Why not just torrent it off of TVN?

KRDL has it in the unsorted tab.

Decade burned a lot of people who were watching it when it aired. The show was actually really popular when it was on and a lot of viewers wanted to see what would happen next. At the time no one knew that the show wasn't going to explain jack shit about itself or that it would just collapse into a total mess of nostalgia fanwank and nonsense. There was - at least as I remember it (I came into Rider just as Decade was wrapping and didn't watch it properly until around the midpoint of W) - a lot of excitement and speculation about the show's central mysteries and when we saw how it ended a bunch of people got really, really salty. There have been plenty of disappointing tokusatsu shows in the past, but none of them seem to elicit the same amount of vitriol as Decade and I think it's mostly because of all the viewers who feel like the show promised them a whole lot and gave them shit in return. You wouldn't see the show get this much hate if it hadn't been really beloved when it started.

It also didn't help that Decade was one of the first shows to air during the big boom in Rider's popularity outside of Japan and it was a lot of new fans' first taste of crushing disappointment in the franchise.

I had no idea Decade was ever even popular, I only really got into Rider properly like a year ago and by that point 'this is also Decade's fault' was as integral to talking about Rider as fullstops.

So for me I just thought Decade would be total shit, and I'm finally here, coming towards the end of the series and loving almost every step it takes. But then I knew the shows story was bad early on, I've actually been enjoying it because it's a big budget trainwreck where the creators just seem to be having so much fun making this.

Also is Amazon any good?

Hey, I've pointed out it's positives. Give me SOME credit. :lol

*gives*

At this point Decade is pretty universally hated. I think there are more people coming around and liking it but I don't think it's a lot of people or if the show is good enough to get people to like it.

Decade in a few years will reach Faiz status if being split between the haters and lovers.

Eh? Republic Credits? No, I need something more real. /Watto :p

but in all seriousness, thanks. :D

I am not going into this again. Please, people, just stop suggesting this to me...

Thank you.

:D

Decade isn't good at the most literal definitions of the word, but it is fun and to me that is important. Faiz was just pure boredom.

Stop suggesting you get the subs off of the subbers website, the safest place to get it from? Okay... Even if you don't like torrents both TVN, Overtime and Aesir and pretty much every other group in existence put up DDLs as well.

I said I'm not fucking going into this. Lay off.

Cool those jets, bro.

I'm scared to jump into Decade. Sure it sounds like it has great fights but there’s more to a show then that. From what I hear, Decade attempt ed a story and failed. I'm not ready to jump into a series filled with despair and disappointment at every corner.

There is more to Decade than good fights, the last ten or so episodes do have the show falling apart a bit as the show runs out of track, but the visits to the nine worlds are all interesting even if the show never quite achieves what it sets out to do in every world. Whoever told you Decade is, 'a series filled with despair and disappointment at every corner.' needs to stop taking so many drama lessons and calm down.

Super-1 Episode 31: Interesting episode, with a far more effective plan from Jin Dogma. Turning people to their cause by capturing them with hair spray. I thought Super-1 actually got captured here but glad he didn't. More great action, Princess Yokai seems to be the most effective general so far, and one of the cuter ones too. I liked the use of Elektro and Hot and Cold Hands here too. very Showa era here, I'm hoping something like X and Stronger happens here but I think I'm hoping for too much.

I'm not one to bash, but take it easy. Most forum members that are fairly new here now, don't know your situation even a person like myself. I suggested torrent Madoka Magica Rebellion Story, and you went off on me when I had no idea you couldn't or won't. I'm not sure what your beef is with Torrent nor am I asking for explanation, but it would be nice if you don't go off on people rudely that doesn't know your reasoning behind "why".

If you're gonna do this every time someone suggests a torrent to you, start telling people you can't torrent and stop expecting every single poster to either know or remember it.

Yeah thats what time does to people. I for instance really enjoyed Decade as it was airing even though I was just in it for the action. But the disappointing last episode and the even more disappointing "ending" really ruined my enjoyment of the series. After all that it became really hard for me and other people to focus on the positive aspects and the flaws of the show became even more glaring.

If you enjoy the show more power to you. Decade needs some people that can enjoy the show :lol

Amazon is really, really fun. It's not the best of the early 70s Rider shows, but it is very interesting for how unique it is. Amazon is a brutal fighter and many of his fights include clawing, biting, and ripping the enemy's limbs off. The special effects are hilariously cheesy now, but the brutality still comes through. Amazon himself is a really interesting character, too: he's a jungle savage who followed his enemy (who has one of the most inventive monster designs ever) to civilization. He spends the first part of the series running around in a loincloth and he doesn't learn to speak proper Japanese until about halfway through the show.

It's definitely a show worth trying out, and as the shortest Rider series ever it's not a huge time commitment if you want to go through the whole thing.

