The Story of MASKED RIDER: Saban's Bizarre Kamen Rider Adaptation

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

After watching the original series that eventually had time-traveling train demons, fruit samurai, and rabbit-tank-based characters, I can say that Dex's origins from planet Me Hoy Minoy or whatever and not-ManBearPig, is really, really stupid.

[@jessragan6714]

Damn it, you're making me choke on my ice cream.

[@g.s.5110]

...and DAN KUROTO!!! Don't forget Dan Kuroto.

[@sejama6625]

The thing was they never needed to build lore around the origins of the Riders...the good part of the Japanese ones is that the title "Kamen Rider" has no multi-versal implication, it's just the title of the superhero of the version of Japan. Whenever Toei try to build lore around the riders, it just doesnt work (looking at Decade and Zio)

[@ricardocoelho4834]

You're also here

[@conradojavier7547]

You forgot a Music Band, & a Possible Son of Prince Dex with an Old Man Blaming Dex Jr. For Everything wrong.

[@lamartherevenger]

As soon as my son got interested in Kamen Rider 5 years ago (he's 13 now), he says one thing when someone mentions ANYTHING about Masked Rider: "We don't talk about Ferbus. Ever."

[@Belgand]

@@VinnieBartilucci Show her what they tried to do to Sailor Moon.

[@nuruddinshah684]

@@Belgand I mean with all respect We still have a soft spot for dub. But there multiple dub it hard for me to remember i like the most

[@Belgand]

@@nuruddinshah684 Oh no, I mean the failed "Saban Moon" plans to make an entirely new show. It never made it through development.

[@willpitts5223]

@@Belgand That actually wasn't them. That was some other company called "Toon Makers".

[@straak]

Thanks for the shout-out! I was in in-house character designer and animator at Fox KIDS! Network at the time, and the promo producers and jr execs (who averaged 24 years of age) built up a complete backstory to explain Hal and Barbara's marriage, and just how Albi got into the picture. It has to do with Vietnam, a promise made to a dying comrade, and a one-night-stand at a whore house in Saigon. Believe me, it was so much better than the actual show.

[@PaulPistore]

Hey Kevin! Long time, no see! Too long, my friend. We had some fun back then.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Man, I'll bet you guys got some stories. From what I've heard from other productions you guys must have seen some stuff.

[@pferreira1983]

I'm all for diversity casting but that family made no sense. 😂

[@chrisevans9688]

Chris Evans tv show Fox kids and family and video of story and do you power rangers you did you would come back to you tomorrow and get back do you my now that you soon tv show season and we will see you soon now that new one is good news from the next week and next weekend now that news

[@palblue]

Someone has to make a prequel based on this backstory

[@TheNewSam]

Watching Masked Rider as a kid was something that helped steer me towards Kamen Rider as an adult. My familiarity with the Black RX suit helped ease me in to the franchise as a whole, much in the same way as a love for the Thunderzords drove me to watch Dairanger and become a Sentai fan.

[@BagOfMagicFood]

​@@patrickmoler8025 I liked the American add-ons even if I knew they could have been done better.

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

I grew up in Hong Kong, so the exposure was in the opposite direction.

[@informationnotfound]

Fun Fact: In Power Rangers Time Force; there's a scene where Nadira is crying while watching Masked Rider on the TV, (although pretending it was some dramatic soap opera). It was in the episode "Quantum Quest".

[@kidprime6863]

I remember that. Even as a kid I noticed it.

[@ashikjaman1940]

It's so garbage it brought her to tears

[@madnessarcade7447]

@@ashikjaman1940 I’ve been watching it for the first time I don’t get the hate it’s quite endearing

[@madnessarcade7447]

@@ashikjaman1940 I’ve been watching it for the first time I don’t get the hate it’s quite endearing it’s cute yall take shit too seriously lighten up

[@demothiguillermo2059]

​@@madnessarcade7447have you watched a real Kamen rider show because this show is an insult to so much that it stands for

[@ProfessorAlexSilver]

Biggest mistake was dropping the connection to Power Rangers. A guest appearance by Jason or Tommy would've been killer

[@Tim85-y2q]

The problem is they could only do so much to connect the two without having to produce more new (costumed) footage than they probably wanted to (or was feasible)

[@apex2000]

@@Tim85-y2q without cleaver writing you mean. Because "cheap" the aim. Plus they already wasted money filming new footage for power rangers (yep some of the suit & monster stuff was made for USA)

[@Tim85-y2q]

@@apex2000 I know that, but Saban's goal at that time was to limit the new costumed footage as much as they could. It's well documented the extreme lengths they went to in order to trim every possible cost from these shows. That's one of the reasons they eventually adopted the Japanese method of changing the theme of the show every season so they could get new Sentai footage every year.

[@johnm.withersiv4352]

Couldn't have hurt anything to have Tommy Oliver running around in a few more episodes.

[@JeffreyPiatt]

@@Tim85-y2q the episode with the use of the rider crossover footage was planned as a Power Rangers crossover but the low ratings of MMPR caused them to write the rangers out of the show.

[@gryphman]

I believe the real reason Kamen Rider Dragon Knight failed, was because it wasn't in the right time slot. It was on Saturday morning, which is primarily geared toward younger children. I think the show would have appealed more to the slightly older Toonami crowd.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

The irony was that was right around the time that toonami basically ceased to exist. Cartoon Network was going through a lot of changes and one of the first things to get the ax was toonami. And there was a good I don't know 5 years before toonami became part of adult swim so it simply ceased to exist between like 2008 and 2012. I'm not entirely sure about those numbers but I know sometime in the 2008 range the toonami block got dropped for maguzi which was geared toward even younger kids and they pretty much phased out anything anime outside of adult swim.

[@DoodleThis]

It’s a damn shame bc KRDK was pretty damn good for an adaptation. I mean hell, it had more plot (debatable) then Ryuki

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@DoodleThis I said elsewhere I think the biggest problem was it was on the CW. This was during the down swing of Saturday morning cartoons and most people just didn't really realize the show even existed. A real waste something like that would have probably done much better on a Nickelodeon or something.

[@palblue]

The reason why the time slot was wrong was because 4kids hated it, and only 4kids. They did as much as they could so that kids wouldnt see it since “oh its too dark and kids wont understand”

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@palblue I wouldn't be surprised at all if that were true. 4kids was the very definition of self-serving. I've heard some truly horrifying stories about how the company was run and some of the truly horrible things they did. Nothing much surprises me when it comes to them anymore.

