So I finally watch a Kamen Rider show... - Kamen Rider W Review 

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As to why the scene where Philip dies felt so real and sad is because the actors actually werent supposed to cry but the scene was so emotional they ended up actually crying, the other people on the set cried along

Fun fact, Shotaro's full name is Hidari Shotaro and Phillip's name is Raito Sonozaki. Hidari is left in Japanese and Raito in katakana is Right. So...literally left and right. If Shroud said that Phillip's partner is meant to be Ryu -- that's a load of horse shit -- I mean their names basically meant that they were destined to be partners :P

Akiko is basically a Rider character trope called the "Heroine" Sometimes helps out, sometimes is a damsel in distress but is mostly just there so the main cast isn't a total sausage fest. In the last couple seasons the heroines started getting more proactive, if not become outright Rider's themselves, but that wasn't really a thing in Double yet.

It's very cool seeing new people entering the kamen rider community for the first time and enjoying the story of kamen rider as a whole awesome video

Shotaro and Philip use refined Gaia Memories. That, combined with the fact that they use them through their Double Driver (which limits the Memory’s output of Gaia Energy) prevents them from becoming corrupted like the Dopants.

Kamen Rider W is such a legendary classic

it's really cool seeing people discover Kamen Rider and experience it for the first time, truly an awesome experience :]

13:06 The 2 episode arcs is a staple for the Heisei(Kuuga-Zi-o) and Reiwa(Zero-one-present) era of Rider. 19:58 A little before this arc, is actually W’s part of the “passing the torch” special with Decade, with W’s half(pun intended) covering the night the duo first became W. 24:14 Nitpick here, Driver in Kamen Rider refers to the Rider’s belt, and the memories are the transformation item, so they are just referred to as memories. 34:56 This actually comes from W’s standalone movie A-Z. Aside from the above, the other bits of connecting media is W’s half of their “passing the torch” crossover with OOO, who does make a pre-show debut in the A-Z movie, then the epilogue movies for Accel and Eternal. And that’s pretty much where it was left off before Fuuto PI came about.

I don’t know much about where in Japan Fuuto is supposed to be, but I do know three things about it: it shares a border with Tokyo (this was confirmed in a _Kamen Rider Drive_ special episode featuring Ryu Terui as a guest character); the layout was inspired by Gotham City; and it’s probably supposed to be a coastal city (most likely on the east coast based on the first fact) owing to the fact that it spans several small islands and has a shipping port.

I’d recommend watching the connected movies to w, introduces pretty awesome characters like Kamen rider Eternal and Kamen rider Skull. The first is a badass villain, the second is just badass and was Akiko’s dad. Admittedly the movies with the important backstories are crossover movies with other riders but their still enjoyable

Fun fact: the Lost Driver was also used by three other riders in the movies. The first was Shotaro’s mentor Sokichi Narumi, Kamen Rider Skull. The second is the evil Kamen Rider Eternal. The third is Philip, who used it to become Kamen Rider Cyclone on one occasion.

For those who don't know, Kamen Riders can literally control time and space like it's nothing and some have been stated to destroy infinite universes. So now you can say Ohma Zi-o and Decade solos because they have the powers of EVERY Rider (about 100+). Also, it's not canon but, Kamen Rider Memory of Heroes is a great game that expands on W, OOO, and Zero-one's story. It's on switch and has an english copy you'll have to import but it's worth it.

Fun fact: The Weather dopant is portrayed by Samehada's voice actor from Naruto. He also dubbed Christian Bale/Bruce Wayne for the Japanese dub of TDK (may he rest in peace). The Invisible dopant (Lily) is portrayed by Nao Nagasawa, also portrayed Hurricane Blue (Blue Ninja Storm) from Ninpuu Sentai Hurricanger.

Kamen Rider W: Now Let's Count Up Your Sins

I don't remember if this was said in the series, but I was under the impression that the BELT is how they are able to harness the power (be a Kamen Rider), rather than being a Dopant who just puts it into their skin.

Wind Wave radio does exist in real life! It was streamed online and was hosted by Wakana in character. The program ended when Wakana left the job in the show to work at Digal. Wind Scale, the clothes brand, also exists through P-Bandai.

Good to see a new kamen rider fan, even if it's a modern kamen rider. I don't like most of modern kamen riders. But I must say, I actually liked W for being entertaining & not trying to act like it's an edgy intelligent show. And I actually like the fact W isn't over dressed for his job, which is something a lot of modern kamen riders like to do. Have fun exploring the kamen rider series. (And no, I'm not an edgy snobby American who fell in love with Black, I just get to watch the old ones on tv).

