[shaowebb]

What ever happened to that first person RPG?

Wait...there was a WHAT now?

[Box of Bunnies]

Got preorders in for Red Hawk and the reissue of mai husbando Dickeido. Man, with Akiba Yellow, Red Hawk and Dickeido August is gonna be expensive.

I will ask one thing though about Great Battle Full Blast. You say you got it when it came out so did you manage to get the pre-order Kuuga character bonus? If so what is he like?

I got the first press bonus yeah, but never bothered to redeem it. They're just assist characters, so I imagine it'd just be a Rider Kick for Rider 2 and maybe Ultimate Kuuga or whatever for Kuuga.

Wait...there was a WHAT now?

Lost Heroes, a first person dungeon crawler Rider/Gundam/Ultraman crossover was announced for 3DS late last year but I don't think there's been much news in a while.

[WillyFive]

Red Hawk, Meteor Storm, and Taiga S.H. Figuarts:

And from the latest:

[Edag Plata]

Ohhhh man. I was out of the Figuarts game and then I see that Red Hawk flying picture....

[RiderKairuu]

That Meteor Storm figure is hot.

[Boss Doggie]

I disagree, I think Meteor Storm looks horrendous.

I prefer regular Meteor though - now that's sleek.

[WillyFive]

Yeah, original Meteor is really cool, especially it's asymmetrical design. Makes him look edgy. Same for the dark blue and black color scheme.

Meteor Storm uses the same color scheme as ShinkenGold, but it doesn't really look good with it. Looks like one of those flavored ice cream lollipops they sell on ice cream trucks that go around the neighborhood.

[Slayven]

I am disappointed Red Eyes is a regular Horoscope. I wanted him to be like the old dude from Kamen Rider Blade.

[Edag Plata]

The only thing I'm disappointed with Meteor Storm wise is that he doesn't go all Dairanger on the bad guys with the staff. I was hoping Mr. Woshaaaaaaaaaa would be really cool using a staff but not really.

[RiderKairuu]

I disagree, I think Meteor Storm looks horrendous. I prefer regular Meteor though - now that's sleek.

I'm just a Meteor fanboy :(

[Slayven]

Anyone subbed Jetman?

[Box of Bunnies]

Anyone subbed Jetman?

Grown Ups in Spandex picked it up a while back but're only up to episode 6. There's a complete set out there by CSCentral, but they're guess subs.

[WillyFive]

If you wanted the Jetman figures, and live in the US and Canada, then good news:

“Good news everyone, we will be able to offer D-Arts Dukemon from “Digimon” and S.H. Figuarts Red Hawk from Choujin Sentai Jetman to the U.S. and Canada! Images and pricing to follow later this week!” – Bluefin Tamashii Nations USA

[shaowebb]

I've been watching Kamen Rider W and I got a question...

What's everyone's take on the "secondary Riders" of each series? Like who had the coolest henshin's or powers or who was just lame for a Rider outside of the title Rider character in a series?

Since I've been watching Kamen Rider W here's my take on Kamen Rider Accel...

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I have to say I think he looks wrong to me for a Rider...so bulky. Though that may be because he is next to Kamen Rider W who is very low end on armor bulkiness creating this effect. Also the thing where he turns into a motorcycle is just laughably silly to me...however I am in love with his sword.


The thing works like a break action rifle and he slots in Gaia Memories into it to give it different abilities. He always slots in Engine and each other memory he slots changes its powers

Jet=bitching projectile
Electric=shocking
Steam=Burning steam attacks

Best use of a gunblade thing I've seen since pulling the trigger activates an ability and not a bullet on it. Feel free to post your thoughts on whatever secondary riders you wanna talk on be it you hating on them or loving on them. Just tell us why because I can't be the only new guy to so many Riders here and it'd be cool to discuss various Riders for awhile and all their stuff.
Here's hoping Kamen Rider TheBee comes up

[Phoenixazure]

Another great Episode of Akibaranger. Definitely had a twist at the end that I was not expecting but felt was executed well. Next episode looks amazing as hell.

[WillyFive]

Jet-o-Man!!!!

[Boss Doggie]

Yeah, original Meteor is really cool, especially it's asymmetrical design. Makes him look edgy. Same for the dark blue and black color scheme. Meteor Storm uses the same color scheme as ShinkenGold, but it doesn't really look good with it. Looks like one of those flavored ice cream lollipops they sell on ice cream trucks that go around the neighborhood.

Oh god I can't unsee him as a candy

[RiderKairuu]

I've been watching Kamen Rider W and I got a question... What's everyone's take on the "secondary Riders" of each series? Like who had the coolest henshin's or powers or who was just lame for a Rider outside of the title Rider character in a series?

