The Worst Localization in History

[@rock10zxa]

Huggbees casually revealin his mad guitar skills and being a fan of kamen rider blade honestly had me in a bit of a whiplash

[@crawlingboy]

I did not expect any of this at all just I am as shocked as the infamous tachibana San moment in blade

[@Sketchy_2]

Blade fans rise up

[@Calvin_Coolage]

​@@crawlingboy Tachibana-san may have betrayed us, but not Huggbees-sama.

[@pyzzabox6574]

TACHIBANA SAN

[@oye6124]

he was almost there

[@misakitakazaki8951]

The problem is that in 90s, Americans studios always wanted to adapt everything. Meanwhile, in Latin America, we watched everything dubbed and were having a blast.

[@0047sssss]

A lot of the earlier Latam anime dubs were based on the butchered US dubs and not the original series G-Force, Battle of the Planets = Gatchaman Voltron = Go-Lion, Dairugger XV Robotech = Macross, Southern Cross, Mospeada Sable Rider = Sei Juushi Bismarck The American also made a pilot for an americanized version of Sailor Moon but instead just dubbed (and butchered) the anime

[@DeepEye1994]

Same in Italy, been dubbing anime since the '70s without making major censors. Sometimes they'd localize the names but no big deal, dark shit and the original music was kept.

[@firestriker3580]

Nope American studios didn’t always want to adapt everything dude. And stop acting like Latin America are saints

[@TotallyNotTheRedComet69]

@@firestriker3580 but we did though. A fine example of this are the countless attempts made before Godzilla 98 to adapt godzilla, Japan’s *biggest* media property. Not only that, but robotech, a Frankenstein’s monster of 3 separate anime that aired after harmony golds failed attempt to localize the original dragon ball. And on top of that, there was a recently uncovered attempt to adapt Los Caballeros Del Zodiaco(knights of the zodiac here in the west) for western television, both in live action form and original us animation form. While I admit Latin America isn’t a saint by any means, a large reason why Latin American areas have such a large hold on the anime fanbase is because they were able to be exposed to most anime in its purest form in comparison to American attempts before proper dubbing became a thing when Funimation hit the scene in the late 90’s

[@THEFlea1991]

@@TotallyNotTheRedComet69 I guess you didn’t read Camaro’s comment……

[@toyaleejb7714]

On the other hand, the localization of Kamen Rider Ryuki was SO good, the people in Japan loved it enough to give it it's own dub AND original theme. Dragon Knight was an example on how to do a localization right and it saddens me that we missed out on a movie.

[@astersworld6169]

I'm pretty sure they gave it a manga too

[@fujifilm5127]

They got a furbis?

[@YarugumaSou]

@@astersworld6169 No just a novel as a sequel

[@astersworld6169]

@@YarugumaSou still, thats a high bar for a american localized version of a Japanese show shown to a japanese audience

[@RickMoren477]

Don't forget that dragon knight got their own stage shows with the original Japanese actor. And before anyone saying it's probably a Ryuki stage shows, no the stage show is SPECIFICALLY for dragon knight, they even do the whole saying "kamen rider" to transform

[@sparkywilson1405]

You gotta watch the episode where his adopted grandma comes for a visit she gets kidnapped but she doesn't have her glasses on, so she just thinks the insect monsters are "hooligans" she wanders around the alien ship and starts breaking Dregon's shit and they seemingly have no other way of stopping her, so they turn her into a statue to shut her up

[@Lostcontroller]

That sounds like that was the best episode this dung heap had to offer.

[@GarkKahn]

Sounds like a great plot

[@TotallyNotTheRedComet69]

Sounds kinda like a sentai plot honestly. I’ve seen weirder episodes and this would fit right in if it were tweaked a bit.

[@LuckyLiegeLady246]

Sounds like she and Mr. Magoo would get along well!

[@ferretyluv]

Ah, she Mr. Magoo’d them.

[@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

Y'know I've actually wondered before why we never got a Kamen Rider localization when Power Rangers was *so* successful. Now I know.

[@e-tan3911]

We also got Kamen Rider Dragon Knight off Ryuki. It was pretty good, but never caught on because it was being aired on 4kids, who hated the show.

[@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

@@e-tan3911 Typical 4Kids… sometimes I stop and think what a miracle it is One Piece is as popular as it is in America despite everything 4Kids did to sabotage its American debut the way they did with so many other series.

[@neilisawesome2333]

@@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 4Kids sucks so much ass that even if i am not an american, i would never see a kamen rider adaptation ever again *-I am huffing on copium right now, i wanted a Zi-O adaptation-*

[@Holographic_Dreams]

​@@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyTo be fair, 4Kids didn't want anything to do with One Piece.

[@Yubl10]

​@Macintosh_Plus If 4kids hated anime and japanese shows why bother to license them other than money? It's like when wizards licensed Pokémon but the higher-ups hated it. Why as a company license shit that you as a business man hate? I wonder if some people in those companies In the 90s and 2000s just hated Japan and japanese products? 🤔

[@VerdantRange]

Wish you brought up a big reason why this show focused so much on the comedy. That being the fact unlike Super Sentai, where the monster costumes were only a year old, so they were readily available to Power Rangers, Kamen Rider Black RX came out in 1989, so the costumes for the monsters were either too decayed to use or were outright destroyed. Basically they only had the Masked Rider suit, Draegon's suit, his lady assistant's suit, and some foot soldiers. This is also why Dex wears a copy of Kotaro;s suit.

[@JohnWick-rh1zz]

if only saban would make their own stuff

[@bob1986]

@@JohnWick-rh1zz They weren't capable of that back then.

[@MonkeyDefenceForce]

@@JohnWick-rh1zz the technology to do so didn't exist back then

[@JohnWick-rh1zz]

@@MonkeyDefenceForce you can't say "back then" considering power rangers *still* uses the suits that toei made with the occasional original suits once in a while

[@kenstorm707]

@@JohnWick-rh1zz Hasbro is taking a step in the right direction by making new suits for Cosmic Fury. But then, they're also taking two steps back at the same time by merging content from Ryusoulger and freaking Kyuranger. Weak Neo-Saban energy.

