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Hasbro's Power Rangers era and General Tokusatsu discussion

Zero-One episode 8

https://www.mp4upload.com/j4400fj6v1df

At least we learn that Aruto is 100% human from his examination

"Detecting laughter.Zero Results" LOL

hmm not sure I understood the pun

hospital(byouin) with "boing"

I'm pretty sure the hospital set was used for some Kamen Rider Ex-Aid scenes. Interestingly Yuya Takahashi was the head writer on that show and now Zero-One

Things really ramped up in this episode

We got more hints about Zaia, a preview of the giant mecha that will eventually become Mammoth armor, and the debut of the Attache Arrow, Amazing Hercules and Horobi's first major on screen presence.

By all accounts Fuwa should be dead but he'll probably just be bandaged. I wonder if his attitude will change after the humagear operate on him

So looks like Assassin-Chan will be recurring along with the dodo progrise key


Edit: forgot to mention the reveal of horobi as humagear. It looks like he ripped their headgear out
 
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Samurai8472 said:
hmm not sure I understood the pun

hospital(byouin) with "boing"
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Seems like you got it. It's just not funny.


I'm pretty sure the hospital set was used for some Kamen Rider Ex-Aid scenes. Interestingly Yuya Takahashi was the head writer on that show and now Zero-One
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Maybe it's a location? Or maybe it's a standing set that Toei uses for multiple productions, since if it were exclusive to Ex-Aid it would probably have been struck by now. And lots of shows need hospital sets.


Things really ramped up in this episode

We got more hints about Zaia, a preview of the giant mecha that will eventually become Mammoth armor, and the debut of the Attache Arrow, Amazing Hercules and Horobi's first major on screen presence.
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It's impressive how quickly the story is developing. I sometimes think that American serialized shows could stand to learn a thing or two from Japanese serials. (Like how to resolve a season arc. I like the way tokusatsu shows stagger the conclusions of the various season-long arcs, resolving them one by one until there's just the main conflict left in the finale, as opposed to the US practice of keeping all the balls in the air and wrapping them up at once in the finale, which is more cluttered.)

When the giant mecha went on a rampage, I thought "Gee, they'd better call the Ryusoulgers." Although it looks like it's been more than two years since the last Sentai/KR crossover.

I'm suspicious of that Zaia corporation. Big corporations in KR are often sinister, and they certainly tended to be in Ex-Aid. If they built those Gigars to take mass control of HumaGears, I doubt their only intent was to neutralize rogue ones.


By all accounts Fuwa should be dead but he'll probably just be bandaged.
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Yeah, tokusatsu heroes just need an episode's worth of rest and a few bandages to bounce back from what would be lethal injuries for most people.

Although I did think it was cool that Yua didn't let her injured arm stop her from joining the fight as Valkyrie. I was afraid they were going to use that as an excuse to sideline her and leave the action to the menfolk, but she toughed it out, even though she was impaired in the fight.
 
Stephen! said:
That looks to be in good condition, assuming it's the original suit.
https://steemitimages.com/DQmRWhMjcqvEkhdrXJ3yHPbtwDy7DcRGcEEJFPy3fjM3b3B/IMG_6510.JPG

Although Hasbro also claimed to have the original suit, so who knows ....
http://eronhydla.gq/display-generale-toy-power-2019-power-rangers
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It’s probably the suit from the gokaiger vs go-buster movie

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Also Beast Morphers episode this week debuted a new power-up for Beast Morpher Red.

"Sound and Fury"
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Ryuusoulger 31

https://www.mp4upload.com/o4a8csxet25j

So how many people died when YokuRyuOh froze the city? LOL

The way the magazines described it, YokuRyuOh freezes its surroundings almost involuntarily, like a battle effect.

I love how the others showed up to help Koh and completely ignored Canalo fighting Gachireus all alone, lmao.

That was a bizarre MotW by the way

The first fight with the new hiehie armor was pretty sweet, though.
 
Samurai8472 said:
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A weird one. I mentioned how Sentai heroes always shake off massive injuries within an episode or two, but this was a particularly silly example. He got what looked like a mortal blow last week, off guard and with no armor, yet here it's little more than a surface wound, and they barely even treat it. "Oh, no, our magical healing thingy didn't work! Instead of taking Koh to the emergency room or at least getting out the bandages, let's talk for several minutes while we ignore Koh bleeding out on the sofa!" And then he was perfectly fine to go into battle with barely a twinge.

