Which ending did you get, the gunshot or reused footage from episode 1?

The gunshot one and I am not really sure the other would be considered any better.

And to end this post on a far better note, I just started my rewatch of Kamen Rider W.

Just watched the Blade 20th Anniversary Stage show, and I thought it was alot of fun! It's filled with some very cool moments that's sure to please fans. Although I will say that is surprised me that the Blade two-parter in Zi-O was acknowledged as canon.

20th Anniversary Stage. But yes, I also liked this stage. It was especially cool to see the matured Mitsuki, all 4 riders in royal forms, and Kenzaki walking off into the sunset. As for the recognition of the canonicity of Zi-O, it seems to me that the Another Blade costume is too good not to be used.

Finally pulled myself out of my toku burnout and started Gavv.
Got through the first 5 episodes, and it's alright. Not really super captivating, but people seem to like it, so I'll keep watching.
The Stomach family leaves me with a lot of questions, so I am curious as to where that whole plot heads.

Shouma is pretty mid as a protagonist, though I did enjoy the gag of him basically passing out and waking up in a random spot at the start of an episode (Though with episode 5 giving him an actual spot to live, seems like that gag is done).

While I only saw a photo of the cast when it was happening, it was nice to finally see Mutsuki in a proper BOARD jacket.

I am now 16 episodes into my Kamen Rider W rewatch and I still love the show just as much as I do the first time.

Holy crap, I just realized that I just made my 1000th post for this site! :D

Awesome! Congrats!

10 episodes into Gavv.
I enjoy Valen and Gavv's dynamic. Both desperately trying to hide their identities while having identical thoughts. Very fun, though it seems next episode is gonna end that.

I am wondering what the big bad really is, though. It can't just be about an evil CEO making an addictive candy out of people, right? There has to be something bigger, right?

There is a theory that the main villain is Shouma's great-uncle, who is manipulating everyone while continuing his experiment on the hybrid. True, then it turns out to be a repetition of the previous Gotchard with a mad scientist, ready to do anything to confirm his theory, as the main evil.

Even if that does repeat, I?m sure Gavv will handle it better. Geryon?s plan is the stupidest villain master plan in the history of Kamen Rider.

I still think that Dan Kuroto's numerous machinations deserve this honorary title.

Caught up on Gavv. Super curious where things will go.
I do feel they introduced Bitter Gavv way too close to Vram.

I just watched Future Daybreak in preparation for Gozyuger tomorrow.

So turns out that Orange Gotchard, now revealed to be called Gotchard Daybreak, came from 20 years in the future, which I guess means Geryon ruined the world 5 years after the divergence and this movie takes place 15 years after that. No wonder this Houtarou looked too old to be 22, he's actually 37. I once thought ISSA was a pretty good cast for SOUGO, but now I'm even more impressed with DAIGO (so many CAPS) cast for Houtarou. He looks and sounds almost identical to Motojima Junsei, which makes it all the more uncanny seeing a Houtarou who's lost his Gotcha and love of Chemies.

Geryon's victory at the divergence point ironically makes it harder for him to get what he wants. If I understood correctly, it took him 5 years to ruin the world and kill Houtarou's friends and another 15 years after that, he still didn't have his world of gold and he ultimately got usurped as the final boss by the Complete Dark King. Of course, that future is worse for pretty much everybody else as well, except for Clotho and Atropos. Sucks for all you Lachesis fans out there, she dies in both timelines.

While I was wrong about Rinne becoming Nijigon, turns out she did become a Chemy in this timeline, merging with The Sun at the time of her death. But Houtarou becoming distant with the Chemies prevented him from hearing her, until our Houtarou renewed his Gotcha. This leads to an awesome emotional moment in the climax where Gotchard Daybreak performs a Gotcha-N-Go with SteamHopper enhanced by The Sun, essentially making this a Gotcha-N-Go between Houtarou and Rinne as Shining Daybreak. For emphasis, our Houtarou and Rinne fought alongside them as Miracle Gotchard and Majade to defeat the Complete Dark King!

Overall, I thought this was the best summer movie of Reiwa Rider! It has all the themes of hope, friendship and love that you could want from a Gotchard movie. Even though Daybreak's world lies in ruin, the threat has finally been taken care of and Houtarou has found the hope to rebuild it and honor his fallen friends, with the help of his Chemies. To become a real daybreak for the future's dawn! His legacy lives on in the main timeline as well, creating a world where Houtarou can live happily with all his friends and that Houtarou was the one who gave hope to the future Houtarou. If you change the past, you change the future. And if you change the future, you change the past. Connections go beyond linearity. That's the power of Gotcha! :D

Yes, Daybreak is a great movie that packed a surprising amount into itself without seeming overloaded or complicated, despite its concept. This movie also proved to everyone that Decade is not going to stop appearing in the franchise yet.

Watched another set of episodes for my Kamen Rider W rewatch today. 36 episodes down, 13 to go.

