Live Action Kamen Rider fan thread

[diet_orange]

Been a fan since Saban's Masked Rider. It always seemed badass that all MR needed was his fists and a good swift kick to take out a bad guy as opposed to the Power Rangers needing five people, weapons, and a giant robot

LOVED Dragon Knight when it was airing, while a lot of the violence was taken out, it was still just as grim and dark. The three part arc with Torque might be some of the best episodes of the show

Then W came out and I never looked back. Some of my favorites are Amazon, Black/Black RX, Ryuki, Blade, Hibiki, Kabuto, Kiva, W, Fourze, Gaim, Build, Zero-One, and Geats

Also, if you have any interest in Hibiki, I highly recommend Daimajin Kanon, it has a very similar feeling to it

 

[Yuki Senoue]

Are we witnessing a "healing" and return to form for KR? I'm not asking for something dark and serious like Shin nor early Heisei but something that could have some serious moments.

Are you watching Kamen Rider Gavv? Under the sweets and snacks aesthetic, there's a dark and serious story of Mafia, murder, drug trafficking... Shouma appears to be a mashmellow but when innocent people is in danger, he turns into a murderous machine."So, how it will be? You'll drop dark snacks for good or I'll have to kill you right here, right now?"

 

[Varyag]

And Kamen Rider Gavv taught me that

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Absolutely! I love how Gavv hides a sort of early Heisei darkness under the sillyness of candy and snacks. Shouma is a sweet pie of a guy but he goes all business when it's time to fight.

There's so much going on, like human trafficking, drug addiction, government corruption, dysfunctional family relationships and sibling abuse, survivor's guilt, worrying about a disappeared person who might be dead... there's a lot to unpack.

 

[mochi]

I only have watched decade and blade only i've been running out of ideas what rider series i should watch any recommendations?

 

[Varyag]

I'll give the same advice I often get for tokusatsu or gundam or anything of the sort: open up the kamen rider wiki, look through the list of Riders, and pick whichever one immediately jumps out as looking the coolest to you. Any of them should be a good pick, just go for what interests you!

Or you can just start going down a certain era watching them in order. I started on Kuuga and absolutely loved it.

 

[Mecharocca]

Full trailer is up, already found the 'belt' very cool and liking the cast of characters (Lopo from Geats is back and has a Yaiba Zero One vibe to herself). Also the bike...the bike...welcome back Autovajin from Faiz or Cheetah Nick from Gobusters.

 

[Pearly]

I saw Sabans Kamen rider as a kid, masked rider, it was completely different, botched basically.

However the merch was S tier at the time and I had a few of the figures and vehicles, by quality of design and the build quality of these, they were amongst my favourite toys as a kid. I have not actually watched the Japanese version of any of the series though. I am kinda curious as I was a massive bio booster armor guyver fan and that apparently is very heavily inspired by kamen rider, almost in the same way EVA was heavily inspired by ultra man, it's own thing clearly, but wears the inspiration proudly. Guyver also ain't gonna be finished, Yoshiki Takaya's assistant passed away and after that he returned to being a full time dentist, yes his day job was being a dentist apparently.

I had the power rangers figures too, but the masked rider figures were a whole other level of poseable and practically indestructible, also more detailed too. I was patient enough as a child to wait for the cool parts of the show and blank out during the rest of the saban version episodes.