[Deepsea]

Heya! I thought that maybe we could use a thread like this.

I took inspiration from the "Kamen Rider Die Watches" threads, and wanted to make a place for disorganized thoughts that might come to people while not watching a series. Basically any thing like discussion of themes, character love or hate, general feelings towards a complete series etc

Feel free to use this thread for all sorts of discussion.

If this is redundant I will delete it.

[Sevenlima]

This thread is to make some sort of comment ?

[Deepsea]

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Originally Posted by Sevenlima

This thread is to make some sort of comment ?

No? I just thought having a place to like have long ongoing chats on somewhat random thoughts, like in Kamen Rider Die's threads would be good.

[Kurona]

Very good thread idea, and it's something I find myself needing a lot... which is of course why when it's finally made, nothing specific comes to mind! I'm just so wonderful that way.

So in lieu of any specific thought to offer, how about I kick things off with a topic starter? I've said elsewhere that something I like about Kobayashi's writing is that her series are ones that I might not enjoy that much at the time and don't see what the big deal's about, but I end up appreciating to a much greater degree later. OOO and Den-O are big examples of this; I may still not be big on Ryuki but I think more positively of it now than I used to; and outside of Rider I'd also extend this to Shinkenger, Go-Busters and Toqger.

All of that to say: does this bode true about any series to anyone else? Not necessarily Kobayashi; her series are just the best examples for me personally. But did anyone here maybe not like, say, Blade or Fourze or anything else on the first time round; but later on came to love them a lot more?

[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

Heya! I thought that maybe we could use a thread like this.

Into it! Thanks for starting this thread!

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Originally Posted by Kurona

All of that to say: does this bode true about any series to anyone else? Not necessarily Kobayashi; her series are just the best examples for me personally. But did anyone here maybe not like, say, Blade or Fourze or anything else on the first time round; but later on came to love them a lot more?

I haven't had a chance to rewatch much of anything yet (too much stuff that's brand-new to me), so I don't know if this 100% is valid, but Ghost is one that I feel like took a good long while to tee up its central theme, and then crushed it in its finale. (Also, yes, I am counting episode 48 as the finale of Ghost. Nothing as important happened afterwards!) It really made me value the journey of Ghost, knowing that the final beats of the story landed so well.

Also, hey, global quarantine question for folks: how are you Kamen Ridering in self-isolation? TV shows? Video games? Toys? I've been splitting my time between Ryuki and a SO-DO/Figure-rise backlog. How about y'all?

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Also, hey, global quarantine question for folks: how are you Kamen Ridering in self-isolation? TV shows? Video games? Toys? I've been splitting my time between Ryuki and a SO-DO/Figure-rise backlog. How about y'all?

I'm still working on my Fourze rewatch, but I find myself getting distracted and doing something else most of the times when I sit down to watch an episode. I'm currently paused on Zero-One because I'm feeling some hardcore enthusiasm loss as we go through this Thouser arc.

Honestly, with the boxsets of the OG series, Seven, and Return - plus all of Taiga downloaded - I'm doing more Ultra during the (non-mandated, thanks Governor "doctors don't know everything" Reynolds!) stay at home.

[Young Optimus14]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

Very good thread idea, and it's something I find myself needing a lot... which is of course why when it's finally made, nothing specific comes to mind! I'm just so wonderful that way.

So in lieu of any specific thought to offer, how about I kick things off with a topic starter? I've said elsewhere that something I like about Kobayashi's writing is that her series are ones that I might not enjoy that much at the time and don't see what the big deal's about, but I end up appreciating to a much greater degree later. OOO and Den-O are big examples of this; I may still not be big on Ryuki but I think more positively of it now than I used to; and outside of Rider I'd also extend this to Shinkenger, Go-Busters and Toqger.

All of that to say: does this bode true about any series to anyone else? Not necessarily Kobayashi; her series are just the best examples for me personally. But did anyone here maybe not like, say, Blade or Fourze or anything else on the first time round; but later on came to love them a lot more?

I've been rewatching Blade here and there. I liked it the first time so we'll have to see how it goes second time around since it tends to have very loosely connected plot lines. I should try to rewatch some of the series I didn't finish just to see if my opinion has changed at all

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Into it! Thanks for starting this thread!



I haven't had a chance to rewatch much of anything yet (too much stuff that's brand-new to me), so I don't know if this 100% is valid, but Ghost is one that I feel like took a good long while to tee up its central theme, and then crushed it in its finale. (Also, yes, I am counting episode 48 as the finale of Ghost. Nothing as important happened afterwards!) It really made me value the journey of Ghost, knowing that the final beats of the story landed so well.

Also, hey, global quarantine question for folks: how are you Kamen Ridering in self-isolation? TV shows? Video games? Toys? I've been splitting my time between Ryuki and a SO-DO/Figure-rise backlog. How about y'all?

Yes binging Build and now Ex-Aid lol. With the Toei's Youtube channel actually working this quarantine has gotten a lot more exciting

[AkibaSilver]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

(Also, yes, I am counting episode 48 as the finale of Ghost. Nothing as important happened afterwards!)

The final pair of episodes are important to the canon as it's where we learn Takeru has mojo send tweet.

But I've been getting back to my obsessive roots and patching up the wiki pages for Candy Toy stuff. Now, you too can ask the question "Why does the Phantom Build SODO come with a weird RabbitRabbit Hazard" head?

Plus, I caught up on Zero-One (very good), and might try and get back into Blade. See if I can finishe before the end of the year.

[Androzani84]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Also, hey, global quarantine question for folks: how are you Kamen Ridering in self-isolation? TV shows? Video games? Toys? I've been splitting my time between Ryuki and a SO-DO/Figure-rise backlog. How about y'all?

Im currently going through the three 90’s movies, since Toei uploaded he first of the three to YouTube, I thought I’d rewatch the other two.

[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

But I've been getting back to my obsessive roots and patching up the wiki pages for Candy Toy stuff. Now, you too can ask the question "Why does the Phantom Build SODO come with a weird RabbitRabbit Hazard" head?

So, here's my guess on that.

Since the base form for RabbitRabbit and TankTank, the undersuit, is Hazard Form, with Phantom Build's two heads you can do a mid-transformation-to-RabbitRabbit figure or a mid-transformation-to-TankTank. That's just a hunch. I can't imagine they'd ever feel like making a figure like that normally, but it's easy enough to toss in another head and give people the option.