#nobuhiko akizuki

[eclipse-song]

Realizing I don't think I ever posted these to tumblr!!

[eunnieverse]

Kamen Rider Black Sun / Kamen Rider Shadow Moon

[vermiformish]

Black Sun vs Shadow Moon

[ask-cloverfield]

[macmanx]

Henshin!

[bymyblackhand]

Watch Kamen Rider Black Sun, it's good I promise:)))

[by13x]

Sadness/Madness

[ianitegal56]

Messed up the Kotaro screenshot but agh I love Black. I think about them a lot more than most Riders.

[floater0352]

The opportunity to binge #KamenRiderBlackSun came to me the past weekend and I finished it today.

The series is an unapologetic attack and commentary on contemporary Japanese societal issues, the undercurrents of #unseenjapan that #cooljapan probably tried to paper over throughout the Olympics and decades of LDP rule, and it just grew keener with the assassination of Shinzo Abe and the near-interminable desire to demand change in a society unable to accept it. It is an attempt at portraying, through fiction, that Japan is more multicultural than it tends to see itself, it is harming its soul by denying that, and it deserves better by listening to its youth, and it better do so before they swallow them and their most vulnerable.

Perhaps it is inevitable that this will be another battleground in the role of political commentary/applicability especially when it is appearing in long-running franchises. This is currently the biggest dilemma of franchises like the ones owned by Disney (Marvel and Star Wars), not to mention fantasy (the recent tussles between House of the Dragon and The Rings of Powder for ex.). The fact that *Kamen Rider Black Sun* is in Amazon Prime further highlights this. And yet if Japanese fiction can begin coming to terms with contemporary issues through the medium of its classical heroes (the way *Shin Godzilla* and *Shin Ultraman* already did, not to mention *Shin Kamen Rider* will do soon again), why not this way?

It is a testament that *Black Sun*, based off *BLACK*, probably the most successfully exported Kamen Rider before the Heisei period, is the best way to do this unbridled revisioning. (I personally grew up on BLACK on IBC13 in the Philippines.) This series speaks not only to the child who grew up with Kotaro Minami/Kuya Robert, but to the man, scholar & advocate I grew up as.

This is an unrivalled opportunity to revisit how Kamen Rider stories are told, what kind of storytelling the original creator Shotaro Ishinomori is interested in, and what can heroism possibly mean in a post-nuclear, heavily polarized and infuriating time. It is finding your lines, those who will hold your hands and back, and passing them on.

[longwuzhere]

Because of the solar eclipse today. If you get it, you get it.

[ungojirasapiente]

a drawing of Shadowmoon, main villain of Kamen Rider Black, such a cool mechanical design, to contrast Black's more organic looking one, also his sword has the most edgy badass name ever, the Satansaber, so fucking cool! ------ un dibujo de Shadowmoon, villano principal de Kamen Rider Black, un diseño mecánico tan genial, para hacerle contraste al mas orgánico de Black, también su espada tiene el nombre mas edgy badass de toda vida, el Satansaber, tan putas genial! --- Kamen Rider Black (and Shadowmoon) is owned by Toei

[yugiohdilf]

i love how shadow moon gives kotaro PTSD with each living day

[tokumusume]

[macmanx]

Henshin!