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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.