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Kisekae Insights #41: Kamen Rider Decade Part 1

Kamen Rider Decade had a deeper story and nostalgic tributes compared to its sister work, Gokaiger. This is because Decade is meant to be a character development piece for its main character, Hiroki Ichigo. Contrary to my image of him, Hiroki was never the good boy I thought he was. He’s been disowned by his parents, he’s broken a billion billion hearts to save his own and he’s done some shady things to get to where he is today. Hence, his journey as Kamen Rider Decade is a journey for Hiroki to repent and learn lessons about his childhood sins while also teaching others along the way. His reward is gaining the cooperation of the Kamen Riders and unlocking their powers for his own use.

This series takes place in a smaller timeframe compared to Gokaiger (their adventures started in December/January while Decade’s adventures started in April), but its main premise involves Hiroki travelling back a month in time to gather the Kamen Riders and prevent the destruction of his city at the hands of an initially-unknown enemy. Be witness to Hiroki as he goes on a Journey through the Decade, beginning with the Nine Riders Arc.

“Just a passing-through Kamen Rider. And don’t you forget it!”

Episode 1: The Wildflower

Adapted from Decade episodes 1, 2 and 3.

During the events of Gokaiger, Hiroki was travelling with the Pony Doctor… even though he was missing for some time when Gokaiger happened. Out-of-sync timeline maybe? Inversely, the start of this episode takes place following the end of Gokaiger when the Power Rangers have scattered around to fight off remnants of the Zangyack Armada, because even after concentrating all their soldiers on Earth, pockets are still bound to remain somehow. This isn’t really made clear in the series.

The start of this series excises the Rider War dream from the start of episode 1, but hold onto that for later. Instead, we dive straight into the mysterious attack on the city as Melanie Yang and Kayley Karlington arrive in search of Hiroki. During the attack, dimensional walls (also known as Aurora Curtains) appear all over the city, bringing monsters with it. Hiroki meets with Melanie and Kayley and they head to UNIT HQ, where Hiroki is given the Decade Beltmorpher and Swiss Booker before he tests out his powers on some monsters, transforming into Drive, Ninja and Magica before his Kamen Ride cards turn grey. Hiroki is then given the Vortex Manipulator Mark 2, which has a randomiser function that automatically transports Hiroki to where each Rider is, then transform his attire depending on where he arrives in. After being given his mission to seek the Nine Kamen Riders and gain their powers, Hiroki is sent back a month in time alongside Kayley, who offers to travel with him.

In a tribute to Fifi and the Flowertots, the rest of the episode’s plot follows that of the original episodes with some modifications. Hiroki arrives in Never Land where he finds himself dressed as a defence-talent fairy (the equivalent of their police force there). The Gurongi, who manifested from human darkness brought to Never Land by babies’ first laughs, are targeting fairies (Fairy = 妖精 = ようせい = ジョグゲギ = jogugegi) in their sacred Gegeru based around Mt Meltlight to revive the “ultimate darkness”. Firerose, aka Kamen Rider Kuuga, encounters Hiroki as Decade and fights him, having heard from Narutaki that he was the “devil”.

Despite Hiroki stopping the sacred Gegeru, Narutaki’s summoning of the Hoppers causes N-Gamio-Zeda to be revived anyway, spreading darkness across Never Land that causes Gurongi to emerge from the dirt (instead of turning fairies into Gurongi). Firerose’s ally, Jolena, is attacked by a Gurongi and is brought to the Hospital Tree where she later dies. Being encouraged by Jolena to fight for everyone’s smiles, Firerose helps Hiroki fight and defeat N-Gamio-Zeda.

Lesson taught: Even if people seek strength through battle, there will be people who want to make others smile.

Episode 2: What?! The Guardians Return?

Adapted from Decade episodes 4 and 5.

Hiroki and Kayley leaves Never Land and arrives in Handan City, the home of Torchwood North for a tribute to Shugo Chara. Around the same time, Firerose is brought from Never Land to Handan as well by Hakushi using his TARDIS.