Accel was dope in W, not one of my favorite secondary Riders the suit design/weapon is always an honorable mention.
Kamen Rider Fourze
For me first and foremost I have to say most recently I'm digging Meteor (duh). The suit design fits very well with the motif of Fourze, while I think his actual moves are silly like planet fisting and such, I think the whole disco Bruce Lee gimmick is really cool. I do like the Saturn rings attack though. Above everything else the actual character of Ryuusei is what I like most. Initially he comes off as just another douche secondary but you learn more about his character almost right after he debuts.
Kamen Rider Den O
Kamen Rider Zeronos is probably the only thing I really like about Den O besides the comedy bit. It's another Rider who I think is well rounded in terms of character and the relationship he has with his Imagin Deneb is down right charming. Zeronos' weapons aren't anything spectacular but I like how its a good mix up range and melee. Vega form was ugly though.
Kamen Rider Kiva
I'll just say that seeing Nago walk into his henshin was the coolest. I think Nago is too one dimensional as a character.

I was going to touch on Ryuki but then I thought "who's actually considered secondary on that show??" lol.

[vareon]

I've been watching Kamen Rider W and I got a question... What's everyone's take on the "secondary Riders" of each series? Like who had the coolest henshin's or powers or who was just lame for a Rider outside of the title Rider character in a series?

Hibiki, Ibuki and Todoroki felt like they were true comrades in battle. They cover each other's weaknesses and each has a role to the story.



The other one I liked is Zeronos. He has a massive consequence in using his power, I like how he practically told himself to keep fighting.

[Parallax]

The other one I liked is Zeronos. He has a massive consequence in using his power, I like how he practically told himself to keep fighting.

Zeronos was such an awesome design. But to be fair, i really liked all of the secondary and villain designs from den-o like gaoh and yuuki

[shaowebb]

Accel was dope in W, not one of my favorite secondary Riders the suit design/weapon is always an honorable mention. Kamen Rider Fourze For me first and foremost I have to say most recently I'm digging Meteor (duh). The suit design fits very well with the motif of Fourze, while I think his actual moves are silly like planet fisting and such, I think the whole disco Bruce Lee gimmick is really cool. I do like the Saturn rings attack though. Above everything else the actual character of Ryuusei is what I like most. Initially he comes off as just another douche secondary but you learn more about his character almost right after he debuts. Kamen Rider Den O Kamen Rider Zeronos is probably the only thing I really like about Den O besides the comedy bit. It's another Rider who I think is well rounded in terms of character and the relationship he has with his Imagin Deneb is down right charming. Zeronos' weapons aren't anything spectacular but I like how its a good mix up range and melee. Vega form was ugly though. Kamen Rider Kiva I'll just say that seeing Nago walk into his henshin was the coolest. I think Nago is too one dimensional as a character. I was going to touch on Ryuki but then I thought "who's actually considered secondary on that show??" lol.

From everything I've seen of Meteor he seems really fun and he's one of the biggest reason I'm looking forward to Fourze. Is his personality as pimpin as his theme?
Also was Nago Kamen Rider Ixa? If so that dude looks friggin' awesome and every clip I've snuck and watched ahead of the series seems to portray him as a complete badass. Zeronos is one I haven't read up on yet though. I'll have to check up on him since Den-O is one of those series where comedy ran amok and I wonder how things came across (though I love the rice guy from all I've seen and may enjoy it).

Hibiki, Ibuki and Todoroki felt like they were true comrades in battle. They cover each other's weaknesses and each has a role to the story. The other one I liked is Zeronos. He has a massive consequence in using his power, I like how he practically told himself to keep fighting.

Oooh slick. Thats the series where the Riders are all themed on musical instruments that originally wasn't intended to be a Kamen Rider series aint it? I rocked the Guitar guy (Todoroki?) as my wallpaper forever just on sheer concept principles and the helmets in that show have influenced several designs I'm polishing for my portfolio. Seriously though if you saw someone cosplay any of those three and you didn't know what they were from wouldn't they still look cool enough to be excited for anyways? Awesome designer there...(Here's Guitar Guy's helmet for sale BTW)

Also, wow at all the Zeronos. Two for Two responses quoting him and we've just started discussing secondary Riders. What are some of his moves like? You have my attention with this guy and he is now on my radar.

[Box of Bunnies]

Akiba 05 is heartbreaking. Akagi's Chogokin ;_;

[Wiseblade]

Go-Buster

Blue Buster is easily the best thing about this show right now.

Fourze

Cosmic State would look a lot better without those floppy wings on the shoulders...

Akibaranger

[Parallax]

akiba keeps fucking being awesome(despite the ending anyway).

[RiderKairuu]

Ryuusei isn't a super bad ass by any means, but his personality and his reason for fighting makes it hard to dislike him despite him doing some questionable things, especially when the shit hits the fan.

