A Tokusatsu Cinematic Universe? My thoughts on the snippets of information we have on Shin Japan Herowa UniverseWhat do you think about this news? Do you want to see these characters interact? Is Godzilla a hero?By MJ Muñoz

A reading of the article: The Early Life of Shotaro Ishinomori.Learn about the life of Shotaro Ishinomori and how his past shaped his stories that influenced tokusatsu as a genre.By MJ Muñoz

I need to take a break from my review and analysis work and focus on submitting manuscripts for publication.By MJ Muñoz

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Sogou Tokiwa just can't wait to be king. It is all he has ever wanted. When two strangers from the future show up and tell him he becomes the worst dictator in history, he is excited about the part where his dream of kingship comes true. Sogou saves them from a monstrous alternate version of Kamen Rider Build and takes his first step on the path to…

An evil organization abducts innocent people and terms them into mindless monsters who do their bidding. Kiryuu Sento, brilliant physicist lost his memories when they experimented on him. now he fights the Smash and steals their essence, freeing his fellow captives from their nightmarish bandage. He makes use of the essences to increase his powers …

The Game Illness is a mysterious disease that can only be dealt with by Kamen Rider Doctors. Emu Hojou, a Pediatric Intern and Master Gamer joins the CR to fight against the Bugster who manifest as video game villains in deadly 3D!By MJ Muñoz

Takeru Tenkuugi is dead, killed on his 18th birthday by a couple of Ganma trying to steal a gift sent by his dead father. Luckily this gift allows him to become a ghost and transform to fight and beat the Ganma. The problem is he only has 99 days to collect all 15 Heroic Eyecons to save himself!By MJ Muñoz

Washed out police officer Tomari Shinnosuke takes up the mantle of Kamen Rider Drive to stop the 108 Roimudes from doing crimes. This race of artificial intelligence beings has vague destructive designs and only Shinnosuke can stop them. Assisting him is Kiriko a fellow officer, a talking belt who can drive a car and the misfits of the Special Crim…

Kamen Rider Gaim is a fresh, wild stab at Kamen Rider. The bright colors and imaginative designs pop against the foreboding Zawame City and the mysterious Invess games and Lock Seeds changing the street dancing scene. https://youtu.be/0HkrmGmugicBy MJ Muñoz

Souma Haruto protects innocent people from being brought to Despair and giving birth to Phantoms, powerful magical beings which kill their host and assume their identity. He uses magical rings to transform and fight the Phantoms as Kamen Rider Wizard https://mjmunoz.com/2019/06/16/arc14/By MJ Muñoz

A quick announcement concerning the upcoming release schedule for Another Rider Cast.By MJ Muñoz

Kamen Rider Fourze features a bright and youthful cast of High Schoolers who wield the Power Cosmic to stop the Zodiarts from wreaking havoc on the student body. Gentarou becomes Kamen Rider Fourze. Kengo guides him and their mutual friend Yuki cheers them on. https://mjmunoz.com/2019/06/14/arc13/By MJ Muñoz

A powerful crime family sells Gaia Memories to the citizenry of Fuuto who abuse the super-human abilities gained from them. Shotaro and Philip use Gaia Memories of their own to combine into one who is powerful enough to stop them: Kamen Rider Double!By MJ Muñoz

A powerful crime family sells Gaia Memories to the citizenry of Fuuto who abuse the super-human abilities gained from them. Shotaro and Philip use Gaia Memories of their own to combine into one who is powerful enough to stop them: Kamen Rider Double!By MJ Muñoz

Kamen Rider Decade sees Tsukasa Kayoda's world on the brink of destruction. He and his friend Natsumi travel through the worlds of the 9 Riders to save their world. As Kamen Rider Decade, Tsuakasa can use the power of the other Riders.By MJ Muñoz

Kamen Rider Kiva features stained-glass vampires of with various animal forms who prey upon unsuspecting humans. It also features other humans, some in 1986 and others in 2008, who fight to stop the Fangires from draining the life out of people. It seems the folks in 1986 let a few slip away, but our agoraphobic protagonist with a superiority compl…

Imagin are invading the past to try to change the flow of time. Den-O must sop them. Hana, a mysterious young woman who rides on the DenLiner, a train that travels through time, pulls hard luck case Ryotaro into the conflict when she discovers he can become Den-O because is a Singularity Point.By MJ Muñoz

