[AkibaSilver]

It's useful, but having it hosted on a google drive is much less useful than somewhere easily publicly accessible (But that's more a sign of the increasingly walled off nature of the internet these days, at least it's not a channel on a Discord)

In other news, the reason I was looking up airdates at all

SUPER HERO TAISEN





I definitely saw this, back when it first came out, back when I was a total baby to Rider. Did I remember any of it? Eh, somewhat. Tsukasa and Marvellous's cracked plan to beat the evil teams, who have magically revived because fuck you, and Kaitou lashing out because his boyfriend Tsukasa forgot to fill him on the details.

Honstly, a decade-plus on from seeing the spectacle of "Wow! Kamen Rider and Super Sentai in one movie", I'm not sure how well it holds up. There are films that make better use of their returning characters than this, films that have more to say about the legacy of the shows, films that don't have the most contrived reason under the sun for Sentai and Rider to fight. Not helping is how I've never been the hugest Gokaiger fan, and this is way more a Gokaiger + Decade film than Fourze or GoBusters. Which makes sense, they aren't filming a weekly show so they've got time to be the summer movie stars, but there's also that distance to the 2024 me that it's struggling to overcome. I'm a little more lenient to the Decade bit, I've watched it maybe a couple years back, but while Tsukasa is far more believable running a villainous team, that doesn't mean it's not still silly.

(I honestly don't understand why Marvellous was in 1976 as Akaranger to get picked up by the Den Liner if he was just going to unite to fight Decade-as-Ichigou anyway. Was he afraid the other Sentai wouldn't team up with him as Gokai Red because they'd know they were going to figh the Riders? Cause they did that anyway? I don't like to nitpick, but it doesn't feel like it goes anywhere thematically or characterwise either, it's just there for the big "Oh no! It's Marvellous!" It's a whole subplot that, not only do I not get it, I don't even get what they were aiming for.)

On the plus side, the Imagin are here. When are they not?