[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Sentai can be like that, but Ultra shows usually still have opponents of roughly equal size. Of the major toku franchises, Ultraman is usually the one where the fights more closely resemble wrestling - it’s hard to pull off a lot of martial arts moves when you’re wearing a bulky two-headed monster suit.

Good to know about the Ultra franchise! I'll have to check those out someday.

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Originally Posted by GrandComplete

I actually don't mind Rider shows doing stuff like that. Maybe It just the fact that I like innovatian even if it look really crappy. And to me Tokusatsu is and always will be about the suits at the end of the day so I'm fine with them indulging themselves with more visual effect heavy fights. It more of what I can see we get out of it. For example Hibiki running around doging a gaint monster can help future shows with composite shots and help give Sentai some good prespective shots for thier giant monsters. Or Saber giving us the most bike action we've had in years for the tv shows thanks to it's green screen and uses of the Unity engine.

I mean, that's fine, I get that these shows are all building off of each other, but I'd rather not intellectually appreciate the theoretical things this show paved the way for, when I could be viscerally enjoying high-quality fight scenes. Like, an article about the ways Hibiki led to great CG is interesting to read, but two minutes of Hibiki pushing a giant appendage is not that fun for me to watch.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

I think that I’ll bring up that the idea of the Riders meeting at a cafe in the first place came from the writer’s son. Which is ironic, if you know who that son is. And I remember that Die at least knows that.

Fantastic. It wouldn't surprise me if that's why Inoue avoids using restaurants. It's something he was into as a kid, you know? Restaurants are played out, Dad.