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Skyrider episode 15



I just love this. He looks so defeated and worn out when he says this. He looks like he'd finish that thought with "...that would've been nice to know earlier. Well, I'm out..."

Ok episode, anyway.

I posted a long thing about episode 14 and my thoughts about Skyrider so far on RB, but I don't really feel like going into it because it's late and I'm tired. But it's ok. A little bland, definitely feels like the original Kamen Rider but that's not really a compliment. I hope it gets more distinctive with time.

Hiroshi's actor just isn't good at emoting.

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Skyrider episode 15



I just love this. He looks so defeated and worn out when he says this. He looks like he'd finish that thought with "...that would've been nice to know earlier. Well, I'm out..."

Ok episode, anyway.

I posted a long thing about episode 14 and my thoughts about Skyrider so far on RB, but I don't really feel like going into it because it's late and I'm tired. But it's ok. A little bland, definitely feels like the original Kamen Rider but that's not really a compliment. I hope it gets more distinctive with time.

Hiroshi's actor just isn't good at emoting.

I feel like Skyrider is at its best when it has returning actors from the earlier shows. Mostly because Hiroshi is incredibly bland and forgettable, even moreso in comparison to guys like Keisuke and Shigeru.

[Kiwami]

I’m up to episode 15 of Black now, watched 14 yesterday. I had some episodes where I wanted to write the "WTF"-type of comment; I was initially inspired by the episode of the cursed village with the Satan-monster which rubs its horns until purple goo shoots out, but then I realized that the rest of the episode was kinda good. Not much fighting, but the village scenes were well done and this time Golgom actually had a serious goal.

Then there was the episode with the Eagle Mutant. Golgom kidnaps artists to train them as psychics, and then lets them infiltrate big tech companies in order to… compete against each other? Because… reasons? Oh well, not that strange, they wanted to destroy these companies so that humanity goes bankrupt or something I guess.

Then there was Episode 13. Crab Mutant abducts human moms so they raise his eggs. I thought this episode would be a lot darker then it turned out, but instead they have the women stand around the eggs and just… watch them? Sing a lullaby? Huh? I guess Crab Mutant wanted to take precautions.

But then there’s episode 14. The episode where they make mutant steroids out of tuna. That’s the greatest thing ever. They introduce Mammoth Mutant, the strongest of mutants (somehow I don’t believe that),he gets his ass kicked by Black (that’s why) and then the crazy professor tells Golgom that he knows a way to make their monsters stronger, by using the fruit they eat and… tuna. So they send the Mammoth Mutant to steal all the tuna. Like, all of it. That's a lot of fish. Wait… no. No! Curse you Roland Emmerich!

Anyways, a local Sushi chef is displeased and goes after the Mutant, with mixed results. Black then looks for the mutant, we get a musical number (Why?), Black finds the monster, the now stronger Mammoth Mutant shoots icicles out of his trunk (Oh yeah I forgot, the Mammoth has ice powers because of course it does) and traps Black with this power. Instead of impaling him with it. Guess it’s hard to aim with that thing. But Black easily breaks free with a new power: He explodes. Oh wait, not quite, the yellow stripes on his head, arms and legs explode. I believe the power is intended to send out a shockwave or heat so that the ice shatters/melts, but this is Tokusatsu, so he explodes.

I love this show. I think by now I have fully grasped the zany-ness. It’s campy, but not silly, even though it sounds like it is. There’s still serous themes behind most of the silliness, the Mutant-suits still look incredibly good and almost scary at times, the effects look great, considering the time they were made. Simple but effective.

And while the show has no real plot besides stopping Golgom and getting Nobuhiko back, I do like that they feature recurring characters besides Kotaro, his family and Golgom. The people introduced in the first episode like the crazy professor, that one lawyer dude or the chairman still make appearances as enemies, giving you a feel of an established world expanding behind the MOTW-plots.

It’s not my typical kind of Rider-show I look for, as I rather want a real story being told and characters developing, but it’s damn fun to watch. It might take a while until I finish it since I watch an episode like every two days, but I want to see this through to the end, especially since there are 2 key enemy characters coming up later I’m very interested to see.

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Then there was the episode with the Eagle Mutant. Golgom kidnaps artists to train them as psychics, and then lets them infiltrate big tech companies in order to… compete against each other? Because… reasons? Oh well, not that strange, they wanted to destroy these companies so that humanity goes bankrupt or something I guess.

I still have no idea what the plan was there. It's probably the most nonsensical villain plot I've seen in a Kamen Rider series and I've seen the episode of V3 where the entire plan was just to turn people into exploding flying squirrels.

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Skyrider episode 16.

As if General Monster wasn't lame enough, he had to go and reveal his kaijin form. The suits in this series are just so awful. I'd say they're worse than Stronger's, which is a real accomplishment.

Least he's out next episode. Took long enough.

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Skyrider episode 17.

I hadn't even noticed, but the third girl totally just vanished didn't she. Goodbye Michi. And for the other two + kid it's...ten months recovery for their injuries. Is this their way of writing them out of the show? I skimmed 18 and there's new girls, so I'm guessing yes. All traces of the gliding club are gone now...

Well, it's more than the original Rider series did when its girls vanished. And when Michi did in this...

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Skyrider episode 17.

I hadn't even noticed, but the third girl totally just vanished didn't she. Goodbye Michi. And for the other two + kid it's...ten months recovery for their injuries. Is this their way of writing them out of the show? I skimmed 18 and there's new girls, so I'm guessing yes. All traces of the gliding club are gone now...

Well, it's more than the original Rider series did when its girls vanished. And when Michi did in this...

Yeah, this is Skyrider cycling out its girls. I think one of them comes back, but I neither remember nor really care.

[SengalBoy]

TV-Nihon's Kamen Rider Ghost episode 23 April Fools edition. God that was GOLD

[GoldenXtreme]

After watching a little bit of Agito, I just have to say something. The camera work is REALLY bad. The use of filters and strange camera angles keeps breaking my suspension of disbelief (and hurting my eyes). Besides that it's been pretty good so far though.

[GreenPsychoRanger]

Did y'all know that Faiz had 3 suits that were never used in the show, movie, or stage shows?