Todays topic is a show i found while watching old episodes on kamen rider. apparently it was designed by the same guy. this show only lasted a year though and frankly i cant see why. give me a choice between this and jersey shore and its defiantly gonna be kaikestu zubat. so the premiss is pretty fucking odd. its about a mexican cowboy who flies all the way to japan in a small one person plane and beats up this evil samurai yakuza guy with a weird mask as well as evil cowboys and has a superhero costume hidden in his guitar which he uses to become a superhero ninja person. armed with a whip and a flying transforming car. lets watch the intro shall we?
yeah this is already gonna be pretty interesting. that was a lot more explosions the most michael bay movies have within the intro alone. you know what, young tommy really needed was kikusetsu zubat, how else would he learn to be a total bad ass and cause explosions constantly? sesame street? spongebob? FUCK NO! also i imagine flying all the way from mexico to japan in a small one person plane to japan you must be getting damn good gas mileage for it not to run out over the pacific ocean causing you to fall to your doom. but hey who knows,maybe the main characters powers of badass just keep the plane in the air. so any way we open with an evil yakuza guy terrorizing a bunch of children with his car for no apparent reason (because he fantasizes about Hitler and kills puppies every weekend, thats a realistic motivation right?) one thing thats interesting about this show is the bad guys unlike in the power rangers, are essentially gang members, also the designs for the bad guys remind me of kraftwerk and since im pretty sure german electronic hit japan before america and kraftwerk existed in the 70s but had not spread in popularity to europe yet that could be intentional. but yeah, the villains aint really like those in power rangers nor are they kaiju, for the most part they seem to be thugs. and to be fair i think the idea was that the children had been at the wrong place at the wrong time and thats why they were being terrorized, yeah there are some shady undertones that really hint at something right there. the main bad guy in this first episode, hell dragon talks very formally, and is defiantly a more professional seeming character thats closer to the godfather than the riddler or cat woman, although to be fair he does have a pretty out there mask covering half of his face and the other side is purple, but he defiantly adds to the flavor of the episode. after telling a teacher who as well as her classroom witnessed the implied shit, that he is "not to be trifled with" he drives off. he then leaves his very well dressed formal looking goons t beat the shit out of a bunch of children and there teacher(ive noticed a heavy use of black and red in the character designs and it really looks nice), at which point a man who dresses like a lumber jack/ german mountain climber and has a red and black Robin hood hat called Asuka Gorro, who (holly shit i was right about the whole german mountain climber look) is a penless scientist and amateur mountain climber (and presumably a professional ladies man and award winning swag master) comes to rescue the teacher who is apparently his sister. apparently wandering scientists who are also mountain climbers in germanic garb is just normal in this part of japan, who knew. he greats his sister, is admediatly attacked and goes all bruce lee on there asses proving that NO ONE STEPS TO ASUKA GORRO MOTHAFUKA! his hat is then shot of his head by a person who (judging by his sunglasses,70's scum-bag mustache, and shaggy hair) appears to be gunther and the sunshine girls gunther wearing cowboy garb..........
