[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Suzu

Nah, not really. Carranger is pretty unique and I thing we won't have a show like that anytime soon.

Sorry, I really don't agree. I see Ninnin especially aspiring to capture the same sense of humor and energy as Carranger. Lynxara has pointed out a few times that Kento Shimoyama is a protege of Yoshio Urasawa's. The similarities in approach and sensibility are, IMO, very clear. The Ninnin episode where they all turn into toys plays to me as a watered down Carranger story.

And the first few episodes of ToQ were going after the same self-referential humor and 4th-wall-breaking as Car. Early in it's broadcast, I remember a lot of people on the boards and Twitter talking about how ToQ was the second coming of Carranger, and now that I've seen enough Carranger to have an opinion, I can definitely see what they were talking about. Obviously that show evolved into something pretty different, but they started out from similar places, as far as its lighthearted tone and comedic approach goes.

I think that Carranger does this type of over-the-top, self-referential humor way better... but I definitely think Toei has been trying to make the Carranger format work for them for the last two years.