I am sorry for not posting anything the last few weeks like I promised. I've been going through a lot lately and still am a little emotionally out of it, but to make up for it, I will review what I said I would including the first few missions of the Go-Busters, I will hopefully go over a little Kamen Rider Fourze, and a little Super Hero Taisen and Hikounin Sentai Akibaranger news.
I promise to also post some more of cover songs here as well. But to keep up, don't forget to log onto facebook to my fan page to catch up on any new covers that I have yet to post here: Queen Ruki Records on facebook
Thank you very much.
Warz Gils and Marvelous, showing that rider kicks aren't just for riders.
A 29 year old Super Sentai lover who is a virgin is AkibaRed. A serious martial artist who originally was not interested in being an Akibaranger is AkibaBlue (the suit has a bear on the "panties" under the "skirt"). A cosplayer with big breasts, who is an aspiring mangaka and a lover of Super Sentai like AkibaRed is AkibaYellow. This seems like a VERY INTERESTING team. o_O
Kamen Rider X Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen, a new roadshow (movie) coming 21 April 2012
So there it is...Kamen Rider Decade.....the 10th Anniversary Rider for the Heisei Era riders. I HATE THIS SHOW SO MUCH! Normally I love to watch both the Super Sentai Series and the Kamen Rider Series that is on every year in the Super Hero Time Line Up, but oh how a hated watching Decade. The story and its "different universes" scared me beyond belief. I had a horrible time with this show and pretty much only watched episodes here and there not really caring about it at all. Forget it, I'm just going to watch Shinkenger and that's it.
Screw Decade....I've had enough. That is all I would say. The only episodes I were actually interested IN seeing involved the Shinkenger and Black/Black RX. I hated they way Decade was handled which made me skeptical at first for a show like Gokaiger. But lucky for me Gokaiger ended up doing everything Decade wrong, right. First of all the show takes place in not a million different worlds but only in one....the Super Sentai Versus Universe...which automatically puts all the teams into continuity with each other. I love this about Gokaiger. Keeping everything together..... Something Decade should have done.
In the Showa Era, previous riders would show up all the time in one universe, so why couldn't they do it with Decade and the Heisei...I have no idea.....my guess would be they wanted to save money by not hiring the actual actors....that is the best thing I can think of.
Decade screwed up what I had come to know about each of the riders and I really hated the show for that. I would many times find myself FALLING ASLEEP OR CHANGING THE CHANNEL. I became disconnected with Kamen Rider almost all together until Decade ended. A BIG THANK YOU TO PHILLIP AND SHOUTARO (Kamen Rider W)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ONLY positive for me was Gackt singing the opening for the show.....
THAT IS IT!!!!!!! JUST GACKT!!!!!!
The characters (other than Diend) were boring - at least to me. For being the 10th anniversary rider of the Heisei era....it was a really big disappointment.
Decade was just a complete mess. All it was meant to do was just be a big commercial for the Ganbaride arcade game in my mind. WHY ALL THE CARDS!!! The final form....so bad...everything was so bad...
This rant is over...
now excuse me while I go cry in the corner.
What can I say about Saban's Masked Rider??? Though I grew up as a child of the late 90's and early 2000's in Japan and didn't see this abomination when it first aired, I was cursed with sitting through a marathon of the entire season when I was living in America for a short time at the beginning of this year.
The three episodes of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers that he first premiered in weren't that bad, but I wish I could say the same thing for the show as a whole. The show is an embarrassment the Kamen Rider Franchise as a whole, not only its original counterpart Kamen Rider Black RX. It was so bad that Ishinomori-san (Kamen Rider's creator) had nothing but bad things to say about the show and quite frankly I don't blame him.
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This is a plot synopsis of the show from the Kamen Rider Wiki:
The series began with the main character, Dex, escaping the Plague Patrol with a small group of Edenoites rebels, before leaving for Earth, the next target of his sinister uncle Count Dregon, who ruled Edenoi with an iron fist after displacing Dex's grandfather, King Lexian, who also gave Dex the Masked Rider powers (where the powers came from is a mystery, although apparently they have been in use for some time by Edenoi's champions). Arriving on Earth in a massive crater, Dex finds himself in the care of the Stewarts, a multiracial family consisting of a white father and daughter (named Hal and Molly respectively), an Asian wife (Barbara), and an African-American son (Albee). The addition of an extra Stewart was not noticed by anyone (as, according to Albee, he and Molly are adopted) in Leawood, the town in which the series took place. Dex defends the town as Masked Rider from Count Dregon and his vicious Insectovores.
Saban's Masked Rider, Dex
Here is a clip from Masked Rider....the most famous scene of the series....for the wrong reasons.
Saban's Masked Rider is probably the worst tokusatsu adaptation and was never distributed outside the Americas and Europe, it does have a cult following, but the show does not have a big fanbase as other Saban adaptations in the 1990's like Power Rangers, VR Troopers, and Beetleborgs. By watching it I saw why. The show's editing was crappy at best and the story, well, it was so-so at best. I think that the best part of the show is probably its theme. Very simple and it draws you in....sadly you have to hear that narrator first (see above video). Oh and please don't get me started on Ferbus. -__-'
Would I recommend Saban's Masked Rider to anyone? Simply put, no.
If you want to see this series you are better off watching Kamen Rider Black RX, the story flows better and makes more sense. If you want to experience a good rider series watch Black RX...and this coming from a person who's only experience with Black RX was in Kamen Rider Decade.....
That's saying something.
So ends my look into Saban's Masked Rider. What are your thoughts on the show? Comment below.
When naming the Masked Rider Warriors, they screwed up the naming for every rider except ZX. The most famous being Skyrider being renamed Masked Rider Warrior Amazon and the famous line "I AM AMAZON!!!" which apparently is a very popular internet meme.