I decided to watch some Gavv as everything I heard about it sounded utterly insane despite me not liking the aesthetics at all and jesus christ why is this show the way it is? The fight choreography is excellent, characters are cool with fun dynamics, it's shockingly dark and most of all the music is absolutely bonkers to me. I've only seen 16 episodes so I'm.not caught up yet but damn, I really hope the show keeps this level of quality, Gotchard was nice but wasn't particularly exciting and Geats had the usual Yuya Takahashi fumble where he seems to lose steam around the middle to end of a show

He will come back as long as people remember him. Love to see the OG DecaDriver!

A problem that could be easily solved if only Takahashi had some secondary writers to support him. He doesn't know his limits.

Ex-Aid?

Especially!

Watching the Blade 20th anniversary stage show. I'm curious, are they using a different helmet style?
It looks like it's missing the clear layer over the face, and it's noticeably not yellowed.

Maybe they got out the ol' baking soda mix from the studio or made a new one?

I would hope they made a new one. However, since they wouldn't even fix the display suit's mask for so long, it has me doubting it.
Part of me is thinking maybe the "Action" suit, that needs roll around and such, might have gotten a new mask (Since Garren's mask was also missing the clear cover, too).

Granted, would be strange to put the money in to just updating the action suit, but Toei's decisions don't always make sense.

Maybe the personal initiative of theater actors?

So if you pay attention to the Blade and Barren helmets they only have half (I think the upper half but can't double check at the moment) of the clear panels also outside of the torse/shoulder pads the Ace form suits are all of noticeably lower quality compared to the ones used in the shows. As these suits are the ones that tend to be used for events so that if anything happens to them it wouldn't impact filming of the show.

Ironically the cheaper quality materials lead to them not aging as bad as the show suits.

I am now down to the final seven episodes of Kamen Rider W and I should be finished with my rewatch of the series, along with Goseiger, sometime this week. I am planning to do a rewatch of Kamen Rider OOO not long afterwards.

Just watched Kamen Rider ZO. It wasn't anything amazing, but did its job well in that it provided a complete Kamen Rider story within 45 minutes. It's worth checking out if that's what you're looking for, and I watched it because I was in the mood for Kamen Rider but didn't want to dive into a full series, but I wouldn't call it essential viewing by any means.

Not only I finished my rewatch of both Goseiger and Kamen Rider W, I have just started my rewatch of Kamen Rider OOO as of today. I have been looking forward to revisiting this series for quite a while.

Time to count the medals, 1, 2, and 3! :D

Man, I've been a fan for a little bit over 10 years and have yet to re-watch anything sentai or rider (aside from re-watching Shin Kamen Rider, since the first time I saw it was in theaters in Japan and didn't have subtitles)

I guess I'd just rather watch something I haven't seen yet.

I've been watching Amazon, Black Sun and some movies. Plus, now amateur voice-overs of riders in my native language have begun to appear, so I watch them as support.

It's definitely more exciting to see something new! Still, there are several Rider shows I owe a rewatch to. Faiz and Blade have new subs nowadays, plus I want to show Faiz to someone. Not to mention shows like OOO and Agito where it has been years and I feel like I ought to reevaluate them in a fresh light. And yet... I usually just watch new things instead.

The reason I wanted to rewatch OOO, and W before that, because I wanted to take a bit of a break from watching from the Kamen Rider seasons that I haven't seen before especially after watching Decade for the first time. I am planning to head back to new territory (at least for me personally) after I am finished rewatching OOO (and possibly Dragon Knight as well) with either Ghost or Revice. Anyway, I have already pass through the first eight episodes of Kamen Rider OOO.

I am now four episodes away from finishing up on my Kamen Rider OOO rewatch and for some reason, I also have a minor urge to potentially do a rewatch of Fourze despite my plans to finally start watching either Ghost or Revice.

Just finished my rewatch of Kamen Rider OOO. I even watched the Director’s Cut version of the show’s final two episodes.

I watched Gotchard Graduations!

When it was announced, I joked that Spanner would also do something, which turned out to be the whole point. While Houtarou, Rinne, Kajiki and Seina graduate from Furasu, Sabi and Renge graduate from Alchemy Academy and Minato and Kyoka graduate from being single, Spanner is the only one not graduating from anything and feels like he's being left behind. Just like Geats Jyamato Awakening, the gloomy tragic antihero is once more the main focus character of this V-Cinema.

Minato told Houtarou that his sentimentality about leaving is due to him having a fulfilling school life which gave him a Gotcha to motivate him to continue with the rest of his life. Spanner doesn't have anything like that. Despite his best attempts to push people away with his edgy behavior, he ended up making friends anyway and now that they're all going their separate ways, what's left for his future? Between this and his spoilery position in the poster, it wasn't surprising to me at all that he was the host of Ouroboros, the one resetting the time loop to prevent Spanner from having a future.

