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08-24-2021, 10:33 PM | #8811 |
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Time Fire was the best thing to have happened.
Also Tatsuya's father is played by Fujita Okamoto who was previously in Turboranger as the mentor and tech support extraordinaire Dr. Dazai. And Shinji Kasahara who played Naoto/Time Fire went on to do mo-cap as well, his recent work being Dan/Ultraseven in the NETFLIX ULTRAMAN anime. Of course, Masaru Nagai went onto be an established name in Japanese showbiz after this nabbing lead roles and came back to the franchise as Master Ryusoul Black in Ryusoulger.
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08-25-2021, 02:31 AM | #8812 |
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I’ll mention here that Ayase isn’t as cool as he seems. He is one character that takes a few episodes to get a fix on.
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08-25-2021, 03:25 AM | #8813 |
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I do really love both Timeranger and Time Force, Time Force does personally stand out to me just that bit more because Power Rangers is not normally that epic, but both shows do keep me coming back and as much as I like Ransik, it is a bit of a bummer that Time Force turned Don Dornero into just your typical fat and stupid sidekick lol
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08-25-2021, 05:26 AM | #8814 |
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On the low toy sales thing by the way... I really think it is mostly down to Kuuga. Timeranger is often spoken of as an all-time low, and it is, but looking at the years preceding it the sales were only about 3-5 million higher than it done anyway; so I imagine that a Brand New Mega Hit just completely wrecked its chances, and perhaps kids just weren't sold on the toys? Which is a shame, because speaking as someone who often doesn't care for Sentai Mechs; whenever you get to it, TimeRobo is FUCKING awesome!!
So... yeah, I really think it can be put down to Kuuga here. Like heck, looking at Kuuga's sales; it's got higher revenue than all but 6 Sentai series ever and performed better than half of Heisei 1 Rider... so yeah! Just the big new cool thing on the block really!
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08-25-2021, 03:48 PM | #8815 |
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(I just realized I got very confused and called main character Tatsuya Asami "Tatsumi" twice in my post about Timeranger, and have promptly corrected that. Guess I was so excited about finally getting one of these out early again I totally slacked on proofreading. Oops!)
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08-25-2021, 04:28 PM | #8816 |
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Oh man. Man. Liveman!! What a great first episode! There's unfortunately not a good grasp on what our main heroes are like yet (I imagine partly because we're still in Sentai's 25-minute timeslot era), and the storytelling is slightly cluttered at the start, but this is such a meaty episode where you immediately get the drama and conflict, and it's a very strong start overall! I'm already loving the very lovely mesh of an animal-themed sentai being about scientists (in a way that, much as I love the show; already trumps Science Sentai Dynaman's use of it thematically) and I imagine that'll feel all the more relevant going forward. I'll admit it's actually a little hard to say much about this episode when... well... Fish's little project has kind of covered all bases on what makes this episode so awesome! I could absolutely tell you how great it is that they just couldn't wait to throw out their Land Lion tech, or that the suits are fantastic, or that animals are such a perfect fit for Toku and it's wild that Liveman was the first Sentai to really embrace that... but also, maybe I should just tell you to look at Fish's post saying the same thing, uh... ... Oh, god; that was about 12 weeks ago now, wasn't it?? Well one other thing I will say, and maybe it's partly because they're so close to airing - and hence the way they're filmed and how they sound is very similar too - but the emphasis on life; the the whole thing of someone close to the central hero(es) selling their soul to evil... this feels very Kamen Rider Black to me, in the best of ways! And given it seems almost as beloved and well-remembered, I've got some high hopes going into this one
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08-25-2021, 04:29 PM | #8817 |
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(I just realized I got very confused and called main character Tatsuya Asami "Tatsumi" twice in my post about Timeranger, and have promptly corrected that. Guess I was so excited about finally getting one of these out early again I totally slacked on proofreading. Oops!)
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08-25-2021, 08:45 PM | #8818 |
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Shion maybe but Yuri with how serious she is most of the time? I don't know.
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08-25-2021, 10:03 PM | #8819 |
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Oh man. Man. Liveman!! What a great first episode! There's unfortunately not a good grasp on what our main heroes are like yet (I imagine partly because we're still in Sentai's 25-minute timeslot era), and the storytelling is slightly cluttered at the start, but this is such a meaty episode where you immediately get the drama and conflict, and it's a very strong start overall! I'm already loving the very lovely mesh of an animal-themed sentai being about scientists (in a way that, much as I love the show; already trumps Science Sentai Dynaman's use of it thematically) and I imagine that'll feel all the more relevant going forward. I'll admit it's actually a little hard to say much about this episode when... well... Fish's little project has kind of covered all bases on what makes this episode so awesome! I could absolutely tell you how great it is that they just couldn't wait to throw out their Land Lion tech, or that the suits are fantastic, or that animals are such a perfect fit for Toku and it's wild that Liveman was the first Sentai to really embrace that... but also, maybe I should just tell you to look at Fish's post saying the same thing, uh... ... Oh, god; that was about 12 weeks ago now, wasn't it?? Well one other thing I will say, and maybe it's partly because they're so close to airing - and hence the way they're filmed and how they sound is very similar too - but the emphasis on life; the the whole thing of someone close to the central hero(es) selling their soul to evil... this feels very Kamen Rider Black to me, in the best of ways! And given it seems almost as beloved and well-remembered, I've got some high hopes going into this one
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08-26-2021, 01:29 AM | #8820 |
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I do really love both Kamen Rider BLACK and Liveman so I think it's good to compare them lol
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