This is a good one to start on, it hits all the right notes of a good tokusatsu, and there’s a legitimately gripping mystery at play.

crazy how you went from pokemon and all the other stuff to basically just a tokusatsu channel. thats amazing to me honestly. and because of you i have started super sentai and kamen rider. always been a big fan of power rangers but man the roots of the show looks cool as heck. definitely got a new subscriber out of me. keep going and keeping me up to date !!🔥🔥✅

Kamen Rider W Is A Classic

33:30 thats just Xtreme and Utopia wasnt the leader...he was just some officer who was in charge of the Gaia Memory funding

When talking about the gadgets, you forgot to mention a few things: > Firstly: you left out the Spider Shock, a wristwatch that also functions as a grappling cable and turns into a mechanical spider. > Secondly: Ryu has his own gadget phone, the Beetle Phone, which is identical to the Stag Phone except it’s blue instead of black and turns into a kabuto beetle. > Third and lastly: in Fuuto PI, Tokime gets her own Beetle Phone which is pink.

So the whole thing as to why they would lose control when using Fang in the beginning (and still later on at times as explained in Fuuto PI), is because Fang was a memory gadget designed to protect Philip specifically, it would overwrite Philip and especially take over in order to protect him. But the problem is it basically puts Philip in a fight or flight mode, where he can't tell who's friend or foe. It eventually took Shotaro stepping in and proving he can protect Philip for the memory to allow the two to have some semblance of control, though it still tends to heighten Philip's aggression when using it.

Man, Kamen Rider W really is a great series to start with. It was my first Rider series as well.

The movie is even lit where the villain fights like a military.

It’s because W is a symbol for double in japan, for example double shot canned coffee will usually have a W on it. Source: I live here

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Late to the party but welcome to the community.

You know for someone who just got into Kamen Rider, I’m surprised you’re pronouncing it right. Most new people call it “camein rider”

Glad to see to enjoyed W. I hope you can cover other kamen rider series. Seeing how much you like anime, Kamen Rider Gaim might be something to add to your watch list since the head writer on it was Gen "the Butcher" Urobuchi who's been behind anime such as Madoka Magika, Fate/Zero, and Psyco Pass. But my own recommendations would be Kamen Rider Drive, Kamen Rider Zero-One (and at lest the three post series movies), and Ex-aid because of the Christmas episode.

Awesome awesome review i hope you continue to watch the kamen rider franchise and review some more series but still great review

In later material ryu and akiko end up married and have kids

Welcome to the rabbit hole :3

Well, there isn't poison in the Gaia Memories, but there is one instance where a few teenagers who tried to use one Gaia Memories and sharing it around like drugs without the Tattoo Connector. This burns their skin and makes them obsessed with the power that comes with the memory.

Great job buddy!! N fucking fantastic job on the editing!!!

the other thing they say is “count up your sins!”

There's also Kamen Rider Decade X W - Movie Wars 2010 and Kamen Rider W X OOO (O's) - Movie War Core, which has connections with the main series

You should watch the rest of the Neo heisei Trio, those being Double, OOO and Fourze. they're all Amazing in their own sense. Double is of course you already know. OOO is in a way similar to Double but they build up upon what's already there, and if you know the history behind OOO's making its really cool how amazing the show turned out. And fourze is different and some people have mixed feelings about it but I think a majority of the fandom can agree that Fourze is amazing

I'd recommend watching Kamen Rider Gaim and Kamen Rider Drive

Just to make it a normalized fact: Shotaro nails a Fedora regardless of the colors it has

also, the reason why the combination cyclone joker is a nod to Kamen Rider Ichigo(wind powered rider basis for cyclone) and Kamen Rider Black (basis for Joker --- Black being the first international Kamen Rider hit)

and also The Kamen Rider Double have a Second season/Sequence and it's called Fuuto PI

glad you like kamen rider.. welcome to the world of kamen rider.. btw.. you should see Kamen rider Gaim and Build.. believe me.. you will be speechless if you watch it.. the real masterpiece.. Oh and den O.. Funny and sad story in 1 series

I ALSO started W and then Revice first!!! I also recommend OOO's if you like those!

you forgot about the accidental incest between Phillip and Wakana if Ryubei didn't kidnap Wakana and turned her into a memory.

awesome video, would love to see you review some of the shows in Heisei phase 1 era like Kamen Rider Blade or Kabuto or maybe something from the Showa era like Kamen Rider Black.

Kamen Rider W is the safest first series possible as it's arguably the best.

