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Post by xman on Jan 1, 2022 10:38:47 GMT -5
"If you don't fight, you won't survive!!"
Well, I'm surprised that nobody has even bothered to make up a discussion thread about this show. Especially after it was announced that it was going to be officially streamed in the U.S. on the TokuSHOUTsu channel via Shout! Factory, or on the tubing and Pluto TV streaming apps.
So, I will be the first to start this thread. I will be updating this thread with my thoughts on the show, so far as I keep watching every episode.
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Post by Combusto82 on Jan 1, 2022 20:04:14 GMT -5
I remember watched this show once and I hated it! too many riders were killed! not to mentioned, the girl is really a mirror version of herself. that caused her Grandma crying over the birthday cake alone while the riders are fighting! come on! birthdays are important you know
Anyway, I'm not going to re-watch it again and I apologized for the spoiler
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Post by xman on Jan 2, 2022 9:27:50 GMT -5
I remember watching this show once and I hated it! Too many riders were killed! not to mentioned, the girl is really a mirror version of herself. That caused her Grandma crying over the birthday cake alone while the riders are fighting! come on! birthdays are important you know Anyway, I'm not going to re-watch it again and I apologized for the spoiler. What exactly is there to spoil?! I've seen the show like a bazillion times. Years before it was *clearing throat!!* officially available to stream online outside of Japan, nowadays. So, there is absolutely nothing to spoil for people who have already seen Kamen Rider Ryuki before. Sorry. Also, the show said that there would be 13 riders introduced, but only 10 of them appeared in the show. The other two (Femme and Ryuuga) were only featured in the movie, Episode Final which was an hour-long alternate retelling of the final arc of the show?! WTF?! And the last one (Verde) was featured in that God-awful 13 Rider TV special where the viewers had to decide on how the story of that special should end. Whether *Spoiler Alert!!* Shinji as Kamen Rider Knight II seals the Mirror World and the other riders are still around waiting for the next Riders War, or Shinji continues to fight with all the surviving Riders preparing their Final Vent attacks. Then there are the "What-If" finales where Shinji wins the Riders War and everybody to come back after fighting his twin brother who just entered the war as Ryuuga in the final battle and the other finale where Shiro Kanzaki is revealed to be Kamen Rider Odin and wins, but his sister, Yui dies. I f@#$'n hate multiple endings!!!! And don't get me started on the Rider Time Ryuki special. God, that was so unnecessary to make. Seriously, the Rider Time Ryuki special was a very unnecessary reunion special, and it didn't need to happen at all. But it did and now I hate it even more.
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Post by xman on Jan 9, 2022 11:32:23 GMT -5
Okay, so I just finished rewatching Kamen Rider Ouja's debut episode and well, he's okay. A bit brutal, but I will take what I have been given. Kamen Rider Gai was just forgettable and useless, Tezuka/Kamen Rider Ryuki is becoming Ryuki-light. Knight and Zolda are okay. But one thing that pretty much anybody else can agree on is this.....SHINJI KIDO IS A F@#$'N IDIOT!!! and in my opinion, one of the worst main protagonists in the history of Tokusatsu. Say what you will about Haruto Souma/Kamen Rider Wizard as a protagonist, but at least he's not an idiot unlike Kido. Hell, even Takumi Inui/Kamen Rider Faiz would look at Shinji Kido and be like..."This guy is supposed my sempai?! No thank you!!"
