Kagami Arata
Kenzan
yea i agree, asakura was one of my favorite charaters from Ryuki
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yea i agree, asakura was one of my favorite charaters from Ryuki
Sakurai
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In all honesty, why can't he just call out his monsters and take out the cops? To this day, I'm still baffled about that.h34r:
That's simple.
His one wish; his one goal at that moment was to kill his rival, Bagon. And he thought he had killed him and it wasn't. It was Goro. From then he could see he would never face Bagon in a battle again, so he wanted to go out with a bang.
He wanted to fight Bagon. That was it. His goal wasn't really to win, but he wanted to kill his rival. Asakura respected Bagon. Bagon respected Asakura. They were like Shinji and Ren if Shinji and Red actually had killer instincts.
Kagami Arata
Kenzan
to true blizzard they did respect each other
White-Knight
Member
Kitaoka, you mean...
Anyways, I'm putting the fault on the writers/producers. They could have put Shinji's death in the last episode and remove the ridiculous ending and then put up a scene where Asakura dies with honor (criminal or not, he's a warrior in my view)
Forever Knight
Eye See You
I got my buddy into Toku finally. He always thought of it as "Gay Power Rangers ****", until he started watching Kamen Rider Ryuki. He's hardcore into it and started it sunday night and is almost finished the series.
I actually watched a handful of episodes with him too, marking my 3rd time viewing the series.
Asakura Takeshi/Ouja is still my favourite of the series along with Ren Akiyama/Knight.
I actually watched a handful of episodes with him too, marking my 3rd time viewing the series.
Asakura Takeshi/Ouja is still my favourite of the series along with Ren Akiyama/Knight.
Sakurai
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Asakura is pwnage.
I hated Ren.
My top three?
1. B4GON~!
2. Asakura
3. Sano (Imperer)
Glaive315
Member
Kitaoka, you mean...
Anyways, I'm putting the fault on the writers/producers. They could have put Shinji's death in the last episode and remove the ridiculous ending and then put up a scene where Asakura dies with honor (criminal or not, he's a warrior in my view)
EXACTLY!!!! A true warrior to the end and a true warrior that the other riders could never be .... sighs ...... he's the only one that fought 4 his own spirit, unlike ever1 else =(
Vox Age
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So I just finished to episode 49. And good god if I don't talk about this, it will itch at the back of my eyeballs forever.
Ryuki has kicked the living crap out of Kabuto. Faiz. or hell, Blade. Out of the previous full series new-gen riders that I've watched, nothing is holding a candle to Ryuki after 49 episodes of it. I love Kabuto's suits and gadgets. I love Faiz' gadgets and semi-drama. I enjoyed Blade's kinda-neat storyline. But for the first time, I really felt that I enjoyed a Kamen Rider series for reasons transcending wanting to watch men in plastic suits beat the crap out of each other.
Kido Shinji is dead. He got punk'd even before he transformed. He got stabbed saving a kid. When the dude puked out blood and continued to assist Ren anyway, I really wanted him to just go to the hospital or something. This wasn't natural. The lead Kamen Rider shouldn't be dying like this. But no. He utilizes Survive mode and kicks some monster ass before going. It was a messed up episode for me. But it was so messed up because Shinji was, after 49 episodes a dear character to me, even in his clumsy stupid red spandex costume. And he was just another Rider dying in a series where a lot of Riders died. If anything, Ryuki gave its characters value and didn't depend on cheap plot devices to bail them out(EDIT : THIS IS A LIE.). No. If he dies, he dies.
Does Ryuki belong in the lineup of Kamen Riders, courtesy of Ishinomori? By a conventional means, no. But Shinji represented the ideal Kamen Rider in a brutal, grim world where you must fight to survive. And in the end, he didn't kill anything but monsters. Even then he did it to save people. Sounds cheesy and utterly simple on paper, but that's what Kamen Rider is. Dudes who had the power to put on/transform into costumes, and then used it to save people. And that's it.
Now, on to the Shinji-less finale. This is a bummer.
Ryuki has kicked the living crap out of Kabuto. Faiz. or hell, Blade. Out of the previous full series new-gen riders that I've watched, nothing is holding a candle to Ryuki after 49 episodes of it. I love Kabuto's suits and gadgets. I love Faiz' gadgets and semi-drama. I enjoyed Blade's kinda-neat storyline. But for the first time, I really felt that I enjoyed a Kamen Rider series for reasons transcending wanting to watch men in plastic suits beat the crap out of each other.
Kido Shinji is dead. He got punk'd even before he transformed. He got stabbed saving a kid. When the dude puked out blood and continued to assist Ren anyway, I really wanted him to just go to the hospital or something. This wasn't natural. The lead Kamen Rider shouldn't be dying like this. But no. He utilizes Survive mode and kicks some monster ass before going. It was a messed up episode for me. But it was so messed up because Shinji was, after 49 episodes a dear character to me, even in his clumsy stupid red spandex costume. And he was just another Rider dying in a series where a lot of Riders died. If anything, Ryuki gave its characters value and didn't depend on cheap plot devices to bail them out(EDIT : THIS IS A LIE.). No. If he dies, he dies.
Does Ryuki belong in the lineup of Kamen Riders, courtesy of Ishinomori? By a conventional means, no. But Shinji represented the ideal Kamen Rider in a brutal, grim world where you must fight to survive. And in the end, he didn't kill anything but monsters. Even then he did it to save people. Sounds cheesy and utterly simple on paper, but that's what Kamen Rider is. Dudes who had the power to put on/transform into costumes, and then used it to save people. And that's it.
Now, on to the Shinji-less finale. This is a bummer.
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Vox Age
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Now I just finished Episode 50 and everything just reset, sans Yuy and Shiro. Now they're spending eternity drawing happy things instead of monsters.
The rest of the riders never became riders. Just normal kids.
What a cop-out ending. But at the same time it's a really satisfying and nice ending for me.
The rest of the riders never became riders. Just normal kids.
What a cop-out ending. But at the same time it's a really satisfying and nice ending for me.
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