Decade acts as a retread/revisiting of all the Heisei-era (2001-2009) Riders before him - the dimensions are being destroyed and in order to stop the collapse of reality Decade must travel to all the previous Heisei Kamen Rider worlds and destroy? those Riders.thus we get a whistlestop tour of all the series since 2001 starting with Kuuga. I decided to start with the most recent which was Decade.both a good idea (short and a good premise) and a bad idea.but the bad idea didn't become apparent until after I'd watched some of the previous shows. Trawling the internet (as one does) I came across some mention of a new series - at that time it was W - and was surprised to find out that there had been new Kamen Rider series since 2001. I never looked at Silkworms the same way again after episode 5.Īfter the disappointment of Masked Rider in '96 I forgot about Kamen Rider until around 2011. Rewatching Black now I'm not even sure that it qualifies as a kids show.there's some scary stuff in there. Now obviously the demographic (and time period) is different between these two programmes - Saban wanted to tap into the Power Rangers demographic while Black had it's own thing going - but going from one to another was deeply annoying for my 12 year old self. I take the, probably controversial, view that Kamen Rider is the Japanese Dr Who - something that both kids and adults can enjoy. Time for a little compare and contrast:īoth are 'kids shows' and Black is from 1987. The hype was real for my 12 year old brain.however what we got what I was expecting. Skip forward a couple of years and previews of 'Masked Rider' showing up on UK tv tying into Power Rangers showed up.I even recognised Black RX as the Rider in question. Naturally it was all in either Chinese or Japanese but at that age it was just cool to watch dudes in plastic suits and robots beat the crap out of each other. This was just before the Power Rangers came to the UK and you can imagine that my mind was blown - especially given that I had grown up on Thundercats, Robotech (oh the irony) and Transformers in the late 80s. When I was a kid a friend of mine from Hong Kong had a bunch of tapes that he'd picked up in a market - those rather crappy tapes had some episodes of Gundam ZZ, Tekkaman Blade, Macross and Kamen Rider Black on them. Kamen Rider is a super hero show (tokusatsu genre - live action special effects) that has run since 1971 with a ten year gap in the 90s - much like Dr Who. I've made passing mention of this in my blogs before - but I am a massive Kamen Rider fan.
And now for something a little different.
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