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Post by Sh Ranger on Jan 10, 2022 9:04:19 GMT -5
I remember watched this show once and I hated it! too many riders were killed! not to mentioned, the girl is really a mirror version of herself. that caused her Grandma crying over the birthday cake alone while the riders are fighting! come on! birthdays are important you know Even worse in Episode Final the movie, where Yui dies in front of the birthday cake Kanzaki baked for her. And don't get me started on the Rider Time Ryuki special. God, that was so unnecessary to make. Seriously, the Rider Time Ryuki special was a very unnecessary reunion special, and it didn't need to happen at all. But it did and now I hate it even more. I appreciate how Rider Time Ryuki fixed the ending of the show by giving everybody their memories back. I thought the Tezuka/Jun scene was unnecessary though. Okay, so I just finished rewatching Kamen Rider Ouja's debut episode and well, he's okay. A bit brutal, but I will take what I have been given. Kamen Rider Gai was just forgettable and useless, Tezuka/Kamen Rider Ryuki is becoming Ryuki-light. Knight and Zolda are okay. But one thing that pretty much anybody else can agree on is this..... SHINJI KIDO IS A F@#$'N IDIOT!!! and in my opinion, one of the worst main protagonists in the history of Tokusatsu. Say what you will about Haruto Souma/Kamen Rider Wizard as a protagonist, but at least he's not an idiot unlike Kido. Hell, even Takumi Inui/Kamen Rider Faiz would look at Shinji Kido and be like... "This guy is supposed my sempai?! No thank you!!"Jun enjoyed using people in his games and he dies by Asakura using him to block a Final Vent. It was a cool way to show how Asakura is a very intimidating person, how he only makes alliances with Riders when it suits him and will betray them the moment he gets bored. Tezuka is actually smart, unlike Shinji, and can get through to Ren more easily. Although Shinji does mean well and while his successes are few, they accumulate and he has more of a big picture contribution by slowly chipping away at Ren's edge. Kitaoka is just kind of an a**hole, but otherwise pretty neutral and harmless as he usually only fights when challenged. Ren has the best character development though, since he changes a lot from the start to the end.
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Post by xman on Jan 13, 2022 13:49:18 GMT -5
And don't get me started on the Rider Time Ryuki special. God, that was so unnecessary to make. Seriously, the Rider Time Ryuki special was a very unnecessary reunion special, and it didn't need to happen at all. But it did and now I hate it even more. I appreciate how Rider Time Ryuki fixed the ending of the show by giving everybody their memories back. I thought the Tezuka/Jun scene was unnecessary though. We do not speak of that scene, ever again. WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE TEZUKA/GAI SCENE, EVER AGAIN!!!Okay, so I just finished rewatching Kamen Rider Ouja's debut episode and well, he's okay. A bit brutal, but I will take what I have been given. Kamen Rider Gai was just forgettable and useless, Tezuka/Kamen Rider Ryuki is becoming Ryuki-light. Knight and Zolda are okay. But one thing that pretty much anybody else can agree on is this..... SHINJI KIDO IS A F@#$'N IDIOT!!! and in my opinion, one of the worst main protagonists in the history of Tokusatsu. Say what you will about Haruto Souma/Kamen Rider Wizard as a protagonist, but at least he's not an idiot unlike Kido. Hell, even Takumi Inui/Kamen Rider Faiz would look at Shinji Kido and be like... "This guy is supposed my sempai?! No thank you!!"Jun enjoyed using people in his games and he dies by Asakura using him to block a Final Vent. It was a cool way to show how Asakura is a very intimidating person, how he only makes alliances with Riders when it suits him and will betray them the moment he gets bored. Tezuka is actually smart, unlike Shinji, and can get through to Ren more easily. Although Shinji does mean well and while his successes are few, they accumulate and he has more of a big picture contribution by slowly chipping away at Ren's edge. Kitaoka is just kind of an a**hole, but otherwise pretty neutral and harmless as he usually only fights when challenged. Ren has the best character development though, since he changes a lot from the start to the end. That I already know. It's just that only Asakura, Kitaoka, Akiyama and Kido are the only four Riders in the show that got the most screen-time and development. Well, only Akiyama and Kitaoka did. Shinji...not-so-much. Asakura didn't need any character-development. He just needed to be a deranged psychopath.
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Post by xman on Jan 16, 2022 22:16:17 GMT -5
Okay, I just finished rewatching episodes 23-25 and I have been saving up this rant for far too long about this subplot....REIKO MOMOI IS A F@#$'N IDIOT!!! Yeah, I said it. She is an even bigger idiot than Shinji Kido. I mean, she just literally lead Asakura's long-lost brother, Akira to his death the moment she just revealed that his brother was still live right in front of him. I'm shouting at my TV and face palming knowing for a fact that she's so stupid that she actually fell for Asakura's sympathy act and all that bulls**t about protecting his brother when it was all just an act. Like how can anybody be this stupid to actually fall for this crap in real-life? I myself, knew that if I come across a serial killer like Takeshi Asakura in real-life, I should just use my head and not try to pursue him just to get a story. It's not worth it. Like seriously, is every single employee working at ORE Journal in this show a f@#$'n idiot?! Is that why that why they only brought back the Editor-in-chief in the "Ryuki-tribute" episodes of Kamen Rider Zi-O and no-one else? The rest of the main plots of these three episodes are okay.
