Fanfic 2 Read: Kamen Rider CLAW

Today I will review about Kamen Rider CLAW by Shuriken16. To be honest, I really love this story and I really wish someone would make this a TV series, maybe having the first American Kamen Rider series and the first original American Tokusatsu.

This story is about a high school teenager named Nolan Johnson also known as Kamen Rider CLAW: Shinobi Mode fighting a group of dream invaders called Dreamon along side his friends, Timothy "Tim" Johnson (this name is what I got from Kamen Rider Fanfic Wikia. He is NOT Nolan's family member) and Yuliya Kim.

Nolan Johnson is your typical school boy. He seems always wanted to be a hero and making this journal called The Rules of The Hero. His attitude is always positive and always impressive, since my favorite style of protagonist is a positive person. He later works with SADE organization after becoming Kamen Rider the first time. He also gets a small mechanical tiger robot, named Tigerton, which would be upgraded into Kaiger. He later gets a pairing Nolan/Jessie after the girl blackmailing him to become her bodyguard.

Tim Johnson is somehow a jerk in the beginning. He is Kamen Rider CLAW: Marksmen Mode. Tim later become less jerk and more friendly for some reason. He also his pairing of Tim/Yuliya, but not as obvious as Nolan/Jessie. His partner is Kiba.

Yuliya Kim is a half-Korean, half-Russian girl who supposed to be CLAW: Shinobi Mode in the first place, but Nolan gets to be one, making her pissed off. But, to my disappointment, she is not a jerk around him and becoming his friend quicker than I thought. Yuliya can be considered as a senior for Nolan & Tim, literally as she enters SADE when she is 13 and the first among the three. She later gets to become the second user of Kamen Rider CLAW: Samurai Mode. Her partner is Kyuki.

Dominick Gracia is their commander, who is also act as their mentor. He is briefly shown as the first user of CLAW: Samurai Mode when training with Nolan and in his flashback. He is also the one who is responsible for making Yuliya and Tim joining the SADE. He later dies and *spoiler* (revealed to be evil all along and become Kamen Rider Dark CLAW: Chaos Mode.)

Jessie Stewart is a new girl. She is paired up with Nolan. That's all I can say.

Now, for the review. One of the unique things about this story is how the Rider System works. The author makes a good choice of not making a new rider. Instead the riders are more of a form change, but each form designated to only one person. They use a mechanical robotic partner called CLAW Beasts, insert a key into their mouth, turning them into a claw and scan them onto a belt.

Those forms also have their own specialty. Shinobi mode is more of speed, while Marksmen is strength and Samurai is a balanced form. They do get their sub-form, using Speed CLAW, Power CLAW and Flight CLAW. Only Nolan changes into all three from.

As for Nolan, he also has his other form called Kaiser mode. No, it is not a final form. The final form is Kaiser Trinity, where Nolan uses all three sub-form at once.

The enemy is also interesting. Basically, they are a group of Oni who invaded people's nightmare and change use their body to become Dreamon, allowing them to walk in the real world. Those Oni are came from their own world, which I forgot the name already.

And..the twist. Damn, I love the twist.

Overall, I really love this story. It really spikes me up, making me waste my time reading it.

The whole story is great. I really love it. Great plot and not too confusing.

Fanfic 2 Read: Super Sentai Academia

Fanfic 2 Read is a section where I recommend any of you fanfictions lover a story to read. And my first post is about Super Sentai Academia by Captain redryuranger11.

                                                        Kind of like this, but with schools and additional rangers and space colony...

It's about years after Super Sentai as the world is now in apocalypse and an academy trains the new generation of Super Sentai to fight monsters.

What I like about this story is how the author dedicated in this. Redryuranger11 is known for his work, Elemental Sentai Kodenrager. The fics are put into Mary Sue list as the protagonist, who used to be the author's favourite (since the name Ryu is used up a lot) ended up called as Mary Sue character. He gets all the girls and everyone likes him. He is supposed to be a weakling but suddenly become a hero.

