The official JPN Twitter has already revealed the three new characters so even though it's 2AM on this side of the pond I'M GETTING THIS SHIT ROLLING FOR THE PRECIOUS EVE EVENT —
The "kaleido proud fiesta" single is going to contain a special animated MV for T&B (idk if that means the OP, or a clip show, or something actually wholly original)
while some content is going to be the same between both shows, evening one focuses on stage readings by the cast, a retrospective on the series so far, and what I'm inferring might be more details on the content of T&B2's story
in lieu of websites crashing due to a flood of pre-orders, servers crashed due to, I guess, too many people getting in on a smartphone event at the daytime show
Nishida also confirmed that he wrote the plot for TIGER & BUNNY 2 back in 2015, stopped, brought it back 3 years later to then rewrite the plot from scratch. The 2015 version of the plot was primarily set outside Stern Bild and still featured the main cast.
...I’d been idly musing on something with Thomas but wow, seeing his and Black’s costumes is making me think I had another good thing I’m a precog moment
I'm trying to figure out what Lara's utility is since she has water manipulation (it looks like it's generation from the trailer though) and Karina has ice powers
(related question: is there a time limit on the touching part, e.g. object is only manipulable for x amount of time after Thomas touches it, or is it kinda like Origami's ability where it's just somehow encoded in him forever)
and I can’t picture a competing sponsor wanting to hire someone who would make someone else’s hero significantly more effective just be being at the same scene
and if there’s one thing that the writers can always be assumed to be doing, it’s being depressingly accurate in depicting a version of superheroics as shackled to the whims of capitalism
what's that one series that just came out, I can't remember if it's Marvel or DC....it was adapting a 90s comic that was basically the edgelord/gritty version of T&B
I feel like there was some canon thing that said it wasn’t something Barnaby personally picked out, but tbh that doesn’t necessarily mean anything re if it symbolizes something or not
between the hanakotoba and the fact that it lines up with his birth month it could just be symbolizing how a lot of Barnaby’s mindset is driven by various types of love and the fact that he just feels emotions very strongly
Thinking on potential plot points: maybe Buddy Team has to mentor Thomas/Black through making their partnership work even while Thomas/Black might be scooping up some serious novelty points (along with arrest/rescue points) from the HeroTV audience.
also god, I really really REALLY hope we get Kaede as a more major character this season so Kotetsu can at least get Dad Development by way of how their relationship has changed through the various timeskips
On a different note, me remembering that Nathan starts businesses JUST FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES so it's like, I wonder if he has any connection with Jungle --
to be completely honest: I actually did that "rapidly pause and unpause a YouTube video to try to catch things that go by really fast" thing on the trailer just to check if the panning shot of Barnaby's photos had any indication that there was one of him with Kotetsu
I would absolutely adore if Barnaby's development this season as implied by that scene was about him wanting to figure out how to be there for Kotetsu the way Kotetsu tries to be there for him so he doesn't feel like he has to lie and not be a burden to Barnaby all the time
god now that I've reminded myself of it, I also really hope we get more chances to see Kaede and Barnaby interact in general because I loved how much development got shown off in that one brief scene they had in The Rising
Barnaby was just extremely chill about approaching Kaede to check on her and for all that she's still a fangirl she was also really chill and delighfully teenager-talking-to-adult-relative about it
Nishida also confirmed that he wrote the plot for TIGER & BUNNY 2 back in 2015, stopped, brought it back 3 years later to then rewrite the plot from scratch. The 2015 version of the plot was primarily set outside Stern Bild and still featured the main cast.Wild Tiger and Barnaby becoming a video gameTHE STERN BILD FIGHTER MMD CAME TRUEgood thing I’m a precogmomentwoke: he's obnoxious and WE ALL LOVE HIM
wait wtf Tiger’s suit has sponsor slots on the ANKLES?DOES. DOES BARNABY’S ALSO HAVE SLOTS THEREit's not shown on the website....!Pao-Lin like "but I wanted to be Karina's partner....."Barnaby your new family is with Kotetsuit gets worse here every dayand thus does he continue to collect female CRBarnaby and Kaede tag team B-plot pls and thxthe girl is living the dreamAlternative Ivan and Kaede for touch NEXT gain power/appearance shenanigansalso welcomehe gets a sidekick too dffalkfjlakej