#zectrooper

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george is the type of guy to write 4 paragraphs on discord about why the zectroopers should have been kamen riders and how cool it would have been to have a kamen rider army and they should have had their own belt and this is my own super zectrooper OC he's based on kuuga rising ultimate

[omegahopper]

Apparently there was a Zectrooper figure in the Kabuto line that came with extra equipment that could combine into a giant ant...

[toku-action-figure-news]

SO-DO CHRONICLE Homework vote announced to release unproduced riders and forms

Having been announced last month, the SO-DO ‘Homework’ vote - that lets fans vote for which suits the SO-DO line hadn’t made from Ex-Aid through Saber - has proven very popular, and as such it has been announced that another vote is to be held: this time focusing specifically on the SO-DO CHRONICLE subline. 

Encompassing any previous series featured in SO-DO CHRONICLE, a variety of riders and forms are available to be voted to be put into production from Ryuki, Kabuto, Den-O, W, OOO and Gaim -- such as Aqua, ZECTroopers, and a large amount of movie riders such as Fifteen, Saver, Gaoh, Pretty Den-O, Duke Lemon Arms, G Den-O and Hercus. Gaim and Den-O notably take up the bulk of this vote due to their very large number of Riders; and Den-O also features the two rider-line Oni from Chou Den-O. 

Notably, due to the scope of their lines and the relatively small number of suits to cover from their series; nothing from Kuuga is available to vote for, and Ryuki and W only have one character each -- Ouja Blank and W Cyclone/Joker when used by Akiko specifically.

The SO-DO CHRONICLE Homework vote is available to vote on from right now, with one vote per person allowed every day until the vote closes; allowing you to vote for multiple characters through the voting period or to put a lot more votes in favour of one character. Voting can be found in the link below.

https://www.bandai.co.jp/candy/sodochronicle/vote/hw/

[stingyslegslookweird]

I'M SORRY??

SINCE WHEN WAS THIS A THING???

2016????

*furious app downloading noises*

[rukasukudo-blog]

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[tsuki-sennin]

There're demons afoot. Not Demons, but... demons. Can we live through this evil? All on America's favorite Kamen Rider Revice discussion segment...

Spoilers, I guess...

-"Vail-san", he says, like he's his friend he met in his math class.

-"Haha yeah, I totally planned that, haha", ok sure Olteca.

-Ohhhh, that ain't good.

-Okay, the Gifu vagina statue is fucking invincible, gotcha! I feel like we should have some sort of... mass produced Driver to arm the Fenix soldiers. I'm sure George will see comparisons to the ZECTroopers and Riotroopers and think it's a good idea to pitch to Direct- OH NEVER MIND I FORGOT WHO'S IN CHARGE WHAT WAS I THINKING.

-Oh boy, Akaishi's busting out the religious references. ...at least, in the sub I'm watching, which I think is Izusubs?

-You talk mad shit for a man in a mirror, Kagero. I love you tho, I'll probably miss you.

-Black and white!

-Don't worry guys, we'll beat Gifu up for child support.

-VICE YOU STOLE MY JOKE, YOU MOTHERFUCKER-

-Oh well, we got more Lovekov dialogue, that was a worthy sacrifice.

-I was gonna make another Weekenders joke for Sakura leaving, but I haven't seen that show on TV since like 2006 lol. There were a lot of cartoons from the early 2000s that were forgotten over the years, like Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, which I think was one of the first times I was exposed to Japanese musicians not named Koji Kondo or Shinkuchi Mitsumune. Puffy also did the theme song for Teen Titans, so they're pretty rooted in my early youth! I... also may or may not have had a crush on them, but that's neither here nor there.

-God, this Drama slaps. The acting, the cinematography, the dialogue, the

-Hi, Buu-san. You uh... wanna help us out, man? :)

-We're in a vicious cycle. Just like the one at 2fort. ...or I guess, Joshscorcher and Alicorn Twilight, if that's a reference you don't mind me making.

-Ohhhh, there they are. Holy Wings and Thunder Gale. ...or I guess... Crow and... Pinwheel, I guess.

-He's free!

-Wow, instant! No hesitation, whatsoever. Poor Akemi-san.

-Oh, that's the reason why it's Live exclusive, seemingly. That... seems a little excessive, George.

-Wow, Akaishi's playing every side. Good on him to be honest, he's earning these little victories.

-I hope you'd pay Kagerou equal wages. ...hell, I hope you pay anyone period.

-A cold-hearted forces a kindhearted man to carry a Cross of Fire for vile purposes of control and destruction. It's funny to think that in that man's own home country, there's another just like him in the almost exact same situation who managed to break free of his chains. Vail may carry the Kamen Rider name, but it seems like it was truly just a name.

-Wait, Noah!? Aw dammit, I was gonna use that name for an OC RIder eventually! Yeah, I know it's just an organization name, but damn. I've been kerpranked.

-Poor Papa.

-Junpei Shiranami and Genta Igarashi. What more does this man hide?

-Good job Karizaki.