[@Headphonemike]

Getting into the later kamen rider series was such an eye opener after watching Saban shows as a kid. The writing is so much deeper in japan, especially as a kids show.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Unfortunately most of the time it made it a nightmare because they had to cut around all the edgy dark stuff and try to keep it a child friendly for the most part for any US release. I have to say it's been very eye-opening seeing just how much I had to be changed between the Japanese version and the US one I mean obviously there has to be some changes to adapt it to a totally different audience but tonally a lot of the changes are horrible and take a show that could have been one thing into something totally different. Also because of how little usable footage was available they really had to get creative or in a lot of these cases just reuse a lot of scenes over and over.

[@redboxgamingyt3452]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu True, imagine if they adapted how Ryuki was actually written with everyone wanting to ACTUALLY KILL EACH OTHER vs them serving some evil mirror monster. I know Ouja would have given people nightmares.

[@Belgand]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu The fact that it was already successful in Japan should have shown them that they didn't actually need to change any of it to make it more "child friendly".

[@aaronluisdelacruz4212]

@@redboxgamingyt3452 Ryuki was adopted by 4Kids and made the show extremely child friendly or over censored like rather than killed and add stuff like aliens to explain things

[@CuppaKofe]

It makes sense in a way, Japan probably doesn't have to deal with sue crazy parental groups like we have on North America, so they can get away with edgier kids content.

[@wtharmon5050]

I gotta say, I loved Masked Rider as a kid. It was nonsensical and weird, but I identified with Prince Dex better than I did with any of the Rangers. As a person on the spectrum Dex's inability to understand social norms, his total lack of interest in romantic relationships, and his tendency to ramble on about subjects he was passionate about resonated.

[@SecretGalaxyTV]

Great perspective. Thank you for sharing that.

[@megasxlr22]

For the love of boom, tweet this to ryan Parrott. He may write that into the ranger comics. As someone who’s also on the spectrum, I never noticed this since the last time I watched it was when I didn’t know what that meant. I’d love to see it again for this reason . Thanks for your insight

[@AzraelThanatos]

Yeah, I enjoyed it because it was amusing to watch...I kept on wondering why there were so many steps to remove Masked Rider from the Power Rangers stuff from the backdoor pilot/crossover episode. It would have made things interesting to have a stable universe, and could have continued it with Beetleborgs.

[@michaelgutierrez4912]

@@SecretGalaxyTV I only watched the first 2 episodes on KZbin back in 2010.

[@donhillsmanii5906]

This show just SH* TS on the whole Kamen Rider franchise it’s so damn TERRIBLE. Now Toei won’t let anyone near the franchise (the exception being Dragon Knight which wasn’t bad, and RESPECTED the franchise) because of this

[@RR_1138]

One of the coolest thing about the Japanese Kamen Rider was “Henshin”, I gotta admit 😎.

[@borrellipatrick]

"Henshin a go-go baby!!" ~Viewtiful Joe

[@Undrave]

the Kamen Rider Black henshin is something to behold. Dramatic music and straining muscle, and then there's a shot of Kotaro's monster locust form that is normally hidden under the armor and at the end steam is pouring out of every joint of the armor... quite something to behold.

[@rayonix99]

Still watching Kamen Rider till the latest series, Kamen Rider Revice

[@Undrave]

@@rayonix99 DEAL WITH THE DEVIL!

[@jonathantillian6528]

I remember seeing parts of a Masked Rider episode and thinking it was some sort of weird "Power Rangers-ified" Green Hornet show replacing the car with a motorcycle.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

In a 90's pre-internet world where you couldn't find out it's about things unless you were really into something or knew someone who was you were really in a bubble or a vacuum as they say. Then years later you find out and it's astonishing. I mean the first time you watch an episode of the original Japanese version of any of the Sentai or Kamen Rider etc is an eye-opening life-changing experience.

[@BagOfMagicFood]

​@@JohnDoe-wq5eu It was eye-opening just visiting relatives who subscribed to TV Guide magazine so I could learn when new episodes were due! Normally I'd just keep watching the same timeslot religiously and experience rerun after rerun...

[@Maioly]

5:55 another fun fact! in Kamen Rider shows, the 'costumes' were often... not costumes or suits that powered the characters up, but full on transformations or a mix and match thing (for example: original Kamen rider had implied body transformation, but their helmets/masks were still proper masks that had to be put on) Kamen Rider Amazon and the titular rider that was addapted, black/black RX in particular were full on transformations instead of costumes. Amazon turned into a violent lizard-bug man capable of biting and clawing at his enemies, with official art often showing him as an organic thing rather than a setting. As for black, you actually see the protagonist turn into a digusting bug man in the first episode (though in silhouetted form) before properly completing the transformation and taking the more costume/humanoid form... and every transformation sequence actually alluding to that, with a shot of his human head which flashes into a monstrous bug form before forming into the 'costume' helmet. This concept was brought to life more directly in the Shin Kamen Rider movie, were the protag just full on undergoes a gory transformation into an anthropomorphic murderous bug man.

[@Getwright-]

I always assumed all those sentei style shows were full on transformations. Like the power rangers i thought became there suits. Kind of like ultra man or the guyver

[@Maioly]

@@Getwright- Sentai actually varies sometimes. Its generally suits, but some are suits + extra and some are full transformation. The very second one has our 'rangers' getting full on surgically transformed into cyborgs and transforming into their more 'robotic' costume forms with a specific process the very first sentai is... weird about it, its like costumes but they can literally just change into them in a sec, and one of the seconds even has earings on it (explosive earings at that). Think Gekiranger was a full on transformation, considering some of the lore there.

[@demothiguillermo2059]

One of the reasons the older Kamen riders wore masks was to hide the horrific things that happened to them

[@hailthequeenFM]

Shin Kamen Rider is different from Kamen Rider Shin.

[@michaelfackler7347]

Dude, FINALLY, somebody acknowledges the undeniable similarity between Ferbus and the Ferby toys that came out AFTER Masked Rider! I've been trying to call attention to this for years, lmao

[@FlipmodeTV_]

I watched this as a kid and immediately made the connection when the ferby toy came out. It was the most frustrating thing in my young life that none of my friends or family cared

[@TheTribalgame]

That was literally my reaction when the ferby first came out. 😂

[@wstine79]

"It's Masked Rider! And his trusty sidekick, Magic Spoon!"