Well, I guess we could assume that the part of Nada that's still fighting the armor pulled the blow so that it wasn't too deep.

Interesting to see a nonhumanoid Minusaur. I'm reminded of the "Sabbat" from Kamen Rider Kiva. Meanwhile, Gaisorg seems to be ripping off Barizorg's trademark finisher move from Gokaiger, with the crossing sword-slash energy waves.

Speaking of Gokaiger, it struck me the other day that Ryusouls are basically like the Gokaigers' Ranger Keys in reverse -- collectible power items that flip between a humanoid form and another form, but in this case you flip them into humanoid form to activate them rather than out of it.


So how many people died when YokuRyuOh froze the city? LOL

The way the magazines described it, YokuRyuOh freezes its surroundings almost involuntarily, like a battle effect.
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It looked more to me like it was altering the reality around it somehow, like how the boxer one rearranges the buildings and power lines into a giant boxing ring.
 
Zero-One episode 9

https://www.mp4upload.com/t789pzs8cu17

So Aruto has a hulk buster? CGI was clunky as usual but the story and the theme song playing all worked together to make the final fight feel as triumphant a moment as it should.. Probably won't see much of Breaking Mammoth

I love that their version of the Windows bootup is some guy saying "take off toward the dream"

Also Izu has a small rivalry with Shester the vice presidents personal humagear

The real important part of the episode was Izu busting Yua with the surveillance footage. What was with that half-hearted lie to Izu?

So, two seasons in a row we get giant mecha in Kamen Rider? Will motorcycles come back now in Super Sentai?


Ryuusoulger episode 32

https://www.mp4upload.com/h1jp1adhgj0d

The use of the cloud set for Jet was pretty cool. Last week was close to Halloween so we get a pumpkin themed monster

The exorcism of the armor effects were terrifying

We actually get a "dragon" after all the rumors before the Ryuusoulger started with Pytramigo


Also I thought this was cool. Bandai is going to be selling the humagear headset! Includes lights and sounds

https://news.tokunation.com/2019/10...magear-headset-module-release-announced-63961

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Zero-One: I agree, it's a bit incongrous to see giant mecha in Kamen Rider, though they're smaller than Sentai versions. And at least they don't combine (yet). "Rider Gattai! ZeroOneOh!"

Good story with some interesting discussions between characters and debates within characters, even Izu. Interesting that the doctor was apparently hacked by Giga but resisted the evil programming. That's the first time we've seen that, if I'm interpreting it correctly.

It's weird that the Hiden Voice announcement for that "Strong" Progrise Key in the bow weapon is just "Hercules beetle ability" instead of something more figurative like all the other activation announcements.


Ryusoulger: Not bad, but the way the monster worked was confusing. If it removed people's hatred, why did they attack each other? Or was it that there were two steps, first the hatred being drawn out into the raincloud, then the rain falling and making people violent? I guess that was it, but it was a little unclear.

Anyway, it's awfully convenient that there just happened to be the right kind of Minusaur this week to let them save Nada from Gaisorg, and a little disappointing that they saved him that way rather than something more personal and dramatic like the earlier attempts that didn't work. It's a bit anticlimactic. Also, it's surprising that the Gaisorg armor is still the same after it was de-eviled. I've been expecting Nada to be redeemed and become a seventh team member, but I figured he'd get a different, more heroic-looking armor out of it, or at least a color change like Magiranger's Wolzard Fire.
 
Beast Morpher clips from "Seeing Red"

Devon is basically under the influence of red kryptonite due to the fury cell they obtained last week.

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Looks like fury mode was a shortlived power-up that will eventually be replaced with Beast Morphers version of "powered custom" mode
 
Samurai8472 said:
I figured the old thread was getting quite large. Seemed like a good time to make a new thread

New year, New era for Power Ranger's and in a few months a new era for Sentai and Kamen Rider. The new era after Heisei doesn't have a name yet

Here's a trailer for "Power Rangers Beast Morphers"

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There's rumblings that it could premiere in March(close to the new sentai premiere too)

https://comicbook.com/powerrangers/2019/01/05/power-rangers-beast-morphers-could-premiere-march/
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I saw a few episodes of it on Netflix; it seems like all of the other Power Rangers shows. Not saying that's good or bad, just to me, that it is.
 
