[Steel A Jeeg]

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Originally Posted by ljacone

Here is my plush Kamen Rider. I won this off of eBay from a Japanese seller back in like 1999 or so. It was a prize from a UFO Claw Grabber game. I am always on the lookout for other plush Riders and/or Ultramen in this style but most of the plushies I see don't have this style to them.

That is so cool! I wish I had one now. The closest I ever found was an Ultraman plush I picked up when I was living in California, a looong time ago. ;3;

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Wow, this latest episode was fantastic. Thanks again for subbing it, Jeeg and crew. It was a refreshing change of pace to see Hayato's Bitches actually being competent for a change, even if it was most likely because this was filmed well before it aired and they hadn't become the total airheads they usually are (or at least relatively non-airheaded in Mari's case). Pity this will be the last time we see Hiromi. Not so much the same for Michi.

Fun bit of trivia for this episode: these last two episodes were later redone as an episode of V3 during the Archbishop Wing arc, as were three other classic episodes from the original series. Reruns weren't really common back in the early 70s so in order to show some of the really classic episodes of the original series again they were just remade for V3. Not to slight V3 and its general awesomeness, but of the ones I've seen both versions of, I prefer the originals (it doesn't help that Archbishop Wing is probably the most boring general in the entire Showa era).

Hiromi was always just kind of... there. I'll always miss Ruriko. Michi... ugh, Michi. I'm not trying to be mysoginistic, so please don't take this the wrong way... but if her whole purpose was to be "useless eyecandy," well....

ANYWAY... that's really funny about the V3 episode, especially because MushrooMorgue's actor (at least, his human form) plays Archbishop Wing in V3.

Interestingly, this is also why so many plot tropes and twists got reused over the years in Kamen Rider (and many other shows, not just limited to Japan either). There was no home video, and reruns were generally avoided (they were seen as being unprofitable, which is funny because reruns makes up MOST of US television today) So shows would often reuse plotlines, footage, sometimes entire episodes, and fans were either generally unaware, or they appreciated seeing something they enjoyed the first time.

There was a great article on this on the (now defunct) Henshin Heroes site back in the day.