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What are you watching? (Kamen Rider Edition)
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Fish Sandwich
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Well, somewhere along the line, I started having so much fun with this that my crazy idea to rewatch all of Kobayashi's Rider shows got even crazier, so now that I'm finished with the shows proper, I'm going to be sweeping up, so to speak, going through whatever other related movies and assorted scraps I also haven't seen in forever. Kougami would no doubt approve of such unbridled desire.
First up are the scrappiest of scraps, the Hyper Battle Video/DVD's for each show, as well as OOO's Net Movies. Don't expect anything too deep out of this one, okay?
Ryuki HBV:
It's kind of hilarious to think that this was the original Heisei crossover in light of Agito later getting the absolute best tribute in Zi-O. Not that you're expected to treat this like a real team-up, though. Still, just like Ryuki proper, this special establishes trends that are still going strong to this day, namely the cheap, pointless reuse of old suits and soundalike actors that don't actually sound alike. You'd have to be super petty to even waste time complaining about it here, though. It's firmly tongue-in-cheek, and unlike many future HBV's, there's actually an emphasis on the
battle
part, with the bulk of it being Ryuki and his surprisingly cooperative fellow Riders teaming up to stop Burning Agito's evil plan... whatever that is. Of course, the "real" Agito shows up to help, and together all the heroes save the day, followed by Shinji waking up. Yeah, unfortunately for Shinji, a plot this clear-cut and uncomplicated could only happen in his dreams. Poor guy.
Den-O HBV:
This one is totally canon to the TV series as far as I'm concerned. Momotaros and the gang were already established to be helping Ryoutarou train anyway, so who's to say they didn't do it with a cheesy exercise video aerobics routine at least one time? Den-O lends itself naturally to doing wacky side stuff like this, and the result is a fun waste of time. A waste of time to
watch
, that is. Given Den-O's massive popularity at the time, I can appreciate that the exercise gimmick is clearly intended to get children moving the same way ending themes in Sentai do. If you're a little Japanese kid in 2007, and Momotaros tells you to work out, you're
going
to listen. Plus, you get to see the single funniest gag Den-O ever did with Deneb's inability to notice other Imagin. What more do you need?
OOO HBV:
This is from the era where HBV's were all about the choose your own adventure style gimmick thanks to the magic of DVD menus. The result in this case consists largely of softball quizzes about animals, which is a rather dull use of the format. I mean,
maybe
that would be engaging for the target audience, but I have to imagine even a lot of the younger crowd would feel patronized being asked to pick out which of three pictures is a grasshopper when the other two options are a praying mantis and a butterfly. The actual fight scenes with the Kangaroo Medal are definitely fun, but it's a minuscule amount of the overall package.
OOO Net Movies:
I miss Net Movies so much. They were this haven of absurdist comedy that also tended to allow Toei to acknowledge a lot of meta stuff the fans care about, while also frequently delivering minor but interesting bits of trivia in a way that's going to draw more people in than a straight up guidebook or something. I'm pretty sure nobody knew Faiz's head was pattered after a shark until the Decade Net Movies told them. The .5 episodes for Zi-O sratched that itch to some extent, but it's just not the same. Anyway, OOO is extra special because he got two sets of Net Movies. One for Let's Go Kamen Riders in the spring, and then another for the summer movie after that.
The Let's Go Net Movies are loaded with great fanservice. The horoscope shtick is fun, the summaries of each Rider's personality are generally surprisingly on point, and the resulting comedy skits thus land because even with the usual bad soundalikes, the characters actually do feel like themselves. Seeing Rider 1 go off on the modern Riders for not being remodeled humans is just amazing, you know? It's neat to see all these Riders come together in a way that ironically gives them more of a spotlight than the actual big team-up movies do, and my boy Raia gets his own skit, too, so how can I be anything other than satisfied? The only caveat these come with is that there's so many of the things watching them in one sitting starts to drag after a while. So maybe take a break somewhere in there.
The ones for the summer movie are probably the slightest bit funnier on average, and the particularly good ones include gags as legendary as GataKiriBa learning the "adult circumstances" behind his lack of screentime. There's also Shuu Watanabe reciting the names of all of OOO's sub-forms (that's over a hundred)
in one take
, with surprisingly few flubs considering he's basically speaking in repetitive gibberish for two minutes straight. You also get to see how close all of OOO's interior sets are to each other in the process, which makes it even cooler.
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Also Fis Sandwich, you gotta pick out which of those three shows have the best theme song. (I kid because I think we can all tell that Climax Jump has an actual death grip on your heart)
Honestly, it's a closer race than you might think. All three of them are really great for different reasons.
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