Samurai Sentai Shinkenger rumor/picture thread

[Lynxara]

I don't have issues with the plausibility... it's a superhero show, Shinken Red can lift whatever he wants.

I just can't figure out what kind of combat situation you get yourself into where two zanbatos are somehow better than one. Maybe it's a failure of imagination on my part, I dunno.

 

[musashi03]

I don't have issues with the plausibility... it's a superhero show, Shinken Red can lift whatever he wants.

I just can't figure out what kind of combat situation you get yourself into where two zanbatos are somehow better than one. Maybe it's a failure of imagination on my part, I dunno.

Errr... Being in a brawl for one. But mostly, I think he just needs to be IMBA.

 

[Lynxara]

In a brawl, it'll be easier to control the one zanbato and you'll have just as much reach with it. Having the two zanbato... like, you could bring them both down on one point and then separate to clear an area in front of you more quickly. Otherwise you can't do anything with two you couldn't do with one because they're so much larger than the wielder.

(My understanding of zanbato is that they weren't really meant for fighting lots of dudes at once-- they were designed to chop a guy's horse in half while he was still on it. But I'll give ShinkenRed the benefit of the doubt here and imagine he can swing them fast enough to make them worthwhile in a big fight.)

In summary, I want ShinkenRed to chop some sort of horrible Ayakashi horse in half now. Or two at once, if he's going to tote around two of the things!

 

[GekiDan]

Rekka DaiZanTo Nittoryu ! With, if I'm not mistaken, the Seal Character Disk !

How can Takeru even carry those...?:sweat:

 

[Diaxiann]

In fairness, Shinkenger had to introduce so many new toys in such a brief span of time that I think almost any writer would've been frustrated with the situation. I think they get something like five or six power-ups in the space of about ten episodes.

That just does not give you time to build up to each new power-up and integrate it properly, because you don't have time to demonstrate that the rangers "need" any of the power-ups. Pacing demands that they get one power-up, then go get one more. It was pretty brutal.

Also some of the toys they had to introduce just... weren't interesting toys. I mean I've sat down and worked over this problem myself, and I just can't figure out what the hell you even could've done to make Daigoyou halfway interesting or story-relevant.

Oh god, Daigoyou. Don't get me started. There were rumours initially that Genta creates Daigoyou to fight for him because he stops being ShinkenGold, but thankfully those weren't true...But yeah, for any writer, powerups are frustrating. But for something like the Mogyu Bazooka, then...yeah. I dunno. To be fair you get filler episodes, like the Chiaki-Ryu stuck together one which could be used as a better lead up to power-up eps...but I dunno. I guess that's why none of us are writing for a TV series at the moment.

Genta's a useful character in the aspect that he's an inventor-plotdevice: if they need a new power up, where does the excuse come from? OH MY WE HAVE AN INVENTOR WHO MADE IT YEEY

To be honest, the best episodes to introduce power ups have mostly been the mecha ones. We got great character development from Chiaki in the Tora Origami episode, as well as introducing the MOST SIGNIFICANT KUROKO IN THE WORLD for the Kajiki Origami ep. And I've already mentioned the Kabuto one.

As for the double Rekkas...I'm looking forward to it. We deserve a massive big ass fight at the end which shoves the ridiculous levels into maximum, no matter how they justify it. It'll probably be something like "HEY LOOK AT THIS" *swingswingswing* YAAAAH"

Also, creative and bizzare pretty much sum up Sentai

Whatever man.



Yeah, there has to be a cons to this, like super low maneuverability.

Physics-wise, this is impossible, but since this is a kid's show... :sly: But I still believe this kinds of things are reserved for cartoons where everything is REALLY possible.

YEAH GOD MAN JEEZ YOU'RE A WHATEVER YOU HAVE NO SO CALLED 'FACTS' TO BACK UP YOUR PHYSICS ITS COMPELTELY POSSIBLE TOEI JUST MIGHT PULL A PHYSICS SURPRISE ON US.

*stops with the stupidness*

And like I said, creative and bizzare. :3

 

[musashi03]

In a brawl, it'll be easier to control the one zanbato and you'll have just as much reach with it. Having the two zanbato... like, you could bring them both down on one point and then separate to clear an area in front of you more quickly. Otherwise you can't do anything with two you couldn't do with one because they're so much larger than the wielder.

(My understanding of zanbato is that they weren't really meant for fighting lots of dudes at once-- they were designed to chop a guy's horse in half while he was still on it. But I'll give ShinkenRed the benefit of the doubt here and imagine he can swing them fast enough to make them worthwhile in a big fight.)

In summary, I want ShinkenRed to chop some sort of horrible Ayakashi horse in half now. Or two at once, if he's going to tote around two of the things!

Yep, zanbatos were anti-cavalry just like the nodachi.

But throughout the series, the Ayakashi never used horses so they just used the Rekka Daizanto for brawls. Although they did use horses in the movie and in the Juzo VS Takeru duel. But yeah, they never used the Rekka Daizanto for its true purpose historically speaking.

 

[zogu]

Looking forward to ShinkenRed's double Rekkadaizantou! Given how few episodes we have left, I think it will appear in the same episode where Kyouryu ShinkenOh wields the magnified Rekkadaizantou in the magazine scan which was posted like late last month.

 

[Lynxara]

Yeah, I could sorta forgive the way Shinkenger decided to use Rekka Daizantou for crowd control instead of... well, cleaving things, because it was sensible enough given how the fights were shot. So, you know, maybe the way the double Rekka Daizantou is shot will make it sensible, or at least inoffensive.

If ShinkenRed started using them to just one-shot cleave multiple Ayakashi, for instance, that would be suitably rad and explain why having two was better than one.

 

[musashi03]

Yeah, I could sorta forgive the way Shinkenger decided to use Rekka Daizantou for crowd control instead of... well, cleaving things, because it was sensible enough given how the fights were shot. So, you know, maybe the way the double Rekka Daizantou is shot will make it sensible, or at least inoffensive.

If ShinkenRed started using them to just one-shot cleave multiple Ayakashi, for instance, that would be suitably rad and explain why having two was better than one.

Hahaha yeah, and based on the scans, he might be able to do some kind of whirling move or something (probably cause a fire/lightning tornado or something), since the revolutions of the giant blades are faster by having 2 Rekka Daizantous (2-blade ceiling fan analogy vs 1-blade)

 

[psowill]

Here's some more pics for you guys.