[@victorkenarsy3024]

Nasty sidekick is more like it

[@chenyeanmingtakumi9033]

More like a transformation item

[@goopysoap176]

I remember that I actually liked Masked Rider more than Power Rangers as a kid, yet I somehow completely forgot about Furbus until more recently when I bothered to look the show up again. I swear it's like my brain blocked my entire memory of the creature, which seems strange considering how prominent it was.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Furbus I feel like was just the straw that broke the camel's back as far as changes to the show. The show did not need to have a sidekick that's for sure.

[@bursegsardaukar]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu But the Japanese version have sidekicks/supporting characters like Tachibana, the Kamen Rider kids squad, etc. I think Ferbus is more of a mascot which I agree is totally unnecessary.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@bursegsardaukar Yeah sidekick is definitely giving him way too much credit he's more like a mascot you're right. I don't think I've ever seen a more blatant character created simply for toys. I mean it's cool knowing how they made him work it was actually pretty cool but as a character no nobody needed that, he added nothing and his removal from the show would have only been a benefit. I don't think it was the single thing that ruined the show but it was definitely a big factor in ruining the show.

[@Shinmsl]

Ferbus behaved like more like a crazy monkey , rather than a sidekick.

[@nickm5419]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu the odd mixed family was fucking wierd too

[@aldusxenon]

I never watched Masked Rider. As a kid I knew the source footage was from Japan, so my best friend got the orginal episodes on VHS from a video store which imported TV shows from Japan and in house subbed them. We would cut school and watch Kamen Rider. OG binge watching. Went through a season in about a week. Obviously we got busted and had to make up classes but it was kinda worth it. Thanks for the video, Dan & Producer Greg!

[@ErsatzYankel]

I have always believed that the second US Kamen Rider adaptation’s biggest stumbling block was that they chose to adapt a season of Kamen Rider that was already several years old. The Japanese Kamen Rider shows had significantly improved their special effects since then and the show would have looked far more impressive if they had adapted a newer series. My impression is that is that they chose to adapt Kamen Rider Ryuki into Kamen Rider Dragon Knight because Ryuki had one of the largest number of riders in a series. Plenty of toy potential. One up side to using Ryuki is that the Ryuki movie featured a female rider (an extreme rarity in the history of Japanese Kamen Rider) so they were able to feature a female rider in Dragon Knight.

[@Levitz9]

By that logic, they should have brought Decade over. There wouldn't have been any need to expand on the legacy of the Riders Decade met, they could just make stuff up. Hell, the Dragon Knight fighting game they released on the Wii was actually the Kamen Rider Decade fighting game (which had featured the entire cast of Ryuki Riders as playable characters). They just axed all the other characters and tried to replace them with a brawler mode!

[@ErsatzYankel]

@@Levitz9 Decade certainly would have looked better, and there are a lot of Riders, but if I remember correctly Kamen Rider Dragon Knight predates Kamen Rider Decade by a year or two. Practically speaking, given when Dragon Knight was made, I think Kamen Rider Kabuto would have been the best choice to adapt. The main Rider suit looks really good and there are still a large assortment other Riders in the show. And using the much more recent Kabuto footage would have looked better than the Ryuki footage.

[@Altsncro]

@@Levitz9 Decade wouldn't make any sense. Its a legacy/anniversary series and wouldn't make any sense to adapt without context of the 9 previous shows. In fact any anniversary focused Japanese toku should not be adapted EVER as it wouldn't make any sense.

[@myoldhandlewasmadewheniwas9]

@@ErsatzYankel They had the option between kabuto and ryuki when developing dragon knight, but chose ryuki because it had more suits and characters to work with. I don't think aged footage really matters given how much of it was brand new material to begin with.

[@nickm5419]

@@ErsatzYankel id adapt Kabuto and lean into "Gundam Rider" and StarGate SG1

[@madhattermikey]

Not gonna lie I loved Masked Rider, I still quite like it today, it opened the door for me becoming a Kamen Rider fan, and ive had years of enjoyment thanks to it, ecto-phase active! HENSHIN!

[@combatking0]

May I recommend Kamen Rider Gaim? It starts off pretty much like any other Kamen Rider series but takes on a deep and well written plot as it progresses.

[@madhattermikey]

@@combatking0 dont need to recommend anything ;) masked rider led me to Kamen Rider, been a fan since mid 2000s, but thanks :) I wasn't to keen on Gaim I always felt like it was the fruit ninja of Rider, Blade, Faiz, Kabuto are some of my favorites of that era, ive not seen much of the 70s - 80s stuff but Black RX is awesome.

[@combatking0]

@@madhattermikey Have you seen Den-O? I thought that one was great too.

[@madhattermikey]

@@combatking0 its another one I wasn't to keen on, I liked the concept but I think Den O is a little too over exposed, but it makes sense it was one of the most popular. I really enjoyed Kiva tho which I think was after Den O

[@angelvsmaster]

Ø555Ø Let me guess, you liked Kuuga - Kabuto. After that it's just mehh... Right?

[@DreadJoker]

The real problem with why Dragon Knight was cancelled was due simply to the fact that the CW, which frequently changed the name of the programming block which at the time was called Vortex, did NO ADVERTISING FOR IT. It also didn't help much that the toyline was a bit jumbled with the figures being great but the belt being extremely ugly and didn't function at all like the original one thanks to a revolving gimmick that the "deck boxes" which were now reduced to cardboard cutouts would slide into. It is worth noting that the series did get a release in Japan with the original English audio intact alongside a new Japanese dub. I hope we get one more shot at the shows as Build would be one of the best selling ones here just looking at the toyline alone.

[@MrDuckyart]

Let's not forget Kamen Rider was the starting point for the holy toku trinity (sorry Ultraman) and hilariously RX's yellow form, Roborider was heavily inspired by Robocop. It all comes full circle. Also Anno literally living out his childhood dreams one by one. He made a Godzilla movie, an Ultraman movie and now a Kamen Rider movie.

[@onemanfan6367]

I got unreasonably excited when I saw this pop up. Thank you for covering Masked Rider! Back in the day I was the only kid who instantly thought that Masked Rider was way cooler than any of the Power Rangers. Fast forward many years later, and I have become a super fan of Kamen Rider. But to this day in part because of my childhood, Kamen Rider Black RX is my favorite out of all of them. Everything about him is badass, and the icing on the cake is he has the best theme song. The depth of your research is unparalleled and you match it with great sardonic wit. Love your channel!

[@Vesperitis]

Kamen Rider Black was a pretty big thing in South East Asia. The concept was awesome, especially in the latter half when it turned into a tragic brother vs brother, and the first Rider vs Rider conflict.

