http://pastebin.com/LCRJigxy Source: 語ろう!クウガ・アギト・龍騎 (2013)
Book of interviews with various people regarding Kuuga, Agito, and Ryuuki.
Summary of interview with Urobuchi Gen on Kuuga
-Interview is from before he was allowed to talk about being on board for Gaim. They allude to it but end with him saying he's not allowed to talk about it yet.
-He says that working on tokusatsu is "probably" (once again, not allowed to talk about Gaim yet) completely different from working on anime, because there are a lot of factors outside the writer's control, like the belts. He "thinks" the writer is given the belt first and it told to write a story around it. Up till now he'd written stuff completely freely so it would be a huge challenge to him.
-Most of the Showa riders aired when he was a young child and he didn't see most of them, he thought the shows were scary. He first got into it in middle/high school when Black aired, and it was the first rider he watched in realtime (he got to know the other Showa riders later).
-He was influenced in his youth more by anime like Votoms than by tokusatsu. He was in elementary school and really into model kits when Votoms aired, and he loved the realism of how the Scopedog is only 4 meters tall and composed of identifiable everyday components like ladders and hooks.
-While he wasn't in the Rider generation, he did watch other tokusatsu stuff like Denjiman, Sunvulcan, Goggle V, Gavan, and Sharivan.
-He didn't watch all of RX, but loved Black, especially the "no future"-ness of how Golgom would win regardless of which of Black and Shadow Moon won. He loved the manga version's ending more, where it's left ambiguous if it was Black or Shadow Moon who won.
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>>13400297 He got the twist from Kamen rider in the first place, having it link his works just shows how much influence he got from Kamen rider.
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>>13400329 Huh, well that explains a lot. Talk about pure dedication.
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Can we discuss the interview please?
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>>13399667 >wears hoodies No son of mine, I tell ya. Instant disownership, that.
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>>13401812 The book has some 280 pages with little prints all over the place.
It takes time.
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>>13390413 > expecting a character to act the same when they're in a serious situation It's called having heroic resolve to get shit done. Compared Godai's usual easygoing self and when he's punching shit as Kuuga. He doesn't like fighting, yet he still have the balls to pound some Grongi into the dirt.
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>>13403977 No, it's not like that. Godai as Kuuga is still Godai. He fights, but he's also himself. He'll stop when someone gets his attention, or he'll talk on the radio and be part of a strategy. He'll give a thumbs-up when it's most needed.
Wataru as Kiva is supposedly Wataru, but his physical movements in every single way are completely different. The energy, the theatricality, how fiercely and powerfully he acts. Even his growls are more animalistic. And when he's using one of the Arms Monsters, it's a weird thing where I guess he's meant to be possessed and he takes on that monster's mannerisms, but he's still that weird not-Wataru in terms of how he moves and reacts to things.
For a kid who explicitly only fights because it's too loud at his house if he doesn't, that absolutely never shows in Kiva's mannerisms. And it's incredibly obvious because Den-O completely mastered the portrayal of a character like early Wataru, as well as how to do possessions. And Decade had amazing suit acting. Actually, non-Kiva suits like the Fangires and the different IXAs were all spot-on in terms of personality, and both Wataru's actor and Seiji Takaiwa do their roles justice, so it's almost certainly just shitty, shitty writing that makes Kiva so unlike Wataru.
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>shitty, shitty writing that makes Kiva so unlike Wataru
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>>13400281 >calling people retarded is not offensive Anonymous
>>13404019 This, that wasnt a writing decision. Unless them acting differently was relevant to the plot which it wasnt.
Gaim was also kinda shoddy in that regard, with Kouta being more agile when untransformed, but suddenly being more tanky when he became Gaim.
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>>13405718 >Athletic, well-built character whose hobby is highly physical >Gets slower when he turns into an "Armored" Rider Well gee anon, who'da thunk it
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>>13390256 Shouichi is a very aloof and naturally goofy person, but the powers of being an Agito can often-times overtake him and drive him into running on pure instinct. He's only ever said one word when he's in fight-mode in the entire series.
I believe at one point they even imply he has no idea what happens once he detects an Unknown.
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>>13405773 That sucks for him.
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>>13405773 >I believe at one point they even imply he has no idea what happens once he detects an Unknown. That's in the first couple of episodes where he's clearly running on unconscious auto-pilot. They make it pretty clear that he's aware of what he's doing after a certain point.
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>>13405718 I think that is intentional. If you look at the other Beat Riders, they all lose their agility and get a bit tankier, but they maintain their personalities despite that. Kouta still does a lot of mid-range, Kaito can't use any weapon correctly or kick normally until after the soccer episode, Oren is still military but he loses a lot of his reflexes, etc.
The reverse example is Takatora, who is the exception that proves the rule. He's tougher and more straightforward out of suit because he's a businessman and not a dancer. He gets more finesse and becomes more agile in-suit because of his incredible skill with the Sengoku Driver. But once he becomes Zangetsu Shin, he drops a lot of that due to the bigger armour and the bow. Yoko does the same thing: compare her brief unsuited clash with Kouta when he steals her Lockseed to how she fights as Marika. There's still a similar agility and grace, but the bow and armour slows her down.
