[Kamen Rider Die]

TTFC DIRECT THEATER: KAMEN RIDER SABER ACT 2 - “SAVE EVERYONE, SABER & BLADES!”



Cute! Fun! That’s… basically it?

I don’t even remember what I wrote about the last one of these, and it’s too late at night for me to investigate. (AEW Revolution was a very long PPV.) Arisa is a fun addition to the formula, but we’re still in a very stunt-heavy Kamen Rider Saber stage-show-by-any-other-name, so the story is simple, if still charming in its simplicity. There’s really nothing here other than the lightness of the material, which – in all honesty – totally a highlight. The threat is goofy, the victory is assured, and the effort involved is minimal. It’s 15 minutes of thrills, the end.

I liked it, though, for what it was. Nothing that made me work too hard to dig out subtext, ‘cause there really isn’t any. Saber and Blades save the girl, and Blades has to fend off a new admirer. Good enough for a late night Saber escapade!

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ON THE BUBBLE



“...okay, there we were, frozen in little bubbles, while an ant monster threatened our lives.”

“Uh huh.”

“But then a superhero named Kamen Rider Blades showed up to save us!”

“Uh huh.”

“But he didn’t.”

“Uh huh.”

“But then Kamen Rider Saber showed up to save us!”

“Uh huh.”

“Except he had to fight Blades to save some lady who’d been turned into an ant monster.”

“Uh huh.”

“But then he beat Blades, saved the lady, and freed all of us from our bubble prisons!”

“...So what you’re telling me is that you STILL didn’t order the pizza.”