[@zeronxepher]

I came here to say "hail Ferbus"

[@MidwestToku]

All shall bow to Lord Ferbus

[@JmannDX]

Stop copying me, you turd

[@zeronxepher]

@@JmannDX no u

[@wolfman2802]

hey it's zeron big fan man

[@ZackFairX6]

'"HAIL FERBUS"'

[@nathanforester5993]

I was just talking about an episode of this show two days ago, specifically the episode where Dex's adoptive father and younger brother got transformed into bugs from looking at some strange insects in a cave. I remember really liking this particular show, Ferbus was definitely my favorite character. The character of Ferbus was designed by the Chiodo Brothers, also Verne Troyer was also the baby Dijinn in Wishmaster and Pinnochio in Pinnochio's Revenge.

[@wstine79]

I can't wait for the review of "Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills." That's definitely a cheap Power Rangers knockoff.

[@MiniPainterGamerDadD20]

I remember the one! Holy crap it was corny as hell.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@MiniPainterGamerDadD20 But it was a show that knew what it was I'm guessing just from the name alone.

[@Belgand]

Monster Island Buddies did a great review of it.

[@wolvermonkey]

I got hooked watching Black and Black RX while I was stationed in Japan. I still keep up with all the new rider series through subtitled dvd box sets. Awesome stuff. The US versions......not so much so.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I mean very few if any of the US adoptions are really worth going back to as adults. Whereas the original Japanese versions of any of the Sentai or Kamen Rider series (for the most part) are still pretty awesome if not really good.

[@MangetsuSAMURAI]

I was today years old when I found out that they cut Riderman, the guy who is constantly fighting Ichigo for the title of "my favorite Kamen Rider," out of a pretty garbage adaptation of Black RX.

[@justbuggin67]

Sabans signature move: make a catchy theme song in 10 words or less for every show.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I think I might remember the theme more than any other detail about this show itself. That at least I think totally nailed it.

[@TokuWaffle]

Even still this is one of their weaker ones. Generic hero music with narration and awful name chanting.

[@DocLantern85]

I'm actually really happy that at least some of these shows are streaming legally in the US. Build and W are among my top favorites. If Ultraman can get a good foothold in the states, why can't Kamen Rider? Especially with Zero-One FINALLY getting a physical release at some point? Hey, how about a video about Ultraman: Towards The Future?

[@DarkAnon100]

don't forget the W Anime ''Fuuto P.I.'' that has been licensed by FUNimation to be released next Year (with, i hope, an official release of Kamen Rider W, since the anime will be a sequel to the original series)

[@Ragetiger1]

It might have to do with licensing. At some point, they should just drop Power Rangers and just bring us a english sub (not dubbed) Super Sentai and Kamen Rider, along with Ultraman. I mean if Super Sentai is now in it's 45th season and Kamen Rider in it's 50th season, they have to be doing something right. Especially with nearly 40+ episodes for each season.

[@TeryJones]

Yeah I would kill for an American release of Build and Zero-One!

[@TokuWaffle]

@@TeryJones Shout Factory should have some good news about Zero-One... At some point... They announced they were doing a Blu-Ray set of that series back in April and haven't given any further details yet.

[@TeryJones]

@@TokuWaffle Well then, checking back at their site is gonna be torture...

[@nomakewan]

I really loved Dragon Knight, and I'd love to see an episode about it here someday!

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

2008 was a difficult year for a number of reasons for a show like that. It was a very different world than had been over a decade earlier. It's amazing to see the rise and very quick decline of power rangers like shows. By 2000 they were all but gone except the original.

[@PaulPistore]

Thanks Toy Galaxy for this, somewhat harsh, yet pretty accurate take on Saban's Masked Rider. The original intent (besides a cash grab) was to create a show skewed younger. Which explains a lot of the silliness. Still, it's nice to know that somebody remembers our deeply silly show.

[@bluebaron6858]

I hate the whimsical music they added to this show... Then hated it even more when it was reused for the digimon dub

[@mccallosone4903]

Man, you make such excellent, quality videos. Im flat out stunned you dont have a million subscribers. one of these days one of your videos will blow up huge and your channel will EXPLODE. keep it up buddy.

[@mikemahon4594]

I did watch Masked Rider during the MMPR days, I did enjoy it but yeah, it was rough. Times like this I'm glad I discovered tokuSHOUTsu for the Super Sentai, Kamen Rider & Ultraman orignals. I just wish we would get more than the original & Kuuga for Kamen Rider.

[@ajclements4627]

The fact Toei hasn’t released subbed KR is strange, they put two subbed episodes up on their channel of each series, and just drop it. I’ve gotten so interested in Metal heroes as well, and there’s literally nothing available online to watch subbed. And Sentai isn’t any better as far as releases go, Shout! only released 12 series before their license was yanked, and now Hasbro is doing nothing with it.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@ajclements4627 Today yeah it's weird you would think if any company understood the power of nostalgia it would be Hasbro. The whole situation with power rangers is weird they did that movie a couple years ago and they keep cranking out I guess new versions of the US adoptions but as far as subtitling and releasing the old stuff nah. I pretty much assume it's up to the fans at this point.

[@breadator3880]

Actually it's been confirmed that Shout Factory is going to add Kamen Rider Ryuki and Kamen Rider Zero-One to TokuShoutsu

[@LongShen1985]

Was expecting a video about this show, glad I got about what I was expecting.

[@vustvaleo8068]

Saban's Masked Rider is not "it's so bad that it's good" it is just "bad-bad" on diarrhea levels, we are lucky that we can now view the Kamen Rider series in their original internationally which includes Toei's KZbin channel.

[@BagOfMagicFood]

Oh, another fun thing about this show: This was one that got a real orchestra to do the music, and so it ended up being one of the primary sources of the orchestral music recycled for Saban's Digimon dub. They even used a snippet of Ferbus's theme as the music for the Saban logo seen at the end of their 1996-2001 shows! (The Netflix streams replace it with the new logo, though, so it's probably like that on the new DVDs, too.)

[@mspirits9911]

Yeay, so this means the next episode would be the long awaited "Kamen Rider" series😜😜😍

[@maxordman4100]

Didn’t watch this show much but I think I saw one or two episodes. I have seen the power rangers crossover story many times. It still holds up pretty well. Dragon Knight was a a real fun show for me though. I have much happier memories of that series. Great job on this video!

