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.