[@Unclaimed_Username]

Furbies being a rip-off of a horrendus character from a Kamen Rider localization is some deep lore I wasn't expecting. It's like the exact opposite vibe of "super sentai's giant robots are a result of Japanese Spiderman"

[@ShadowSonic2]

The really bizarre thing is that when Masked Rider first showed up on Power Rangers, the story was surprisingly dark for Power Rangers with them talking about how Edenoi had been rendered toxic by Count Dregons' attacks and how it couldn't be saved. Then that's totally dropped in his own show. Ferbus wasn't in that story either.

[@fightingfalcon777]

Yeah, apparently, at the time the full Masked Rider series was being released, Power Rangers’s ratings were tanking, so they moved away from the Power Rangers connection

[@patrickzalatoris3206]

Yeah, but you can still make it a compelling story, and not a slice of life comedy with a super fucking annoying oversized ferbie toy that makes the monsters in BBB look like a genius original idea

[@Masterge77]

@@fightingfalcon777 And yet Power Rangers managed to survive for years to come, while Masked Rider was swiftly cancelled and forgotten, with the Kamen Rider property to never be localized again... save for the Ryuuki adaptation Dragon Knight, which I've never seen.

[@fightingfalcon777]

@@Masterge77 ironic, isn’t it?

[@ironmaster6496]

@@fightingfalcon777 in hindsight that sounds so nuts

[@JamesMeyer2]

I remember this show fondly as a child. Not because it was good, but because of what my siblings and I did to make it a fun show. Over time, we would actually add fart noises anywhere and everywhere during the show. It became the funniest show ever.

[@cyberqueen201]

Love that for you guys! So wholesome lol

[@Timberdoodle720]

Do it during the real show too I AM THE SUN’S CHILD KAMEN RIDER BLACK R(reverb fart. Mp4)

[@Mr.Drew70]

Hate to break it to you, dude but this show is good

[@anhilliator1]

Reminder, this is a franchise that eventually involved plots where the powers ended up coming from playing cards, video games, train demons, fruit, usb sticks, and toy cars. Not to mention that there was also one that involved a cross between a rabbit and a tank. And, of all things, the ones with the rabbit-tank, video games, and the the _fruit_ are the ones with some of the darkest plots in the franchise.

[@ashikjaman1940]

ALL HAIL FRUIT JESUS

[@justanotherimperialfist]

ARE YOU READY? (Echoing PTSD)

[@noodle4542]

the fruit show was also written by the same guy as madoka magica

[@GaiusIntrepidus]

​@@justanotherimperialfist*cut to flashbacks*

[@Ijustusethistocommentstuff]

I'm guessing the fruit one is Avataro Sentai Donbrothers?

[@fransuke12]

Fun Fact: Kaz Shiraishi ( director of KR BLACK SUN ) joked that Masked Rider is the worst thing he seen. And BLACK SUN was the ultimate "Packback" for creating the monstrosity of a adaptation.

[@NexusVerbal]

Ooh. Let me get a source on that . . .

[@thehellslayer300]

Lol

[@deadchannel726]

But how ironic since black sun also sucks.

[@blasters270]

AS HE SHOULD

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

@@deadchannel726 How the fuck was Black Sun bad???

[@nicoleseraphita7613]

Its interesting that Super Sentai and Kamen Rider got adaptions made up of reused footage but Ultraman got two completely original series co-produced with Australian and American studios. The first of those two shows, Ultraman Great, is pretty widely liked by the fandom.

[@coleszero-one4750]

Well, in comparison, Ultraman is more influent in western culture than Kamen Rider and Sentai

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

Ironically, Ultraman Powered never aired in the US, despite being filmed there

[@ronaldzamora8850]

There's even a pilot animation by Hanna Barbera which is still animated and music composed in Japan called Ultraman The Journey Begins or Ultraman USA.

[@TokuWaffle]

@@ronaldzamora8850 not just a pilot, a whole movie.

[@ronaldzamora8850]

@@TokuWaffle It was supposed to be a pilot for a TV series but didn't came true.

[@jettrooperjp5142]

Hearing Huggbees talk about Kamen Rider is something I was not expecting out of this year

[@ShrekGKSPrivacy]

Me neither.

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

Not gonna lie i'd rather have a video with Huggbees talking about Kamen Rider or Ultraman insted of Masked Rider because even if i was a kid in the 90s i would have thought that show was dog shit

[@JohnWick-rh1zz]

Kinda wished he talked about a better kamen rider instead of this crap

[@Skylivand]

I was talking about Kamen Rider with him when he was back at megacon

[@crawlingboy]

He needs to make more videos about heisei riders

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

_Saban's Masked Rider_ was the first American adaptation of a season of _Kamen Rider,_ but it wasn't the last. The second attempt at Americanizing _Kamen Rider_ didn't come until 2008, at which point the show had been cancelled in 1982 and replaced with _Metal Heroes_ (which recieved several of its own Saban adaptations) before being revived in 2000. This second attempt was _Kamen Rider Dragon Knight_ presented by Adness Entertainment. _Kamen Rider Dragon Knight,_ which first aired as a teaser in December 2008 before officially runnning from January to December of 2009, was an adaptation of _Kamen Rider Ryuki,_ the third installment of _Kamen Rider_ since its revival, from 2002. The show features generally the same base plot as _Ryuki,_ and the main characters have similar names (Shinji KIDO/KIT Taylor; REN Akiyama/LEN), but there are also differences. The main villain of _Dragon Knight_ has a significantly different goal than that of _Ryuki,_ and the main characters have different reasons for Contracting with Dragreder to become the titular Advent Rider (Shinji does it to get more information on the disappearances for his job as a journalist, while Kit is trying to find his missing father). _Dragon Knight,_ despite ending prematurely, was so well-recieved internationally that it got an official Japanese dub by Toei, featuring Satoshi Matsuda, who had previously portrayed Ren Akiyama (Kamen Rider Knight) in _Ryuki,_ as Ren's counterpart Len (Kamen Rider Wing Knight). Casting the original Japanese actors as their American counterparts for the Japanese dub is commmon practice by Toei when producing the Japanese dubs of _Power Rangers_ seasons. Additional fun fact: the casting team for _Kamen Rider Dragon Knight_ came close to casting the legendary Jason David Frank as Len (the deuteragonist), but ultimately selected Matt Mullins for the role instead because they figured that having JDF on the show would result in fans associating it too much with _Power Rangers._

[@MaxerV19]

Nice to see you here too

[@ripleyjlawman.3162]

Kamen Rider was cancelled in 89 not 82.

