Wouldn't that render the disability moot?

I don't about this moot but I feel Toei should make a Kamen Rider show that can help people with disabilities to overcome it.

They did the whole friendship gimmick for Kamen Rider Fourze. So just them do the disability gimmick. It would make our Kamen Rider a flawed person and he cannot fight when he's not Kamen Rider

When the last time they have Kamen Rider with a disability?

Well define disability. Do you need to be born with it or...? Because technically Rider 1 has a serious heart problem in this year’s movie, at least that's what I'm getting from the trailers. That’s a disability.

And Kamen Rider always had that theme of the protagonist being an outcast do to their bodies being changed against their will. In Showa they're Cyborgs/Mutants, in Heisei their body changes after they use the equipment too much or something similar.

The challenges they face in terms of being different isn't that unrelated to the challenges a disabled person has to face every day if you think about it. I don’t want to offend anyone with a disability; I just think you can compare it to some extent. The big difference of course being that disabled people who live their everyday life with the challenges it brings but still haven’t given up on the world and their fellow humans are real heroes as opposed to the fictional Kamen Riders.

Not necessarily, because it wouldn't rid them of the disability completely. Imagine a scenario like this:

-Kid gets into an accident and is put into a wheelchair; may never walk again.
-He has some kind of special potential that a private agency picks up on.
-They sponsor him for a special program that promises to restore his legs if he helps them.
-He's miraculously compatible with their Rider system and it enables him to get up and fight monsters, but reverts back to paralysis after the transformation times out.
-He's grateful for the opportunity, but has to mentally cope with the impermanence of these abilities.

Could be an interesting dynamic with some great psychological drama. Then again, this is a kids show, so who knows?

I originally wanted to watch through Rider in order (at least to the best of my ability) to see the evolution of the series, and also find out what the core rider tropes are (so I don't mix up season-specific elements with core tropes like I did when I got into sentai) but lately I've been thinking screw that. So I'm probably just gonna jump into Ghost. However, i've heard pretty mixed things about Ghost. For somebody who has only seen the first Rider and has nothing to really compare it to other than that, is it pretty good? Or will I be disappointed?

I always say: Start where you want to start. It's your choice. However, Ghost is already full of collectable gimmicks and the annoying token funny character, that might put you off.

Maybe you would want to start with early Heisei instead, to see how the series developed after Showa. Kuuga, Agito and Ryuki are all great IMO (Although you may want to watch Agito after Kuuga, it's some kind of sequel but not really a sequel, either way you're better off watching Kuuga first).

And then you can watch some post-Decade shows where the collectible toys are a much bigger factor than they were pre-Decade, but they're still good shows. Double & OOO are fantastic IMO.

Gaim is the best of the bunch so far, but it has a lot of toys to advertise and it was written by an author who usually writes manga/anime (The one who also wrote Madoka Magica), so that can either put you off or make you even more interested, depends if you like anime or not.

In the end you can start wherever you want, I started with Gaim. But if you feel like you want to see how the show evolved I’d say start with Kuuga & Agito or Ryuki. Kuuga could be really interesting to you since it was the first new show after the break and it created a new Kamen Rider formula that inspired most shows that came after it.

That doesn't really bother me that much. I also really like the Rider's design and the look of that little ghost thing

See, it's more that I just want to be up on what's going on right now in the world of Rider than still wanting to see how things develop.

Gaim is the best of the bunch so far, but it has a lot of toys to advertise and it was written by an author who usually writes manga/anime (The one who also wrote Madoka Magica), so that can either put you off or make you even more interested, depends if you like anime or not.[/quote]

See Gaim is the series that really introduced me to Rider, in the sense that I saw pictures of it and thought "this looks awesome!" However, I've heard one of the great things about Gaim is how it shakes up the formula a bit, so I always thought I should probably wait until a bit later to watch it.

I do quite enjoy anime. So it was written by the guy who made Madoka, Psycho Pass, Gargantia, and Aldnoah.Zero? Sounds good to me.

I guess maybe I could start with Kuuga. Start off with how the series started, then see where it changed with the Heisei series. Which leads me to another question: are there any other Showa series that had a large impact on the Rider formula? Like, did any of them contribute to the development of new tropes in the series? For example, on the Sentai side of things, Goranger was the first but Battle Fever J was the first mecha, Denziman was the first transforming mech, Sun Vulcan first 3-person team and first combining robo, etc. If so, I might just watch a couple of episodes of them just to see where it came from. After that, I'll check out Kuuga and then Ghost?

Then watch it, I only started Gaim because I liked the designs. You don’t need a better reason than that.

Just watch Ghost and see if you like it or not.

Eh... people told me the same but I started with Gaim and watched others shows later and I still got what Rider is about. Gaim is different, but not that different, it's still a Kamen Rider show.

