I'll admit, I haven't seen Super Hero Taisen, so maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's just Go-BusterOh Rocket States. Maybe the writers ignored the apartment building sized drills attached to GT-02. I don't know.

Awesome news today. Someone over at the tokufans board (formerly HJU's media matrix) found the HK subs for Kamen Rider X. The grammar is atrocious, but they work well enough to give you an idea of what's going on. X Rider is probably the one show I haven't fully seen yet that I want to finish the most, so I am totally going to watch these HKs.

:lol I bet those are gonna be pricelessly funny. I can safely say I've never seen any X ever. I want to but when it comes to Showa riders I'd like to watch as much of one show as possible at a time. And considering just how long most Showa series are I guess I'll be waiting for some time.

On episode 17 of Blade, finally the story picks up and that Remote card is freaking op ..

Showa = longer shows is actually a misconception. Of the nine Showa series only one is significantly longer than a modern Rider series: the original Kamen Rider. V3, Skyrider, Super-1, Black, and Black RX all clock in at around the same ~48-50 episodes that the modern shows do. Meanwhile, X and Stronger have less than forty episodes each and Amazon doesn't even crack twenty-five.

Honestly, for me the real challenge of watching Showa era Rider isn't the length, it's the more episodic nature. Very few of these shows have much in the way of long-running plot arcs, which can make it harder to build up the momentum to sit through several episodes in a row. I marathoned the hell out of Agito when I first watched it, but I don't think I've ever seen more than two episodes of a Showa series in one sitting.

That said, a lot of those done-in-ones from the Showa era are really great and fun. If you want to try taking a whack at the Showa era I'd definitely recommend Black. It's fully subbed and it has a little bit of an ongoing story arc, although it doesn't do a great job of pacing it well. It has a great star, though, some excellent action scenes, and a killer soundtrack.

When I was talking about the number of episodes I was referring more to the fact that most showa series have only been partially subbed. And at the rate new episodes get released I'd be waiting for some time to watch a significant chunk of anything.

Oh. Yeah, there's that. Really doesn't help that only one (admittedly very awesome) group is doing Showa stuff right now.

ive been looking back at my fan stuff of kamen rider i done for college made thread on it here at tokunation but i post the lik of the video here as well

please comment of the thread of what you enjoyed and what could of been better at thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_xb3d286rI

So is that episode of X included in those subs?

Yeah, that's what I want to know. If so, I so want a copy :p

It's the whole series, although episode 18 is apparently only subbed for the first third of the episode. That's not the Starfish Hitler one.

I've only watched the first couple so far (7 and 8, the batch torrent has the OoZ fansubs for 1-6) and they are pretty understandable. The grammar is very, very, very bad, but it's passable enough that you can understand the general meaning.

Finished ep 29 of Blade, Hajime's double :lol

Still watching Kabuto. I'm not very far though, they just introduced the.. Dragonfly... guy. And the site I was using frizted. Still though, a very good series.

I'm already up through episode 14 of X Rider. I've seen a lot of Showa era series, especially the early stuff, and this is already shaping up to be my second favorite after Black. HK sub issues aside, this is a really, really great show.

Just got upto PuToTyra's debut in OOO. Dayum.

One very minor thing I have with it though....as cool as the gun looks I don't think it fits with the look of the combo at all.

Finished Ryuki. Another enjoyable series. I almost cried when Shinji died. Up next: Faiz.

It looks better in axe form, really shows the savagery of that form.
I know man, that was heartbreaking. It made for such a fantastic goodbye and ending for the character.

Watching them in order, huh? That's what I did when I first watched these shows, too.

It's a shame that he has to see Faiz next though. It isn't entirely bad but it's like the Goseiger of Kamen Rider. Greatly underappreciated and sandwiched between 2 awesome shows :lol

everyone needs to learn to hate Kaixa...

I enjoyed Faiz when I was watching it. It's only once you've seen the whole thing that it really puts that bad taste in your mouth.

Everytime someone mentions Shinji dying I kind of watch to finish Ryuki if only to see the dumbass die.

Give me a few episodes. I just got to his first appearance :p

PS And Faiz is okay so far. I expect that to change though.

Blade...FYI I am the Faiz fanboy here...lol

Just finished OOO (Well, the episodes anyway. I still have All Riders, Wonderful and Megamax to watch). Fantastic show, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as I did W or Fourze. Birth completely stole the show for me though, Date is definitely my new favourite secondary rider.

The few problems I had with it were minor, but did add up a bit for me. The gain a medal/lose a medal thing was interesting at first, but got boring about halfway in and made the mid-episodes lag a bit. I didn't really like how Mezool and Gamel were pretty much sidelined for the entire thing either, Mezool's only roles really being a girl and to go crazy. Maki's doll got on my nerves a few times too, mostly because after an awesome scene of Ankh fighting and then saving Eiji we're treating to Maki flopping about in the water and then saying "Bob Marley" a few minutes later. Kinda killed the moment for me.

All in all I enjoyed it though and am looking forward to checking out the rest of the films.

OOO really is a wonderful show. Weird quirks aside I'm still one of those odd people who liked it better than W. W (as a series) always felt boring and slow to me and OOO had a ton of life and personality to it. Including Maki and his ridiculous evil doll :lol

However I must be like the only person whose ever watched that show and DIDN'T like Date. He was alright but from the very first episode Gotou was being groomed to be the 2nd rider. So when Date showed up out of nowhere and got the belt I found him to be a huge annoyance. I like him just fine as Proto-Birth because it's always nice to see a teritiary rider but to be honest I could have done without him.

that's not odd people, that's smart people :p

I can copy that entire first paragraph. Not that I didn't love W , but it wasn't as fun as OOO. And that Bob Marley scene made me laugh harder then anything else I have seen in Toku.

Have you seen crazy Professor Elvis from Gobuster? The guy who built the Li-Oh. BANG! Now that guy cracks me up :lol

THANK YOU!

I sometimes feel I'm the only person that had serious problems with the doll gimmick.

You're welcome :lol

I really liked it as a character trait but all the comedy with it was either completely mistimed or ruined his credibiity as a threat.

Exactly. If anyone on the show had been thinking they would have destroyed the little doll and let Maki writhe around on the ground until he bit his own tongue off and bled to death.

Speaking of OOO, just wondering, is the movie in-canon with the series & do I have to watch it at a certain point like "A to Z"?

Finished Blade, great ending. But why didn't they released Shima (King of Clubs) and THEN defeat the King of Diamond. I think it was kinda stupid that they only tried that after Joker won.

It's not really canon. Nothing in it is referenced in the show and BuraKaWani never shows up outside of that movie.

Obviously they didn't know Remote wouldn't work anymore, just like they didn't know what would happen when just Joker was left.

I think that technically Wonderful was supposed to take place between a few episodes at the tail end. But there's no real way to explain where and how the movie occured. I call it canon simply because there's nothing that would explicilty place it outside of continuity that I recall. I don't really see lack of reference as something that keeps the movie from being canon either.

wonderful is an impossible movie, date as birth, uva mezool and gamel all alive at once never happened in the series. also ankh somehow had 3 takas.

Well, damn it! I overlooked those things because it was such a good movie :lol

i know that is an awesome movie!
but once me and my friend are watching something ooo twice, the mitpick demons come out :lol

Just finished OOO. Great ending.

I finally realized how much Momotaros looks like Joker ...