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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Well, not children, but boys. And even there there are some specifics. As I heard from one blogger: "As a child, I always played with soldiers, not cars, because I wanted to be a general, not a taxi driver." Add to this such factors as poverty or the fact that there are many more victims of car accidents than from bears and sharks. Plus, the cultural subtext. So by making the car the main theme you still risk alienating part of the audience. Returning to the riders, even on this site DreamSword considers Drive a fake Kamen Rider.

Just because you heard it from one blogger, doesn't mean anything. Don't try and "one guy" me here. And you're just adding in things that kids wouldn't care about unless they're like, constantly bombarded by news or something.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

In that case, I think we should give a pass to OOO and Gotchard as well, since their hawks, tigers and steam trains with dinosaur and dragon Final Forms distinguish them from pure grasshoppers. Zero One is pretty much the only pure grasshopper since J, so depends on what else Zeztz might bring.

With OOO, fine, you got me there. But Gotchard, as much as I love him, has a more obvious grasshopper theme in comparison. Like, you really wouldn't be able to tell he has a stream train theme too when the train part is relegated to a small smokestack on his chest armor, and some circles on his leg armor. They don't even have like, trainwheel spokes, they're just circles.

And honestly, with Gotchard I was more concerned that his final form would've just been another boring upgrade of the base form. So I'm glad we got Rainbow Gotchard, way more interesting. And hot take, Iron Gotchard is way cooler than Platina Gotchard).

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Inoue's shows like Faiz have such a reputation for drama that people may forget they're also full of great ridiculous comedy.

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Originally Posted by DaikaijuSokogeki01

You would think after Donbrothers, everyone would remember that Inoue is secretly one of the funniest writers Toei has ever had on these shows. I still think about the tennis gag from 555 from time to time.

Yea, he's great if you find him funny. I usually don't. There are some episodes of his that I do like, but generally I do not like him as a head writer. And part of my frustrations tend to be more related to how he gets interesting worldbuilding material, but then does nothing with it.

Like, "Oh cool, there's 13 Demon Races in Kiva? That sounds interesting, I wonder- Oh, 5 of them are extinct, and 3 of them only have 1 survivor. Alright.", or "Oh, they have a unique version of Zenkaisesr? I wonder what his deal is- Oh they never address this, not even in the crossover movie".

Ironic that I like Akiko Inoue's writing more, even if she shares some of her father's favorite tropes. I just find her writing to be more bearable because she actually balance the comedy out with interesting worldbuilding.