If you want another Kamen Rider that is potentially emotionally moving, I'd suggest Kamen Rider Kiva. It has a story that switches between events that are happening in 1986 and 2008. Kiva has movies related to it but you can choose to ignore them because they're either contradictory or irrelevant to the TV series canon (unlike W's movies which are relevant and enrich the series story).

My face when the Double driver makes a W: Pog

You should watch Gaim and Drive. .

Nice. This is the show that got me into Kamen Rider.

Kamen Rider is one of the most unique franchises out there

Just finished the show and may I say it was AMAZING! Absolutely loved the cast, soundtrack, and plot especially the whole Gaia Memory mafia type scheme. Loved every second of it and can't wait to watch the anime! If you haven't see it yet, please give it a watch! It doesn't disappoint in comedy, drama, action, and pure Kamen rider-y ness 😆

I recommend kamen rider ooo, it's really good especially the relationships of the characters in it

You should watch from Kuuga to Kabuto, for me is the best Kamen rider Phase

I really enjoyed Kamen Rider W and I can see why it's a fan favorite but my favorite was Kamen Rider Gaim (though OOO had the best theme.) However, W had the best "movie" with Kamen Rider Eternal.

So the reason Isaka dies is that he is such an avid lover and user of Gaia Memories. And he had absorbed extra memories through a hack he found in the system. Using the Weather memory as linchpin. And with Weather being broken, all that power and corruption runs rampant.

very nice review, i recommend watch kamen rider kabuto

the currently airing one (geats) is great, hope you'll check it out

my friend the catchphrase is "now... its time to count up your sins"

In Japanese W sounds like double. Phonetically saying W sounds like Da-bu-ru. Hence why they are called the two in one detective.

We don't know about Raito til near the end, the mystery is why the enemy calls Philip "Raito" early in the series. The reason Ryu needs to do the Trial is because he wasn't strong enough to beat Weather and if he didn't prove he was fast enough he wouldn't be able to Handle "Trial". The radio station stars Wakana which is important as it shows off subtle parts of her personality and also Philip and Shotaro both simp for Wakana since SUPER early in the series so much where Wakana and Philip have an unintentionally incestuous relationship. Haha.

33:24 The form name is Kamen Rider W CycloneJokerXtreme, not W Prism Xtreme. - Kamen Rider W CycloneJoker (Base Form) - Kamen Rider W HeatMetal (Form Change) - Kamen Rider W LunaTrigger (Form Change) - Kamen Rider W HeatJoker (Random Form Change) - Kamen Rider W LunaJoker (Random Form Change) - Kamen Rider W CycloneMetal (Random Form Change) - Kamen Rider W LunaMetal (Random Form Change) - Kamen Rider W CycloneTrigger (Random Form Change) - Kamen Rider W HeatTrigger (Random Form Change) - Kamen Rider W FangJoker (Stronger Form) - Kamen Rider W CycloneJokerXtreme (Strongest Form) - Double CycloneCyclone (MOVIE Form, Decade's Final FormRide to W) - Double JokerJoker (MOVIE Form, Decade's Final FormRide to W) - Kamen Rider W CycloneJokerXtremeGold (MOVIE Form)

If your gonna watch other series, skip Decade Zi-O as those are anniversary seasons

ah Kamen Rider the bigger brother of the super sentai series which power ranger spawned from always love watching Kamen Rider more since it is a lot more all age and even sometime adult compare to other Toku show like recently with Kamen Rider Black Sun which is a pure adult only Kamen Rider reboot show

W's gaia memories aren't good per se, they are purified, purified memoires are weaker than normal memoires but have no side effects.

kamen rider fortnite- i mean Geats is a trip so far and really screws with the usual progression of a Rider story, i do recommend it

I feel "Muscle and Brain" would be Accel/Teru and Philip, that's why Shroud think they would be the best duo, but with Shotaro and Philip is Heart and Brain. Shotaro always try to be the "hard boiled" detective, but he is the softest of the group. You can feel it even more in Fuuto pi in the idol arc and in some of the "OVA"s (The tv specials)

The "good" Gaia memories are purified ones

Yeah it’s not bad. I treat these shows like how I’d treat the Flash series. Or daredevil

I HIGHLY SUGGESTS DRIVE OR BUILD!!! sorry for the all caps. I just got excited. W was my favorite rider in terms of rider design and story. next is Drive then Build. and (I don't know if this has been mentioned already), the W is the Japanese wordplay or pronunciation for "double" -- doboru/daburu.