[@Changebeetle]

My local fox station didn't carry this show, but I loved the suit design. I later found out it was terrible, but it lead me to watching Kamen Rider on my own. I am very happy with Toei trying to bring it west again with Shout Factory, just waiting to get more Black episodes after the 2 they put on their Tokuatsu channel.

[@chubbubdreamer6904]

This has become my favorite channel on KZbin. Thanks for the work you guys do.

[@johnm.withersiv4352]

I liked the Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight and the Japanese series it was based on. Good suits. Wish that was on DVD. Of course, I'm also a Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad fan, so I might be in the minority.

[@uncannytheos2454]

I think superhuman samurai was from the SSSS gridman or dynaman tokusatsu franchise or was it ultraman?

[@MhmdFyruz]

@@uncannytheos2454 Hyper Agent Gridman (the tokusatsu precursor to the anime SSSS Gridman and SSSS Dynazenon). Tsuburaya (the creator of Ultraman and Gridman) even put the original series in their KZbin channel with English subs, though I think they put the one episode at a time and remove that episode after a period of time (when they put new episodes I think they let the previous episodes for maybe a week and then remove the oldest one while putting new ones). Or you could search a fansubbed version one.

[@uncannytheos2454]

@@MhmdFyruz ah yeah thats the one. Sorry I'm more of a kamen rider fan I i do like super sentai abit. No about garo which I'm just gonna consider the magical darker side to the metal hero universe even tho it isn't an the metal heroes

[@cademan8618]

Ryuki which the show Dragon Knight was using stuff from is coming to shout factory streaming soon

[@geeksprk]

Yo, did you ever see SSSS.Gridman? It’s an anime sequel to the source material for SSSS! It was one of the most popular anime in Japan when it came out in 2018.

[@zankired5653]

I'm 50 years ago, from Hong Kong, and watched Japanese Super Hero shows like Kamen Rider and Super Sentai my entire life. I watched the original Black & RX when I was still in Hong Kong, and then got to watch Masked Rider when I was doing university in Canada at the time... what an eyesore...

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Can we talk about the GOOD Kamen Rider adaptation now, Dragon Knight?

[@KRBadonkadonk]

I wish it would come out on video, I remember the new out-of-costume fight scenes being great.

[@johnm.withersiv4352]

@@artfire28 They are not available on DVD but the internet can provide ways to check out both.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@KRBadonkadonk it did come out on DVD but they are hard to find and expensive at this point.

[@nuruddinshah684]

@@artfire28 Best for me will always Timeforce/Timeranger

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@artfire28 Some KR fans actually say Dragon Knight has a more interesting story than Ryuki.

[@j.scottvanlester4584]

To be honest I thought this said KAREN rider and I was ready for an epic public meltdown involving a manager.

[@punchsideiron7810]

When I was a kid I watched Kamen Rider Black and RX here in Brazil dubbed in portuguese thanks to the now gone Machete Network. I was a huge fan, so when I saw this show, it felt like a personal attack.

[@gustgamer3992]

Nós todos achamos que foi algo pessoal, e ainda teve o incidente com o Jiraya no Ninja Steel.

[@rodster6campingprepper]

I'd love to see you cover Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys as no one ever seems to talk about it but it was a pretty good cartoon and toy line.

[@hobbes4011]

Now I just want to see an animated series about a platypus crew having space adventures. Honestly that could have been the whole video, but uhh yeah, kamen rider.

[@sonicsega6]

5:26 I had the original Kamen Rider playing on my TV while I watched this video and the footage of the intro here synced up almost perfectly with the intro on TV

[@graefx]

I loved Masked Rider. First time I've ever heard of the 10 rider finale though. I had the base from Masked Rider toy but nothing else to my knowledge. Pretty sure one of the antenna broke off. My family never really throws away stuff so I wonder if it's still in a box somewhere. Then again I apparently saved my TMNT toys from a church yard sale so who knows. When they did the figuarts SS RX Black I had to pick it up.

[@pucknorris3473]

That begining line read was flawless...very bilbo-esque

[@seanmanscott]

I really loved the introduction of the character in Power Rangers and I loved the idea of him having his own group of rebels with the hoods and gas masks, doing hit and run attacks on Count Dregon's forces. If that was the show, it would have been awesome. Unfortunately, they put him on Earth in the suburbs with dumb comedy and villains of the week. With that said, his armor, armory and vehicles were awesome, and that opening theme was so damn great and epic that I can't hate on the show, I wish it were on DVD or streaming. I think if they had him mainly on Edenoi and then had him occasionally save an Earth-like colony (to explain the Japanese footage where he's in the city) but mainly tell the story of the Edenoi rebellion it probably would have gotten a bigger fanbase.

[@MentalLiberation]

I see Furbus and all I keep thinking is, "Did this show birth the Furbie by accident?".

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

From the sound of it there was no accident to it. Furbus predated furbies by 2 years. Which means like he said that's just a huge coincidence and a product that looks remarkably exactly the same as furbus just happened to come along exactly 2 years later. Or some other shenanigans happened. Considering how quickly this failed and how deeply it was buried it seems like a perfect excuse to take the most successful element of it and turn it into a product.

[@dansaikyo6664]

Would support a crowdfunded "Duck Bears" comic, ngl.

[@DonaldWWitt]

Yeah, other than the name, it's got enough original content that I'm not sure if it's a parody or not...

[@tsukiyumetan5362]

I'm SO glad i subbed to this channel! Once I saw the gold Masked Rider figure...secret childhood memories were unlocked (In a good way of course) Dan, ur the man! Thanks for uploading this nostalgic hot mess! Please keep up this quality and wholesome content!

[@Michael_Muto]

These make me look forward to Thursday

[@graphosxp]

Never heard of this show. I'm way too old! As a kid I *did* watch a show with a masked rider, but no motorcycle, just a horse named Silver. THANKS for the video history lesson.

[@ExtremeEgg80]

Duck Bears (woohoo) looks more like The Mighty Ducks then anything lol

[@TheRealSpiderMew]

I was really disappointed in this show, i did watch it when it was on air. I did eventually go to find Kamen Rider fan subs and watch some of the newer shows. Decade was a good one to get you interested in the lore and the tropes, and OOO and Wizard are just some personal favorites (although some people don t like wizard as much)

[@tiraXpyrrha]

Listen, where Wizard lacks in story, it excels in fight chorography and suit design.

[@WardNightstone]

TOEI has uploaded the first 2 episodes of a bunch of the newer series

[@dariusq8894]

I love that the theming for KR changes each season. The series is super grounded in Japanese culture so I can see why it wouldn't translate well directly for western viewers. My personal favorite is Ex-Aid which mixes video games and medical drama. I also recommend Zio which like Decade is an anthology series where the protagonist collects the powers of all the Riders before them.

