I'm not big on Showa either, but Amazon is so unique that I found it really enjoyable.

Yeah, should be interesting to see. I also recall you having difficulty getting passed the first handful of episodes of Blade, right?

And funny to see you mention Amazon, since that was likely to be the first Showa season I was gonna watch lol.

Yeah man, there is nothing really wrong with Blade as such, but I come to these shows for the special effects as much as I do anything else, they are superhero shows after all. And one of the core gimmicks in Blade - a really cool gimmick I might add - is beating monsters allows you to capture them and gain their powers. On paper this is awesome, but when you see the special effects used to capture them....mother of God it is bad. And it only gets worse as things progress, as Blade and Garren start chaining powers together so it's supposed to be this MASSIVE DEAL and the result looks like the kind of effects found in most web series.

A lot of people can shrug this off, power to them, but I just can't, I need good action to enjoy a toku series. A toku show can have a bad story and still be great to me if it provides the spectacle but I just don't think it works the other way round. This isn't a medium for great stories, or drama, after all. If I was looking for great literature I'd be watching a play or reading a book. I come here for the explosions and the lasers.

I'd at least give Black a shot. Its effects are relatively modern and it is a really damn fun show.

Finished watching the Imagin anime. While most of the jokes were kinda meh (as usual with the Imagin), it also had some really good stuff, such as the suit actor dub, the train rider file or Ura's dirty jokes (seriously, how did they get throug with that?)

So I officially started Ryuki last night.

Black Episode 13: Ah the return of what I liked about Super-1, training to defeat the monster. I really enjoyed that Kotaro was stressing that he couldn't defeat the monster and had to develop a new way to defeat it. That just shows more depth for him. Also yay for the small part of Battle Hopper lol. Golgom is just evil taking mother's with newborns like all the Showa Kamen Riders tell their villains, they are Unforgivable. Actually the little kid finding the Evil Hideout actually felt like another reference to Super-1 too. I am really enjoying how this feels like more of an evolved Super-1 which I feel the shows should really evolve as the time went by. I also love not having previews of the next episode so I don't know what to expect.

Ah geez, just finished watching Ryuki, dem feels........

Gonna love it. Better love it >:o

I know right? Now if only it ended like what..10 minutes earlier, right?

Anyways, gonna change gears a bit and tackle my first showa era Kamen Rider season.

Now..if only I can find a place to watch Amazon I'd get started >_<

Edit: And I found it, wonderful.

Enjoy the ride, man. Ryuki is incredible, especially when Zolda comes in.