Always wanted to do a Kitaoka video with Queen’s Who Wants To Live Forever. Finally did. Features Reiko and Gorou heavily.
Spoilers for Kitaoka’s whole storyline, including the movie.
Tokusatsu
Tokusatsu is the umbrella term for shows which use special effects. More specifically, it refers to shows in the vein of Kamen Rider, Super Sentai and Ultraman.
Enter the Beat Riders Resistance! Also, the Micchi-as-Zangetsu thing? Still not over
My first impressions of (raw) Kamen Rider Gaim 33 under the cut. Spoilers, obviously. Read more “Enter the Beat Riders Resistance! Also, the Micchi-as-Zangetsu thing? Still not over”
Coming out of hiatus
Oh hey, look, it’s been almost a year since I posted here. :(
I have no excuse, other than the usual: been busy. Moved to a different country to do a graduate degree. It’s a good excuse, right?
However, I have kept up with Rider, and I love Gaim, so it’s pretty unforgivable that I have not given it its due here. I will try my best to fix that, as much as I can.
Hino Eiji: Living for everyone’s sake but your own
I’m back to watching Kamen Rider OOO, although I’m just not going to even attempt blogging every two episodes like I used to. Don’t really have the time for it, sadly.
At any rate, episode 32 has probably been my favorite of the series thus far. There’s a point (hopefully) in a Rider series where you feel that things are really heading somewhere, that revelations are being made, and you just start to sense what endgame is starting to make itself felt. This was that for OOO, I think.
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Reiko, Shinji and plunging into danger: Ryuki episode 2
Consider this a followup to that post I made on Shinji and the first episode of Kamen Rider Ryuki over a year ago.
Sat down and watched episodes 1 and 2 again today. Aside from being the episode where Shinji becomes Ryuki, episode 2 is also the true introduction to Reiko’s character. And it also just spells out what I mentioned in that previous post about Shinji rushing into things, clear as water, and how that is the reason he got involved in the Rider Battle in the first place.
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It’s LUNCHTIME! Or rather… Kamen Rider Wizard 14-19
Behind again, yada yada yada. Just finished episode 19, and while I do have last week’s episode ready to go, I think I’ll just give my thoughts on the past 4 episodes of Kamen Rider Wizard and leave what I assume is a two parter till the subs come out for 21.
So, to very briefly touch on each of the past 6 episodes…
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Kamen Rider Wizard 11-13
Caught up again! Episode 11 is the conclusion of Kizaki’s (first?) arc, and episodes 12 and 13 are more about Shunpei, and his sense of worth as Haruto’s self-styled apprentice… but I’m actually just going to focus on how they encapsulate the theme of Kamen Rider Wizard perfectly.