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10-14-2019, 10:59 PM | #1 |
Kamen Ride Or Die
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As the thread title asks, what's the fastest you've ever watched a Kamen Rider series?
For the purposes of apples-to-apples comparison, I'm looking for how long it took you to watch a full Kamen Rider television series of at least 45 episodes and all theatrical movies released during that television series. Doesn't have to include HBVs, Net Movies, V-Cinemas, or any weird ephemera. Just the show and its 1 to 3 movies. I think my current record is OOO in 9 days. File data says I opened episode 1 at 2:11pm on January 17th, 2019, and opened episode 48 at 5:29pm on January 25th, 2019. (I mean, the fact that I watched, like, 22 hours of Kamen Rider in a little over a week and worked a normal day job is how I know that I love OOO the most. It's also, uh, why a lot of OOO is a blur to me. I will never forget Eiji, Ankh, and Den-O getting crucified in that park or foyer or whatever from the Let's Go Kamen Riders movie, though. I'll remember that after I've forgotten my own name. They use that set all the time in later shows and I always think, "Hey, that's where those Kamen Riders got crucified." I hope there's at least a plaque there or something.) Is that fast? Slow? How quickly have you plowed through a Kamen Rider series?
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10-15-2019, 01:14 AM | #2 |
WONDER RIDER
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Kamen Rider Gaim was my fastest series. It was also my first. I plowed through it in around a week and a half because I wanted to see more of the strange new medium of entertainment I have discovered.
Second fastest was Wizard, which I watched immediately after Gain. Around 2 weeks. I was way too new back then and looking back at it now, yeah, Wizard was kind of flawed. But still enjoyable. |
10-15-2019, 02:35 AM | #3 |
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I'm fairly certain Gaim was my fastest. I worked through a fair bit of Kamen Rider the first summer I really got into the series (watched Ryuki as my first series in 2014 but didn't really start following the currently airing stuff or diving into anything else until around halfway through 2015) but Gaim was still the quickest I worked through anything. If I remember correctly, I watched it in 6 days. It was a wild, gripping ride in a way few series have been before. Maybe no series, tbh.
I'm almost as sure I watched Fourze equally as quick though. I was in something of a mad rush last year to get through every show before Zi-O started, and Fourze was the last one I needed with a week left before the show started. I ended up watching most of Fourze in like two or three days (finished up only a couple hours before the first episode of Zi-O aired). The only thing is before I decided to seriously binge all of it as fast as I could at the last hour, I was watching only a couple of episodes a day. Looking through some of my post history it looks like I probably started Fourze on the 26th or 27th, and Zi-O started on 1st, so yeah, like 6 or 7 days at most. Mostly concentrated on the last two days though, I want to say I was only up to episode 8 or so before I started binging on the 30th or thereabouts. That was fun though. Good show. |
10-15-2019, 03:55 AM | #4 |
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My record is Kuuga in a week. Its atmosphere really captured me in a way that no other KR series has yet to do. 2nd fastest would be Ryuki in 2 weeks due to having watched(and hated) Dragon Knight beforehand.
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10-15-2019, 04:57 AM | #5 |
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I've been watching for a couple years now so it's hard to recall all of them; but recently I watched through Ryuki extremely fast -- it took barely over a week. Especially compared to recent stuff I'd watched like Hibiki and Kuuga it went by so fast for me somehow.
It's not even a series that at the end of the day I loved a lot or anything, but the way it was structured and paced really made me want to watch one episode after the next after the next after the next. If you want me to be cheeky though; Shin, J and ZO I each managed to finish within an hour |
10-15-2019, 08:24 AM | #6 |
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I finished Decade the quickest because it was super short. You can finished the whole show in one sit down.
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10-15-2019, 08:40 AM | #7 |
天心の英雄たち
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I watched 'W' in 2-3 days, then spent a couple more days watching the movies.
others (like Amazon (showa) I've been watching here and there for over a year) I really want to make the time to sit down and watch Black, Decade, and Gaim. Agito and Kuuga I went through really fast, probably less than a week. The original '71 Rider it took a couple months to get through but it's like 100 episodes, then V3 went a bit quicker. V3 seemed more streamlined, like they found their running speed and direction and just went for it. All around it's more polished but V1 has real charm to it being the original. I've watched most of the Heisei and Neo-Heisei Riders, I really want to watch the Showa Riders though. Life seems to keep me busy, it's hard to carve out the time these days. |
10-15-2019, 11:16 AM | #8 |
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It depends on what the number of episodes in the series is divisible by.
49 episodes: 7 weeks. 48 episodes: 6 weeks or 16 (depending on how many episodes I watch in a week. 50 episodes: 10 weeks. |
10-15-2019, 06:12 PM | #9 |
The Immortal King Tasty
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I can't remember exact times, given that most of this happened around the time Fourze was on the air (it took me a whole year to watch that show!), but the ones that went by fast generally took "about a week or two". When I really get into a show like that, I can easily do around five episodes a day without getting burned out, assuming I have the time. I know for certain Ryuki was that way for me.
Heck, a while back, when I did my big, crazy, simultaneous rewatch of Ryuki, Den-O, and OOO, it ended up taking a month pretty much exactly. A week or so of that was taken up just by random bits of nothing, crossovers up the wazoo, and Den-O's epic hexalogy of post-series movies, so if you ignore that, and divide the rest, each show took me... "about a week". Go figure. Quote:
I actually wouldn't directly equate how fast I watched a series with how much I loved it, and that's part of the reason. Sometimes, giving something a little time to stick with you can be the best way to make it... well, do that. In my case, I think most of the shows that I have a deeper than usual fondness for are specifically ones I wasn't crazy about plowing through, but that's probably a whole different discussion. Also, and this is only tangentially related, but it probably adds some context or something: I think my record for toku binge-watching is still watching all 13 episodes of Akibaranger's second season in one day. It's a very rare occasion when I blow through something that fast, though.
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10-15-2019, 09:52 PM | #10 |
Kamen Ride Or Die
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Okay, cool, I'm glad to see that the occasional week-or-so series run is fairly common. Some of you, though, I mean, a couple three days? Damn! That is dedication!
To the points about needing to watch a show you love faster because you're addicted versus taking your time to savor what you love, look. The mature, responsible thing to do would be to savor the best shows as the precious resource they are. Sure. Agreed. But when I've got a few dozen more episodes of a killer show to watch, I am 100% not going to do anything remotely responsible. No. I am going to binge those episodes like Timothy Toei, the President of Toei (check the wiki!), is going to break down my door and take them back. I am going to shove them into me like they are Gaia Memories. Get out of here with responsibility. It's going to be weird for me, to eventually run out of new Kamen Rider series to binge. (Not for, like, a year, but still.) How do y'all cope with only getting one new episode a week? Are you continuously rewatching shows, or do you take six days a week off from watching Riders?
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