Was Kamen Rider Drive Meant To Be A Robocop Style Kamen Rider Show?

Last year's Tokusatsu year wasn't so good for me with Super Sentai so I really decided to stick through some Kamen Rider. So I'd like to discuss about my road trip with Kamen Rider Drive and how it really affected me as a just flying through Tokusatsu fan.

Hearing that Riku Sanjo would do Kamen Rider AFTER Kyoryuger triggered me the panic button. I felt like that "Oh no! It's going to be a disaster." I've always had some biases towards Kyoryuger and no matter how much its fans think that, "It's the best dinosaur Super Sentai ever." I'd pick Abaranger or Zyuranger anyday. While Kyoryuger was horrid but there was some Kamen Rider Gaim to keep me occupied and entertained so I don't go completely backwards with Toku watching. Then it came, Kamen Rider Drive was one show I wanted to give a chance even after Kyoryuger left a bad taste in my mouth.

Then I took the drive with Kamen Rider Drive after enjoying the sweet fruits of Kamen Rider Gaim. As a fan of police-style Tokusatsu in some way (ex. Janperson and Dekaranger to name a few), I sat through Drive's first two episodes and just wanted more of it. Sure it wasn't really as great as Kamen Rider Gaim's writing with Gen Urobuchi but it was still a fun ride nonetheless. Some may consider it as Knight Rider but I really thought there could've been Robocop vibes into it. If you remembered Jiban's Robocop-like concept with a slain police officer, I thought that Shinnosuke Tomari was the show's version of Alex Murphy. Did the writers of Drive plan to mix Robocop and Kamen Rider before the show started? Can't really say but I had the feeling we were nearly going to get a Robocop x Kamen Rider show but it never got through executives. Instead, it was a Kamen Rider x Knight Rider show... both got the word "Rider" in them.

The whole show felt somewhat silly but I thought that it was a fun ride with Drive actually. So maybe, there were some few shipteases here and there but we had the Shinnosuke x Kiriko shiptease which they would later get married. So I guess Sanjo didn't want to have a cyborg x human concept so maybe that's why Shinnosuke didn't end up as the show's version of Alex Murphy in Robocop or Naoto Tamura in Jiban. For some time, I was really expecting some scene where Shinnosuke would get wounded by a Roidmude then he's being turned into a cyborg. It's been some time since we ever had a cyborg for a Kamen Rider so I thought what if Shinnosuke was meant to be one? The show could have also used the Roidmudes as the show's version of Jiban's Bioron monsters.

I guess that whatever reasons there were, Kamen Rider Drive didn't end up as a Robocop style Kamen Rider. Maybe the producers behind Drive wanted to do a Robocop-style Kamen Rider but the executives may have given a big flat no. Then again, maybe it was never meant to be a Robocop x Kamen Rider show but who knows? It's been some time since Jiban and Janperson both finished their airing so I thought Kamen Rider Drive could have worked out as a Robocop style Kamen Rider.

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SpikyTV I guess the series just kept us guessing, right? I finally got the chance to finish it after some busy nights. I was right that the killer was HANA (Esther Liu) BUT there's a twist - it was more of voluntary manslaughter than murder. Manslaughter is when one kills out of the heat of passion and that's what Hana did twice in the story. Hana had one against a client who used her and another against Sue after some unfortunate insanity attack. Hana ends up planning to hand herself over but her lover commits murder (towards a character named Chiang An) to protect her. The whole psychological thriller for me just didn't match up to what I wanted. I guess I was too used to how Victim's Game rolled out. I was expecting some real murder scheme. Instead, it was the anti-climatic manslaughter where Hana decides to hand herself to the authorities after what she did. I really still think that the finale wasn't worth too much of the wait. I was expecting something gran

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I finally finished My Golden Life which I was hesitant to watch. 52 one-hour long episodes? I was thinking it was easier to watch the Wuxia series that had 40+ minutes per episode such as Princess Weiyang which was quite long. A lot of episodes of My Golden Life would have a few minutes more depending on the coverage of the episode. So, I'm done and I never thought I'd actually finish it since I'm way too used to short K-Dramas. This one was rather long but it was rather entertaining in many ways. I was thinking about how Shin Hye Sun actually did well with on-screen partner Park Si Hoo. Sometimes, I'd like to joke about how they had a chemistry that looked good and felt good. Looked good? Both aren't attractive and I often joke how Hye Sun's face feels melted or how she was rightfully matched with Lee Jong Suk in Hymn of Death . Hye Sun isn't pretty but she really makes up with her good acting and likability. The same goes for Si Hoo with how he acts out hi

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This is another Wuxia series finished. I was having some expectations broken. The show can be full of spoilers when discussed even further. In fact, some characters are walking spoilers. If you're not ready to be spoiled - DON'T READ. If not, you can read further. I feel the show had some plot twists and turns. Besides, maybe some of the villains in this show weren't as evil as you think. Emperor Liancheng is an antagonist but dies before the show can end. Liancheng may have some idiotic obsession with Ma Fuya. It becomes even worse when Liancheng's younger sister Liansi and his younger brother Lianxi get involved. Liansi develops a crush on Meng Qiyou and even gets pregnant in the process. It seems that Ma Fuya was pregnant with Liancheng's baby but ends up in Qiyou's household after Liancheng dies. Liancheng dies doing a selfless act to save Ma Fuya. The obsessive empress Ma Xiangyun commits suicide to kill Emperor Liancheng. Emperor Liancheng's quite a

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dhathorMarch 11, 2016 at 5:41 AM
I too had my doubts when I heard Riku Sanjo will be Drive's writer, considering how Kyoryuger got bad (or should I say, too Daigo-focused). But he did prove throuhh Drive that he still hasn't lost his touch.

As for the Robocop concept, I thought that was going to happen when he got killed by Freeze and get Type Tridoron with it (after all, it could also serve as a tribute to the Showa Riders, considering all of them [less Amazon] are cyborgs). I mean, if you remembered, he really got hit straight to the heart, thus chances of recovery are slim (or even none). And I thought turning him into a cyborg might be one of the only plausible ways to revive him......

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