KR has a whole lot of "in the manual" background. hell, the entirety of the suits and belts have name and description of what each part do, and that has been pointed out in the entire serie, what, 3 times in 50+ years? one important detail that is the cardinal of the whole serie, and of shotaro ishinomori works in general, is the Cross of Fire: both the heroes and the enemy power comes from the same point: bio-mechanical transformation, monstrous DNA, completelly artificial bodies, being a monster in the first place, the will to give form to fear and desire, and so on

Some top notch seasons i recommend are KR Den-o, Wizard, Build and Zero-one

Don't forget that rider W also got a very good movie its call rider W A to Z which present a new terrorist kamen rider eternal and its one of the most coolest rider ever i also recommend you to watch kamen rider kuuga agito, ryuki, faiz , blade the era where the story was super intense and really deep also the design in that time was cool as hell mainly because its made for more boardcast not for selling a toy that much

Cyclone effect acoustic version still makes me cry. W is goated

Just curious but did you check out the 4 Kamen rider w movies? The main one is on RU-vid for free

I am glad that W was the first kamen rider I watched when I was a kid

Make more kamen rider content pls? Edit: From here i hope you count up or down Kamrn rider OOO or kamen rider decade OOO has a great story and powers Decade has not so great story but the powers are really great the show will give you a trial run on the other kamen riders even if it is alternate reality what ifs

In my opinion, all Kamen Rider series in Neo-Heisei era are solid, except Wizard & Ghost.

I was in highschool and W first aired. To this day I think it's still my favourite. The stuff out of Reiwa right now just doesn't appeal to me that much.. Also check out Amazons and Black Sun as well. Both worth the watch if you want a more mature and edgier take.

It's known as Kamen Rider W, because in Japan when reading the character "W" they pronounce it as "double" and of course it's called double because they are the "two in one Kamen rider" so there is no possible universe where it's called Kamen Rider DoubleU it's just double. Also the "Hesei phase two" era is also known as the "NeoHesei era" this video is very hard to watch hearing "Kamen Rider DoubleU" lol

For the next series u wanna watch try KR build.... One of my fav show.... U can say the build is somewhat the same as W plot.... With hero and his partner but.... They are not two in one kamen rider.... Just the friendship between hero and his partner feel the same as W.... And the plot its pretty much great.... the char development also the best... And the best villain

Also you should play Sonic Colors in Japanese. The Wisp announcer may sound familiar to you.

9:52 isnt that the guy who were in Japanese reality tv show were they made him buck naked and streamed it to the whole country? I remember moistcritikal made a video about that guy its really depressing.

I feel it's important for anyone looking to watch kamen rider, that not every show is good, and not every show is bad, and some are good overall but have thier low points, I feel like gaim, exaid, build, zero one and geats (so far) are some of the best ones to watch, I recommend all of the series, but these are my personal favorites

They actually produced a Wind Wave FM internet radio station IRL.

You should try OOO it's a pretty solid season

Kamen rider was made in 1971 so it's older than the power rangers

Wait, you were surprise about Philip being Raito? I saw it coming since He and Wakana first interact, the comfot feeling and Philip saying the same "Wakana's lil' brother" said with small Raito being now Philip in Wakana's Mind made it pretty obvious for me haha And Yeah. Philip's "Death" at the end got me good too. I block his Death from mi mind. I remember the "Villain" trying to use Wakana and Philips recuing her, but I forgot for a sec Philip was dying 😅😅 Yhis video riminded me that happened and jaut remeber I aslo Cry a lot I rewatched it not long ago but stopped after the Sonozaki Family was defeated because I was "There is nothing else, the Wakana thing" 😂😂😂 But Anyways, did you watch the Anime Fuuto Pi thay works as a Sequel? I actully watched Kamen Rider W thanks to the Anime

Welcome to Kamen Rider.

U said u likes mystery i suggest u watch kamen rider gaim, kamen rider drive and kamen rider build these series have the best story in kamen rider franchise in my opinion

everybody need to see kamen rider

It's called W because when Japanese people say W, it's pronounced "Daburu" which sounds like Double.

power ranger but one guy. he said.pull your rapid gun at him

Tokusatsu- live action anime. Now start watching it

I suggest you watch drive and ryuki as well. Drive is pretty similar to w. Ryuki is a bit different from any other series as it breaks the “rider vs monster” format.

Were can I watch it

If you pronounce double in a japanese style like "dobolu" you'll get why its W and it's about stopping people distributing USB DRUGS

After watch the kamen rider double I recommend you to watch the movie, forever a to z.