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Name: Masked Rider Wizard, Kamen Rider Wizard 仮面ライダーウィザード
Status: On-going
Episode: 37
Release date (for eng subs): -
Summary:
Six months prior to the start of the series, a mysterious ritual held on the day of the solar eclipse took place. Its purpose was to give birth to a group of magical creatures called Phantoms through humans with magical potential called "Gates", by forcibly subjecting them to immense despair. Haruto Soma and Koyomi, the survivors of the ritual, are tasked by the mysterious Shiroi Mahoutsukai to fight the Phantoms. Haruto is also given the Wizardriver to become Kamen Rider Wizard in order to prevent the Phantoms from transforming other Gates into Phantoms themselves. Later on, a man named Kosuke Nito appears as the ancient wizard Kamen Rider Beast to feed on the Phantom's magical power to survive and becomes both a rival and ally to Haruto.
Summary from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamen_Rider_Wizard
Personal Ratings: 3
Honestly, this kamen rider series is better then most of the Kamen rider series (except w of course.)
Honestly, I did not really like the part where the main character transforms. It looks kind of lame. I also did not really liked how they sticked to the classics and always make them wear a belt. The belt seriously looks quite dumb, especially for the best wizard. I thought that they should have make use of the name Wizard, and change the belt to something less showy, like a bracelet or something. What I hated most about this show was the fact that they did not show us the more powerful phantoms in the show from the starting. They should have told us which phantoms where the powerful ones, like what they did for phoenix and medusa, they had the arm bracelet (which looked totally a lot cooler then the Kamen rider belt.) I also do not like how they need to use the final move to destroy the orges. The Kamen Riders should be able to defeat the orges without the use of much energy or mana. But somehow throughout the show, they always have a random scene in which they are fighting the orges, and it takes up quite a bit of time. In the later episode, I totally did not liked how when the Kamen Rider gets a new power, he always seem to be needing to use the new power on normal phantoms, even though he defeated a super strong phantom with that power and should not be needing to use the new power every single time. I don't like how when some monsters or powers are suppose to be strong, appear weak. Really contradicts the first few parts of the show and really make the show seemed under planned.
The nice thing about this show is probably the story line, and the unique point about this show is probably the fact that each and every case has a story behind it, and I really liked how they did not neglect the enemy side, and have a proper story for the phantoms. The Kamen Riders in the past all seem to not be bothered with the enemy side and just keep them going.
I really cannot wait until the point where they show more about Haruto and Koyomi and her past.
Recommended for:
Gender: Male & Female
Age: 10 and above
My Ratings: PG
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Name: Mask Rider W, Mask Rider Double, Kamen Rider W, 仮面ライダーＷ（ダブル）
Status: Completed
Episode: 49
Release date (for eng subs): -
Summary:
In the ecologically-minded city of Futo, there are many windmills and the people live in harmony. However, the Sonozaki Family sell mysterious devices resembling USB flash drives called Gaia Memories to criminals and other interested parties who use them to become monsters called Dopants, committing crimes with the police force powerless to stop them. To make matters worse, the Gaia Memories carry a dangerous toxin that cause their users to go insane to the point where they could die from the life-threatening devices. After the death of his boss, the self-proclaimed hardboiled (actually half-boiled) detective Shotaro Hidari works with the mysterious Philip, who possesses the true Gaia Memory, to investigate crimes which involve Dopants. Using their own Gaia Memories, Shotaro and Philip use the Double Driver belts to transform and combine into Kamen Rider Double to fight the Dopant menace and keep Futo safe. While joined in their fight by investigator Ryu Terui, who transforms into Kamen Rider Accel, the mystery of Philip's past, his relation to the Sonozaki Family, and their Museum organization are revealed.
Summary from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamen_Rider_W
Personal Ratings: 4
High ratings partly because of the people's looks and cute personalities. Really love the idea as to how they mixed in detective work into the mask rider, and not just pure fighting. The whole purpose of the show is to defeat the Sonozaki family. Really unexpected turns of events. Probably the best mask rider I have ever seen. It's funny, cute and yet so interesting. Totally loved the ideas about Gaia memories, something we see everyday, thumb drive.
Another thing that remained as a mystery throughout the whole series for me was about the master. Who is he really, and how did he started out to become a detective and a mask rider. I am kind of hopping they would come out a movie for this, but to me, it seems like its never going to happen.