Hiroki finds himself wearing a lab coat with a Torchwood North ID card in his pocket. He heads to Torchwood North with Kayley and they meet with Zhuge Qiao, who asks for his help in reviving Torchwood North to its former glory. It is then that a man corrupted by an X-Egg appears, becoming a Fangire as a result. Hiroki transforms and fights the Fangire before Zhuge Qiao transforms into Shugo and fights him; she had heard from Narutaki that Decade was the “devil”, but she didn’t really know that Hiroki was Decade and it took both Firerose and the now-purified man to convince her that Hiroki isn’t a devil.

Going back to Torchwood North, Hiroki and Kayley help Zhuge Qiao and Tsukasa Amakawa bring the Guardians back from the Road of Stars, after they had sacrificed themselves to repel the Dalek fleet during their invasion of Earth years prior. However, Narutaki is cooperating with the Daleks to stop Torchwood North from reviving the Guardians, leading an army of Fangires and Imagin, the latter being humans who were given ruby necklaces by Narutaki. As Narutaki’s army approaches, Tsukasa is sent to fight them and buy time, transforming into Kamen Rider Duke using the Genesis Driver before he is defeated and Narutaki takes the Driver from him. Tsukasa would then fight as Kamen Rider IXA from that point on.

Although Hiroki and Firerose manage to hold off Narutaki’s army, the Daleks end up thwarting Zhuge Qiao’s plan, resulting in the four Riders working together to defeat Narutaki, her army and the Daleks. Shugo’s Final Form Ride is summoning the giant Guardian Sword to perform an attack akin to the team finishing attack from Gaoranger/Wild Force.

Following this, Firerose joins Hiroki and Kayley on their travels.

Lesson taught: Failure does not mean giving up – there will always be a solution, even if it is a compromise.

Episode 3: The Awakening

Adapted from Decade episodes 12 and 13.

Hiroki’s gang arrives in Swansea, Wales as Hiroki appears dressed as a Salacian prince. Fun fact - my description has it as “a mix of Marcello and the Shark King” which is practically just Veto and I wrote his wiki page before I started work on this series. This episode isn’t a tribute to Sea Princesses (yet, though it is a pseudo-tribute), but to My Bride is a Mermaid. The featured Salacian Riders are the four Amazons Riders, Juli, Jessi, Agostinha and Squid Girl. We also meet Lilimuro, a Flowertot who left Never Land and ended up helping Zhuge Shu and his family.

I’ve written about much of this and the next episode’s plot in #13 so I won’t bore you with all the details. I brought Another Agito since its suit was remade for Gorider, which begs the question why they didn’t remake the suit for regular Gills as well if both suits were water damaged.

Lesson learnt: While humans are misled by power because they are foolish, it is only so that they can achieve success. Humans may stray from their path, but they still continue on their journeys, even if it is a mistake.

Episode 4: Driven to Destruction

Adapted from Decade episodes 8 and 9.

Hiroki arrives in Chipping Cheddar and finds himself dressed in tights and a leotard in a tribute to Angelina Ballerina. I’d say “I’m not kidding” here, but that would be sexist given that male ballerinas are a thing.

A portion of the Animal Army, an original villain group among the monsters appearing in the first episode, is led by Garfield as Kamen Rider Psyga and Arlene as the Smilodon Dopant. Mirroring the scenes from the original episode, Caramelo makes an appearance as Todoroki, but his identity isn’t revealed as he was just a summon by Narutaki.

At the end of the episode, a Roidmude takes on Lilimuro’s form, foreshadowing the conclusion of the series’ first arc. We also get a cameo from Terry and Saki Mizukoshi along with Jon, Liz, Odie and Nermal from the Garfield franchise. Narutaki breaks into Charlie the Monkey’s laboratory and takes a Genesis Driver along with the EFTPOS Gunmorpher.

Lesson taught: Old enemies will be old enemies. If they want to clear a mutual obstacle in front of them, they need to show compassion and work together to eliminate it.

Episode 5: Animal Farm

Adapted from Decade episodes 10 and 11.

This tribute to Bananas in Pyjamas is named after the George Orwell novel of the same name. Hiroki is dressed in pyjamas and fedora for this one.

