[Librarian]

The Gaim transforming ride watch makes me think we might see Watermelon arms for the Time Majin/Mazin.

Didn't get around to watching episode 9 until today, and the foreshadowing of the Hawk ride watch with these scans and the preview, along with their showing the Gaim green transforming one here but not what it does makes me think that might be a later surprise upgrade for the Time Majin/Mazin.

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Originally Posted by IndigoArms

I think you're giving Shimoyama way too much credit here. This is from the same guy who wrote Ninninger by the seat of his pants IIRC.

All shows are written by the seat of anyone's pants. But the producers are keeping him on point. He does fantastic work when he's passionate about it, and the design producers stay on board. Nin had other issues that aren't his fault, and he made best do with what he had.

One of the design producers kinda jumped ship on that one very early on(but kept signing off on the checks), and really only phoned in the concepts to begin with, including quick bench marks and cameos to toss in. How the crew and other producers made it work with what they had is really fantastic considering. A lot of shows have kinda had that though too tbh. Gaim was even more free reign and it came out fantastic. So nin was kinda in that middle place of too many stipulations, not enough freedom, and not enough of a worked out plan. But for what they had to work with, they did really well.

Every so often there's one of those "F U BoA/Saban" seasons to blow off steam. Nin was one of those. Toq, and Zyohger are too. Which is ironic in other ways considering BoJ & Toei are who signs off on different things and pushes it forward. Nin in particular was built on attempting to simplify some concepts for kids as well. And all around was more quirky design emphasis with entire chunks that had to be cut from the final product. BoA and Saban had already lost influence at that point because of how the market share in their markets were dropping. Ninja Steel was their last hurrah so to speak, and so they tried to throw in some big things for fans like the oversized Lion fortress and a few other things.

Like at one time there was supposed to be more Kaku stuff interwoven in too. When you end up with a cowboy ninja that has a hamburger morpher and a mecha type that's a throne within a throne, you can kind of immediately tell this is a steam blowing off season that's not meant to be taken seriously. So nin's problems I don't blame on the writer at all. He did the best he could with what he could. In many ways, Ninja Steel suffers from this too. It had basis to grow to become bigger nods, but the dwindling market share and other issues held it back a bit more because the passion wasn't there, though the creative teams still gave it their all. They are supposed to be more outlandish campy throwbacks and not to be taken seriously at all.

*Shrug* So I blame that prelim concept design producer more than anything, but then again, that same design producer has given us a lot of good stuff too over the years. So whatever. I mean this is the same area that's given us stuff like Blade, Hibiki, Kabuto, Den-O, Kiva, OOOs, Gaim, Gekiranger, Bouken, Magi, Lupin, Akiba, Amazons, First, Next, Build, go-on, Go-buster, Kyu, and way too many more to list across the board. Since roughly Hurricane/Aba or so. So a few "oopsies" are kind of whatever. The upcoming Dragon Sentai is from the same area again(and some of what's coming after), and the next riders should be too unless they get bumped back again.

You'd probably be surprised how many things you praise across different industries and also curse across different industries all track back to the same source. So I tend to feel it's really unfair to pin the blame squarely on Shimoyama's shoulders. Borderline mean really too when it was out of his hands and not his fault.