>>6253974Yeah. I've heard about Reedus enough secondhand and have seen him.
Funny enough, that vague Asian twist to his likeness is what got me to photograph a transformation scene. Though it was initially meant to be Amazon Alpha, since Jin has a but of a biker motif. However, Jin's transformation into Alpha is just turning a handle on his belt. Even if I could get the belt off, it wouldn't fit Asian Reedus's waist.
So my logic turned to "Well, this little guy doesn't look much better or worse than Joe Odagiri looks these days". Thus, Kuuga was used instead. Having a compatible villain and being able to do enough tricks with the camera to mimic Kuuga's transformation pose to at least 80% helped a lot as well.