-You're not exactly atoning like this, man.

-So, Noah was the original form of the Deadmans Cult... This sort of parallels Shocker evolving into Destron, in a weird way. Like, Shocker was a Nazi remnant organization enforcing a different ideal of evolution while keeping their totalitarian principles of death and violence, but Destron is basically a literal fascist cult of personality that evolved with much of the same ideals.

-Man, we're fucked.

-OHHHHHH THEY CAN SEPARATE

-Another really cool talking shot here.

-I know you're not a puppy, you're a jackal. ...well, I think young jackals are puppies in a sense, but-

-So, if Daiji wins, can he be Live and Evil? I mean, it is his body, and it doesn't seem to have any adverse effects on him. With Kagerou gone, he could carry both modes no problem.

-Shame, I really liked these differing performances, but Wataru Hyuga, I look forward to Kagerou's swan song.

-Oh c'mon, Aguilera! We're busy!

-You seem plenty strong already, homegirl!

-You've been a huge bitch all season Kagerou, you're the baby here!

-Man, they fightin'!

-Y'know Ikki, maybe you could go

-OH SHE BLEEDIN

-Sakura, how hard were you hitting her!?

-Aguilera's investment in Sakura's growth must be a truly tragic means of escapism for her.

-Goddamn Kagerou.

-"All thanks to your kindness that I did." :(

-OH FUCK OFF OLTECA

-This is a man-to-man fight.

-NEW POWER WHAT

-Oh, he's just... stronger.

-Whoa, hey!

-He's all glowy and shit, that means he's like a bajillion times stronger.

-OHHHHHHHHHH THE BREAK

-Kagerou, c'mon man.

-It didn't have to be like this, man!

-Dai-chan :(

-...ok, this uppercut just seems a bit silly.

-That transition from Evil to Kagerou was cool though, I'll give it a pass.

-Scorpion! Grasshopper! Anomalocaris! Genomix!

-Oh, that's horrifying.

-You're all grown up, Dai-chan.

-I am you, and you... are me...

-Holy Wing!

-Daiji... abayo.

-Go shoot 'em up, shoot 'em up, Dai-chan!

-WINGS TO FLY! WINGS TO FLY! HOLY UP! WIND! WING! WINNING! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! HOLY LIVE!

-Ooooooooooooooooooooh, he looks fantastic.

-Birb! Biiiiiirb!

-AW DAMMIT I HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER WEEK

-Aw, Mama... you're gonna carry the next episode, I can feel it.

-Ok, I'm absolutely not convinced that Kagerou or the Evil forms are gone for good. Toei brings everybody back somehow, but this was a fantastic conclusion to Daiji and Kagerou's shared arc as it stands right now. Reconciling their respective and equally childish kindness and ruthlessness, and spreading their wings to fly. And I for one, very much look forward to seeing Holy Wings soar into a proper asskicking!

-Anyways, I hope you all have a good day, I have to get back to work on my pet projects~! Toodly-doo~! We'll meet again soon, I assure you.

[kabutoraiger]

Re: the dead ant pile, consider: Zectroopers

mishima whenever one of them fails a mission: that's it. your ass is going to the zectrooper pile

[shauta]

tell me how this man can lose to fucking zectroopers when he can go faster than god

[nerdcalendar]

April 3, 1971 - A Meteor Brings Aliens to Japan

On April 3, 1971, a meteor landed in Japan. This meteor came bearing an alien species, calling themselves Natives. The Natives immediately began working with humanity to develop an armored combat system later known as the Masked Rider System, fearing an attack from other members of their species, the Worms. This program was overseen by the company ZECT, which divided its forces into two groups: the ZECTroopers and the Zect Riders.

A second meteor would impact Japan in 1999, destroying the Shibuya area of Tokyo and finally bringing the dreaded evil Worms.

(Kamen Rider Kabuto, 2006-07) (source)

[tokucosplay]

ZECTrooper cosplayed by @Kirarman13.

[veeranger]

I always liked the theory that the Hopper Zecters were like prototypes of new mass produced Zecters to replace the Zectroopers. That's why there's two identical ones, why they can switch to better fit the user's kicking vs punching preferences, and why they lack masked forms.

that’s always been my take on it as well but far be it from kabuto to explain anything since they literally just show up without explanation

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YOU KITBASHED THE ZECTROOPERS?!

[omegahopper]

Imagine designing suits for actual riders that are less interesting than Zectroopers

[nuo2x2]

Zectrooper

SH Figuarts Bandai

Taken by nuo2x2 with Fujifilm Z33WP

cheap shot and camping seems to be one of the best option... for noobs! and minions alike... and cannon fodder I guess? and....

