#and please give ryu commander the attention he deserves

[frozentearsforsebby]

Why do you assume that Cosmic Fury is going to be Kyuranger? Do you have ideas?

Not really assuming, just that some things are adding up for me. I'm hearing noises about Zenkaiger too which also kind of makes sense to me I guess. I dunno. Or they could surprise us all and have a completely original team. Kiramager is also a possibility but they don't have a white ranger so I'm kind of thinking they'll save that one for later.

I do have some ideas on Cosmic Fury using Kyuranger even though at this point, I don't want it to be adapted. They'll ruin my golden husband and probably have him voiced by Kelson Henderson lol.

The biggest reason stated that Kyuranger wasn't going to be adapted was because of the size of the cast. 12 rangers is a lot I guess (they need better writers I suppose), but doing it this way and keeping the previous cast is a way to incorporate all 12 rangers and keep the character development going.

I'm thinking they could use the Dino Fury rangers as the face characters (Leo, Scorpius, Ophiuchus, Chameleon, Dorado, Phoenix) and have the non face characters show up as aliens (Lupus, Libra, Taurus, Aquila, Draco... and none of their names would even have to change). The only thing they'd need to change is Ursa Minor, and there's no reason they couldn't create a new character (a youthful bear, perhaps? Or a kid/young adult from Earth).

I know the rangers would get new colors and people are all up about them keeping their same colors but that doesn't work in my brain lol. In my mind, if I was to do something like this, this is the color scheme: Zayto, red/Leo; Ollie, orange/Scorpius; Amelia, green/Chameleon; Izzy, yellow/Dorado; Javi, silver/Ophiuchus; Aiyon, red/Phoenix.

So that being said, they'd get around the issue of not having time for character development by already having the face characters developed and they'd have to shift some colors around to match personalities, but it's doable.

The only thing I don't want here is you know who voicing Raptor!!! You know who I'm talking about, Sam. You know.

#power rangers cosmic fury #uchu sentai kyuranger #just speculation and nothing more #i want to hate this but i just can't #please don't ruin tenbin gold he is my reason for living #and please give ryu commander the attention he deserves #thank you for you time

[kondo-hijikata]

the thing i regret most of all about the hakuouki series is how it makes kondo isami look:

not important

incompetent

like he was historically on the sidelines doing nothing

like he didn’t know how to use a sword

like he relied on everyone else for everything

like a bad leader undeserving of his post

selfish enough to put his own desires over the good of the shinsengumi

i know it’s just a work of fiction and that’s okay but please don’t even think for one minute that any of that is true. because it’s not.

haku really botched his portrayal. of course, he’s just a side character in this series and you can’t even romance him. just...please don’t take these things as fact because they really, really dragged my guy and he deserves so much better than what this series did to him.

kondo commanded the shinsengumi because he had resolve and charisma that was utterly infectious. before there even was the shinsengumi, he was the reason talented swordsmen began frequenting the shieikan and it was their loyalty to and belief in him that allowed him to lead the way to kyoto.

but his story of greatness starts wayyy before that.

he was born as miyagawa katsugoro into the farming class, though his family was rather well off. as a child, he always listened to his father and he didn’t get into trouble. he loved reading. he loved studying how to fight with a sword. when his father was on a trip, some guys tried to rob their house at night and he and his brothers chased them off. this attracted the attention of kondo shusuke (aka shusai in hakuouki), 3rd generation master of the tennen rishin ryu. shusuke saw so much promise in him that he literally adopted him, hence allowing this kid born into the farming class to transcend societal constructs and live in the samurai class. that’s.....huge.

but people didn’t accept him as a “real” samurai because he wasn’t born that way. at the same time, samurai had grown lazy as hell by that point, what with enjoying well over 200 years of peace. they were acting without honor and using their social status as a crutch, but kondo was determined to conduct himself in a way that was becoming of a samurai.

so, he traveled about the countryside giving lessons at various dojos. hijikata’s brother-in-law, sato hikogoro, had studied the tennen rishin ryu and opened his own training hall. that’s how kondo met hijikata. by this time, okita was a live-in student at the shieikan and on his way to becoming head of the dojo at such a young age. more and more, the talented guys we know and love gathered. and yes, kondo became the 4th generation master of the tennen rishin ryu, officially taking over for shusuke.

the political scene during this time was extremely turbulent. perry and his black ships arrived in 1854 to shatter japan’s isolation, and the tokugawa government had no choice but to open the country. it wasn’t on the account of weakness, but the tokugawa opposition framed it in such a way. whether someone was pro-tokugawa or anti-tokugawa depended on the location of their han--or how the provinces were arranged in the early 1600s. it’s a case of keeping friends close while keeping enemies away. the han of tokugawa’s enemies were said to have been treated poorly (especially choshu and satsuma) and kept mostly on the outskirts of japan, while tokugawa’s allies were kept closer.

so the arrival of the black ships caused all this political unrest and upset, which gave han who were fed up with their treatment prime reason to spark change. the tokugawa government needed help controlling the rebellion, especially in kyoto. they created the position of shugoshoku (or the protector of kyoto) and appointed matsudaira katamori of aizu to it. the government then put out an open call to form the roshigumi, which could be accepted by any man willing and able to fight. even convicts on death row, like serizawa, would be pardoned if they accepted.

kondo, hailing from tama, was loyal to the tokugawa side. he wanted to pledge himself and his sword to them and live like a true samurai. and thus, he led his group of shieikan men to kyoto with the roshigumi.

was he capable? yes. did he need help along the way to be successful? of course. he wasn’t a born and bred politician. he had a dream and a vision, and by god, he had loyalty. he needed the talents of hijikata and yamanami, as much as both of them needed kondo’s.

without kondo isami, who knows where any of these men would have wound up? hijikata needed someone like him to give him a direction and a purpose. and certainly, there would be no shinsengumi at all if it weren’t for kondo being the glue to bind all these men together. hell, if kondo hadn’t met them, he likely might have stayed put in edo as the owner of what was considered a kind of ragtag dojo.

kondo was so sincere about politics and making japan a better country. he would gather with other politicians...aizu, satsuma, tosa, etc...and get annoyed when they were more interested in the sake than talking about the issues of expelling foreigners (which is not accurate to simply call xenophobia; it’s extremely complicated).

he was damn loyal to his cause and damn proud of the samurai spirit. “more samurai than samurai” is something that comes up so often in shinsengumi media, though the origin of it has been lost. whether it was kondo or hijikata who said it, or the likes of one of the novelists who wrote about them, really doesn’t matter to me...because they proved it to me in their history and stories.

kondo isami was important. he was competent. he did amazing things--literally turned a group of ronin from nothing into something incredible and important, something to be respected and feared by enemies of the tokugawa. history was sadly not on his side. but that’s why i’m here writing posts like this, to make sure he’s not forgotten or written off.

#uss enterplaid #kondo isami #irl kondo #historical #long post #meta