History of Kamen Rider Faiz 

Kiba: *Has a happy, peaceful life. A wonderful family, and a loving girlfriend.* The Universe: I'm gonna do what's called a "pro gamer move".

Faiz isn’t bad. It’s a soap opera. If you don’t like soap operas, than it won’t be your cup of tea. And I think anyone will love most of the characters. Takumi is my favorite rider. Keitero is my favorite character of all time. And Kiba had a great story and development IMO. From vengeful, to choosing to favor humanity, to suffering and revenge again. And the actor was great, RIP. Kiba was the leader of his faction on rebel misfits. Very thoughtful and kind, until pushed to the edge.

Reasons I like to watch Kamen Rider 555 series - 1) glow in the dark armor. 2) brutal when monster taking heart. 3) good monster vs bad monster. 4) triangle love story. 5) background music ost. 6) main character is monster. 7) naked shadow. 8) suspend and dark. 9) SWAT police also joining fight. 10) awesome vehicles and weapons.

I mean the whole communication thing was one of the major themes of Faiz. The whole first half of the show felt like it was beating into your head how important communication is by having the characters completely fail at it. Kusaka was just another obstacle to communication in addition to all the characters being horrid at it.

16:26 "I...have no words." WELL, I'M FREAKING TRAUMATIZED!

ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-RANJA! *snap* Was not ready for that, Marcos. Kudos. My sides are still in orbit.

man there's a lot of story and character development in a show about men in bug suits doing kung-fu.

I actually love Takumi's personality. He's heroic underneath all that hurt that he's felt throughout his life. I love how snippy he can be and how a bit dickish he initially is, and doesn't form friendships due to a fear of hurting them.

I DO NOT want to see Masato as Cutey Honey EVER AGAIN. I can never get that image out of my head!!

I like how disturbing the theme of this show is without being too gory like Amazons. Even the story of Faiz were darker than Amazons.

One thing I like about Takumi is that while he's an ass, when he's an ass he gets reprimanded for his actions or it can be used for comedy, same kinda goes for my favorite main Rider magenta man. He's brash and has trust issues, but he ultimately has good intentions because long as voice inside him says fight he'll always keep on fighting.

Kiba Yuji's final turn at the end made sense for the reason you skipped out in your summary. Takumi defeated him with Blaster form in what was clearly a clash of ideals. "... leaving Kiba screaming on the ground..." is not an acceptable way of saying, "... sparing his life and calling him human even after all of the horrible things he did after becoming President." Kiba honestly thought he should have died there but he thought long and hard about the ideals he was just defeated by and decided that if he is going to go on living, he'd rather learn how to live from the best example of humanity he's encountered. I threw that last bit in but it's not far fetched given the kind of person Takumi KNEW Yuji was from the start.

I love Faiz. Takumi being an asshole is realy enjoyable for me (somehow), and I like character dramas a lot. Although...I will admit that Kitazaki was WAY more fun as Delta than...whatever his name was. Takumi's reveal as an Orphenoch was honestly LONG overdue, I pieced it together by episode 4 and had to wait *30 EPISODES* for anything to come of it. Kusaka was fun (when he was giving Seto Kaiba a run for his money for "World's Most Smug Rival"), Kaido was best boy, and...well, everyone else was just kinda there. I love it regardless, the suits and gear are some of my favorites in all of Heisei, with Delta having MY FAVORITE FINISHER EVER. Guns and flying kicks - no other combination can compare.

R.I.P Masayuki Izumi aka Yuji Kiba.

paradise lost is my fav kamen rider movie. and the visual, man. the kamen rider suit colors and design is simple yet it gives a luxury vibes, plus how they transform and the sound effects when they about to transform.. "STAND BY" so cool. the orphnocs is the coolest kamen rider villains i ever see. it gives me creep every time random person suddenly turns to orphnocs, and the story that orphenocs are higher form of humans, that only strong capable human can transform to orphnocs, i totally dig it.

27:06 The best example of mood whiplash I have ever seen…

You're not alone, Faiz is my favorite early heisei series (i also really enjoyed kiva that many people dislike, i guess there's no accounting for taste.)

11:55 when you said, "guess who is gonna die first" that one hurt, but the joke got me GOOD

Faiz is the last rider series I saw in full back when I was a kid and I have to say it’s one of my favs! The story moves at a slow pace and there are a lot of plot holes but the gears and the fights were dope! Nothing really happened in the grand scheme of things in this show but these characters were fun to watch

Takumi at episode 50: "Boku no Inui takumi niwa yume ga aru!"

