#kiramai silver

[emotionallychargedtowel]

Reiwa Sentai tokusatsu-to-BL poll

I'm kind of obsessed with the tokusatsu-to-BL pipeline so I often think about which toku actors I would most like to see in a BL, but I don't know what other toku fans think about this. Hence, a poll. If folks are interested enough to respond to this, I'll try a Kamen Rider or Ultraman one next.

This list is pretty long, but I did leave a few Sentai dudes off. If I omitted your favorite, let me know in a comment or a tag. I'm only drawing from completed Reiwa series here, so no Boonboomgers. I'm not counting support roles in BLs or roles in BL parodies like Zettai BL.

If you need to refresh your memory, there are photos of each actor under the poll. Reposting would be great just to get a decent sample.

Mizuishi Atomu (Oshikiri Shiguro/Kiramai Blue on Kiramager)

Yano Masato (Racules Husty on King-Ohger)

Ikeda Masashi (Jeramie Brasieri/Spider Kumonos on King-Ohger)

Ishikawa Raizo (Momotani Jiro/Don Dragoku on Donbrothers)

Watanabe Aoto (Yanma Gast/Tombo Ohger on King-Ohger)

Sekoguchi Ryo (Stacey/Staycaesar on Zenkaiger)

Kihara Rui (Imizu Tametomo/Kiramai Yellow on Kiramager)

Totaro (Inuzuka Tsubasa/Inu Brother on Donbrothers)

Shoji Kouhei (Takamichi Crystaria/Kiramai Silver on Kiramager)

Tominaga Yuya (Sonoi on Donbrothers)

Chiwata Yuhei (Shiokara on King Ohger)

[mangolon]

Add Kohei Shouji to the list of actors who've played both Riders and Sentai Rangers.

[itsjustmyunpopularopinion]

"What, who are you?"

"I'm you, but probably genuinely evil. And probably sticky."

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

I cant believe they’re making the little artist guy run again…

[autthemanfghter]

熱田 充瑠

射水 為朝

速見 瀬奈

押切 時雨

大治 小夜

クリスタリア宝路

魔進戦隊キラメイジャー

[ssunvulcan1981]

Mashin Sentai Kiramagers: Who is it? It's Kiramai Killer!

A seventh Kiramager appears before the team, but proves himself to be an antagonistic warrior using a very dangerous prototype who merely wants to see himself as the team's arch-rival!

[biomic]

"first question, have you worked with AI before?"

[mo-ok]

since seeing the boonboom suits with those sick ass jackets i have had the mighty urge to give other suits the same treatment, using their civilian jackets/uniforms, to see if they'd look just as cool

[trans-poppy]

ALRIGHT just posted my very lengthy review for zenkaiger on my letterboxd. now all thats left is zenkaiger vs kiramager (YAY)

[scolek]

i saw leaks for an incredibly gyaru looking belt but youre telling me fucking hat guy whos been here for 1 episode gets to transform????

bullshit

[lgbt-sentai-rider]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN KIRAMAI SILVER IS KAMEN RIDER PONPONPUDDING!??????

[bobcatmoran]

My brain has latched onto Lage9, the Gavv jellyfish monster/3rd rider played by the prettiest and tallest man ever (how did I not notice how effing TALL he is when he was playing Takamichi Kiramai Silver, he is 185 cm/6'3"ish), and because he hits like all of my favorite tropes, I'm to the point where I wanna write fic about him, but because I'm me, this involves rewatching every. single. appearance he has had, making notes about timelines, forming theories about how Granutes function in the human world which has a different language, and spending more time than is reasonable looking at screenshots of conbinis.

[nugulover69]

Hey Kiramai Silver, nice dollar store Undertaker fit

Your monster form is sick as hell at least

[iheartleopards]

octonauts as mashin sentai kiramager

Captain barnacles as kiramai red

Kwazii as kiramai yellow

Tweak as kiramai green

Peso as Kiramai blue

Dashi as kiramai pink

shellington as kiramai silver

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

I think King Oradin is a pretty cool guy, actually. Ignoring the fact that Kiramager is a wacky comedy for the most part waahah!

[theaterchemy2]

The ToQger crossover was leagues better than the Go-Onger crossover. Genba’s obsession to defeat Disrace paralleled Akira’s desire to find his place to die so damn well! And getting Right actually fighting alongside the Boonboomgers was the best, especially the line-changing into Mio and Hikari’s colors! Why we couldn’t have that with Sosuke will be something I will nitpick forever.

Speaking of Akira, Boonboomger is doing a very poor job of convincing me Sakito and Byun D are trying to be a separate group from the core Boonboomger team. It’s an issue that I feel Sentai does seldomly very well in recent years, in establishing the extra heroes as separate entities from the core team. Either they immediately become a member of the team (Shinken Gold, Gokai Silver, Zyuoh the World), or they spend two or three episodes beefing with the core team before joining for real, then a later episode (around the 38 to 42 mark) actually has them join for real for real. In the case of Akira, he established himself as a separate party from the ToQgers and maintained that distance from them very easily, even coming into conflict with them due to a promise he made with Schwartz. And when he returned, it really felt like he joined for real.

Comparing that to Sakito, who unfortunately falls into the group of sixths who kinda… exist, a la Kiramai Silver, LuPat X, Don Dragoku/Torabolt. They all have really interesting backstories that are either not explored much, or they don’t matter in the long run. We haven’t really had many scenes where Sakito gets to be a cleaner, and he’s just there as the Boonboomger’s sixth. He’s beefing with Genba because… they’re both technically extraterrestrials(?).

Some examples of this kind of dynamic that Sentai has done well are with Shurikenger, Twokaiser, and Starninger. Zox and his family never identified themselves as Zenkaigers, despite being on friendly terms with them, and Kinji was introduced explicitly as a separate party from the Igasaki clan before being induced as an apprentice. Shurikenger especially worked well, due to his gimmick of borrowing faces and appearances. He was more of a shadow mentor to both the Hurricanegers and Gouraigers, and didn’t consider himself a member of the team until Lady Gozen was killed.

Sakito feels like missed potential, similar to Noel from LuPat. The show couldn’t really keep X from staying neutral, and ended up making him a permanent member of the thieves despite his main selling point. Hell, he even took the Siren Striker away from the Patrangers.

If you’re enjoying Boonboomger, all the power to you.