#Kamen rider decade series
Which, one could argue, as messy as it was, is a far more cohesive and respectful homage series than Decade was. Tsukasa is meant to go and attempt to find his 'role' in each of the nine worlds (and later a couple of extra ones based on Showa series), but the fact that some of the AR worlds barely resemble the series they're supposed to represent other than vaguely featuring the same suits and characters with slightly-different names to the ones we know and love is probably why the whole AR world nonsense was dropped entirely ten years later when we got to Zi-O. it's interesting, but the fact that a series that's supposed to be a celebration and a homage to the nine previous series that came before it ended up being the Decade cast travelling into "Alternate Worlds" (officially termed "Alternate Reality", or AR) vaguely based on one of the previous nine series ends up making the show genuinely feel more like a parody at times. The concept of a dude who travels through worlds and just kind of wants to fit in (and maybe rescue his original dimension) but is rejected by all, only being able to introduce himself as "a travelling Kamen Rider, remember that!", while also being hailed as the horrifying Destroyer of Worlds. And it's not just because of the truncated ending either. Masahiro clearly loves being Decade, and in his appearances outside his home series, Kamen Rider Decade tend to be pretty damn cool. dicking around in his travels through dimensions.
Decade is awesome, and Inoue Masahiro portrays the traveling Kamen Rider just sort of. Hell, he essentially fulfills the role of a fourth Kamen Rider throughout the twentieth Heisei series, Kamen Rider Zi-O! And when given a decent script, or when he's written as a travelling, enigmatic Kamen Rider.
#Kamen rider decade movie
it's more that "Decade spends all of its runtime building up to a final act that probably should've taken 10+ episodes to tell, but was forced to be crammed into two episodes and end at a cliffhanger".Īnd, honestly, it's testament to Decade's actor, Inoue Masahiro, who is easily the go-to legacy actor who keeps coming back every two years or so to have a cameo in a movie or even in the series itself. A lot of the buildup to the mysteries surrounding Decade and his supporting cast is well-done, but the truncated nature and the lack of any real resolution is going to frustrate anyone who enters this series expecting a whole meal.Ī memetic line from the epilogue movie, after all, is "Decade has no story", and while that's a hilarious line to meme about considering the rocky nature of the show's story. And the quality of Decade's own series is extremely. Unlike the other Heisei series, which ran in the ballpark of 40-50 episodes, Decade ran for 31 episodes and was infamous for being truncated and cancelled, ending on a cliffhanger that's barely resolved in a couple of hodgepodge movies later on. and it kind of is, just due to the sheer short length of the series.
and people who discover the existence of Decade through encountering the character in other, later series (I myself first encountered Decade in a Gaim movie, and later on in Wizard and the early episodes of Zi-O) might be fooled into thinking that Kamen Rider Decade might be a series that's worth watching. Throw in the fact that this enigmatic world-walker is also the "Destroyer of Worlds", able to go to every world but being rejected by all of them, is also an interesting (if, again, fanwanky) story.Īnd. It's unapologetically fan-wanky, and given that the main character is an amnesiac man with the ability to transform into the previous nine main Kamen Riders, definitely will raise some eyebrows. Kamen Rider Decade is styled as a " Crisis on Infinite Earths" style crossover, where this tenth Kamen Rider, the titular Decade, travels through the various worlds of the previous Kamen Rider series and tries to unravel some sort of cosmic mystery while also looking for his own destiny.
and is perhaps one of the most infamous ones. Overall Series Review: Kamen Rider Decade is the tenth Kamen Rider series in the Heisei era.
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