The Charters
Shinji / Kamen Rider Ryuki: Shinji is for a lack of a better term is an
idiot, both from the audience option and from the show writers. In the beginning
of the show Shinji begins out pretty week and not really all that strong and
well treated like a bitch. He is also sadly the shows butt monkey where
basically all the whole world craps on him and it happens to no one else which
is Inoue’s way of saying the asshole is always superior (or that is what I get
out of this) and it gets real old real fast. But over time (and some help from Kobayashi’s
writing) he becomes more stronger as both a charter and fighter. What I like
most about this guy is that he never gives up when it comes to trying to stop riders
from fighting each other, (and considering Inoue’s always want his charters to
fight for no absolute goddam reason) it is good here to see something different instead of
the Riders automatically fighting each other just BECAUSE! I MEAN YAH SURE it
never works out for him that he does make the Riders stop fighting each other
but still he made an attempt, and even the other Riders do admit that he is a much better man then
they are. And you can bet that Shinji Death was a Main
Rider main part of his charter, I mean a main Rider dyeing and sacrificing
himself to help his fiend this is just a wow moment. Sure the reseat things
were fucking awful but it is still great to see such a thing form a charter and
something different.
Ren/
Kamen Rider Knight: Ren
is an asshole; Ren is an asshole with a heat of gold. And well that kinda sums
most of his charter, he begins off as a real big jerk to Shinji and the only
person he is actually is nice to is Yui. But he is doing all of this for his
girlfriend Eri, and his contract beast was the one that put Eri in the comma
(yah irony). And he is a jerk just to build up his feeling so there is a reason
on why he is a jerk. And in the 2nd half he is a bit more of a
friend to Shinji and more friends to people in general. and well him dying to
let Eri to keep on living is well I think is sweet in my eyes.
Shuichi/ Kamen Rider Zolda: Shuichi is basically Gai from Jetman (not a bad
thing in this case though), he's a realest, free sprinted, he know he is going to
die but he's all like "SCREW IT I'm gonna whatever I want to do”. He is defiantly
one of the better and enjoyable charters in this show and it’s hard to like not
like him. The reason on why he became a Rider is that he wants immortality and
to live forever, but he does still die and learns the impotents of living.
Asakura/
Kamen Rider Oja: Asakura
is just a 1 note asshole and in all honestly just kinda of a boarding antagonist.
He does not change through the whole show and just fights because he is pissed
off all the time. I mean this could have been the Kamen Rider Ver. of
Abarekiller but they do not and is well Boring and it would have been nice to
see why he always get his 2 added sealing vents and unite vents but NONE IS
HERE.
The ore journal cast:
all of the ore journal members were just OK, the editor and chief I cannot hate
him just because of that speech he gave with Shinji near the end of the show,
Rekio started out as bad but at lease got better latter on as the show did,
Shimada was just their and really did not do that much at all, and finally
Megumi, the less said about her the better said about her.
The Music
When
I heard the soundtrack I notest that there was a lot of piano used in most of
these songs, also was it me or did the music feel like rave music (you know
that type of techno beast or I’m I making no sense, it's probably that one). The
opening is something to note about since this was the first time a female did a
Kamen Rider Opening and it is also done by Rica Matsumoto who was ash from the Japanese
voice actor for Ash from Pokémon (small world) and it is a good example of what
I mean about the techno beats. And most of the Rides and including Yui did sing
in the show which I always like when like a rider get to sing a song (I
man the Riders doing their own songs was like hardly used and I think Ren was
like the only one truly used in the show, but it is still their). One thing
that I did not like was most of the songs were used in not a good timing, an
example of what I mean is the show used the final form theme song pretty much
in all of the 2nd half of the show and even sometimes it happen when
Ryuki and Knight did not even go Survive or just about to go survive form. Or just
used a song once and totally never heard it again like with the awesome Hateshinai
Honoo no Naka, and well it sucks. Digital-ranger
jukebox recommendation: Revolution, and super badass mood for a final form.
And special recommendations for Hateshinai Honoo no Naka because you people
should hear it, it’s awesome!
The Good
Kobayashi's writting
It sadly took me this long to finally realize
why people really like Kobayashi is a really good writing and I finally see why.
She does a great job at things like human emotion and such good heart to her
charters that she writes, and a thing I now notest wither show always do
something with her reds (think about it Ahank, Raia, Ryuki, and finally EEEHHHHH
RIGHT all having the color red and unique to them, WEIRD), I mean not
everything she does is perfect but DANG IT when she does something good it is
enjoyable and this is what kept me watching the show, and I can full heartedly
say now that now I have become a following of her writing now.
The Rider Designs
I really
enjoy a lot of the Rider designs for this show and do like how they all look. There
are a lot of Riders in this show every single one of them all look unique and
different and yet they still all fit with in the same show. All of the Rider's
designs for the riders are knight theme with caps but even then with that all
of them look all different and unique, some of them all have this 1 part that
is unique to them Ryuki is like the most blandest one sadly but I theorize that
he was the base body all the riders hade, Raia has a ponytail tai, Imperor was
the first rider ever to have fir on his costume, Zolda has this light up eye, there
are more I can go into but that is just
on how I feel about these costumes, My favorite design would have to be
Odin just so empowering and majestic, lease favorite design is Gai, just not my
cup of tea. Heck evens the monsters I also like their designs as well as the
riders to.
Shinji's Death
This
to me I thought to me made the show for me I mean never before and probably
never again. The fact of even thinking about killing the main charter is an obscure
thing to think of. But this this right here was just a wow factor to see that I’m
impress that the show creators even decide to even think about this but you
know what this is the type of things that will be remember. I mean yah the
ending of rebooting everything made this even less worthless but still this was
good to see and sadly never again.
