Kamen Rider Double Rumor/Picture Thread

[musashi03]

^ As long as they don't go Kiva-like, then it's all ok.

 

[KAGEKI]

W has the best monster designs ever. I don't care what anybody says.

Mostly yeah, but a few not so much.

 

[Tokuboy]

They seem to be taking far more diverse concepts for the monsters.

 

[KAGEKI]

Probably they were getting tired of doing similar concepts. Also, they wanted to do something that hasn't done before.

 

[Lynxara]

But I think that's a charged word and personally I would reserve that for other female character deaths in Kamen Rider which really are atrociously undignified.

I see where you're coming from and I'm sympathetic. You've inarguably got a point that Tackle's last battle is far more interesting than basically anything any subsequent female Rider has ever done. Personally I'd much rather see a resurgence in effective heroine assistants like Tackle (or Diana from Spielban, she was rad) in Rider than more basically useless lady Riders like Femme.

I suppose if you've got a real feminist agenda, all that matters is if the trope was invoked. I'm a bit more ambivalent about applying firebrand feminism to analysis of pop culture, myself. In Tackle's case, I do think it was a fridging, but I don't think it was necessarily a bad story because of that. I think it was an archetypal story, but there's a place for that in superhero fiction, handled well and carefully.

The real value of pointing out the Woman in Refrigerator trope is simply to say, "Why must this archetype be invoked all the time?" A danger with praising Tackle's story is that, for Toei anyway, it sets it up as something worthy of being emulated. The lesson Toei really should be taken from it is "Done that, let's move on."

I think this is relevant enough for W-- relative to some other tangents the thread has had-- since W is the first Rider show in years where female characters have been allowed to accomplish much of anything. I also wouldn't be entirely surprised to see Akiko become sort of heroine assistant in her own right before the show ended.

 

[Painted_Outlaw]

If Zone Dopant's non-cgi, I'll be impressed.

 

[Kivat]

Zone Dopant
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Yesterday Dopant
[hide]Note on big yellow word, It mention W Movie!

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Zone dopant looks cool, it's very odd why it doesn't have a human-like features. :O_O:

W has the best monster designs ever. I don't care what anybody says.

The Fangires would like to suck the life from you.

lol nah, I think your right. While past monster designs where all meant to have something similar about them-Like the Fangires with stain glass design-the dopants are each completely different. Which shows so much more creativity.

 

[Lynxara]

Yeah, I actually don't like the "assembly line" monster sets like the Undead, Orphenoch, or Worm that are all really variations on a singular basic theme. I much prefer when Rider monsters, themed or not, all have a very distinct look. Agito's Lords did this really well, I think W is going for that basic vibe but more florid and over-the-top.

 

[Tokuboy]

Just like the old shows!

The zany monster designs work for a zany show like this.

 

[KingRanger]

Yeah, I actually don't like the "assembly line" monster sets like the Undead, Orphenoch, or Worm that are all really variations on a singular basic theme. I much prefer when Rider monsters, themed or not, all have a very distinct look. Agito's Lords did this really well, I think W is going for that basic vibe but more florid and over-the-top.

How exactly were the undead in Blade "Assembly line"? I mean every single undead in Blade had a distinct look.