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10-14-2021, 09:43 PM | #501 |
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KAMEN RIDER DECADE NET-MOVIES: ALL RIDERS SUPER SPIN-OFF
--- I don’t want to be dismissive and say that these specials are my reward for watching Decade, because, man, I like Decade! I think this show is doing some smart things around the edges, and I think the basic premise is incredibly appealing. Decade isn’t hard work that needs to be followed with a reward. These specials are my reward, though. I think they really are. Like, the first one out of the gate is Natsumi being like There Should Be More Women Riders, and then this short film pointing out the hypocrisy of Tackle not being an official Rider when Riderman was. I love it! Yes! A hundred more hours of Team Decade agitating for a more representative franchise! --- Fun little short about Kamen Rider Shin, an unfinished V-Cinema project. I like weirdo Net Movies celebrating the forgotten corners of Kamen Rider, pulling out stuff you can tell the producers really enjoy. Why not a little thing about Natsumi wanting a continuation of Kamen Rider Shin, and Kamen Rider Shin dreaming of relevance? Cute stuff. --- HOLY SHIT I NEVER REALIZED DIEND DIDN’T HAVE A BIKE. Just… I came in with Ex-Aid! It isn’t weird for Riders to not have bikes! But, yeah, even in the opening, Diend is running after Kuuga and Decade’s bikes. Hilarious! Fun changeup at the end, with the post-production switching the colors around so that a green Diend rides away on a blue Machine Decader. Good short! --- So weird that there was a time when Toei/Bandai didn’t know Deneb was the best Imagin. Crazy! He’d eventually get a Figuart, but I guess that was still a few years away when this was shot. A little sad that the budget for this set of movies (probably $20, at most) precluded recording new Deneb dialogue, but I can’t be mad at a short film where Team Decade tries to understand the market forces and production pipelines that determine which toys get made. --- I can’t imagine what a revelation these Fashion Check shorts must’ve been back in 2009. A lot of these bits and pieces have been thrown at me in Watch threads, like the Faiz Is A Shark note, but it’s still neat to see the production team divulge these secrets and inspirations. --- A jack-o-lantern! WHAT. Happy Halloween from Kiva, I guess! Also, there’s a throwaway line from Kaitou on the panel, where he just goes Being Alive Is A Treasure in a total non-sequitur, and it’s cracking me up thinking about it. Dude loves treasure! And being alive! He’s really come around on Tsukasa’s bullshit Metaphorical Treasures. Those two are maybe less terrible for each other than we all feared/hoped! --- Similarly, as Kaitou goes into full-on pitchman mode for chromatic paint, Onodera and Natsumi are sort of beside themselves at Kaitou’s helpfulness and energy, which is both mean and fair. Kaitou is mostly just lounging around their house and flirting with Tsukasa, so this is a little surprising. He’s pretty much ripping them off (he’s charging them over 270,000 yen for a tin of paint), but it’s nice to see him trying to get involved with people other than Tsukasa. --- They just… they just don’t really answer the question? The thrust of this short is that it’s unclear why there’s a tilted T-shape on Den-O’s belt, and this short sort of shrugs at every answer as being correct. That can’t be it? I like seeing stuff in Kamen Rider that might not be there, but there’s no way the Den-O belt is a reference to Trains AND Terminals AND Taros AND Train junctions. There’s no way! THEY TOOK THE JOKE TOO FAR WITH THIS ONE. --- The CMYK stuff is neat, but… man, I don’t care about the rationale behind Decade’s coloring, I just care that it’s great. (It’s also, yeah, more Magenta than Pink. Ex-Aid’s pink, Decade ain’t.) --- Some of my favorite shorts from the Fourze Net-Movies (which are maybe the gold standard for Net-Movies, them or Wizard) are the ones where Meteor interviews the suit actors and stunt team. The stories they tell are INSANE, and gave me a whole new respect for what they go through to make these shows. So, naturally, I loved this view from inside Decade’s helmets. The close-up one renders Takaiwa more-or-less blind, while the action sequence one only renders him 80-90% vision-impaired. It’s crazy to think of him doing martial arts and jumping onto crash pads without being able to see where he’s landing, and bless this short for pointing out that Decade’s real superpower is a stuntman who can do all that and survive. --- I love it the most when these Net-Movies get sloppy and real, so the highlight of this whole project might be Onodera’s actor screaming at Tsukasa’s actor for sleeping too much on location shoots -- as Tsukasa’s actor falls asleep during the scolding -- while Natsumi’s actor busts out laughing. Just so fun to see these little behind-the-scenes jokes and grudges bubble up onto an ancillary promotional project. Fantastic. --- It’s almost cruel to watch these guys run around in Kamen Rider suits, since it was already established that they can’t breathe or see, but they’re clearly having a blast. I like how Kiva stays in character with his Bat Wing run, even as the other four guys are just cheating and being dicks. It’s great. --- I wanted to be all I Don’t Truck With Showa and skip to the next short, but all of these little moments with the suit actors! They’re all weird nerds! Because you sort of have to be to become a tokusatsu stunt person! And it’s adorable! When Eitoku has to answer why he picked Stronger and he’s like Because He’s My Favorite and then he just stands there smiling until they yelled ‘cut’ a few seconds later! These weird jock nerds are the best! --- I don’t truck with