Kamen Rider

[Angilasman]

Well, between Tokushoutsu streaming the original series and Kuuga, Toku getting Agito, and Toei's own YouTube putting out the opening episodes of several series apparently to test interest... it feels like things are burgeoning on the Kanen Rider front in terms of availability in the US, but home video releases still haven't materialized.

But, you will soon be able to own a piece of Kamen Rider media in North America: the original manga is joining Seven Sea's line of classic manga hardcovers!

https://mobile.twitter.com/gomanga/stat ... 4219201538

I'm a bit if a neophyte in regards to Rider, so I'm excited!

(I'd still like some Blu-rays or even DVDs, though!)

[Purzel2205]

Well there are those DVDs of Kamen Rider V3 and Kamen Rider The First :p
Obviously not enough for such a big franchise

[MaxRebo320]

Currently watching Agito, and I am quite liking it, even if it can be kind of meandering at times. Just a heads up though, on Amazon Prime, the subtitles stop midway through the show (episode 25). I'm now watching it with fansubs. Given how unprofessional Toku is, who knows if and when the remaining episodes will have subs up.

[Angilasman]

Well there are those DVDs of Kamen Rider V3 and Kamen Rider The First :p
Obviously not enough for such a big franchise

I feel like the day I pull the trigger on getting the Hawaiian DVD set of V3 with its $100+ price tag is the day before it's announced for the continental US for $20.

[Vakanai]

Well there are those DVDs of Kamen Rider V3 and Kamen Rider The First :p
Obviously not enough for such a big franchise

I feel like the day I pull the trigger on getting the Hawaiian DVD set of V3 with its $100+ price tag is the day before it's announced for the continental US for $20.

Oh...could you kindly buy it then so the rest of us don't have to wait any longer?

[Dyrakro]

Currently watching Agito, and I am quite liking it, even if it can be kind of meandering at times. Just a heads up though, on Amazon Prime, the subtitles stop midway through the show (episode 25). I'm now watching it with fansubs. Given how unprofessional Toku is, who knows if and when the remaining episodes will have subs up.

I just started Agito some days ago and am currently on episode 7. Really good show and I like how the Kaijins are able to move their mouth in this season

[daveblackeye15]

Man the Ten Faced Demon is pretty wild looking in Kamen Rider Amazon.

https://youtu.be/lUIq-FIQ0oA?t=226

Okay maybe not the most practical but it makes an impact.

I kinda love how it seems like Showa Kamen Rider shows are like 'how do the viewers know this character is a bad guy?' 'Oh paint lines or paint patches on their faces!' I mean y'know the non-super mutated ones.

[StreamOfKaijuness]

I have watched 79 episodes of the original Kamen Rider on Tubi since Shout! Factory made it available last Spring. Only 19 to go!

This show is trashy, no two ways about it, but I dig it. This show is to the Ultra franchise what Gamera vs. Viras is to Destroy All Monsters, a demonstration that cheap production values and minimal creativity can produce something that resonates with kids as much as or moreso than its more expensive and ambitious competition.

The Ultraman shows have plenty of formula to them but they clearly try to introduce as many varied story ideas, locations, characters and concepts as they can, whereas Kamen Rider makes about a tenth of that effort to present different things from one episode to the next. Nearly every episode is just Shocker sending out a new cyborg monster, which proceeds to kill and/or kidnap some helpless victims until the Kamen Rider and his FBI pal Taki show up and the music kicks in as they do battle with the cyborg and Shocker’s masked goons, then they regroup and discuss what to do next as Shocker makes their next sinister move, usually kidnapping one or more of the Rider’s acquaintances to lure him out for the final showdown, which ends when a well-placed “RIDER KICK!” sends the cyborg reeling and it explodes.

There aren’t many fights that take place on sets and those that do are usually in the Shocker base. Most of the fights are shot on location around the Japanese countryside in quarries, at houses, on bridges and on hillsides. The very sparse special effects shots are poorly edited and often bizarre, like an unraveling necklace meant to represent a melting person. Shocker’s cyborg monsters look like Halloween costumes and every single one of them had its voice actor record sound bytes of themselves going “AGH-AGH-AGH!” or ”EEE-EEE-EEE! or other vocalizations that get stuttered and repeated endlessly with an echo whenever the cyborg is in action onscreen. Shocker’s goons also all have the same high-pitched “EEEEEEEE!” dubbed over them constantly.

It may be pure junk food but it’s a fun show to watch. Akiji Kobayashi, who played SSSP Captain Muramatsu in the original Ultraman, is also part of the main cast here as Tobei Tachibana, head of the Tachibana Racing Club and a mentor to the Kamen Rider. Hideyo Amamoto shows up midway through the series as a new Shocker general named Doctor Death and he hams it up in the role. Shunsuke Kikuchi provides the music and it sounds similar in style to his score for Gamera vs. Zigra.

I watched all 49 episodes of Kamen Rider Kuuga last Summer. It’s awesome! Even though it’s from the year 2000, the episodes are heavily serialized and it was shot in widescreen so it seems like a show that was made in the streaming era. It’s a very inspired series that reimagines the Kamen Rider concept from the ground up while staying true to the classic aesthetics, even featuring adaptations of a few of the original show’s monsters. The characters are delightful and it’s fun to see them unravel the mystery of everything that’s happening as Japan is plagued by unidentified lifeforms. I really like how organically Kuuga’s various powers and upgrades are incorporated into the proceedings. While watching the show, it struck me that this was the series that TPC was trying to emulate when they forced Ultraman Nexus to revamp midway through its run.

[G-Matt]

Happy 50th Anniversary to Kamen Rider!

Also, Hideaki Anno is on a roll!

[Cryptid_Liker]

I find it weird how none of the anniversary projects actually come out this year.

[Angilasman]

Wow! Yes, please.

The announcement of "Kamen Rider Black" bring rebooted as an adult oriented series is also awesome. Hope this stuff becomes available to us legallya

[Cryptid_Liker]

One demand for Shin Kamen Rider: please have him open his mouth at least once.

[LegendZilla]

Happy 50th Anniversary to Kamen Rider!

Also, Hideaki Anno is on a roll!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkxsTkuLQP0

The link is dead.

[Angilasman]

And TokuShoutsu will air Ryuki and Zero One - and Zero One will be the first physical home video release via Shout Factory!

I'm not really interested in that series, but I'll buy it because you know their testing the waters (and I want Kuuga, Black, and a few others for sure!).

[LegendZilla]

Maybe Anno could one day cooperate with Sunrise and produce a Shin Gundam.

[G-Matt]

Happy 50th Anniversary to Kamen Rider!

Also, Hideaki Anno is on a roll!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkxsTkuLQP0

The link is dead.

Huh..? It's working for me.

How about this:

[LegendZilla]

Happy 50th Anniversary to Kamen Rider!

Also, Hideaki Anno is on a roll!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkxsTkuLQP0

The link is dead.

Huh..? It's working for me.

How about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE-Obf5PlWY

Could that be Kamen Rider's design in the film?

[Mac Daddy MM]

I'm overly excited at a reboot of Kamen Rider Black. Since Black is *STILL* the best KR series ever. Go ahead, shoot me.

As for Shin Kamen Rider... Yeaaah. We got that already lol.

[G-Matt]

Shout has acguired Zero-One:
https://news.tokunation.com/2021/04/03/ ... X2VqL5vLDA

[LSD Jellyfish]

I might have asked this before, but where should I begin? Ive never watched Kamen Rider. Should I just start with the first series?