#but yeah i really like gaim :)

[t-u-i-t-c]

10 Years of Kamen Rider Gaim

[kizuike]

I think I haven't had the bit about why I won't fb if you mostly post Madoka in my dni in a while so if anyone has questions as to why: I recognize how much it means to the large amount of people (especially WLW) who watched it as tweens/young teens and had some Realizations because of it, and I have nothing against the vast majority of its fans, but I'm not very comfortable with frequently seeing uncritical praise of a series about young teenage girls written by a man whose other best known work is a lolicon eroge (which is something I almost never see Madoka fans acknowledge outside of still very rare vague "Urobuchi is kinda weird" statements)

[digitalgate02]

It's a miracle i managed to color this one because I was also almost not coloring everything in it LOL

So here's the baddies' outfits... On Daisuke. Yeah. If you read the previous post about this AU, you will remember he just starts as one of the lackeys of the big bad (which is Daemon and the Demon Lords) -- but the twist here is that... He wasn't aware of this at all, he believed the lab he was working at was some sort of digimon vet clinic/lab.

Well, you can see the color palette for the outfit is using the same ones from Daemon’s cloak :) 

And why the heckie does he appear wearing that getup in a vet clinic/lab? Well, he didn’t know either, but they claimed that it was for protection against certain digimon abilities (a lie, yeah) – but it makes no sense when he gets in touch with Chibimon and the digimon is not even that dangerous as he was told about. The digimon are some sort of critters from another world like in the canon, but I'm picturing them like the critters from Gaim (the Inves), as in, having their own world and the humans using them for some selfish purposes (eh, this is a bit of Cyber Sleuth/Hacker’s Memory too… Yup)

Oh yeah, Daisuke is not working alone in the “vet lab” apparently. He got coworkers. Some are nice, some are just so ready to dunk Daisuke into the trashcan because of him fooling around (he only does that when he’s BORED, y’know?? his job is really BORING!!) but I’m not sure who they are, if they are my OCs or if they are other characters from the canon or even from… the franchise in general. The other kiddo in the getup screaming at him there is… [drum rolls]

Himekawa Maki.

I know, this sounds really funny to think about… I want to just re-use all my ideas for Maki and Daigo so bad you can’t even. And I think I’m de-aging her a little and she’s only 3 years older than Taichi/Yamato/Sora/Meiko/Menoa here. She and Daigo are the same age tho.

Maki is Daisuke’s supervisor btw. Daigo… Well, he does not work here, but I’ll leave him for another post in the future.

And speaking of Daisuke’s circle of friends, who’re none than the same group he got in the canon universe… They all want him to quit that job for his own sanity. Ken, Miyako and Iori are way more vocal about this, meanwhile Takeru, Rui and Wallace try their best, but are not muuuuuuuuuch vocal. And Hikari? Hikari’s a mystery. She doesn’t like him working for that “vet clinic” and then thinks he should quit, but she’s the least vocal about it. I wonder why…

He didn’t quit it yet BECAUSE he claims he needs the money and this is the only job he got.

(and yeah, Daisuke’s backpack has a certain hedgehog’s keychain.)

[cowboymantis]

(Spoiler free for the Yakuza amazon series, just vague thoughts! HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT WETHER YOU'VE PLAYED YAKUZA BEFORE OR NOT!!)

I didn't want to finish it yet (because that means it's over), but I have now finished the Yakuza show, and BOY did I already love the first episodes, but it was even more peak in the last ones 😭😭😭😭

I was so excited for it, although the fandom showed its annoying side again, but I didn't let that influence my happiness for it, and I just enjoyed it to the fullest 🙏 Of course I had some worries before watching, but it was just really good. Perfect? No, but let's not act like Yakuza 1 is perfect either (I'm saying this as someone who had Yakuzer brainrot for many years now and is never escaping it), and the fandom now all of a sudden wants to act like Yakuza 1 is the greatest masterpiece ever and how everything that changes it is BAD

Anyywayy...

