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Conventional Wisdom: Tiger & Bunny 1
🕑 Added 2015-10-12 08:48:44 +0000 UTC I tend to over-think this kind of thing, but I still had a lot of trouble getting on the same wavelength as the show for this reason. It's tempting to say "So what? A superhero's a superhero", and there's definitely an attempt to incorporate some Western hero tropes into the mix. But the fact remains that these "superhero" concepts are borne from to vastly different sets of genres, and jumping into one while expecting the other is going to be disorienting. There's lots of little bits of characterization or world-building that make a lot more sense if you try to filter it through Kamen Rider rather than through Batman.That said, I refuse to believe all those giant statues everywhere came into being without at least a LITTLE influence from the Joel Schumacher Batman films.
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Simon Ladd
I just finished the show this morning, and will be watching the movies in a day or two. And yeah, there's definitely some western hero elements in the Bruce Wayne-esque backstory. It's more the look & attitude of the heroes that betrays the tokusatsu influence. All that posing and catch phrase spouting and high visibility makes a lot more sense if you think about "heroes" in that context rather than the DC/Marvel sense. Or, it does to me, anyway.
There is some Batman influence in the series, especially with the design of Sternbild (which always to me looked like they just said "Let's build over Gotham and make it cool again and hope all the crime stays on the lower city". Barnaby is also pretty much Batman and they share so many parallels, which never ceases to amuse me. I'd say more but I have no idea where you are in the series.