Yeah, I had an absolute blast with Amazon. It makes some odd story choices toward the tail end, but it's a really fun show that doesn't outstay its welcome.

Definitely gonna check out an episode of this.

Decade 29. Personally I think being turned into a Kaijin would be pretty sweet.

You know, even toku shows I like, get really boring in how they play storybeats the same no matter the show. Kamen Rider is certainly better than Sentai for this, as sentai really does feel like it's just redressing the same show over and over again - literally - but Kamen Rider is still a victim for going in circles with every show.

Oh look, that person is an asshole, I'm sure they won't have some dramatic reveal just around the corner with some sort of melodramatic backstory that tries to bait sympathy from the audience, who have up to those point despised that character. No not possible, because I haven't followed this character arc at least fifty times per toku series or anything...

Do Japanese writers not realise that tragedy is only impactful in moderation and that if you give every character a personal tragedy then that sets a baseline for the emotions which can't be peaked so everything just feels dull and monotonous? When I meet an important character or protagonist with a happy life with his parents, and friends, none of which die for the sake of false tension and pseudo character building then I will eat my own arm off.

Honestly I'm kinda glad Amazon didn't travel with them, because apparently the fate of Tsukasa's sidekicks is to be utterly wasted. Even Kaitou, who gets to do a lot more than Kuuga, still just feels like a bit of fluff for the fight sequences and very little more. Even in the episodes focusing on him, he still feels superfluous. I guess it's almost impressive to feel so pointless all the time.

Also - an INSANELY petty aside, but why does Japan always cast such girly men? I get that it is cultural difference, but I grew up with rippling, older men in underwear or leather jackets, so it's a shock to the system to see those replaced by near anorexic men with hair like Justin Beiber and styles that make you sexually confused - for men AND women.

I get that everyone can be a hero etc, but I do find it hard to take seriously when 'badass' in Japan is a pair of drainpipes and a braid whereas in the UK that would be known as Vince Noir, someone who is SUPPOSED to be laughed AT by the audience.

Eye candy for the moms staying home to keep an eye on the kids.

Kouta's actor has been the most masculine main Rider we've had in awhile....

Kamen Rider X 01. I love how Keisuke spent the entire episode getting shot, like literally.

It took me a long time to articulate this post, as I attempted to side step 'HYPOCRITE' remarks but it was impossible to do so. Look right, I HATE the rinse repeat style of tokusatsu storytelling, let's get that out of the way. However have you ever read a comicbook from forty years ago and just hated it? The art is weird, the story is paced odd, the structuring of the comic is strange, it just all feels so damn alien and therefore alienates your enjoyment.

For tokusatsu though, not a whole lot has changed in forty years. Sure comics are still doing the same song and dance too, but the technology needed to create comicbook artwork has come leaps and bounds and has been utterly embraced, whereas with toku advancements in technology is something they only ever seem to embrace gingerly. Cardboard robots, back fins and bendy rubber swords have become a part of the fabric of these shows and are still used at a time where technology could make all of these things irrelevant.

So as much as I hate the rinse repeat style of tokusatsu storytelling, I was able to get on board with X so quickly because the show felt so familiar despite being born in a very different time and culture. A lot of the tropes of the Rider you love now, are present here, so it allows these older shows to age a lot better than they might of otherwise.

Ironically the worst part about this is X himself. The suit is boring looking. He looks like he's the product of a slapped together pile of prop scraps, layered over a tracksuit with a pan on his head. It's hard to imagine that just ten years later we'd be getting classic, timeless designs like Black.

The little touches were nice though, with how Neptune stabbed X in the leg so in the next scene with Keisuke he's clutching his bleeding leg. I can't remember the last time, outside of the climactic battles at the end of a series, a Rider show actually connected the injuries sustained in battle, to the character out of the suit. But then I guess these days with the sheer quantity of explosions and lasers you couldn't really do that without having the characters just being one giant open wound, all the time.

Kamen Rider Amazon 01. It was kinda like being on drugs, aka GREAT. (:lol)

Not a lot to really say, as so much was so fucking trippy, and EXTREMELY violent (but in a fun way, not a Kuuga way). I think this is my first time seeing a genuinely unique Rider series, and if nothing else Amazon the character is fantastic in and out of suit.

So I've watched up to seven of Faiz. I was wary about getting into this one after all I've heard about it. So far it's not that bad, but I can see it getting there. Do all Orphenocs have to go through insanely cruel circumstances before they become one, or is that coincidence? Because holy shit, horse guy, bird girl, and snake guy had some terrible luck before they became Orphenocs.

The plot is interesting enough for now, it has enough mysteries to keep me invested, though I'm more interested in the main Orphenoc's plot than Faiz' own right now.

