Is it possible to watch a majority of all Toku shows?

[KingRanger]

Just watch the First for the general plot, read the synopsis for the series and disregard everything that was different in the First to Shodai. It saves a ton of time. Kinda like reading the Spark Notes for the Harry Potter books, reading a wiki and watching the movies. You don't need to watch or read the entirety of it to really do it in depth.



I wish Battle Hawk had a giant robot.

No.. Just no... You can not do an in depth review of the books with out having read the books. Notes or wiki do not cover it. Please don't lead people down that path as it just is not true.

 

[Ivanhobe]

You cannot do an in depth review of the books with out having read the books.

Or more accurately, you cannot make a review of ANYTHING without actually reading it/watching it/etc.

Otherwise nothing would stop me from blowing you away with my review of Avengers 3: Still featuring RDJ.

 

[Bigdog]

No.. Just no... You can not do an in depth review of the books with out having read the books. Notes or wiki do not cover it. Please don't lead people down that path as it just is not true.

Why not if you know the differences and omissions between both book and the film, and other facts, you can do a review of it easily. If you can read enough about a given book and subject that is accurate, you really do not need to read the actual books. I read a chunk of the GWTDT and the Dragon Tattoo extended film covers pretty much the first 30 pages sans the exposition that is explained in the later parts of the film.

Notes and a wiki is like a bare minimum, not exactly recommended. You can do a review using a film adaptation and that, but it might suck. Also, the text is available to quote and you can source other reviews for ideas on what to write about.

Or more accurately, you cannot make a review of ANYTHING without actually reading it/watching it/etc.

Otherwise nothing would stop me from blowing you away with my review of Avengers 3: Still featuring RDJ.

Red herring logic. Avengers 3 doesn't exist yet at all and you need the exact existing media so you can build a review from it. Nothing exists in a vacuum.

 

[Ivanhobe]

Red herring logic. Avengers 3 doesn't exist yet at all and you need the exact existing media so you can build a review from it. Nothing exists in a vacuum.

My point is, if you have´t read/watched what you are reviewing, you might as well make it up.

In any case, if you want to make a good review of something (because there is such a thing as "BAD review"), at the very least you should properly know the material and have some background on how to properly analyze the work you are reviewing. You don´t need to be an expert who posses all the background information but at least you should know of things like "characters arcs" or "plot progression".

Basically if you want to make a good review, i think it is fundamental to not only say if something is good or bad, but also to state why.

 

[kuroihikari]

Why not if you know the differences and omissions between both book and the film, and other facts, you can do a review of it easily. If you can read enough about a given book and subject that is accurate, you really do not need to read the actual books. I read a chunk of the GWTDT and the Dragon Tattoo extended film covers pretty much the first 30 pages sans the exposition that is explained in the later parts of the film.

Notes and a wiki is like a bare minimum, not exactly recommended. You can do a review using a film adaptation and that, but it might suck. Also, the text is available to quote and you can source other reviews for ideas on what to write about.

There are a lot of things not covered in a movie and in a notes/wiki. Things like figures of speech and word choice, imagery, pacing, etc. Things that are all essential in reviewing a book. You cannot, for example, get from the movie or wikipedia just how much detail Tolkien put into describing the trip through the river or through the Moria gallery; Forget about talking what style he used.

At the most, if those are in the notes/wiki, you'll end up just basically copying it, and then it won't be in your review any longer. The only way to make it your review is checking if the notes/wiki are actually right, and that's by reading the book. You can say for example, gather that Bleach has minimalist backgrounds while OP and Fairy Tail have very detailed and dynamic backgrounds from reading wikis, but you won't actually know anything about those yourself unless you read the manga.

Yes, you can restrict your review to just the story itself, but that would be a VERY bad review. You're not actually reviewing what the author actually wanted to present and how he/she wanted to present it.

 

[Shynilyte]

Also, you wouldn't be sure if the subject is like, enjoyable since you didn't read/watch/play it. Pretty sure that's an important part of a review.

 

[Glamador]

I posit that there is a difference between a review and an analysis. From that, I also suggest that a review (and its score, if you give it one) is not an objective measure of its quality, but rather a measure of the strength of the reviewer's recommendation to his audience.

In that way, it is incredibly crucial to have first-hand experience of the material. Because without that you cannot recommend it. You may be able to formulate some kind of informed opinion about it, and parrot that to others, by simply absorbing as much information about a work as possible without actually experiencing it. But as has been said above, if you have enough detail from that research to even make an informed analysis you'll just be repeating verbatim what you've read.

The idea that you can review something without having experienced it is...well it's ludicrous.

 

[PRFAN1]

What are some obscure Toku series that I could probably easily find?

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

Zubat, it's completely subbed, Mega Beast Empire also has a Metal Hero and a few other shows being subbed. A lot of obscure tokusatsu is obscure because it's difficult to actually find.

 

[Blade Dancer]

There are several you can find subbed discs for. Iron King springs to mind. A cyborg guy who grows huge using the power of water is all I remember. A friend of mine picked it up for something like $15 at Target or someplace like that.