Zeronos' weapons are kind of cool. As I mentioned he has a mix of melee and range, he has a crossbow that doubles as a sword when he gets up close. I may be forgetting some since it has been a while.

[WillyFive]

akiba keeps fucking being awesome(despite the ending anyway).

Despite? Naw man.

[/XX/]

With the cooperation of Studio Ghibli, a 'TOKUSATSU – Special Effects Museum' will open this summer in our museum. This exhibition will spotlight the special craftsmanship such as seen in "miniatures", and will present on an unprecedented scale its entrancing world that is distinct from VFX or CG. It will focus on the appeal of Japan's world-classvisual techniques, known as'TOKUSATSU'.

http://www.ntv.co.jp/tokusatsu/english.html

Some photographs from the presentation of this upcoming exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and titled TOKUSATSU – Special Effects Exhibition:

庵野秀明が企画、ジブリ短編で“巨神兵”が実写化！ : 映画ニュース - 映画.com
http://eiga.com/news/20120510/10/

Previous information was provided by duckroll on the thread 'Spring Anime 2012 II | Welcome Home Eureka' from this forums (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...ostcount=12701).

[WillyFive]

That's awesome. The miniatures used for these shows always fascinate me. In the age of CGI, honest physical models are a rarity.

Also, Fourze vs. OOO Movie Max. The fight scenes for the movie were fantastic, probably the best I have seen from Kamen Rider. Sakamoto is an excellent director for this genre, it's amazing how much Power Rangers' tiny budget limited him.

However, I still don't like the formula for these movies (having it separated into sections). Although this one did it better than the previous one, it was still very tiring to sit through.

Also, it's cool how the movie had a fully CGI fight scene, just like Iron Man. However, it was still cartoony, since their CGI is not really up to making it look as good as live action suits. Felt more like an animated version of the show, but baby steps are good steps.

[Slayven]

Damn the last ep of Akibaranger blew Gobuster's away in characterization. It was already doing it, but this took up about 10 levels.


In the Super Hero Taisen movie, anyone want to bet the way I imagine the Gokaiger as OOOs will be 100x better then what happens on screen? I mean Doc with an army of clones?

[Slayven]

Liveman's enemy mooks were no joke, they whooped the team's ass the first fight.

[WillyFive]

Liveman's enemy mooks were no joke, they whooped the team's ass the first fight.

I was more distracted by the terrorist attack that destroyed a giant ship that crashed on a city that killed thousands of people, after the protagonists put picture frames of their dead students inside so that they could go into space just like they wanted back when they were alive.

[shaowebb]

Okay I gotta know something. Is there any character more irritating than Akiko in Kamen Rider W? She overacts everything she does and does it while screaming at the top of her lungs and slipper slapping everyone. Maybe if she was mute like Harpo Marx this character could be entertaining, but she is one giant harpy of irritating dumb from beginning of Kamen Rider W till the end.

Is anyone else this irritating or does she hold the tiara for biggest "needs to STFU" character in Kamen Riders?

[Parallax]

Okay I gotta know something. Is there any character more irritating than Akiko in Kamen Rider W? She overacts everything she does and does it while screaming at the top of her lungs and slipper slapping everyone. Maybe if she was mute like Harpo Marx this character could be entertaining, but she is one giant harpy of irritating dumb from beginning of Kamen Rider W till the end. Is anyone else this irritating or does she hold the tiara for biggest "needs to STFU" character in Kamen Riders?

She stands out in kamen rider for this very reason. She's incredibly annoying, and not in the faiz way of somehow being annoying and awesome that the secondary cast is. Its a good thing the story in W is awesome,

[WillyFive]

I love Akiko, she's very entertaining and is part of why Kamen Rider W is so great.

Also, a 48 hour marathon of Ninja Storm is coming to Nicktoons in June.

[vareon]

Okay I gotta know something. Is there any character more irritating than Akiko in Kamen Rider W? She overacts everything she does and does it while screaming at the top of her lungs and slipper slapping everyone. Maybe if she was mute like Harpo Marx this character could be entertaining, but she is one giant harpy of irritating dumb from beginning of Kamen Rider W till the end. Is anyone else this irritating or does she hold the tiara for biggest "needs to STFU" character in Kamen Riders?

Shizuka of Kamen Rider Kiva, of course. Akiko is the daughter of both main character's mentor. Doesn't mean that she's not annoying, but Shotaro kinda balanced that out.

Shizuka has no relevance to anything in Kiva whatsoever. I'm not even sure he's aware of Kivat and Wataru's powers or not. She's just...there. And then there were times when she was just written out of the show for a while and came back for no reason.