The Bad
Inoue's Writting
It
took me this long to finally realize THAT I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY JUST REALLY
DO NOT LIKE TOSHIKI INOUE WRITTING AT ALL. I mean GOD THIS LONG IT TOOK ME TO
REALIZE THIS AND I’VE REVIEW BOTH Faiz
and the 2nd half of Hibiki which he was the head writer for both shows. I mean
his writing is just the same from his previous works, introduce a charter just
to kill them off that charter being an asshole, a toy coming the hell out of nowhere
and finally treating a girl like a week and not strong at all and finally rinse
and repeat for about forever. I really do mean this I really did not absolutely
like this at all and it was a dreed getting through this part of the show.
Shinji Idiot moments
I
could not absolute not fucking stand, in fact I just absolutely hated a lot! I
mean when you pick on someone and treat them like your butt monkey throughout
the whole show that is not comedy, what that is, is just a desperate for comedy.
It gets old real quick real fast and honestly does not make him progressing as
a charter. This is just not comedy. It would help if you spreader it around to
others but when you are doing this just for shinji it makes it like your trying
to be a comedy that is not funny (kinda how I feel about the show really).
Shiro
SHRIO
IS JUST A WALKING POLT HOLE. I mean ok he is doing this for his sister which is
nice and doing this all for her but there are just SO MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT
SHRIO. Like for example how did he create the Decks, how did he created the
Ride shooter, the Advent cards, and just so many more questions that just
raises that it is just lazy writing (did I mention that most of this was in the
first half done by INOUE) but granted though some of was explain (which was in
the 2nd half of the show and again the 2nd half of the show
was all done by Kobayashi (just saying). Most impotently HOW THE HELL DOES HE HAVE THE ABILITY TO GRANT PEOPLE WISHES! Or as a matter of fact the more impotent
one revive his sister!?!
The Ending
The
ending is just a pile of crap and overall just a dissepiment. I DO NOT LIKE AN
ENDING WHERE THEY REBOOT EVERYTHING, it basically makes everything that has
happen in the whole show seems pointless (I’m glad I’m not the only one who
hates the ending because the end is hated among many fans). And even sadder is
the fact that all the charter ae reset and basically everyone started out like
how they all began AN ASSHOLE, SCREW YOU INOUE (I know that Kobayashi did the final episode but I still feel
like he is the one that actually wrote the ending). But this is not the only ending that exits for Ryuki,
no, no, no there are still at least 2 more endings to talk about and well get
to them soon.
The Gray area
This
is a new thing that I'm adding to my blog called “The Gray Area”. This is
basically where I think about something is not good but is not that bad, this
may or may not be in every single review I’m putting out now just to let you
people know.
The Riders being the main Antagonist
Now this was a very unique that no other Rider
series before this show with the Riders being the cloest thing to being the villains.
I would not mind it that much but there is just 1 thing that gets in the way
from me liking the show from doing this. ♪EVERYONE'S
AN ASSHOLE, NO ONE CAN BE FRIENDS WITH ANYBODY, THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF TOSHIKI
INOUE AND HIS CRAPPY ASS WRITTING♪. And that’s just it with everyone being just
an asshole there is like no difference between each Rider and it makes all the
Riders the same, (with the only
exception being Shinji and Tezuka ) and it is just boring overall just to see
the same Damn Rider just introduce and then killed off for like the whole show.
Maybe having all Rider as the antigens wasn’t a
thing not ready to do, maybe it was to radically different, or... or maybe it
was just something to early to do something like that.
Final Verdict
6.5/10
This show is passably, BUT just slightly
Favorite Rider List
Yet
another new thing added to my show is Digital-Ranger favorite Rider list where
now that I finally have review a total of 5 Rider series I'm now organizing the
5 shows that I have had review and put them in order from favorite to lease favorite.
Black is number 1 on this last for being very well done story, charters, and strong
villains. Black RX is 2nd because it is still a good show it is just held back
from some bad villains and also some more weaker things in this show as well, BUT
it did end the Showa Riders on a high note. Hibiki is number 3 because I really
enjoy this show more than others, the first half and also the strong bond
between asumu and Hibiki, but brought down just because of the 2nd
half of the show. Ryuki is #4 because of pretty much having only a few good
charters and that piss poor ending but is saved from the main Rider sacrificing
himself in order for others to live. And Finally Faiz in at #5 on this list
because FUCK FAIZ, FAIZ IN NOTHING BUT A PILE OF SHIT. I totally hate this
show and as of now I think this is the worst Rider series period (I would have
had just gone ahead and went back and just changed the rating on it to give it
the X virus award like I did with Abaranger and giving it the Prodigious Award
but I’m waiting to give Faiz that award in the future and you will all know
when I will do that).
Ryuki
is a show that I consider to be a mix bag because while this shows that I do
not consider being all that great but it is not really that bad either. There
are some Highlights for this show like the main Rider dyeing rider design, and
in my own option having Tezuka. But also a lot of bad things as well, which are
all boils down to Tokeshi Inoue and his very poor writing. But I have also have
seen people put this series higher up on other list which I can say well from
them. So this show is not good but also not bad either and hey looks on the
Bright sides of things after this show Koybishi would more better things like
Den-O a show many adult and kids really enjoy and OOO one of her critically
acclaimed series. While Tokishi inoue well he would do Faiz next year and he
has not stop writing Faiz ever since.