Definitely really loved the focus being more on the Sunflower kids and how they grew up and eventually got tangled into the Yakuza business! It made one scene in particular WAAY more emotional and sad than in the games 🥺

And wow. They really bamboozled us with hiding a certain character from us, huh...

Loved how many actors I recognised :'D Some were definitely a surprise, because we didn't know much of the cast beforehand!

I remember when they first showed a photo of Indy, and I thought, huh. He kinda looks like Namioka Kazuki (Sid's actor from Kamen Rider Gaim). But I might imagine things because I've been watching some dramas with him in it (I absolutely love his roles they're so embarrassing but funny but also kinda adorable (like Sid for example 😭)). BUT THEN HE APPEARED AND IT TOTALLY WAS HIM . AND HE WAS WEARING A COWBOY HAT HELLO???

Another thing I enjoyed was the mystery around the demons! Something completely new that leaves you speculating from the start. I was guessing who they might be other than that they're working with a certain character, for the longest time I thought maybe they could be the Jingweon, because of the masks. Of course not saying anything to that, but yeah. I cannot really tell how much I liked the resolution to that, since uh. I have questions left ldjdkf

The finale was just great too, and this one scene that looked a lot like the Yakuza 7 finale...

And so so many beautiful and aesthetic scenes with Nishiki 🥲 He's truly the goat in every version... And a poor little meow meow 😭

At first, I was unsure if I could take him seriously because I knew his actor from the drama Super Salaryman and . Well. Let's just say he's unbearable (in a funny way).. But his actor really did SUCH a perfect job in portraying him, and sometimes his voice reminded me so much of game Nishiki 🥺

Speaking of Nishiki, a Yakuza stageplay Nishiki and Amazon series Kiryu collab would be funny. It would be like a Kamen Rider Gaim X Kamen Rider Drive collab, but Yakuza 💀 Kamen Rider and Yakuzer are always weirdly connected...

Oh!! And another thing, the soundtrack fr sounded like straight out of the games sometimes, it was really cool! And the music during the finale was so hype it probably could be a cool final boss theme in the games :) Or at least a final long battle theme!

Majima was fun too, although I feel like if you know absolutely nothing about Yakuza and Majima, you'd be a bit confused about him. He really feels like you have to know him to be excited about him, if that makes sense?

But then, on the other hand, there's a big "plot twist" at the end of the show, and it almost even feels like a dramatic cliffhanger. But it's something everyone who played the game knew, and I kinda assumed it a bit to be canon to the show too. So yeah, I feel like this is a bit of a problem with this show: It can't decide whether it is purely for fans of the games, or newcomers. Or maybe they just added a mix of game canon and new canon to make it more exiting for both sides? I always try to see criticism I give in another light, aka "why did they do it this way?", so I'm a bit conflicted in certain choices!

[faketokufan]

Alrighty! I was looking forward to the heart of the cards and the return of the shadow games... But it looks like we're getting alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange. Which I'm okay with really... just a little disappointment. But anyway.

Lets talk about what just happened.

Boy man child over here seems like... hows the best way to put this... like Kaito Goshikida at home? Like he even has his own chaise your dreams and push it to the MAX catchphrase in Gotcha, which like... holly hell sense this is JUST pokemon it's one planck length away from being copyright infringement... But I like em! Seems like a wholesome lad and a good boi which after Ace is a breath of fresh air. I'll take Diet Kaito over sugar free Tendou any day. All in all a 6/10 boi which I'm interested in seeing more of.

Girl Lady over here on the other hand has a diverging path ahead of her. We can get a cool competent and strong battle heroine who's got tertiary rider written all over her... Or we can get a "B-B-B-BAKA" TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTsundere who's gunna be a petulant child while the writers make Hotaro instantly good at everything she's trained her entire life for... Which do YOU think Toei will do? Feel free to write your answer on a letter and mail it to 5425 Toei Hates Women St, Toluca Lake California.

...Gaim I hope I'm wrong...