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>>13405718 When Wataru is being Kiva he feels like a different person, you would expect him to be fight like Ryotaro or at least Kouta from the first few episodes.
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>>13405773 Shouichi is aware in Agito mode. He usually doesn't speak because it gives away his identity. I'm pretty sure there are scenes where he thinks to himself as Agito.
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>>13411723 >>13405773 Also, adding on that he CAN'T be fighting on "pure instinct" because in one of the earliest battles he draws inspiration from seeing a paper plane to defeat a flying Unknown.
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>>13404011 > Den-O completely mastered the portrayal of a character like early Wataru, as well as how to do possessions Props where it's deserved, the guy who played the main character in Den-O absolutely nailed the different personalities possession required and could slip between them extremely fluidly. He's probably the best actor Rider has had to this day.
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>>13385925 >especially the "no future"-ness of how Golgom would win regardless of which of Black and Shadow Moon won But this literally only happens in the manga.
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>>13406995 >Oren is still military It always bugged the hell out of me that the military veteran guy got one of the least military set of weapons that could have been used. Unless you're Jack Churchill or something.
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>>13411755 In the manga there's that throw away line about how they'd eventually win eventually if human's hearts didn't change or something like that, but yes, it's basically just a throw away line.
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>>13411793 I think the design and the gladiator motif matched his character very well.
Durian was a fruit that Urobuchi requested to be added, Toei didn't care because they weren't planning on commercializing his toys.
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>>13411755 I think this refers to the fact that if the 2 kingstones were to be together the holder will loose himself and become the creating king. So Golgom would've won if Kotaro wear to picked Shadowmoon's kingstone instead of going after the Creation King itself.
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>>13411968 Fuck! were not wear Auto correct YURUSAN!
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>>13406995 You pretty much lose all grace when going soda mode and just spam arrows like a maniac. Some of those fights were just dreadful to watch.
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>>13411795 >In the manga there's that throw away line I meant the tv show.
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>>13411983 Kouta somehow has better movements in Kachidoki than he does in any of the Jinba forms. Like, Kachidoki is so slow that it has weight and feels impressive. The Jinba forms just feel like he's not as agile as usual and he's using a shitty bow.
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>>13411750 The only actor I can think of who came even close was Ankh's actor in the OOO/Den-O movie when he got to play Momotaros possessing Ankh possessing Shingo. And even he only really played 3 roles at most over the series. Ryotaro's actor didn't just perfectly play like 8 different roles at various points, he could switch fluidly like you said, No wonder he's been getting non-stop high-profile roles.
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>>13406995 It's kind of weird how the armors give them super strength to some degree but it doesn't help them move the armor too much.
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>>13412387 Playing lots of roles doesn't mean anything you don't play them well. Ankh was a shit actor. Ryotaro wasn't all that special either, all the roles he played were pretty to-the-letter stereotypes. But he wasn't bad at portraying those generic characters, I'll give you that.
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>>13412710 Not him but I still think Ryotaro's actor might be one of the most talented leads we had for Heisei rider. Micchy's actor was also very impressive for me.
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>>13412710 I was never a big fan of Den-O, but Ryotaro's actor was definitely able to fluidly move between the various Taros.
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>>13405718 I think that's more of a practical decision, I don't think the Gaim suits really have that much potential for physicality.
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>>13412710 Ankh was fab as hell. Granted, it was really just one real role and being a generic nobody a few times, but he did some great acting and he got across the complex ally/villain shit well.
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>>13385976 >The beginning and middle bits were fantastic, and the last parts (everything after Kino died) turning out how they did was disappointing wow, I don't see too many other people who find the weakest part of Agito to be the final stretch. I get why people would like it going full-on Final Fantasy and all like it did but I really digged the Kamen Rider X-Files thing it had going on for the first 35-40 episodes way more.
>>13386056 wonder what he thought of the ending
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>>13412710 >all the roles he played were pretty to-the-letter stereotypes. The point was that they were all very different roles, even if extremely stereotypical ones. Also sung and danced throughout the show too.
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>>13412342 Jinba was bulkier and looked awkward a lot. I didn't mind the overuse of the bow because samurai used bows all the time.
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>>13416690 It isn't even just that he was able to move between so many different personalities with such speed and fluidity, it's that he was able to match the mannerisms and speech patterns of the suit actors playing the different Taros so well. Also, like you said, he had to do a fair bit of singing and dancing too.
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>>13428364 I'll make a new thread when I get round to doing the next book (I'm pretty busy right now so probably sometime next week), no need to worry too much about this one
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>>13429243 >>13429243 thank you very much for doing this and make sure to link the new thread in /krg/ when you make it. very interesting read and looking forward to the rest
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>>13429243 Thanks for the translation.
I'm looking forward to what Urobuchi has to say about working in the toku industry.
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>>13404011 Wasn't it mentioned that Wataru was half Fangire in the first place? And the chains on Kiva were supposed to restrict his powers going full Fangire? It fit with Wataru accepting that he's using the powers of the Fangire while still remembering that he's himself.
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