#sakurai keiwa

[nanakoblaze]

New guy

#kamen rider geats #kamen rider tycoon #kamen rider gotchard #fan art #doodle #ukiyo ace #sakurai keiwa #nanako art

[examorhca]

🦊🐮🦝🐱✨

#kamen rider geats #ukiyo ace #sakurai keiwa #azuma michinaga #neon kurama

[kirider]

[09/07/2023]

Geats scribble. I got nostalgic for the vibes from the start of the season

I have no idea what the quote is from, I keep seeing it on incorrect quotes blogs

#kamen rider geats #michinaga azuma #neon kurama #ace ukiyo #sakurai keiwa #might come back and draw it better in the future but i just wanted to doodle the #*them #my art

[valvarads]

yorozuya!? a day in the life of bossman micchi

#kamen rider geats #azuma michinaga #sakurai keiwa #kurama neon #ukiyo ace #beroba #geats #tokuedit #userdramas #m.gif #*geats #*micchi #*ace #this special was so cute #boss micchi in that jumpsuit <3

[lordartsy]

A belated merry Christmas, and happy holidays 🦊

#tokusatsu #kamen rider #kamen rider geats #ace ukiyo #sakurai keiwa #neon kurama #azuma michinaga #kamen rider tycoon #kamen rider na go #kamen rider buffa #ive said this already but MERRY CHRISTMAS IN AN EX-AID KINDA WAY #i have not known peace this holiday break; my school shit followed me and delayed this post by like three days #'why did you draw the suits like that' I WAS OUT OF TIIIIMEEEEEE IM NO TIME JACKER #BUT I NEEDED TO GET REINDEER ONESIE BUFFA OUT OF MY FUCKING HEAD SO HERE #why is the buffa head sculpt so hard to get right btw. whats with your mouth my good sir #id love to go back and shade some of these panels cuz for an elaborate joke comic i think some of the art here looks unnecessarily good #tsumuris overseeing the workshop btw. if you care #comic

[kaikaifilu7248]

Keiwa and his trusty buttnsword

#kamen rider geats #kr geats #geats spoilers #sakurai keiwa #kamen rider tycoon #kamen rider

[rubberlemon]

Ace with us

#kamen rider geats #ukiyo ace #kurama neon #sakurai keiwa #azuma michinaga #lemonarte #ueee ueee im gonna miss them.... #kamen rider geats spoiler #kamen rider geats spoilers

[cross-zmagma]

This cast is so fun!!!! And Yeah Keiwa's Pose is something!!!

#kamen rider geats #geats #geats spoilers #ace ukiyo #kr geats #neon kurama #kamen rider na-go #kamen rider tycoon #sakurai keiwa #kamen rider buffa

[i-am-randomtrash00]

Look at him holding Keiwa. lol

#kamen rider gotchard #kamen rider #tokusatsu #houtarou ichinose #motojima junsei #sakurai keiwa #kamen rider geats #crossover movie #chemy #tycoon chemy

[minominq]

#kamen rider #geats #kamen rider geats #ukiyo ace #sakurai keiwa #kurama neon #michinaga azuma #hareruya win #tsumuri #niram #girori #chirami #kyuun #ziin #beroba #my art #fanart #illust

[emotionallychargedtowel]

Sato Ryuga in Kamen Rider Geats - an overview for non-toku folks

Now that Living with Him (Kare no Iru Seikatsu) has premiered has a couple of episodes out and is getting a good response from a lot of the folks I know on here, I thought it might be a good time to do one of those posts I do sometimes. I should probably have a name for this. Like, a tokusatsu actor overview post? My imagined audience for posts like this is made up of BL fans who haven't watched toku but would like to know more about their favorite actors' pasts in that genre. But I hope they're interesting for others as well.

