Sean Akizuki's East Asian Drama and Movie Blog

After watching two episodes of Kamen Rider Drives comes what's not too surprising or too surprising for some. This is the revelation that Hojo Emu actually has the Game Illness that was repressed for some time. If I can remember it correctly there was compatibility surgery involved. I think the protagonist having the Game Illness would be an interesting plot for EX-AID's storyline. Will this invoke a deadly disease in Hojo and will it unleash a cool fighting form? That's just one question I'd like to ask and I hope the answer is a yes. How will Kuroto Dan play his Killer Bored Gemn  with Hojo's situation? He seems to be a toned down version of Gozo Kirihara/God Neros from Metalder but that may change soon enough. As a villain, he displays traits of deadly players like Sword Saint Bilgenia from Kamen Rider Black and Dr. Mikoto Nakadai from Abaranger. Kuroto has shown more and more signs of being cruel and calculating towards just everyone. Like the villains I...

After writing my post on darker or lighter softer Super Sentai , it's time for the Overlords of Light and Darkness to argue. What kind of Heisei era Kamen Rider would be better? Would it be lighter and softer Heisei Rider or darker and edgier Heisei Rider. Let the debate begin once again! A bit of a history lesson would take us to how Kamen Rider was cancelled after Kamen Rider Black RX. So no new series came except for a few short movies. Two years after the death of Shotaro Ishinomori the Kamen Rider franchise was revived with a new format. Kamen Rider Kuuga to Kamen Rider Kabuto  are considerably that violent and scary. I call that era the "Nightmare Era" of Kamen Rider. The nightmare era of Heisei Rider This era was already in conflict with the tone of Super Sentai after Timeranger. Post-Timeranger Super Sentai entries tend to be much less serious no matter how good the story is. Gaoranger was more of a fun ride with much less nightmare fuel than its predecess...

The story of the Eight Immortals Across the Sea is called "Ba Xian Guo Hai" in Mandarin. Xian is the word meaning immortal or some may loosely translate it as "saint". It was said that the eight of them were born in either the Tang or Song Dynasty in Ancient China. So who are the Eight Immortals? They have been banded together as a superhero team and several accounts how they became a team of eight. Take note that I haven't completely seen any series based on them but I'd actually want to check at least one series based on them. The superhero team provides a lot and I mean a lot of crazy action you'd find in the Wuxia genre.  The members of the eight immortals would be the leader Lu Dongbin, the old man Zhang Guolao, the iron crutch carrying Li Tieguai who helped the sickly, the musician Han Xiangzhi, the flower carrying Lan Caihe, the fan carrying Chung Lichuan, the tablet carrying Cao Guojiu and the the lotus stick carrying fairy He Xiangu. Eac...

Make no mistake that I'm a fan of Kamen Rider Drive but I never consider anything perfect. Nothing's perfect and no franchise gets better all the time. Next year may get better or worse depending on who's in charge. Here's what I call quite a huge step backwards for female sidekicks. In the past, we've got a lot of cool female sidekicks who either served as the brains behind the guy or those that fought on field. Junko in Winspector had no power suit but she's a badass gunner. Reiko in Solbrain served to help Daiki in rescuing civilians. Mimi in Gavan could pretty much hold on her own and served as Retsu's guide. I wonder did Oomori forget all that? Oh, I wonder if he intended Amy in Kyoryuger to be weak? I guess protests saved Amy from that fate but not Kiriko. What's so sad is that Kiriko had a very strong introduction. You can't be part of the police force if you're just a person who kept needing to be rescued. She progressively suffered fr...