I do not like most toku nowadays. Now some of you fans may go, "Then don't watch it. It's not for you. Don't ruin it for us."
But what can I say. Some people want video games to be art? I want Toku to be art: a certain standard, memorable.
I cringe every time I see that scene where Gekired hits himself in the face with nunchaku and ponder, "This is the main character of the series? What a low bar..."
Sorta like how Power Rangers RPM did, Kamen Rider Fourze takes risks wisely:
This show is a little stupid, but it does not think the audience is that stupid.
Gentaro is a fighter, and a lover not a thinker.
Kengo is a thinker, too traumatized to be a lover and forced to not be a fighter. He breaks a girl's heart in the first episode without a know reason. There is a preview of it in the first episode to get us interested in the second episode: Good writing and marketing!
Yuki fixes the quarrels between them.
The rest of them form a Scooby Gang.
Every character is unique and has a flaw that the other character compliments with. It is very feng shui and brings harmony to the group.
Furthermore...
Everybody is stupid on this show:
A little explanation of franchises nowadays:
Most things nowadays have terrible screenplays, because make the villain seem really smart, whereas the heroes were dumb to begin with, lowering the standard of the villain and the screenplay.
In Star Trek: Kirk is dumb, John Harrison is dumb, superhuman but friggin dumb and is only accredited as smart because he is given the name Khan. Why 72 torpedoes? Why let the Ms. RoboCop onto the ship for no reason or explanation? Why let Scotty off the ship when he did everything right? How many times did he let Kirk live, despite really having nothing against Kirk? Nothing made sense in that show for either side.
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, no one could predict what Loki did, because he did not have a plan:
I said it: Loki and the entire Thor franchise sucks.
Instead of regurgitating what other people said I will link you to my favorite article regarding the subject: http://kristenstewartwantsit.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/thor-sucked-the-movie-review/
Everything is made up for a bad production thanks to good marketing strategies. The Marvel and Star Trek brand are topical and exciting now, so pretty much no matter what happens everybody will watch them.
Kamen Rider Fourze counters that by making everybody dumb:
Why the heck did the bad guy put his secret base in a private school that is not exactly magicially hidden like Hogwarts is, where people can fight back against the Zodiarts? What was his plan on conquering the school that he already owns and people are forced to go to? You never saw Hitler invade Germany or Genghis Khan invade Mongolia!
Why is it a rule that nerds have to sit with nerds? How realistic is that? Is not everybody a nerd now? What about that guy from episode 2? Aren't there adults watching Tokusatsu now in Japan?
The answer to that is this: It is not a realistic series, yet it does tropes, not stereotypes. Simple effective that kids can understand, hopefully parents can correct.
In the second episode, someone goes Zodiart to play American football. American football! He wants a freaking concussion!
Just because the Kengo's father died, does not mean Kengo would be a good astronaut, especially at a high schooler's age! (What do they teach at that school anyway?)
Shows do not have to follow logic. Show have to follow a logic.
Twin Peaks follows dream logic. Stanley Kubrick follows whatever the heck he wants to follow. That's what makes them auteurs.
More on this in a future article.
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