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06-29-2016, 07:31 PM | #2851 |
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That's a biggest insult that I ever heard! Wait... Was your comment supposed to be insult or what? Because it sound insult to me! Last edited by vin13ish; 06-29-2016 at 07:36 PM.. |
06-29-2016, 07:36 PM | #2852 |
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The Showa vs. Heisei movie.
I've been watching toy reviewers Vangelus and TJ Omega for years. Both of them are big Rider fans and started featuring more Rider merch back around '09. I think TJ's Decadriver video was the one that really got me curious enough to try watching this weird show they kept going on about. I started with the first episode of Decade, then decided to go back and watch up to it so that I could understand it better. Kuuga wasn't subbed past episode four yet, but I found Agito, got hooked, and the rest is history. I started watching Super Sentai after Disney cancelled Power Rangers. I started with Goseiger, which was a terrible idea because it was an absolutely awful show. |
06-29-2016, 07:42 PM | #2853 |
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I believe there's a topic for this elsewhere that I already told my story in, but I'll happily tell it again.
A LOOONG time ago on another forum I was a member of, somebody made a topic about a Japanese version of Power Rangers that's more violent but aimed at an even younger demographic. I was picturing something a lot crazier than what Super Sentai actually was. Anyways, I just wrote it off as something I didn't care about. Through the years, I always found Godzilla rather interesting, but never actually watched the films. That is, until either HDD or Blu-Ray.com posted a review of the Criterion edition of Godzilla. I also saw the blu-ray 3 pack of Heisei Gamera films at FYE. Between those, an interest had been sparked. I eventually made my way to Barnes and Noble for a Criterion sale and picked up Godzilla on Blu-Ray. I immediately fell in love with the film and the entire series. About a week later we went back to the mall on a whim and I picked up Godzilla Raids Again. I felt like I had discovered an entire new world. However, a friend of mine who has an unfortunate tendency to absolutely OBSESS over things eventually discovered Godzilla as well. Him and this other kid lived their lives around Godzilla for about a month and it made everybody else kind of sick of it. However, I still needed my rubber suit giant monster fix, so I started looking elsewhere. Around the same time (very convenient timing) my ex bought me a dvd that had a couple of episodes of Ultraman on it, and once again, I immediately fell in love. Ultraman wasn't enough though, I needed more. A couple of days later, one of my friends posted on facebook saying that he wanted to watch the original Power Rangers. I was reminded of the existence of Super Sentai, so I looked into it more. It seemed like just what I needed, so I tracked down episodes of Zyuranger on Youtube. It was the perfect blend of everything I wanted at the time and it hit the spot in every way imaginable. I thoroughly enjoyed the ride and immediately became a toku fan...that is, until I finished the series. From there, I thought "let's watch Dairanger next!" For those that don't know me well (likely all of you) I have a tendency to form a sentimental bond to things that I enjoyed as much as I enjoyed Zyuranger. Grand Theft Auto IV, Evangelion, and Persona 3 are just a couple of examples. So when I finished Zyuranger and moved onto Dairanger, the fact that it wasn't exactly the same pretty much made me hate it. Of course, I knew it'd be different going in, but still. Like I said, I have that tendency. So I drifted from series to series, trying to recapture the nostalgic magic of Zyuranger until I finally landed on Jetman. There were enough similarities between the series that I was able to enjoy it and move from being a rose-tinted Zyuranger fanboy to an actual fan of Super Sentai. After Jetman, I decided to actually give a modern series a try, so I started Ninninger. At first I didn't like it, but I eventually grew attached to it in a way that was different from what I liked about Zyuranger and Jetman. While it wasn't a great series, it was the one that solidified my love for toku tv as a whole, and not just enjoying it because of early Power Rangers nostalgia. Of course, throughout the course of being a Sentai fan, I had heard about Kamen Rider. The concept never appealed to me - why would I want to watch a show that's like Super Sentai, but with less people fighting and no giant robots? The suit designs were a big reason I liked Sentai, so getting less suits just seemed less interesting. However, I figured I should at least give it a chance, so I decided to watch the original series. I thought that maybe if I watched an early season, I could get to the core of the series and appreciate the differences between each series better, instead of growing attached to the more unique aspects of the series like with Zyuranger, and being mad when no other series had them. (seriously, I was pretty upset that other shows didn't have an episode where they had to gather their weapons and then combine the weapons into the finishing cannon. They just started off with everything and had a pre-assembled cannon. Ugh lol) Anyways, I started the original series. For a show from 1971, it was surprisingly fun. Watching individual characters fight monsters was actually more enjoyable than an entire team in my opinion, and not having to force a giant mech fight into every episode meant the episodes had a bit more room to breathe. I liked the show enough to cosplay the character at a convention, and started to really develop an interest in Sentai. However, for some reason, I thought it would be a good idea to watch every series in order, like I did with the Godzilla movies. Y'know, to see how it evolved. Except...I grew a bit impatient. I was also watching Zyuohger, and wanted to be able to watch the Ghost/Zyuohger crossover and understand what was going on - I only understood half of the Drive/Ninninger one, and that was a bit disappointing. So I started Ghost....and....absolutely loved it. The first episode didn't do much for me, but from the second episode on, I was completely hooked. The first 10-ish episodes had the perfect balance between overarching story and MOTW episodic stuff. The eyecon gathering reminded me of the adventurous nature of early Dragon Ball, the paranormal investigations tapped into my love of ghosts and horror, and the 99 day limit really raised the stakes. I know that section of the series isn't highly regarded, but I was completely engrossed in it. I kept that momentum going throughout the series until I eventually caught up. Then, through pure enthusiasm for the show, I got a friend watching Ghost as well. Jealous of the fact that she was watching Rider and I wasn't, I decided to start another series. Now I've been watching through Drive and have been loving that even more than Ghost. I'm about halfway through the series now and am showing no signs of slowing down. Next, I think I'm watching Fourze. TL;DR - I got into Godzilla, then got burnt out on Godzilla, so I turned to Ultraman. From there, I got into Super Sentai, and from there I got into Kamen Rider.
