird to see Riders flapping, clapping and rubbing.

You think you can provide a picture example? I'm getting the sense I understand what you're saying, but at the same time feel totally lost.

You know how Shotaro had his little flick of the wrist? Takumi did the same thing. As for the crouch down pose, I have no idea. It looks stupid as all hell though.

Oh kk, gotcha the whole "Count up your sins" flicking his wrist deal. :lol

He looks exhausted more than anything,

It's actually his pre-Rider Kick pose. He's crouching because in order to do the kick he has to attach the Faiz Pointer to the mounting point on his right leg.

And that makes more sense of it than the entire show, which has one episode where Takumi doesn't understand the Gear and then every episode since he seems the most knowledgeable on the Gear, even over those who started the series teaching him how to use it.

Takumi is magic.

The manual must be somewhere inside the case.

http://sukaru1.at-ninja.jp/555box-5.jpg

It is. It usually is laying on top of the belt itself.

I guess he found time to read it, as he spent more of the season ironing than he did actually fighting or protecting people.

That first pose is his pre Rider kick pose.

He flicks his wrist when he transforms.

I do think Takaiwa does have an explaination for those little things.

Here are my guess
Crouch down pose:
- Setting the pointer
- Getting ready to run and jump
- Getting ready to feel the recoil generated by the photon stream rush.
It is said that the user of the gear will have to withstand the shock generated by the photon blood rush during transformation, and the shocks generated after using Crimson Smash is 3 ~ 4 times greater than the one during transformation.

Flapping hand:
- Try to wake up the body before going numb after all the shocks.

If only we actually got that from the actual show...

It's weird that a LOT more of Toku powers involve a direct impact on the user, and yet it's also a medium that really never truly explore those effects on the body compared to its American counterparts and their own spandex clad heroes, who seem much more interested in the ramifications of powers even if they aren't ever quite as outwards as toku are in how immediate these effects are.

Well they didn't really explain the problems with photon blood clearly in the show as well. Especially for Faiz Blaster, which is pretty much a suicidal upgrade.

every rider has a pose of their own. takumi just has the crouch pose. however, am i the only one that notices that his rider mannerisms don't match him at all?

it's like when he transforms, he's a totally different person

That's a big issue with all of Inoue's shows. Shouichi and Wataru went through the exact same thing.

I actually find that a problem with a LOT of toku shows. I find it quite bad that I don't need a pen and paper to write down the amount of characters where I actually believed it was them in the suit, as I can count that on my hands with fingers to spare.

Come'on
Writers doesn't determine how the actor should coordinate with the suit actor. It is the director's job.
For Wataru's case it was a completely different thing. As written in character/rider description at the official site his fangire blood takes over and turns him into an aggressive person when he was bitten by Kivat and transforms into Kiva.

Once again though, it's up to the writers and the show itself to convey stuff, not just add details in bios never brought up in the real product.

For that you can say 95% of the Japanese shows are having the same problem.
A very common thing they do in their industry.

That doesn't make it okay though.

It is not ok, but what else you can do?
They are not going to change, and you are going to complain again and again.
Why not just make life a bit easy by understanding their way of doing things, step back and make use of google to fill in the blanks rather than hoping for a miracle to happen.

No, I'm going to blame the writer. Agito, Faiz, and Kiva are the only three Rider shows where it really doesn't feel like the dude in the suit and the dude who puts the belt on aren't the same characters. I'm sure there's a reason if you look into the apocrypha for all of those shows, but I'd rather see something like Ryuki, Den-O, or Fourze where the suit actor really captures the spirit of the character the face actor plays.

Honestly, its both the (action) director(s)' and the writer's fault.