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Kamen Rider Die rewatches Legend Rider projects (and more!)
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12-05-2021, 01:14 AM
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catwhowalks
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Kamen Rider Die
The problem for me is that I've seen
too many
of these stories in Kamen Rider. Dozens of Kamen Rider stories (and most Ghost movies) circle around... I was going to say "forgiving your dad for not being there for you when you needed him", but these stories aren't even about
forgiveness
. They're about realizing it's selfish to expect your parents to put you ahead of their career, and I don't love it. I get that it's a common story to tell (I think I referred to it as a "trope"), but it's one I can't ever get into.
The thing that's always so weird to me is how much these shows can tell stories about absentee parents who Had Good Reasons for not being around, while simultaneously telling stories about found families that're there for each no matter what... and never seem to acknowledge the disconnect of those two stories.
Anyway, yeah, tokusatsu shows love to teach children that it's part of growing up to get let down by your parents, and it's childish to hold it against them. I don't have to like it, though.
Fair enough. For whatever reason, all the examples that pop immediately into my head are all from Sentai or Ultraman for whatever reason.
There's definitely a bit of a culture bias blinding them to the disconnect. And it's not entirely as contradictory as you think. If never see your own family, found family is all you have. What we see here is the writers inadvertantly telling us about how they grew up and what they see as normal. Found family is more reliable than real family, because one is with you no matter what, and the other is obligated by cultural norms to abandon you the second a job opportunity shows up.
I should add, that I want to make it very clear, that I am not intending to say that Japanese culture is bad and my own is good. I am very much aware of some really negative point of US culture, and of other cultures as well. No culture or person or group is perfect and there are some hug negative in pretty much all of them. This just happens to be one in Japan. Doesn't make them better or worse than us. Just different. I mean, they never burned people alive for being to kind to cats at least.
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