You should know what to expect with Knight :lol

It's really jarring when something who looks so much like Batman be a smug twenty-or-so year old who, rather than acknowledge a potential ally and offer aid in return for help, or remove him if he is a genuine hinderance to the whole "one rider" thing.

Basically a strange man has entered my world dressed as my icon and is speaking a language I don't understand and acting completely dumb and nutty. It's like post-DKR Frank Miller Batman all over again!

EDIT: And because I nearly forgot, I watched Super Hero Taisen and I have one main question: ummm... so is DiEnd dead?

I think it's the quality of film or video they used. It always reminded me a bit of the video they use in the few snippets of soap operas I've seen over the years.

Glad you're liking Ryuki, though. I didn't care much for the show at first, but upon rewatching it I really enjoyed it a lot more.

Oh for fuck's sake, this girl's parents are dead, too! Is there anyone in Toku/Anime who doesn't have dead parents? It's kind of sucking the gravitas out of the situation when EVERYONE'S PARENTS ARE DEAD. You know, you don't have to kill them off, writers. Whatever happened to good-old walking out on your family? Worked for me.

Jesus it's like once you have a kid it's a nineteen year countdown until you die. Man, is Kamen Rider secretly owned by Disney?

In fairness, Yui's parents' death is a pretty major plot point.

And the only Rider character I can think of who explicitly has two living parents is Yuuki from Fourze.

I never said that it makes a complete 180, just it gets...I guess slightly more serious, or relatively (in terms of Fourze) serious.

Kiva 32

King arrives! And of course he's Wateru's old childhood friend and...half-brother, I suppose? His job is actually pretty evil. Owning a massive company and agree to sponsor the projects of things that would benefit humanity for the sole purpose of killing the owner of said projects because you don't believe humanity should be allowed to develop. Pretty villainous.

And Queen's job is killing fangires who fall in love with humans. Bishop's job seems to be to keep them all together. And Rook....Uh. ...What's Rook's purpose? To run around playing psychotic games? I mean any Fangire could do that, so why is he the Rook? Guess he just got in by being really strong...

I like how Riki just sort of showed up and told Otoya, "Hey dude, Maya's a Fangire. Here lemme fight her to show you." Then he got beaten up a little and just sort of limped off. Otoya's reaction just seemed to be mildly perplexed but otherwise he seemed cool her being the Queen Fangire and beating up one of his monster pals. Though...that's likely because Maya's hot and Riki's just a weirdo.

I had the same reaction. The Checkmate Four are pretty evil. Everything they do, and their motivations are to do everything they can to maintain their race's superiority.

Kiva 33

And just finished Kiva 33. I never mentioned it before but, I liek that there's a moose Fangire. Moose's are a rare animal to be based on, it seems. I think the friendly turtle fangire has my favorite Fangire design. I like how the shell is a hood or whatever.

Wateru's acting all mopey again about Mio being betrothed to Taiga, but at least it didn't deter his fighting ability. For someone with the job of Fangire King, Taiga seems...fairly cordial. He and Mio seem like the most sane of all of the Checkmate Four members.

Felt kinda bad for Yuri. I mean, given how the future works, she wasn't gonna stay with Otoya or whatever, but...I felt like that subject could've been written better.

What's Taiga's henshin...sidekick thing supposed to be? A UFO? Either way Saga is a pretty cool form, though for some reason, I felt I wouldn't like it's design, judging from the preview pics. It looked pretty cool in action though, so..


Well, most of them. Rook just wanted to have some messed up fun.

I think Sagark is an artificial Kivat.

True.