Takami is alright so far. He's kind of a tool, which is irritating at tiems, but not obnoxiously so. He was by far the least heroic rider I've seen at first. By the time his friend at coffee shop, he seemed actually invested in taking down Orphenocs.

Also, does anyone else think this has WAY better camera work than Ryuki which came right before it and Blade which came right after it? Maybe it's just me, but I dunno. In general, it's less blurry and I don't remember any shaky cam shit.

Also the opening and ending songs are pretty cool too.

They're main characters, so that's why we get their backstories. The rest of the Orphenocs we don't learn nearly as much about.

I'm finally up to about episode 30 of Faiz, and i"m still really enjoying it. I can see where the criticism of it comes, that a lot of the problems would be solved if the characters would just talk to each other, but I can also see WHY they wouldn't really be comfortable talking about these things. It's not really bothering me.

I really warmed up to Takumi over the first ten-ish episodes. He's still plenty standoff-ish later on, or a jerk at times, but he also is trying to be a nice guy and help out ant what not.

Kaixa, on the other hand, sheesh. He started out all badass and cool, and I really liked him. But now, he's just being a douchebag because he can.

But I'm still finding it an intriguing show, and I really dig the designs of the Riders, and watching a couple episodes a week, I should be done in another 3 months. Maybe I should pick up the pace, cuz people keep harassing me to watch Gaim, as though it's a really good show or something.

Well, that I know. I wasn't asking why we learn about their backstories or anything. I was just commenting on how the SADDEST POSSIBLE SHIT happened to each of them in the past.

Super-1 Episode 32:This episode had so much craziness in it, it was hilarious and awesome. Kazuya was riding on top of a car, then was dragged by a fishing line, and jumped away from Sharks. The Fishing Rod monster was weirdly one of the monsters that actually gave Super-1 a challenge, then again so was the Hair spray monster. Shinichi the new kid of the Junior Rider Squad had a lot of courage standing up to Jin Dogma so that was really awesome.

Kamen Rider Black 7-9

Sadly, no Gorgom plot has topped the insanity of episode 6, but 9 came close. Let's see what those dastardly Gorgom have planned this time.

In seven their plan was gather several individuals whose lives have been scarred by gang violence and use sickly green colored everages to help convince them that we are not an evil organization, but a peaceful utopia that will make the world a better place. To do this we'll give them orders to violently eat up gangs for peace! Little do they know...they'll e working for us!

The whole Battle Hopper being injured thing was sort of anti-climatic, seeing as it healed right then and there. I thought with the sad music and all, he'd be hurt, but recover at the end of the episode, but...nope! He can heal! hat said, it was super eighties sci-fi awesome when he just started healing like that and they showed off his bio-mechanical nature.

In 8...the Gorgom despise the music that the foolish humans seem to enjoy so much, so they're going to use it against them by putting control headbands on various violinists, connecting them to the Cicada Mutant so that every time they play their violins, the soundwaves will destroy human ears through the very music they love so much! And if Kamen Ride Black tries to stop them, they'll connect the violinists lives to the Cicada mutants!

And lastly 9...where the Gorgom have used the nefarious resources to mass produce jewelry necklaces containing pearls that are actually wasp eggs! Whenever the wasps sting someone, they inject a hallucinogenic poison that causes the victim to believe they are being attacked by the Wasp Mutant! We will use the O.G Beat riders rivalry against them and use their desire for fame to get one of them to distribute these necklaces to the populace and if they betray us...we'll suck them into a giant bee hive! Mwahaha!

I've really been liking the mutant designs these past few episodes. Can't wait to see what's next. One weird thing about episode nine...Kotaro just assumes that people know about the Gorgom...but they don't. Given that most of the people he tries to rescue live, you'd think they'd manage to tell the newspaper or something haha.

Man, that plot was dumb. You'd never see a Heisei series do anything like that. :rolleyes

Super-1 Episode 33:This was a very good episode. Great use of the Junior Rider Squad helping Kazuya out of a tough situation. A smart villain causing chaos through the use of Remote controlled toys. Professor Ghost was close with his plan, I finally understand that the villains all talk about trying to kill Super-1 and their plans. I love when the villains have Subs during their talks because they are a lot of fun, definitely bring more of a threat than Terror Macro and General Megirl. Excellent fights like normal, with electro hands, and Super-1 taking an enemy's weapon and using it against him.

Decade 30.

Right, time for the final arc. I wasn't putting this off or anything, genuinely, I've just struggled to find the time lately to grab the remaining episodes and I don't really wanna leave my computer on all day unattended while I leave for 12 hours a time during a working a day. But I have enjoyed Decade more regularly than I haven't, so slowing down the ending doesn't seem like such a bad thing to me.

