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Tiger and Bunny (TV) (all seasons + movies).

Finally, where's my awesome guitar-laden sentai-esque theme song to set the mood?

After seeing episode 2, my fears that this show will never aspire to be something more than generic superhero schlock have grown exponentially. The preview guide compares this show to Heat Guy J, for whatever reason, but at least that show tried (and fell short) of aspiring for more than it started out as...but at least it tried. This could easily falter and become "Needless 2", only worse. Episode 2 is too early to judge, but I held out hope on Kiddy Girl-and being at least on par with the original. We all know how that panned out. Hence my skepticism.

Again, the initial premise of the show needs fleshing out--in a town where blue-collar criminals are violently apprehended, blue-collar crime would not exist. At least, not in the form shown in ep 1, there would be no poorly organized 3-man crews. Why would anyone risk the perilous job of hijacking an armored truck when they could simply embezzle the money from the company's bank accounts?

The lack of a main female character is diappointing. I hope Tiger's daughter provides some interest.

Blue Rose (dat ass) might play a bigger role later on,

So, where is the competition for Hero TV? All the reporters in the world are content just to miss these great stories and let the one TV channel get endless exclusives? That makes no sense. Did other worldwide news efforts let BBC get exclusives on Libya and the Sendai earthquake? Of course not.

Also, as Barnaby is knowledgeable about bombs to the point of being able to disassemble them, how come he didn't realize that the bomb had no motion sensor and simply use his superpowered running to carry the bomb outside and detonate it safely & sans property damage when there was still plenty of time left on the clock? Instead, he vacillates for minutes and ends up wreaking havok on the building, and could have killed the news crew in the circling helicopter.

A further bogus device is the bomb itself--the bomb was apparently a prebuilt bomb, the "most advanced on the market". What kind of market openly sells ready-to-go bombs? I guess in the future bombs aren't purpose-made by expert bomb makers who put signatures into their work, instead they just come off the assembly line?!

Lastly, how did Blue Rose recognize Tiger out of his superhero disguise but Tiger not recognize her? Tiger prides himself on his ability to keep his identity a secret, and Blue Rose was never shown to have connected Kotetsu to Tiger. Either she recognized him, somehow, or she was disgusted that a "lech" was looking at her, even though encouraging that is part of the job she was doing Rolling Eyes

The one thing that really bothered me in that ep was how Tiger was going around in his civilian uniform with just a domino mask, that would be completely worthless for a secret ID. It's be like Superman walking around in a business suit just without the glasses.

I don't think it was safe to move at first. He disabled a lot of its elements, including the motion sensor, apparently.

It's possible it was a military device, but they called it "C9", which is reminiscent of "C4", which is an explosive, so maybe they were talking about the explosive material itself, not the mechanism.

I thought he did recognize her, they just seemed to have a love-hate thing going on. I imagine all the heroes know each others secret IDs.

For one thing, they specialize JUSt on crime within that one city, so they probably have a lot better resources for doing so than, say, CNN. For another they have a direct line to alkl the heroes, so they know what they're up to in real time.

The one thing that really bothered me in that ep was how Tiger was going around in his civilian uniform with just a domino mask, that would be completely worthless for a secret ID. It's be like Superman walking around in a business suit just without the glasses.

(Though Superman might not be the best example as he looked exactly like Clark Kent as I recall there was no disguise. He didn't cover his face ala Bruce Wayne, or even get a token "hero mask" like Tuxedo Mask.)

Barnaby never said that there was a motion sensor, or that there wasn't one. The issue wasn't brought up, it was completely dodged as if they didn't expect the viewer to raise this point.

If Tiger recognized her, why did he seem surprised to see her? That's what struck me as odd.

Going for the reality show analogy, if no other network could compete with Hero TV in whatever city they're in, the other networks would start their own competing show elsewhere. Maybe they'd even start to bribe heroes away from Hero TV...or are there heroes outside of this mystery city? This hasn't been explained Sad )

If Tiger recognized her, why did he seem surprised to see her? That's what struck me as odd. If he knows her real identity, wouldn't he then also know her aspirations to become a singer? Even if she didn't explicitly tell him, it should not be surprising to him, seeing as she has been observed to break out in a Hatsune Miku-esque dance & song routine when she appears at a crime scene.

But who knows, maybe there are such shows, we just don't see any of them.

He was happily clapping for her until she noticed him and visibly reacted in a negative way to him and walked off, which left him stunned.