[Kamen Rider Die]

KAMEN RIDER REVICE – SPECIAL EVENT



Man, did Revice somehow manage to put on the perfect Kamen Rider stage show?

I know we still have a Final Stage to cover at the end of the series, and those are usually a bit more canonical in their storytelling and menacing in their villains, but this. This is the exact level I want stage shows to work on. Shocker’s mad about their 50th anniversary being overlooked as Japan celebrates fifty years of Kamen Riders, so they trick the Igarashis into first playing a Kamen Rider trivia game, and then resurrecting Red Shadow Moon, with brawls sandwiched between them. That’s it! That’s all I need!

It works great, from the initial jokes about the anachronistic use of stamps, to the running gag of Shocker’s incredibly detailed (and largely unread) contract. The whole thing is just goofy fun, but actual good gags – the Red Light, Green Light game alone would carry a stage show for me, and it’s just one of a series of clever concepts. (The body switching! George coaching the audience through Henshin poses and absolutely nothing else! The Amazon/Amazons gag! A Shocker grunt and Vice trying to do a Remix pose!) I laughed harder at this stage show than most other stage shows combined.

And that’s all I’m looking for, y’know? Something slightly self-referential in its humor, and with a core premise that doesn’t get too convoluted or too metaphorical. Shocker wants some attention; perfect premise for a stage show.

Man, this thing killed for me. Not sure the energy of it would translate for other series (this premise with the Geats cast would probably have me throwing my computer into the street), but I very much enjoyed the Igarashis accidentally signing a cursed Shocker contract that only Lovekov’s cheerleading can save them from. Hooray!