Ryuki and Gaim too similar, yay or nay

[BLASTMATIC]

The Riders see this war as a game. To see who's the best dance group. However Kouta is the only one who realizes how dangerous it is after his encounter with Takatora. And now with Alfonso, that reality is going to hit them hard. Where as Ryuki, all the Riders knew what they got themselves into and have no problem trying to kill each other to get that wish.

this is true and i Kouta so far realize this **** is real, and i love his charecter i just wish maybe my only gripe with Gaim is the main theme or plot point of the show but with some new stuff that has been leaked we might find some stuff out

 

[Japaneseseriesfan]

No, assuming that Ryuki and Gaim is going to be similar due to the fact that they simply both "has a lot of Riders" is a pretty superficial thing.

Similarity doesn't mean you can expect everything to go exactly alike. Like Gen Urobuchi said, he simply took a few key inspirations from previous series, and made it his own.

Experienced Toku Viewers have to stop viewing the new shows from the perception of a fan who's seen and loved previous shows, because that creates a bias that most people would probably end up saying "nah, this isn't for me, it just copied Ryuki/Kabuto's Rider Fights and Faiz's misunderstandings".

Take it for what it is, instead of constantly trying to compare every series with one another, it's getting really ridiculous the amount of threads where people go "no, this is awesome, no that's awesome, no this ripped it off, but this is new!". Then finally, we can move on to discussions about the shows that's actually enjoyable instead of nitpicking things all the time. I grew up with Kamen Rider, pretty much saw Kuuga when it first aired, I'm 19 now, and Gaim does do the references to each Riders in the part pretty well, all the while managing to be it's own thing, unlike that godawful Wizard and Fourze that I had to skip.

 

[toni2212]

Ryuki got its Rider War, Gaim got its 'Sengoku War' feels filling the street. Riders in Ryuki fights for their own personal agenda similar to Battle Royale or maybe Hunger Games, but Gaim's Riders is fighting for the sake of their own faction to see who can rise to the 'throne of the best'.

You can say they are both quite similar, but not the same. Plus, Urobuchi did state that he really loves Ryuki, so it wasn't a surprise actually that he writes Gaim to bear a few similarities with Ryuki, but twisting it a bit so as to make it a little different. And the facts of Gaim is written while its still on its 6th ep, maybe by the end we will see a lot more differences.

Personally speaking, after the recent series of OOO, Fourze and Wizard that has a really light writing, I'm actually glad Gaim tried to take a whole level of plot writing by trying to instigate another level of atmosphere in the series (for now). I kinda feel the same with Wizard in its 1st ep, but then Wizard turned out to be copy-paste plot series in the end.