Showa. --- I really thought it was Faiz! It’s truly a credit to Tsukasa’s observational skills that he’s able to pick Takaiwa out of a Rider lineup. (I mean, it clearly wasn’t Den-O; too scrawny!) Never doubt Tsukasa! He’s always right! About everything! --- He just comes off as this real sweet musclehead? I don’t know. Eitoku is charming in how humble and soft-spoken he is. Takaiwa has a playful sense of control, where he’s clearly okay with carrying this franchise on his back, while Eitoku comes off as this weirdly oblivious prodigy, unaccustomed to the spotlight. It’s neat to learn more about these guys! (I also got it wrong again. I picked Rod Form, when it was Saga.) --- I kind of love how long you can be a suit actor in tokusatsu. It seems like a young person’s game, you know? It’s tough just physically existing inside those suits. Adding to that the need to keep yourself safe during choreographed fights, during jumps and falls, during explosions and rain… it’s crazy to think of doing it for decades, and yet that’s what we’ve got here. Hell, even Takaiwa would go on to be a lead Rider for another ten years. Astonishing to think of these actors doing such arduous work for so long. What legends. (Also, still wrong on my picks!) --- Oh, that’s an adorable anecdote, that Watanabe’s kid (Taiga) was the baby from the first Sieg episodes of Den-O. Very fun piece of trivia. Also, yeah, put both Taiga and Tiger back on Kamen Rider! --- I appreciate that Narutaki was confident enough in his masculinity to be like A Nice Butt Matters On A Man, but I was disappointed that the three men of Team Decade seemed baffled that men could even have butts. Come on, dudes. Don’t do that. Also, I don’t want to body shame a legend like Tominaga, but he definitely did not have the best butt in that lineup? It’s Jirou as Pegasus Form, by a mile. --- Ha ha ha, this was the same shit that always tripped up the Fourze kids on their Net-Movie game show! The answer to almost every Showa-era trivia question is There Was No Money And They Didn’t Think People Forty Years In The Future Would Hassle Them About Shortcuts. You amateurs! --- Of course Narutaki completely reverses himself when his claim that Ichigo was too stalwart and honorable to use weapons blows up in his face. OF COURSE. I love that this show, right before the finale, has settled on Narutaki Sucks as the entirety of his character. Nothing to empathize or sympathize with, no motivation that we as the viewer can apply to his actions… he just Sucks, the end. What a delight! --- Man, how did Takaiwa get this one wrong? Kiva’s a lighter suit than Decade, I guess. Weird! --- After watching 23 of these shorts, I’m thinking I probably should’ve watched all of these Net-Movies before I started watching Kuuga. A ton of trivia that’s been tossed at me seems like it originated from these short films. Are the Decade Net-Movies the most required viewing for anything in Heisei Phase 1? Feels like it! --- NARUTAKI! --- I don’t know anything about ZX, so I’m happy to forever think of him as portrayed within this Net-Movie: some irrelevant, sweaty weirdo who’s desperate to latch onto anyone that’ll get him back in the spotlight. Please do not tell me what ZX’s deal is if it’s not that. Thank you. --- I’ve never needed to patch up a relationship through the proper application of a Henshin pose, but I’m glad to know these short films exist if it should ever become necessary. I remember watching an Ex-Aid toy commercial thing, where Emu shows the viewer how to use the DX Gamer Driver, and finding the whole process surprisingly involved. I’d probably watched him transform into Ex-Aid forty or fifty times, and yet when he got three steps deep into his posing process I was like Wait What Is Supposed To Happen Next. I was very quickly in the weeds on something I felt like I knew by heart. Anyways, fun video! I hope this guy’s able to patch up some serious marriage issues because he can pose like Ichigo. --- I was going to write about how strange this File’s subtitle is, considering the two best Amazon Henshin’s I’ve ever seen were Tomoko in Fourze and Natsumi in these Net-Movies, but then Decade tricks some businessman on the wrong end of a global recession into getting naked in public, and I’m sort of (understandably?) fixated on that. This short swings wide, man. It starts with Decade randomly trying to cheer up a guy who is probably about to be crushed under the boot of the consequences of voracious global capitalism (2009! Things were not great financially in 2009!), and then that same guy is probably going to end up on a registry due to a Kamen Rider's advice. Curse you INDEED, Decade! --- Despite these Net-Movies existing in (according to the Wiki) the “World of Net”, I think it’s fair to view these short films as resolutely non-canonical. But! I firmly believe that this is what would happen if Decade tried to help random strangers: he would be absolutely no help. Tsukasa’s great at fighting monsters, and saving worlds, and rallying Riders. He is generally shown to be somewhere between inept and harmful when it comes to interacting with normal people. It’s not his strength as a Rider! So, yeah, you could pretty much slot these Rider Pose ones into any other story and they’d fit just fine. --- Yeah, boy, Decade just gets this guy murdered. --- It’s neat, even for a moment, to watch Takaiwa effortlessly slip between all of the different Imagin characters from Den-O. It doesn’t even matter that he’s in the Decade suit; the second you see that pose, you’re like URATAROS. Very fun to see it again. --- I honestly never thought I was the type of fan to get a Driver. I ordered a Lost Driver, from W, very early into my Kamen Rider fandom. (It was something we could get through a vendor at