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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I'm watching Kiva right now, where one of the main characters was Zanki in Hibiki a few years earlier, and his rival would play Grease in Build a few years later.

Nothing you're talking about sounds surprising to me at all.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It's true! But those were just the easy examples at hand. I also could've mentioned that Kiriya from the second half of Hibiki would show up less than two years later as the secondary Rider in Den-O, but I know how people hate to be reminded of the second half of Hibiki. I was trying to be civic-minded!

My point, though, is that toku actors are constantly recurring (there's a callout on the Yodonna trailer post that's both a prime example, and also woefully incomplete for some of those actors), and that makes it funny to see someone on a toku board highlighting the weirdness of a non-American production using a small pool of actors for works within the same genre. It is weird, being a regular in Cartel Stories! But it also sounds weirdly familiar.

Well, yes, but you have to understand, there's a difference between toku actors reappearing in other shows later (or earlier) down the line, and this, because these are the same handful of people more or less just playing football with the same handful of roles. I'm not trying to complain, I'm just... it takes a lot of adjusting because you recognize That One Guy as being Dude 1, and That Other Guy as being Dude 2, and now That One Guy is Dude 2 and That Other Guy being Dude 1, and then you start another series and there they are again but now someone else entirely are Dude 1 and Dude 2 and That Other Guy and That One Guy are now entirely different characters and probably now shooting at their old roles. It just causes your brain to scream trying to reconcile it for a time.