[@tmr3volver]

i love how the soldiers on this exotic alien planet are riding around on normal ass horses.

[@isuckatusernames4297]

*space* horses

[@WTFisTingispingis]

@@isuckatusernames4297sporses

[@thecandlemaker1329]

I don't know what an ass horse is, but I assure you that it would not be seen as normal here on Earth.

[@Tony-oh7eo]

The guitar shredding was just a shred, a morsel of Hugbees' immense power

[@JFJD]

He KILLED those opening chords (or rather, he killed the first chord four times).

[@shoestringVA]

I should point out that Kamen Rider is STILL GOING to this day. The current season, Geats, has been pretty damn good so far. Its story is about a Death Game, because Squid Game made bank last year. If you're one of those weiners worried about legality, Kamen Rider Zero One is available to watch in its entirety from Shout Factory, and it's a great Base Formula Rider season.

[@Lectrikfro]

Zero One also had a pretty slappin theme song

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

No one else but Aruto!

[@laffodile1636]

"Because squid game made Bank last year" Dude it's fortnite. Like when asked for inspiration on what the show is the director straight up stated fortnite as inspiration.

[@armada5534]

Loving the Zero One love here

[@bickboi9633]

Kamen rider build is so fkn awesome

[@Pomerasian]

Huggbees revealing he's a toku fan has just made me love him even more.

[@Jay_D_Ashe]

same here

[@patrickzalatoris3206]

I want to try to get into the Kamen rider series, and hopefully one day get a properly translated metal heroes b fighter bluray from shout factory

[@tyrxian6452]

@@patrickzalatoris3206 any Kamen Rider shows that look particularly interesting to you? I'm already a fan and Would love to help someone who wants to get into it

[@superninja252]

Kinda knew some vids ago but it only confirms

[@endcaps1917]

I wish I could double subscribe

[@citrusbutter7718]

I don't know why but i laughed at every part that had Furbis. I guess because i know he's the perfect character to piss people off and i can imagine the collective rage every time he comes on screen.

[@HomeCookinMTG]

Saban seems obsessed with annoying characters like that. Even the power rangers turbo movie had an annoying furby reject who just made random noises.

[@HenshinHeroesMedia]

I'm in the minority, but i don't truly hate furbis. Yes, dude's plot is getting food and being comic relief, but his design is ok when they don't switch to a dude in a suit. Also, furbis can have moments like when he drove a car to warn dex his family are about to be bugs. I get the hate but lets just say he was the reason grogu from the mandalorian walked and that grogu is furbis done right

[@coopercane500]

The footage of the bug monster is actually from the movie Kamen Rider ZO from 1993. Apparently, Saban was so cheap that he got footage from a completely separate Kamen Rider property and thought no one would notice.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Apparently, Toei was pretty famous for being quite frugal about money (for quite a long while) and probably still is for the most part.

[@Killer_Kotomibro]

Fun fact, the suit actor for Ferbus was the late Verne Troyer, better known as Mini Me from the Austin Powers movies. Having his arm look like Mike Meyers' Dong in silhouette was definitely the more dignified role.

[@brandonvortex995]

Oh wow I didn't know that! He's funny in Austin powers

[@therussianwanderer4851]

And he was in the Pac-Man World's commercial, along with Mr. T.

[@mycazglinski2302]

When did Verne pass??

[@mathieuleader8601]

also Sundae from the Macdonalds ad

[@bob1986]

@@mycazglinski2302 He died a while ago. Before 2020 at least.

[@chrisjt86]

I saw an episode where Furbis has a dream about going thru a drive thru restaurant and ordering everything on the menu. He was handed tray after tray of food and was flipping out. That scene affected my psyche somehow.

[@_plg]

was this responsible for possibly starting fattening fetishes in many children around the world

[@DrTechnoBabel]

@@_plg Possibly, but for that to happen multiple children would've had to have watched this show long enough to get to that scene instead of changing the channel or going outside, and that clearly couldn't have happened.

[@chrisjt86]

@@_plg I mean, I gained some weight in high school, but not in a fetishy way. And that's seriously the only scene I remember from the whole show that I watched in its entirety as a semi-conscious 10 year old.

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@_plg It's an old trope, Ferbus didn't invent it and nobody will ever find him attractive no matter how fat he gets.

[@_plg]

@@autobotstarscream765 you'd be surprised

[@shoestringVA]

Mr Huggbees, I say this with the utmost sincerity, please do more Tokusatsu. Not only are you sitting on an enormous goldmine of hilarity, but you have the power to kickstart a renaissance of new fans for this oft overlooked genre. You, the visual and auditory equivalent to a delicious pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream, would be the shining beacon that finally unites all Rider Sentai and Ultraman fans under one banner. What I’m saying is that you have a big following, and you’re really good at convincing people to watch stuff. You and ironmouse would be the monarchs of the tokusatsu fandom in America.

[@wajikuroki4177]

I second this. We need someone big to really push the popularity of tokusatsu to wider audience

[@BagOfMagicFood]

Also giving props to the pioneers of irreverent dubbing!

[@ZoanBlade90]

Not only do we *need* to get the glory of this franchise to other people, I'm curious what he thinks about the infamous *Starfish Hitler* from Kamen Rider X.

