Sean Akizuki's East Asian Drama and Movie Blog

Writing episode reviews can be tiresome. One may notice that I never gave updates on Kamen Rider Gotchard here. I finally finished the final episode. At first, I felt it was awkward since Gotchard's main cast is all that young. The main hero Junsei Motojima was born in 2005. Reiyo Matsumoto was born in 2008. It's only normal to expect it since the main cast are usually newbie actors. A lot of Super Sentai and Power Rangers main casts are expectedly young.  The show presents the Digimon vibe. I'm neither a fan of Pokemon (by Nintendo) nor Digimon (by Toei). Speaking of which, Saban Entertainment also dubbed Digimon in English. However, it doesn't try to become the second coming of Digimon . People get inspiration from old stuff. Fortunately, Gotchard tries to keep it focused on its intended target audience -- children. The Digimon inspiration is there but it's pretty much NOT Digimon at the same time. It's nice to see Toei try the schoolboy Kamen Rider theme agai...

Currently, I found myself not so impressed (but still liking) Kamen Rider Geats . If one thinks about it - the Reiwa Era reboot has Kamen Rider Zero-One (signifying a restart), Kamen Rider Saber , Kamen Rider Revice , Kamen Rider Geats (which is an obvious Kamen Rider Ryuki tribute in some way), and we have the fifth installment, Kamen Rider Gotchard . The show is pretty new but I'm getting some old vibes that only soon-to-be old schooler smay get.  The three sisters of fate look rather terrifying. A mysterious man (whose name is Fuga Kudo according to the reports) and is Rinne's father. The quest to find the Chemies is because the Dark Sisters namely Lachesis, Atropos, and Clotho are up to something. I was wondering if the use of Clotho here is because it's Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers' anniversary? Clotho was an ally in Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger while Gotchard Clotho is a VILLAIN. In Greek mythology, only the Fates are more powerful than the gods and not even Zeus ...

Like I said, I only REACT to updates, NOT GIVE THEM! It's time to finally do some "fresh content" since I've been watching more stuff I haven't seen from a few years back or even decades back. As Kamen Rider Geats may have wrapped up - it's time to check on Kamen Rider Gotchard. I checked on Orends Range and found out that the update came out just yesterday . I'm going to give my random rant on the UPCOMING show.  The plot goes like this: In the series, artificial lifeforms called Chemy were created by collecting the best alchemy techniques, and are made to imitate all things that exist in this world. There are a total of 101 Chemies, and they are stored in a card called "Ride Chemy Card". However, these cards, which have been carefully stored, popped out and were released all at once! High school student Hotaro Ichinose is entrusted with the Gotchardriver and is given the mission to collect all the Chemy that were released in this world. That sa...