[ZeoRangerV]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

You're not missing anything unless you really liked the guy who played Drake on Kabuto.

The funny thing is I actually do love him he's my favourite in both Kabuto and Kanpai Senshi After V.

Still not enough to make me rush out and watch The Next though. I've heard the stories.

[KyoryuGreen]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

That said, The Next is still complete garbage and I doubt even KyoryuGreen will find many redeeming qualities in it (that's no offense to KG, you just seem to find something you absolutely love in damn near everything you watch).

No offense taken lol, I just love everything Kamen Rider and practically everything Tokusatsu.

Oh also I didn't know Toshiki Inoue did The First, yeah the other unpopular opinion I love all his work I've seen so far lol. So that's actually no surprise there.

Well I'm watching the Next today so I'll tell you how it goes.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by KyoryuGreen

Oh also I didn't know Toshiki Inoue did The First, yeah the other unpopular opinion I love all his work I've seen so far lol. So that's actually no surprise there.

Well I'm watching the Next today so I'll tell you how it goes.

Yeah, this was in the 2000s, when Inoue was Toei's go-to guy for any new Kamen Rider project, especially the movies - he wrote every non-Den-O Rider film that decade. It's pretty much the relationship they have with Shoji Yonemura now, except Inoue knew how to write more than one plot.

[EpsilonX]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Or if you really hated V3's origin story and wanted to see it redone as an early '00s J-horror.

That actually sounds pretty cool, to be honest.

Anyways, watched Kamen Rider 15 and 16 last night. I still can't get over the luchadore masks with cacti on them as goon apparel. Also, while I like the new Rider, I miss Hongo. Too bad what's available subbed doesn't cover his return.

My favorite part of 15 was when they received the cactus and said "what a great gift!" For some reason that struck me as funny.

[barnstenchfartface]

Stronger episode 18.

Intriguing. Tackle in this episode was way more dynamic than she normally is. Usually she does pretty stilted movements and relies on her electric wave toss or whatever (seemingly, as a result of the actress's asthma). I guess they got her a suit actor? She was doing some nicely choreographed moves here, much more involved than usual. Pretty nice.

Speaking of, General Shadow is good. He's real good. I like his focused mentality and tendency to shit all over Titan and his plans. It's real good. Definitely my favorite villain of the Showa era thus far.

[KyoryuGreen]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Yeah, this was in the 2000s, when Inoue was Toei's go-to guy for any new Kamen Rider project, especially the movies - he wrote every non-Den-O Rider film that decade. It's pretty much the relationship they have with Shoji Yonemura now, except Inoue knew how to write more than one plot.

Oh is that the guy who makes the Super Hero Taisen movies?

[KyoryuGreen]

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Originally Posted by barnstenchfartface

Stronger episode 18.

Intriguing. Tackle in this episode was way more dynamic than she normally is. Usually she does pretty stilted movements and relies on her electric wave toss or whatever (seemingly, as a result of the actress's asthma). I guess they got her a suit actor? She was doing some nicely choreographed moves here, much more involved than usual. Pretty nice.

Speaking of, General Shadow is good. He's real good. I like his focused mentality and tendency to shit all over Titan and his plans. It's real good. Definitely my favorite villain of the Showa era thus far.

General Shadow is the best.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by KyoryuGreen

Oh is that the guy who makes the Super Hero Taisen movies?

Yup.

[KyoryuGreen]

Kamen Rider The Next: Well I guess my opinions will continue to boggle the minds of people here as I actually enjoyed this movie. Granted it had it's flaws but they didn't bother me as much. It reminded me a lot of Kamen Rider merged with GARO. We had Green Knights instead of a Golden one lol. The beginning was a bit slow but it got better when Hongo came into it. I really enjoy this version of Hongo so I think that's the main reason I enjoyed this movie. Though I could have lived without the annoying students in his classroom though I'm glad he was able to shut them up later in the movie. Still Hongo's heroics and wanting to help his student that was having problems I enjoyed a lot. I think the horror sub plots were better in this than the random villain sub plot of the first just because this made everything tie in together story wise. This is a very different origin for V3, I know his pretty well and I definitely like the original one better but this was interesting and the one who played Kamen Rider Drake was really good as this version of Shiro. I think all the Riders' actors were fantastic as their versions of Ichigou, Nigou, and V3. The action was great and definitely the highlight of the movie, especially the final battle at the end with the three of them. I could have seen them do a mini-series afterwards to maybe flesh out the characters a little more though and seen what happened with Asuka from the first movie. Ichimonji's death was sad but at least he went out how he lived and didn't die against a random monster, he really was on borrowed time with how the process went for him. I liked Shiro's story and that he found something to fight for and how he turned against Shocker too, I wish they would have went more into why he was working for Shocker though. It would have been cool if they had some form of Riderman in this too. I think they got the core of the characters correct with Hongo fighting to protect people, Ichimonji fighting his heart out to help people, and Shiro fighting for his family. I also love Elseworlds/Parallel Earth stories so this is kind of like Earth-2 for Kamen Rider and I'm fine with it. Kind of sad they didn't continue with a Kamen Rider X one, I would have loved it and an updated King Dark and Apollo Geist would have been awesome too. Overall, I thought this was pretty good, I liked the First better and definitely not the worst Kamen Rider movie I've seen. That was a fun ride, I'll probably watch them again sometime.

[Matrixbeast]

I think you enjoyed it just to spite everybody

Anyway, I'm currently watching Beast Wars (For no reason), but I'mma start downloading Hibiki and watch that once I finish the Transformers show.
Any TV-N quirks or mistranslations I should be aware of?