#tokubros

[eclipse-song]

even if not everyone is inspired to go watch the og kamen rider after seeing Shin KR, I'm glad Anno understood the assignment still, and that was to portray the saddest most pathetic man imaginable who is tormented by the horrors for being too kind meeting a cat boy who is ready to party but is no stranger to the horrors himself.

[doomednarrative]

Everyday I see takes from tokutwt that just Really reaffirm why I never post my liveblogging there tbh

[ankhisms]

looking for kingoh character songs to listen to on youtube and stumbling on a youtube video with a guy wearing a cowboy hat in the thumbnail looking angry with the title "why does everyone love papillion ohger?" BECAUSE THEYRE COOLER THAN YOU NEXT QUESTION

[stickers-on-a-laptop]

damn asymmetry came out before akibaranger they should have had a joke about it, that's rio with nubuo!!!

[fortitude-nine-point-eight]

*grips desk so hard it cracks*

[nugulover69]

Tokubros watching toku

[skajador]

I've developed a theory on Enjoyment of Toshiki Inoue Writing. don't take this too seriously btw.

in this i will be using "you" to refer to a hypothetical watcher of Inoue shows and not necessarily You, the fan reading this

Whether feel hate or unhinged love towards any given piece of Inoue writing depends on whether it hits your Galaxy Brain switch. And that's different for every person. How much you have to galaxy brain depends on the individual, but I think some level of it is necessary to enjoy his Serious Writing. Not necessary for enjoying his comedic writing.

Galaxy brain is what i call the kinda vague action of getting Invested in something while Knowing Better than Inoue (or whomever). For example, I Galaxy Brain about Kitaoka from Ryuki.

I don't think when Inoue wrote Kitaoka, he was necessarily thinking of My Interpretation where I see his actions towards Reiko as primarily Antagonistic On Purpose (as you can see where tokubros appear to live in a universe where they think otherwise) but I know better because I have Galaxy Brain.

Galaxy Braining is, at its core, a way of coping with the various Objectionable Biases and Tropes present in these pieces. But it's also a fun and fulfilling activity to do as a fan!

So that's how you get such polarizing takes on something like Kiva. The people who love it Galaxy Brain about it and everyone else who didn't have that switch flipped are like. wow this sucks.

and Galaxy Braining Inoue is not inherently Good or Bad. galaxy brain takes aren't inherently more or less valid. They're just different for everyone and it's really interesting to see what ends up hooking and inspiring people vs. what turns them completely off. bc that's the other thing about his stuff, there is also often so much to hook and inspire us to Fuel the galaxy brain.

also obviously this applies to writers besides Inoue but Inoue's a fun kind of case study because of how Distinctive his Style is.

[pleuvoire]

sonomomo are such heroes for getting even hardcore tokubros to universally go "yeah they're gay"

[coredrill]

okaaaaaaaaay bravernine thoughts. lol (lots of lulu)

i have never been more intrigued and confused and clueless abt where this show is going to go and i am HOOKED. i called my one (1) shot in abt smith dying in ep8 and so now i am just along for the wacky ride until the end!!!!!!!!!! also my understanding of time travel stories is very poor compared to my understanding of wow cool robot stories so that is undoubtedly a part of it FNDNFBJD

i’ll probs catch more on a rewatch and others have pointed this out but. it seemed like the “timeline” changed right when we got the ep1 flashback/eyecatch? like that’s when hibiki’s arm wound vanished and switched to her head, and wehn we saw hiro again, and also lulu’s demeanor switched from being sad to more determined? so like. i wouldn’t be surprised if lulu shenanigans happened as well in that time…………

also lulu. obviously bravern is smith + knuth + brainwave bot but i would NOT be surprised if there was some of lulu in there too. since her brainwaves were in there too? which would make sense as another ingredient in the bravern soup, if he gets his clinginess and more childish demeanor from her in addition to his horniness from knuth and his heroic attitude and love for isami from smith. which is maybe why, after the “timeline switch” i just mentioned (idk what else to call it) lulu suddenly Knows Smith’s In There in a way she didn’t SEEM to before? like she called bravern “smith” ofc but this was like. deliberate in a different manner imo. idk. lulu is up to Some Shit tho and like everthing else i am SOOOOOOOOOO excited to see it !!!!!!!!!!!!