[thankyoumskobayashi]

the "Love" referred to in Godspeed Love is tendou, because the title of that movie is what kagami thinks to tendou in the capsule while caucasus smashes the window. he places his trust in tendou because in that canon au, they both have the same goals: stop the worm and create a world where they can live in peace (without the influence of zect).

there are two warring groups in the movie, zect and neo-zect, which have conflicting aims: to "eliminate" the worm and neo-zect, and to eliminate both the worms and zect. these two groups are pitted against each other to give context for why kagami and tendou decide to take over zect's space station.

as with the canon plotline, we can reasonably assume that the worm have infiltrated zect and are working to destroy the world-- while appearing to the remaininf humans watching that they have saved it. this is confirmed when it is revealed that the meteor zect is about to shoot with their space station is full of worms. as the leader of neo-zect used to work for zect (confirmed in the battle in the beginning when he talked to his "mirror" in a similar suit design), its possible he overheard enough from the worms in zect to be suspicious of zect's motives, and also steal at least one zecter to do battle against zect with.

the characters who remain with zect may vary with their credulity/suspicion. in the movie, there was a scene where misaki overheard the zect superior discussing the plan, and leaked it to tendou in order to put a stop to it. prior to that, i believe she may have questioned zect internally without showing doubts in it.

i don't remember what tadokoro did in that movie, sowe're skipping him to move onto kagami. we know that kagami voices his doubts externally, and if he did doubt zect, he was probably reassurred of their motives by one of his commanders, even though he also has the gatack zecter in this universe, and probably the title that comes with it. this means he probably talked to tendou about his doubts, getting at least one of three tendou-typical answers:

1. "i don't care, now eat this food and you'll feel better" as a grandma quote.

2. "a lecture on how large organizations abuse their power somehow but you just haven't figured out how yet." the grandma quote.

3. "leave the thinking to me bc i'm the sun."

this gives tendou the third faction, which mostly consists of him and kagami and hiyori. misaki i think would also be a part of it (despite being in one zect or another), because after she got stabbed, she called tendou with the information. instead of wanting to destroy only one other organization, tendou's goals appear to be: crush both AND the worms. he does this because he doesn't want one large organization to control the people/be hailed as heroes if they succeed in their goals. his suspicion of organizations was voiced by like episode 15 in the main series, and he prefers to make the world revolve around himself.

so, that's an egocentric goal instead of a humblr reason to destroy large organizations, but in the end it pays the same dividends: gets rid of both zects. however, not really at the same time. in the main series, there is only zect. there are no whistleblowers save for the hopper brothers and they weren't in the movie. no explanation in terms of plot either. oh, except kageyama is thebee. so yaguruma either must've been kicked out already, or he was never a part of zect to begin with. in any case, the hopper brothers' suits were replaced by the two "mirrored" riders whose names i forget.

in both universes, zect is marginally underequipped to fight the worm. their zectroopers all die in the first episode, and even kagami's unit seems incapable of handling a worm doppelganger investigation at first. this all has the dramatic effect of making tendou look good. in the movie, tendou is the one to stop the battle in the first scene by kicking everyone else's asses. before the end, he and kagami have teamed up to steal the hyper zecter. it is tendou's plan to destroy the worm which works in the end, but without kagami's cooperation and trust, he never would have pulled this off.

if kagami had been resentful and mistrusting of tendou like he was by like episode 3, the battle for the hyper zecter would likely have ended with them both killed in space and everyone killed by the meteor's impact (like a kiss from a prince). so obviously, parallel to the main series, within the movie kagami must have gotten to know tendou better (which probably happened offscreen).

hiyori was set in the movie as kagami's love interest, which felt weird bc in the main series it's her brother tendou that kagami seems interested in. she was also set in the movie to die and cause manpain which is another thing i hate about kabuto. she is the movie's parallel to tsurugi, another friendly worm who dies in a really depressing way that fucks up the rest of the characters for approximately 2 episodes before never being mentioned again. hell, i dont remember what happened to tadokoro in the movie, but he was a friendly worm who survived the series. but i think the guy who randomly stole zecters for like an episode (who WASN'T tendou) was also a friendly worm and he died protecting a kid i think. so shoji yonemura needs to sort out how the hell he feels about worms bc theres a lot of problematic stuff coded into those deaths.

worms are from outer space (xenophobia) and take on the appearances of everyday people (xenophobia, transphobia, ableism). the only ones who "get" to be happy regret being worms and pay with their lives for the troubles the invading worms have caused (theres too many problems to unpack here but let me mention what the celluloid closet was about: how, for a long time, gay people in movies were only ever allowed to be the villains, resent their entire existences, and die to atone for being who they were). in the main series hiyori lives because she didnt want to be a worm and bc she's the protagonist's sister. she was part of the main trio in the beginning and its some kind of unspoken taboo not to kill any of the main trio in a kamen rider show. ofc ghost breaks this immediately in ep 1 but i digress.

for someone who gave some excellent found family themes, shoji yonemura also gave us oodles of heartbreak. there was that whole sideplot abt gon finding her family and forgetting her time spent with older brother figure daisuke after the meteor destroyed shibuya. the part where daisuke fought the worms off to protect gon but then stood by gon in clock up mode wishing he could say goodbye.... i Cried actual tears about that.

i could go on but now im sad abt kabuto. i love and hate it in equal measures

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