Kamen Rider Gaim Celebration Thread - 9 Days of Fruit Rider Celebration
 

http://news.tokunation.com/2014/09/2...ebration-21027

Join us in celebrating everything Kamen Rider Gaim over the course of the next 9 days! We plan to give this show a send-off as we believe the show helped elevate Kamen Rider back in to the minds of casual fans and to new fans alike.

Some people hate it, some people love it (I personally adore the heck out of it), but everyone watches it.

Over the next 9 days we will examine every single Beat Rider, Armored Rider, Energy Rider from the series. Join us.

Near the end, we have two SH Figuarts to give away that are Kamen Rider Gaim characters. Make sure to follow us on Twitter because that will be the requirement - to follow us on Twitter and to RT the contest tweet.

@TokuNation on Twitter.

Been one heck of a year. Thanks Gaim! Watch each day on the front page for a new celebration! It may not even be related to just one post ... we could celebrate a character multiple times a day!

Day One - Movie Riders - http://news.tokunation.com/2014/09/2...e-riders-21070
Day Two - The Nut Bros. - http://news.tokunation.com/2014/09/2...nut-bros-21120
Day Three - Kamen Rider Duke - http://news.tokunation.com/2014/09/2...der-duke-21169
Day Four - Kamen Rider Sigurd & Marika - http://news.tokunation.com/2014/09/2...d-marika-21202
Day Five - Kamen Rider Bravo - http://news.tokunation.com/2014/09/3...er-bravo-21225
Day Six - Kamen Rider Zangetsu & Kamen Rider Zangetsu Shin - http://news.tokunation.com/2014/10/0...tsu-shin-21269

Woop woop! All aboard the Henshin Train to Helheim!

With the release of Ranbu Escalation, I'm so doing a cover of it >_<

All aboard the Juicy Express!

In the end, all fruit are born to expire :cry

That's deep, bro.

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Potientally win a figuart by talking about Gaim, I'm down.

I need more figuarts for Blade to run over. :lol

Somebody needs to send G3-X or Accel over to arrest Blade for multiple hit and runs :lol

Gaim really did escalate to the zenith. Farewell, armored riders. Your legacy will live on.

Man where has the GAIM gone

I see what you did there.

Yeah, I rewatched the gaim and baron war this morning and the song has been on my brain ever since

I remember the Magically Delicious Prize Pack, I got the Budoh Lockseed set. And thus, from plucking that fruit, I began to collect more (upon getting a Driver, at least).

Blade: "Come on! Abyss deserved it! He was an Undead! Delta on the other hand, was a witness and I don't leave any witnesses."

That's how I imagine blade would plead his case. :lol

Tokunation says - We hope you’ve enjoyed Kamen Rider Gaim as much as we have. So let’s give it one heck of a send-off by celebrating everything about the show – the good, the bad, and the simply confusing stuff! HENSHIN!!!!!

KRM says - The simply confusing pretty much just means Kaito to me. Was he Bi-polar or something? they have medicine for that , ya know?

Pent-up angst that he manifested into a powerlust and need to have control through said powerlust.

I love Zenith's theme, but I can't seem to get it to stick in my head :lol.

Are your bodies ready for an SHF Nut Bro?!

Gridon Gallery goes live in 2 days!

Weird I can't get it out of my head

Gaim has been a great series, in fact it was the one that finally got me into Kamen Rider. I'd been aware of Kamen Rider for several years but never had much interest, but the fruit armor finally brought me in! I saw pictures of Arms Change everywhere and was completely baffled by armored men dropping giant fruit on their heads that unfold into armor. I bought AC Ryugen out of curiosity and thought it was really fun, and next thing I knew I was buying more of them, watching the show, and catching up on previous Kamen Rider seasons I thought looked interesting, and I've been hooked since!

Basically, all of that is to say, thanks to Gaim for introducing me to the awesome world of Kamen Rider!

Gaim's the first one I've seen live as it happened, so it'll always be special to me in that regard. I kinda felt connected and involved me with the characters then I have when I watch past series. I guess it's because with those I'm watching the episodes marathon style, so I can immediately learn what happens next. With Gaim I've had to wait week after week to find out what happens after the last episode ends, and it builds your eagerness and connection to the characters IMO.

