Sean Akizuki's East Asian Drama and Movie Blog

One of the most interesting plots in Kamen Rider W is the Gaia Memory which is basically can become like drugs hence the term Dopant coming from the word "dope".  Without the right filter, a person can become addicted and even grow insane the more they use it or in other cases, death.  Now for how the Gaia Memory addiction destroys the users... The Sonozaki Family or the ones who ran Museum.  After some Gaia Memory addiction, there has been some drift like how Ryube and his wife Fumine/Shroud.  So Ryube goes crazy with power and so do his daughters Saeko and Wakana as they became Dopants.  It does tear them apart especially when Shroud decided to create a rider on pure hatred.  For Ryube, his plans to preserve humanity through his daughter Wakana as the new high priestess.  The problem was that this insanity tore apart their family and Philip/Raito was affected by his family's own addiction to Gaia Memory. Isaka is the best example of that destru...

Well I'm done with Kamen Rider W and I'd say it's like a mix of detective TV drama x Kamen Rider with some of those "hard to replicate" charms.  So the story revolves in Fuuto City where Shoutaro and Philip are part of an agency with Akiko as a funny sidekick who compared to Cassidy Cornhell in Dino Thunder, she's really a very useful character even if she does sometimes screw things up but overall she's useful. Fuuto is powered by wind power hence its name.  At the same time, people buy this addictive "dope" called GaiaMemory which without a filter, it becomes a dangerous drug.  Compared to W who uses a filter hence its unaddictive to the main hero Shoutaro, the Dopants are dopes to the GaiaMemory to the point of insanity.  What I also find unusual is that for Shoutaro to become W, he needs Philip to do so... and the latter has a background story I'd say adds plot complexity.  It does remind me of Ultraman Ace requiring two people before th...