Oops -- I belatedly realized that "GearTLinger" must actually be a play on "Gatling" (gatoringu), given its Gatling-gun barrel. That must be why they romanized it with a "TL."
Hasbro's Power Rangers era and General Tokusatsu discussion
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A new press release from Toei put out today (well, January 1st in Japan):
https://www.toei.co.jp/release/public/1224357_1140.html
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1344677683146342400
※Basically, we will upload 1 and/or 2 episodes per series with English subtitles.
※Please note that viewings maybe restricted in some areas, depending on the programs.
※The channel is not available in Japan.
https://www.toei.co.jp/release/public/1224357_1140.html
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1344677683146342400
※Basically, we will upload 1 and/or 2 episodes per series with English subtitles.
※Please note that viewings maybe restricted in some areas, depending on the programs.
※The channel is not available in Japan.
Whatever happened to ShoutFactory's big Kamen Rider push? They hyped up their acquisition of KR as if it were a big deal, but they only put up the original series and Kuuga and then stopped. Then later they shifted gears to Ultraman.
Happy New year from official Super sentai twitter account
https://twitter.com/sentai_official/status/1344450530047717376
Kamen Rider Saber episode 16
Now this felt more like Kamen Rider. To the show's credit, it actually gets better when it can focus on the characters and their motivations. So reflecting on Kento was important, especially as it was underlying towards the split.
Hey. They remembered that Mei has an actual job instead of being the cheerleader for Kamen Riders.
Kamen Rider has had a few series where the organization that they work for isn't exactly good and might have ulterior motives/intentions like OOO's chairman Kougami Foundation
Maybe the sword of Logo's isn't a trustworthy tribe
Kamen Rider Saikou is an interest concept. It sort of has an animism nature to it(inanimate objects have a soul)
I wonder if this is a testing ground for a possible Kamen Rider series where the Kamen Rider is an object( the belt driver) and it can become a human
Crossing my fingers that this next arc can bump the series up a few notches
Also it's interesting that we're going back to the Kamen Rider trope of people being manipulated into becoming monsters
It's almost like the show is course correcting now
Toei-Make it so that the monsters are transformed people! They'll eat it up! Ah! Have every Rider be fighting against the protagonist because of shenanigans!
https://twitter.com/sentai_official/status/1344450530047717376
Kamen Rider Saber episode 16
Now this felt more like Kamen Rider. To the show's credit, it actually gets better when it can focus on the characters and their motivations. So reflecting on Kento was important, especially as it was underlying towards the split.
Hey. They remembered that Mei has an actual job instead of being the cheerleader for Kamen Riders.
Kamen Rider has had a few series where the organization that they work for isn't exactly good and might have ulterior motives/intentions like OOO's chairman Kougami Foundation
Maybe the sword of Logo's isn't a trustworthy tribe
Kamen Rider Saikou is an interest concept. It sort of has an animism nature to it(inanimate objects have a soul)
I wonder if this is a testing ground for a possible Kamen Rider series where the Kamen Rider is an object( the belt driver) and it can become a human
Crossing my fingers that this next arc can bump the series up a few notches
Also it's interesting that we're going back to the Kamen Rider trope of people being manipulated into becoming monsters
It's almost like the show is course correcting now
Toei-Make it so that the monsters are transformed people! They'll eat it up! Ah! Have every Rider be fighting against the protagonist because of shenanigans!
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Yeah. Sentai's conflicts are usually pretty basic -- bad guys out to destroy/conquer, good guys out to stop them. KR gets more into clashing worldviews and personal agendas, and that's what keeps it interesting.
Still, I found it a bit implausible how easy it was for Reika to drive the team to the point of open conflict among themselves. I thought it'd take more than one episode to build up to that point.
I wonder why we've seen so little of Sophia lately. Is the actress busy or sick or something? She did have a brief new scene here, so I guess she's not gone altogether.
All the talk about how much had happened this year and how they should do a traditional cleansing of its "filth" and start fresh felt like a commentary on real life. Although I think it's something we need more in the US than they probably do in Japan.
Kougami operated in a gray area, but he was basically a good guy. A better example might be something like ZECT in Kabuto, the mentors of Wizard and Build, or more overtly malicious megacorporations like Faiz's Smart Brain or Gaim's Yggdrasil.
Logos is an interesting concept. It superficially means "word" in Greek, but it's much deeper than that. It basically embodies the idea that the expression of a concept, the naming of it, is equivalent to the concept itself, or to the very thing itself. It's the term used in the original Greek text of the Gospel of John -- "In the Beginning was the Word" (En arche en ho Logos). In other words, John asserts that God spoke/thought the universe into being, by stating the Word -- the Logos -- that defined it and therefore created it. And that seems to be literally the case in Saber's universe -- their world was created by being written in that great cosmic book. Fittingly, another translation of logos is "story," and it's related to legein, "to read." Their universe is a story, quite literally.