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Post by Combusto82 on Jan 17, 2022 20:00:58 GMT -5
xman- your TV? that means you are rewatching Ryuki on DVD or something
anyway, you are lucky Reiko was not in Zi-O just Shinji and his boss
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Post by xman on Jan 17, 2022 20:57:19 GMT -5
xman- your TV? that means you are rewatching Ryuki on DVD or something anyway, you are lucky Reiko was not in Zi-O just Shinji and his boss Actually, I have a Roku TV that I bought from my mother for $160, but I am only rewatching the show on my Tubi.tv streaming app. However, I am just fortunate that Toei could only afford to bring back both Shinji and his boss for the Ryuki-tribute TV episodes of Kamen Rider Zi-O. Although, the company did managed to spend a for more extra thousands or millions of yen just get several other cast members Kamen Rider Ryuki to just show up for the production of the Rider Time Ryuki V-Cinema special and then be gone after that?! Like seriously?! They didn't even bothered to bring back Asakura's actor for the final arc of Zi-O's TV series where they brought back both Chase and Katsumi Daido/Kamen Rider Eternal's respective actors and Kamen Rider Aqua's actor to build up the final battle?! Just for the reunion special and nothing else?!
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Post by xman on Jan 20, 2022 12:07:48 GMT -5
Alright, so...Kamen Rider Odin (the 13th Rider). Did they even needed to introduce this character earlier in the show?! I would have prefer if he had been introduced in either episode 28 or 29, maybe?! Also, about the Time Vent episode, does it even count as a requisite clip-show or not?
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Post by xman on Jan 21, 2022 17:07:31 GMT -5
Alright, so I just saw episode 29 which is the Marriage Interview episode. Are we sure that Toshiki Inoue wrote this episode? kamenrider.fandom.com/wiki/Marriage_Interview_BattleSpeaking of Inoue episodes, "Zolda's Lover" is also one of the worst written episodes of the show. Yet alone one of the worst Tokusatsu episodes ever to be written by Toshiki Inoue.
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Post by xman on Jan 22, 2022 13:14:22 GMT -5
Episodes 31-32 Why was Yasuko Kobayashi trying to humanize Takeshi Asakura in these episodes? What kind of an idiot would set up a rule the serial killer of a TV show has to be a sympathetic character or have some shred of humanity left in him when he has no humanity left? Like why do we need to have sympathetic villain characters nowadays when people like myself just want to have good ol' fashioned competent villain characters that are irredeemable, have redemption story-arcs and are just straight-up evil for the sake of being evil? Look at Masato Kusaska (Kamen Fider Kaixa), he didn't have any redemption story-arcs, HE WAS AN EVIL BASTARD!!! And I remember why. That's what I want to see in Kamen Rider villains, nowadays. None of this humanizing, sympathetic crap.
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Post by xman on Jan 23, 2022 12:23:37 GMT -5
This is my reaction to the subplot of episode 33.
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Post by xman on Jan 30, 2022 22:01:16 GMT -5
So, Satoru Tojo (Kamen Rider Tiger)....why do people like this character again?! He's just some one-dimensional a**hole that really has nothing to offer for the remainder of the series and I personally don't seemed to care all that much about him and he's probably not gonna have that much of an impact when he dies later on. But Mitsuru Sano (Kamen Rider Imperer), he's gonna be a totally different can of worms when I get to him, next.
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Post by xman on Jan 31, 2022 11:17:04 GMT -5
Alright, I just finished watching the final episodes of Ryuki. The finale was just not very good. Seriously, this was a terrible way to end your show. Maybe we do need that Rider Time Ryuki special after all.
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