Hiroki and gang arrive in Cuddlestown where he learns from Rat in a Hat that animals have been acting strange for some time. As a bunch of chickens combine into two Megatori monsters outside, they are defeated by B1 and B2 as Kamen Rider Double. Other animal monsters also appear but they are defeated by the Teddies as Gaim, Baron and Ryugen.

Following the battle, the group meets with Charlie in his lab, where we learn that he and other UNIT scientists created the Double Driver and Genesis Driver by reverse-engineering the Lost Driver and Sengoku Driver(s) that came from a dimensional hole two years prior. It is then that Old Major, aka Kamen Rider Faiz, is spotted outside Rat’s shop; Rat goes to fight him as Zangetsu but is defeated by Faiz Axel Form. Narutaki uses her EFTPOS Gunmorpher to activate Faiz’s Final Form Ride and defeat Decade and the other Riders.

A group of mercenaries led by Noel Swarovski capture Hiroki and Old Major, hoping to gain the backstory of the latter. The mercenaries are unable to extract that information from Old Major, but Hiroki manages to do so, learning that the Animal Army was founded with assistance from an activist group known as Food Chain Breakers (FCB), who gave animals human sentience so they could rebel against them. At the same time, Charlie also reveals that he created the Decade Riders’ equipment, with the Diend Gunmorpher and EFTPOS Gunmorpher being created as backup equipment for the purpose of stopping Decade should he go rogue. Kayley is given the Diend Gunmorpher for fear that it would fall in the wrong hands, making her the first female Secondary Rider on a currently-running series before Toei would do so in Kamen Rider Gotchard with Majade. (There are also a number of female Primary Riders in my personal project, but they are not the main protagonists and it’s unlikely that Toei will ever do so for their flagship Kamen Rider series.)

The FCB and the Animal Army attacks the mercenaries’ lair at full force, leading the Bananas and Teddies to head to the scene alongside Kayley, who makes her debut as Kamen Rider Diend. The FCB leader, Grant Walliday, makes his appearance as the series-original Edge Dopant (with swords for hands) and is defeated by Decade and Double with the latter’s Final Form Ride. Narutaki arrives with Rat, ordering him to transform into Zangetsu Shin and kill the Riders before she brings Diend to another dimension to fight Kamen Rider Ryuga. Decade and his allies win and Hiroki’s gang goes off to their next destination.

Lesson taught: If people want to be vegetarian (or vegan) to show their compassion for animals, then it is their own decision, but they should not force others into making that decision for them.

Episode 6: Lights of the East

Adapted from Decade episodes 16 and 17.

The group arrives in Tokyo and they meet the Hurricanegers, Hiroki finding himself dressed in a noragi similar to that of Souji Tendou in Kabuto. Recognising Hiroki as Decade, the Hurricanegers take him in for safety and they go to a café owned by Grandma Cooper and her granddaughter Beth, which serves clam chowder (replacing oden from the original episode). Grandma Cooper’s grandson is Tommy Cooper, aka Kamen Rider Kabuto and the leader of the New Tongmenghui. The Faiz Riders are also featured in this episode, starting a mini-arc where the featured Riders of an episode reappear in the next episode.

Meanwhile, Narutaki colludes with ZECT, Smart Brain, the FCB, the mercenaries from the previous episode and the New Tongmenghui for her triple-layered plan to commit genocide; convert humans into Orphnoch using Rassmussen’s video from Sleep No More, then cause a global nuclear disaster to kill all humans and Orphnoch while also killing the 20 million Zygons living on Earth or mutating them into Worms. Some of Angela’s co-conspirators rebel as a result of this and Hiroki works with them and the Hurricanegers to defeat her and thwart her plans.

Hiroki’s encounter with HurricaneRed, Hikaru Azuma, causes him to become ashamed of himself due to his autism and as a result, being reminded of Hideko Kimihara, someone he would rather forget due to how people used to ship the two of them together (in forced-marriage plots) and because he loves Akari and not Hideko. Hiroki learns from Hikaru and his friends that being autistic isn’t something to be ashamed of and that many people learn to accept and embrace it. This plot point is a result of this episode being a tribute to the manga With the Light.

