[barnstenchfartface]

Well ignoring the Power Rangers I watched as a kid, I got into toku last year. Last summer...ish? I started getting into Japanese action figures around that time. (I'd gotten a D-Arts back in 2012, and that was cool, but it was about all I could afford at the time and it was plenty). I started getting figmas. Like, lots of figmas. Mostly I was in it for the cool toys, so I got a bunch from stuff I hadn't watched or had that much interest in. And one of the earliest figures I got was of Kamen Rider Spear, because I love that design.

However turns out once you have figures of something you kinda wanna know where it came from, so I started watching Ryuki a couple months after I got Spear. And I loved that, so of course, I didn't really watch anything else after that.

Until this past summer, anyway, when one of my friends got me a figuarts Abyss for my birthday, and then I started getting figuarts. Like, lots of figuarts. So I started getting more interested in Kamen Rider and in the last half year I've watched through, like, five other series and parts of four more. I'm getting interested in watching some Sentai and other stuff, but mainly I'm into Kamen Rider now.

So...yeah, toys, basically. I'm in it for the toys. By which I mean, the cool designs, more or less. Though at this point I guess I'm more into it for the franchise, the designs are still pretty important. And lack of toys for a given thing saddens me, because I got into this whole mess by getting cool toys, and so I'd like to get some more of more cool stuff. I think that's part of why I like to stick with Kamen Rider--most of the series is well covered in the figuarts line. On the other hand, with Sentai that's like a big old heap of disappointments. I watched RPM and the lack of good accessible toys for Go-Onger is already killing me.

Of course, that's not to says I watch for the pretty things and don't care for anything else. Cool designs will hook me, but the show itself is what keeps me.