Also! Check out my two weed smoking girlfriends and their little sister... So they've got some serious Egyptian theming right?... Why isn't this more Yugioh! Seriously! I am so FUCKING moderately perturbed by this you have NO idea... Anyway they're alright. Runs the gambit of "Fight Girl" "Horny Girl" and "Creepy Little Girl" so like... While the Evil Counsel of Tropes over here is very played out I see some real potential.

lets see.... what else... what....... else....

I would die for you. You have no idea how much I love you. You are now the most important thing in this show and maybe the franchise as a whole, I will purchase all of your merchandise and dedicate myself to your cause. 11/10, could not be improved upon. Perfect son that I will never tire of.

So yeah I'm looking forward to the Hopper 1 show featuring Hopper 1 and his less important friends...

...

Also the fucken Dead guy from the opening is Hotaro's dad right? Like a part of me was like "If they make Decade Hotaro's dad I'll eat my fucken lungs" but there's no fucken way they'll be that cool.

[nugulover69]

Dr Pac Man vs Ex-aid & Ghost movie livewatch notes (ex-aid spoilers. spoilers for other shows too probably)

-Holy shit Tanahashi

-Ah this is pre-looney tunes Kuroto I see

-Should mention that I’ve never seen Ghost and all I know abt Takeru is that he has died several times prior to this. good on him for getting an education tho

-Oh shit he’s friends with a monk that’s rad

-"People bitten by the pacmen are developing symptoms of high fever" guess you could say. that they got. pacman fever

-The Pacmen @ Takeru: grrrrr fuck this guy in particular no more henshin belt for you

-Hiiro's dad is so useless love him

-Monk dude laughing at Poppy's name and no one reacting. it's a silly name guys he's right to giggle abt it

-Iconic lines in cinema

-Heyyyy pre-character development Taiga, missed you ice king <3

-Takeru very correct abt how incredible Emu's patience is. a teenager mouths off to me i'm turning them into a pretzel

-Feel like that's surprising regardless of profession Emu

-DON'T GIVE KUROTO ANY POWERFUL DEVICES DANGER DANGER DANGER

-Sorry abt your rider transformation impotence cop man

-The baddie's whole deal is directly tied into Emu birthing Parad lmao???

-Takeru and his lady friend have been bugged. sad. also a pair of additional twinks are just Here now

-Weirdly loud and echo-y ADR grunting going on

-KIRIYA JUMPSCARE

-Takeru's powers coming back bc he believed in himself hard enough. just like parappa the rapper

-A moment of appreciation for Hiroki Iijima's crooked teeth

-These henshin belts talk too much like shut UPPPPP

-This shit must overstimulating as fuck to kids. so much noise and bright lights good god

-Pacman is Fucking Dead

-Quit flirting on the job you two

-Emu being hysterical bc he couldn't save one teenager oh yeah you def have not endured the Horrors yet huh buddy

-"I believe there's a special power dwelling inside Emu" yeah its a 6 ft grown ass man dressed like a rave clown marinating in his boy womb

-Is Akari Takeru's like. girlfriend or sister or really good friend bc I cannot tell

-Takeru also spending a lot of this movie grunting in pain and falling over. i assume that's accurate to how he is in his own show

-SOUTOU EXCITE EXCITE TAKANARU EXCITE EXCITE KOKORO GA-

-Don't like Wizard's hideous pink pants

-TANAHASHI DID THE SLINGBLADE TO A COP THIS MOVIE RULES ACTUALLY

-FRUIT SAMURAI IS HERE NOW

-Aw Drive's belt is a lil guy that's cute

-Love that Gaim showed up already in his suit. was his non-suit actor sick that day of shooting or what

-Ridiculous group of individuals right here

-"BANANA AU LAIT" real attack name

-Think I watched a porno like this once. less special effects but just as much non-consensual penetration

-Parad violating Emu's mind exhibit #587

-Emu once again having more chemistry with a guy not in his own show. Emu should have given him mouth-to-mouth here actually

-DRIVE KNOCKED UP SOMEBODY???????

-Surprise Hiiro cake watch! Very pretty cake!

