Hey, a representative of “Those guys” . Happy about and looking forward to your video series! When the few who do ask why I love this show and why it has lasted so long I respond with the following statement: The Kamen Rider series is just works by being fluid in tone. Some series are darker than others, while some are a bit lighter and give a sense of fun escapism. The motifs can best be summed up with “Imagine if the Silver Age of Comics never truly died but evolved with the times”, mixing ideas for superheroes with an honest child like sense of wonder. Where else would you see a fruit samurai or a wind powered karate grasshopper who punches evil German silly walkers or a magnificent bastard of a fox winning in a cosmic death game? Certainly not in Hollywood, that’s for sure! The core concept is the pain and sacrifice of being a hero, some lose their humanity to become something akin to the very monsters that they fought, others lose people they care about or allies along the way and some even lose their own lives or be unable to be with those people ever again because the war rages on. But even through all that tragedy, unlike say the edgelords at DC, the hero and the hope that they fight to hold onto will shine through in the end.
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Hey, a representative of “Those guys” . Happy about and looking forward to your video series!
When the few who do ask why I love this show and why it has lasted so long I respond with the following statement: The Kamen Rider series is just works by being fluid in tone. Some series are darker than others, while some are a bit lighter and give a sense of fun escapism. The motifs can best be summed up with “Imagine if the Silver Age of Comics never truly died but evolved with the times”, mixing ideas for superheroes with an honest child like sense of wonder. Where else would you see a fruit samurai or a wind powered karate grasshopper who punches evil German silly walkers or a magnificent bastard of a fox winning in a cosmic death game? Certainly not in Hollywood, that’s for sure!
The core concept is the pain and sacrifice of being a hero, some lose their humanity to become something akin to the very monsters that they fought, others lose people they care about or allies along the way and some even lose their own lives or be unable to be with those people ever again because the war rages on.
But even through all that tragedy, unlike say the edgelords at DC, the hero and the hope that they fight to hold onto will shine through in the end.
I'm glad you liked the video. And I'm even more happy to hear I'm not the only one who thinks of the series this way.
3:38 Little did you know there was a secret 7th one on the way.
It's true Momotaros has invaded my house.