The tokusatsu-to-BL pipeline has been getting shorter lately, with a lot of recent toku alums getting into BLs within the first year or so after their toku series has ended. Sato Ryuga falls into this category. He was on Kamen Rider Geats, which stopped airing last August. His costar Kan Hideyoshi, who played the lead rider in that series (Ukiyo Ace, a.k.a. Kamen Rider Geats), made the leap so quickly that the BL he was in, Although I Love You, and You? a.k.a. Sukiyanen Kedo Do Yaro ka, finished airing a while ago. That show had its moments but was a bit on the lackluster side (through no fault of Kan's--I thought he was charming, funny, and showed an admirable commitment to the role). I'm a lot more hopeful about Living with Him. In addition to its promising start, it was written by the screenwriter of Old Fashion Cupcake and directed by the director of My Personal Weatherman.

But even if it weren't for these positive indicators, I would have been excited to see Sato in a BL, or just about anything. He was really impressive in Geats. He showed a lot of range on that series, handling action, high drama, and occasional comedy really well. And it doesn't hurt that he's cute as hell.

By the way, I'm going to keep the spoilers vague in this post, but I can't really avoid them entirely while doing this type of overview. If relatively mild/general spoilers don't bother you, you should be OK to continue. And of course, if you don't think you'll ever watch Geats, you don't have to worry either way.

Sato and Kan together during Keiwa's villain era.

Sato's Geats character was named Sakurai Keiwa. Keiwa starts out as a sort of proxy for the audience. The premise of Geats involves a high-stakes competition called the Desire Grand Prix where the winner gets to magically change the world. Most of the time, most people don't know this competition is going on. It's already in progress when Keiwa encounters the players for the first time and he has zero context. As he learns about the game, and ends up joining in as Kamen Rider Tycoon (a pun on the fact that his suit form is modeled after a tanuki), the audience learns about it alongside him. Keiwa comes into the story as an idealistic sweetheart so it's easy to root for him right away. (This is less true of the other characters. Geats's biggest weakness, to my mind, is that it starts out conspicuously lacking in any sort of bonds between characters or truly relatable characters other than Keiwa. This gets a lot better by the latter part of the series, but I found it somewhat rough going to get to that point, and it took longer than it needed to.)

One interesting thing about Keiwa is that you can tell a lot about what's going on with him by his hair. You'll see what I mean. I didn't notice this until I was doing screenshots for this post and then it really stood out to me.

So, here's Keiwa as a naïve newcomer. Check out the cute mop.

It doesn't take long for him to get kind of intense when he's in a fight and about to henshin (transform into his armored suit form).

Speaking of which, for the first part of the series, his pre-transformation move involves a sort of determined fist gesture, which will be important later.

This is a later example of the henshin fist, but it gets the point across.

Intense henshin face notwithstanding, he's still Mr. Nice Guy for a lot of the series. He might get a bit of a hair part but he's basically a floppy-haired cinnamon roll.

And then something bad happens.

This thing is really hard on Keiwa, and he has a dark night of the soul. He gets estranged from the other lead characters.

The hair is already going a little haywire here.

He does some creepy shit.

Then he gets into an even darker place.

Keiwa switches up his henshin move. He starts snapping his fingers, which is part of Ace's signature move. Ace is a total badass who has won the Desire Grand Prix repeatedly. He's a perpetual contender, the guy everyone else is always gunning for because he's the most likely to come out on top. I mean, his name is Ace. Adopting the snapping part of his henshin move has significant symbolism. It's like Keiwa is saying he's the new badass in town. He also has a new, stronger suit form to go along with this change.

There's a difference in the way Keiwa does the snap that's worth noting. Ace's snap move starts as a fox head hand gesture (think the rock'n'roll devil horns gesture but with a pointed snout) because Geats takes the form of a kitsune when he goes into suit mode. Keiwa's snap starts with his hand upraised, fingers up, the back of his hand facing outward. It's reminiscent of an American-style beckoning motion (the "c'mere" finger thing and its multi-finger equivalent), which I gather is considered extremely rude in Japan. This calls back to the henshin move of a favorite toku character of mine, Sawatari Kazumin/Kamen Rider Grease, who Takeda Kouhei played on Kamen Rider Build. Sawatari just straight up does the rude beckoning motion before transforming. It's a very antagonistic, cocky thing to do.