You can also just watch Kuuga later, I watched Kuuga after I watched nearly every post-Decade show. You can appreciate the later shows without watching Kuuga (or any other pre-Decade show) first and you can watch Kuuga after everything else and still see where the formula that the others shows build on first started.

The current one? Not really. Showa is episodic as hell and has next to no character development and lacks any real story, Heisei has an ongoing story line which develops alongside the characters and just happens to throw a monster against the heroes every week. While Showa is much more "One story a week", Heisei started with episodes that build a story arch and then come together to finish the story. Its learning and growing more than Showa's "Beat like 40 monsters until you beat the last one". Kuuga is still a bit episodic but already has much more plot going on than any Showa show, and with Agito & Ryuki they really started to tell one big story and not 40+ single ones with a finale.

I just meant Rider in general. Like...where did the first secondary Rider come from (I already know it's the first series, just an example) or the first show where the MC gets a new form, etc. I guess the better question is are there any important milestones?

And actually, I think I'm gonna catch up on Ghost and watch Amazon - it's nice and short, I've been meaning to watch it for a while, and there's the reimagining series going on currently as well. Maybe i'll check out Kuuga after.

Well yeah but why do you need to watch all these shows? The first secondary Rider as we know them today was Riderman in V3, first form change was technically Stronger but form change as we know it today was first done in Black RX. I haven't watched V3, Stronger or RX but I know it, I just read it up. I don’t have to watch an entire show just because there might be one notable thing in it I want to know more about.

Do that, just watch whatever you want!

I just think it's interesting to watch these tropes get developed.

No one answered about question on Roidmude 006.

And speaking of Drive, if anyone has watched the KR Chaser movie, what happened to Hinako ever she became scared of Chase in his Super Mashin form? Hiroshi was the only one who remained.

What if Toei decides to make Kamen Rider more a Deadpool-Like Character

Excluding his killing ness and lot of swear words! What if Kamen Rider will break the fourth wall and talk to the audience?

Toei did a arranger which was a parody of Super Sentai and how come they hasn't do a parody of Kamen Rider?

Just says he would says

"Oh No! I hate the 2 Part Things! It making me look weak!" He was criticized of how Kamen Rider do 2 Part Episodes

Or

"Here's come my generic rival" He was making fun of his rival Rider for being a generic stoic badass like Kaito, Chase and Makoto

Or

"Does he need to act weird?" He was talking about a character that would do "In your face" stuff like Chief Honganji from Drive

Or

"Really? They couldn't afford to make a new suit?" He was criticized Toei for being lazy with a suit like Chaser Mach Suit

Or

"How come they never untransformed themselves! It sound like Toei couldn't afford all Rider to return! Even that Kuuga Guy turn us down! I wonder what is he doing now?" he was talking about Every Super Hero Taisen doesn't have most Riders untransformed themselves and mocking Joe Odagiri for trying to act if he never was a Kamen rider guy!

Or maybe like

"Why all Kamen Rider always have Father involved?! Let my mom being involved! I'm sure she will be happy with it!" He was making fun of how Fathers always being important character than mother!

Why don't you like the idea of Kamen Rider Show making fun of the tropes tent have

Toei usually took a huge risk with Kamen Rider than Super Sentai! Who doesn't want a Rider making fun of Kamen Rider Cliches

Why should they?

They do this all the time already. Like Ghost randomly throws in the key charms they give out for the movie, same with their business cards, they directly talk to the viewer about them.

And let's not forget about episode 1000 in OOO which was basically "The fictional Kamen Rider characters create a Kamen Rider episode even though they are Kamen Rider characters themselves". If that didn't blast the fourth wall into pieces then I don't know what will.

http://i.imgur.com/XdkomBk.jpg

Again: They do this all the time already.

Kamen Rider G, while being a parody, was the result of a contest winning. It even had the past Heisei Riders appear for a brief moment to give moral support and to basically call/dub him an official Rider.

The next Kamen Rider series should trademarked later this month, correct?

If Double/W had a dark counterpart, how would you picture him with "M", "W" upside down?

Early June at the latest.

No, because that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I assume your whole basis for this is Wario, which only works because it's a portmanteau of "warui" (bad) and Mario.

Double had a dark counterpart. It was Eternal.

What if Toei decides to make Next Kamen Rider be like us

Like he will criticize the Kamen Rider Cliches like us and he will be a lovable jerk with the heart of gold

"Oh No! I hate the 2 Part Things! It making me look weak!" He was criticized of how Kamen Rider do 2 Part Episodes

Or

"Here's come my generic rival" He was making fun of his rival Rider for being a generic stoic badass like Kaito, Chase and Makoto

Or

"Does he need to act weird?" He was talking about a character that would do "In your face" stuff like Chief Honganji from Drive

Or

"Really? They couldn't afford to make a new suit?" He was criticized Toei for being lazy with a suit like Chaser Mach Suit

Or

"How come they never untransformed themselves! It sound like Toei couldn't afford all Rider to return! Even that Kuuga Guy turn us down! I wonder what is he doing now?" he was talking about Every Super Hero Taisen doesn't have most Riders untransformed themselves and mocking Joe Odagiri for trying to act if he never was a Kamen rider guy!

