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A well made Kamen Rider show that becomes an historical artifact
Quite a good series, to be honest, I liked it.
The suit design deviate from the Heisei series, they are much more slick and modern looking, it fits perfectly with the business-AI theme.
The characters were interesting and felt vey alive and real.
I like the plot, I love when Kamen Rider has terrorist organizations and politicking. Here we see yet again how companies can be the bad guys in Kamen Rider, and how the forces of capital can engeneer war and suffering. But in the end, they do resort to a "human malice" as the ultimate antagonist. This malice makes AI turn to violence, posing technology as neutral and is able to be used both for good and bad depending on human action. That is one of the core themes of Kamen Rider, that is here dealt with in the context of AI.
And regarding AI, despite this series beign made in 2019, it couldn't be made today. As a reviewer pointed out, this takes the 20th century classic sci-fi approach to AI, with robot coming from the czech robotnik, "forced worker". They are basically an oppressed class that do the dirty work for humans but are actually capable of thought and self-awareness (the singularity). That's quite different from our modern perception of AI isn't it? An episode where a manga artist has to learn to appriacete his AI assistant's work isn't writable today, when the fact that mangaka Inio Asano has expressed extremely pro-AI views has lost him a lot of fans. Really, this is a show for a bygone era, perphaps at the cusp of the shift in public perception of AI. Really, the fact that COVID impacted this show like it did only goes to show the historical moment in which it was made, when technological advancements are so fast that a TV series from only 7 years ago is now completely disconnected and out of touch from the reality of the impact of technology on society. This is almost and archeological artifact to be honest.
Anyways, very good stuff, reccomended. As far as Kamen Rider show go, this is probably A tier or something, even if towards the end it is very rushed (when i started watching episode 42 i thought I had skipped ahead by like 3 episodes, I guess that it's the showrunners that skipped ahead...).
Also the tournament arc was fun, even if unexcpected. And the main charchter has an Ai girlfriend which is his secretary, which is beyond funny. And the belt jingles were also fun.
"WHEN THE FIVE HORNS COLLIDE, THE GOLDEN SOLDIER THOUSER IS BORN!!! 🗣️🗣️"
But the episodes became kinda samey towards the third fourth of the show. Also we finally have a two female Kamen Riders (and one of them is a secondary rider)!!! But, as if by equivalent exchange, we don't have enough homoeroticism.
The suit design deviate from the Heisei series, they are much more slick and modern looking, it fits perfectly with the business-AI theme.
The characters were interesting and felt vey alive and real.
I like the plot, I love when Kamen Rider has terrorist organizations and politicking. Here we see yet again how companies can be the bad guys in Kamen Rider, and how the forces of capital can engeneer war and suffering. But in the end, they do resort to a "human malice" as the ultimate antagonist. This malice makes AI turn to violence, posing technology as neutral and is able to be used both for good and bad depending on human action. That is one of the core themes of Kamen Rider, that is here dealt with in the context of AI.
And regarding AI, despite this series beign made in 2019, it couldn't be made today. As a reviewer pointed out, this takes the 20th century classic sci-fi approach to AI, with robot coming from the czech robotnik, "forced worker". They are basically an oppressed class that do the dirty work for humans but are actually capable of thought and self-awareness (the singularity). That's quite different from our modern perception of AI isn't it? An episode where a manga artist has to learn to appriacete his AI assistant's work isn't writable today, when the fact that mangaka Inio Asano has expressed extremely pro-AI views has lost him a lot of fans. Really, this is a show for a bygone era, perphaps at the cusp of the shift in public perception of AI. Really, the fact that COVID impacted this show like it did only goes to show the historical moment in which it was made, when technological advancements are so fast that a TV series from only 7 years ago is now completely disconnected and out of touch from the reality of the impact of technology on society. This is almost and archeological artifact to be honest.
Anyways, very good stuff, reccomended. As far as Kamen Rider show go, this is probably A tier or something, even if towards the end it is very rushed (when i started watching episode 42 i thought I had skipped ahead by like 3 episodes, I guess that it's the showrunners that skipped ahead...).
Also the tournament arc was fun, even if unexcpected. And the main charchter has an Ai girlfriend which is his secretary, which is beyond funny. And the belt jingles were also fun.
"WHEN THE FIVE HORNS COLLIDE, THE GOLDEN SOLDIER THOUSER IS BORN!!! 🗣️🗣️"
But the episodes became kinda samey towards the third fourth of the show. Also we finally have a two female Kamen Riders (and one of them is a secondary rider)!!! But, as if by equivalent exchange, we don't have enough homoeroticism.
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