Like basically all of Decade's storytelling, the premise here was more interesting than the execution of that premise. There were so many interesting directions they could have taken this, but what we got in the end was this muddled, confused mess that managed to make a war between two dimensions feel like an emotionally bankrupt home movie, shot in a studio backlot with some spare crew. It's just pathetic how easily some of the Riders went down in this episode. Also Apollo Geist is like super important now or something? DID YOU GET IT.

I mean it held together pretty well on a thematic level, and episodes like this really allow Tsukasa to shine (while admittedly also showing all the wasted potential of his characterisation) plus Mari sure looked hot as the Fangire Queen. But I dunno, this all just felt sorta cheap and really big deals were just sorta shrugged off by the episode, if they were even acknowledged at all.

So just finished watching Blade and, well, there be spoilers ahead.




For starters I find it quite interesting how there really weren't any casualties amongst the main cast. Maybe it's because I'm coming into this fresh off of Faiz, but it's just unusual to see that in a Non-Neo-Heisei Rider series for me.

The ending I have to say is better executed than other shows for me as well. I called Kenzaki forcing the Undead transformation for 3-4 episodes. Some may say that makes it predictable, but I like the fact that it's not such an asspull that I'm wondering where that came from. It just seemed like the next logical step and not the normal deus ex machina BS I've come to expect.

The small amount of Riders definitely led to better character development because I wouldn't say anybody was particularly forgettable like Scissors or Dark Kabuto and I felt for each of the Riders. The story was pretty good I thought as well and was pretty straightforward and not needlessly convoluted.

I think Blade is one of my favorites. Out of the ones I've seen:

Ryuki
W
Blade
Kabuto
Faiz
Decade

I think I'm gonna go on to Black next.

I'm glad you like Blade Asakura. I agree with everything you said about the show.

AM-A-ZOOOOOOON 02. Is Masako in pain or having an orgasm?

Although the effects are dated, and the budget feels tight, this is a show with great designs and even better action sequences thanks to Amazon's brutal fighting style. And despite the brutality of the way Amazon fights, in contrast he seems like such a nice dude. About the only thing I hate about Amazon, the Rider, is the stupid noises he makes all the time when transformed.

For such a goofy show, this episode also dealt with some dark, pretty heavy stuff. Considering death is so novel in tokusatsu, it was nice that suffering was treated so thoughtfully here. It's just a shame the show only every dumps exposition, and never takes the time to really explore the characters themselves. So far the stuff happening to the characters is more profound for them than it is the audience. Ritsuko is a fucking bitch though, I know that much.

Decade 31. Wait so the real ending is in a movie?! What a fucking rip off! Is that movie even any good?

I've watched the entire series and I still don't know what it's actually about, so I guess it makes as much sense as anything else that the finale would be some massive Blade fankwank. The closest thing Decade had to a plot is the pseudo love story which ran through the centre of the show. But I never really know how to take stuff like this in toku. As in this genre for whatever reason even when the show plainly states the characters are a couple about as intimate as they get is holding hands. Is there any toku show with a genuinely realised romance heart?

This was a really strong closer for the characters. Yusuke was more badass than he'd got to be all season, while also getting way more meaningful character moments than the whole season at the same time. Weirdly this has always been more of his show than it's been Decade's, despite the show trying to undermine him at almost every turn. It's easy to be sympathetic with Tsukasa because the show never properly explains why everyone turns against him. Plus Diend actually got to have an emotional range, was nice.

Plus we got some really insane action, which in many ways like Wizard, is the main thing that makes the show so watchable and entertaining even if in some places the show is downright terrible. It even looks a lot better than a lot of the shows that come after it, I guess they threw a lot of money at this and it shows in a great way.

Overall Decade was just a big pile of wasted potential, that looked really great while it was doing it. It had a great mythos and a wonderful set of characters to explore that with, but Decade is a show defined by establishing premises and never getting any further. And that is, really, all there is to say. It's a show with enough great ideas that you want to like the show, but since none of those ideas are never done well it's impossible to actually like it overall.

I had fun with Decade, that has to count for something, it's a show that entertains much more consistently than it doesn't. With each new world just around the corner, whenever I wasn't enjoying Decade it was a fleeting moment and usually peppered with more than enough stunning action to tide me over but when a show has nothing meaningful to take it away I dunno how I can end it on a positive feeling. Oh well, at least I got a Kuuga who lives up to the hype.

I think I'm gonna watch Amazon next, and then maybe after that I'll watch Ryuki as I've pretty much exhausted all other Rider options without picking one of the shows I dropped.

OF the two movies that Decade has, the first one is pretty much an standalone movie, and the second one (The Movie Taisen with W) is the ending... that more or less makes no sense and barely follows the show.

Is his standalone movie good? What is that one called?