[@TeryJones]

@@tiraXpyrrha You can say that again those Rider suits were just dripping with class, not over designed or gaudy looking just simple cool factor that got the job done. And that use of "Please" for the belt was genius XD

[@zainiikhwan9405]

Straight out suggesting Decade huh. You're quite a hardcore one huh :v.

[@TheDrunkLee]

I somehow missed this show as a kid. Idk how when I watched both power rangers AND vr troopers, but hey, seems like it worked out for me

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I remember being peripherally aware of it. I think I watched maybe one single episode of it and that was it. Knowing now that it was a big mess and no one liked it I'm not surprised it fizzled out and was quickly forgotten.

[@TyrantOfSteel]

When I watched this as a kid, I thought the intro was the coolest thing ever when his bike changed to a muscle car. Mind blown. I rewatched the first episode a few months ago, aaaaaand I couldn't get into it. The stock footage from Kamen rider J, ZO, and black RX where the best parts and they're legally and freely available on Toei KZbin anyway, so I'll stick with that thank you very much.

[@CoconutDaddy]

Another show I never heard of thank you Toy Galaxy for introducing me to the weird and wonderful and Bizarre!

[@TheTribalChiefCCFMDS]

Kamen Rider Dragon Knight was really good. I’d love to see a video on it. Props to the action scenes and direction from Steve Wang.

[@forkgod]

Despite my love for Power Rangers, and it being the first series for me. Masked Rider is my real gateway drug into Toku series'. I loved Masked Rider and when I found a bootleg for Kamen Rider Black I was sucked in. I still love all the Sentai series, but Kamen Rider is the only one I keep up with weekly. I also Loved the Dragon Knight series.

[@Wis_Dom]

It was definitely poorly executed. But you're right, oversaturation had set in, as well. I was into "Power Rangers", gave "VR troopers" a shot, as soon as I heard the name "Big Bad Beetleborgs", i was like, "okay, i'm done!" lol.

[@12me91]

That sucks beetleborgs is the best of the spin offs

[@Wis_Dom]

I forgot, *"Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad"* and *"Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills"* were both released before "Masked Rider" as well, lol!

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

All I know is by 2000 the fad was over and you pretty much stopped seeing these shows outside of power rangers and even it slowed way down and got moved around quite a bit. That was the problem when they tried to relaunch Kamen Rider in 2008 there really wasn't a market for it at that point.

[@bluebaron6858]

What about samurai superhuman syber squad?

[@deathgyunos294]

I think that one had already finished airing by then. Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad was actually pretty good. It featured a pre Boy Meets World Matthew Lawrence, and Tim Curry voiced the villain. It was pretty good for an Ultraman styled show. DIC and Tsubaraya productions actually did a good job on that series.

[@landonsantini365]

Sometimes, I can't help but wonder if perhaps things might've turned out differently for this series had "Saban's Masked Rider" done just a few things instead of what they actually ended up doing with the show/ First of all, no Ferbus. He was cute but completely unnecessary and caused the show's tone to be widely inconsistent. Get the most obvious thing out of the way. Have it be a two-season adaptation of both "BLACK" and "BLACK RX". The first season "BLACK", would take place on Edenoi suffering through a post-apocloyptic plague caused by the Gorgom cult. This would be all done with a tone very akin to the Judd Lynn scripted Post-Zordon era Seasons of "Power Rangers" including the orchestral music and more drama driven writing. Since the series aired weekly on Saturday mornings instead airing also on weekdays like the Rangers and Troopers, the show would also be serialized, thereby making it necessary for you to watch EVERY WEEK. The first season would end with Dex defeating the big bad, but despite that, the massive ecological and economic damage to the planet had already been done giving the season a cliffhanger/downer ending. Going into the second season "BLACK RX", as the Edonites try to rebuild, Dex's uncle Dregon is revealed to have betrayed the planet and used the remnants of Gorgom's cult to create the insectivore army which prompts the premise that we're familiar with from the show we actually got. I remember seeing the original trailer that included footage from "Masked Rider's" pilot, and it seemed to imply that the original intention was for Masked Rider's story to be similar to Superman's in the sense that after King Lexian sends Dex to Earth . . . Edenoi blows up. Instead of the "Masked Rider" warriors in the finale, Dex would be joined by the Power Rangers to defeat Count Dregon once and for all. They'd probably have to recreate that monster costume, but "VR Troopers" managed to make an adequate suit for their originally Japanese main villain. Maybe it could've worked. I know it's long past the point it matters, but I'm just coming up with my own ideas for fun. What do you guys think?

[@kumachan9311]

I consider myself very lucky "Kamen Rider Black RX" and "Chojin Sentai Jetman" where the 2 shows got me into KR / Sentai in the early 90s VHS tape trading days

[@DrunkMoblin]

This is SO crazy. My friend and I were talking about Power Rangers yesterday, and I said “I’m surprised Saban never did anything with Kamen Rider.” I was 5 when Power Rangers came out, and I watched pretty much until high school. I also watched VR Troopers, Samurai Cyber-Squad, and Beetleborgs. I don’t remember a single frame of this.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Yeah when this thing flopped it was buried very deep never to be seen again. And from the sound of it I can see why if the Japanese company involved yanked the license and basically said it could never be touched again. I mean you know you effed up bad when the Japanese just completely ban any other versions of the show ever. I was barely aware of the 2008 version although again it aired at a horrible time that made it very easy to miss and it sounds like it got very limited video releases so it's kinda lost too.

[@BagOfMagicFood]

That's strange, because Power Rangers cross-promoted Masked Rider in its third season premiere! So that led me to watching several Masked Rider episodes, but I was only vaguely aware of VR Troopers and weirded out by what little I saw of Big Bad Beetleborgs, and I don't think I even heard of Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad until sometime last decade.

[@Tamaki742]

Well, there's also the Ryuuki adaptation.

[@vancexel]

Lol I remember my crush in second grade gave me this as a secret Santa gift at school. I treasured that toy so much I began watching the show and really tried to get into it. I went back to power rangers lol

[@easyparts-fj7mm]

If the show did well we could have more adaptation of kamen rider to masked rider.

[@leo11lim]

I can't take Heisei and Reiwa Rider Seriously because the silly moments remind me of that Adaption.

[@redboxgamingyt3452]

Trust me, they're still dark.

