#the supporters are the bugsters of geats...

[kabutoraiger]

geats is all about how your tv show blorbos can be something that is so personal

[kabutoraiger]

masamune being in jail in ex-aid and neon's dad being in jail in geats... suspicious

we talk about it a lot but i wonder if anyone's ever actually sat down & compiled the sheer number of "recycled" elements across 2 or more takahashi shows. i never made it through zero-one so mine might not be comprehensive but off the top of my head

a disease that infects civilians and produces monsters (game disease, jamato infection)

the nice guy put-upon hero who gets bullied by fellow riders as well as by the writer (emu, keiwa) and eventually mcfucking snaps when a woman he loves is killed (aruto, keiwa)

the "techno girl" heroine who's surface-level besties with the lead but has like zero agency as a character (poppy, izu, tsumuri) and "dies" near the end of the show (still to be seen if tsumuri will be dealt this hand)

she has an unconventional familial relationship to a smug man in the cast that she does not always seem to enjoy (ace & tsumuri, kuroto & poppy)

the fun, slightly sketchy older brother type who's the most likeable cast member but gets minimal screentime (kiriya, mr raiden, win), who dies early on but comes back from the grave later to be the MC's right hand man, his silly rabbit (kiriya, win)

grumpy guy with a flat emotional affect and a line of dialogue that he will repeat over and over again in like every scene he's in (taiga, horobi, michinaga) and also turns out to be kind of a dweeb (taiga, michinaga)

rider has a dead boyfriend or girlfriend who is their initial main motivation and they keep seeing Visions of (hiiro, michinaga)

rider discovers that some aspect of their identity is false / artificially constructed (fuwa, neon)

annoying unhinged villainous genius man who is more than happy to be turned into one of the monsters (kuroto, daichi)

evil CEO (masamune, gai, kurama)

who is also the domineering father of one of the riders, have a backstory where their loved one tragically died & have a fraught relationship with their child bc of it, and get a scene where someone visits them in prison (masamune, kurama)

a whole "species" of "techno people" who have to learn how to have new/healthier human emotions (bugsters, humagears, supporters)

these techno people have one specific human they have a deep connection with (bugsters, supporters)

a scene where the lead's Bonded Pair learns the fear of death in order to realize the value of human lives (parad, ziin)

evil woman who acts Like That about the heroes' suffering (azu, beroba) (they're even styled alike)