-ALL OF EX-AID WAS PACMAN'S FAULT CONFIRMED

Closing thots: I had fun watching this! I probably would have enjoyed it a lil more if I knew anything abt Ghost or the other riders, but thankfully this was mostly an ex-aid movie ft. others so it didn't dampen the viewing experience all that much. I liked seeing Tanahashi for the whole 2 minutes of screentime he got, the slingblade to Drive was sick as fuck. Plentiful Emu ryona as well; slightly less graphic than when Asakura shoved light tube glass into his eyeballs but still pretty brutal! And hot! What else uhhh the actor playing Takeru is really handsome in a slightly off putting way. His suit is kinda uggo tho, shame.

7/10 pacman died for our sins

[ankhisms]

i love that last night when i was watching the toq gaim crossover movie absolutely no one tried to convince me that "no gaim is really good actually trust me" everyone was just like no yeah gaim is like that. yeah dont take kaito seriously. yeah kouta is like a cardboard cutout of a guy

[guster-animations]

haven’t used tumblr much for like a year so

if anyone’s still interested

i’ve been mostly hyperfixating on kamen rider since my Build Mass Reblog Of Christmas Eve 2023. after build i watched (in this order) gaim, OOO, ex-aid, gotchard, ohsama sentai king-ohger, den-o, and now double

den-o gave me emotional damage

i probably talked about the idea in december but i am now well into working on my rider video essay now featuring the first Five seasons i watched

i’m also learning japanese. which started as being curious about the jp splatoon comp scene but unsurprisingly became more of a rider thing

can anyone believe that i still unironically like homestuck after 4 years. i can’t really. it’s like just a thing on the side like ��oh yeah i still like that” anytime i’m reminded of it’s existence. though i have annoyed some rider fans with a dumb ass “gotchard = homestuck” conspiracy theory

[stickers-on-a-laptop]

Top 5 most puntable kamen rider protags. kick those boys while they’re down I say

since this says protags i assume you mean main riders and i'll do that first but then imma just do some guys that need kicking

ryoutarou den-o. my poor bad luck dude

shoutarou w. my dude you are a fucking loser and that's why we love you but you are a loser

shinji ryuki. bro didn't deserve to be in that story

wataru kiva. bro REALLY didn't deserve to be in kiva

kouta gaim. yeah i mean that's just. y'know. gaim. but poor dude.

guys that need kicking:

HOUJOU AGITO. THROWING HIM IN THE SUN. I THOUGHT INOUE LOVED ME ENOUGH TO MAKE HIM EXPLODE AND I WAS WRONG.

kageyama kabuto. the second he was mean to gon i was like WHATEVER HAPPENS WILL BE DESERVED.

the fuckin. i never remember his name and i actually erased him from my memory until my friends started watching w. the creepy dopant doctor guy. WHAT was that about. WHY was he there.

shinnosuke drive for duh reasons

jun ryuki for rider time ryuki

[biomic]

Remember when you were actively really angry about Gaim and Drive, instead of passively angry about them like you are now?

yeah, honestly glad to leave that era behind me. i think back to how often i'd complain about those two and a few others and im shocked more of yall didn't get sick of me lmao

at this point i'd rather just focus on all the stuff i love about toku and be more charitable in my criticisms of what i don't, rather than going on and on about how (x) show sucks. i know if revice had aired as is in 2016 i'd probably still be excessively ragging on everything i disliked about it, as opposed to walking away from it on a good note and being able to look back fondly on the things that clicked with me. feels like i probably rained on a few people's parades back in the day and i just don't wanna do that anymore. peace and love on planet earmth ✌️

[mickstart]

can i ask the context behind your distaste for g00d 0m3ns? censored for your sake

I don't even know if I'd call it distaste I don't really have a good word for how I feel about it? I was a huge fan of the book when I was a teen and I was so excited about an adaptation starring two actors whose work I really enjoy no less but... Idk. Something about the show and the subsequent response to it left me feeling very "oh all the joy has been sucked out of this". I think a lot of it was the completely ridiculous discourse it spawned and people either blaming gaim*n for world hunger or claiming he'd singlehandedly solved transphobia.

