Kamen Rider: General Thread

@Handsome Rob Who is the Roidmude then:the kidnapped brother, the sister of the kidnap victim or Captain Nira?

I'm 100% positive the Roimunde is the sister. I bet Medic fed info to the roimunde about Gou and he chose someone with a backstory that he would be specifically sympathetic towards.

I'm less sure about the second part of that theory, but I think the first part is solid. It makes too much sense really.

Nira is definitely a dick, but I'm not sure if he's a Roidmude yet.

You mean Fan-dude?

No, he's quite blatantly an Unwitting Pawn Smug Snake.

He's probably not even brainwashed because he's already so needlessly antagonistic towards the Special Crimes unit that there's no reason to bother.

I'm not sure what to feel for Nira. On one hand, yes, he's an asshole, but he's an entertaining asshole.

Houjou was an asshole. A major asshole. I've only seen a chunk of Agito Up to the episode where Shoichi's name's cleared and the Overlord is all like My God, What Have I Done?, which conveniently is the same two-parter where Houjou's assholiness is shown to light but this guy could get so many decks to the face if he was talking down the wrong person.

Nira on the other hand is an asshole and he knows it. He's always quirky when he talks down the Special Unit. He has a trademark cackle. He even hops around and skips on his way out of the Special Unit when he's all like "I'm not gonna tell you what I know, trollolololol!" He does have one moment where he taps into his inner Houjou, but still. It's weird to put it... But I'm gonna try.

It's like that one person you're supposed to hate, but he's so funny and entertaining that you just can't help but crack a smile every time he's on screen. Not sure if Love to Hate is appropriate. And if I've seen the 4chan pics correct, he manages to tie up the Tridoron.

Still, this is his debut, so down the line, he's probably not gonna be as endearing.

Him taping up Mr. Belt (and the pissed off look on the latter's face were pretty fucking hilarious.

Now, if he were to do half the shit the Fourze characters did (throw a football at the Rider about to defeat the monster, stopping the Rider from finishing off the monster and making the student sane because he's your friend even though it doesn't work like Gaim, taking away the belt and refusing to give it back despite there being a monster that's about to kill you), then Nira would be in my hate list.

But so far, he's not.

edited 29th Apr '15 6:56:03 PM by Psyga315

I know, but I'm not sure if my laptop has enough space to have all the episodes downloaded into it. I know there's this thing that allows us to have more downloaded stuff into it, but I forgot what it's called and I SHOULD save up some cash... but I'm saving them so I can get Yakuza 5.

Sagittarius is a Well-Intentioned Extremist at best, a serial killer is nothing to a Omnicidal Maniac who aims to Kill All Humans For the Evulz, and Hell Fruit Micchi was basically a pawn who didn't realize that he was one until it was too late.

I've seen all of the Neo-Heisei Riders from Double to Drive's current episode, and I know damn well what I'm talking about. My interpretations of the characters are just different from you guys'.

Of course, Daguva MIGHT be nothing against the Great Leader himself.

edited 29th Apr '15 7:24:16 PM by strangerthenever

So I've watched 43.

With this, and the previous episode, I can now understand how the Overlord of Darkness might not necessarily be a straight up villain.

There are some things about his battle with his brother that are unclear though: Why did they fight in the first place? What was the root cause?

Why did they hate each other so much? It's because of the power of Agito, the essence of the Overlord of Light within man, that the Overlord of Darkness is even doing what he's doing. Even then, killing a single human caused him great pain, indicating that he'd be sitting on his ass, doing nothing if not for his bros last screw you.

Even with this latest ep, he seem to just be eliminating the seed of Agito from the other dudes rather than just killing them (which he could do mind you), though since I know that Kino dies, I'm guessing this act can cause death.

Also, I'm thinking back to when he saved Ryo, and how Ryo went berserk and attacked him, and I'm wondering if that's the influence of the Overlord of Light. Do they fight to protect people, or do the Agitos fight to go against the hated enemy of the source of their power whether they want to or not?

We don't have much context (yet) about why Light put the Seed of Agito in Humanity. Did he want to give them the chance to rise up against their oppressor (and is Darkness even an oppressor? As I said before, he doesn't seem to do anything unless an Agito is involved, and he seems to hate the idea of harming humanity even then), or did he want to create weapons to continue his war against his brother even in death? Perhaps the Overlord of Darkness feared that with that Power, humanity would destroy itself.

Lots of questions, and it occurs to me that this may not be a straight up God Is Evil / Satan Is Good situation.

@stranger: DL an episode once, watch it, and then delete it. Boom. Disk space problem solved. Or you could, y'know, burn the episodes to DVD if you a) felt like it, and b) had blank DV Ds to burn to.

Then you could watch it on the big TV screen!

External hard drive.

Stream it. That's what I do.

Regarding X and Super-1, what I've found are softsubs. Meaning you have to get the raw video, and the subs, and apply it. So, can't exactly stream it.

So, no comments on my theories about Agito, the Overlords, etc?

Not that I'm trying to hog the conversation or whatever.

Nope. I've pretty much dropped everything except for Mobile Suit Gundam 0079.

External Hard Drive! That's the one I'm looking for!

I wonder if it would work for my PS 3, since I have a lot of game datas in it...

Also, regarding your Agito theory... I read that notes from Cybog009's God's War chapter were used for Agito, so maybe all those godhood stuff being morally ambiguous was intentional?

Well, Gods can be interpreted in a number of ways. I'm not surprised.

Though, as I've harped on before, Japan has a preference for one specific interpretation of the God of Christianity.

Anyway, 44 is down. The truth about Shouichi's sister is revealed, along with the details of Mana's father's murder.

6 episodes left, and things will keep getting crazier.

edited 2nd May '15 9:49:15 AM by HandsomeRob

I find so many decent Spanish fandubs of music (Fist Of The North Star, Samurai Flamenco, Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure, and now even KR Faiz), but hardly ever English fandubs.

It makes me sad.

Agito 45 down.

All three Agitos down.

G3-X is going blind.

Mana is BSOD-ing.

Everybody is out of their minds.

Six episodes to go, and shit is hitting the fan.

And Houjou is still the biggest asshole of a man.

Better him than Kusaka.

That's true.

I understand Houjou will get one of his biggest Pet the Dog moments soon.

I think that when he's actually trying to be a cop, and not attempting to show up Ozawa or other shit, he can be a good guy.

He just has to stop being a dick.

But at least he gets punched in the face a lot.

Sometime, before this summer is over, I will attempt an English fandub of Journey through the Decade.

I'm even halfway through doing the lyrics, I just will have to go to a friend's house to record it.

I'd like to do one with Justifaiz as well, but I'm having trouble finding a good video with embedded lyrics that I can adapt. >_>

edited 3rd May '15 11:58:37 AM by EvaUnit01

Agito 46 down.

There he goes, he's Kino.

Was another Agito.

He lost his way but, then he was good again.

Headbutted in the chest.

And now he's gone to his eternal rest.

At least he kicked a hedgehog in.....

THE FAAAAAAACE!!!!!!

.......

And Houjou manages not to be a dick, though I think Hikawa should have told Ozawa too. Not sure why he trusted someone like that, but it oddly enough paid off.

edited 5th May '15 4:04:28 PM by HandsomeRob

Wish they reused the Another Agito suit somehow, and normal Gills...

They can't re-create the suits at all?

It'd be great to see them again.