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Kamen Rider General Questions
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10-16-2021, 02:19 AM
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FreshToku
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This is getting into general thoughts but on the topic of the Kamen Rider... If it does get used in the series, I like when the show establishes it in a diegetic way.
The best example in my mind is W, when early on in the show's run, the general public gives the hero who has been helping them the name 'Kamen Rider', and so Shotarou and Phillip proudly carry the name as the city's protectors.
More subtle I think would be Build. It doesn't go out of it's way to make it explicit, so this is maybe just be reading into things, but 'Kamen Rider' is, chronologically in the show's history, first used to describe the suits and weapons that would be useful for war, but then Sento resolved to make it so the name became synonymous with a hero who fights for love and peace.
(While it's on my mind, it's amusing/charming how Fourze first introduced the term Kamen Rider because of the legacy of previous show. But since they quickly drifted away from that aspect, the term in Fourze really became just the club's moniker for the hero of their school, which I like and is how I see it whenever they talk about it in the context of Fourze.)
...In the complete opposite end of the spectrum, I dislike 01's instances of having characters talk about what it means to be a 'Kamen Rider' as if it has any inherent meaning within their world. Those instances only make sense to the audience, and they're only called that because that's the franchise they're in.
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