KD^3C^3 - 20250921 Girl! Why not give him the slip?
Programming Note: Going to be on Vacation next Sunday, but after. that I'll probably regale you with tales of kitschy tourist stuff I saw.
I've always been vaguely aware of Kamen Rider as a franchise. I knew it was a Japanese show kind of like Super Sentai, which was the original basis for, and provider of action scenes to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (end every subsequent power rangers series). But Kamen Rider's US Adaptations never had the same crossover audience in the US and failed, at least by TV metrics, and were cancelled quickly.
Kamen Rider is actually older than Super Sentai, starting a few years earlier than Super Sentai's premier in 1975. Yes, both shows were started in the 70s and are still going to day. That's Dick Wolf levels of franchise longevity. All I know about Kamen Rider is that it translates to Masked Rider and is about a superhero who wears a mask and rides a motorcycle.
Each season is a new storyline and that makes it very easy to jump in ans watch whenever. Except that getting it in the US has always been a little tricky unless one was willing to sail the high seas and rely on fan produced subtitles. Eventually they would release the seasons on physical media (Yay!) but if you wanted to dip into a season it was a bit harder.
Shout Studios, who put out fine products like the Mystery Science Theater 3000 collections, also hold the US rights to the show and stream episodes from the over 50 year backlog of episodes, which is cool.
A new season of Kamen rider started a couple weeks ago and the cool thing is that for the first time, they're simulcasting episodes in a bunch of countries outside of Japan. But it really is a broadcast to some extent. The episodes stream on youtube (and maybe twitch) at the same time and they aren't saved as videos-on-demand for later. They do re-stream them throughout the week so you can catch up if you missed it. Heck, one of the first three episodes might be streaming right now if you check out the youtube channel.
This season is about a young adult who lucid dreams and fights monsters as a secret agent in his dreams. Except it turns out that those dreams are real and if he doesn't win, bad things will happen in the waking world. I've watched the first 2 episodes and tried to stay up to watch the third last night, but because it's in a Saturday morning cartoon timeslot in Japan, tat means it premiers at 10:30PM my time and I got sleepy and missed the episode 3 premier. I'll probably manage to catch it in a replay though. It's kind of fun to have appointment level TV here in the far flung future of 2025, so I"m going to try to stay up on the series as it runs.
I've always been vaguely aware of Kamen Rider as a franchise. I knew it was a Japanese show kind of like Super Sentai, which was the original basis for, and provider of action scenes to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (end every subsequent power rangers series). But Kamen Rider's US Adaptations never had the same crossover audience in the US and failed, at least by TV metrics, and were cancelled quickly.
Kamen Rider is actually older than Super Sentai, starting a few years earlier than Super Sentai's premier in 1975. Yes, both shows were started in the 70s and are still going to day. That's Dick Wolf levels of franchise longevity. All I know about Kamen Rider is that it translates to Masked Rider and is about a superhero who wears a mask and rides a motorcycle.
Each season is a new storyline and that makes it very easy to jump in ans watch whenever. Except that getting it in the US has always been a little tricky unless one was willing to sail the high seas and rely on fan produced subtitles. Eventually they would release the seasons on physical media (Yay!) but if you wanted to dip into a season it was a bit harder.
Shout Studios, who put out fine products like the Mystery Science Theater 3000 collections, also hold the US rights to the show and stream episodes from the over 50 year backlog of episodes, which is cool.
A new season of Kamen rider started a couple weeks ago and the cool thing is that for the first time, they're simulcasting episodes in a bunch of countries outside of Japan. But it really is a broadcast to some extent. The episodes stream on youtube (and maybe twitch) at the same time and they aren't saved as videos-on-demand for later. They do re-stream them throughout the week so you can catch up if you missed it. Heck, one of the first three episodes might be streaming right now if you check out the youtube channel.
This season is about a young adult who lucid dreams and fights monsters as a secret agent in his dreams. Except it turns out that those dreams are real and if he doesn't win, bad things will happen in the waking world. I've watched the first 2 episodes and tried to stay up to watch the third last night, but because it's in a Saturday morning cartoon timeslot in Japan, tat means it premiers at 10:30PM my time and I got sleepy and missed the episode 3 premier. I'll probably manage to catch it in a replay though. It's kind of fun to have appointment level TV here in the far flung future of 2025, so I"m going to try to stay up on the series as it runs.