however, sadly this is not the case as he is in fact "Hell dragons personal body guard, Lankirk"
honestly so far this show has been very well choreographed and has really been very cool and stylish, i have a feeling its just gonna get more and more swag. lankirk shoots Asuka Gorro a bunch of times and says "the next ones going through your heart" but his gun literally gets shot, stopping him from shooting and are main character appears for the first time not counting the intro. he is on top of a mountain playing western type music and looking down so his hat covers his face and we cut to the bad guy and zoom closer in to his face and see his reaction, then cutting back to zubat walking down the mountain down to our villain for a truly western showdown, sadly i cant find a image from this sense but trust me when i say, its pretty fucking badass. yeah, he is pretty fuckin swag. when asked as he walks down lankirk says "you dont know who you messing with do you" to which are hero replies "hell dragons personal bodyguard, lankirk. the....second best gunslinger in japan" Lankirk replies with "second best, then whos the best?" to which are hero implies "tisk tisk tisk" and goes:
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goes tsk tsk tisk then points to him self and laughs. the sense is really well done and makes the main character come of as a very VERY cool guy. this sets up a very cool beginning to a stand off as are hero walks slowly towards lankirk who throws him a gun. however lankirk wants to shoot one of the kids pet bunny. zubat promices that the bunny wont be hurt, they start there target practice but are hero shoots all of lankirks bullets before they can get to the bunny, preventing it from getting injured. the villian leaves and then the boy thanks are hero for saving his bunny then the hero and Asuka Gorro stare at each other intensly, the teacher/sister tries to get involved but they start kung fu fighting slowly and stratigicly with close ups on there faces and a slow experemental electronic sundtrack. they then start laughing and high five. we then discover that are hero is the illusive Haykawa Ken, a private eye and it apears that Askuka and Ken know each other and as it latter turns out they are childhood freinds. They then cut to on a buss where are heroes are driving away and talking, however Ken figures out that there is a bomb on this bus and gets all the children off the buss as quickly as possible, he then trys to get back on the buss to drive it away to somewhere secluded so the exsplosion wont kill anyone, however Asuka knocks him out and takes his place. Ken wakes up and tries to stop him but fails and although Asuka survives he is surviorly injured. Although the police cant find any evidance, Ken knows that it is Hell dragon who is the culprit. Exsplosions start i the hospitle and there is smoke everywhere and Asuka is rushed out, however Ken spots Hell Dragon and chaces after him. and we see that Hell draon has just shot Asuka multiple times.
There is a very dramatic death sence and Askuka tells Ken that he can never forgive those who planted the bombs and this sense is actually quite touching and you realy feal for the charecters involved. at the funeral Asukas sisster blames ken, he leaves the funeral, grabbing his gutar and taking it with him. he then walks into the sunset and sings a song in a very cowboy fashion and is crying somewhat while doing so. the way the sun reflects of his face i very beautifull and the setting really adds a nice touch. He then goes to Asukas lab to finih the power suit that Asuka was aperently working on which was being desighned for space travel and the super car he was also creating which he says he will use for great justice. he then is captured escapes, becomes zubat and beats up the badguys but figures out that King Hell was not actualy the killer. he then rides into the sunset, out to find the true culprit.
As much as id like to make fun of this its a retty awsome show and id recomend you see it for yourself. i only really talked about the first episode today and belive me when i say a lot of cool stuff happens.
yeah this is already gonna be pretty interesting. that was a lot more explosions the most michael bay movies have within the intro alone. you know what, young tommy really needed was kikusetsu zubat, how else would he learn to be a total bad ass and cause explosions constantly? sesame street? spongebob? FUCK NO! also i imagine flying all the way from mexico to japan in a small one person plane to japan you must be getting damn good gas mileage for it not to run out over the pacific ocean causing you to fall to your doom. but hey who knows,maybe the main characters powers of badass just keep the plane in the air. so any way we open with an evil yakuza guy terrorizing a bunch of children with his car for no apparent reason (because he fantasizes about Hitler and kills puppies every weekend, thats a realistic motivation right?) one thing thats interesting about this show is the bad guys unlike in the power rangers, are essentially gang members, also the designs for the bad guys remind me of kraftwerk and since im pretty sure german electronic hit japan before america and kraftwerk existed in the 70s but had not spread in popularity to europe yet that could be intentional. but yeah, the villains aint really like those in power rangers nor are they kaiju, for the most part they seem to be thugs. and to be fair i think the idea was that the children had been at the wrong place at the wrong time and thats why they were being terrorized, yeah there are some shady undertones that really hint at something right there. the main bad guy in this first episode, hell dragon talks very formally, and is defiantly a more professional seeming character thats closer to the godfather than the riddler or cat woman, although to be fair he does have a pretty out there mask covering half of his face and the other side is purple, but he defiantly adds to the flavor of the episode. after telling a teacher who as well as her classroom witnessed the implied shit, that he is "not to be trifled with" he drives off. he then leaves his very well dressed formal looking goons t beat the shit out of a bunch of children and there teacher(ive noticed a heavy use of black and red in the character designs and it really looks nice), at which point a man who dresses like a lumber jack/ german mountain climber and has a red and black Robin hood hat called Asuka Gorro, who (holly shit i was right about the whole german mountain climber look) is a penless scientist and amateur mountain climber (and presumably a professional ladies man and award winning swag master) comes to rescue the teacher who is apparently his sister. apparently wandering scientists who are also mountain climbers in germanic garb is just normal in this part of japan, who knew. he greats his sister, is admediatly attacked and goes all bruce lee on there asses proving that NO ONE STEPS TO ASUKA GORRO MOTHAFUKA! his hat is then shot of his head by a person who (judging by his sunglasses,70's scum-bag mustache, and shaggy hair) appears to be gunther and the sunshine girls gunther wearing cowboy garb..........