That causes the author to suffer a breakdown. Ryu become his most hated character. He backs with re-write of the same fic, but failed to continue for some reason. Maybe because he still hate Ryu.

It is surprised to see the difference of the first Elemental Sentai Kodenranger and Super Sentai Academia in story telling. While Kodenranger is like a comedy sitcom, Academia is focus a lot in the plot.

Th unique of this fic is that the author use a method where only some fics used it; character submission. You can submit your own original character into the story, just make sure you follow the rule given. There is also Fake Rangers Submission, where you can create your own ranger powers. Be sure to discuss about your characters first with the author before submitting it. If you just submit like that, he will ban the fake rangers submission on everyone until you get it right. I once suffered from it.

You can also submit your own monsters in a forum provided. Of course, your monster will get destroyed by the rangers...

The author is so dedicated, that in my list of fanfiction subscribe, he is the fastest one to post a new chapter. And it is always fun reading it, especially when your character appear in the chapter.

I give Super Sentai Academia:-

Japanese Tokusatsu- For Kids Only?

Japanese Tokusatsu refers to any Japanese science fiction television shows and movies. That includes Kamen Rider, Super Sentai and all other shows.

For some part of the world, this show are known for kids only. They are been categorized in the same category as animation.

This is not true! Tokusatsu is NOT for kids. The thought happen when someone does not understand the true meaning of the story and make their own thoughts without any reference, known as first impression.

This occurs in Malaysia. Because Kamen Rider and Super Sentai shows are USED to be for kids, they immediately thought all of it for kids and dub it like hell, since all animations gets the same treatment.

                                                 It Used to be. Now it's not

Nowadays, Kamen Rider and Super Sentai are still in kids slot, but that doesn't mean only kids can watch it. If it is kiddie shows and the slot is in Sunday morning, and kids wake up to watch it, does that mean adults are a bunch of lazy-ass in Sunday? No, it's not! It is aired in the morning so that people will wake up early.

                                                         It's Sunday morning? I'm still a child and I want to watch kids shows! Yea!!

If you could just spend your time watching these, try understand the whole concept, you can actually realise that it's not just about man wearing tight spandex fighting monsters.

The problem with Malaysian is that they only interested in looking at the outer side of something. Who cares what inside is, the outside is all that matter. And because of that, no marriage has ever become so peaceful that the husband and wife argue with each other.

Spend your time watch Kamen Rider W Return- Eternal. It's about a bunch of zombies fighting evil psychic that trying to use psychics for their own good. The word zombie is not for kids. What kind of retarded child want to watch undead? And the Kamen Rider only appear in minutes, while the whole story is spent for the zombie to try helping the trapped psychic

                                                        BRAAAAAAIIINN!
The story itself is about entering a criminal mind. The protagonist, who is supposed to be a cool anti-hero try to save those espers from slavery. In the end, the espers are all die, including his friend. Engulfs in emotion, he turns into evil person, vow to show everyone the true meaning of hell.

If that's not enough try watching Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, a.k.a. the most epic Super Sentai series. You can actually see that it is about how a man lie to his friends about his true self and run away from the group several times, not wanting to hurt them. And we get villains who killed his entire family for proving how strong his sword is. That's reallly evil if you ask me.

In case you doesn't know, the actresses are mostly gravure idols. They posed for men magazines. Doesn't believe me? Try open wikipedia, search for the shows, search the name of the actresses, search the names in google image, set the safesearch off, and you'll get a page full of them in sexy bikinis.

Don't want to waste your time finding names? I'll give you names; Yumi Sugimoto, Rika Satoh, Yui Koike, Nao Nagasawa, Nao Oikawa, Marie Kai. There, search it, now!

And you say it's for kids?? What kind of retarded are you!!?? You really want children to see a show where the girls are actually someone who show their cleavages and thighs to public??

Malaysia is number 1 a-hole in entertainment, and they will always be a loser in this. The only thing Malaysia can do is either producing the numerous of love story or imitating America with their non-love story. And restrict others from downloading their stuff when nobody want to download theirs.