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KAMEN RIDER BLADE: NEW GENERATION SPECIALS

This time on Kamen Rider Blade: A new generation debuts! Can the most ignored members of society be the ones to save it?! Not here, because this is only four minutes long!



That was a blast. Not a lot to dig into, but a really funny set of minisodes.

Waiter and Office Worker are two incredibly fun protagonists, with an inability to put up with the humiliation of the working world that... look, I don't want to say these feelings are universal, but if you can't see anything in their stories that looks familiar, I envy you. I've certainly never assaulted anyone (and I'd never condone it), but the casual disregard people can have for folks in service, administrative, and retail roles, it's enough to give some pretty vivid revenge fantasies. Watching these two beat up dick bosses and asshole customers? Super cathartic, and probably the most I've ever instantly rooted for a character in the Kamen Rider franchise.

The chase sequence continues the hilarity, with Office Worker shoving Waiter into combat so she can run away, while chastising him for only wanting to save himself. Just some great comedic chemistry between the two of them.

The end sequence, with Mister Helpful, it's a solid conclusion to a super short series. They just Nope right out of his heroic call-to-arms, and don't even hear his certainty that they'll be the heroes he's expecting. A speech, by the way, that he gives while Kenzaki is loading a garbage truck in the background. Some neat swerves to this trifle.

I don't have any idea how successful this thing was at getting kids to want to go see a new Kamen Rider movie. The new Rider(s?) don't even do anything, the Undead fight happens offscreen, and it's almost entirely comedic. Is this what kids were looking for in the run-up to a new film? People working shit jobs and hating it? Two weirdos who'd really rather not be superheroes?

I mean, it's exactly what I want, but I don't know if the Kamen Rider franchise is best served catering to me?



Next time on Kamen Rider Blade: A movie! I hope!