[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

I can't really remember that time since I was barely around here, it was before I became a regular so I don’t know how people reacted. I just know that I love Gaim and that I really liked the epilogue.

I think it goes back to this attitude Some (not all!) Gaim fans have that anything not directly written by Urobuchi must suck, even if it doesn't.

For the record, I also thought the glorified movie ad episodes were fun breaks too, and that was when I still loved Gaim as much as most people on this forum seemed to at the time.

But the epilogue goes beyond that in my opinion. It more than earns its place as a "real" episode and a dang good note to leave on. I do think it left Movie War Full Throttle without much to work with, but hey.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I actually think some of the early Rider shows were much more inventive than the modern ones. Due in part to special effects and budget limitations, it required a lot more creativity to get cool effects than we see nowadays with everything defaulting to CGI. The first block of the original series, before Fujioka's accident, had some especially interesting cinematography that's unrivaled by anything in the Heisei era outside of Hibiki.

Which is exactly why I have a hard time understanding that perspective. To me, Rider back then had tons of imagination to do the stuff it did, even when it was a little wonky.

X's original transformation sticks out to me in that respect. Sure the fancy new version in Kamen Rider War was really cool to see, but there's such a charm to how they cobbled the old one together in my eyes.

I really hope in the (hopefully not hypothetical) future where more of the Showa series are subbed, people start to come around to them more.

Of course, given that I see people say shows like Wizard or Fourze are too episodic, special effects may be the least of their problems.

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Originally Posted by GoldenXtreme

Why has no one told me about Starfish Hitler?! I need to know if anything else this amazing happens in other seasons asap.

He and Capone are from the aforementioned Kamen Rider X if you're wondering. Also, no, it pretty much never gets as awesome as Starfish Hitler.

EDIT: Whoops, didn't watch the video up above before I wrote this, seems I'm stating the obvious when the dude in the video has a big X on his chest.

Also, Hall of Fail? That's Hall of Win and you know it, random Youtube video!

That's two birds with one stone though, since it shows X transforming. For that matter, it shows that equally sweet Rider Kick. Remember when Riders did that more than twice a series?