[@tgiacin435]

@@ZoanBlade90 or that time Big One disguised himself as Hitler in J.A.K.Q

[@thirtisankwich]

I hope he covers ultraman

[@NoraInuG]

How did you manage to watch a whole episode of Saban's Masked Rider without throwing up multiple times? I'm impressed.

[@eDDyL666]

The main actor was in an episode of married with children once

[@SQUIDWORD15]

I know right? I could never imagine watching an episode of Saban's Masked Rider in full. Saban's Masked Rider is so bad, I do not understand why they decided to even make Saban's Masked Rider.

[@nicolasgarant9124]

​@SQUIDWORD15 Because Power Rangers was making them a lot of money and they wanted new properties to strike while the iron was hot. That seems fairly self-explanatory.

[@filiptrajkovski2198]

i tried once and all i could think about is "Look what they did to my boy Kamen Rider Black"

[@jeanemlicar]

Did he play one of Kelly Bundy’s Boyfriends?@@eDDyL666

[@TheVacuuminator]

Been a Tokusatsu fan for over a decade now and this is the first time I've seen a video on the medium from someone who doesn't normally cover it that doesn't feel like the creator thinks they are above it and is just about why this particular adaptation is bad without stooping to the level of "Look at that cheesy suit, how could they think anyone would like this? I mean seriously!". Super refreshing honestly, thanks for being a real one.

[@Kyulnjir]

Rest in peace Jason David Frank, you will forever be the true green Power Ranger in my mind

[@believeinmatter]

Also the white ranger, that whole transformation was awesome in the movie

[@tgiacin435]

As much as I appreciate the sentiment, I can’t help but find amusement because of the sentai

[@Toxin___InterHalfer]

@@believeinmatter Oh yeah, one of the first plot twists I remember

[@caffpillz]

No

[@TheTom951guitar]

This is how I find out?! Man, RIP...

[@brevin630]

I was not expecting Huggbees to talk about Kamen Rider, but Masked Rider makes sense to make sense. Also, the series in Japan is just called "Super Sentai", since it's a proper noun. ALSO also, the scene with the sphere actually is NOT from Black RX, but from Kamen Rider ZO, a movie released in the 90s. It was probably used to make the footage more recent looking, compared to the 80s quality of Black RX

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

"Sentai" is the Japanese word that translates to "Squadron." I think he decided to call it that as a joke.

[@TheMamaluigi300]

Fun fact, iirc: During the fight they have later, Masked Rider in fact briefly turns into ZO in error

[@THE-REAL-MUFFIN-MAN]

that hugbees moment playing guitar was the most important and life changing thing that i just saw

[@_HJ_K]

I grew up with the Japanese Kamen Rider series. The original Japanese Kamen Rider BlackRX theme song was actually really good. Probably the best Kamen Rider theme song of the OG Shōwa era series. Despite the Kamen Rider Black series was mostly just family friendly contents with “people wearing goofy rubber suits beating up each other”, its source material, the manga created by Shotaro Ishinomori, was actually very serious and even depressing. The theme of the story was “the tragedy of mutants”. Although Black was supposed to be “a mutated grasshopper-man”, the costume of Kamen Rider Black looked more “robotic” in the TV series, while in manga it’s more “organic”. The fight scenes are significantly more violent and gory, so the original manga is clearly not meant for children in the first place. The ending was also very unconventional and the conclusion rather ambiguous (by conventional I mean the usual “good beats evil” stuff) The whole situation is kind of like the Devilman series. There was a family friendly version anime which was targeted at kids and the tone is kind of goofy (the 1972 anime, not the Netflix reboot Devilman Crybaby) And on the other hand you also have the original manga which was super violent and depressing.

[@ShadowMoon878]

The reboot Kamen Rider Black Sun is more faithful to the manga and i love it!

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Devilman was originally anime first in terms of conception, and the much better (and gorier) manga was made to promote the show, even though it came a month before it. But with Getter Robo, both its anime and manga were released just days apart, but in the beginning of April 1974. Not so for Mazinger Z; since the original Shueisha run manga was made first and the Toei anime came out just two months later.

[@lemonov3031]

@@SlapstickGenius23 Not really? Nagai just sold his idea to Toei like usual, and made his own version (the manga) later.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

@@lemonov3031 now that makes more sense!

[@哥坤-s7o]

Saban basically treated kids like idiot who can't differentiate the different rider designs. He thinks he can get away with it as he feels nobody gonna give a damm since this just a kids show. But history prove otherwise. People do give a damm and this embarrassment is not going away and instead getting more traction. Saban has earned his reputation as the king of bastardization of Japanese superhero shows.

[@bwc1976]

That completely blows my mind about Furbis predating Furby. And really no motorcycle footage in the whole first episode? Crazy. The bug helmet and bug cycle are what makes the show, they're what the show gets its name from.

[@ultimapower6950]

Perhaps Furbis is a prototype of furbys

[@firelightyear]

Funny enough Hasbro now owns both Furby and Masked Rider (sort of….?)

[@gokaiorange9576]

Bit of a wrinkle I wanna iron out, that footage of the Destructo Sphere surveying Earth isn't from Black RX. It's actually from Kamen Rider ZO, a movie that came out in the early 90's that Saban also scooped up the rights to for usage in Masked Rider. Toei has the entire film on their Tokusatsu World channel for free, so that's probably why Toei automatically tagged it. Other than that, this was a great video!

[@ronaldzamora8850]

Other than Kamen Rider ZO, they also used the footage from Kamen Rider J when Masked Rider turned into a giant.

[@Spindash54]

Even better news than Toei’s low quality KZbin channel, a set of Shin/ZO/J and The First/The Next is in production for USA.

