Huh

[pikapikapikarin]

I'm not too sure what to think. These are apparently the Sentai after the Kyoryugers that I've read up on. Any thoughts on them?

Apparently they're a Train-Based series called Ressha Sentai Tokkyuger.



I've even gotten stuff on their gear and mecha too.











The suits look very showa to me. Like they were lifted from a bit of Bioman actually. But I want to know what the other actual Sentai and Riders think about this new addition to their ranks. And, well everyone else too.

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[former_endboss]

So is this a toy catalog or something? Explain it to me like I live under a rock.

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[pikapikapikarin]

It's a toy catalog but it also shows off next years sentai. Well, two years away for me actually. This is 2014's team, Ressha Sentai Tokkyuger.

[former_endboss]

Right, more basic. What is sentai referring to here?

[pikapikapikarin]

A taskforce team of heroes, color coded by costume and personality.

[former_endboss]

Oh, I guess I heard about something like that once a long time ago. It must be at least 400 years since we had anything like that in my world.

[pikapikapikarin]

Huh, I guess you had some kind of history with that then.

[former_endboss]

Well, not really. Civilization collapsed and all developed media went with it. Including children's holo-dramas.

[pikapikapikarin]

That sucks. Sentai is a joy to be shared.

[former_endboss]

It looks more about merchandizing from here. But maybe that's just because you're showing me a page of the toys.

...you say they're on the community though? That's a strange way to parse the Many-Worlds interpretation.

[pikapikapikarin]

Sometimes. Toei is sponsored by Bandai.

The world they're from is on the community.

[former_endboss]

Those are companies I take it. Not ones, I believe, that ever existed on my world.

That is interesting. Are they fictional in your world but real in their own? And how accurate is the depiction?

[pikapikapikarin]

You probably had some equivalents.

They're real in my world, but Toei exists and so does Bandai. And they're accurate 100%.

[former_endboss]

So are you saying that you have both the children's TV show and the heroes, or that you have the companies but not the show, which exists in a different world? Because it's not clear which you mean.

[pikapikapikarin]

We have the heroes, and alternate shows. But we also have the merchandise that goes to fund repairs and people who lose their homes and are affected in attacks.

[former_endboss]

Merchandising seems like it would be a bandaid on a bullet hole if the attacks are anything like the ones in the shows I'm thinking of. Just one episode could be trillions of Leaf in damage if it were real.

[pikapikapikarin]

Every little bit helps, and kids get to have toys of their heroes. I grew up having a little figurine of the Pinks of the team every year under the tree.

Also, there's a lot of donations from everyone. And past Sentai teams also donate from their foundations to repair damage.

[former_endboss]

I still don't see how this is supposed to add up to replace the loss of property caused by giant monsters fighting in cities. And I object to the stereotypical use of pink to signify a female character. Some of use prefer black, or a dark purple, or red. Or all three in combination.

[pikapikapikarin]

Its a collective thing. You wouldn't understand, you don't live in my world.

And hey, pink is a perfectly good color.

[former_endboss]

The ecconomics of it must be outrageous. Have they invented a building that can be built for a reasonable price but stays up when a monster is pile-drived into it by a giant robot yet? It's creator would surely make a fortune.

It's no good for me. I'm sure it suits some people but I think it's completely antithetical to my style.

[pikapikapikarin]

You'd be surprised. Our world functions on interesting logic and economics.

Eh, it's worked in our favor for 35 years.

[former_endboss]

I'm telling you, monster-proof architecture is a growth industry. You should invest in it. And if you're too young to invest, your parents should.

...You know, most people do something about living in such a monster infested neighborhood. In your case though, I might suggest leaving the planet for somewhere a bit safer.

[pikapikapikarin]

We've already made progress on that. Don't worry too much about it.

And it's not that we're monster-infested. It's more predictable than anything else.

[former_endboss]

It was more a joke, but I wasn't worried too much anyways. It's your world after all.

Have you tried putting out traps? Maybe you can get rid of them that way, if they're so predictable.

[pikapikapikarin]

Monsters and mecha can jump off buildings now. When they couldn't previously.

Traps don't really work out.

[former_endboss]

It's more the buildings and the people inside them, rather than the monsters that you should worry about I think.