How do you evaluate "Kamen Rider Ryuki"?

If other works in the "Kamen Rider" series are knights who have special abilities to protect humans and become heroes, then "Kamen Rider Ryuki" uses the fighting between knights to tell everyone that they Just someone who became a knight. All knights fight for their own selfish desires. They are no longer majestic and upright, but they are more poignant and very beautiful.

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? The groundbreaking background setting is very different. More than a dozen Kamen Riders gather together, and the heroic aura is no longer there

"Kamen Rider Dragon" "Ride" is not like other works that only have one or a few Kamen Riders, but there are as many as thirteen in total. Letting thirteen Kamen Riders have a big melee is the concept proposed by this work. The Kamen Rider needs to make a contract with the man-eating mirror monster and defeat other mirror monsters and knights. Only the last one alive can realize his wish. All the Kamen Riders here stand on an unjust position and fight for themselves. This setting It's a lot like a battle royale, but it's placed in a hero-type drama. I really admire the writer's imagination and courage, and it also gave me a new perspective on "Kamen Rider".

? Thought-provoking plot, excellent male protagonist

"Kamen Rider Ryuki" tells the story of the male protagonist Shinji Kido, a reporter, when he investigates multiple missing persons cases. He accidentally became a Kamen Rider, and also met Ren Akiyama, who wanted to save his sister Yui Kanzaki Shirou and protect his lover. In order to protect mankind and prevent other knights from killing each other, Shinji also started fighting. This drama is similar to a unit drama, telling the story of a knight every few episodes, such as Shuichi Kitaoka, a super lawyer who has cancer and wants eternal life, and Umiyuki Tezuka, a fortune teller who wants to avenge his friends, and who wants to erase murders. The detective Masashi Sute who has traces of the traces, and the murderer Wei Asakura who wants to fight, all of them have their own plans to become Kamen Riders. Only the male protagonist has no desire to become a Kamen Rider. In this work, Kamen Rider He is no longer the embodiment of hero and justice.

? A fusion of profound central ideas and magical reality

The male protagonist has been persuading other Kamen Riders not to kill each other, but in this world, his innocence and Kindness seems to be particularly unsociable, so he is always bullied and deceived, but in the end he successfully changes the people around him. After the male protagonist learned that Kanzaki Shirou was the murderer behind the scenes, he hesitated because if he closed the mirror world, Yui would die, but if he didn't close it, it would cause even greater trouble, precisely because he wanted everyone to be able to There is a good ending, so he is in a dilemma. In the end, he was killed by the mirror monster because he saved a little girl, just like the first time he transformed into a Kamen Rider. During the filming process, CG technology and real-life performances were combined to create a sense of magical realism with a very strong visual impact.

"Kamen Rider Ryuki" can be said to be my favorite in the series. When there is no hero's halo and the cloak of justice, there will still be people who become Kamen Riders and fearlessly fight for justice. battle.