Lorah, Hugo and Tata, the featured Salacian Riders, are working with ZECT in this episode, but at the end of the episode, they are knocked out by Narutaki and copied by Roidmudes.

Lesson learnt: Autism isn’t something to be ashamed of. Anyone can have the potential to be remarkable and we should learn to accept ourselves for who we are.

Episode 7: Displaced Spirits

A largely original episode with minimal adaptation.

As with before, I’ve covered this and the next episode in #13 so I won’t repeat myself again here. Yuki Yamaki is the featured Rider in this episode as this is a tribute (of sorts) to Naisho no Tsubomi, a manga anthology centred around different girls named Tsubomi as they learn about puberty and other things. It is also a pseudo-tribute to Torchwood, Madoka Magica, GARO and Sea Princesses, with the featured Salacian Riders being the Oni Riders led by Marli and Maurico along with Kamen Rider Hibiki aka Marcela, the lost Hammerhead Shark Princess. Tubarina also makes an appearance as Kamen Rider Ouja but she merely serves as an informant for Narutaki.

Kabuto and Gatack make an appearance with the New Tongmenghui and they are the Riders who get taught a lesson in this episode. They return to Grandma Cooper’s café at the end of the episode. Hiroki is dressed similar to Captain Jack Harkness, who makes a cameo at the end to compliment his outfit.

After the main battle of the episode, Narutaki confronts Hiroki about the Hybrid and alludes to him being it as she notes that he has never been entirely human all his life and that he has been slowly losing his humanity for a number of years now. Hiroki asks Narutaki what she has become and she replies with his usual catchphrase.

Lesson taught: Children need to learn the difference between right and wrong from their parents. Freedom has its limits.

Episode 8: The Searching Boy

Adapted from Decade episodes 7 and 8. Also a sequel to the Sea Princesses episode The Boy.

Finally, the actual tribute episode to Sea Princesses. Narutaki makes her debut as Kamen Rider Gold Drive in this episode and would alternate between the two power sets until Soulbound Series 3. The Octonauts also make an appearance following Doctor Who Series 8 in 2014.

Hiroki is dressed as Squid Girl as some Core Driviar technology is given to him in the form of Shift Cars and Signal Bikes. This episode is the first of a two-parter plot involving Narutaki triggering the Global Freeze to conclude the Nine Riders Arc. The Goddess Salacia makes her debut as Kamen Rider Saga and is also revealed to have been copied by a Roidmude. Kayley is the one who teaches the Shark King a lesson in place of Hiroki, even going so far as to use his catchphrase.

Although Decade, Ryuki and their allies manage to stop Narutaki’s plan, she reveals that this was merely a test for the true Global Freeze when she double-crosses the Shark King. Regardless, this marks the start of a new peace between Drylanders and Salacians as Polvina reunites with Daniel Camielez (aka Kamen Rider Ryuki, the Drylander boy from the titular episode) and Marcello reunites with Marcela.

Lesson taught (by Kayley): You cannot rely on yourself to fight for or protect something.

Episode 9: Who is the real Kamen Rider of Silverhatch Racetrack?

Adapted from Drive episodes 44, 45, 46 and 47.

Hiroki arrives at Silverhatch Racetrack and finds himself dressed as Toramata Suzuki (鈴木虎亦), modelled on real-life commentator Toshihiro Suzuki (鈴木敏弘) from that one video of his hilarious race commentary. He is hired as a replacement commentator after Big Chris decided to take family leave (this was around the time when Peter Kay had cancelled all work projects for family reasons; I wasn’t sure what to do with Big Chris so all he got was a cameo in the final episode of Gokaiger), with Violet joining the team as their replacement mechanic.

Hiroki commentates a race as Flash crashes it towards the end in Tridoron. Narutaki sends forth some Roidmudes and Flash transforms into Kamen Rider Drive to fight them in a staged battle before Mr Carburettor fights him as Mashin Chaser. After Drive escapes, PC Pete informs everyone that Tridoron and Drive’s equipment were stolen from Shinnosuke Tomari. Hiroki and Mr Carburettor go with PC Pete to investigate and they find Akari’s brother, who transforms into Kamen Rider Mach and fights Decade. Later, Shinnosuke plays a video that Krim Steinbelt made for Hiroki and the others, allowing them to learn of Narutaki’s collusion with Tenjūrō Banno to trigger the Global Freeze.