Or maybe like

"Why all Kamen Rider always have Father involved?! Let my mom being involved! I'm sure she will be happy with it!" He was making fun of how Fathers always being important character than mother!

I think Joe Odagiri doesn't take this joke too personal I hope so. He doesn't watch tokusatsu show! Okay! I bet Kamen Rider will mock and criticize Time Red actor for not loving Super Sentai and tries to act if he never was a tokusatsu actor.

So a self aware parody staring an otaku?

Why not just say "Akibaranger but with Kamen Rider?"

Interesting idea.

How come People are NOT tired of everytime Toei keep making Super Sentai and Kamen Rider show non-stop.

If you are a gamer, Most of you guys grow tired of Call of Duty and I might get a hate from this but you guys got tired of Final Fantasy game!

But how did Super Sentai and Kamen Rider keep going? Super Sentai almost got cancelled by Toei when Ohranger was a failure but Carranger save them from being cancelled! There was NO Kamen Rider show during 90s and they finally got a show Kamen Rider Kuuga in 2000?

The ratings for the shows have been low for a while. I do imagine most people have grown tired of them. However they still make a lot of money from merchandise. Merchandise like toys will keep these shows from being made as long if they sell well. Most kids shows in general as toy commercials. Not just in Japan, but in the US as well. Some are obviously gimmicky than others while some are not.

Toys helps keep things from being cancelled. Other wise the Heisei Kamen Rider series would have ended with Ryuki or Blade.

I did after 2005.

How would you want to rewrite KR shows such as...

- Hibiki
- Kabuto
- Den-O
- Kiva
- Decade
- W/Double
- Fourze
- Wizard

Specifically the riders plus more riders these series' could've added. Story too.

- Wizard: Mayu could've been a "Witch" instead of a "Mage", Beast wasn't a good character yet a nice arsenal, Section Zero could've had their own "mage" whose fighting style is based on Vergil from DMC.

- Fourze: As I said before, there should've been a zodiarts rider who is Ophiuchus in disguise as a neutral hero. Aries appearing in two episodes a disappointment to me. He could've appeared behind the scenes, knowing Meteor is hunting for him and his power.

- Kiva: It was a bust. Kiva was a bad hero!

Less Rinko.

Beast wasn't a good character? I would've made Wizard focus on Beast and make Haruto his ineffective partner...

What Wizard's partnership would've been better was this....

Wizard + Koyomi
Section Zero's mage (Warlock) + Rinko
&
Beast + Shunpei

Rinko would've been given silver bullets to defend herself and Shunpei to be given a small handbook of spells that can teach him magic as Haruto's apprentice.

I would keep the original writers and producers. And possibly lock Toshiki Inoue up so that he never got a chance to write Kiva.

How would you guys feel when Next Kamen Rider will NOT be a Dinosaur-Themed?

I wouldn't care.

Oh interesting. But as usual: Spoilers ahead for people who haven’t watched these shows.

I would rewrite Hiyori’s character, or rather the stories involving her, to feature her in a more active way. She’s interesting, her whole story is interesting, but in the end she’s just a trophy for Tendou to fight over. Like, later on appears a worm who has forgotten that she is a worm and the story involving her is so good. Why can't Hiyori have something like that?

Why does Tendou prove for Hiyori that she can live as a worm, why can’t she do it herself? She should find her own judgment, her own will to live. But instead they shove her off into the end of time and she stays there for way too long, and when she comes back she isn’t doing a whole lot either.

Also, the Hopper Brothers. I think they’re pointless. Yaguruma does not work as this Goth-type of character, no way in hell. Kageyama of course, he’s a turncoat who does whatever he thinks works will work, but I don’t get how even this asshole of character can become such a loser. It does not work, at all. We also never get an explanation to where the Hopper Zecters come from and why they have no Masked form.

I would’ve scrapped both of those, maybe had them as movie Riders, and instead just killed off Kageyama and have Yaguruma return as TheBee.

Last, Dark Kabuto. He's a very interesting character that isn’t doing enough. They should've featured him more as what he really is - a guy forced to transform into a Native who then copies Tendou and is experimented on to create the Hyper Zecter. Let him seek out his origins, meet up with characters who don’t already know Tendou and let him have his own realization to what he really is. Because his end is epic and I wished I would’ve cared for him more in order to feel more invested in his death.