[@kyojin18]

Was looking to see if someone else caught this

[@AquaFan1998]

Iv seen the movie afew times and the monsters in it still creep me out

[@shuruff904]

RIP Jason David Frank 💚 The best Power Ranger by far. He was the Vegeta of the show- starts off as a villain, ends up becoming a good guy, then ends up as the new leader AND gets a new suit, new color, and new zord. (Dragonzord is goated though...Tigerzord and Falconzord just can't hold a candle)

[@hairlessgrizzly559]

Man, I remember getting back into Power Rangers after playing Chroma Squad a few years ago, it gave me so much nostalgia playing that game. A great tribute to Super Sentai as a whole

[@nathanforester5993]

Furbus is a Chiodo Brothers creation...yes, the same guys behind the killer klowns, the trolls in Ernest Scared Stupid, the clay-mation sequences in Elf, the Crites, and a ton of other movies and shows including Power Rangers Turbo, the Mr Potato-Head Show, Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys, Team America, and even some obscure ones like Vicious Lips, yeah they did the creatures for that movie especially the alien that pops up briefly at the end of the movie.

[@redblue9478]

Don't ask me how I know this, but Furbus running away early in the video looks like a teletubby costume.

[@nathanforester5993]

@@redblue9478 Most of scenes of him moving and running, it's Verne Troyer in the costume, yes..Mini Me.

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

They made a show out of Mr Potato Head? What would that even be about? I sincerely hope that they didn't just make a low effort sitcom animation where all the characters are just the same 3D model with different faces. I want to live in the world where they made a show where Mr Potato Head is a master of disguise who is sent on espionage missions where he is somehow able to maintain his cover and impersonate people despite being the only talking potato on earth.

[@AmaryInkawult]

That... That info just makes it depressing.

[@nathanforester5993]

@@casanovafunkenstein5090 There was a puppet type show with Mr Potato Head and his 'friends' and the puppets were all made by the Chiodo Brothers, it was a Fox Kids show and it is one of the shows apparently Disney got from Fox when they bought the Fox shows but it is not streaming.

[@913kaixa]

Have not finished the video yet, but one of my favorite Ferbus moments is from the Bandai event at the 1995 Toy Fair. There's a presentation right at the start of the video on Masked Rider, and it's trying its best to be super cool... only for the host to turn a panel around to reveal a little Ferbus and try really hard to keep up the same energy. Truly a beautiful way to kick off his existence. IMMEDIATE EDIT: Huggbees endorsing Kamen Rider Blade to his massive audience makes my cheerleading for that series feel like it's finally paying off.

[@fillerbunnyninjashark271]

Yeah but Kabuto is where it's at

[@Princeomishore]

kamen rider in general is fucking awesome. ooo's is my favorite.

[@JohnWick-rh1zz]

Blade is sooooo good, cant wait for the influx of blade memes TACHIBANA-SAN!!!!

[@johnremizeztomilloso158]

@@Princeomishore Same!

[@fillerbunnyninjashark271]

@@Tsukiru Kagami is the real main character, loll. He's the only one with any real character development. Without hyper, Kabuto is weaker than Gatack.

[@BakuMamX]

fun fact, this show had such a shit budget, that in some episodes, they used footage from kamen rider ZO, a movie with a completelty different rider. and yes, that completely different rider is onscreen at points. the whole history of this show and its budget is hysterical, with no monster suits that could be used at the time (since rx was over for 5 years by the start of masked rider's run, and almost all the suits were scrapped), to them GETTING THE NAMES OF EVERY KAMEN RIDER WRONG except for ZX.

[@KairuHakubi]

Still, it wasn't half as embarrassing as VR Troopers. They kludged two shows together and _forgot to give the heroes names._ Like they had human names, dumb ones as I recall, but the hero forms had no names. So a kid would go to the store looking to buy a cool Kikaider guy and the toy is called 'ryan starr' or something. The beetleborgs didn't use their hero names often, but at least they HAD them.

[@_plg]

I AM AMAZON

[@Calvin_Coolage]

@@KairuHakubi At least their adaptation of Gridman was kind of ok. It even got referenced in the two Gridman anime.

[@KairuHakubi]

@@Calvin_Coolage that took me a second. you mean 'superhuman samurai syber squad' that wasn't saban though. probably the best "hey if they can do it, WE can do it" ever though, because most of us kids agreed it looked amazing and we wanted to watch it and buy the toys.. but we couldn't find either.

[@BagOfMagicFood]

​@@KairuHakubi Maybe they got the idea to not have hero names from Blue SWAT, the latest Metal Heroes at the time?

[@whatbroicanhave50character35]

Dude you're close. Been playing guitar for nearly 20 years. Keep at it man, you'll get there. I can hear the effort. Ik you're making light of it but I'd love to hear it after even 6 months. It sounds like you got places to go. Fuck yeah man.

[@atavious2491]

When I look at this localization, I'm just imagining how lucky we were that we still got the Sailor Moon anime despite it being heavily altered by DiC, when we were initially supposed to get a completely different show that only uses the name but the show itself is completely different. I really believe that it was Pokemon that really changed how the western world viewed anime heading into the dawn of the 21st-century. Unfortunately for Tokusatsu, the west wasn't that into adapting other live action intellectual properties from Japan outside of Powers Rangers. Yeah 4Kids came along to dub and edit Ultraman Tiga and Kamen Rider Dragon Knight but those programs just didn't fit with their other animated ones and those two shows lost ratings quick. Other examples of poor localization can be the American TV animated versions of both Mega Man and Street Fighter where in Japan, the TV animation and lore is more faithful to their video game counterparts.

[@toonboy2041]

Actually 4kids didn’t make Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight, while it did air on their Saturday morning block, it was produced by a different company

[@JVision1]

@@toonboy2041Yep, Adness Entertainment

[@dwainsimmons3447]

4kids didn’t made ultraman tiga into something else

[@skibot9974]

Hey the mega man cartoon was actually good

[@LKPrime]

"We cut back to Arakis, the sole source of the coveted Spice Melange, and god fucking dammit Ferbus is still alive" is easily the funniest thing I've heard in years, thank you for this gift

[@kevhead1525]

I love how when butt traveler came to earth they showed a plant slightly tipping over instead of crashing to the the ground. That's one budget conscious move there!