So the Sword of Logos -- the Sword of the Word, or the Sword of the Story -- would be an organization tied into the nature of their universe's creation. And it seems that it's a power that can be used for either good or evil, as both sides are pursuing it. Stands to reason that the book that created everything includes both good and bad within it. So it follows that the Sword of Logos could as well. Although it seems that it's mainly the Southern Base that's been corrupted.
Hey -- what if that place where we've seen the bad guys doing their plotting all season is the Southern Base?
It's weird to have a sword flying around without a wielder. It will make more sense if the blade is normally wielded by Saber.
But it's not the first time we've had a Rider turn into an object -- remember Lazer from Ex-Aid, who turned into a motorcycle. Also Accel from W kind of halfway turned into a bike as an alternate form. And then there were Decade's Final Form Rides, where he turned past/alternate Riders into versions of their trademark weapons or vehicles ("This might tickle a bit").
Kiramager episode 37.
Sena focus episode times 5
So that's how Kurantula solved. He sacrificed one of his copies.
I noticed the Pineapple Pen Joke with Hakataminami when he combined the two Sena's.
The scene with Sayo and Sena at the beach odd. I guess they wanted the girls to run into the water for dramatic effect?
The "A" plot was quickly resolved as we got the main event with the Yodon Emperor arriving and he's Yodonna?
We didn't get an explanation for why the emperor wanted to lure Oladdin out though.
Sena focus episode times 5
So that's how Kurantula solved. He sacrificed one of his copies.
I noticed the Pineapple Pen Joke with Hakataminami when he combined the two Sena's.
The scene with Sayo and Sena at the beach odd. I guess they wanted the girls to run into the water for dramatic effect?
The "A" plot was quickly resolved as we got the main event with the Yodon Emperor arriving and he's Yodonna?
We didn't get an explanation for why the emperor wanted to lure Oladdin out though.
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This was a good one, a nice solid character story. I was a bit disappointed that we didn't get more interplay of the five different aspects of Sena, but I guess four of them were pretty similarly cheerful, so there wouldn't have been much story there. I liked the angle that her pessimistic side considered herself unimportant, but it turned out to be her focus on worst-case scenarios that let Sena plan solutions in advance. So you can't succeed at optimism without pessimism to balance it -- then it becomes unrealistic and reckless.
And it's fitting that a story about the importance of considering worst-case scenarios culminates in a really worst-case scenario of Emperor Yodom showing up and wreaking havoc. Which confirms what I guessed last week (I wish I'd said something then to prove it), that Yodonna was Yodom in disguise, or that he was possessing her.
I thought they were hinting that Sena #5 was trying to commit suicide.
Looked to me like it was just to face him down and deliver his ultimatum. The emperor didn't consider anyone but the king to be worthy of addressing directly.
This is cool. Bandai's 1995 toy exhibition
Masked Rider's starts at 1:30 with a TON of placeholder footage from Kamen Rider Zo(which they also used in the show) I guess they didn't think kids would notice Masked Rider changes COMPLETELY into another different looking Kamen Rider.
The Power ranger segment is fun to look back at. Starts at 16:40 mark
This was during the height of Power Rangers popularity. The two people portraying "Red" and "Pinkie" really try to sell the merchandise. Although I don't think calling Pink a "Babe" would fly in this day and age
Masked Rider's starts at 1:30 with a TON of placeholder footage from Kamen Rider Zo(which they also used in the show) I guess they didn't think kids would notice Masked Rider changes COMPLETELY into another different looking Kamen Rider.
The Power ranger segment is fun to look back at. Starts at 16:40 mark
This was during the height of Power Rangers popularity. The two people portraying "Red" and "Pinkie" really try to sell the merchandise. Although I don't think calling Pink a "Babe" would fly in this day and age
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I wonder what the Japanese government must think about all the massive destruction brought about by the giant robot fights every year that a Super Sentai Team engages in?
What must the property insurance be like?
And are the older teams just held back as emergency help to be summoned incase this years team fails for whatever reason?
Every season is set in its own distinct universe, except in the crossovers, when they're in the same universe.
I joke, but Zenkaiger seems to be overtly treating each Sentai series as its own universe, unlike Gokaiger which treated them as a shared universe. Next door, Kamen Rider Decade treated all the Rider worlds as different universes, while Zi-O initially seemed to treat them as a single universe but later seemed to go with the idea that the timelines were being tampered with and separate worlds were merging.
