Review: Shin Kamen Rider
It’s the age old tale of Boy meets Girl, Girl’s father transforms Boy into Mutant Cyborg Grasshopper Monster, Boy & Girl fight evil underground organisation. With motorbikes.
It’s the age old tale of Boy meets Girl, Girl’s father transforms Boy into Mutant Cyborg Grasshopper Monster, Boy & Girl fight evil underground organisation. With motorbikes.
In the near future, Humans live alongside extremely lifelike androids known as Humanoids. However, this has led to a new breed of crime involving artificially duplicating Humanoids and selling them on the black market. For this reason, memory backups are illegal and strictly forbidden under all circumstances.
Yukito Yanagi has spent most of his young life in a foster home, but one day he’s summoned back to the chain of islands where he spent his early childhood, where it’s revealed to him that he has special powers to battle a breed of monsters known as ‘Mitama’.
What if we ethnically cleansed otaku? No, what if we treated that as a *bad* thing though?
In the distant past, the evil Bugnarok were defeated by five brave warriors who went on to found the five kingdoms of Terra. However, a prophecy foretells that after two thousand years the Bugnarok will rise again, and a new team of heroes will have to assemble to save humanity, the Royal Sentai, King-Ohger!
With her arrival in high school, Michi is determined to leave her old hobby of Judo behind her. Howeever, the girl who beat her in her final match, Towa, turns out to be a classmate, and she’s determined to recruit Michi into her efforts to revive the school Judo club.
Known of only by a select few, the 52 X-Playing cards can each grant their owners superhuman power and abilities. After the cards are stolen from the Kingdom of Fourland in a daring heist, an elite group of operatives known as High Card is put together to hunt down and retrieve them. As the new owner of one of the cards, orphan and petty thief Finn is inadvertantly caught up in the conflict.
In his annual musing on the year past, Zigg talks about 2022 being dominated by high-profile sequels and adaptations, and why that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Gold! Always believe in your soul! You’ve got the power to know! You’re incredibly, catastrophically, destructible!
So, a hundred Kamen Riders drop onto an island…
In the sequel to the 2009 tokusatsu series ‘Kamen Rider W’, the Narumi Detective Agency protects the windy city, Fuuto, from attack by hideous monsters known as Dopants. The agency is headed by wannabe hard-boiled detective Shotaro Hidari, and his mysterious partner Philip. Together, they are the world’s first two-in-one Kamen Rider.
Directly following on from the events of ‘Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul’, Riko, Reg, and Nanachi have overcome the monstrous Bondrewd and look to continue their journey deeper into The Abyss. Ahead of them lies the Sixth Layer, from which no human has ever returned, and the legend of a mysterious Golden City
In a new adaptation of Reiko Yoshida and Mia Ikumi’s classic manga, Ichigo Momomiya has just begun her high-school life and is already preoccupied with asking out her crush Aoyama. On their first date though things take a funny turn as she’s zapped by a mysterious ray which gives her the powers of the Iriomote Cat. Now she has to band together with a group of other girls with animal powers to battle an alien invasion!
The Teppen Grand Prix is the pinnacle competition for high schoolers looking to show off their manzai comedy skills. Yayoi, Yomogi, and Yuzu are three students from Kazuki High School in Nanba who have entered the trios division, and find themselves boarding in a dormitory with the other contending teams.
Desumi and Fudo are hopelessly in love and learning the ins and outs of the dating game. There’s just one problem – she’s the Death Queen of the evil organization Gekko and he’s the leader of the Sentai squad Gelato 5, dedicated to foiling their plans.
The year is 2062 and Earth lies devastated after the failure of the automated workforce initiative Project Artemis led to a massive AI uprising that almost wiped out humanity. In an abandoned laboratory in San Francisco, a girl with no memories wakes up and attempts to discover who she is and what purpose she has.
Menou is an executioner with one task – to kill the unfortunate souls who have been warped here from a place called ‘Japan’ before they can use their otherworldy powers to devastate the land. However, that job becomes more complicated with the arrival of a girl with the power to defy death.
High school student Haruka Kito is having a hell of a week. Attacked by a monster, she’s rescued by an enigmatic hero figure, before a pair of sunglasses give her the ability to see a mysterious world beyond everyday illusions. They also mean she can transform and fight alongside other Momotaro-themed heroes as the Avataro Sentai, Donbrothers!
In the Three Kingdoms period of China, a group of ragtag misfits must hunt down the demons that are possessing people and turning them into rampaging monsters.
In the year 20XX Neo Tokyo is dominated by street gangs of disillusioned youths. To prevent all-out war breaking out, the government has decreed all conflicts should be resolved through ‘Extreme Baseball’ matches.