however, sadly this is not the case as he is in fact "Hell dragons personal body guard, Lankirk"
honestly so far this show has been very well choreographed and has really been very cool and stylish, i have a feeling its just gonna get more and more swag. lankirk shoots Asuka Gorro a bunch of times and says "the next ones going through your heart" but his gun literally gets shot, stopping him from shooting and are main character appears for the first time not counting the intro. he is on top of a mountain playing western type music and looking down so his hat covers his face and we cut to the bad guy and zoom closer in to his face and see his reaction, then cutting back to zubat walking down the mountain down to our villain for a truly western showdown, sadly i cant find a image from this sense but trust me when i say, its pretty fucking badass. yeah, he is pretty fuckin swag. when asked as he walks down lankirk says "you dont know who you messing with do you" to which are hero replies "hell dragons personal bodyguard, lankirk. the....second best gunslinger in japan" Lankirk replies with "second best, then whos the best?" to which are hero implies "tisk tisk tisk" and goes:
goes tsk tsk tisk then points to him self and laughs. the sense is really well done and makes the main character come of as a very VERY cool guy. this sets up a very cool beginning to a stand off as are hero walks slowly towards lankirk who throws him a gun. however lankirk wants to shoot one of the kids pet bunny. zubat promices that the bunny wont be hurt, they start there target practice but are hero shoots all of lankirks bullets before they can get to the bunny, preventing it from getting injured. the villian leaves and then the boy thanks are hero for saving his bunny then the hero and Asuka Gorro stare at each other intensly, the teacher/sister tries to get involved but they start kung fu fighting slowly and stratigicly with close ups on there faces and a slow experemental electronic sundtrack. they then start laughing and high five. we then discover that are hero is the illusive Haykawa Ken, a private eye and it apears that Askuka and Ken know each other and as it latter turns out they are childhood freinds. They then cut to on a buss where are heroes are driving away and talking, however Ken figures out that there is a bomb on this bus and gets all the children off the buss as quickly as possible, he then trys to get back on the buss to drive it away to somewhere secluded so the exsplosion wont kill anyone, however Asuka knocks him out and takes his place. Ken wakes up and tries to stop him but fails and although Asuka survives he is surviorly injured. Although the police cant find any evidance, Ken knows that it is Hell dragon who is the culprit. Exsplosions start i the hospitle and there is smoke everywhere and Asuka is rushed out, however Ken spots Hell Dragon and chaces after him. and we see that Hell draon has just shot Asuka multiple times.
There is a very dramatic death sence and Askuka tells Ken that he can never forgive those who planted the bombs and this sense is actually quite touching and you realy feal for the charecters involved. at the funeral Asukas sisster blames ken, he leaves the funeral, grabbing his gutar and taking it with him. he then walks into the sunset and sings a song in a very cowboy fashion and is crying somewhat while doing so. the way the sun reflects of his face i very beautifull and the setting really adds a nice touch. He then goes to Asukas lab to finih the power suit that Asuka was aperently working on which was being desighned for space travel and the super car he was also creating which he says he will use for great justice. he then is captured escapes, becomes zubat and beats up the badguys but figures out that King Hell was not actualy the killer. he then rides into the sunset, out to find the true culprit.
As much as id like to make fun of this its a retty awsome show and id recomend you see it for yourself. i only really talked about the first episode today and belive me when i say a lot of cool stuff happens.