maybe i am just a little boy at heart
my life can be seen through green-tinted goggles and over-the-top explosions
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i'm just word-vomitting today again.
dude, kamen rider gavv is full of hype moments and aura even if those hype moments and aura are mostly full of whimsy and the joy of consuming candy. i quite literally started the series 12 hours ago (i didn't keep track of time) and genuinely felt the need to nerd out just a tiny bit. an itsy-bitsy bit. i'm super normal about it, trust. i can hear the tiny gochizos yelling juicy! in my ear as we speak.
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maybe i'm just a 10 year old boy at heart - i love tokusatsu and power rangers as much as the next child; it's like one of those sleeper-agent interests of mine that i don't really jump at unless someone else brought it up in conversation and lowkey, i stared at the surugaya site at 4 in the morning, contemplating on ordering one of the tiny gochizos to put on my desk beside the acrylic standees and blind box figures so they can watch me get rejected after submitting job applications.
okay, i will admit, my knowledge of the superhero genre is super limited and the last time i actually sat and watched a power rangers episode was back in 2010. i mainly watched the disney era power ranger series(es?) since that's what i had on tv at the time. go ahead, ask me what happened between 2008 - 2010, i will let you know now that i can only recall just dance coming out and my crush on the pink ranger in power rangers operation overdrive (or most pink rangers actually).
on the other hand, since a lot of the powers displayed within the series are based on candy, maybe i'm also like a grandmother who just enjoys watching other people eat happily. like have you ever eat a meal with your grandmother and you can see her eyes light up when you say that her food is so good? i mean, i didn't, but i had much older relatives that were like my grandparents that did that, so i'd assume that's how having grandparents would feel like? (i've only met my actual grandparents once since they lived on the opposite side of the globe... just an fyi before anyone things i'm just trauma dumping her). there's something so whimsical about the titular kamen rider for this season that just brings a smile to my face.
as of publishing this post, i must've watched 7 episodes over the course of 2 days (more like in the last maybe 12 hours since i started watching at midnight); actually, to be super transparent, i was watching the show as i type this out. it's not super impressive since i used to be able to watch whole 45-episode series(es??) within a few days nor have i been super invested in the whole kamen rider series since i was a child - sometimes i feel like a fake fan whenever i get into something that has been around for at least a decade at this point but i still make it my entire personality. like, i have a feeling this is all i'm going to be talking about for the foreseeable future just because i had a really fun time watching it.
speaking of being into kamen rider series; ok. i maybe, sort-of, kind-of lied about it; my knowledge of kamen rider honestly stems from the whole ride kamens game that was developed by liber. you can never take the maiden out of me i suppose (btw! not to infodump or anything, but they were the same developers for i-chu (which i think everyone needs to get into) and a3!) it's another gacha game and while i wasn't 100% invested in it since the game is in japanese and i'm an unfortunate non-japanese speaking gaijin/j, i'm just a filthy gacha game player who loves her silly little anime boys fighting other-worldly beasts. i think you can extend this sort of feeling to the helios rising heroes series (actually, i'm just naming gacha games with tokusatsu elements to prolong this post).
for reference, this is my favourite ride kamens character, kamui. just wanted an excuse to share him.
i just think. he looks really cool, that's all.
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anyways, back to kamen rider gavv, i don't think i have enough passion to sell anyone on it yet aside from the fact that it's something i currently enjoy, but i do think that everyone should find a series that brings some sort of child-like joy in them; whether it's the latest adaptation of something you've watched when you were 10 or if it's just revisiting an old series that you fell in love with ages ago, that sort of nostalgic feeling or being able to nerd out with friends on a thursday night (more like friday midnight?) is one of the best in the world, i think.
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kamen rider aside, the reason why i actually wrote this whole thing is because of what i've been up to lately. i've started collecting little trinkets again, decorating my phone with all sorts of keychains and charms that probably contributes to noise pollution in my area. i've also started to watch older anime that i've been meaning to (re)watch - i'm looking at you code geass... (and evangelion...). i'm even writing and drawing again - i picked up an old sketchbook i had laying under my bed to start drawing again. and with writing, i mean, cmon, how else are you seeing this post? it really isn't a serious article or anything like that, it's actually been a few years since i had a blog where i just blew steam off.
while i'm no piccasso and i do think i'll probably end up with a whole page of sailor moon on my paper again, i'm finding joy in these sorts of hobbies - am i doing what those tik tok girlies are saying... "romanticising my life" or whatever the phrase is? probably.
instead of rose-tinted shades that makes everything in my life super sparkly or anything, i think i'm looking at life through green-tinted goggles and watching aliens from outerspace explode into billions of pieces after defeating them with the power of friendship (or candy).