[Fish Sandwich]

It just occurred to me that I still forgot to mention one tiny little detail in these episodes that I loved, which is how they deliberately set up the numbers of the Grongi so that Decade ends up being Unidentified Lifeform #10, which is a super obvious bit to do, but that's exactly why I'm glad they didn't pass up that opportunity.

Also, while Tsukasa and Newsuke might be worlds apart in terms of their personalities, their actors Masahiro Inoue and Ryouta Murai have common ground in that they're both certified Rider nerds. I even dug up some random interview with Murai where he says he watched Kuuga through to prepare for his role and ended up plowing through the whole show in 3 days because he found it that interesting, which I naturally have to respect.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I honestly can't tell if you're really this humble, or if this is a gag, and I'm not sure which would make me madder.

There was a really good episode of Shinkenger about something exactly like this, and it kind of blew my mind when I watched it to the point where I still think about it a ton. This doesn't really have anything to do with the topic of the thread, by the way; I just like thinking about Shinkenger.

(And for the record, just that "New Game+" comment alone was at least as clever as anything I said about those episodes.)

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Originally Posted by TheRaizin

For me, Onodera was my Kuuga.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Anyway, as one of many who started with Decade, Onodera Yuusuke was also my first Kuuga and to this day the one who I most associate with that suit.

I'm super happy to see an Onodera fan club going in this thread, by the way? I always like to think that every character or show or whatever is somebody's favorite, so it genuinely warms my heart to see affection for a character I've always had the (mistaken?) impression was a little unpopular?

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I don't hold any resentment towards Yuusuke for not being exactly like Godai.

Oh! And here's a fun story! I know Die has poked fun at me in the past for always calling Yuusuke "Yuusuke" instead of Godai, and the reason I started doing that was actually specifically because I remember always seeing people differentiate the two Kuugas as above, which always felt backwards to me, because Yuusuke's name was Yuusuke well before Newsuke's was. It kind of became about more than that over time for me, though, and it was pretty vindicating to do all that Kuuga research and find out both Takatera and Arakawa call him Yuusuke too.