[@arashitendou5941]

I mean people give A LOT of flake to KR Wizard but literally one of its later arcs deals with Wizard having to protect the monster targeted human and his wife Who’s pregnant and nearly fails in his mission as they believe she died, again WHILE PREGNANT!

[@tsurugireo7049]

The Heisei and Reiwa KR shows may have their own sets of silly toku moments, but there r some darker aspects here and there, but in a random-normalized form rather than a "OH shit, that dark aspect is one big plot twist" kind of dark. More specifically either in the form of characters being killed by the monster-of-the-week(Early Heisei KR shows had LOADS of this) or main and/or side characters having tragic backstories that motivates their chosen actions

[@brantisonfire]

Man, when I heard you say it made ya feel like being at grandmas on a Saturday morning watching cartoons hit me hard. My grandma would wake us up by the smell of sizzling bacon. Saturday mornings always started with a big breakfast of eggs, bacon, biscuits, OJ and sometimes hash browns. Sometimes instead of cartoons I’d watch the Power Block, themed on car and truck repair shows, with my grandad. Can’t remember if that was on TNN or TNT or some other network.

[@Mecha82]

Kamen Rider Dragon Knight is actually well liked among Japanese Kamen Rider fans for being closer to spirit of franchise than mess that is Kamen Rider Ryuki that it was adapted from and it even got it's own Japanese opening theme song.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Yeah somebody else mentioned how it was dubbed into Japanese and even got a Japanese only continuation, which is crazy. But what an honor, even if it was short lived here.

[@arashitendou5941]

That continuation is notably special since it’s a novelization Something EVERY series in Japan got since the Heisei era at least as either continuations or alternate storylines Ie the Faiz novel as a prequel to the film which was of a alternate world from the Faiz canon Most of the Decade novels are also AR stories as well

[@PHjerome802]

nice touch there showing TurboRangers. that was my childhood show back in the 90s here in the PH

[@BanjoBrown]

We really do need more shows about space-venturing platypuses.

[@victorcain8607]

I remember seeing this as a kid but some how blocked the bear duck creature from memory. I remember my dad would watch Power Rangers with me but would not watch this. Didn't this show also have a talking motorcycle named "Chopper", or did I jump universes.

[@renatopedrosaalmeida31]

Kamen Rider Black RX estava em exibição no Brasil na época, por isso a versão da Saban nunca foi ao ar na tv aberta. É um herói bastante popular aqui.

[@ndlmous]

There was a ska band called Common Rider formed by the former singer of Operation Ivy and until I saw this video I had never caught on that that name was a reference to a Japanese show.

[@internetjesus]

i still have no idea why Saban went with Black RX to adapt instead of Kamen Rider Black that preceded it. It's like the MCU starting with Age of Ultron.

[@alfredgomez3128]

Same reason as Kamen Rider Dragon Knight...more vehicles and suit forms to sell in one show. Adapting older shows was getting stale anyway, they needed new stuff like B Fighter for Beetleborgs.

[@arashitendou5941]

Also his enemies had varied forms and divisional leaders so even more toys Black ultimately didn’t really have that Just Shadowmoon and the Creation King, and King was just a giant monster heart sooooo yeah

[@conradojavier7547]

@@arashitendou5941 Black had a Rival Before Shadowmoon Replace him, & you have 3 Priests as the Generals.

[@dadncaleb]

I love these videos about shows I remember watching in syndication vaguely. It’s nice because it recalls a memory I haven’t thought of in years. Right in the nostalgia gland.

[@WalcomS7]

Hasbro stay the hell away from my Kamen Rider.

[@christiandacanay3086]

Don't worry. Hasbro will oblige. Just like how people obliged to forget Warriors of The Wind ever exsisted.

[@orangeinferno]

Hello funny nerf Kamen Rider man.

[@dennisonlanon8102]

Hasbro will always stick PR brand proof and tested.

[@arashitendou5941]

@@dennisonlanon8102 and nowadays screw that up too….oh hello Megaforce seasons 1 and 2!

[@dennisonlanon8102]

@@arashitendou5941 I know too it was Neo Saban fault in the first place include the Disney Saban RPM and Nickelodeon Saban samurai 1 to 2 remember 🧐

[@laurenregnier3710]

There was also Kamen Rider Dragon Knight off of Ryuki . You could look at that one too , please .

[@waspshot23]

I loved Masked Rider when I was like 4, preferred it to Power Rangers even but there is no way I am ever revisiting the show. I did buy a Cyclopter figure this year though.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I mean that's the thing when you're a young kid and you're in that bubble and you can't and couldn't possibly be aware of it's origins or it's many changes from Japan to the US and frankly the far superior original version you go by what you know. The thing is though most of the adapted stuff isn't particularly great when revisited whereas the original version has held up quite well.

[@GuTTs989cb]

VR Troopers and Masked Rider were the point when I "discover" the Saban way. I watched Black RX, Spielvan and Metalder some years before the Saban series goes on air . So I discarted them both after a while.

[@BatmanPops]

Who remember the spoons that used to change colors when you put them in the milk, it came from inside of the cereal boxes back in the 90s, or the big silver Olympics coins that came in the cereal box 😁

[@johnm.withersiv4352]

I had both of those and a plastic submarine for bathtime.

[@BatmanPops]

@@johnm.withersiv4352 Hahahaha cool 😃

[@thomaswelbourn55]

This was my favourite of the lot from Saban, I had loads of the toys, and was a bit upset none of my friends watched it, I seem to remember more of the Rider stuff than anything though.

[@Captain_Subpar]

The really crazy thing? The actress who played the mom was only 28 while the dad was 42. Get you some, Hal!

[@fcm3d]

Dude I loved masked rider and because I kept jumping back and forth between the U.S. and the Philippines I got to watch all the versions.

[@Ryan069]

can you please review “Tattoo Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills”? lol

[@solidkingcobra]

I am kinda glad I came to the US later. In the early 90's Kids from the Philippines were exposed to Masked Rider Black. That show was ridiculously dark I remember one episode in which a Santa Clause figure was crucified upside down. Even my uncle acknowledge it was super dark and questioned why are we watching this. The Masked Rider Black series in the Philippines was dubbed in Tagalog. We were also watching Super Sentai series also dubbed in Tagalog before Power Rangers came out on that island I remember watching Bioman and Five man. The American Power Rangers were pretty dope though... we watched it in English. And I'm so glad I didn't get to witness this Saban adaptation even though it's Masked Rider RX it still would have sullied the Kamen Rider franchise for me. Nevetheless, I'll still fux with the toys though.

