Saturday, July 28, 2018

Tokusatsu in Review: Kamen Rider Blade Part 4

Blade continues with Hajime's true identity being revealed, the rise of undead outside of the existent 53, and Kenzaki's own variant of the dangerous Upgrade form...which is dangerous for entirely new reasons!


Saturday, July 21, 2018

Tokusatsu in Review: kamen Rider Blade part 3

Blade Continues as the Fourth player to this Rider card game enters the picture, only to make members start over in the 52-card pickup by exhausting their hands.

Saturday, July 14, 2018

Tokusatsu in review: Kamen Rider Blade Part 2

Blade continues with Tachibana getting drugged up by an undead into being it's pawn all for the creation of the series' third Rider gear, Hajime's stakes in the battle fight are more clarified, and Kenzaki creates more memes.


Saturday, July 7, 2018

Tokusatsu in Review: Kamen Rider Blade (introduction/Part 1)

Shinta delves into the origins of Kamen Rider's most memetically-powerful series And it's mixedly-received base...And also discusses the role and consequences a show where half it's cast couldn't competently deliver their lines had to its translation back when the only way to actually translate something was to listen to what the actors were saying.
 
 PLEASE NO REPLIES ABOUT TRANSLATION PREFERENCES; WE COULD CARE LESS WHO YOU USE AS YOUR SOURCE OF SUBTITLES, THIS IS JUST CLARIFYING OUR POSITION FOR THOSE WHO KEEP ASKING. WE REALLY, REALLY DISLIKE UNNECESSARY CREATIVE LIBERTIES REGARDLESS OF WHO COMMITS THEM, AND CONSIDER THEM WORSE THAN LEGITIMATE ERRORS AS THEY ARE CONSCIOUS CHOICES TO BE WRONG INSTEAD OF AN ACCIDENTAL MISTAKE OR ATTEMPT TO PRESERVE THE NARRATIVE. MISTAKES ARE FORGIVABLE, PRESERVING INTENT EVEN IF ONE MESSES UP IS UNDERSTANDABLE, DELIBERATELY CHOOSING TO BE WRONG IS NEITHER.

 Blade begins the Battle Fight with a trio of Riders fighting over the right to battle monsters to add to their deck of playing cards. And yet no-one sees fit to summon the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.