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Post by doublecrosscounter on Oct 24, 2014 17:04:01 GMT 10
so at the moment the newest kamen rider, kamen rider drive, is on it's third episode! drive is especially notable because it's the first time kamen rider has focused on cars as a motif. it's not the first time a kamen rider has had a car though, both black RX and hibiki have driven cars around before. as of episode 3, all the background info we have is- the world gets thrown into "slowdown" occasionally, where the world is operating in slow motion for a short time. people are still sentient during this slowdown and time continues to move normally for the roidmudes, the bad guys of the show. anyone with a shift car, which is what drive uses to transform and access his various modes, is also unaffected. there used to be a different drive called proto-drive who is no longer active and assumed to be dead. he was unable to destroy the core of the roidmudes, which meant they could be revived by the big bads of the series infinitely. Mr belt, the sentient belt that helps out shinnosuke, the current drive, used to be a human scientist. there have been 24 other riders, not counting one-off movies and ads. (yes, kamen rider G was made specifically for an ad.) I'm currently watching hibiki, and have seen amazon, black, kuuga, agito, kabuto, den-o, decade, w, ooo, and fourze. I've also seen all the one-off movies except for ZX. I've also seen dragon knight, the US version of ryuki. my favorite kamen rider at the moment is OOO, but if drive keeps up it's gonna take that spot.
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Post by Luke on Oct 26, 2014 15:37:55 GMT 10
Man there is so much Kamen Rider I really don't know where to begin. This Kamen Rider Drive sounds pretty damn cool. Is this a good place to jump in to the franchise or is there somewhere else I should be starting?
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Post by doublecrosscounter on Oct 26, 2014 15:46:40 GMT 10
Man there is so much Kamen Rider I really don't know where to begin. This Kamen Rider Drive sounds pretty damn cool. Is this a good place to jump in to the franchise or is there somewhere else I should be starting? drive is only three episodes in so far but it's already vastly different from every other rider, and some of the more self-referrential humor might go over your head. if you wanna start there that's fine but it won't give you a good idea of the overall feel of kr. everyone says the best starting points are W (which has sort of a rough start but then is consistently fantastic for the rest of it's runtime) and OOO (which starts strong, dips off a bit until the second rider shows up, and then goes strong till the end). and for what it's worth hibiki is vastly different from every other rider too.
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Post by doublecrosscounter on Oct 27, 2014 6:16:02 GMT 10
episode 4 is out! i am not sure how much of this should be spoilered so i will just do everything not much backstory this time, but there was a lot of great character moments, a new shift car, and a brand new toy for him to play with ala the steering sword. it's great to see the female lead get out and do things on her own, even if she was eventually saved by shinnosuke. plus we got to learn her motivations for working with drive. some stuff was foreshadowed, there's someone still making drive's gear and repairing shift cars now, belt claimed that chase was based on proto-drive, and I may be reading into it too much but vegas and dimension car getting back together might mean our secondary rider is gonna be the guy who get his leg broken by shinnosuke. oh and there was talk of a promised number, and how roidmudes are trying to evolve themselves towards some common goal. and shinnosuke and kiriko are learning to work together as a team which is always appreciated.
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Post by Franky on Oct 27, 2014 6:30:18 GMT 10
This stuff is so hard to get into but I really want to! Luke just got me into Doctor Who and now I'm so tempted into getting into this. I've been watching 'Garo: The Animation' which is based on a tokusatsu show and it's making me really want to get into other tokusatsu shows. If there's a legal way to grab the episode of this Kamen Rider Drive, I may just look into it.
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Post by doublecrosscounter on Oct 27, 2014 9:13:45 GMT 10
oh man you better watch garo the first season of garo, which is the only one I've seen admittedly, is super fantastic and amazing. it's the only toku show I can think of that was explicitly written for adults and it shows in a major good way. i can count three moments off the top of my head that would never fly in a kid's show and made me sit there with my mouth open over how disturbing what I just witnessed was
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Post by Franky on Oct 27, 2014 17:14:42 GMT 10
Go! gogogogogog! I wanna hear this stuff! Unless it's a huge spoiler
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Post by doublecrosscounter on Oct 27, 2014 20:04:06 GMT 10
the one big one I can't get out of my head is when a monster is turning people into sand, it gets into a schoolgirl and turns her legs into sand. she realizes what's happened to her and looks like she's about to scream and then the rest of her poofs plus there's a whole plot line about a guy uh who cuts off people's body parts for a monster to make it a perfect body, and he keeps cutting his fingers to feed it blood. by the time it's over his hands are covered in bloody bandages and a lot of people died
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Post by Franky on Oct 28, 2014 16:24:48 GMT 10
Oh, dood, it sounds awesome! I've looked towards Tokusatsu stuff lately and have felt a real need to get into it. Garu may be an awesome place to start.
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Post by Frankie on Oct 29, 2014 18:40:31 GMT 10
the one big one I can't get out of my head is when a monster is turning people into sand, it gets into a schoolgirl and turns her legs into sand. she realizes what's happened to her and looks like she's about to scream and then the rest of her poofs plus there's a whole plot line about a guy uh
After reading this, I think I need to check it out too!
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Post by Franky on Nov 4, 2014 20:59:25 GMT 10
Oh man! That sounds so damn rad! I really need to look into this series, like really need to.
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Post by Franky on Nov 4, 2014 20:59:38 GMT 10
Anything else interesting about the series?
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Post by Luke on Apr 29, 2016 12:18:23 GMT 10
Bumping this old thread, because there has been some pretty cool news regarding Kamen Rider.
The upcoming Kamen Rider film will see the return of the original kamen Rider, Takeshi Hongo. This is of course to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the series. What do you guys think of Kamen Rider #1 returning?
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