[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

I remember back in the days it was kind of a big deal when Asakura debuted. Not because we finally got a full-fledged maniacal kamen rider who is crazy, but the fact that an actor who played a playboy detective/goofball that can transform into a sparkly crystal-armored superhero in the obscure standalone Toei toku hero show Changerion came back to Toei studios at least 5~6 years later to play a full-fledged maniacal kamen rider who is crazy. Fun fact, one of his co-stars in Changerion is Atsushi Ogawa, aka the man who claims to be Tetsuya Sawaki in Agito, and Inoue wrote the script for Changerion.

Neat! It's fun, the way some folks filter in and out of toku shows. (I'm pretty sure Kanon from Ghost is the new Pink Ranger?) I can't imagine what it would be like to have a comedy actor suddenly go all in as a terrifying villain, though. I wonder if that would blunt its impact? That disconnect, of looking at his face and thinking Comedy while he's holding a little girl hostage... weird.

I feel like I'm going to get a version of that when I watch Blade, and the first few times I see Garren it'll be impossible to take him seriously. He's the conniving principal from Fourze, not some hero! (I don't know anything about Garren, so maybe he's also a conniving principal? If so, please ignore this paragraph.)