Original Hibiki ending?

[Shougo B'Stard]

As for Todoroki with a shamisen, you can't jam on that - at least I don't think so.

True, but Shurikenger did a good job faking it. :laugh:

Anyway, sorry to get so off-topic, Blue. I searched around for Tsuyoshi Kida, to see if it was ever mentioned what his plans were, and all I could find was him talking about being replaced. It seems at that time he was replaced, he still thought there was a possibility that he'd have a say in the second half of the series. It sounds like Toei had him thinking it was left open, which is sucky.

Kida mostly does theater work and he has a site ( http://www.happou.net/ )with a blog, maybe he gets into it more there. I doubt he'd say what he had planned, I don't think that's proper etiquette.

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

Yeah, I figured it wouldn't really be proper etiquette, but it's always made me wondwer what could have happened. If Kiriya would have come in either way, how different the ending would have actually been, that sort of thing. Does suck that he actually thought he had more time with the series than he was actually told though.

 

[Shougo B'Stard]

If Kiriya would have come in either way, how different the ending would have actually been, that sort of thing.

I could be wrong here, but I always thought Kiriya was a total Inoue character. If they're metro or they slightly irk you, chances are Inoue's responsible for that character. :laugh: Inoue's really run out of talent, IMO, or he's gotten too full of himself...

 

[Kenro]

I haven't ever seen anything from the first writers that say how it would have been if they had stayed on through the end. Something interesting to consider though: according to the Hibiki "Perfect Archive" books, the change happened at episode #30. Inoue penned every episode from #30 on except for #38 & 39, which were by another guy, who coincidentally is the writer for the Kamen Rider Kabuto movie. But also, the show's producer changed at the same time, with a different guy taking over from #30 on. I think that might have had an even bigger effect on the show than the writer change.

According to Wiki Japan: The first producer, Takadera Shigenori, who also was one of the producers on Black and Black RX, and then the chief producer on Kuuga and Hibiki (#1~29), retired earlier this year.

The second guy, Shirakura Shinichirou, was one producer for Kuuga and then chief producer of Agito, Ryuki, Faiz, Hibiki from #30~on, as well as Kabuto. He also did the Shin Kamen Rider video, and FIRSTy (which he cameos in.)

Wow, that's a lot of intersting info. I liked the show a lot earlier on and even tho' it was different (didn't care much for the ending tho') it earned my respect. Still I have good thoughts of it. Oh well, what could have been.

 

[Igadevil]

You have the "Perfect Archive" books? What's in it? I thought of getting them but no idea what's in it.

They have pretty much everything you could want about the series, even down to a map of Kanto that shows where everything happened! I'd really recommend them for Hibiki fans.

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

Know of any place that sells them online?

 

[Igadevil]

HLJ has/had them both, although the first one is currently out-of-stock.

http://www.hlj.com/product/TKE42563

http://www.hlj.com/product/TKE42686

There's also always Amazon Japan, which will ship books internationally.

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

Can anyone translate the article on the Japanese wiki about the staff change? I've tried looking around the English wikipedia, but it doesn't contain that much info.