So "Timey Wimey, Wibbly Wobley"?Every season is set in its own distinct universe, except in the crossovers, when they're in the same universe.
I joke, but Zenkaiger seems to be overtly treating each Sentai series as its own universe, unlike Gokaiger which treated them as a shared universe. Next door, Kamen Rider Decade treated all the Rider worlds as different universes, while Zi-O initially seemed to treat them as a single universe but later seemed to go with the idea that the timelines were being tampered with and separate worlds were merging.
More like plottly-wottly. The universe works whatever way is convenient for the current story.
新スーパー戦隊「機界戦隊ゼンカイジャー」会見を無料生配信、司会はカズレーザー - 映画ナタリー (natalie.mu)
Zenkaiger press conference confirmed to be live streaming at noon on 1/15 JST. (10 PM on 1/14, EST)
There is also a contest happening on the official twitter, trying to guess the lead actor via initials
(2) 機界戦隊ゼンカイジャー (@toei_ZENKAIGER) / Twitter
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Over on the Dino Fury side. We get a look at the basic figures and two packs
Zenkaiger press conference confirmed to be live streaming at noon on 1/15 JST. (10 PM on 1/14, EST)
There is also a contest happening on the official twitter, trying to guess the lead actor via initials
(2) 機界戦隊ゼンカイジャー (@toei_ZENKAIGER) / Twitter
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Over on the Dino Fury side. We get a look at the basic figures and two packs
The Dino Fury versions of the Ryuusoul Keys don't look like they have the flip-open capability.
Nope. They took it out completely which is really stupid. Some keys also have a holo foil effect
Dino Fury's VS Ryuusoulgers
Morpher also doesn't have the excitement of the original. Just a motion activated feature and roar
That's missing the whole point. The gimmick of the keys was that they looked like a dinosaur head in profile, then flipped open to look like an armored figure. It was rather clever, design-wise. Why lose that?
Kamen Rider Saber episode 17
Back after the new years day break.
We get to see the Southern Base which is just the Northern base with less tech and the lights turned off
For Saiko they added a bit of shaded to give it an ethereal look but there is a physical suit. He wasn't completely CGI except for one dodgy scene
The Yeti Megid kept reminding me of Norg from Operation Overdrive
I like that we're not immediately resolving the yeti MOTW. Interesting that when the book initially left the woman it looked like it was covered in blood.
Back after the new years day break.
We get to see the Southern Base which is just the Northern base with less tech and the lights turned off
For Saiko they added a bit of shaded to give it an ethereal look but there is a physical suit. He wasn't completely CGI except for one dodgy scene
The Yeti Megid kept reminding me of Norg from Operation Overdrive
I like that we're not immediately resolving the yeti MOTW. Interesting that when the book initially left the woman it looked like it was covered in blood.
Well, Saber is certainly getting less fluffy and more Kamen Rider-ish than it seemed initially. Intense stuff happening with the team's schism and the new enemy tactic turning civilians into Megiddo, and the conflict between Touma and Yuuri over saving them vs. killing them. It's another iteration of the monsters-as-transformed-humans dynamic we've seen before (W, Fourze, Ex-Aid to an extent, Build, Zi-O, and Zero-One if you count HumaGears). Probably closest to Zi-O in that it's the result of one of the main villains inserting a version of the season's collectible objects into the victim's body (as opposed to them doing it voluntarily as with W).
So Yuuri isn't a person at all, he's a sword that can project an illusion of a human form. I guess. And his catchphrase is calling things saikou (awesome/the best, or "prodigious" as TVNihon is subtitling it), which is also his Rider name. That's a bit on the nose, though it'd be more so if this show actually used the characters' Rider names more often.
So Yuuri isn't a person at all, he's a sword that can project an illusion of a human form. I guess. And his catchphrase is calling things saikou (awesome/the best, or "prodigious" as TVNihon is subtitling it), which is also his Rider name. That's a bit on the nose, though it'd be more so if this show actually used the characters' Rider names more often.
Some behind the scenes stunt rehearsal for "Dino Fury". You can see that the costumes of Ryuusoulger's Wiseru and Shen Minosaur are on set. No American name for them so far.
https://twitter.com/Jinsakuu/status/1349126391762198529
https://twitter.com/Jinsakuu/status/1349128669139230721
https://twitter.com/triofthegrid/status/1349171955040096257
https://twitter.com/Jinsakuu/status/1349126391762198529
https://twitter.com/Jinsakuu/status/1349128669139230721
https://twitter.com/triofthegrid/status/1349171955040096257