You will recall that certain characters were copied by Roidmudes in previous episodes. Firerose’s friend, Lilimuro, was copied by Roidmude 006, whose evolved form is the Blazer Roidmude (I don’t remember the inspiration for it so I think it was original). Lorah was copied by Roidmude 088, whose evolved form is the Aqua Roidmude (resembling Kamen Rider Aqua) and the Goddess Salacia was copied by Roidmude 055, whose evolved form is the Ocean Roidmude (resembling Kamen Rider Poseidon). Hugo and Tata were copied by Roidmudes 039 and 093; though they do not have evolved forms, they can transform into Drake and Sasword just like their templates. Blazer, Aqua, Ocean and Gold Drive are the four Super Evolved Roidmudes used to power up the Sigma Circular. Heart tries to stop her but he is destroyed by Drive Type Formula.

Narutaki begins digitising humanity as she unleashes all the Roidmudes on Hiroki and the others; the Ryuki Riders arrive to assist as well, being spared from the effects of the Global Freeze thanks to them modifying Time Vent using technology Narutaki left in Salacia. Firerose finds his determination to continue travelling and protecting the smiles of everyone around the world, allowing him to unlock Kuuga Ultimate Form (the Rising Forms were not featured due to time constraints). Narutaki is defeated as she is sent flying; Hiroki takes her back to Silverhatch and leaves her there before he leaves with his friends. To be honest, if I’d known that Banno’s destruction scene at the hands of Gou would be such a meme (in China), I would’ve adapted it for a bit of tension between Hiroki and Narutaki.

Having completed his mission, the randomiser unlocks and Hiroki is allowed to return, but he decides to take the long way around as he still has some time left and there are also other Riders who are not part of the original Kamen Rider Project that he can meet.

Lesson learnt (by Firerose): There is just as much evil on Earth as there is on other worlds (including Never Land) and people need to work together to overcome it.

This ends the Nine Riders Arc; we continue in the next instalment with the TV Movie Specials, the New Worlds Arc and the Age of Riders movies. Although plans have changed during the development years, the stories are still epic.

#kisekae insights #kamen rider #kamen rider decade

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mightytwogunkid · 5 years

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The Simplified Story of Bucky and Toro

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teach me senpai

ayt here’s the short version (not so short actually i got passionate lol)

So Bucky Barnes the TEENAGE sidekick to Steve Rogers known as Captain America & Toro Raymond the teenage sidekick to Jim Hammond the Human Torch

So Bucky and Toro met back in the summer of 1941. Steve often had alone missions (more dangerous, remember that Bucky was like 13 before all that got retconned) so he left Bucky to do speeches in front of the Sentinels of Liberty (which is like a political group but also a Captain America fan club). Bucky Meets four other boys with who he forms the Young Allies

Then Toro shows up (he was probably bored) and decides he’s the leader now. (Toro had been a sidekick longer than Bucky) Bucky doesn’t agree, they fight the Red Skull and become best of friends

Just think about the fact that Marvel’s first team-up series was a Bucky/Toro event

The U.S. entered WW2 a few months later. Toro and Bucky was part of the Invaders alongside Steve, Jim, Namor and other heroes that joined later (or were retconned as part of the team)

They were also part of the Kid Commandos, the junior division of the Invaders

The Young Allies were still a thing while they were at war, the other members having joined the military as well.

(if you’re an MCU fan, you may ask yourself where do the Howling Commandos fit in all this, and the answer is: nowhere, it was actually Nick Fury (now Sr)’s team (bucky and steve teamed up with them tho)

Which meant that unless Bucky was on a mission alone with Cap or being kidnapped cuz he liked rushing into things, Bucky spent most of his time with Toro.