Just a good villain / end game would’ve done it. Kai is a joke. And also, the whole thing with second Yuto from the future never gets wrapped up in a satisfying way. I still don’t fully understand what all this stuff with him and Ryotaro’s sister was all about. Time traveling shenanigans done bad IMO.

Which is a shame because the drama with the other Yuto having to fight using other people’s memories of him as a currency was really good.

The thing that always confused me and I would’ve changed is that the whole story with Akiko’s dad. In the earlier episodes Philip asks Shotaro if they should tell her about what happened to her dad. Who’s dead? Or not? Skull? I don’t know, Movie War Core left the impression on me that he is dead when the show takes place and I assume that’s the case for the sake of this comment.

Anyways, Shotaro struggles with telling Akiko the truth. Then it is never spoken of again, until the episode where the former client of Akiko’s dad comes over to the agency. He asks where his friend is and Akiko tells him he’s dead. Huh? Why does she know all of a sudden? Shotaro never told her, and it doesn’t happen in any movie I’ve seen that could take place between the episodes either.

So yeah, that’s good drama wasted right here. Why should Shotaro worry about not telling her and then later she already knows? Completely pointless.

The other thing is probably the ending, yes call me a heretic but I would’ve preferred it if Philip would’ve stayed dead. The whole tragedy of the last few episodes was wasted on me because I knew they wouldn’t have the guts to roll with it. Shotaro becoming Kamen Rider Joker and protecting Futo alone in the memory of his partner would’ve been the better ending.

And how Philip comes back is bullshit too. Wakana gives him his body? Huh? Then why does Philip look like Philip and not like Wakana? I mean she has similar powers as Philip by the end of the show but it’s never explained. So should I assume she used her Clay Doll powers to shape her body to look like Philip? Because I really don’t want to.

Okay, aside from the obvious stuff (Make Haruto an actual character, tone down Rinko & Shunpei, have a real threat as enemies and not puppets for Fueki who serve no real purpose) I always felt like they really wasted Phoenix. When I watched the show for the first time I thought Phoenix could become an ally. The episode where Rinko searches through Phoenix’s past and the scene in the rain where Phoenix realizes that he’s been played with are so good. In fact, that scene with Phoenix screaming in the rain is probably the best shot in the entire show. And they knew that, because they repeated it like three times.

So I hoped that with everything we’ve learned Phoenix would go on a journey to be his own master and learn more about himself and in turn, help Haruto and co. against Fueki.

But nope, he just likes to destroy things and gets killed by Haruto anyways. Sigh. Such a waste. Which perfectly sums up the entire show for me: A huge waste.

I guess he did his job well cause I actually tried eating rice with mayo once.
And you know what?
Not that bad if you mix tuna and bacon morsels as well as some chopped onions.
Not kidding.
It goes well with eggs that one and only time I tried.

If they want to make the Worm a real threat. They should've had a leader. Like a queen!

The Hoppers would've been Worm-made instead of Kageyama & Yaguruma being all "gothy" for being useless. The Worm queen would make them servants to her cause as revenge on ZECT and humanity.

As for Kabuto, I want Kagami to take his place at the end. And if something happens to Kageyama, Yaguruma will avenge him and become Gatack.

Renge would be a useful rider as KR Tento.

The Native would've been allies instead of an enemy. Mishima would've allied himself with the Worm in secret.

Kai was the worst. It could've been someone who'd be more menacing and wants to rewrite time.

It could've been Ryotaro having a dark counterpart instead.

In fact.... REWRITE EVERYTHING!!!!!

Kirihiko should've lived and gained a Lost Driver to become KR Nasca.

If Haruto would be an interesting character, he would've been a traveling magician with Koyomi as his "lovely assistant".

The Phantoms would've been mythical creatures forgotten in time and no longer exist. Maybe demons.

Well, 3 Phantoms were ALREADY named after demons...

Good point. Beelzebub for example.

But how would you all make the Phantoms & Imagins a menacing threat?

We got Ryuki's Mirror Monsters & Blade's Undead.

Faiz's Orphenoch disappoint me due to the king still alive.

Kabuto's Worm don't have a leader and saddening the Native to be the enemy at the end. Like the king, they could've added a queen.

Another question... how would you rewrite Kiva entirely? Wataru was the worst hero who can't stand up to a fight and has to rely on Kivat. And this whole timeline thing is so confusing. Including Den-O, Ryotaro can't fight for himself relying on his "Imagins".

Well, the Phantoms and Imagin are menacing threats. They just weren't utilized properly, which were the problem.

Well if they were, how would you fix them? Including the Fangires? The "Checkmate Four" could've been "Checkmate Five" instead if they added a "Knight" in the fold.

And how would you rewrite Den-O & Kiva entirely?