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This weeks Beast Morphers introduced a new villain. Vargoyle

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Pretty disconcerting that Ravi can erase Smash's his robotic buddy's memory so nonchalantly
 
This isn't about the Hasbro era of the franchise, but I couldn't think of anywhere else to put it, so it's going here.

I decided to watch Linkara's History of Power Rangers retrospective for Power Rangers Dino (Super)Charge, which has in turn made me want to give the season another chance.

The problem, though, is that every other time I've tried getting through the season, my intense dislike of the characters of Tyler and Shelby (I find Tyler's actor really annoying and find Shelby to be a very unintelligent character) has overwhelmed my patience and caused me to stop watching, and so what I'm going to try this time around is to first make an attempt to solicit opinions from others about the characters' positive traits so that my personal dislike of them has something to be tempered and countered by.
 
DigificWriter said:
This isn't about the Hasbro era of the franchise, but I couldn't think of anywhere else to put it, so it's going here.

I decided to watch Linkara's History of Power Rangers retrospective for Power Rangers Dino (Super)Charge, which has in turn made me want to give the season another chance.

The problem, though, is that every other time I've tried getting through the season, my intense dislike of the characters of Tyler and Shelby (I find Tyler's actor really annoying and find Shelby to be a very unintelligent character) has overwhelmed my patience and caused me to stop watching, and so what I'm going to try this time around is to first make an attempt to solicit opinions from others about the characters' positive traits so that my personal dislike of them has something to be tempered and countered by.
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I wish I could provide insight but I haven't watched Dino Charge. I guess if you've tried and tried to get into but just can't I would say it's not meant to be.


Kamen Rider Zero-One episode 10 (Lights! Camera! Progrise!)

https://www.mp4upload.com/ip4ldx3v7bs7

Looks like this is setting up for another two-parter. Hey look Fuwa is still recovering from his injuries! He's not magically back on his feet.

Izu signaling Aruto about the humagear was funny

Is the Zaia director's catchphrase going to be about percentages?

I'm really glad they are making the Dodo still stick around. I like how they are suggesting that even corrupted Humagears may reach some kind of singularity - Dodo-chan not being there when Jin was fighting + wanting to be stronger.

I hope we get more humagear MOTW. Having Dodo around feels like they've exhausted their budget already.

Nothing much happened in this episode, making it a semi-filler which is actually good. In this manner, the storytelling can be saved for the later episodes. The biggest flaw that Takahashi did when he wrote Ex-Aid is that 90% of the storytelling were dumped during the 65% of the show so he has to put a lot of filler during the final arc.


Ryuusoulger episode 33

https://www.mp4upload.com/a6oups8vutwz

Ever since the show premiered there's been an underlying theme of death

After all that work towards extracting Nada from the Gaisorg armor he dies to give birth to Ryuusoul Red's power-up

It feels rather spiteful to do this right after the heroes went through so much to try to save him

We had to wait a long time to see Gaisoulg being relevant, it took a while for him to join the team, and we don't even have the time to see him finding his place in the team because *unecessary drama*.

Shame Nada's first transformation was his last.

The video message was pretty poignant
 
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Samurai8472 said:
I wish I could provide insight but I haven't watched Dino Charge. I guess if you've tried and tried to get into but just can't I would say it's not meant to be.
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I love pretty much everything about Dino Charge other than Tyler and Shelby, but my issues with them end up invariably overwhelming my love for everything else about the season and I just stop watching, which is why I want to find some way to counteract that and actually get through the whole story.
 
Zero-One: Hmm, apparently the veteran actor in this 2-parter is playing himself.

Good that the secrets about Yaiba are starting to come out, and that she's conflicted about working for someone who's evidently a bad guy. Looks like Zaia is a rival corporation trying to ruin Hiden. Are its Progrize Keys knockoffs? Is there corporate espionage going on?
 
I decided to just "go for it" again with Dino Charge, and I think time might end up finally softening me on Tyler and Shelby, although it's still too early to tell for sure.
 
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