i know i keep making haha funnies abt smith trying to outgay kaworu and like. when it comes to queers in mecha anime i rly don’t think anything can reasonably “outdo” eva due to its impact (heh) and the fact kaworu and shinji did all that in 1996 but like. lewis smith is putting in the bravest effort i’ve seen by a LONG shot……………….what if that tokubro u met in hawaii loved you so much he became your undead horny super robot soulmate (“hey tumblr user coredrill what if you stopped beating this joke format to death” LISTEN i think its funny still. lmao)

hmmmmm i feel like i had more to say but. i forgor lmao. surely this won’t be like every other week where i am like “these are all of my thoughts 😇” and then i continue to make AND ANOTHER THING posts every 3 hours like clockwork. surely things will be different this time. surely i am not also stuck in a timelo

OH WAIT I REMEMBERED. but yeah i was just thinking abt how like. smith gets so fucking angry abt how the lulu are used and so when he contributes to bravern he makes it so that isami can pilot him safely. and not a lulu-pod-scenario. because he loves lulu and he loves isami. i am going to tear my skin off of my own body

[akinari-kashihara]

I never saw the tokubro reaction but the general reaction is documented

i would kill to be into toku on 2019 when the rider time ryuki gay homophobic sex scene happened, i need to know how the average tokubro reacted to it

[pokestine]

So like what do you think the tokubro fans think Juggler was doing to Leito for the entirety of the Geed movie?

I assume they somehow don't read it as flirting so what do they think it was?

[eclipse-song]

Making up inside jokes that turn into fake arcs in friend group watches rule. Also might be me but it also has like the same energy as those thumbnails you see for shonen animes like “What if Goku was ABANDONED and BETRAYED” or “What if Luffy found a strange rock.”

What I’m saying is when will they do “What if Emu was ABANDONED and BETRAYED?!” videos.

those really are the tokubro equivalent of headcanons and fanfiction.

[spandexual]

to fix Reiwa rider they should make Akibaranger but for Kamen Rider.

main rider: late 20s early 30s man who works part-time as a cook in a large-ish not-family-owned-but-not-a-chain-either restaurant (maybe like a beer garden or smth), always exhausted and hates people bc of this. Not particularly handsome unless you’re into the greasy lean chainsmoker look which many are lol. Likes all rider but prefers showa rider and likes talking about power levels and Dark Mature Themes and general tokubro shit. His favourite riders are Kotaro and Takumi and he is exactly what you would think of someone like that. Very gay in the “you’re gay bc you like men. I’m gay bc I hate women” way.

secondary rider: late 20s early 30s fujoshi. Appears to be a pretty normal, successful businesswoman in a neat suit and a slick ponytail. Immediately picks a fight with main rider for saying Kiva is shit. Eventually admits that it IS shit but HE hates it for the wrong reasons. They have no romantic chemistry at all and one ep she wonders maybe if she was a man they would have her fave enemies-to-friends-to-lovers dynamic. cishet women totally definitely think like that girl. She dismisses it bc he’s ugly anyway and any romance between them is never brought up again. She gets very excited when tertiary rider shows up but they are also annoying and not her type so instead she decides to ship the villains.

tertiary rider: early 20s. gender irrelevant. Cute face but poor fashion sense in a “poorly fitted dated fandom reference meme tshirt and cargo shorts” way. idiot reiwababby who doesn’t know shit, refuses to do any research or listen to anyone who does know shit, and is constantly crowing about how Trope That Has Been Done A Hundred Fucking Times is so novel and creative and how Currently Airing Show is the best ever and everything older than like 3 years old is ancient and nobody would want to watch it. Keeps wondering when “the rest of the riders” are going to show up, Their big moment is watching the door-to-door salesman episode of Ryuki and being like “wait, old rider is good?” to main+secondary’s delight. They go on to ruin this by having ice cold takes about heavily discussed characters like Kusaka, Otoya, Micchy etc. and the two other riders just have their blood pressure like visibly rise as they talk

[ankhisms]

getting tags on this post like this kills me

dude i think they have gay sex

fling that thing at him

[stickers-on-a-laptop]

sometimes when you see like the reddit shit of tokubros being like "it's not gay" it's like. dude. toei knows what they're doing. we know that they know because of fucking akibaranger. this is established. come on now.

[yumeirochaser]

not the tumblrinas reblogging stolen old info from a sexist tokubro who likes to straight up spread misinformation about ultra