Well, I got impatient and watched a raw of the first episode that just aired less than a day ago.

Spoiler warning, cussing warning, and my summarized train of thought while watching the episode:

(highlight below, again there are SPOILERS of what I saw)

Well this is probably gonna suck HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT PROLOGUE HOLY FUCK

okay time for 20 minutes of semiboring character intrOH SHIT THAT WAS THAT NOISE OH FUCK THAT'S RYUKI

well I guess that's its load blown for this half hour HOLY FUCK I REMEMBER ALL THIS HOLY FUCK UNDEAD uh hay fangires OH SHIT GIANT LOBSTERS AH HOLY FUCK IT'S A FUCKING WORM

okay here comes the pink suit JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST

hey those are the people that complained about OH FUCK THEY JUST TURNED TO

HOLY SHIT ORPHENOCS

HOLY SHIT FAIZ

okay that's about it for this ep I guess with all this exposition crap well let's OH FUCK KUUGA

okay episode's over, the win must be done for this w-w-wwwwWWWWFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

HOLY FUCK THE HOPPERS

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....So I take it you enjoyed it too?

Finally watched a few episodes yesterday.

Possible spoilers? Highlight.

I have a compelling urge to punch the main character in the face. Probably because he resembles this really annoying kid I went to high school with.

Nothing says bad ass like shades of pink and pinkish purple...

Does Decade/Decado mean something in Japanese? It just seems odd to have a character named after a period of ten years. Although in one episode I think it said something about this being the 10th year of Heisei(sp?) Kamen Rider, but it still seems like a bad name.

I am the destroyer of worlds! I am overly effeminate!

Holy fucking green screen batman! Most of the effects look like some high schooler did a half ass photoshop job copy and pasting stuff into layers and putting them in the wrong order. And don't get me started on the home movie quality CG.

The acting and the dialog seems forced in a lot of places and overly melodramatic.

I love how everyone can teleport, it's the only reasonable explanation of how someone can be on the other side of town and in the next frame be halfway up a heavily forested mountain...

The story, it seems like it was trying to start in media res and the characters are just as confused as we are, but suddenly in the second and third episodes Decade seems to magically know everything required for the plot.

Clothing, what season is it? I need to wear a t-shirt, a hoody and a letter jacket, or shorts with leggings and a sweater.

In episode three I saw several zippers.

Saw some more episodes and everything seemed to improve or my mind just lowered its expectations.

Probably doesn't help that this is the first version of Kamen Rider I've seen, so all I have to compare it with is Garo and the American versions/grand theft stock footage I remember seeing as a kid: the first few power ranger versions, VR troopers, big bad beetleborgs and Guyver. However, my mind has a tendency to "mentally" re-master my memories. Images may appear better than they were.

I'm starting to like Decade's henshin music way too much, I hope someone does a remix.


Other Kamen rider versions: I was able find Den-O 1-38 and Kiva 1-18 on torrents, but everything else had zero or close to zero seeders. Downloading 4gigs from a single seeder doesn't sound like the best of ideas. So my question is where did you get it from?

Hit up TV-nihon! They have loads of batch torrents and the like up on their site, and I think they tend to get better seed/leech traffic.

Decade's biggest problem is that it makes references to the last 9 years of series, so as a result it skips over lots of exposition and strikes me as assuming its audience are the longtime fans. (ie: great for me! )

Also, Decade's henshin music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8LaspeULQU

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Have you seen the current arc, Vange? It's a cross-over with Shinkenger!

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It's difficult to be yourself when you don't know exactly who you are.

I'm twice as excited for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBPfR8S3KTs

OLDMAN MINAMI KOTARO

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Whoa! No kidding!

That's like Big One showing up in the Gaoranger vs Super Sentai crossover.

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It's difficult to be yourself when you don't know exactly who you are.

This is a big spoiler for Decade episode 27.

It is also the kind of moment a man lives for, when a man was a boy who dreamed of one day becoming a man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs-48FLzZ5A

And the fight, if you want to go further.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkE_BUVTWr8

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Watched episode 26 yesterday and Apollo Geist's costume is awesome. Reminds me of Captain America merged with Sauron which is just kick ass.

Is Narutaki's (sp?) entire purpose to tell everyone that "Decade is the devil and/or destroyer of worlds," and give a maniacal laugh occasionally? I feel we don't anything about him, how he's involved in all this, what his motive is, etc. The same lack of information that really bothered me with Kai. Is this a "standard thing" in Japan or something?


Using your great Kamen Rider knowledge, do you know if any rider used a mace or bludgeoning weapon? Or a non minion bad guy who used one?
All I know of so far is Black's revolvo-cane and Kiva's hammer.

If you think Kamen Rider Decade was awesome. Wait until you see the next movie in december for the epic crossover of Decade and Double TEAM UP.. for the first time ever!

I'm thinking Dai Shocker must be the greatest evil organization ever. Why? Minions are nazi homages and luchadores. (Seemed more like luchadores than Japanese wrestling to me.)

Is there some rule about scarves and/or are they supposed to be symbolic of something? Den-O, Decade, Kiva, The King and Bishop all wore scarves in human form, Kai had scarf/mini poncho thing and Amazon when transformed also had a scarf.

I finished watching Kiva and it was awesome. I think I liked it more than Den-O, but I'm a sucker for Gothic horror elements, and Kiva's storyline seemed more compelling and easier to follow than Den-O's. Kiva also seemed to have a more mature atmosphere almost reminiscent of Garo while by comparison Den-O seemed to be much more specifically aimed at children.

Which series should I watch next? (Aside from Decade and Double when Decade ends.) I was thinking Blade or Ryugi, but does anyone have any recommendations?

I think the scarf is a tribute to the original Kamen Rider, who always wore a scarf in hero mode.

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It's difficult to be yourself when you don't know exactly who you are.

Ryuki is generally cool and unique, AND just had full DVD quality subtitling by TV-Nihon.

Personally I love Blade for its ending and progression (remains my favourite Rider series ending to date), but its opening bunch of episodes are tres weak. It's almost like it took the production crew a month or two to figure out what they wanted to do. End result was very fun, but you do have to go through some meh-ness to get to it.

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