Death and resurrection under the read more (there’s also a TL;DR)

The perfect expression to describe Bucky and Toro would be “Thick as thieves”. One of their favourite activities was annoying the heck out of Namor.

It’s important to note that Namor deeply cares about the two boys tho, he’s “Uncle Namor” basically.

Then as we all know, Bucky, Steve and Jim all “died”. Only Toro and Namor (out of the main invaders) survived WW2. Toro got married but was killed horribly during the ’50s.

And now we get to the part about what makes this an EPIC friendship that survives death and 70 years apart

So as everyone knows Captain America was found in ice and Bucky was a brainwashed assassin for the Red Room, but Steve freed him. Then came Civil War and Steve was killed awaiting trial. Bucky became Captain America.

Bucky went and looked to see what had happened to all his war buddies (2 of them were still alive, one died the same night Bucky visited him, the other a few months later).

Now this where it all happens, in Invaders/Avengers. I recommend reading it because I really like it but a quick summary: The Invaders time travel to the present time. The invaders fight the mighty avengers, then they realize they are fighting for nothing. The New Avengers join in, they all fight the life model decoys that are rebelling, then the invaders go back to their time, some avengers go with them, they all foil hydra’s plans and the avengers return to their time.

Now for the Bucky & Toro subplot: sidekick!ww2!bucky meets some dude dressed as Captain America that is clearly NOT Steve. (remember it’s older Bucky but neither does younger Bucky nor the PUBLIC know that). Captain America tells younger Bucky to take care of his arm and to not go on the bombs, to not be a hero just once

Toro finds out that he dies saving Namor from the Mad Thinker. Because of the wording of the dude that told him and information Toro does not have, he’s left to believe that Jim and Steve left him to die. (Steve was on ice and Jim was “dead”, but they came back to life after Toro had died but Toro didn’t know that he just knew they were alive AFTER he had died so he assumed they were alive WHEN he had died, you get me?)

now this scene here, is SUPER important, because now Bucky sees that his death, also affects Toro’s death

When Bucky went back to his time, he held the cosmic cube. He had the opportunity to change his fate, to not die the way thew future Cap had warned him about. But he can’t. Then later, when that fateful day comes, he ignores future Cap again as well as Steve because a lot of people could die from that bomb and he can’t let that happen, he’s a hero. And he can’t change the past without any consequences. He falls, you what happened.

In the present, Toro digs his way out of a grave. The original Vision (a martian and an Invader) is waiting for him. Someone wanted Toro to live.

Present time!captain America!Bucky helped Toro adapt to modern times.

For a while Toro was in character limbo, Marvel had kind of forgotten about him. marvel often forgets about Bucky’s friends. Bucky also died in Fear Itself (and after he came back to life, Marvel was like, you know all those friends he made while he was Captain America, well let’s just ignore that they were friends, especially when it comes to former circus kids.)

Toro was in custody of SHIELD where they ran tests on him. They thought he was a mutant, but it Turned out he was actually an Inhuman (which meant he had alien blood), and he was invited to New Attilan, home of the Inhumans.

Now Toro shows up from time to time in Inhuman-related storylines and the Invaders comic (although on rare occasions, mostly in flashbacks, he’s more like a part-time member and doesn’t really fight alongside the others). Marvel doesn’t really let him team up with Bucky much probably because (1) It would be total chaos and (2) it would ruin Bucky’s dark and broody image that makes him popular as the Winter Soldier

so this is the simplified version, there’s more to it and there’s stuff that’s been retconned multiple times because golden age (All-Winners Squad and their ages and Steve and Bucky's death, the replacement cap and Bucky, Bucky being trained and his meeting with Steve was staged and other stuff) and i mostly did this out of memory so I must have forgotten multiple stuff so please feel free to correct me or add anything

too long; didn’t read: So basically, Bucky had 2 best friends, Steve who was like his older brother/father figure and Toro, his buddy and Bucky spent most of the time he wasn’t with Steve alongside Toro. Bucky decided to resurrect Toro instead of saving his own life

#bucky/toro #comics #invaders #bucky barnes #toro raymond #wintersparks #bucky x toro #toro #bucky #Winter Soldier #gegeru #long post

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