Kuuga/Agito questions

[xSHiNOx]

So I finished both and I have some questions;

1. Kuuga defeated the No.0 but lost his belt and later went on a adventure by himself?
2. In Agito they mention No.4 (Kuuga) and unidentified lifeforms a couple times. That means Kuuga isn't fighting anymore due to not having a belt and where ever Agito takes place is at a different part of Japan than in Kuuga right?

Btw, I will be the next Agito..... :O_O:

 

[King Gainer]

The Kuuga sequel novel says that Kuuga's belt regenerated itself after a few years, but I'm not sure if it was written by the original writer.

 

[Painted_Outlaw]

After the first few episodes of Agito, the Kuuga references don't matter too much and the connections are dropped.

So, don't worry yourself too much over it all.

 

[NeonZ]

The Kuuga sequel novel says that Kuuga's belt regenerated itself after a few years, but I'm not sure if it was written by the original writer.

It was written by Kuuga's original script writer himself.

 

[Shynilyte]

Yeah, like Cirno said, the references just get dropped from Agito.

 

[Toku Prime]

1. Kuuga defeated the No.0 but lost his belt and later went on a adventure by himself?

It's mentioned several times in Kuuga that Yusuke loves to travel, usually by himself. It's implied that it's really unusual for him to stay in one place for this long, but his desire to protect people is overriding the wanderlust that would normally cause him to move on. In the final battle with the Grongi leader, they both smash each other's belts causing them to untransform. So Yusuke can no longer become Kuuga, and as the threat is now over anyway he goes back to his travels again. As other people have pointed out, there has since been a novel that says his belt repaired itself so he could become Kuuga again, but that book series was not noted for being especially good or true to their parent TV shows :eyebrow:

2. In Agito they mention No.4 (Kuuga) and unidentified lifeforms a couple times. That means Kuuga isn't fighting anymore due to not having a belt and where ever Agito takes place is at a different part of Japan than in Kuuga right?

The references you mention do seem to imply that something similar to at the least the first few episodes of Kuuga are a part of the Agito series backstory. However nobody outside of the police seem to mention this and Kuuga showed that the events going on were making the news.

IIRC I have seen a story told a few times on toku forums (so take it with a massive pinch of salt) that says a member of the creative team behind Agito (the producer?) was asked about it and said that for the most part the people working on the show felt that they were making something with an original story rather than a sequel, but that the reference was thrown in because they knew some of the fans would expect them to be linked (after all, the Showa Riders are all in continuity) and also because it provided them with a nice "the police have encountered something similar before" explaination for why they had already developed a high-tech power armour unit when the monsters have only just started attacking. He apparently seemed quite content to leave it up to people's individual fanon.

So it's really left to fans' imaginations whether Yusuke exists in the world of Agito and whether he's still travelling abroad or up to something else. The idea that the shows are connected has certainly stayed alive in the fandom (a lot more show than the idea of Agito and Ryuki being connected, despite cast members from Agito cameoing in the Ryuki movie :laugh. I don't think there was ever any implication that they were meant to take place in different places, but I can't say I was especially looking out for that (plus I actually saw Kuuga after Agito so I wouldn't have spotted if Agito was making references to it's predecessor anyway).

 

[NeonZ]

IIRC I have seen a story told a few times on toku forums (so take it with a massive pinch of salt) that says a member of the creative team behind Agito (the producer?) was asked about it and said that for the most part the people working on the show felt that they were making something with an original story rather than a sequel, but that the reference was thrown in because they knew some of the fans would expect them to be linked (after all, the Showa Riders are all in continuity) and also because it provided them with a nice "the police have encountered something similar before" explaination for why they had already developed a high-tech power armour unit when the monsters have only just started attacking. He apparently seemed quite content to leave it up to people's individual fanon.

There was something like that, but you're mixing up the details.
(the link seems to be offline right now, but you can find previous discussions about it)
tvarc.toei.co.jp/tv/agito/msg-0205.html
Here's an alternate link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130825011430/http://tvarc.toei.co.jp/tv/agito/msg-0205.html

It's written by Agito's producer, Shirakura, now infamous for the spring crossover movies. Anyway, the idea is that there was a lot of demand for a Kuuga sequel, but Agito's staff out of respect for Kuuga's staff, and its story, and to not make Godai's battle to bring smiles to people meaningless blurred the ties between the two series, leaving Kuuga as a fully closed tale.

Although there are references to Kuuga's events in the beginning, that text itself references that there are also some contradictions (like dates not matching up - Agito makes a reference to a "Unidentified Lifeform Number 4"... which fought against other "Unidentified Lifeforms" two years before Agito even though Agito started airing one week after Kuuga and the in series dates of both follow the real life years they aired). According to Shirakura, the contradictions exist on purpose exactly to show that Agito isn't a sequel to Kuuga.

However, he also says that they respected Kuuga's setting, and you're free to think about Agito as a Kuuga sequel if you want to think that, and they'd even appreciate that people put it on that level.

I'd also note that the references to Kuuga's events completely disappear later, and some developments in Agito don't make sense coming after Kuuga's events at that point (like the police considering humans with special powers an impossibility).