So yeah it's not that I specifically dislike the show or the material itself it's more the mood surrounding it + some complicated feelings about representation of queer identity under capitalism that is literally my preferred PhD topic and I don't have the resources on me right now to explain in a way that wouldn't feel like a simplification.

[t-u-i-t-c]

1, 2, 5, 22, 27 for gif asks!

1-How did you get into graphics / gif making?

I just liked the look of gifs and when I started out I wanted to have specific gifs that I couldn't find. My 9 panel sets that I do every now and then are actually part of this, as my Ankh and Eiji set is one of my earlier sets that I really wanted to get into giffing to make. However, I really got into the idea of making gifs while watching Gaim, even though Kamen Rider OOO made up quite a few of my earlier gifs. One of my first sets was a Gaim set, and I have since remade it, but it's still not perfect (the subtitle coloring is a bit off in spots...).

2-Do you do something creative/related “irl” as well?

Yeah. I knit, embroider, sew, paint, draw, etc. Am I good at any of these? Not particularly, but I live y'know?

5-What do you dislike most about making graphics / gifs?

Coloring can be so difficult and frustrating. It can be especially difficult if a series has coloring inconsistencies or the coloring is generally very green.

I also struggle a lot with being more creative with my gifs. I have a lot of ideas and visions for the types of sets I'd like to make but I always end up playing it safe and sticking to what I know, especially when it comes to gifs with text, I cannot font pair to save my life.

22-What is your biggest improvement since you started making graphics and or gifs?

Coloring. My early gifs are way too pink/red. Here's a Sonoi gif I made in May of 2022 and a quick remake I did for the sake of comparison today. Here's a really good post that helped me improve on my coloring.

Here's a frame of the remake with the old coloring and a frame from the old one with the new coloring to show more of the improvement.

(Note that the quality is different and so is the method of making the gifs so the coloring is not exact on the frame examples)

27-Advice you’d give yourself when you were starting out?

Look into tutorials. There's so many tutorials that are readily available on Tumblr that could really help with improving in areas and learning to do new things. Templates, fonts, resources, and more have been made and provided by other graphic/gif makers and are free to use (follow the proper guidelines set by the creators).

Here's my giffing tag where I put posts related to giffing, whether it be tutorials, fonts, resources, or just posts about giffing in general.

Ask a Graphic/Gif Maker

[eliasdrid]

god i wish I could give a full response your thing is rly well thought out but I gotta go to bed two hours ago,,, but the most immediate thought is GOD YEAH IVE SEEN MISORAS PLOT DONE BETTER IN OCCULTIC;NINE. And that show is wildly cringe! But uhhhhhhh. God. Fuck. The entire dad plot is just such a fuckup and there’s so lack of caring with the building theme… also I was trying to think of a rider rec for you since geats, my favorite, is out…but…mein gott I think I’ve only seen *all of the battle royale seasons of rider*. And also Build and Gaim. If…you can handle Gen Urobuchi writing, I’d recommend Gaim? I’ve also seen Revice but good LORD Revice sucks, it’s tragic that for it’s run it had the best female kamen rider Ever but Na-Go took that crown and ran with it immediately afterward, so…yayyyy her!

Aw thanks, I think my wording got a bit weird at times but I did get most of the things that bother me down.

I haven't watched that but I can believe it. The show really trips on itself at the end. As I said before I think it forgets a little what it is about and its characters + pre-existent lore/information.

Gaim sounds interesting and I have vague knowledge of Revice but I don't think I'll watch Revice.

Replying to this too!

I might still check out Geats again someday, I really liked the suits I mentioned and if liking the suits got me through Build's finale maybe it'll get me through Geats beginning...

I only know about Blade because Tachibana (Mr. Amano) is now on King Ohger and people were talking about it on tokutwt, I enjoyed his acting on his antagonist debut episode so I wonder how he did on Blade... speaking of blade/sword Kamen Riders I'm also considering watching Saber (because they have that crossover with Zenkaiger and it seemed fun tbh). Ryuki is on my list! So I'll get to it eventually, it was recommended to me by a friend.

