Saturday, 26 October 2013

Kamen Rider BLACK 27 – Explosions & Saving a Kid

This is touching.

Because of the MOTW's cocoons, electricity and anything that has something to do with friction is absorbed, triggering an explosion and that includes Kamen Rider BLACK's transformation energy. With a boy's life being in danger thanks to the cocoons absorbing electricity, can our hero save him now that he has some transformation problems?


This is one intense episode, what makes this episode really intense aside that there is a life on a line and that Kotaro can't transform or else things explode is that there is a time limit in this one. He only has one hour to save the kid and it didn't help that he promised the kid that Kamen Rider has his back! But before we can go to the intense parts, I'll first talk some interesting stuff not related to the main plot. First is that I start to notice that the mouth movement doesn't match with what the Gorgom High Priests are saying.

Next is I just love that Birugenia pointed out the obvious, the High Priests suck when it comes to making plans and I agree with the guy. If there are times that the plan works, there is a point where Kamen Rider foils them and ends up saving the day. Birugenia's snarky attitude towards the High Priests is one of the reasons why I like this guy. He knows that he is stuck with a bunch of idiots and thinks that he can do a better job than them... and he is right about it, well sometimes that is since he also has a fair share of failures thanks to Kamen Rider.


Now to the intense part, aside from the explosions every time Kotaro runs his motorcycle on those cocoons is that I just love that Kotaro thinks twice with some of his actions. I mean, he is not anymore saving the world in general, but he is saving the world, and the kid in the operating room he is about to have his operation. If he fails, he will carry this guilt that he didn't save the kid that he promised that he will save. It is also those times that we saw Kotaro becoming creative when it comes to facing the situation. Instead of transforming on ground, he transformed in midair to fight the MOTW.

The fight is impressive as usual and defeated the MOTW in the process. At the end, the kid's operation is successful and we learn that his dream is to become a Kamen Rider. Well good luck on that one kid, we don't know if you will be kidnapped by some evil organization or pick up some belt in the woods or make a contract with a being to gain some Rider powers.