Point is simply Gaim is special in that it's my first series I watch as it airs and has made me care for the character quite a bit.

Damn it, I have to go to Twitter to take part? Argh... Fine.

Much like Winston and ShyGuy, Gaim was actually my "first" Rider series. Funnily enough it found me right at a point in time where I was much like Kouta early on- more or less just drifting between being a kid and being an adult. I think watching his journey has helped me steel my own resolve in a huge way.

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Who's Ready To Party?!

I learned about Kamen Rider through the grapevine. I watched Masked Rider in the 90s intently, but I was none the wiser.

I happened upon Wizard towards the end of its run, when Gaim was announced. Suddenly, Gaim was my gateway drug to Kamen Rider.

Suddenly, FRUIT WARRIORS GALORE. LOCKSEED ADDICTION. FRUIT-ARMORED PIRATE ASSASSINS. (Thanks, DenO)

I can't get enough of Gaim. It will always have a special place in my heart, mostly because Kachidoki is a BAMF.

...is there a story behind that?

There are pictures. I'll have to post them somewhere. Since it's technically Kamen Rider, maybe I can post them in that picture thread.

Intriguing...

Like a few others here Gaim for me was my first rider series that I watched weekly, and again like others I thought the whole fruit motif was a bit lamed eventually over time with more and more promo the Orange Samurai grew on me, and then came the 1st episode and I was really just blown away of how it settled in as the first episode. Gaim is also the first rider series where I bought their belt from as well as buying the Gaim Figuart right when he was released. So yup thank you Gaim you were awesome and I hope however you come back for future crossovers they do you justice"hopefully".

I'm actually kinda curious as to how they'll portray him in crossovers, giving the circumstances at the end of the show.

Hope they explain things fairly decently in the last episode or the Gaim X Drive crossover.

I'd believe that if it didn't have a completely different writer.

That's a pretty good point... I really don't expect anything to be said, much like Blade being a monster is ignored and Shinji is still able to become Ryuki. Which will be quite a bit of a shame.

I am going to miss this show. It started out as a goofy show about kids street dancing wearing armor made out of fruit from another dimension, and turned into a big ball of depression and epic story. In my opinion, Best Heisei Rider series by far.

Urobutchi may not have written the episode but he is listed as the supervising writer for it. He had plenty of creative input on this episode. The show isn't just over an episode earlier because he didn't write this one. Most shows have multiple writers anyway. This one just had 1 guy who did 46 of the 47 episodes given. Riku Sanjou wrote like 35 or so of the 48 Kyoryuger episodes and the stuff he didn't do isn't invalidated. Frankly the only thing writer shifts do is change the quality, but they don't make parts of the show invalid. It's simply that in this case the shift is more apparent as there was primarily only 1 writer for the series.

I felt sad for reading this synopsis, because I found Gaim's theme to be completely ridiculous. Fruit? I just can't get past it.

Seems to be that way with me though. Either a Sentai or Rider has a great story and crappy costumes/themes or a crappy story and really great costumes/themes (mecha).

The only Sentai series I can appreciate both with has been Boukenger. Even Decade's magenta is terrible, but I can over look it.

I really want to like Gaim, it seems fun. Ugh.

I still can't believe people cannot get over the fruit thing. This is toku, where you have to have much more of a suspension of disbelief then western superheroes and normal television, so I don't get why someone who is a fan of teenagers in dinosaur suits with a giant dinosaur robot are turned off by fruit warriors with fruit slicing belts.

Nothing against you, Mnemonic, I was just using your post as an example. It's your opinion and that's fine but I can't understand that view.

It's been almost a year and you're still not used to the wonderful fruit? :eyebrow Are not insane enough to comprehend it like we do? :lol

And yeah, I'm also one of those who watched Gaim as it airs, which made me attached to a certain level to this series.

And the fruit armors, yeaaaaaah. I hate that it has to end, but everything must do so, in order to give way to new stuff.