^I'm interested. Please explain
This is a Gotcha Force example that doesn't phase me anymore but when I first played the game when I was little something about the Galactic Emporer disturbed me. It was that gian brain you had to hit to damage him. I always thought that the brain was organic which is wierd since everything about the borgs was mechanical. So I was constantly thinking throughout the fight, how the h*** does he have an organic brain, and considering it's the size of a country I thought of maybe what he probably did with the organic life of other planets and maybe what he planned to do with the humans.
This series is Kamen Rider Deacade.
Kamen Rider is a series that aired in Japan in about 1975.
It has since spawned many sequels, though they are mostly disconnected from each other Final Fantasy style.
Kamen Rider Decade follows the character Tsukasa (the big one in the middle). He has anmesia. He is a colossal doucebag, very greedy, selfish, self centered, egotistical, and obnoxious. Get to know him, he is our main character. There is nothing noble about him, yet he is going to try and fill the role of the "hero" for this show.
The series starts out… with stuff happening. It looks like a lot of the bad guys from other series are attacking the city that Tsukasa lives in, and time stops and starts a few times while this is happening because sure, why not. He finds out that he needs to become Kamen Rider and travel to the worlds of 9 other riders (these Riders are the last decade of Rider shows, get it?) and KILL THE RIDERS THAT LIVE THERE.
To reiterate, the premise of this show is to follow this jerk wad as he assassinates previously established loveable characters from shows with large fan followings.
Apparently someone or something is messing with these worlds and is going to make them merge into one.
Decade is told that he needs to kill the other riders to save his planet.
Now… NOTHING IS EVERY EXPLAINED ABOUT ANYTHING (not even how they cross the dimensions) so I cannot say for sure much of the plot after this. But as far as I can tell if Decade does not kill the riders their planet will instead explode for… some reason. If Decade does kill them, their reality is fine, but will still merge with his, just not in a way that would destroy his world. All of this is done be an evil organization that wants to combine all of the worlds so they can rule that one.
However it is also hard to follow because the plot of the series is different from movie to movie to series…
…
I think that Tsukasa was supposed to go through the worlds and destroy the other riders. But he never defeats any of the riders. He never even fights them let alone kills them.
Or was it that he needed to be beaten by them? But that doesn’t make sense. If he is beated by one he is several flavors of dead.
Or was it that he needed to stop the influence of Dai Shocker in the worlds he visits? Then again Dai Shocker wasn’t in all of the worlds.
Or… I don’t know, it’s one of those plots probably.
… I think
Okay, so I don't know for sure since the start of the series seems to have a different plot then the end of the series. And all the stuff in between points to him having to beat Dai shocker… Which wasn't mentioned in the start or at the very end when he was fighting the nine other Riders.
Plus all the connections in the Black/RX arc pointing to the noncannon ending movie that had a different interpretation of what him defeating the riders really means.
There's a plot somewhere, I know it.
So I don't know exactly what it is.
And none of the people I watched this with can figure it out either.
Especially since he doesn’t just visit the worlds of the 9 other riders.
That just makes things more confusing. Especially since he does not get to choose what world he is going to, a magic screen of fate or some s*** decides it for him.
Yes, he's supposed to travel through the decade to the other 9 rider worlds.
But then there's a bunch of arcs where he goes to a worlds that aren't Kamen Rider worlds.
~After he goes to the worlds of the 9 Riders he goes to the Nega World, a world that is the negative of his world. After this you think that he would need to go to the negative versions of other worlds. Or go to the negative version of the 9 worlds that he just visited. But this is not the case; this arc is just there. It doesn’t contribute to the plot and just serves to confuse everyone.