[Slayven]

Shizuka of Kamen Rider Kiva, of course. Akiko is the daughter of both main character's mentor. Doesn't mean that she's not annoying, but Shotaro kinda balanced that out. Shizuka has no relevance to anything in Kiva whatsoever. I'm not even sure he's aware of Kivat and Wataru's powers or not. She's just...there. And then there were times when she was just written out of the show for a while and came back for no reason.

That always bothered me, did they were explain why she hangs with Wataru?

[ReXXXSoprano]

Comes in thread.

Sees that he wasn't the only one who teared up at the end of Akibarangers 5.

Doesn't feel so bad now.

That episode was so touching.

The last two episodes of a Toku that did that for me was W Episode Final and PGSM 47.

Evil Ryuuji is Go-Busters right now.

And Genny's got a girlfriend.

[Parallax]

Comes in thread. Sees that he wasn't the only one who teared up at the end of Akibarangers 5. Doesn't feel so bad now. That episode was so touching. The last two episodes of a Toku that did that for me was W Episode Final and PGSM 47. Evil Ryuuji is Go-Busters right now. And Genny's got a girlfriend.

dubs final was the best ending to the kamen riders ive seen so far.

and yes, hot blooded ryuuji is indeed the strongest point of the series. which is sad.

[WillyFive]

and yes, hot blooded ryuuji is indeed the strongest point of the series. which is sad.

[Slayven]

From what I seen the Megamax fights are pretty cool. I am glad because the Accel special made me want to burn some shit.

[Wiseblade]

Go-Buster

Repping that babelfish translation, I see.

Fourze

About time JK did something. He's been part of the background for far too long.

[Boss Doggie]

Very neat episode, but this image got me



Also, dat Engrish and dat nicoyoutube

[Edag Plata]

See, it's weird. I like Go-Busters, but I don't like Go-Busters at the same time. I feel like the only weak point is the writing, which is sad coming from the writer of Shinkenger, Timeranger, and Gingaman. Maybe she's just burnt out. She did Shinkenger, then not long after OOO, then not long after Go-Busters. Who knows?

I mean, I love the designs of the suits, the mecha, the weapons, the visual parts of the show, etc but the characters are boring and the plots seem lazy in the writing. Like, it's cool that they keep losing and stuff, but its almost like they don't care at all. Not even a "sorry we lost the earring that means so much to you and helped the bad guys gets one huge step closer to kicking our asses...".

And this past episode...it was straight out of Gingaman (and for those of you who haven't seen Gingaman, they did use the plot in Lost Galaxy). It's too bad because this show could be very cool but it just feels like the writing is just NOT THERE. :-/

And btw, thanks for posting the capture of the Engrish email she sent Yoko. :P

[WillyFive]

I don't think it's the problem of the writing, at least for me. I think it's the problem of either the director, editor, choreographer, music team, or creative heads that make the show seem really stale and boring.

It is in direct contrast with Gokaiger, which was always upbeat and exciting, it had really good pacing that never allowed for a dull moment. But in Go-Busters, even the fight scenes seem like dull moments.

[vareon]

Fourze

I love the new opening clips, it shows how much everything has developed since the series' beginning. Capricorn had a pretty cool design, and it's good that we have JK's character development episode since he never had any important role ever since Meteor came.

Go-busters

I'm not feeling anyone concern about Go-busters actually, but maybe that's because I don't watch many Sentai before. I still like how the team is often split out to deal with threats in different places. Also again Enter succeeds.

[Wark]

Fourze I love the new opening clips, it shows how much everything has developed since the series' beginning. Capricorn had a pretty cool design, and it's good that we have JK's character development episode since he never had any important role ever since Meteor came.

I'm on episode 27 and I have to say I'm hooked on this show.

I've watched a couple Kamen Rider series in the past (the first series and Black) and I was wondering if anyone could suggest others? Likewise, I've watched a handful of Super Sentai series (Zyuranger, Jetman, and a pieces of a few others) and some suggestions on what to watch next would be nice.

[Slayven]

Hiromi is the worse red since Carter, he is worse then Carter.

[Parallax]

Hiromi is the worse red since Carter, he is worse then Carter.

hopefully he can turn it around becuase damn.

oh wait, samurai red is dull as fuck too. maybe gobusters is reflecting power rangers samurai?

[Boss Doggie]

Hiromi is the worse red since Carter, he is worse then Carter.

You dissin' on Lightspeed Carter? Holy shit! He's like one of the best reds - not holding back and immediately uses lasurs!

[WillyFive]

I'm on episode 27 and I have to say I'm hooked on this show. I've watched a couple Kamen Rider series in the past (the first series and Black) and I was wondering if anyone could suggest others? Likewise, I've watched a handful of Super Sentai series (Zyuranger, Jetman, and a pieces of a few others) and some suggestions on what to watch next would be nice.

Try Gekiranger and W!