Post by tns8597 on Jan 16, 2021 14:36:12 GMT -5
Yoshiyuki by proxy can't really be in any new group as he's already a part of the Black Tigers. Araki also isn't decorated enough to be a modern day All-Star; he's made Stage 3 once and even then he failed the Cliffhanger so it's not like that one performance was anything spectacular.
And yes r/e the Morimoto Sedai being a publicity stunt, albeit one that doesn't work very well given that half of the group have quite mediocre careers in the grand scheme of things which results in them being digested and not getting screen time. It's only Morimoto, Tada, and Jun who've actually established themselves and as I mentioned they don't really market Jun as part of the group as he's portrayed just as the parkour guy. Morimoto and Tada's friendship are obvs capitalized on but that wouldn't have happened if Tada didn't break out over the last two tournaments.
We can probably deduce who the producers are trying to push as the wave of strongest competitors by which ones consistently get high numbers and aren't celebrities; so that would be Morimoto, Yuuji, Jun, Kawaguchi, and more recently Tada. Hioki obviously gets given lower numbers but we know this is just for the purpose of pacing.
Then we have the 'secondary players' (the old equivalent basically being non-All Stars who performed at least decently well over the era), who I'd argue are competitors like Suzuki, Mori, Keitaro, Araki, etc. who sort of complement the show and occasionally have decent but never groundbreaking performances.
It's quite difficult to compare to the old playing field because we've got such a different dynamic going on in this current era. Celebrities aren't as well integrated into the rest of the broadcast as before (now they're just given their separate chunk of screen time and are usually grouped together in the running order), we still have the real All-Stars competing albeit not being seen in the same vein of actually being the strongest competitors on the field, and not far behind them we have the dying stars of the last era (which if you think about it was 10-15 years ago now, how time flies) like Nagasaki, Ryo, and Kanno. Back in the All-Star era, we had the All-Stars (go figure....), then a set group of secondary players like the Kobayashis, Asaoka, Yamada, Nagasaki and so on, then the odd random or foreign competitor having a decent Stage 3 run, and that was basically it.
So it's pretty hard to make these comparisons on the whole given how there are so many different sub-groups of different groups these days.
And yes r/e the Morimoto Sedai being a publicity stunt, albeit one that doesn't work very well given that half of the group have quite mediocre careers in the grand scheme of things which results in them being digested and not getting screen time. It's only Morimoto, Tada, and Jun who've actually established themselves and as I mentioned they don't really market Jun as part of the group as he's portrayed just as the parkour guy. Morimoto and Tada's friendship are obvs capitalized on but that wouldn't have happened if Tada didn't break out over the last two tournaments.
We can probably deduce who the producers are trying to push as the wave of strongest competitors by which ones consistently get high numbers and aren't celebrities; so that would be Morimoto, Yuuji, Jun, Kawaguchi, and more recently Tada. Hioki obviously gets given lower numbers but we know this is just for the purpose of pacing.
Then we have the 'secondary players' (the old equivalent basically being non-All Stars who performed at least decently well over the era), who I'd argue are competitors like Suzuki, Mori, Keitaro, Araki, etc. who sort of complement the show and occasionally have decent but never groundbreaking performances.
It's quite difficult to compare to the old playing field because we've got such a different dynamic going on in this current era. Celebrities aren't as well integrated into the rest of the broadcast as before (now they're just given their separate chunk of screen time and are usually grouped together in the running order), we still have the real All-Stars competing albeit not being seen in the same vein of actually being the strongest competitors on the field, and not far behind them we have the dying stars of the last era (which if you think about it was 10-15 years ago now, how time flies) like Nagasaki, Ryo, and Kanno. Back in the All-Star era, we had the All-Stars (go figure....), then a set group of secondary players like the Kobayashis, Asaoka, Yamada, Nagasaki and so on, then the odd random or foreign competitor having a decent Stage 3 run, and that was basically it.
So it's pretty hard to make these comparisons on the whole given how there are so many different sub-groups of different groups these days.