~They go to DiEnds world. You know, that thief who follows them? The one with no motivation or character? Yeah, he has his own world, and they visit it. And what makes this weirder is it is apparently a subset of Blades world since the villain in DiEnds world attained the special power of 14 from the Blade series and then hopped over to DiEnds world. How did he get the power of 14? How did he hop the dimensions? Why did he go to DiEnds world? Why is DiEnds world connected to Blade if DiEnd is a new character made for this series with no connection to that universe? Remember how I said that this show explains nothing…
~ And they go into the world of Shinkenger. This makes no sense
because as you can see from this picture of them, not only are they not part of a Kamen Rider series, but they are not even produced by the same company. Shinkenger was simply the currently running Super Sentai series at the time.
Sense is not made.
But wait, it gets worse.
Each world that he goes to is not actually that world, but instead an alternate version of that world. This allows them to take liberties with the world, like change the actors if they have gotten too old or didn’t want to sign on. Fair enough, that is reasonable. But they also butcher the realities that they go to. For Example the first world that he goes to is the world of Kamen Rider Kuuga
(Actual) Kuuga is someone who has a lot of responsibilities to himself and others. Mainly to children since his sister works at a local day care and he helps out there a lot. He is friends with all of the little ones. He is also goes from fighting against the police who think he is a monster, to fighting with the police to take out the actual monsters, all the while he also has some family problems that he has to deal with. He is a character that is being pulled in many directions as he juggles and grapples with his many problems. His character is all about hope and smiling through your hardships and pain. He puts on a hopeful and optimistic face, even when he crumbles. He has to at least for the kids.
In Kamen Rider Decade, most of Kuuga’s character is stripped away. He is now in a relationship with one of the gender altered main police officer and is quite the angry person. He also is the first (and thankfully only) character to join Decade and visit other worlds. He also travels with some chick who wants to be his girlfriend, … someone’s grandpa (it is never really clear who’s, I think it is his but his girlfriend lives with him so…), and some other guy who shows up about halfway through the series who gets in the way and has no motive other than go to the worlds and steal random stuff of NO consequence. But for now let us focus on Kuuga, the person who has a series of establishment behind him. The hero who… left his world behind in a crisis since Decade pulled him out of his world in the middle of the Kuuga time line and nothing was fixed before he left.
What does Kuuga contribute to the series?
ABSAFUCKIN’NOTHING!
After a few episodes the writers realize how they butchered his character and try to make up for it by having him act like his old self, but he quickly becomes a caricature of who he was. That coupled with him doing NOTHING makes his character seem like a tag along cheerleader who is mainly there to get in the way and eat up screen time.
When I say that Kuuga does nothing but get in the way I mean it. There is one time that he is being strangled and he doesn’t even transform into his Rider form. He just lays there on the ground getting strangled until Decade can save him.
He does fill roles as they travel from world to world, but every time they are small and simple roles that not only do not need to be filled by him specifically, but could be filled by any joe shmo off of that worlds street! At one point his role in that world is to have a job at a place. Thing is, pretty much everyone you ever see in that world works there. And you cannot even say that they used Kuuga to get into the company because Decade is hired on the spot pretty much as soon as he sets foot in that world because the dude in charge thinks he is soooo awesome (really).
And this is just one of the Riders.
I am not going to go in depth with the others since you get my point, this is going to be long enough as it is, and I am less familiar with the other characters than I am with Kuuga. But I will give a few quick cliff notes for some of the ways they butchered the other Riders.
Kiva was an angsty and introspective character who was turned into a small child who whines, cannot make up his mind, and is a prince who does not want to take a throne and rule the monsters, even though he wants peace between monsters and humans and he is the only one who can enforce it and the throne has been empty for about 9 years already!
And they don’t just screw up the characters and the settings. When Tsukasa goes to each of these worlds he usually does a pretty fine job messing everything up himself. For example, when he goes to the world of Kamen Rider Den-O (a series about time travel) he fucks up time so hard that they needed to make a movie to fix everything.