[@geardog24]

Instead of a decent Kamen Raider we got Sitcom Rider and his monkey duck muppet sidekick. 😠

[@MattiaBulgarelli]

14:16 : gotta love how you call director Anno with his first name, just "Hideaki", as if you had known him since kindergarten.

[@Cahos_Rahne_Veloza]

I would Definitely watch Duckbears if Dan ever gets it greenlit 👍

[@Pewpewpew182]

Karen Rider Kabuto is my favorite of all the Kamen rider shows. Thanks for doing this episode Dan

[@sda9650]

was wondering when you were going to do this one - i've watched all of kamen rider upto RX and started watching .... i mean tolerating masked rider - can't wait to get back to the real thing

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Yep. I would say that's true for most of the Japanese shows that were adapted for the US market. The original version still holds up really well most of the time but the only reason to watch the US versions at this point is nostalgia.

[@21stcenturyschizoidmana29]

Moral of the story: Never let a space royalty be some kind of Kamen Rider since it would either results in an extinction of Mars population or something like Ferbus happen

[@Darkwing_Drunk]

I loved this as a kid and was surprised by how dark Kamen Rider was when I started watching the source material in high school.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

That's true for quite a few of these type of shows. To see they were heavily adapted is a deep understatement. Obviously they removed as much cultural stuff as they could but the tone of a lot of these was completely different in the Japanese version. I mean they usually make these a lot more light compared to their Japanese counterparts. I guess they pretty much have to considering they're going for a very young audience for the most part.

[@arashitendou5941]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu correction, young AMERICAN audience Remember young Japanese audiences were watch Super Sentai and Kamen Rider We’re unlike our very squeamish tv producers here in the states don’t mind straight up having people die on screen Time Fire dies onscreen in the finale of Timerangers Saban completely chickened out at the last moment and just had Quantum Ranger temporarily hand over his transformer and gun to Red Ranger for the final battle only to live to fight another day And would continue to coup out of every other death in series with the exception being the original Magna Defender at the expense of having to create whole new scenes to explain their continued existence or reuse old footage and edit them in Or just be totally lazy morons like they were with Sam regarding Omega Ranger marking one of the only negatives of the usually largely positive SPD series

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@arashitendou5941 I think a lot of it has to do with children's programming in general and S&P and basically what's allowed in kids TV which violence and death especially are big no-nos. Which does pretty much destroy any sense of steaks or tension in a show like this but maybe that was the whole point. Like I said the American versions always seem to make it much more light and really no one's in true danger no one gets injured really everything's downplayed so significantly. It is a shame because it just takes any and all tension and drama out of it. But then again look at what a lot of early anime and stuff did as well or at least stuff during the '80s and '90s where you just couldn't have characters "dying" even characters bleeding or drinking were big problems as was anything remotely suggestive for the most part. Again it's definitely a cultural thing where Japan just doesn't see any of this as a problem whereas America is way over the top as far as what's allowed and what isn't. And there's very little wiggle room. I know there was some version of power rangers recently where you can tell one of the monsters was drinking sake but they kept referring to it as his "medicine" or something. Again it's just kind of ridiculous and I feel like we're not getting any closer to the original versions than we ever did.

[@arashitendou5941]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu samurai is the one your thinking on and that’s probably them not being able to get around it So they did the same stupid thing 4Kids did with Pokémon and made crap up Namely renaming Rice Balls as jelly donuts…..I still hate that one as it makes no sense

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@arashitendou5941 Well there was samurai and super samurai but yeah they do the best they can with what they're given. I mean I remember Naruto used terms during it's original toonami run like "elixir" and stuff like the toonami dub/version of tenchi muyo it was "tea" but alcohol use is a tricky one. It's right up there with nudity and a few other things that aren't the hardest to paper over but can be very difficult. I mean famously we had the "shadow realm" on the 4kids dub of Yu-Gi-Oh!. As much as I love to crap on them I have to say that was an absolutely brilliant way to work around not being able to technically "kill" characters. And then of course on the opposite side of that spectrum you have the classic sent to another dimension from the early dubs of DBZ. I still think it's funny how characters in The '80s and '90s couldn't use kill or similar terminology she had a lot of characters even the bad guys saying things like "destroy them" or things of that nature. It's so funny to me because children's TV is always been a tightrope walk. They always want to see how far they can take it before there's pushback. Of course even on cable they don't really seem to even try to keep a lot of this stuff anywhere near close to the original.

[@rammuertoanimations4664]

Man i've been waiting for you to cover the Kamen Rider franchise. Black (not RX) was a big hit in the Philippines during the 90s. The intro was iconic and every kid was imitating it

[@samanthap9420]

It's *really* exciting to hear about the back-end of these productions! Legit did not know that Ferbus actually pre-dated the Furby. However... I am *begging* you, *please* stop referring to Super Sentai (And Kamen Rider, Metal Heroes, etc) as each being a 'genre'. They're *franchises*. Or 'series' would be fine! Just... they're. They're not genres.

[@Dead-Pool3_II_Sij6]

I saw only a couple episodes and they were the ones that didn't have that weird platypus puppet on screen for a good portion of the run time and what I saw I was like "I love the idea of this kid fighting this invasion with a talking car and bike while living with this family" but I didn't see many likely because reruns and being pulled later that year from the air ways. that said there is a Power Rangers vs Freddy Kruger comic that brings back Saban's Masked Rider along with a retooled story and even pulls in the other riders that makes him immensely better than what 90's Saban aired/made. so I would be on board for this Masked Rider getting a reboot with writers that can aim for that golden demographic range of young kids to adults while making something you expect from both the three part crossover with Power Rangers(I.E a serious story) and having it not limited to reusing existing footage

[@Levitz9]

Back in '08 when Dragon Knight was about to premier, I remember OtakUSA magazine covering it and talking to some of the cast and crew. They explained they had to go to Toei in Japan and take a quiz on Kamen Rider to show that they were on the same page. And even as of a few months ago in an interview with Variety, a Toei producer mentioned Masked Rider off-hand and joked about how the recent efforts at bringing Kamen Rider to America (like the Kamen Rider W anime set to be released in the US) was "revenge" for Masked Rider. Toei is still very sore, and for good reason. As a side note, I remember back when Saban bought back the Power Rangers license from Disney and released Power Rangers Samurai that there was a lot of buzz over Saban taking a trademark out on the name "Power Rider". There was a lot of hope that this would lead to a second shot at adapting Kamen Rider, but evidently nothing came of it. A pity.