[tsuki-sennin]

Azamuki kazamuki yomitori Mata te o kumi uragiri Kitai to negai akiramenai Kachitotta yume no naka de Tell me Nani o mitsukeru?

where were u wen dezagra die?

i was at house eating dorito when phone ring

"dezagra is kil"

"no"

I can't fucking believe this show is ending next week. Seems like it was just yesterday when I was making unfunny gamer jokes, taking a shine to the stripped back sound design, and speculating what the point of all this DGP crap even was.

Now the goddamn world is seconds away from ending~~!

Spoilers, I guess...

-"Come, my beloved audience. Spam poggers in the chat if you're excited to watch billions die."

-Oh, that's a focus.

-Hello, Tsumuri.

-Our very last DGP.

-Soba~! Tanuki soba, maybe?

-Everybody loves Keiwa-kun~!

-Kamen Rider counts.

-Are you a Kamen Rider?

-Hello, Kromer. Yeah, I'm still goin' with that.

-Oh, I recognize this location. I think Baron started assaulting people here in Gaim.

-OH

-Okay

-Everybody's playing this game, whether they want to or not.

-Zagizuki Real.

-No hesitation on Ace's part to immediately jump in.

-"Only one person gets to live <3"

-"The most viewed stream in human history. A legend that will be passed down through the ages as the cruelest extinction event. ...by the way, please be sure to purchase merchandise at-"

-OH???

-Hooray!

-Love won out!

-Jesus Christ, it really is a Twitch chat.

-"Those who don't play, die."

-Not on Buffa's watch~!

-Oh shit, Mark 2.

-"No, you don't."

-Gonna prolong this season for as long as we can, huh?

-I wonder... I know the future has literal intelligent design, but what qualifies someone for the role of Game Master?

-"Game Masters, huh...?"

-Oh hi Kousei, where've you been?

-At least look her in the eye when you say that, man.

-Welcome home.

-"I'm not your Nee-san, you little weirdo."

-Hello, Dad.

-"Good morning, audience~! Welcome back to the End Game~!"

-"I'm a God, rememb- BONK"

-No hurting >:(

-OHHHH

-Win goin' bare handed!

-...I guess Ace hasn't gotten around to giving him his Driver back.

-JYAMATO :D

-Y'know I'm all for this. Givin' the plant bois some sweet payback.

-"...this sucks."

-You left the back door unlocked, Samas.

-Hiiiii, Girori.

-It's been 32 episodes since last I made fun of you.

-"DGP fell off. And quite frankly, I blame all of you for it."

-Dad here was all about a fair game, huh?

-Ready? Fight!

-Oh shit, Magnum.

-INFINITY?

-Oh goddamn, this is so sick.

-This is insane and disorienting in all the best ways.

-Make you conceited, says you!

-Oh

-Even the VIPs noped out.

-Blackmail~!

-Not that I feel particularly bad for these assholes, but it is funny to point out.

-Ohhhhh, the sprinklers.

-Boost time~!

-Kicked in the face!

-R

-REVERSE

-Ukiyo Ace has been left with nothing.

-Now he's just a guy.

-Nee-san...

-"Go ahead then. Pull the trigger."

-Never give up on making people happy.

-Our final episode.

-...Dawn I...

-Obviously he's not dead, we've got a movie to watch, but damn. Quite a way to lead into your finale.

-The sun rises on the fox's friends: the bull, the cat, and the raccoon dog.

-How beautiful would that sunrise be?

[faketokufan]

Ok... Lets get one thing perfectly and completely clear alright? I am no simp. I don’t subscribe to this whole Waifu/husbando culture thing and I don’t really see any point in it. If it works for ya and makes ya happy sure, I’m glad for you but its just not-

EHM...It’s... uh.. It’s not for me! Like to me it feels kinda weird to get super feely that way about a fictional character. Like I have a lot of blorbos that I personally really enjoy but I just don’t see any reason to-

TO INTERESTED IN A CHARACTER... In a character like that. Cus it’s... uh... It’s kinda pointless to... to do... I mean they’re not real yeah? It’s like celebrity crushes in that regard! Yeah And it’s silly to be to OVERLY into celebrities right? So it translates that-

orange juice gaim... THAT having... having a chracter be... be.. being into! I mean... its SILLY is what it is! Even if that character is a... a Mantis Queen with a GIANT ROBOT mantis... And is a practicing Socialist... and is also a Ranger... *Gulp* Just as an example! It’s just not something that I’d be into!!! B-But if it’s your thing i fully support ya... What... Whatever makes ya happy ya know?... hah...hahaha...

ha...

ha.......

