[Battlizer]

Kamen Rider Black 13-15

Okay time for more zany Gorgom plots.

In 13...: We're going to send the Crab Mutant out to kidnap the mothers of newborn children and mind control them to raise our crab mutant eggs which will be the front lines in our army to take over the world!!!

Okay, so...wouldn't it make more sense to capture experienced mothers instead of new ones, Gorgom? I mean the mother of the child of the week was on her second kid, but the general plan seemed to involve specifically finding new mothers.

Also the Gorgom sure are overconfident in their mutants ability to kill Kotaro, despite that NEVER working out for them.

I really like the scene in Kotaro's secret base/garage where he works with a microscope to find out the crab mutant's weakness. Very classic superhero-y.

I'm unclear if the mothers were mind controlled or not, because as soon as the important one saw her son, she snapped out of it and the others seemed too as well.

Oh and the scene of Kotaro saving a random puppy was pretty awesome.

In 14...:

Ha, we've failed countless times t defeat Kamen Rider Black, but I'm sure our strongest mutant, Mammoth Mutant will defeat him with his freezing breath! Oh...he was defeated within five minutes by Kamen Rider Black. Well...we'll just have to inject it with Taurin extract from Tuna, but we'll have to steal tuna from the local fisheries to do so!

I like how the Gorgom scientist always goes to this villainous "horned" hairstyle whenever he is doing some mad scientist thing. There's really no need for it!

Kotaro must be pretty smart in the science department, seeing as he found out the Crab Mutant's weakness last time and this episode, he immediately figures out what the Gorgom are trying to do to power up their mutants.

I was NOT expecting Kotaro's sisters to sing a rendition of the ending song. And I know, only one of them's his stepsister and the other is Nobuhiko's girlfriend, but they're basically both his sisters. I'm glad they haven't forgotten that Nobuhiko's missing for another ten episodes though.

And 15..

Okay this plot is actually the most disturbing one the Gorgom has come up with yet: Children can be incredibly cruel to insects and animals, so let's teach them to pass on that cruelty to other human beings with the GORGOM MUTANT CURRICULUM. We will spread this form school to school with the help of our Turtle Mutant, therefore making the future of humanity the perfect soldiers for Gorgom! Mwahaha!

But yeah, that's actually pretty messed up. They teach kids to bully others by making kids who don't obey their rules to walk on a balance beam, carrying buckets filled with water over what appears to be ACID while the kids who are mind controlled toss soccer balls at them. WHAT.

Also, I was incredibly confused when Kotaro saw the image of the kid in the soccer ball. At first I thought he was somehow trapped IN the soccer ball, which still would not be the most bizarre thing to happen in this show.

Turtle Mutant, like most of the mutants, has an awesome design. He's a pretty creepy one though. The Gorgom implied they have more though. In fact they had three Bat Mutants. I guess that's so they can have past mutants return in a later episode? Not that it'll matter since Kotaro will probably still Rider Kick them into oblivion, haha