Do we? Cause he didn't really give a reason. It was just "We were going to use poems buuuuut then we used fruit." In fact I'm even more confused because before this I thought that Bandai made the toys are the writers just wrote a show around them but he made it sound like it was the shows staff idea to make lockfuritsamurais.
What I'm hearing is that Takebe & co. were planning those other themes (something ala it being pretty Shinkenger-like) then Bandai came in with "Fruit! Do FRUITS!!!"... so Takebe just dropped everything asap.
Someone like Lynxara could prolly explain it better.
I love how he is getting the idea from Kamen Rider Black and Shadow Moon. I'm expecting some Gaim vs Ryugen in that case.
However, I was a little disappointed that the fruit theme undermines the samurai theme. I would have preferred the "poetic literature". I mean seriously, Sentai can do it, how come its considered too "early" for Rider?
What I'm hearing is that Takebe & co. were planning those other themes (something ala it being pretty Shinkenger-like) then Bandai came in with "Fruit! Do FRUITS!!!"... so Takebe just dropped everything asap.
Someone like Lynxara could prolly explain it better.
I love how he is getting the idea from Kamen Rider Black and Shadow Moon. I'm expecting some Gaim vs Ryugen in that case.
However, I was a little disappointed that the fruit theme undermines the samurai theme. I would have preferred the "poetic literature". I mean seriously, Sentai can do it, how come its considered too "early" for Rider?
That was the interview with Takebe. Not Urobuchi. But it only meant that Zangetsu was stronger than the rest, not that he was out to kill everyone. I'll post that interview soon.
That was the interview with Takebe. Not Urobuchi. But it only meant that Zangetsu was stronger than the rest, not that he was out to kill everyone. I'll post that interview soon.
Wait, Ouja was stronger? I never really got that from Ryuki.
Let's see
He killed Gai after the latter was terribly injured by Zolda's Final Vent.
Similar thing with Imperer.
He defeats Zolda only at the end, and that was actually Goro, who just started out, and is probably not very good at using Rider powers.
Aslo, there was a two-parter where he almost got eaten by his monsters because he spent too long without killing anything. In the end of that, Shinji had to let them use monsters the other Riders killed. This could be due to having more monsters than everybody else (except Imperer), but still. It's not like he had anything else that would have prevented him from killing things, ya know.
Takebe: Exactly, we wanted to give them different things that would set them all apart. Like making some of them into insects, or even birds. Although, Bandai eventually came to us and said “Fruits“, that became the center theme we worked with. You can still see some bird features if you look carefully.