Though one thing that has not been fixed since the first mask rider is the fighting scenes and the power levels. The fighting scenes were kind of lame for some parts. For this series there was not alot of difference in power levels which made me totally like it more. The use of CF effects where to much in the middle. Which kind of made it seem alot more unreal. Because the main purpose and focus of the whole series kind of link back to Philip, the main character, Shoutaro does not really serve alot of purpose for the main plot.
Totally sad and awesome ending that makes almost everyone cry. :3 I really just can't get enough of this. Really wish they could continue and make a second season.
Recommended for:
Gender: Male
Age: 11 and above
My ratings: PG
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Name: Bloody Monday 2 ブラッディ・マンデイ 2
Status: Completed
Episode: 9
Release date (for eng sub):-
Summary:
Whereas the first series dealt with a deadly Russian weapons-grade virus, the new season is set two years later when an aircraft bearing a new kind of nuclear weapon threatens Tokyo. Takagi Fujimaru was agained drawn into this incident, putting both himself and the ones around him in danger. He then encounters a hacker that was seemed better then him, Hornet. However, after uncovering Hornet's true identity, they then uncovered that the true master mind was a prodigy hacker, Spider. Spider was the one that recruited Hornet and thaught him how to hack, imitating Falcon (Takagi Fujimaru). In the last episode, it was also then said that Spider was the one that first taught Falcon how to use a computer.
Summary from: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Bloody_Monday#Season_2
Added on by: AngelaAgness
Personal ratings: 3.5
I would say that this show did not leave as much impact or impression as it did in the first season. This show had many questions that I had not found an answer to. Also, at first, they keep making it seem like Falcon lost to Hornet, and Hornet was truely a prodigy hacker. However, after they uncover his identity, they made it seemed like he was really a novice hacker, that forget to erase his tacks, etc.
There are also some characters that I deem useless in this show (No offence). Like the terrorist woman that was onboard the areoplane in the fist episode. She only showed up for one second before she died, I think making a character like that is useless.
Even though there are bad points about this season, there are also some good points in this saeson then the last. For example the hacking part. They really showed more about the hacking part this time round, and when they hack they really did show more of the screen.
It maybe because the whole season was much shorter, I think that even before we get to know more about the characters, the show ended. Like there are some character which are important, i find that have little screen time to show their true self. For the terrorist, the ladybird and Houtaro. Then also, Fujimaru's colleage, Hibiki.
Plus there as little link to the last Seaosn. In season one, it shows at the last part that the dude with a butterfly tattoo was still alive. And for this season, the terrorist, Ladybird she did have a huge dragon tattoo, but it seems like they had no connections at all. I really think that since you put a similarity between the both of them, you may as well make a connection.
Overall Comments:
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Name: Bloody Monday ブラッディ・マンデイ
Status: Completed
Episode: 11
Release date (for eng subs): -
Summary:
After a biological terrorist attack kills off the population of a Russian town; Japan's Public Safety Special Third unit, code name THIRD-i, believes that the terrorist organization responsible plans to unleash the same virus known as Bloody X into Tokyo. Subsequently, THIRD-i recruits the help of genius hacker Takagi Fujimaru to find out what happened in the Russia. However, as Fujimaru becomes involved, he soon finds out that he is in over his head and that the terrorist groups influence reaches not only his school but even the police. Fujimaru must now rely on his skill as a hacker to unravel the organizations sinister plot and find out the truth behind "Bloody Monday."
Summary from: http://www.easymoovee.net/2012/02/j-drama-bloody-monday-season-1.html
Personal ratings: 4
This is one of the few Japanese drama that I watched. (Well for some reasons I did not really like Japanese dramas) I really like this drama because it did not have the usual exaggerations that normal Japanese drama has. I really liked how they replaced the hacking part with birds. It really shows the progress of the hacking. However i think that they should show more of the screen and what he was typing, it's because they lack that part that the whole hacking part gets boring sometimes. What I did not really liked about this show was that the whole show was filled with unexpected incidents. And because they had so many unexpected incidents, it became the expected. I think they should have equal amount of both to make the show more interesting. I also think that in this drama, there are many terms used that we, viewers, would not understand. I really think that they should explain, because it sometimes leaves the viewers lost. The people who were doing the explanation was the fansubs, which i thought really helped.
Overall Comments:
I think it's very suitable for those 13 and above. If you let them watch when they are younger, you would never know if the would start learning to hack >_>. There are also violence and bloody scenes.