As you can see, Keiwa's hair is really going haywire at this point.

Keiwa ends up facing off with Ace more and more, including in some scenes like the one below. It doesn't really come off this way to me when I'm watching the scenes, but when I look at these screenshots, these two look about as likely to smooch as they do to come to blows.

Keiwa's hair starts to get a little less poofy at this point but the cute mop hasn't returned. Instead, his hair is almost ready to go into bad guy mode!

Finally, Keiwa tips over into full-on villain territory. This is signaled by his hair getting a defined part. He also starts wearing an earring, just for extra bad boy hotness points.

(I’ve seen this earring thing happen in Japanese media quite a few times and it always seems funny to me, because an actor will have had a very visible hole in his earlobe for a whole series and then when he puts something in it we’re supposed to be all surprised Pikachu about it. It’s an interesting commentary on the cultural significance of earrings on dudes, I guess. Now I’m trying to think of nice boys in toku who get to wear earrings in their highly visible ear holes. Kaito from Zenkaiger is one, at least. I assume there are others?)

He keeps snapping/beckoning.

The beckoning thing is clearer here, and it has that flipping off the audience energy.

He adopts some pretty cold-blooded expressions.

In some scenes, like the one seen above, he seems to have subtle makeup on. I don't know if this is because villains are supposed to be hotter or because they're supposed to be more gender non-conforming. Or both? Well, it suits him.

As you would probably guess, Keiwa doesn't stay bad. The stuff that sent him off the deep end gets resolved and his relationships with other characters get repaired. He also gets his mop back (it's only intermittently messy) and loses the earring. He goes back to his original henshin move.

There you have it! Hopefully this gets across a good bit about Sato's Geats character and some of the shifts he goes through. Of course, I've left out plenty of stuff as well. Anyone who's really curious should definitely check out the series.

#kamen rider geats #sakurai keiwa #sato ryuga #toku overview for BL watchers #living with him #kare no iru seikatsu

[nanakoblaze]

Gotchard x Geats winter movie

#kamen rider geats #kamen rider gotchard #rinne kudo #ukiyo ace #sakurai keiwa #houtaro ichinose #nanako art #doodle

[akq96618]

geats stuffs from january

#kamen rider geats #idk will i draw more geats #my first time drawing toku suits ;;-;; #magnum dapaan is fun to draw #sakurai keiwa #isuzu daichi #kurama neon #sumida kanato #my art #rkgk #kamen rider

[hidengifs]

Kamen Rider Geats (2022) ↳ Episode 12: “Conspiracy III: Slot★Fever”

#requested #tw flashing #cw flashing #kamen rider #kamen rider geats #geats #ukiyo ace #ace ukiyo #sakurai keiwa #keiwa sakurai #tokusatsu #toku edit #horizontal #16:9 #400px #gs #npf #hidengifs

[valvarads]

You’re all that remains, GEATS. Heaven or hell… It’s time for us to find out where we’re headed.

@pscentral event 26: minimalism @userdramas get to know me bingo: free space

#kamen rider geats #ukiyo ace #azuma michinaga #kurama neon #sakurai keiwa #translation: excite #tokuedit #jdramaedit #userdramas #geats #psc #udbingo #m.gif #🦊🐃 #*geats #*micchi #*ace #*acemichi #technically #i just think this line was very romantic #yes he was threatening to kill him as always #they make me sick in the head #also obsessed with mokudai fixing his grip in the last gif

[animinarts]

https://asknarashikari.tumblr.com/post/713860995214409728/ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt I need an image of Aruto making this joke that causes the Zero One and Geats main cast to laugh endlessy

Rip Aruto 💐🕊️

#kamen rider #仮面ライダー #kamen rider zero one #kamen rider geats #hiden aruto #fuwa isamu #yaiba yua #izu #ukiyo ace #sakurai keiwa #kurama neon #michinaga azuma #beroba #asks #send asks #request #reqs open