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Originally Posted by Battlizer

Kamen Rider Black 4, 5, and 6

All Showa Rider shows are episodic like this, I assume?

Pretty much. Some of the shows have some ongoing story arcs (there's a great one in Black RX, for example, when we first get RoboRider and BioRider), but it's largely evil plot of the week stuff.

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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!

I love that episode. It's possibly the single dumbest and most nonsensical evil plot in Kamen Rider history. And I've seen the episode of V3 where Destron wanted to turn people into exploding flying squirrels.

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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.

Black's main plot kind of drifts in and out of the show; you'll get an episode where the hunt for Nobuhiko is front and center, then it will disappear again for another 4-5 episodes. It gets more serialized near the end, though, and the last five or six episodes make up a really great little ongoing arc.