Faiz Episode 19
Obvious green screen is obvious. Seriously Faiz is so bold around the edges that it doesn't take a genius to figure out that it's being green screen. I think this may be the worst effect I've seen so far.

Naoya...what the hell? No seriously what the hell man? I have never seen somebody get a facial and have that much food on their face. Though it did lead to that hilarious drawing, which lead to another hilarious reaction by Naoya.

You know I just thought of something, exactly how big is this apartment. It houses three people and it appears to only have one bed. So are there rooms we haven't seen? Or do Yuka and Naoya sleep on the couch and floor?

Also why do we need subtitle when J is talking? He's obviously talking in English here and it's pretty understandable. I know in Japan they'd just usually pop subtitles up in Japanese so that viewers could understand him better, but this is an English sub. Why sub when he's clearly talking in English?

I think he's so sad because he's been wearing those ridiculous outfits.

Where the hell did that explosion come from?

And that's why she's been dirtying up laundry. Seeing it brings back memories of time spent with her mom. That leads to her remembering how her mother doesn't know her anymore, thus making the memory painful. In her sadness she latches out by ruining laundry. Makes quite a lot of since from a psychological standpoint.

Okay I know that the president was doing research on children who nearly died, and that Keiko was one of the children who popped up. But why is he sending an Orphenoch after her? If his goal is to attempt to turn her into one, then this just makes him even more a bad guy and makes him pretty much a jerk. As we've established even if you are part of something that nearly killed you, you can't just instantly become an Orphenoch. You may just turn into dust. This means that to test to see if Keiko and all of the other children in his research will turn into Orphenochs he is going to kill them all. The fucking hell? That's just detestable. And besides why would you want kids as Orphenochs? If the Orphenochs are your soldiers, why would you want kids as soldiers (and yes I'm aware in history children have acted as soldiers but still, different times)?

Well that was a quick fight.

Andddddddd J VS Takumi was short as well. Though I'm not going to lie I loved the finish of the match. The whole rider kick and punch combo was pretty cool, especially in the way it was executed. Definitely the action highlight of the episode.

But poor Chaco. He lost his pal. Oh well, he has a new friend now.

That was a very nice ending for Keiko's story. Chock full of the feelies it is. Not quite sure why Mari would think Takumi is worried though.

Well this was quite the lovely episode, much better then 18.

The story from 18 continued over to here and was much better presented. Whereas in 18 there was barely one and was just one large act of developing Keitaro, this one worked more as a story. Sure it was the second half of Keiko's story to get back her mother, but sometimes the second half can be better, this being an instance. The interactions between her and the others, and the ending with her reuniting finally with her mom were done very well and were pretty touching.

But it appears as if episode 19 is quite the flip from 18. While 19 had the story 18 didn't, 19 lacks any character development, something that episode 18 was pretty much built on. Also 19 had more action then 18 did. It was still fairly short, but it delivered. 18 only had one fight while this one had 3 (Faiz VS Clown and Yuji, Faiz VS Clown, and Faiz VS J). All three fights were handled well, the weakest of the bunch being the fight against the clown before J showed up.

So yeah episode 19 was much better then 18. I find it really funny how it's the utter opposite of what 18 was. 18 lacked any story and action but had great character development, whereas 19 had a story lacked any character development and had good action. Screwy ain't it?

I thought the same too , especially since i watched Agito way before and to me that was the darkest series of Kamen rider.But the last 10 episodes of Faiz and also Paradise Lost made me change my opinion. It's pretty damn dark :lol

To be honest I think Kuuga was actually darker than Agito or Faiz to me. Okay well I mean I can see why Faiz can be considered dark because of some of the deaths but I still think somethings in Kuuga were darker.

Okay the Unknowns/Lords in Agito were pretty damn dark so I could see that too.

Super-1 Episode 2: I watched the first episode a while ago and decided to continue with this series with the HK Subs, since I'm watching Garo too I don't mind watching a Good subbed series with a sub-par one. Still I'm on the KITSubs episodes and they are good. I love the Martial Arts theme in this, I wish they would do something like this in the newer series. Interesting to see the human turn into the monster in this series I thought that was a Heisei thing. Very enjoyable right now and I am in a Showa mood.

I've seen a bit of Super-1 via the KITSubs, but it never really gripped me. I've been thinking of downloading the HK subs and giving it a second chance once I finish with Black RX.

Ah how is Black RX so far? I want to watch it after I finish Black which is after Super-1. I loved Super-1 from the first episode and sad it wasn't finished till I found the HK Subs, so I'm willing to give it a chance, I love the costume and have his figuart so I figure might as well.

I'm enjoying it a lot more than I expected. It still doesn't really mesh well with Black, but Tetsuo Kurata is always awesome and the show has fantastic monster designs and action scenes - I'm looking forward to the imminent arrival of Robo and Bio Riders fairly soon, which should add even more flash to the fight scenes. If you don't keep trying to think of it as a sequel to Black it really is a great show.

Ah okay, well I'll give it a shot soon, where did you get the episodes from?

So it'll be better off watching RX if you HAVEN'T finished Black?

Some guy called Stone is subbing the series. He's up to episode 18 and they're being posted on nyaa.

Not really, just don't go into RX expecting it to be anything like Black aside from the main actor.