#kamen rider amazon
Premium Bandai has announced June pre-orders for a series of colorful Kamen Rider transformation boxers. They come in three varieties, Rider 1, Kuuga and Amazon. Each retails for 6,480 yen and fits waist circumferences of 76 - 94 cm (M ~ L).
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Continuing in no particular order, let’s look at the first episode of Amazon.
First,we get some of those trippy cuts from Kamen Rider, and we have our main Rider shadowed for part of the beginning. When we do get a better look, Daisuke is bathed in an eerie green light, foreshadowing his less than human nature. We also do the fragmented parts of his face as well in the beginning but not to the same extent as Hongo.
One thing I found interesting is that there’s less experimentation compared to the first Kamen Rider. My theory is that the New Wave was dying down around the world and that since Amazon was completely different, they didn’t want to do too much.
Around the halfway mark, I noticed they had wide long shot of him among the trains and later as he’s eating the bananas they had him sitting in the darkness in a cramped area. Like Kamen Rider and Black, they created an atmosphere of confusion and showing Daisuke alone in the world. When Masahiko enters, it’s still dimly lit but we get medium shots of the two foreshadowing the close bond they will have in the future.
Now for the transformation scene against our spider monster(we should make that a drinking game, we have Daisuke being fragmented with the shots and his face shadowed. When it comes time for the actual process, we get a sort kaleidoscope image. My guess for why they did it was to show Amazon separating himself from his humanity to become a Rider.
The fight scenes are a tad disorienting with the cuts and angles. Possibly to simulate how animals fight since Amazon is the more animalistic of the Riders.
So, I think I’ll try and make this a thing. Got to use that film degree for something!