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06-29-2016, 07:47 PM | #2854 |
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I got really into figmas in summer of 2014, and I bought several from things I hadn't watched, just because they looked cool. One of the first I got was Kamen Rider Spear, because Imperer's design is awesome. As with most other things I bought on a whim, I eventually became interested in the original work, so I decided to watch Ryuki, and I liked Ryuki. Which is when I started being interested in Kamen Rider, though I didn't watch another series until like 9 months afterwards, around last summer. Haven't stopped since.
Super Sentai I've pretty much always been aware of as the shows from which Power Rangers is derived, and becoming a fan of KR has meant I've familiarized myself more with this franchise as well. Zyuohger has been the first show I've watched, though. |
06-29-2016, 08:02 PM | #2855 |
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Not really, Matrix recently watched Kuuga, found he hated Kuuga, and his first experience with Rider was untranslated episodes of Kuuga. I just found it funny.
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06-29-2016, 08:02 PM | #2856 |
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I've pretty much watched Power Rangers all my life, hell I remember watching the original series back when I was like two. I stuck with that for the longest time, right up to RPM, and then I kinda moved on for a while.
Eventually I started watching Linkara's History of Power Rangers and, not only did that rekindle my love of PR, but he showed a clip of Gokaiger and that got me interested in that. So, I checked it out, and since Overtime had subs of Kamen Rider too, I checked out Fourze, and I've pretty much been in love with both series ever since. |
06-29-2016, 08:11 PM | #2857 |
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If that's the biggest insult you've ever heard then you probably don't hear a lot of insults lol
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06-29-2016, 08:14 PM | #2858 |
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For Kamen Rider, I remember watching a few episodes of Masked Rider on Fox Kids. I remember liking it, but not as much as Power Rangers. As a five-year old, I always thought the design for Black RX looked really cool. I already grew up with Godzilla and re-runs of Ultraman, so I was into toku. One of my favorite things as a kid growing up in the 90's was going to Japanese collector shops and I would always look around the shop seeing all the cool toys.
I remember in that collectors shop in the Owings Mills Mall in Maryland sometime back in 1996 had Five Riders vs. King Dark and Kamen Rider ZO playing on a TV screen. It was a fan subbed VHS copy and I remember how cool those riders look. So growing up, I always knew what Kamen Rider was but I hardly knew anything about it. So in 2009, I watch the first two episodes of Kabuto subbed on Youtube and I could not get into it. So in 2012, I decided to watch W and that got me hook into Kamen Rider. After I finish W, I watch OOO and Fourze when Fourze was still airing in Japan. I end up getting S.H Figuarts of Stronger and Shin Ichigo as Christmas gifts that year. For Super Sentai, I remember seeing toys of Super Sentai at Japanese collector shops in the 90's and I was like "Oh cool, Power Rangers is a thing in Japan". In 2002, I remember my friend had a VHS copy of Gaoranger vs. Super Sentai. I remember being confused on what the hell was going on but I thought it was cool. In 2004, I remember going on the Wikipedia reading about Super Sentai after that one episode of Super Sentai that they did. At the time, I didn't know how to watch fan subs for them and I didn't watch fan subs for Super Sentai until 2012 when I was becoming a fan of Kamen Rider. My first real Super Sentai was Gokaiger and been a fan since then.
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06-29-2016, 09:38 PM | #2859 |
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But eh. I was like, 10 or 11 when we rented them (It was like 3 episodes on VHS. I don't recall any form changing, so probably within the first 10 episodes), and because I didn't speak Japanese, nothing they said could piss me off (And the Grongi just kind fell on already deaf ears). The action was cool, though. Particularly to a kid who was used to seeing monsters having to be killed twice.
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06-29-2016, 09:48 PM | #2860 |
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That is just my luck, isn't it?
But eh. I was like, 10 or 11 when we rented them (It was like 3 episodes on VHS. I don't recall any form changing, so probably within the first 10 episodes), and because I didn't speak Japanese, nothing they said could piss me off (And the Grongi just kind fell on already deaf ears). The action was cool, though. Particularly to a kid who was used to seeing monsters having to be killed twice. |
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