But wait… it gets worse
For starters, this show is extremely confusing to follow. Not only do they not explain anything ever, not only does the story seem to only move along when people are fighting which is very frustrating to follow because the camera is very shaky to try and make it feel like more is happening than what is actually going on, but each arc is focused around a new story in a 50 episode series (which if you haven’t seen you will be even more lost, guaranteed) but each arc is a paltry 2 episodes long.
In Kamen Rider W having 2 episode arcs worked, but in Decade too much happens. They try and condense too much into too few episodes. Some of these arcs should have been 5 episodes they were so dense.
In order to help convey how confusing this is…
My friend and I were watching this. He was streaming it off of his computer. On about episode… 15 we invited someone else to watch this with us.
He has never heard of Kamen Rider.
He missed the first HALF of the series.
He was as lost as we were.
Or I suppose it would be more accurate to say that we were as lost as he was.
But there’s more…
Kamen Rider Decade comes off as televised fanfiction.
This series pulls a lot of unprofessional and sloppy moves with the script other than the confusing story that changes itself and how it butchers all of the riders.
All the time characters will be doing something and someone else will just wander in on them to try and force certain dialogue or get the plot to happen. Even when it doesn’t make sense for a character to conveniently wander in. At one point Tsukasa (the main character/Decade) wanders into a closed and private meeting between the heads of rivaling music/martial arts schools.
And another time the groups is split up after a fight. Half of them break into a school infirmary in the middle of the night to treat their wounds. Then the other half of them conveniently break into the same school infirmary after hours to treat THEIR wounds. Then a nurse that works at the school is wanders in looking for something… in the middle of the night.
Also, multiple times he will walk over to someone in the new world he just got to and tell them that he is from another world and ask for information about this new one. Whoever he is talking to will turn to him and, without batting an eye, will fill him in on all of the happenings of this world while knowing exactly what to point out. He even uses this once to get out of trouble with the cops…
Tsukasa also has amnesia. This never overtly comes up, but is instead used to lazily explain away the slew of plot holes that crop up from him knowing all kinds of things that he shouldn’t. When he goes into a new world he already seems to know pretty much everything about the villains of the world. From their name to policies that their organizations follow. He knew all of this before he got amnesia because in the noncannon ending that ties up all kinds of loose ends (yeah, dumb right?) it turns out that he was evil all along and was going to join forces with the bad guys from other worlds and take over, but then he forgot about it. He still knows about all of those evil dudes that he was going to ally with though. He cannot remember where he lives, and forgets being evil, but he remembers many facets about these evil organizations.
…
But by far, the biggest thing that makes this entire thing feel like fanfiction is the powers of the main characters.
Decade has the ability to copy the ability of any Rider that he defeats. However he never defeats any and still gets their powers.
He also has the ability to turn them into… stuff.
He can unlock a new form for the riders he fights with.
Usually the forms are dumb and make little sense.
The range of stuff he turns them into is pretty incredible though. He turns the other Riders into: a flying motorcycle, a mechanical dragon, a giant gun, a big stupid looking sword, a flying bird thing, a giant beetle, a demon, and a bow and arrow, and a giant ancient mechanical stone beetle/horse armor.
DiEnd, that thief with no character has the ability to summon other riders to fight for/with him.
However, that doesn’t matter because later into the series Decade gains the ability to summon any of the 9 alternate world riders in their final form. Which not only renders DiEnd useless, but renders Kuuga worthless.
Remember how before I said that Tsukasa was the main character. That he is a colossal doucebag, very greedy, selfish, self centered, egotistical, and obnoxious.
He is also super over powered. The series has no tension since he just wipes everyone aside with ease. Though that doesn’t stop him from having an emo moment in one of the movies and whine about how he cannot do anything and is worthless.
The terrifying thing about this is not just that it was professionally made, actec, scripted, produced, and EDITED, not just that it ran for 31 episodes, was not cancelled, and even got 3 movies!
And between it all there are 2 good episodes and half of the noncannon ending movie is good
In short, Decade is nightmare fuel for the same reason this is
Especially when I tell you that people like this music and it is actually pretty popular.
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