[TheRaizin]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

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We aren?t hiding from reality, or victims of a toy company. We?re people who discovered something that spoke to us ? stories of hope and sadness and empathy and loss and humor and fear

There were lots of times I watched a superhero movie where it criticized the very genre it was in or making a reference to something by mocking it, showing how 'mature' and different they were. Before that, I watched Power Rangers and Space Sheriff, so it was pretty polarizing for me when I grew a little older and see these movies, books, or other media that were ingenuine in how they approached things. Or how little color there was in the outfits of heroes.

Kamen Rider was exactly what I needed. Something that was genuine in its stories of heroism. Not the heroes saying their catchphrase and going "Wait, that's not right.", just the heroes being, well, the fiction larger-than-life heroes that they are.

I don't watch much of any other tokusatsu, I've seen a few of Garo, a few of Sentai, a few non-JP ones like Armor Hero, I recently dipped my toes in Ultraman but took a break off of it, but I love this genre. It's this place where things are exactly as I grew up with, colorful heroes that speak about justice, heroism, and righteousness. Barring a few changes that I would like to see, I wouldn't want it any other way.