The series is groundbreaking in some ways and really poorly written in others.) (Also, if you want to start Kamen Rider with a series that’s interesting but not actually the best of it, Ryuki is pretty much perfect. Japan is a bizarre place where Superman Returns outgrossed The Dark Knight and that’s sort of what’s fun about watching their stuff. The idea that realism is better/cool/etc is pretty much an American bias not necessarily shared by a lot of other world cultures. The Kuuga experiment was never really repeated. The fairly realistic Ultraman Nexus bombed in its timeslot and got canceled about 12 episodes early. GARO was very successful as an independent tokusatsu but had little impact on how the main producer, Toei, does things. The most financially successful of the modern Rider shows is Den-O, which is an extremely silly, slapsticky series aimed at 6-year-olds. Japanese audiences have no inherent love of realism- they tend to prefer whimsy and comedy. I wish they made a cool series with the movie suits. In every genre around the world there has been progress toward realism and better designs (look at comics), these series retain a lot of what made them cool but it’s odd they didn’t also try to branch out (Garo is an exception?).
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