There are probably a lot of people who feel like Spanner, like me actually, who didn't have the fulfilling school life that Houtarou was fortunate to have. It's a mix of gladness and envy for those who are able to find out their Gotchas so easily. But the concept of eternity, of preserving one moment forever, it's the same as Geryon's world of gold. It's pointless. Spanner doesn't want that. He wants to live, even if he doesn't have a reason right now, he knows that something will happen. It's fitting that something as simple as turning up for Kyoka's and Minato's wedding is enough to motivate Spanner to escape from the eternal dimension, which reminds me of Yuki Gai.

We finally got confirmation from the man himself that Spanner "forgetting" Bolt wasn't the result of memory loss. He was literally just being an a**hole, which to his credit he apologizes for. Too bad for Bolt that Spanner getting dragged out of present continuity renders it a non-canon event, causing him to continue his petty revenge. Oh well.

Of course, the B-plot is still focused on our two main graduates. Some people thought the appearance of Rinne's love confession was going to get subverted, which it did, but also not really. She confessed she was going to study abroad in the UK (I guess they have an alchemy branch there?) and Houtarou bid her good luck. But Rinne's elated reaction to Houtarou adding that he'll be lonely (surely a big shot alchemist who made a whole planet can just teleport there whenever he wants?) strongly implies that she was gauging his interest in her. Considering how Producer Minato compared them to Sento and Ryuuga, this seems pretty deliberate.

Overall, a pretty good epilogue to the Gotchard story, which for a V-Cinema stays faithfully close to the presentation and tone of the show. I was also wondering if we'd get the origin story for Spanner's black flames and while it's not exactly stated, I think it might have something to do with the paradoxical nature of the Ouroboros, like, maybe Spanner getting hit by that beam 6 months ago somehow gave him those powers in the past? Just a headcanon anyway. No Movie War this year apparently, so I hope to see all these lovable characters in some future crossover.

The Hopper1 Spring Break prequel was cute as well.

At the very least, Rinne will definitely appear in Majade Remix. Plus, there are rumors of a Dark Sisters special or something similar. As for Graduation, it's a nice epilogue to the main show, simple but very heartfelt. I also really liked that it's not just a story about the main cast. There was room not only for the important Bolt, but also for Seina and the comedy duo. This helps maintain the feeling of one big world. Graduation also gives the necessary finishing touches to Spanner's character. And of course, it was great to see the Chemies having fun on their planet. I hope I'll be lucky enough to see the planned Hotaro restaurant as a link between the two worlds someday.
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I'll probably watch that Majade Remix, since I have no problems with Rinne being the protagonist, she's cool. And a Dark Sisters special? Hell yeah! Houtarou's plan for a Chemy Restaurant sounds like a logical first step towards his dream of a world where humans and Chemies can co-exist. Cat cafes are already popular in Japan after all. I believe in his Gotcha!

I saw a trailer for this a little while back. It's a prequel to the series, including all three sisters and Geryon. I forget if Clotho or Lachesis was meant to be the main character.

Late reply, dunno if I should do this, but I want to post what I think. While there are certain actions that are more blatantly terrible, like sending death threats, in general, I feel that being innocent doesn't necessarily mean they're better/faultless or have the moral high ground. Though this isn't necessarily about fandom actions. There can be those that have an innocent status due to them never getting caught/exposed, or have people defend them if they're liked enough, or if said actions have been normalized, thus it's not seen as wrong, or if one actually holds similarly twisted views, but doesn't act on it due to fear rather than principle.

About holding innocents responsible, I quite often see people in fanbases who do that, but those are seen as fine as it's socially acceptable, like those who harass fans who do powerscaling or like a show they refer to for toxic fanbase due to the toxic experiences they get from them. There are also those who hold that the public figure said toxic fanbase are fans of, and blame them for said fandom's actions, despite the public figure not necessarily being in control of their actions (individual's actions are something out of one's control). And those aren't viewed as guilty by others (so, innocent status), but can get supported, due to the feeling that they deserve said treatment (lowkey a prejudice).

This is a smaller scale, compared to well-intentioned extremist villains who paint themselves as the agents of long overdue change, but these kinds of fans can also justify themselves in a similar way to them (and there are fans who defend said villains). They don't see their action as "harassment" but as "heroics". They deem their actions as, at the very least, a "necessary evil" that they "must" carry out; like exaggerating a creator's behavior online or their art in order to paint them as in the right for "standing up to the big, bad showrunner", seeing death threats as just blowing off steam and not something that could send somebody struggling over the edge.

Maybe I misunderstood something, but in the adjacent paragraphs you are ready to condemn people for their thoughts and criticize condemnations for their actions. It seems to me that this is the case when generalized philosophy finally loses touch with reality and turns into nonsense.
By and large, it is obvious that people are not telepathic and therefore if a person does not show his negative inclinations in any way, it is worth simply recognizing him as a good person and not trying to prove the opposite. For believers, there are no secrets from God/gods/supreme power, for atheists, only the actions taken are important. So why bother getting into something that is hidden from everyone and does not affect anything?