[SPLIT LIP]

Joker is second only to Skull as my favourite Rider design. There's so much intentional and unintentional symbolism and reference. Shotaro's actor LOVES Kamen Rider black, and Joker actually resembled him quite a bit. Also, it reminds of Skull, as it should.

Trigger... the Trigger dopant doesn't make sense to me. Of all the ideas, and how well Cyclone, Heat, and Metal turned out, Trigger feels like the early days in a bad way. The head is huge, the body is over-done and aside form the gun arm and crosshairs on the face, exactly what the hell does it have to do with guns? You'd think, looking at the above mentioned, he'd look like a special forces guy. Clad in blue, guns everywhere, tactical. Like the guy who becomes him.

Luna isn't as good, but I still liked it. It was really weird, creative, and simplistic alongside the more detailed ones. Plus, how do you visualise "illusions?"

ANYWHO I actually came here to talk about a W movie myself. I finally watched Kamen Rider Accel Returns.

It was GOOD. Damn good. Really showed the strength of Ryu. Without going nuts into detail, my only problem was that it didn't flatter Akiko. It made her... uncharacteristically harsh. I get she's emotional due to circumstance, but they didn't play it that way enough. But you know what? Any other leading would've just sad-faced and stood by asking why. Akiko didn't sit by, she went out and looked for answers. For as annoying as she can be, she is not an idle prop. (I'm looking at you Hina, or should I say Miss "I'm super strong for no reason but never, ever accomplish anything or help or do stuff so why the fuck do I even have this irrelevant ability?") But back to Ryu, dude is driven. He spends a lot of the movie forcefully untransformed, and that kinda sucks, but it's filled with so much good character bits I rarely felt like I missed it. Plus, when he did Transform again, it was satisfying. And Booster was cool. Not better than Trial, but felt kind of like a differnet path. Trial upgraded speed, while Booster upgrades power. Neither renders the other irrelevant. And base Accel got a lot of use, so all in all pretty swell.

So yeah, positive. Accel rocks.


However, I am still pissed that Eternal. AKA "backroom prop raid and hasty paintjob", got a full, awful movie and not Skull. Arrrrggghhhh...