[KyoryuGreen]

Just finished Episode 4 of Faiz, man I have fell in love with this show and I love Takumi and the Motorcycle that's just awesome and it keeps throwing me for a loop. By Episode 4 I've loved every Kamen Rider I've watched.

[KyoryuGreen]

I have a question, how many of the Showa Era show have been fully subbed?

[ZeoRangerV]

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Originally Posted by KyoryuGreen

I have a question, how many of the Showa Era show have been fully subbed?

Unless you count the poor HK subs of X (and there are probably some of other shows out there too), I think it's just Amazon and Black. Stronger is pretty close to being completed though.

Oh, and V3 is completely subbed. But that's an official DVD release.

[Locke]

The con-artist story has been my Wizard low point so far, it has been the only part of the show which neither furthered the central characters or pencilled in any of their backstories, so it's the first true filler story minus of course being another chapter in Haruto's battle against the Phantoms.

Plus, although there is some great staging and direction, it also featured some of the worst action in the series so far because the CGI rendering was both horrible and gratuitous.

You really couldn't get prop glass? Or a smoke machine? Or just make some props from some lighter material? You really had to do it all with CGI? It looks rubbish, man.

[KyoryuGreen]

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

Unless you count the poor HK subs of X (and there are probably some of other shows out there too), I think it's just Amazon and Black. Stronger is pretty close to being completed though.

Oh, and V3 is completely subbed. But that's an official DVD release.

Ah okay, I was wondering which ones were. I liked Kamen Rider and Black so far. So I don't mind the older stuff.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

Unless you count the poor HK subs of X (and there are probably some of other shows out there too), I think it's just Amazon and Black. Stronger is pretty close to being completed though.

Oh, and V3 is completely subbed. But that's an official DVD release.

Super-1 and Black RX have full HKs, too. There's also th ZX, Shin, ZO, and J movies that have been fansubbed, too.

[SPLIT LIP]

I just love how heroic and cool Black is. He doesn't just fight monsters, he saves people. That's one of the reasons W is my favourite series, because he actually saved and helped people instead of just being there to fight the monsters, and Black's quickly moving into second. Granted fighting monsters is saving people indirectly, but I'm talking about swooping in and saving someone from falling rumbble, or saving someone held hostage, or freeing captured people. As much as I love the show, I don't recal Den-O doing any daring heroics. Agito never saved anyone. In fact, at least one person had to die before he even knew the monster existed, but he didn't seem to care.

[ryan]

I want to chime in on the discussion of the Henshins for a moment. I'm watching Fourze a second time thru with my wife, and while love the show, and I love the henshin music, sometimes the switch swapping is really clunky. I'm waiting to finish Decade or Faiz before I resume Wizard, but his ring swapping didn't seem quite as clunky as Fourze's switches, but close. OOO switching Medals was also sorta clunky.
I would like to see the next Rider have a more smooth, streamlined gimmick, that doesn't break the flow of fights as much.

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Originally Posted by KyoryuGreen

Just finished Episode 4 of Faiz, man I have fell in love with this show and I love Takumi and the Motorcycle that's just awesome and it keeps throwing me for a loop. By Episode 4 I've loved every Kamen Rider I've watched.

I think Episode 4 was where I finally started to like Takumi. I don't remember which one I watched last, 10 or so? But Faiz is pretty darn good. Of all the Rider shows I've seen so far, I'm least attached to the characters in Faiz, but I really like the Faiz Gear, and the story is pretty engaging. I just wish I liked Mari and Keitaro more, so far I don't really like Mari at all.

I really like Yuji and Yuka, I'm curious to see where they go. And I think I like Kaido, I like that in contrast to Yuki and Yuka, he's pretty happy about being a monster now.


Last couple of days I watched 4 or 5 more episodes of Kuuga. I still find some of the moments that are supposed to be emotional to actually be a little dragging. I really like how they're teasing and foreshadowing the Golden Power upgrades though, particularly in the last frames of the episode, the ones with the solid color backgrounds.

like this one

I like the mystery surrounding the Gurongi, and that it's slowly being revealed as they speak Japanese more and more, and the last episode the Gurongi even told the cops it was all a game.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by ryan

I want to chime in on the discussion of the Henshins for a moment. I'm watching Fourze a second time thru with my wife, and while love the show, and I love the henshin music, sometimes the switch swapping is really clunky. I'm waiting to finish Decade or Faiz before I resume Wizard, but his ring swapping didn't seem quite as clunky as Fourze's switches, but close. OOO switching Medals was also sorta clunky.
I would like to see the next Rider have a more smooth, streamlined gimmick, that doesn't break the flow of fights as much.

To be fair I don't have a whole lot to compare it too. I've only seen W and Dragon Knight as well as Wizard.

Dragon Knight and W both had great gimmicks and their henshins and powers flowed really nicely, honestly Wizard's gimmick and henshin wouldn't be nearly as bad if they sped up the animations.

Not only is he constantly swapping rings, swiping and flipping his belt, they also add that magic ring animation which really slowly crawls over his body meaning both the general movement and the time it all takes are quadrupled unnecessarily.

[SPLIT LIP]

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Originally Posted by ryan

I want to chime in on the discussion of the Henshins for a moment. I'm watching Fourze a second time thru with my wife, and while love the show, and I love the henshin music, sometimes the switch swapping is really clunky. I'm waiting to finish Decade or Faiz before I resume Wizard, but his ring swapping didn't seem quite as clunky as Fourze's switches, but close. OOO switching Medals was also sorta clunky.
I would like to see the next Rider have a more smooth, streamlined gimmick, that doesn't break the flow of fights as much.

Yeah, his switches were clunky. BUT I did kinda like how it made it more like he was dealing with sensitive, intricate technology. But thematically yeah, outside the henshin the Fourze driver is not my favourite. (though I like that it looks like a control panel... facing the wrong way, but still)

OOO was less clunky as they eventually stopped showing him putting in all three medals, and he usually kept moving later on when switching. I do think it boils down to just one too many things to do. W had two memories, and could swap them with one arm and replace/activate them almost in one quick move. It rarely looked slow or awkward because it was simple and easy. OOO I feel could've been streamliend if he didn't have the scanner. For dramatic henshins the scanenr looks aweosme, but in battle, well iot just goes to show how awkward it was when he never even puts it back on the belt, it just reappears there.

Wizard, man, there's no excuse for him. His is not intricate technology, or has three medals and a scanner to fumble, he just manages to botch what should be the simplest motion ever... and it's still over-complicated by the rings and stuff. Plus the fact that his driver doesn't change when he transforms always put me off. Not that they all have to I guess, but I really like drivers that have on/off positions, since it reinforces that something has happened, and that the driver has something to do with the transformation instead of just being a belt. Retro rider belts just don't do it for me, but hey, they're old. Least Wizard could do is have it change colour like Den-O.