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10-13-2024, 04:49 PM | #1241 |
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The second Zebraman really went too far. Considering the differences between the parts and the time travel motif, it seems to me that Miike and Kudo were taking cues from Evil Dead and this was their Army of Darkness. But in the process, it all became, "Let's put every crazy thing they'll let us on screen!"
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10-14-2024, 01:39 PM | #1242 |
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...Been hitting the tokusatsu kinda hard this weekend. No, don't stage an intervention! I'm having fun!
I gave Zeiram a watch. Pure Keita Amemiya goodness right there. I feel like Amemiya's nightmarish alien imagery combined with a cool female bounty hunter and the two lamest electricians in the world all came together to create something quite magical. Freaky, funny, and hands down just COOL.
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10-14-2024, 01:59 PM | #1243 |
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Zeiram is cool in all sences! I especially remember the umbrella flight from the second part.
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10-26-2024, 04:15 PM | #1244 |
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I watched at Armor Hero XT and was very pleasantly surprised. I liked the first show in this franchise, but I privately called it an amateur tokusatsu with a professional budget. But XT is a qualitative improvement in all parameters by several levels. Especially the plot. I know that there are those who dream of a show similar to Faiz and I can confidently say that this is the most similar to 555 tokusatsu that I have seen. There is even a street haircut here. Personally, I liked the XT even more than Faiz because of its greater dynamism. True, this dynamism also entailed a lot of problems. Characters radically change their opinions several times, heroes are forced to act like idiots in order for the show to continue, and the battles become too monotonous over time. So, as a result, the show turned out to be overly long, which spoiled my impression from admiration to grudging approval.
By the way, if XT was inspired by Faiz, then at least Gaim’s designers were inspired by him. Because three types of kaijins associated with colors and motifs with the main characters, in my opinion, are too many for mere coincidence. Yes, and time travel without the right to change coincides. Even the silhouettes of these Armor Heroes are slightly similar to armored riders (another coincidence). I also want to note that what I appreciate in principle in the entire Armor Hero franchise is the lack of gimmicks to keep the viewer engaged. There are no cliffhangers or mini-finals, the plot is simply cut into episodes of equal duration. The main characters may be absent for a long time, and the center of attention may be completely insignificant, at first glance, characters. They just show us the story without flirting, and such directness is captivating. Now about what I didn't like: - Armor Hero dubbing is the best argument in favor of subtitles. Here it is even worse than in the first show, because some phrases are left untranslated. - We were initially told that monsters of different types have different abilities, but later they, regardless of theirs, demonstrated all three types of abilities. I realized that having received armor, they became stronger, but this was somehow too much; - transformation devices are disguised as a camera, mp3 player and joystick. At the same time, the camera allows you to recognize kaijin in human form, but the scriptwriters did not come up with two other useful functions. Probably to compensate for this, their owners communicate using musical and gaming metaphors, respectively; - the gloomy and unsociable character of Li You'er/ Yozhi is caused by the Kula living in her. But after being freed from obsession, she remains the same. It is logical to assume that this is her real character, because the girl was born with a kaijin inside and has never been different. But why then are we shown her more joyful and active for an episode, and then return to the previous version again? But these are all minor quibbles, otherwise I really like this franchise and don’t want to say goodbye to it due to the lack of translation. I saw that there are about 20 translated episodes of Lava on Dailymotion, but approaching an unfinished show is somehow intimidating. So I hope that someday Armor Hero will still receive a translation not only for Indonesia. |
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I watched Mobile Cop Jiban. This is yet another Metal Hero show that is mildly enjoyable, but not much to write home about. A few things stuck out about it to me though. First of all, the show doesn't really explain its premise for quite a while, leaving the viewer wondering why the heck this Naoto guy is some kind of android cop working with a little girl. In addition, these early episodes tend to be very silly, while later episodes have a better balance of weird old toku moments combined with seriousness. The show also does not feel like something from 1989-1990, it feels more like an early 80s or late 70s tokusatsu to me. I think the biggest plus for this show is that the main cop trio are all surprisingly charismatic, and I liked watching all of them. In the end, I think I had a bit more fun with the unmitigated trippiness of Sharivan though.
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Yesterday, 04:32 PM | #1246 |
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Just out of curiosity, are you considering doing a Tier List for the Metal Heroes franchise like the ones you're doing/done for the Toku Big 3? Speaking of Metal Heroes, I am finally back to watching B-Fighter Kabuto and I am now officially at the show's halfway point. It really has been quite a while.
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Ah, yes. The show where Seiji Takaiwa was an archeologist from Peru named Julio, Geki Chopper's real life brother was Kuwaga, and Reuben Langdon was the cool kid from America who transformed into a dragonfly superhero with a crossbow. Fun fact, Reuben's Japanese dialogue was voiced by Koichi Tochika who most of us know as En/Dag Fire from Dagwon and Daigoyou from Shinkenger. Tochika was also Dangoron in B-Robo Kabutack it seems.
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