[@kiramedifoundfaker398]

Masked Rider has actually been referenced in the MMPR comics, with a few references to Edenoi and an on-page appearance of King Lexian.

[@universal9735]

Never would have thought that Huggbees of all people would cover Masked Rider of all things This is great

[@tgiacin435]

I’m just hoping someone will try another attempt at adapting Kamen Rider. Personally I’d find it funny if they adapted Geats since dragon knight was adapted from Ryuki, and Geats and Ryuki have a similar theme of riders fighting for their chance to get their wish granted

[@blackbird7781]

Maybe he will cover masked rider dragon knight/Kamen Rider Ryuuki

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

I HOPE he covers Dragon Knight. That show was genuinely good.

[@SpectacularSpiderFan]

@@blackbird7781 It's "Kamen Rider" Dragon Knight, not Masked Rider. It's like translating Darth Vader into "Dark Lord", it just doesnt work.

[@yamadawaver9317]

@@SpectacularSpiderFan it works tho, at least for me. Kamen means mask anyway so I don't really see the problem

[@rommel3942]

0:35 nailed it . haha

[@Rose-yx6jq]

Probably could stand a little bit of practice but he did way better than I could even imagine trying to do. I mean the opening was perfect.

[@e2011ugdia]

Masked rider: who are you? Kamen rider dragon knight: i am you but better

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

Rip Jason David Frank. He was the best ranger

[@shuruff904]

I've noticed how not many people care. 😕 Man, I had the poster with him summoning Dragonzord from the ocean with his flute dagger....he was a cool dude in real life too. I wonder what caused him to end it all....

[@mk098a]

@@shuruff904 A lot of people talked about him. And I read that he was going through a messy divorce this year so there could be many factors

[@shuruff904]

@@mk098a yep

[@ivaneurope]

Masked Rider was one of the many attempts by Haim Saban and Shuky Levy to replicate the success of Power Rangers in the 90's. There was also VR Troopers, which originally was called Cybertron and also meant to be starring Jason David Frank as Adam Steele. Only a pilot episode was aired with the show later retooled as VR Troopers, with Brad Hawkins portraying Ryan Steele (Hawkins, who was the voice of the original Gold Zeo Ranger, was originally slated for the role of the White MMPR). There was also Big Bad Beetleborgs, which like VR Troopers used props and fight footage from another Toei tokusatsu franchise - Metal Heroes. And then, there's a weird specimen by Saban Entertainment in the late 90's - Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, which used completely original footage rather than relying on a stock Japanese footage. Basically, it was Power Rangers meets Lord of the Rings. A second season with the subtitle Battle Thunder was planned, but all the focus instead was put on Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (which had mostly original footage)

[@Gero_XZ]

Your Toku Credit score is now at +1000. Glad you liked Blade, that shit was a phenomenal season

[@crawlingboy]

Hell heisei seasons were great and dark it was sweet

[@monsoding]

tAChIbAnA-sAn

[@Henrex2000]

@@monsoding Blade is lowkey the breaking bad of Kamen Rider

[@monsoding]

@@Henrex2000 facts

[@mylifeboi4430]

@@monsoding OnDoRu RAiGiTaN DeSuKa?

[@randallrona9618]

That thumbnail though was so funny that Kamen Rider Black RX be like: "Ugh! I'm surrounded by these idiots."

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

This is such a weird adaptation, honesty you bringing it up as a way to commit tax fraud is probably the most likely reason! Also, respect for using the SNES MMPR music in the background, caught the City Theme around 12:47 and it reminded me just how much of a banger it is.

[@battleframestudios8989]

I love how he pivots from playing the power rangers theme to playing eruption by Eddie Van Halen for the tapping part.

[@Dr.Cosmar]

That challenge was impossible. There was at least 4 or 5 scenes within that opening that could have spawned their own videos entirely.

[@wyattsmith7556]

Just want to say Huggbees I want to thank you for all your hard work. You’ve easily become my favorite KZbinr in recent times. I love your channel for it’s variety and many random things. It’s fun to watch videos that are completely different from others. Keep up the good work and once again, I thank thee good sir.

[@hikarihakai1285]

10:40 funny enough that scene is from Kamen Rider ZO the short movie

[@sparkywilson1405]

Ferbus was portrayed by Verne Troyer - about 4 years before he was Mini-Me in Austin Powers. For a long time I wanted to try and get him to sign a Ferbus trading card but it never happened.

[@Tanookicatoon]

I can't help but laugh at you trying to shred that part for real, because in the earliest days of the song it was well known for being nearly impossible to perform live, because the entire song was created digitally, and was just a really good sounding midi keyboard playing an automated lick.

[@Noisy_Snax]

Huggbees on guitar is all I need to cure my impotence.

[@indiecred1116]

God damn, you dug up some deep childhood memories with this one. I've had that scene where he bites the juicebox stuck in my head for ages and couldn't figure out where it was from.

[@ErOrNRK]

0:03 "Goofy fights big dumb robots." "Gawrsh! Take that, big dumb robot! A-hyuck!"

[@aubreyyoung4610]

I don't know why the YT algorithm brought be here, but 30 seconds in and I had the biggest laugh I've had all week. You SHREDDED that opening, then I busted on the difficult part. Then I laughed because the bit kept going. Then I pumped my fist when you finally caught a couple licks. I'm proud of you. And I'm subscribed.

[@africangreygaming7092]

I would love to see a fight between the power rangers and the combined power of a filling and rinsing machine

[@RamonRCM]

That video made me remember that Kamen Rider Black RX's opening is a F'KIN BANGER Sorry you had to suffer so much with Masked Rider

[@kyoeyes]

You should check out Big Bad Beetleborgs. It's another Saban show but with 3 kids getting powers from a magical Jay Leno ghost in a haunted house also occupied by a mummy, wolfman, and Frankenstein monster. Goofy haunted house fun in-between monster of the week fights.

