[Battlizer]

Kamen Rider Black 4, 5, and 6

All Showa Rider shows are episodic like this, I assume? Either way, I liked these. I honestly wasn't too impressed with the Gorgom at first, but I kind of grew to like ow unambiguously cartoony supervillainish they are compared to the Heisei ones? I'm not sure if I'd want them to go back to this, but it's pretty fun here.

Their plot's remind me of old school Power Rangers vllain plots, but instead of constantly sending villaisn to screw with the hero's life, thewy cook up schemes that would seriously fuck up the world. Ridculous schemes, but f they ever succeeded....

I mean, in these episodes they had: We must find out this hero's weakness! Quick, let us experiment on other male humans to find out his weakpoints. And these experiments....will somehow turn our test subject into a wolfman?!

Then there's a world peace conference! Quick, let's turn the village the conference is being held in into an evil cult that will attack those attending the conference, thus ruining world peace forever!!!

And lastly, the business world runs on competition, so let's kidnap the greatest artists we can find and train them to use esp so they can psychically copy down the blueprints of the world's most famous technology companies and then get hired by said companies so that they can sell the rival companies secrets to them, destroying all sense of comeptition between the two. And we'll do it again and again! Until humanity's economy comes crashing down! Anyone who finds out our secret will have their memory erased by our top scientists!

And as for Kotaro, he's pretty awesome. I like how in episode 4, he was injected with that fear toxin by the flea monster, but resisted it because he remembered how the Gorgom killed his father and overcame it through sheer willpower!

Also I like how he has nothing to sense the Gorgom with, so he he has to figure out on his own when they're involved (not that that's difficult honestly) and manages to save people by taking action.

So yeah, I'm liking. The episodic nature isn't' really bothering me like I thought it would. Though I know there'll be a plot somewhere down the line, since I know Shadow Moon's gonna show up at some point.