Burning Tokusatsu Question

[Misfits923]

Serious, but to make sure they never lose their sense of fun.

Yeah, I'm with you on that. I do like the ocassional dark toku, but I like the serious ones overall.

 

[Bolt]

I do like the ocassional dark toku, but I like the serious ones overall.

Is dark not the same thing as serious?

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

Is dark not the same thing as serious?

Not really, a show can have dark elements but not be serious. It can have people being killed left and right, but that doesn' mean it's a serious show.

 

[RurouniX]

You're kidding right? Buffy seasons 5-7 was awfully dumb. They were serious to characters with horns for ears came on.

Wasn't it mentioned that 6 and 7 sucked??

Anyway, Never really watched 5... Was too annoyed by Dawn.

As usual, Toku, like any other show, is good when it has a balance of comedy and drama.

 

[Forever Knight]

I'm straight up Kamen Rider Black/Ultraman Nexus/Mohoro-Asuka Tokusatsu Serious. I love it dark, serious, and epic. I find the silly **** makes it look stupid.

 

[Hariken]

I like my toku dark and serious. I don't mind a little comedy but only enough to lighten the tension from time to time. I'd say Kamen Rider Blade is how I like my Toku. The comedy was very minimal but not non-existant. Only enough for a quick chuckle. That's what I prefer.

 

[VengeanceGOD]

The darkness, both in tone and in how the bloody series is shot, is the main problem I've had with Faiz so far.

 

[Hariken]

I thought Faiz was hot! That series sucked me in as soon as I started watching it and I finished it in a week's time. Yeah...Takumi was a moody bastard but he couldn't help it....He was born that way.

 

[Shougo B'Stard]

I'd say Kamen Rider Blade is how I like my Toku. The comedy was very minimal but not non-existant.

It might as well have been non-existant, because the tiny bits of comedic relief in Blade were really, really forced, which I think is as bad as not having comedy at all. Can you really think of one genuinely funny or lighthearted moment of Blade? Usually an old standby is any scene with a kid, but Amane was such a brat that those scenes didn't qualify as comedic or light. Hirose's constant whining that she serves a purpose and/or "isn't an obasan" wasn't funny -- do kids in Japan still find that bit about young girls worrying they're old funny? You can find that scene in virtually any show.

Then you have the awful episodes 29 & 30, the lost Ryuki episodes, that were really overdoing it...

 

[Bolt]

Not really, a show can have dark elements but not be serious. It can have people being killed left and right, but that doesn' mean it's a serious show.

Still, there are other genres to go to if you want dark and disturbing.