I actually think that Black and Black RX are on pretty equal footing, they just execute themselves rather differently. The highlights for Black are definitely its first six episodes and then the final stretch, while everything inbetween is very standard Showa. My current watch of Stronger has only strengthened my viewpoint on that, given all the similarities I've been spotting.

While talking about early riders, I'll write this: Shin deserves more.

You know, I do have Fourze downloaded right now, and have been meaning to start for a couple of weeks now. Maybe this is the impetus I need...

I actually gave Shin Kamen Rider Prologue a watch today. I like the idea here a lot, but the movie itself wasn't very cohesive. The way the movie progresses tends to be equal parts confusing and unintentionally hilarious. Characters and events are thrown at the viewer so fast I spent a lot of time just going "who?!" and trying not to laugh at Shin's telepathic unborn grasshopper-man baby deus ex machina-ing. I... kinda liked it though? It was really unique and definitely one of those things you could only get out of the 90s.

This reminds me. I needed to get back to watching Kamen Rider Fourze at some point especially since I have 20 episodes left to the series.

^ Aaaaaaannnnnnndddddddddd speaking of Fourze, I am now officially back to watching said series and I almost forgot how much I really enjoyed the show's main cast and how much fun this show really is.

Revice Forward Live & Evil & Demons got subbed, so I just watched it.

I wouldn't call it a bad movie, but it does feel kind of pointless. The plot of the villains, Alicorn, is quite ridiculous, like they're able to create genetic clones of people in a few hours. Revealing Muramasa to be one of these, instead of Hiromi's devil, left me thinking, "hey, what exactly does this have to do with the story of Revice?" Honestly, it feels more like a Ghost V-Cinema, with all these superpowered artificial lifeforms and a character from a religious background becoming an amateur detective (Aguilera's really bad at this, the evil-dressed Masamura tells her that the good-dressed Hiromi is the devil and she doesn't even question it).

The movie is carried mostly by the charisma of its three protagonists, but I don't feel like it does anything new with these characters. Daiji has to learn to trust Kagerou. Hiromi has to gamble [x] to save someone. It's all safe and meh, in a way that I can appreciate for not being bluntly offensive like a lot of Revice, but I would've liked a different scenario that challenged the protagonists on a deeper personal level, instead of just showing us stuff we already know about them. It was nice to see BLUEBIRD in action, at least, as the true fulfillment of Daiji's righteous desire to protect humanity's freedom and peace.

To be honest, after a year, I have such an impression of everything related to Revice left.

It's about Daiji, of course it feels pointless. Dude is literally the middle child of Revice in every sense of the term.

Still need to watch it but given the movie is about Daiji and Hiromi, two people who aren't exactly the most interesting? Yeah it makes sense that it's got this middle of the road vibe I've been hearing from everyone.