Kamen Rider Kabuto follows a world bent on smacking around Kagami who works for Zect a group dedicated to the destruction of the Worm who kill people and take on their identities. Tendou Souji is the center of that world. He is chosen to become Kabuto.By MJ Muñoz

Kamen Rider Hibiki pairs up a callow youth with a charismatic and well-trained demon slayer. They cross paths and Asumu seems pulled into the action as Hibiki finds and fights demons who have been preying on people.By MJ Muñoz

Kamen Rider Blade is a Japanese children's Television show about BOARD, an organization who uses Kamen Riders to fight monsters called UnDead. It's actually a lot more complicated then that, but time is finite...By MJ Muñoz

Kamen Rider Faiz is a Japanese children's Television show about undead monsters, a cheeky girl who has a belt they want and a dreamless wanderer who gets pulled into fighting these monsters. There is also a young man who struggles with his new life as an undead Orphnoc.By MJ Muñoz

Kamen Rider Ryuki feels so different from Kuuga and Agito. It seems more outlandish, but a bit more grounded at the same time. It's hard to say, but I am SO interested in watching more.By MJ Muñoz

Kamen Rider Agito feels like it has a much stronger hook than Kuuga from the start. It's funny, I don't feel like the first two episodes gave me enough information, but I am not bothered by it, I am intrigued.By MJ Muñoz

Kamen Rider Kuuga feels like a blend of X-Files and American Superhero action.By MJ Muñoz

A little introduction to who I am, my overall thoughts on Kamen Rider Zi-O and what you can expect from Another Rider Cast.By MJ Muñoz

For the 45th time, Rider Break! returns as Hiroshi Fujioka returns as Takeshi Hongō, who returns after 45 years (maybe?) in the 45th Anniversary movie Kamen Rider 1, as Kamen Rider returns to the big screen and Rider Break! returns as well. Hongō returns to Japan, meeting faces old and new. Shocker once again looms large, but is now split in two. D…

Rider 3 confronts his destiny, Drive confronts mind-controlled damn near everyone, and Igadevil confronts trying to keep his food down in the sense-shattering conclusion to the Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3 review. After that, Craig and I talk about our hypothetical team-up movies that will probably never happen. Then again, I once thought a …

Hey uh, weren't we talking about a movie or something? In This Episode: • Rider Break! took off close to 5 months because my life is a neverending cycle of pain. I'm sorry. I'll make it up to you all soon. Soon. Soooooooon... • Part 2 (of 3) which is actually the first part of the spoiler-filled review/recap of Kamen Rider x Super Sentai Super Hero…

In the first of a probable trilogy of episodes, Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3 is discussed by one person who hasn't seen the movie yet, and one who has but can barely remember what he did last week. This part is mostly spoiler-free, and just covers my initial feelings, reactions and stuff you'll have already know unless you were without inter…

You Are The Wheelman. In This Episode: • Rider Break! has another episode in less than 24 hours! A new record! • It's another first-reaction commentary, this time for Kamen Rider Drive episode 1, "Why Did My Time Stop?" • Spoiler Warning because duh. Episodes Notes: • Music used includes: "Let's Go!! Rider Kick 2006" by Hiroshi Fujioka (excerpt) Ge…

Kamen Rider Drive is just hours away, and Kamen Rider Gaim has had 46 47 weeks (plus a few weekends off for golf, Super Sentai crossovers, etc.) to tell a tale of Armored Riders warring all so that a DJ can make one of them into a space god to save Christmas. Or something. I wasn't really paying much attention, but I did like that Bravo fella. Fort…

Can the classic and modern (and guys that are like 15 years old but we'll still pretend they're sorta modern) Riders put aside their vaguely-defined differences in time to save the world? Will Shu reunite with his mother? Will Super Sentai actually show up? Who will survive, and what will be left of them? It's an overlong, incoherent nonsensical mo…

At long last, Igadevil & Rider Break! return for the gajillionth time to bring you the overdue epic mess of a review for Heisei Riders vs. Shōwa Riders: Kamen Rider Taisen feat. Super Sentai... less than 48 hours before the movie comes out on home video! It's a Rider Break! so big, we had to Rider Break! it in half! Exclamation points! In This Epis…