[@CyberJawa1986]

“…Jay Leno ghost.” 😂💀😂💀

[@Archgeek0]

@@CyberJawa1986 That honestly describes Flabber far, *far* too well.

[@redblue9478]

I loved Beetleborgs as a kid, went back a few years ago and couldn't tolerate the B stories at all. At least the camp of PR aged into more humor.

[@kyleellis1825]

@@redblue9478 Beetleborgs would do really well with a fan edit removing as much of the mansion monster stuff as possible. Probably get 12-15 min episodes that are far more enjoyable.

[@HomeCookinMTG]

Apparently the Justin character from power rangers turbo exists literally because of big bad beetleborgs. I guess the show's ratings were going down while big bad beetleborgs was going up, so they figured "heck let's try a little kid power ranger"

[@lobotomystudios]

0:14 with Hugbees pure masculinity, we can see his pecs vibrating from the badassness of the guitar.

[@gambitmagic201]

No joke. I’ve been trying to figure out what this was for over 20 years. I saw it when I was in elementary school but never knew what it was called and could only search for it on incredibly vague points I remembered. I thought I was going crazy and that it didn’t exist 😆. So thanks for that!!

[@Badilian]

I grew up with power rangers. It was a fun time, this brought me back.

[@heathazezero3967]

The "sultry sex offender" line had me hurtin with laughter

[@heathazezero3967]

@officialhuggbees yeahhhh,no ya seem suspect

[@TwinSteel]

I watched this show - there was an episode where the dad and son turned into bug creatures with kaleidoscopic vision - the son said, “it looks like you have six heads” then the dad was like, “great, there’s twelve more mouths to feed” - good times - lots of bug jokes

[@TwinSteel]

@officialhuggbees old scam - try something smarter

[@baratacom]

My mind is blown for Furbies being newer than Furbus Also, watching Masked Rider was rather funny for me to watch given that Kamen Rider Black and RX have actually aired here in Brazil with a few deviations from the original, but nothing significant (namely, establishing Kamen Riders as mutants and the name of the main character from Kotaro to Isamu)

[@craignielsen6598]

7:02 I like how they didn’t even bother to edit out the water tower in the background.

[@lunchxs7558]

As a Kamen Rider fan, I appreciate this video. It would be great if you covered the second attempt at an adaptation, Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. Where whenever they Henshin, they always have to say and I quote, “Kamen Rider”. Every. Single. Time.

[@ianb3515]

The most memorable thing about the show for me was that it seems to use the soundtrack for Digimon adventure before Digimon adventure. I remember when I first watched Digimon I thought the soundtrack sounded familiar.

[@ShadowSonic2]

Linkara commented on that too, he couldn't concentrate with the Digimon music constantly playing... ...It was also the same music used in Spider-Man TAS.

[@GamingintheAM0801]

I was about to comment something similar. Saban's Digimon dub reused a lot of music from this. Shuki Levy did that a lot, it seems.

[@koku6626]

I demand episode two! We'll never know if Furbus drinks the drain cleaner

[@autobotstarscream765]

He needs it to wash down his Tide Pods!

[@fennecwolfox]

Hey Huggbees, GREAT video. What about, consider this: Roasting every Kamen Rider from the first to the last, just on their suit designs? I loved your States trilogy and would love your take on the Riders.

[@e-tan3911]

Oh that would take a WHILE holy hell. ESPECIALLY later Heisei/Reiwa stuff, where there are tons of riders and tons of upgrade forms. Build alone would take weeks if we count the different non-best matches. ALONG WITH THE HAZARD TRIGGER.

[@fennecwolfox]

@@e-tan3911 I more meant him doing just the base suits of each Rider

[@ripleyjlawman.3162]

The contrast between how Power Rangers handled the themes and tone of Dex’s story and how his own show handled it is jaw-dropping. In Power Rangers it’s treated completely seriously and thus everything we find out has a weight to it, in Masked Rider, it’s a family sitcom with monster of the week episodes, so suddenly it’s a zany show with forced laughs and even worse acting, there are no real stakes, even if the show tries to pretend it does.

[@aresef]

The show also used footage from the films Kamen Rider Zo and Kamen Rider J and just used a bunch of very quick cuts, reasoning young viewers wouldn't notice. Also, if you go back and watch that Power Rangers cross-over, there are things about it that don't mesh with the Masked Rider show that actually aired.

[@princeshadow13]

Who wouldn't want to spend the night binge watching Samurai Pizza Cats? That show was awesome

[@Nero_Jero]

Samurai Pizza Cats, they're so bad They've got more fur than any turtle ever had

[@lavendergotgame]

20:11 Ferbus stars in his own television adaptation of "House Of Leaves".

[@TheBonkleFox]

I would actually be happy if Ferbus got trapped in that house (or its derivative, MyHouse.pk3)

[@andrewtweet213]

0:21 I like the fishman humbuckers.. Play wonderwall

[@ZoanBlade90]

2:20 Not using Black as their first choice should have probably been a red flag. I mean, I *get* it, the show was dark, but so was the show Zeo was adapting. 2:50 There's even some stuff with his brother that we're not going to get into here. If you're curious look up Des Shinta's "Tokusatsu In Review" video on Black and Black RX. 8:34 To the shock of no one, there was no equivalent to Furrbus (Furbus?) in the source material. 14:44 It's also worth noting that Kamen Rider Black RX was not just a sequel to Black, but the last season of an era. It wouldn't be until early January of 2000 that Kuuga would air. 21:32 Do we even bring up how in the episode where the Riders of the previous era team up, they screw up the names? Actually Kamen Rider Shocker: *"I AM AMAZON!"*

[@sparkywilson1405]

"the show was dark, but so was the show Zeo was adapting" Ohranger was "dark" for like one month of production, then the subway sarin gas attacks happened and they put the brakes on that REAL quick Then you got dancing mecha that look like kindergarten building blocks and shit like that

[@USSMariner]

@@sparkywilson1405 the show did end up getting dark(er) again, with episode 32 penned by Sugimura of Resident Evil fame.

