Any truly important Kamen Rider information I need to know?
 

So last year at my local anime convention I did a panel called The History of Super Sentai. It entailed talking about the history of the franchise, along with discussing a variety of items that influenced it and what it influenced (Power Rangers, Golion/Voltron, 5 colored Daleks, etc). It was a huge success and of course, I am doing it again.

However, I decided last night to submit a History of Kamen Rider panel as I am currently on a Kamen Rider kick, and I got a bug up my ass about doing one. Is there any important information I should know about Kamen Rider that is not well known out there? I know the original idea was based off Skull Man, but is there anything else important to its history?

I plan on showing clips from the original series, the first fight between Black and Shadow Moon, the opening scene to Decade with all of the modern Riders, and then the scene from the All Riders vs Daishocker movie of the riders just walking together in a straight line. I also plan to end the panel (and the Sentai panel) with a "movie trailer" of a Kamen Rider vs Sentai 2013 panel. :-p

Clip wise, I don't want to have more than 20-25 minutes of footage, but I think there is more I can add to what I mentioned above, as I think that is like 15 minutes in total.

You should probably at least mention and briefly talk about the manga by Shotaro Ishinomori. The later mangas are less important because they weren't done by Ishinomori, really.

I would also at least talk briefly about Kamen Rider 1 and Kamen Rider 2 and the rationale behind that, and then the popularity of the show with both of them. Also, the Showa era movies!

That's a good idea. Do you have a site I can go to to read up on teh manga? I know nothing of it outside of that there was one.

You are referring to Kamen Rider 1 being injured on set, which is what created 2 right? Not sure about the popularity with them though.

The Skullman did have an anime OVA in 2001 you could talk about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otp7mXyj2ew

Should be importrant to mention that this series was what inspired Ishinomori to create Kamen Rider in the first place

I already plan on that, but I just got rid of the DVD of the anime of Skull Man due to how awful it was. Ironic that 3 days later I decided to do a KR panel.

I have a CBR of the first few issues of the manga. I will see if I can find out where I found it.

And yeah, the injury of Hiroshi Fujioka caused the hasty creation of Kamen Rider 2, but the show actually ran for almost half of its entire run with both of them. I have heard it said that the idea that kids liked having more than one Kamen Rider is what lead to the direction of the series, with V3 being introduced not as a solo hero but as the third Kamen Rider, and so forth. Also, the regular teaming up of the Riders, which obviously continues to this day, goes back to this concept.

Another element is that Kamen Rider basically took the 1990s off, save for the movies. It was the re-emergence of Ultraman with Tiga, (and Dyna) which served as a sort of "kick start" (pun intended) to get Kamen Rider back with Kuuga. A point might be made about the thematic and historical connections between the two series -- even though they are from different studios.

I don't know if you want to touch on it, but you could talk about the two US adaptions of Kamen Rider shows.

I'm sure you can find clips of the series, if not the full thing on youtube. Worst comes to worst, you can always just DL the videos and show it from a computer or something.

Best Advice: Watch the Fox Kids Masked Rider series. Then Bleach your mind and forget it existed, suffer. Suffer like the rest of us.

I always found how the riders, especially modern ones (I assume most of the old ones follow this too?), get their abilities from the enemy. So OOO use medals that make up his enemies, W the enemies created Gaia memories, kiva has kivat which obviously originally belonged to king (well kivat's dad) etc, etc...

It's just a nice nod to the original how, rider 1 was supposed to be a warrior for shocker =]

That and the gems on the helmet... Were they ever used for anything back in the day?

Yep, I'm already going to mention the US adaptations. In fact, one of my friends is going to rip the opening song from Masked Rider off Youtube for me.

Yeah, that was a common theme. Look at Black. Kotaro was supposed to be an agent for Gorgom, but escaped. In fact, I think every Showa rider was a cyborg.

Everyone except Amazon, he got his powers mystically. Maybe also add in the homages the Heisei riders had? (I.e. Kamen Rider Joker an homage to Black, Kamen Rider Aqua from Megamax being a water based homage to 1 & 2, Fourze's space theme after Super1, etc)

Haven't watched Fourze or OOOs yet, but how is Joker a homage to Black? Other than color.

I'm sorry to go off on a massive tangent here, but no. Super Sentai did not influence coloured daleks whatsoever. Any comparisons drawn is simply from fans.

Well, Joker did poses similar to Kamen Rider Black, and his civilian name Shotaro Hidari is similar to Kotaro Minami. Shotaro's actor, Renn Kiriyamma, even said he was a fan of Black, so you can mention that

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...ybw2iLYUdI8Lbp

Show the clip from Let's Go Kamen Rider that had all the Riders show up, or at least V3 to ZX.

It's a joke dude, a joke. It gave me a reason to show that Power Rangers Zeo Dalek video someone made on Youtube.

Then I apologise. Having spent too much time legitimately arguing that with people its a topic that irritates me quite quickly :)

I'd definitely talk about Tachibana Tobei, the one consistent cast member from the original series through Stronger. The Great Leader probably deserves some mention, too. Maybe something about Riderman's influence on secondary Riders to come or some discussion of Tackle.

Basically, don't just skip most of the Showa era and focus solely on the Heisei.

I'm not going to just skip the Showa era, but I only have 55 minutes and there is a lot to cover. That is why I am mostly using clips from Decade that at least show you every Rider, but I'm also going to show the original scene when Shocker turns Takeshi into a cyborg, and then a clip of his battle with the Spider Man. I've got a clip of the battle with Shadow Moon from episode 47, the church battle with the bat monster from Kuuga, the opening to Decade, the scene of all of the riders from the Decade movie walking across the battleground, I'll probably show something from W just to mention the new universe and Foundation X. Any additional footage will depend on if I have time or now, but I am going to make a mention about how the newer rider series' costumes resemble that of a Metal Fighter series as opposed to the showa costumes. I wished there was some type of high quality roll call video though that shows every Rider to date calling out their name like someone did with every Sentai through Gobuster using the Gokaiger ending theme for the music.

There's a crowd chanting/calling out the names to each Rider (Well, V3 to ZX, before swapping to a random announcer for the Heisei Riders) in Let's Go Kamen Riders...

What is Let's Go Kamen Riders?

The 40th anniversary movie between OOO, Den-O, and the other riders.

Oh, is that even out fansubbed yet?

Yep, both Overtime and TV-Nihon have it.

ALl right, the con is almost here (see the Figuarts thread for me panels ad) and I thought I would ask if anyone happens to have any manga scan of the original Kamen Rider? I would just love to put a quick still in my panel. Also, is Kamen Rider Skull meant to be a homage to Skullman?

Yeah, pretty much

weres this gonna be

No matter what anyone says: Decade is a great Kamen Rider.

i agree but al little random

As long as it's immediately followed with "But his series is not."

Now, I never mentioned his show. It had it's problems. But Decade is still a great Rider.

Who at times acts too arrogant and like a total dick :lol

...no wait, that's Kabuto :lolol

Thats what makes him awesome

so hes realistic? ok lets all be honest we would all be that hero goin like "ya i saved u all u owe me i am awesome!" thats just wat would happen

Nah, I'd help people for the sake of helping people

really? :eyebrow u wouldnt think any better of yourself?
i didnt mean we wouldnt help for the sake of helping, im just sayin itll go to all of our heads too

Yeah, I'd wanna be a hero to help and protect the people I love and everybody else in my city.

You do that. I'm in this for the chicks.

im with sentai

I'd, effectively, probably become a supervillain.
Whoo!