... i’m so fucked...

[astral-from-afar]

Ooh nice to see a fellow Kamen Rider type of person

Personally, out of the three main tokusatsu, I think I watched Kamen Rider more than anything. I did watch all 3 equally at first but my interest went from Ultraman and Super Sentai (from when I was little) to more of Kamen Rider as I grew older.

I haven't watched much from Reiwa since I stopped watching Tokusatsu maybe 3 years ago. But growing up, my parents were into tokusatsu, so I was naturally shown a lot of it, lmaoo. I kinda stopped being open about it after some kid in third grade made fun of me for it 💀

After that, I became self-conscious about it as I grew up, so I told myself I had to stop watching it. My parents still watch it though, and they tell me it's good, but I don't have the courage to start watching again 😭 Lately I wish I didn't do that cause now I feel like I'm missing out on the fun lmao- it was really fun to watch because they tend to have a deeper/darker meaning to them, even if it seems to be for younger audiences at first glance, which I find neat.

I don't really remember much from W, since I watched it way back when I was younger, but I remember the acting was great (I think the actor for Philip was only 15 at that time? I've seen that guy in other J-dramas and his acting is amazing). I remember liking W but I just don't really remember what it was about. Maybe I should revisit it sometime.

I think my favorite was Den-O. I'm pretty sure I've watched all of the heisei ones but I can't recall all of the good ones that I liked. I do remember liking the 3 last Heisei ones which I believe were Ghost, Exaid, and Build, but out of those 3, I think Ghost was the best.

ALSO YOU ARE SO RIGHT the kamen rider soundtracks tend to be bangers

Oops I kinda talked too much about myself LMAOA (I tried to shorten this the best I could. i really did. I DELETED 3 PARAGRAPHS LMAO)

No way you used to be a fan AS WELL. Now I feel a bit embarrassed for recommending stuff. Also Den-o is top tier. Deneb is probably one of my favourite kamen rider characters just for how funny he is.

To be fair I was more of a Power Rangers kid growing up. I started off watching mega force when it was still airing and religiously watched the reruns of older stuff like Dino Thunder, which was my favourite.

I stopped watching after a bit because man are kids RUTHLESS. Some of them made fun of me so I stopped watching for a bit. Luckily I have younger siblings who were watching the show up on it so I became a casual viewer, mostly watching for my siblings and then lying at school the next day.

The reason I got into Toku was actually because of a YouTuber that I was subscribed to. I had 0 clue what kamen rider was and they were praising fourze so I thought ‘I’ve seen jojo part 4, this is practically that with superheroes’ and then proceeded to watch the series. I then moved onto the other series like ooo, build,gaim,W,Den-o,ex-aid and blade.

Funny story about my watch through of blade is that I had no context for where most of the memes in the fanbase came from so I watched Blade to mainly understand everything. I had gotten up to the final arc but had to take a break since mock season was going on. When I finished I remember that I rushed home and decided to watch the last arc, despite being very tired. Yeah big mistake. Who knew a bench could make Astral cry but it did

I’m wondering right now what series to watch now. The smartest decision is to probably catch up to the latest season but I’m probably going to wait until it finishes to binge it. I’m torn on watching a late heisei era show or trying to see more early heisei works. I’ll do what I do best which is spin a wheel and decide what to watch lol.

Nooo man you don’t need to shorten down your thoughts. It’s fun reading this stuff and believe me I’ve been holding back from spamming the dashboard with my random Toku thoughts so you shouldn’t worry about if you’re saying too much. If you want to get back into it the newest season of kamen rider is around the corner so you could start getting back into it from there.