KAMEN / MASKED RIDER BLADE ON GMA 7

[giehar]

what the heck is GMA doing with this show, i just saw episode 11 this morning and they cut away the whole 1/3 of the show at the beginning. i was waiting for that scene when Jin was singing a song on the street [which was well after the opening sequence in the original] but GMA removed it all! when the episode started, Jin was already through singing and was already counting his money! that means they cut off the first 4 scenes.

the annoying thing is that they did this not to make time for commercials. the only sponsor blade has is the ZUKO powdered juice. the rest are plugs of their other shows. i think they are deliberately allotting less air time for blade so they have to cut away scenes to make the episode fit.

[redranger]

i saw @ TK SM Cebu Masked Rider Blade henshin devices..theyve got 3-6 henshin devices

[giehar]

yeah bankee is the new distributor of mask rider toys so the sm toystores and even toys r us are selling the complete line of blade henshin devices, i also saw their rouzers, including wild chalice and the attachment for fusion jack. i got the chalice arrow for my nephew today.

the toy itself was quite expensive, P1800! obviously not something a normal kid can afford... this is why when a fan says the local networks should show japanese sentai to boost toy sales, i think it's ridiculous. even if kids get to watch sentai on tv, it wont change the fact that these toys are too expensive.

BTW the toy of the chalice arrow is incomplete, you still have to buy the henshin belt coz the buckle is a part of the main body of the arrow...

watch out for the hilarious 2 part comedy episode, episodes 29-30! chalice loses his memory and switches places with ryou mikami, a dead ringer for hajime. ryou is a cowardly takoyaki chef who is tired of his life, his dad is pressuring him to take over the takoyaki business and his girlfriend michi is a strong-willed woman who pushes him around.

episode 30 is also where garren gets his jack form!

[cybernaut]

Enjoyed ep.29-30! Really cool! See the look on Takoyaki Hajime's face when he gets his first undead encounter... Plus the hilarious cook-out battle in the end...

Oh, and the Garren Jack form is cool, thought the Blade Jack form is the best...

[giehar]

i watched the series until the end yesterday and i must say, the underlying story and ending was very satisfying. i enjoyed the biblical and theological implications. did anyone else notice this?

if they make more kamen rider like this, i dont mind if it's getting formulaic, you know what i mean, the rider is always "fighting fate", and the rider system is always being used to as a tool against the "grand scheme". it's been like this for ryuki, faiz and blade. also, the chaos that the rider spends the whole series fixing is caused by someone who is trying to bring back the dead [usually a loved one] and they end up opening a pandora's box... heck even in HEROES they have something like that [professor suresh]

i didnt like garren's jack form, too much theatrics considering he is just going to jump up and shoot from a distance.

did anyone notice that when the 13 cards fuse with blade for the king form, the effect is like saint seiya and the clothes armor merging with his body?

[giehar]

this morning's episode is the one where kiryuu makes his first appearance. he is tachibana's sempai and was the one initially chosen to be garren but he lost his hand in an accident while garren was in the development stage. kiryuu became a vigilante who goes after criminals [he listens to a police scanner] and kills them by electrocuting them.

what i dont get is why GMA bothered to edit the scene where kiryuu electrocuted the criminal to death. all i saw was kiryuu pushed the criminal against the wall, then CUT, then the next thing i saw was the criminal was already dead on the ground. are scenes like this too violent for TV now?

[giehar]

boogiecat said:

Kamen Rider Blade will be aired also on Cartoon Network starting June 2,weekends 8:30 a.m and replays at 7:30 p.m....That one is one english dubs(made in Singapore....)..

i just saw this version this morning. i dont like it, the same way i dont like the gransazer version on cartoon network or any of the singapore english dubs on animax. i really cant put my finger on what exactly i dont like but i find those voices annoying. the dialog [lines] also dont sound natural, the translation is too direct or literal. they even dubbed the computer voices.

it fits in well with the shows shown on CN though, since the dubbing sounds the same with mirmo de pon, probably also dubbed in singapore. kids will eat it up.

one thing that makes this better than the GMA version though, is that it isnt as heavily edited. but that is all... i still foud myself waiting for the GMA one, thank god it airs right after at 9am.

[giehar]

"blazing teens", a live action asian kid's show [not sure if it is japanese] about yo-yo's, has started airing since yesterday on GMA, occupying the 9AM time slot. MASKED RIDER BLADE has been moved to 9:30AM.

[giehar]

the last episode just aired today... any idea what will be shown next week in its place? i know for a fact that TSP hasn't gotten the next KR series yet.

[giehar]

yeah it's definitely not us [TSP] who got kuuga.

kuuga was dubbed in tagalog by PICASSO studios but they only did the pilot. usually, if only the pilot is dubbed, then it is only going to be used to pitch the series to a network. the pilot episode of kuuga was dubbed years ago during the same time TSP was dubbing KR Ryuuki.