Kamen Rider Black RX filler free?
 

Hello Kamen Rider fans,

I'm new here and would like to start watching Kamen Rider Black RX. However, I would like to avoid fillers and just watch the episodes that contribute to the main story.

"TheDreadWolf" created a great abridged or filler free guide for Kamen Rider Black. Can Kamen Rider Black RX fans help?

Thank you all in advance.

It’s an 80s series. There aren’t a lot of episodes that contribute to the main plot until the last few episodes.

I feel like main story might be a bit of a contentious term with the Showa shows, as they really weren't meant to have any overall arcing plot other than kicking monsters from interchangeable organisations into oblivion. Like Androzani84 said, the "main story" you might be looking for is probably only in the last few episodes, but in skipping through the show, whilst you'll cut out a lot of the nonsense that might not have aged well, you'll also miss out on some beautiful character moments.

Not that I'm telling you how to watch these things, or anything, but I do want to fly the flag for these older shows as, well, I'm biased, I love them. :p

I'm sorry swerving the conversation, but I've always wondered why people have such a problem with "filler" in the first place. It's not like people only make "important" episodes, and everything else just happens by accident.

Now, I don't think I get to tell people how to watch a show, but I just don't understand it. Can someone explain why people think "filler" is bad?

I always assumed it was because an entire generation of people came of age on the internet whilst watching the Bleach anime and it damaged them irrevocably. :p

I don't really know. Insert here a ramble about how people have shorter attention spans now, and they're always looking at the phones, and imagine me shaking my walking stick at children playing on the lawn.

I mean, I can see how that makes sense, but if someone with ADHD (that's me) can watch shows with more than a hundred episodes, then there's got to be some other reason.

This is funny cause when thinking of it's origins two things come to mind, the Bleach anime and it's various filler seasons, and then also Naruto's original anime and it's latter half being basically nothing but filler.

But yeah idk why but the term filler leaves a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to Tokusatsu. Especially when like, you only get so many episodes with these characters before moving onto the next series, why wouldn't you want some little detour episodes just having neat and relaxing adventures?

I prefer the term episodic over filler, and I feel like it works really well in some cases. Garo is a franchise where a lot of the episodes end up being episodic and while plot beats do occur in the background, it isn't really the focus until certain points and it isn't a big overarching narrative.

Or in another case, Ultraman, where in older series, the plot is very, very non-existent for the purpose of telling unique and interesting one-shot stories. It's why I prefer a lot of older Ultraman to the newer incarnations because like you're giving me a new world to explore, let's not be all doom and gloom with plot, show me the various little inner workings of this new world. Which I feel like Z handled pretty well with how Celebro and his stuff played a backseat to other things and how he only became relevant when necessary.

Oh dear I'm rambling, but long story short, I hate the term filler being used in Tokusatsu series and prefer it as being called Episodic, and I will vouch for that kind of direction in Toku because I feel it works in its favor.

I mean, regardless of opinions on it - and I agree with a lot of points here - I think it's fair enough to assume the best of someone and respect their reasonings, here. There's nothing wrong with just wanting to watch the cliffnotes version of RX

I might have gone a little overboard. I never meant to imply that there was something wrong with it, and I'm sorry if it sounded like that. I just wanted to understand why people chose to do that, not because I think it's wrong, but because I genuinely don't understand it.

I think I should just leave this alone now. Sorry if I've caused any trouble here.

Black RX is actually a little more serialized than the other shows, at least in the sense that it has a few more two-parters and recurring characters. There are also some multi-episode arcs like the trip to the Demon World that gave us Robo- and Biorider and the final block of episodes.

you WANT to skip the banana episode???

Episodes 1-2 are necessary if you just want to start the show. Episodes 1-4 would probably be recommended if you want to see him get the car which actually references plot points from Black. If you remember the Cogworts from Mighty Morphin' Season 3, then go through Episode 6. The arcs for Robo-Rider and Bio-Rider are Episodes 14-17. Shadow Moon returns around Episode 22 and that arc is dealt with around Episode 27 (though calling it an "arc" is fairly generous). I've never seen Episode 35, but based on what I've heard and read, it's an interesting use of Bio-Rider powers and how one's inner body is altered while their outer self is in a transformed state. The death of the main villains starts around Episode 42 and the reappearance of the 10 Legend Riders of Showa will occur sometime after that, so I'd say do Episodes 42-47 to finish.

Because these shows are so formulaic (especially the older ones) that half the episodes are essentially the same thing and it gets really repetitive.

Huh, that makes sense. I guess I'm just used to different kinds of shows. Thanks for the help. And sorry to the person who asked in the first place for derailing the conversation for so long.

Which is why I think the way Ultraman shows are done these days solves the too many fillers issue. The max episode count being reduced to 25-ish helps reducing fillers and makes a good portion of the episodes feel crucial to plot development.

Just watch the episodes on 1.5X playback speed!

Although sometimes I'm not in the mood for fillers in a way I do actually like the Asian side of things being year-round seeing as in Britain hardly any TV shows are on for most of the year and when Power Rangers was just 32 episodes it was depressing even though RPM was one of those, it just smacked of people involved in TV not caring about what they would see a kids show whereas if it's year round to my mind at the risk of sounding a bit like Alan Partridge you could almost compare it to a British soap or kids shows we used to have that were a bit grittier, like Byker Grove!

And also sometimes the constant narrative of Showa vs. Heisei can be annoying especially considering we're not in Heisei anymore, I mean considering I was born in 92 I do feel well placed to say that most of 2000-2008 was really not like 2009 onwards type stuff and Kamen Rider is not an exception so somehow considering 00s and 10s shows in the same category seems a bit too simplistic.

Thank you all so much for the info!

I will be following TokuKnight89's guide: 1-4, 14-17, 22-27, 42-47

Don't worry about seeming harsh all movies/shows are subjective. I am just revisiting my childhood days looking for the meaty substance and trimming unnecessary fat in these older shows.

I usually watch anime, american, or british tv shows and they have a lot of filler that just boggs down the series a lot. Series like Boruto, The Walking Dead, Dragon Ball Super, etc. have too much filler and almost made me quit the show because once the canon things start any or all references to those arcs are gone.

Just fair warning, but don't expect to see Shadow Moon between 22 and 27. He had very little time in RX and those two will probably be the brunt of his actions... if not the only times he does anything at all! I kinda feel like Shadow Moon was a character the RX writers didn't know what to do with. I'm actually more impressed with Kamen Rider World when they brought him back as a Giant!