So after a weekly feast of tokusatsu with my fellow GHIDRAH members (catching up on Kamen Rider Fourze and Gobusters), I went home with a toku fix, and I've been giving thought to revisiting Kamen Rider Blade, which if you haven't seen, I wholly recommend.
I ended up curing my fix by finally watching the movie, Missing Ace, and I do not recommend that. :puke:
But the show, yeah. What it's got going for it is some thick-ass atmosphere and wonderful characters. The whole thing, particularly in the early episodes, feels like it has an apocalyptic haze over it, and there are some awesome character interactions through the whole show, particularly between one of the riders and a little girl. Several of the Undead (the monsters of the show) also have important relationships with the protagonists, which is freaking awesome.
And speaking of awesome characters, Sakuya Tachibana/Kamen Rider Garren is my freaking favorite-ist rider of the whole damn show. (by the way, he's in Fourze as well). He starts out as kind of an antagonistic flip-flopper but he develops into this badass, lone-wolf type guy who's kind of a bigger brother to everybody else. And he has two supremely, goosebump/lump-in-your-throat awesome moments. (If you've seen the show, you know which two moments I'm talking about).
Look at him. He is awesome. I would go gay for him.
Okay, not really. Anyway, discuss!
Oh, and here's the OP (sorry for the poor quality).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuy1wdTMydc
I may attempt more of OOO tonight after some work, or sometime this week. I'm at episode 12.
