New episode.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer Mass Murdering asshole. Gremlin will get his too, so I'm okay with this.
I now finally understand Sora's motivation: I was wondering why he would want to be human when he is essentially the same person (due to keeping his personality) with supernatural powers, but now I realize that he wants to be a human.... with the powers of a Wizard, which is the only thing better than being a Phantom.
So there we go.
One Strip! One Strip!Hey all.
I believe you've seen that image where Kamen Rider V3 teamed up with Spider-Man, albeit the Japanese one.
What if Marvel collaborated again with Toei and created a comic series where the Avengers teamed up with the Kamen Riders/Super Sentai?
HYDRA and Shocker would soooo totally team up, only to backstab each other later in a way. Doctor Doom and Shadow Moon too.
A stranger is like the shadows.It is so common to the world everyone will just ignore them.No, Wizard, ending like OO Os did doesn't make your show better, I'm sorry.
It sort of did IMHO. I mean, I thought they're gonna pull a Kengo/Phillip and defy Koyomi's wishes to actually die. It didn't help the final battle from being a Anti-climatic Curb-Stomp Battle though... Guess I'll wait for subs to see if it makes an improved experience.
Eh, I'd say that real Final Battle was with the White Wizard. Gremlin is just leftovers.
edited 15th Sep '13 3:27:43 PM by Adannor
This is why I wait for subs.
Anyway, this is my least favorite Neo-Heisei series, but I will say that the finale made me respect it a little more than I had done recently.
I'm just glad Koyomi stayed dead. I mean, we really need to move away from this formula of the friend who dies but comes back. It's getting old.
I was sort of right. It seemed that Haruto was shown to snap like I said, but hasn't really and just decided to put Koyomi's soul at rest. I do hate how Gremlin, after decrying a Phantom of doing this very tactic, decides "Lol, pillage the land and hurt the peoples!". And I'm betting that ring's gonna get stolen and used for some Movie War... Just toss it in lava or a black hole.
edited 17th Sep '13 9:06:11 AM by Psyga315
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Sora's a piece of shit. Of course he'd be a lying hypocrite as well. It's All About Me and all that.
edited 19th Sep '13 5:07:30 AM by PolarPhantom
Hell, after Haruto told him that he lost his soul a long time ago, Sora essentially conceded the point.
Nothing much to say about this. It ended. I still like Wizard's forms (especially the Dragon forms), but it kinda fizzled in the end.
This was the first Rider series that I ever watched from beginning to end (very first to last) so it was an interesting ride for me.
Well, okay, there are still two eps left, but you get my point.
One Strip! One Strip!Okay, I caught Wizard on the tail end, but I gotta say, these crossover eps? COMPLETELY INSANE. And yet strangely entertaining.
Caught the latest ep.
Interesting. I think it's safe to assume that the other kid is AU Haruto. And I wonder when exactly Nitou was pulled from? He's obviously from the past, but at what point? It will be interesting to see if he remembers anything about this incident if he and Haruto meet up again later on.
One Strip! One Strip!Someone made a recommendation list for Kamen Rider on /m/. Most of /m/ is against the list being made for some reason, but hey I thought it looked neat so I decided to post it here.
http://imgur.com/gjXbhyq
edited 28th Sep '13 9:52:39 PM by SilentlyHonest
Okay, so I started to watch KR Black (currently I'm at episode 13).
It's a bit... Strange. The plot is so far pretty basic when you look at it from a high angle, especially compared to the Heisei era Riders who each had an ongoing arc that was more or less stretching from the beginning to the end of the season. Here, it's mainly "Kotaro runs into Golgom's evil shenanigans, he transforms, he punches the shit out of this week's monster, everybody is happy, rinse and repeat". And yet... There's always some dread feeling in the air that is making things more sinister than you'd think.
Also, the mutants. Dear Lord, the mutants. They're obviously men in rubber suits (wouldn't be fun if it wouldn't look like it, right ?), but here, they went into a somewhat realistic look. As in, they really look like a cross of a human and an animal. Not too bad when it's the Bat mutant or the Leopard mutant, but this gets freaky when we get to Flea mutant or Silkworm mutant.
Also, holy crap, I wasn't expecting to see a thinly veiled satanic cult in this.
I realize this has probably already been stated here and elsewhere, but I feel I just had to write this somewhere.
The writer of Kamen Rider Gaim has been stated that the new series will be darker and edgier then the ones that have come before it. The armors for the various riders this season will all be based off of fruit.
Fruit.
Now, there's nothing inherently wrong with any of this, of course. It's just that deciding to take a more serious tone in a series with one the silliest armor themes in a while might lead to some problems.
I'm just saying, when Kamen Rider Grapefruit is morning the loss of his dearest, closest friend, Kamen Rider Pineapple (killed by a river), I might not be able to take it as seriously as I should.
edited 30th Sep '13 2:44:32 PM by Dracoblade
Actually, IIRC Urobuchi was promising no Grimdark here, just taking stuff serious.
Of course he also promised light, soft and heartwarming story with Madoka, so that's suspect anyway.
It's worked before.
Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great

So the latest ep:
Nitou actually does something. It took him the whole series to be relevant, and he feels kinda wasted, but it seems his status as an Archetype was important in the end. It's funny how we really see how he and the White Wizard are Not So Different. Both were in scientific fields that became wizards through artificial means (Nitou through the Chimera driver, and Fueki through creating an artificial Phantom). I wish they had put more emphasis on that fact, or played up the fact that Wizards existed in some form before Fueki pulled his little stunt. Nitou's very existences hints at a wider world to that of Wizardry.
One Strip! One Strip!