Kamen Rider Hibiki thoughts - SPOILERS

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Kamen Rider Hibiki thoughts - SPOILERS

Postby Dr Kain » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:41 am

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Postby Lord Hastur » Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:25 pm

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Postby Dr Kain » Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:38 am

Sure. I got it from a buddy, but you can go to www.mishicorp.net for a BT version.

As for what I didn't like:

It starts off as a musical with everyone singing
2 of the characters constantly sneeze, which got annoying
The music is not that great and is not proper for battle music
The monster designs were yucky and looked too fake
The fight scene, if that is what you can call it, was more of Hibiki and the monsters just jumping around swinging through trees rather than fighting
There is an annoying boy as one of the main characters
Hibiki's costume is just too simple
The disc animals were dumb, not as bad as I expected, still dumb though
The whole episode was rather bland and boring

A lot of people that like the older KR shows seemed to have enjoyed this though, so maybe if you are used to the older ones, you might like it. I prefer the newer shows.
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Postby Shonokin » Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:23 pm

It's pretty much like I described in the thread. We have Tsuyoshi and Asagi wandering around the streets of an alternate reality or virtual reality Shibuya getting into fights with little Gangstas until a "monster" PISU shows up to beat on our two protagonists. But the pisu are really more like super humans than the kaijin we know from any henshin hero shows. Emma always shows up and tranforms into her armored version (which looks a bit like Iria from Zeiram) just in time to save our heroes and dispatch the monster.

The plot intricacies I couldn't tell you about because I'm not fluent in Japanese and tend to watch these shows while I'm working on other stuff, so I don't catch everything.

From the official website you can view the as they come out.
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Postby Dr Kain » Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:12 am

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Postby Crex99 » Fri Feb 04, 2005 1:37 am

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Postby Dr Kain » Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:53 am

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Postby Dr Kain » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:47 pm

I really do not know why people hate Ryuki though. I have never figured that out. It is the series that got me into Kamen Rider. People just seemed to not want to like Ryuki because of its card theme.
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Postby Xenorama » Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:08 pm

nah, some of us don't like Ryuki because of the whole HighLander thing, the characters that are eminently dislikable (Oja, Ren/Lian), the obvious Batman ripoff, the whole completely predictable ending (for the tv series, the movie's ending just makes no sense at all). the cards are pretty stupid, but hardly not worth liking a series over.

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Postby Dr Kain » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:54 am

Huh? How is Ouja and Ren dislikable? They are the best characters, especially Ouja. Ouja just plain rocks! Not to mention he looks the coolest of the 15 riders. Funny enough, Ryuki also got me into Highlander. And the ending is perfectly fine. If you don't like the whole reset thing, look at it from Yui's aunt's perspective. She ends up the worst off because regardless of what happens, Yui dies.
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Postby Garasharp K7 » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:08 am

Well, I've only seen about 8 or so Ryuki eps, and I didn't care for it either - mostly for the same reasons Megalo mentioned. Plus it's so unlike the older Rider series to be almost an enterly different entity altogether. I tend to prefer the older shows over any of the newer series anyway. the new stuff just ain't my cup of tea.
I suppose I should judge it as a series by itself, but the show's just so dark and moody I can't get any enjoyment out of it at all. I don't care for the style in which it was filmed either. 555 is pretty depressing too, IMO.

Oh, and I don't like the theme song. 'Let's Go! Rider Kick! it ain't. :wink:
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