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Does anyone find the amount of “extras” for toku shows overwhelming?
By extras, I mean the Hyper Battle Videos, the movies, the various spinoff things to watch. Back when I was first getting into toku I didn’t mind all the bonus stuff so much, I would just watch all of it after I finished the show usually. The more stuff I watched though, the more often they would suddenly make another gaiden or whatever years after something I saw had finished airing. How am I supposed to keep track of all of this? Do I really want to watch another Den-O thing after thinking I had finally escaped its clutches? Gaaaah!
I kind of feel like we should ban these people from doing anything but goofy crossovers with a show after a certain number of years have passed for my own sanity. :lolol |
That's a good point, even on some films too, it probably took me like 4/5 years before I finally sat down and watched the Gaim & Wizard movie!
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I think it's definitely overwhelming to look at when getting into a series, and fun fact when I watched Ex-Aid I decided to do all the bonus material as I was watching it; which was absolutely a mistake!
But the thing is, well... it's right there in the title: it's extra stuff. In terms of things relevant to the narrative there's the winter crossover movie, the summer movie, and then as epilogues the next winter crossover movie and whatever v-cins you get. And frankly that is a lot and that's easily overwhelming, but the rest of it all like HBVs and anime shorts and weird Telasa specials; that's all just fun side stuff you can do any time and not miss anything. Well, maybe 'fun' and 'rider Telasa specials' shouldn't be in the same sentence, but that's the gist of it. In short: at most the only thing that's anywhere close to necessary while you're watching that breaks up your watch order are the winter and summer movies, and those still depend on the series (Wizard, Gaim etc you don't really need to watch theirs; I would straight up recommend no-one ever watch OOO's movie war core); and the rest is either post-series material or fun side bonus stuff. It looks overwhelming and in some cases can be pretty stupid, but once you get past that I think it's not too bad. |
Not really, but I don't feel compelled to watch all of them. I regularly skip movies, webisodes, and other things if I don't feel personally motivated to watch them.
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While I do feel there is a tad much, I don't think it's a bad thing.
Stuff like the HBV and the net specials are clearly non-canon (Then Prime Rogue happened...), making them entirely skippable. While series are getting more and more films, very rarely are they actually relevant. When you enter a show and you see the summer film, the movie war, 3 post series films, the HBV, and 2 more specials, most of the time the only ones that matter are the post series stuff. |
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Because every single Drive piece of media aside from Yongou and the Blu-Ray specials I think, has a numbered Roidmude in it, so all the little weird HBV video things (Monster and Hunter, High Speed, Lupin), Kamen Rider 3 GP, the Ninninger Crossover, Movie War Fullthrottle, etc. means that they're canon in some way shape or form because of the Roidmude count. |
I don't feel that's as strong, though. With over 100 roidmudes, unless you're actively keeping track, you honestly would never notice.
For example, me, just now. I only watched the film and 3 GP, and none of Drive's other ancillary media, and I didn't notice the Roidmude count :lol Meanwhile, if you watch Build's New World Grease without the HBV, then Prime Rogue appears out of nowhere. |
I mean, everything's probably 'canon' with a few exceptions, but whether or not it's actually important to following along with the narrative is what matters.
Drive is a pretty good example for this, actually. The Gaim crossover movie is one of the bigger examples people bring up of a movie that you kinda have to watch as it contains Krim's backstory and that matters to how certain events unfold and the drama within. But the HBV having a numbered roidmude that is marked on a board later? Doesn't really matter much; heck, that one's so minor I would have taken it as just something that happened off-screen like a lot of the Grongi in Kuuga. |
The bigger issue for me is sorting out what's actually canon and what callbacks are important later on. This is probably the most egregious with shows that are currently airing, because it's going to take months for the movies to get subbed well after the show wrapped up.
How can I know something from the movie won't be brought up in the finale ? *cough* Gaim * cough * Lup-Pat * |
For me, the saturation level can be an issue too when I reach a point where I am like, wait, *did* I watch this already or not? I got in a long debate with myself once over if I had seen the Dekaranger movie before. I am 90% sure I watched it but I literally could not remember anything about it, even when I looked at a summary. I feel like I need to keep a spreadsheet!
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