Faiz is just a insane season. Well written characters and so many of them,, cool outfits, the suitcases, almost every episode has big twists, a giant soap opera. This is easily one of the best tokusatsu seasons of any type. Even the alternate decade story was pretty neat. Also, I don't see the problem with calling orphenachs villains while some are good. Not everyone of a type are bad - same logic as Den-O's Imagins. Okay the ending is pretty terrible, but I couldn't peel my eyes away from watching how they would get there. And then again, a lot of seasons have dull ends. But Naoya alone has more personality than all the characters put together in some other seasons.

R.I.P kiba actor

"The helmet is based on a shark" Me: I thought it was based on a half sliced orange 🍊 😳 💀 😅 😂

Fun fact : Masayuki Izumi (Kiba Yuji actor) failed an audition to become Inui Takumi because he is a left handed. Also Rip Masayuki Izumi

30:31 are we not gonna talk about the perfect english here

A shame, Delta's final user acting is great on GoGoV as GoGo Green. Also Sawada turned into Toguro is hilarious. Fun fact Peter Ho (Psyga) is the guy from some chinese drama who spits blood used as a meme.

30:30 best line ever

Tbh,Mihara can be a really good Delta user(not as great as kitazaki but there's potential).The casting was great,it's just that he needs a spotlight for himself,as a character,rather than simply filling the shoe.

I can't wait for Marcos to talk about the best kamen rider show featuring a kid that always helps people because he saw his parents die on a fire, the emo guy with the little girl, the meme himself and bipolar spiderman... and the most important character in the series: Milky Boy!

@36:07-37:27 *"It just raises too many questions!"* -Beuce Wayne (Batman Forver)

11:56 "...and guess who's gonna die first?" fn HILARIOUS.

YES!!! Takumi is the main reason Faiz is in my top 5 Heisei Rider series.

The henshin device is based on a cell phone and the show is about communication. That is weirdly brilliant.

Marcos: Let them be happy!... Toshiki Inoue: We need more suffering!

27:02 One of the best mood-switching moment I've ever seen.

Hold up, I love this but I take note on your review of the faiz driver. The show aired in 2003, the Motorola Razor, the most popular flip phone ever, came out the very same year, so yes from a current standpoint is dated, at the time the thing was on the pulse for the most popular phone design for the year.

It’s interesting how you said in the movie, Kasako feels like he’s the only Rider that’s needed because that’s basically his attitude throughout the whole series. Or at least when he’s around Takumi. I agree with you regarding Kasako. This is the first time I have ever said I didn’t like one of the protagonists. People think he’s annoying and normally, I am ok with annoying characters but Kasako, is like toxic boyfriend. Which I feel bad for Mari because all the guys that like her seemed psychotic. When he died, I thought, good riddance. Which brings me to another point, his desire to protect Mari is driven by selfishness which is an oxymoron. Case in point when he said he needs Mari like Mari needs him. Which I was like, no, she doesn’t need you, Kusuka, so back off. Whereas, Takumi’s desire to protect Mari is because he cares for her. It’s interesting because I see a lot of contrasts. I disagree with someone who said that Kusaka fights for humanity. He admitted that he fights to test his strength. Takumi actually does fight for humanity. He has to fight for humanity in his soul and on earth. I see the contrast in the bond between Takumi, Mari and Keitaro and the bond between Ryussei students. The trio may quarrel but they trust each other and build each other up. Whereas the bond between Ryussei students is more toxic more than anything. Their only bonding factor is the school. I feel like, Mari, unlike her classmates, is the only one that is truly able to move on with her life after the incident. She still loves her classmates/ foster siblings but she is also able to open up to new people, something that the rest of the students fail to do. I noticed that people think Mihara is the most useless, character but I disagree. The most useless characters are the cops. They were there the entire season and added nothing. I thought maybe they were going to be connected somehow but nope. They could have done without them. Useless villain falls to the King. Seriously? You build him up for two episodes and he fights and gets killed a couple of minutes after his big debut?

i love this series. its a mess but a good type of mess. i love back when kamen riders feels more like a j-drama with transformations. the story might not be the greatest, its not overly sad like ryuki/blade, but i personally really enjoy kiba and friends side story more than takumi and co. and the rider designs are really cool. also i would like to see you cover kabuto lol. that series is crazy. one episode you have a anime style cooking contest, and the next episode is suddenly super depressing. its also a great series but it doesnt have a clear tone.

First, I also thought Takumi was a great lead Rider. Not my favorite but still a great one. Second, Hibiki will just make you insane once you watch it after Blade. It was one of the most infuriating experiences I had with toku and I don't want to relive that.

21:19 "Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed."

