I remember the one in Ohranger being particularly egregious, though I think that one does end up with the girls in swimsuits and carrying machine guns….

I was glad X started trying to actually do serialised storytelling. It starts super well and the trails away in the middle a bit but this a return to form

Put me off gardening for life!

Apollo Geist is such a brilliant villain though, the fact he doesn’t go through all of X is a crime

I’m 99% sure they have two production teams so they can overlap production on the shows (I’d think realistically the only way you could do continuous production). Though if I had to guess I imagine some functions will be duplicated

This era is so marked by huge genre blindness, especially on Tachibana’s part.

Didn’t know you were a Kamen Rider X fan!

Huge shoutout to @mairejed.bsky.social, whose original paper on Crazyspace was a big inspiration to the podcast getting going, and still informs our discussions to this day!

They repeated it a lot in the 2000s and the books get reprinted about every 5 years or so, so I think it’s pretty likely it’s something she’d know

If you want a podcast to go along with that nostalgia, do I have news for you!

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We’ve just started Book 5!

OMG cannot wait to read this!