Kamen Rider OOO - Talk Up Part 2!!

[NateRiver]

Hey look!American Hidari Shotaro.

 

[Smilodon]

Watanabe Jun was Hibiki.

Why did Takaiwa return to Sentai for Magiranger though?

 

[KamenRiderUNDERGROUND]

Watanabe Jun was Hibiki.

Why did Takaiwa return to Sentai for Magiranger though?

Watanabe was Todoroki, Eitoku was Hibiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisanori_Ōiwa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun_Watanabe

 

[Hell Kaiser Andy]

Could for any ton of reasons... Though him as MagiRed didn't fit well considering his build and Atsushi Hashimoto's build.
He was better off as Wolzard or just having kept up in Kamen Rider as Hibiki.

Watanabe was Todoroki, Eitoku was Hibiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisanori_Ōiwa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun_Watanabe

However it also lists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Ito

But then again, English Wiki... Not the best scource.

 

[Smilodon]

Yeah. I've heard conflicting reports of who played Hibiki.

 

[KouAidou]

Watanabe Jun was Hibiki.

Why did Takaiwa return to Sentai for Magiranger though?

Pretty sure it was Makoto Ito. Takatera used him again for Daimajin Kanon.

I'm not sure why they put Seiji in Magiranger instead of Hibiki. My theories are that either 1.) Takatera just didn't want to play things the standard way and/or preferred Ito in the part, or 2.) they needed someone shorter than Fukuzawa Hirofumi to be MagiRed, and Seiji was the best candidate for the job.

Or some combination of the two.

 

[Hell Kaiser Andy]

The latter can't be it. I mean Seiji was bigger than Atsushi.

 

[KamenRiderUNDERGROUND]

I've heard something about the production staff of Hibiki was entirely different or what? That's why Takaiwa wasn't Hibiki? I mean the only times he wasn't the main Rider was Kuuga and Hibiki, both series had a different style than the others.

 

[Hell Kaiser Andy]

I don't think the Kuuga part is of importance, since it was just a pilot series, and he had been doing Sentai for 5+ years.

Perhaps he's been a fan of Kamen Rider and finally had a chance to join with Agito and knowing what Hibiki was about made him not want to do it...

Or...

I was digging around on his Japanese Wiki page and it mentions something about Atsushi and Magiranger, but Google Chrome's translate to English made a... Well pretty hard to understand.

However he's apperently shown up at a kindergarten in the Momotaros costume :laugh:

 

[Smilodon]

Kuuga was a pilot series, and I think Takaiwa was still contractually obligated to Sentai, considering he had been doing Sentai since Zyuranger I believe, and with random breaks in between. Or maybe they believed that Takaiwa was unsuitable for Kuuga? And they had the less stylish but more gritty Tominaga handle it?