I love Faiz. It's still one of my favorite Kamen Riders. It was my first induction to Kamen Rider. I started watching it when I think Decade or Double was airing. I think it was early 2010's. I knew what Kamen rider was somehow, so I decided to take a chance on one of the series and something stuck out about Faiz. This waiting on a 2.0 figuarts of Faiz.

Crab kusaka's smile tho looking devious

Even though I've never seen Faiz's whole 50-episode series, I have seen the Paradise Lost movie and I thought it was okay. I really liked the stadium fight at the end.

Paradise Regained just got announced and not only it was a smartphone but looks like it's hologram phone I think..? And Kusaka returns! Haha!

One thing that i would love more in this video is you bringing up Mina from the Paradise lost movie, sure she would be just another small story that you would ignore to like every other thing that is left out or be nothing for in the original show, i think her story with the amnesiac Takumi is sad and tragic enough for me, but yeah Great video as always.

Holy smokes at 30:30 did that guy actually speak English 😱

The series that dares you not to hate it.

Faiz is one of my favorite Kamen Rider series, toku series and superhero shows.

16:25-16:44 what on earth did I just witness?

*insert original joke about protodubs here*

Is it just me or is Murakami one of the dumbest villians in the history of kamen rider or WHAT? -Hands the faiz belt to an orphenoch he just met (who has never killed anyone) and has 0 combat experience -Gives resources to humans (the very people he is at WAR with) and is SURPRISED when humans figure out how to kill orphenoch w/o rider belts -Waste valuable time and resources (the few orphenochs) hunting other peaceful orphenochs instead of turning humans -For some reason in Paradise Lost makes this extremely convoluted plan to kill Mari when he had her in custody and could have killed her AT ANY TIME... There are other examples I'm sure but Marakami is just dumb! Kusaka may be a human dung but at least he's actually effective at manipulating people, when Murakami tries to do it It's just sad

I feel like Kaito Kumon from Kamen Rider Gaim is what the producers wanted Kuaska to be. The complete opposite of the main character with similar goals but different methods to achieve them.

16:26 "I really have no words" Marcosatsu,2018. AGREED

I think Kusaka is one of the prime-examples as to why that shows character- and story-progression was more or less non existent. The idea behind his character is actually not bad. He was a former victim of bullys who, when he grew up, became one himself. He became an over-achiever who constantly had to show to everyone else and himself that he is the best at everything and better then anyone else, even going as far as to do literally anything necessary to achieve his goals not matter the cost. He caused most of the trust-problems for the main-cast (and esspecially Takumi) just so that he would be the one and only hero of this story. This was the allmost perfect set-up for a great "Wolf-in-the-sheeps-den"-type of villian character. Everything was build up so nicely for that one moment that never came. Everyone who watched this show back when it aired was eagerly waiting for that one moment when Kusakas construct of lies and deceit would come crumbling down on him. But there was nothing. Literally nothing. No-one besides Takumi ever saw through Kusakas lies and eryone else thought these problems were the results of an miss-understanding at most. He never got what he deserved, he stayed a bitter and slightly psychotic young man from beginning to end. His plot went nowhere because nothing in Faiz had any kind of consequence for the characters. "Oh? Takumi is an Orphenoch? Okay, moving on!", "Oh, Mari is death? Lets revive her! Moving on!" Things seemed to just happen and get forgotten afterwards. This is why Faiz is considered to be on of the worst written Kamen Rider seasons. Things just happened in the show with no rhyme nor reasons. The focus was not on the characters, it was on these allmost soap-opera-style love-stories that, oh suprise, went nowhere in the end. The characters just existed with stuff happening around them with next to no real reaction to these situations with a poorly made world around them. The plot-holes became just so big at some point that it negativly effected the show to a gigantic degree.

30:26 GOD DAMN THATS GOOD ENGLISH

orpenoch king foreshadowed at the beginning when mari tell story about her burned aparment & later that her adopted father open the school and adopted the kids to find the orpenoch king, that ironycaly founded and saved by another orpenoch

I think you pretty much nailed it. Faiz is one of my favorite riders but I could never really say why. The villains were bland and it was pretty much all over the place plot wise. But it really is the characters that keep you invested. You want to see them, and see what they're do next. Good video dude.

Anyone come (back) here after Paradise Regained was announced?