[@Rex-golf_player810]

@@sparkywilson1405 dude that is more than reasonable lmao i am not blaming anyone for that decision

[@Rex-golf_player810]

Skyrider was the one who says I AM AMAZON! Also I don't remember who but i think Super-1 was the one who said "STRONGMAN, AT YOUR SERVICE!"

[@ZoanBlade90]

@@Rex-golf_player810 That makes it even worse! What did they call Ichigo? Masked Rider Leader?

[@trika91]

I just realized the background music used for Saban’s Mask Rider is the same music/OST used for Digimon. It was driving me crazy why it sounded so familiar.

[@genericname3516]

10:07 Frankly I'm just impressed that you started with Blade, got through the first episodes and didn't stop watching Kamen Rider immediately.

[@JohnWick-rh1zz]

Everyone should start with blade,the amount of great memes from that show is amazing

[@LR-jb6zn]

its just the first 10 episodes. the rest are great. have the one of the best ending and rider

[@HaloNoble1]

My first series was Dragon Knight, then looked up online if there are sequels or more. Learned more about where Kamen Rider came from and started watching Blade first.

[@cian-neural2594]

Gaim and Ex-Aid were my first

[@Medbread]

TACHIBANA-SAN!!

[@marplatense31]

You know, considering that Kamen Rider is usually pretty dark, I can't help but wonder why Saban didn't try to make Masked Rider dark as well. If I'm not mistaken, Batman: The Animated Series was out by this point, couldn't they have sold this as a live action Batman?

[@meerhamizanproduction]

Maybe at that time, animation or tokusatsu were consider for children, not for adult

[@marplatense31]

@@meerhamizanproduction That's not really an excuse. Batman TAS was out by that time and the fact that it was for kids didn't stop it from being a well written dark show. They could have easily done the same for Masked Rider.

[@mudawott]

Its the same reason Power Rangers didnt really get good until Saban got bored of managing it and let competent writers look at it. And its also the reason Neo-Saban era Power Ranger sucks. Saban. Fucking. Sucks

[@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario]

@@marplatense31I assume they thought “ah, this is just for kids who cares?” Well people did care cuz this shit didn’t last for long

[@TheSmeado]

7:26 Furbis: diiicks… diiiicks… diiiiiicks!

[@mr.badmic]

holy shit you uploaded this right in the middle of me being in a kamen rider phase

[@WallebyDamned]

As a child I was not allowed to watch Power Rangers because our grandma had antiques in her living room and grandkids + Power Rangers = rough housing that will break her lamps.

[@KairuHakubi]

Gotta keep excitement away, excitement is dangerous! take your pills, sit still. What? you're fat? oh that's all the fault of that damn SUGAR! it's poison you know. here have more pills.

[@DH-xw6jp]

She wasn't wrong. The only show more likely than Power Rangers to cause rough housing is the 90s Attitude Era of WWE.

[@WallebyDamned]

@@KairuHakubi We weren't talking about medicating hyperactivity, though it actually is rather prevalent in our family and medications at that time may have addressed some of our issues. And maybe don't be an unprompted knobknock about medications during an ADHD meds shortage because someone commented on their grandma's fear for furniture.

[@WallebyDamned]

@@DH-xw6jp You are correct. The wrestling led to a cousin's broken arm

[@KairuHakubi]

@@WallebyDamned there are no unprompted comments on the systematic fucking up of the few things in society we had working okay.

[@star7communicator]

Toon Makers took losing the "Sailor Moon" property pretty hard

[@grimfin3214]

19:40 Hugbees perfectly demonstrates his understanding of the laws of improv in this momentary skit. Violent and antagonistic action between characters can be funny, but it limits the potential outcomes of a sketch to everyone being dead/injured. It’s actually funnier to do something neutral/beneficial most of the time, such as giving a character his much needed flea and tick medicine. The fact that Hugs has already expressed hatred towards this character makes the skit even funnier, because it subverts our expectations of what is going to happen

[@e-tan3911]

I am 90% sure the joke was that he was trying to euthanize Ferbus.

[@atavious2491]

1:35 That struggling to give out a definition of what Tokusatsu is the very reason why Tokusatsu will never be as mainstream as Marvel or DC. Hopefully the Godzilla Monsterverse can change that around.

[@beansfebreeze]

Alright but who remembers VR Troopers? They had a talking dog and all the powers of like 8 floppy disks tied to a fishtick on their side

[@NameName2.0]

The fact he actually tried on Guitar, I love it. and it's honestly one of the coolest openings.

[@thatguybehindtheglass]

22:24 That OST sounds awesome.

[@krinklerstuff8983]

Huggbees. Sometimes satire. Sometimes Danny Gonzalez/ Alex Meyers. Sometimes comic book nerd. Always shredding.

[@seeess777]

KZbin: You can't make transformative parody content of How It's Made any more Huggbees: You fool's! I'm not even at full power! (Proceeds to shred on guitar)

[@seeess777]

@officialhuggbees conagulartons! You're won scammer of the year please link @@hogbogs with your banking info for unlimited monies

[@meme2day999]

I’ve got to admit I could not guess what hugbees was gonna do when he was “excited” to see furbes

[@meme2day999]

@officialhuggbees Your not official

[@coverblader2108]

I never thought he’d cover masked rider AT ALL

[@LectricVonThunder]

God, the memories of these struggle-ass theme songs have their eldritch tentacles so deep in my brain that i was singing along before they even started playing. Yes, even Robocop.😭

[@jacksullivan4741]

14:03 I love the unintentional "I have to go now my planet needs me" vibes from this image even back then this had to have looked stupid as hell

[@garbagecan7718]

I never expected huggbees to talk about kamen rider, this is a good surprise

[@UdderlyEvelyn]

I would watch an entire commentary/riff version of all 40 episodes by you.