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04-02-2021, 09:11 PM | #601 |
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(Funnily enough, I was going to specifically mention that it feels unfair of me to come in here with my future knowledge and act like you should be getting all this right now, but I ultimately decided to cut that thought entirely. I definitely understand the difference in our positions here.) Hideo Ishiguro's performance in Ultraman Orb is insane, by the way. His acting as Kai doesn't even compare, and I don't think that performance was bad to begin with!
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04-02-2021, 09:15 PM | #602 |
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There are three guest stars that I wanted to point out. First are the Leo Imagin's troopers, played by recycled ZECTrooper suits. More importantly, we have Kai himself, played by actor Hideo Ishiguro. Ishiguro's highest profile tokusatsu role is as Gai Kurenai, the leading role in 2016's Ultraman Orb (and it's films and spin-offs). For my money, Orb is my favorite of the current New Generation era of Ultraman (which is a really high bar) and Ishiguro, in particular, is fantastic in it. He's one of my all-time favorite Ultra protagonists. It's a performance that couldn't be further away from Kai: heroic lone wanderer haunted by his past failures. He also does the Kaiketsu Zubat thing of appearing suddenly while playing a musical instrument, which I'm always a fan of. The other guest actor is Kenjiro Ishimaru, who plays the Station Manager. Ishimaru is a veteran actor and TV narrator whose body of work includes, apparently four Kekkou Kamen (don't Google that) movies all made in 2004. More notably, he's made multiple appearances on Sasuke, known as Ninja Warrior in the US. He's not the only Kamen Rider actor to appear on that show, but I cannot find a full list easily. I want to say that either Blade or Agito's actors did it, but I can't remember. Either way, you may think that Kenjiro Ishimaru resembles Owner's actor, Kenjiro Ishimaru, but you would be wrong. Last edited by Switchblade; 04-02-2021 at 09:26 PM.. |
04-02-2021, 09:24 PM | #603 |
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(Funnily enough, I was going to specifically mention that it feels unfair of me to come in here with my future knowledge and act like you should be getting all this right now, but I ultimately decided to cut that thought entirely. I definitely understand the difference in our positions here.)
I'm about eighteen months out from catching up to Kamen Rider Whatever Is After Saber. This year is Kiva, Decade, maybe starting Zi-O. Next year is Zi-O, Zero-One, Saber. And then I'm done with all the writing I felt like it could be interesting to read. Eighteen months is a lot of writing I've got ahead of me, and yet I still think about additional projects for the future. Not on a regular daily basis or anything (that's probably done when I catch up on Kamen Rider), but something I could have fun with a couple three times a year. Go-Busters, to try out a Sentai. Maybe an Ultraman, since folks seem pretty into that. But then I think about all the shows I never wrote up, 'cause I already watched them. There's a part of me that would like to point to a thread for every Heisei show, to go I Made That. Except, I don't know if that'd be as interesting to me, revisiting shows I've already watched. Maybe that'd be a nice experiment, though, to come at with the full scope already in mind. Instead of shrugging at, say, the Meteor stuff on Fourze, being able to see it for the ways it talks about friendships that are transactional, or about the ways friendships can sometimes let guilt overpower self-sufficiency. I remember that brief Ex-Aid Movie rewatch thread being fun. I don't know. (Folks can chime in if they'd care about me rewatching W through Ex-Aid, interspersed with first time stuff. Interested to know if there's interest. I would kind of love to let the final Big Project that I tackle for these boards be rewatching Ex-Aid. There's a symmetry to that that I find really enticing.) So, yeah, the tension of y'all having watched these episodes while I haven't, it's sometimes weird for me. Not bad! Not at all! But I think it can lead to us getting different things out of some of these episodes.
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04-02-2021, 09:30 PM | #604 |
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The other guest actor is Kenjiro Ishimaru, who plays the Station Manager. Ishimaru is a veteran actor and TV narrator whose body of work includes, apparently four Kekkou Kamen (don't Google that) movies all made in 2004. More notably, he's made multiple appearances on Sasuke, known as Ninja Warrior in the US. He's not the only Kamen Rider actor to appear on that show, but I cannot find a full list easily. I want to say that either Blade or Agito's actors did it, but I can't remember. Either way, you may think that Kenjiro Ishimaru resembles Owner's actor, Kenjiro Ishimaru, but you would be wrong.
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04-02-2021, 09:44 PM | #605 |
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(Folks can chime in if they'd care about me rewatching W through Ex-Aid, interspersed with first time stuff. Interested to know if there's interest. I would kind of love to let the final Big Project that I tackle for these boards be rewatching Ex-Aid. There's a symmetry to that that I find really enticing.)
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04-02-2021, 09:50 PM | #606 |
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Only cover Wizard again if you want me talking about how awesome Shunpei is every episode.
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04-02-2021, 10:10 PM | #607 |
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There's a thing where...
I'm about eighteen months out from catching up to Kamen Rider Whatever Is After Saber. This year is Kiva, Decade, maybe starting Zi-O. Next year is Zi-O, Zero-One, Saber. And then I'm done with all the writing I felt like it could be interesting to read. Eighteen months is a lot of writing I've got ahead of me, and yet I still think about additional projects for the future. Not on a regular daily basis or anything (that's probably done when I catch up on Kamen Rider), but something I could have fun with a couple three times a year. Go-Busters, to try out a Sentai. Maybe an Ultraman, since folks seem pretty into that. But then I think about all the shows I never wrote up, 'cause I already watched them. There's a part of me that would like to point to a thread for every Heisei show, to go I Made That. Except, I don't know if that'd be as interesting to me, revisiting shows I've already watched. Maybe that'd be a nice experiment, though, to come at with the full scope already in mind. Instead of shrugging at, say, the Meteor stuff on Fourze, being able to see it for the ways it talks about friendships that are transactional, or about the ways friendships can sometimes let guilt overpower self-sufficiency. I remember that brief Ex-Aid Movie rewatch thread being fun. I don't know. (Folks can chime in if they'd care about me rewatching W through Ex-Aid, interspersed with first time stuff. Interested to know if there's interest. I would kind of love to let the final Big Project that I tackle for these boards be rewatching Ex-Aid. There's a symmetry to that that I find really enticing.) So, yeah, the tension of y'all having watched these episodes while I haven't, it's sometimes weird for me. Not bad! Not at all! But I think it can lead to us getting different things out of some of these episodes.
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04-02-2021, 10:34 PM | #608 |
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Also, I mean, my brain has definitely formed itself into a shape that needs to do this kind of thing regularly. Even if I don't rewatch shows, I'm sure there's random stuff I could take a poke at. I kind of like the idea of doing another 6-7 Rider threads, though, and tossing in some other stuff in-between. That commits me to another four or five years of this... whatever this is. I'm okay with that.
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04-02-2021, 11:38 PM | #609 |
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And Die, don't forget that Kamen Rider BLACK now will be rebooted to Kamen Rider Black Sun so more fun awaits. |
04-02-2021, 11:46 PM | #610 |
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I stopped checking in on that thread almost immediately, but I love how quickly the conversation shifted from Oh Boy A Reboot Of Black straight to Oh No It's Gonna Be Like Amazons in, like, three posts. As someone who found some positive qualities in Amazons (early-days KR for me, we were all young fans once), I still found that depressing realization both hilarious and tragic. My heart goes out to you Black fans!
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