Can't wait for Paradise Regained

i finished this season a long time ago and this is really bringing back alot of good memories :)

I've taken a look at the weapons and items that the brighter is use and surprisingly there actually designed to look like regular everyday items until they are used by the riders. For example the The rider kick weapon is actually disguised as a sort of telescope or binoculars, and the rider punch weapon is a camera

16:26 I don't want to open my eyes

21:19 this frame is glorious

This is the first I heard Faiz’s helmet is based on a shark. That’s pretty neat.

adore the faiz riders' aesthetics and the slice of life aspect was great change of pace for me when I first experienced faiz If I were to choose my biggest disappointment i would have to say miharu being such a non-character, the delta gear being my favorite suit too

It's okay man. I totally understand loving a Rider Show that clearly has problems. My favorite Season is still Decade and I definitely know that it has problems.

Karate light shark themed stop sign bugman is cool. stop sign is referring to the faiz symbol if your confused

Im coming here after finishing it. I will say i enjoyed myself even if the paradise lost film was a mess. I got started with this as my first. I was interested in them due to the riders designs and the ps2 game. Also kaidou is my favorite character besides takumi and to some extent kitazaki. I really dont like kusaka as he felt more like a villain and unlikeable

This is the one rider series I remember seeing in full as a kid. This was my last and favorite series! Love the fights and story and the suit looks dope! Everything else I see online looks over the top and too childish for me

I love the fact that takumi being an orphenoch is foreshadowed very early on

I hope that once faiz 20th paradise regained comes out I'm looking foward to seeing the return of the history of kamen rider faiz

good to see you guys taking care of all of you is also apart of my job

15:41 Xehanort: X -Blade

I just always wondered during lost paradise, why were they so picky on obtaining the emperor's belts and not just experiment on the riotrooper suits first and try to develop something better than the emperor's belts

I haven't watched Faiz yet, but from what i'm picking up here, I can only guess Kusaka being bullied when he was younger was what caused him to be the psychotic manipulator that he is in the series. (and as a friend says, the original Meme Lord before Shin Dan Kuroto came into existence) Another friend of mine says that this is the point where Toshiki Inoue is starting to shows signs of burnout, the same way Yasuko Kobayashi did in Go-Busters and possibly Judd Lynn in Dino Charge.

Still the most simple yet the best designed kamen rider

Fun Fact:Kamen Rider Psyga is the only English speaking Rider

What faiz has is style. No rider ever beat faiz/takumi cocky hand gesture after he henshin. man that's soooo cool! Also kaixa after henshin is cool to.

30:32 why is he speaking in perfect English?

i didnt know people hated faiz its my favorite show

31:19 in kiba's(or whatever he is called) kiba:"all my friends are dead"

21:55 this is super unrelated but the australian inside me always screams at that qantas in the background

Keitoru and Yuka, a better love story than Twilight

Five years later and I'm rewatching Faiz

Faiz in paradise lost was fucking badass a hero in tragic story

I mean I finished this show and to me, it’s actually pretty good. Sure, Masato might be annoying and the middle section is kinda slow but to me, Takumi is a really relatable guy and to be honest I love the show. It’s really only a certain kind of person who likes this.. and I’m one of them. If you like dark stuff, well here’s the show for you

I flipping love the intro for Faiz.

Thank you so much to say this kamen rider is the best

TWO HISTORY OF KAMEN RIDER VIDS MARCOS STOP MY HEART CAN'T TAKE IT

the series has always held a special place in my heart as a really good season, my main interest in it was the use of very heavy themes since the start also because Kusaka is best rider, he did nuffin wrong

I love yuka and keitaro, such a bittersweet couple

Wow, hearing this version opens up my eyes.... ...for the next faiz sorry I had to do it

First time I saw the suit, I facepalmed. But then I got into the story. It's amazing that we got to see a villain that we could sympathize more than the hero, who's already quite good himself. Takumi is a proper dude, and he never lets up.

sadly tv-nihon Has to take down all of they Kamen rider series because of toei hard for me to wanna watch any new Kamen rider because of this just pure stupidity

best Kamen Rider to me so far. I loved every minute of it.

The problem was not that the characters were not talking. The problem was that they were not talking about the cause of the misunderstandings: Kusaka. I don't remember which episode it was. But Kusaka and Takumi confront each other. Mari comes in, and Kusaka acts like Takumi hurt him. Mari asks what happened, and Takumi responds with "Nevermind" and storms out. He COULD have said "Kusaka just threatened me. He is a liar". But nooooooooooope, he didn't even bother defending himself...

Just finished watching this season for the first time. Wow definitely now on my top 5!

shark? isnt faiz based on a firefly? also i agree with you 100% that the kaixa suit is fucking awesome (still tracking down the SHfiguarts kaixa 2.0)

Hey there Marcosatsu, I wasn't able to find your channel again some time ago, and I was getting worried that you were deleted or something like that, because I really like your channel. I'm glad that you're back :)

I’m glad that the history of kamen rider series exists