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#261 |
Showa Girl
Join Date: Jun 2018
Posts: 9,064
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The Ultra recommendations I usually give people are X, Geed and Z and I'd probably keep to that for you Die! I'm really sorry to hear you got Covid; stay safe...!
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#262 |
Master Procrastinator
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 367
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Max is the first one I watched. It's an adequate show. It's good for showing you what a standard Ultraman show is. Nothing unusual or ever particulary innovative, but nothing badly done either. It's competent and sets the right expectations, but nothing more than that. For the first show, that's not so bad.
As far as the franchise goes, it's a reset after Nexus, which is kinda the Hibiki of Ultraman. It took franchise in a radical new direction which fans did not like and stopped watching. Unlike Hibiki, it got to play out the season without being forced to change. It's actually pretty popular with western viewers. But Max was made to win back the old fans, which is why is about the plainest vanilla you can get. It's good vanilla, but its still plain vanilla. |
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#263 |
Member
Join Date: Dec 2019
Location: World of Ataru
Posts: 857
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Don't really care for Zero-One but I see where mentioning Ultraman
recommendations to Die and I'm going to toss my suggestion in the ring and it gotta be Gaia! You like a show with a great rivalary between two heroes? Standalone with no connection to past series? An recurring antagonistic force that brought up enough to never forget end goal of a season? But still keeping the franchise greatest strength of episodic stories every week? And massive budget and world with a cast large enough to fill a world wide threat? Then Gaia great!
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#264 |
I have a problematic type
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 10,410
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...I've always wanted to be more fond of Lightning Hornet than I am, on the other hand? I remember thinking it was the coolest just before it debuted, and then that feeling just sort of left me, and I only kind of know why. I think I just don't like it in action all that much? It's that thing I know Switchblade likes to say about modern Rider shows, where it's all people throwing CG at each other? The whole powerset of shooting swarms of insects around while standing still means it takes a lot more work on the show's part to make Lightning Hornet look as dynamic as Rushing Cheetah does. Which, to be fair, having rewatched the show lately, they're usually doing the work! I guess it really is just a "me" problem! Maybe I just like Rushing Cheetah way too much.
Lightning Hornet... I mean, I like the suit well enough, but I always found it to very much be a decision the show made that we got our first full participant female Kamen Rider and her primary attack in one form has made me spend the last three years actively trying not to type out the phrase "lactates bees." Quote:
Max is the first one I watched. It's an adequate show. It's good for showing you what a standard Ultraman show is. Nothing unusual or ever particulary innovative, but nothing badly done either. It's competent and sets the right expectations, but nothing more than that. For the first show, that's not so bad.
As far as the franchise goes, it's a reset after Nexus, which is kinda the Hibiki of Ultraman. It took franchise in a radical new direction which fans did not like and stopped watching. Unlike Hibiki, it got to play out the season without being forced to change. It's actually pretty popular with western viewers. But Max was made to win back the old fans, which is why is about the plainest vanilla you can get. It's good vanilla, but its still plain vanilla. Also, technically Nexus was cancelled. And I don't mean like how I always say Hibiki was cancelled to be spiteful. There was an entire arc of Nexus that was planned but ended up getting crammed down into the last two episodes because the show bombed so badly. Max only happened because Tsubaraya had a contract with the network and the network demanded that they come up with something to fill the time slot. |
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#265 |
Veteran Member
Join Date: Jan 2020
Posts: 1,087
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Well, to celebrate Kamen Rider Zero-One I went and did the most Zero-One thing imaginable: I contracted COVID! Never say that I'm not fully dedicated to putting myself in the headspace of the original viewers of these shows. (I probably should've held off until the 20s, but you all know how much trouble I have slotting these things in to the right order.) It's a light case, and I'm vaxxed and boosted, but I still feel like I've taken a Sting Dystopia to my bones and organs. Forming thoughts and finding energy are two things that are a little slippery right now, so I'm going to post some responses to the last day's worth of comments, and then I'm probably going to be scarce for the next few days. Thanks for your understanding
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I personally started watching the modern New Gen shows from the start with Ginga but that's just me being a completionist. |
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#266 |
Warrior of Delusions!
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Wait, you dont know either?
Posts: 5,825
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Also, while we're doing Ultra recs, I've only actually finished both of Nexus and R/B, and both are pretty good! Completly opposite ends of the emotional spectrum, but good! |
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#267 |
The Immortal King Tasty
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Every diner you've ever been to.
Posts: 3,833
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#268 |
Kamen Ride Or Die
Join Date: Aug 2019
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 6,159
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Everyone here is so nice! My condition has not exactly improved (still feverish, lost my sense of taste and smell), but my mood is bolstered immeasurably by your incredibly thorough Ultraman recommendations and almost-as-thorough emotional support. Thanks so much!
(And, in retrospect, it was probably Ultraman Z that I was thinking of. But thanks for the many other suggestions!)
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#269 |
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Join Date: Jan 2020
Posts: 1,290
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Yeah, I'd say that other than guaranteed recovery, hope that there'd be still available treatment for you to get and not have all those treatments filled in. For series part though, viruses would be related to Ex-Aid, and yeah, big irony that several of their actors like Hiroki Iijima (Emu), Shouma Kai (Parado), and Ruka Matsuda (Poppy) have contracted Coronavirus too, of course them being infected later one at least the latter 2 got game clear-ed for it.
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The tease of a MetsubouJinrai/AIMS/Zero-One was fascinating to think about, and normally where a story like this would go (The Enemy Of My Enemy etc), but instead all three heroes immediately decline Horobi's offer by pointing out that they all hate him because he's a genocidal terrorist. While there'd be a lot of energy in seeing Fuwa have to work alongside Horobi, we're probably way too early in the series for that to feel viable for Fuwa's character, let alone Yua's or Aruto's.
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#270 |
Kaiju or Hero?
Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: Even I Don't Know Anymore.
Posts: 1,397
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Everyone here is so nice! My condition has not exactly improved (still feverish, lost my sense of taste and smell), but my mood is bolstered immeasurably by your incredibly thorough Ultraman recommendations and almost-as-thorough emotional support. Thanks so much!
(And, in retrospect, it was probably Ultraman Z that I was thinking of. But thanks for the many other suggestions!) Also, did somebody say Ultraman? Though, I believe everybody has given some great recommendations, so I guess I don't really need to say anything here. And yes, Z is probably the one you're thinking of, and also yes, it is a great show, though I also think all the New Gen and Heisei (that I've seen) are solid picks. I'll probably drop more Zero-One thoughts later, but right now, I'm wishing you the best! |
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