my store, so I figured Why Not.) I’ve never opened it. It’s on a shelf, and I just never feel like playing around with it. I’ve seen other people’s DX or CSM purchases, and I’ve watched actors mess around with belts for ads, and it just didn’t do anything for me. They’re neat, but it’s not anything I need in my life. I need a Decadriver, though. I’ve mentioned it to a friend, so maybe that’s a thing that shows up for my birthday. If not, I’m probably going to get it for myself for Christmas. I just think it’s the coolest belt. I love the mechanism, I love the sounds, I love the cards. The whole package ended up doing something inside my brain that has me coveting a Kamen Rider belt. I’m a little bit scared? I mean, it’s a Rider Henshin device: It’s probably appropriate to be scared of owning one. --- Wow, Double. Third show I watched, after Ex-Aid and the first season of Amazons. That suit is really an all-time great, isn’t it? The Gaia Memory gimmick adds a lot of cool tactical options, but the base CycloneJoker form is so sweet. Despite coming in through Ex-Aid’s clashing colors and extreme aesthetics, shows like W and Build are more what I’m looking for in a suit: big blocks of color, and standardized designs. The base forms of Build and W all map out in the same ways, and it’s just colors that swap, along with minor additional touches. (A scarf, or a staff, or a vacuum cleaner.) It’s a clean design. I really love it. I hope fans were excited about Kamen Rider W back in the summer of 2009. --- PROGRAMMING NOTE: Oh man, I took way longer on this than I was planning. I thought this was going to be a blow-off, but I sort of spent two days on it? (I also had some unplanned for work things pop up.) As a result, some stuff is getting moved around. Expect the All-Riders movie on Saturday, and the HBV on Monday. Hopefully the final episodes, the winter movie, and the series wrap-up posts will all land next weekend. Thanks for bearing with me! We're almost done!
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10-14-2021, 09:54 PM | #502 |
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That bit of Black just walking in a race, replicating his show's infamous ED... it's something you'd have to know about beforehand, but if you know, it's one of the best gags ever.
It's also the only one of these I've seen! Really need to watch the rest of the net movies at some point; I believe at this point they're the only Heisei Rider things I haven't seen aside from final stages and that's a crime when there's so much good stuff in there
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10-14-2021, 09:58 PM | #503 |
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That bit of Black just walking in a race, replicating his show's infamous ED... it's something you'd have to know about beforehand, but if you know, it's one of the best gags ever.
It's also the only one of these I've seen! Really need to watch the rest of the net movies at some point; I believe at this point they're the only Heisei Rider things I haven't seen aside from final stages and that's a crime when there's so much good stuff in there
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10-14-2021, 11:16 PM | #504 |
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Yeah this was genuinely just fun to watch between while I waited for my oven to heat up and then cooked my leftover pizza, before eating said pizza.
Also very informative, I really enjoy it when the Net Movies do these kinds of things and inform you of stuff. The gags were also fun, like the Riders just playing Uno at one point. Or just the fan operator getting in the shot and up in Narutaki's face to blow the wind as he "ONORE DIKEDO!"'d and such. I really love these little shorts and am sad they seemingly just discontinued them after Wizard honestly. Whenever the actors get to play around and have fun in character is a real treat. It's why despite them being Covid Episodes, the very non-canonical and very skippable Super Job War Arc in Zero-One that was used to fill time is probably one of my more recent favorite goofy things. |
10-14-2021, 11:28 PM | #505 |
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I really love these little shorts and am sad they seemingly just discontinued them after Wizard honestly. Whenever the actors get to play around and have fun in character is a real treat.
It's why despite them being Covid Episodes, the very non-canonical and very skippable Super Job War Arc in Zero-One that was used to fill time is probably one of my more recent favorite goofy things.
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10-14-2021, 11:48 PM | #506 |
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These Net Movies were certainly my reward for trekking through Decade.
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10-15-2021, 12:00 AM | #507 |
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Let this be a lesson: any series with Net-Movies can't be all bad.
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10-15-2021, 07:18 AM | #508 |
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Net movies are late night snacks for me.
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10-15-2021, 10:10 AM | #509 |
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Yeah, these were fun and surprisingly informative. I still insist that Faiz was modeled after a construction worker anytime it comes up.
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10-15-2021, 01:44 PM | #510 |
Kaiju or Hero?
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I have never seen these net movies, or any net movies for that matter.
Perhaps I should. I really should, because these sound histerical. |
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