Fujioka & Hayami are back to show the new kids how we do it old-school this spring. Igadevil is back and is so excited, he has no clue how to string together a coherent sentence. Fortunately, he has some help from Down Under. In This Episode: • Rider Break! returns for the bajillionth time, utterly failing to produce any new episodes since October …

Rider Break! is back with another "live" first reaction, this time to the first episode of Kamen Rider Gaim! Is it a fresh new direction for the series, or did the months of waiting just amount to a crate of old fruit rotting in a run-down warehouse? Expect no clear answer to this question, plus more! In This Episode: • Rider Break! returns to its …

My "live" first reaction to the new footage of Kamen Rider Gaim! And while waiting for that to air, I watched Super Hero Taisen (with commercial interruptions) and pondered the colors of good and evil, the true nature of insanity, and the timeless beauty that dwells within everything. Also: Shôtarô and Gentarô feel each other up. In This Episode: •…

Don't worry, I liked the movies. That title just made me laugh far, far more than it really should have. Igadevil and Rider Break! return with new hardware, a new remix of the theme song, and a new double feature summer film to review with Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: Gaburincho of Music / Kamen Rider Wizard in Magic Land. So it's sort of like episode …

The latest Super Hero Taisen movie has descended upon us. Is it a superheroic cinematic masterpiece, or a crime against humanity? But more importantly, what does Space-Igadevil think? In This Episode: • Rider Break! "returns" for the gajillionth time with a review of Kamen Rider x Super Sentai x Space Sheriff: Super Hero Taisen Z! • Lots of spoiler…

It's a kind of magic. This episode was originally released on 12/25/2012 In This Episode: • At long last, I talk about Kamen Rider Wizard. The first 16 episodes, the entire 2012 run of the show, the whole shebang. Wizard, Wizard and nearly nothing but Wizard. • And that's it! Yes, this is a "Christmas" episode in the way Ryuki's was: Santa's in the…

A nearly 2-hour-long podcast recorded across two years, featuring one guy talking about speculative alternate universes, bromances, and his own obscure fanfiction. CAN. YOU. SURVIVE? This episode was originally released on 1/1/2013 In This Episode: • You asked the questions, Igadevil fails to answer! • Lots of spoilers. Expect discussion on the end…

Igadevil returns, battling a cold to review Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze Movie War Ultimatum. Or as I like to call it, Movie War Ishinomori. Warning! It's Spoiler Time! This episode was originally released on 12/08/2012 In This Episode: • Oh hey, look, an episode actually about Kamen Rider! • Well aside from all the time spent dwelling…

Joe and the gang are back for the brand-new movie 009 RE:CYBORG. Can they come together to save the world once more from the vaguely-defined threat of misleading MIBS, an enigmatic "voice", and allegiance-confused cybernetic stormtroopers? Or do they even need to? Warning! Spoilers ahead if anyone actually cares! This episode was originally release…

Rider Break! returns (again) as Igadevil checks out the new Space Sheriff Gavan movie. But only because Date is in it, I swear. Warning! There be spoilers ahead. This episode was originally released on 10/21/2012 In This Episode: • It's a review of Space Sheriff Gavan: THE MOVIE by someone who confesses to be little more than a "casual fan" of the …

With time running out and destiny drawing near, Rider Break! ventures into controversial territory with an examination of the last two episodes of Kamen Rider Decade. Three years on, is it still the destroyer of fans, or a misunderstood masterpiece? Also, how many Rider finales can get spoiled while just trying to cover one!? This episode was origi…

A tribute to igadevil.com's kinda-sorta namesake, plus the first-ever Rider Break! contest! Which is now long over! This episode was originally released on 7/14/2012 In This Episode: • Rider Break!'s shortest episode yet (next one'll be longer, I just wanted to try something different.) • Kamen Rider Wizard gets some new toys! • Some brief thoughts…

Rider Break! returns (yet again) as Igadevil weighs in on Wizard, bumbles through Fourze and fails to give an answer shorter than 150 words to any question. This episode was originally released on 7/3/2012 In This Episode: • Rider Break! returns after yet another extended leave of absence! • Kamen Rider Wizard has been revealed! Hear about what I t…