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yeonchi · 3 years

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Highlighting complicated Kamen Rider henshin poses

Most Kamen Rider transformation poses are fairly easy, if not straightforward, to imitate. However, there are some poses that can be a bit complicated to imitate. My intent for this post was to rate the difficulty of each Rider’s transformation pose on a scale of 10, but I thought it would be better to just highlight the complicated ones (Medium/Hard difficulty) because it is rather subjective and one can master a particular pose with practice.

The major reasons for the difficulties can be mostly attributed to fast movement, intricate motions and mirroring, which leads people to easily mistake left from right when they’re looking at a person, on a screen or otherwise. There are some exceptions - throwing and catching things doesn’t really count because the chances of getting something the right way up are random, and things that move by themselves don’t count either. Anyway, let’s get right into it.

Showa era:

Skyrider: Medium It’s the left hand that does the circle, so before that, it’s right punch, then put your left arm out, hand open

Super-1: Hard The fact that there are variations to his transformation pose doesn’t help

ZX: Medium-easy It’s the thing with the hands again; both hands start on your right, right arm up and left arm down, then you bring your right arm down while taking your left arm up and to the left

Black (RX): Medium This is more of an honourable mention to me, but I see how his poses can be complicated

Heisei era Phase 1:

Agito: Medium It’s not that hard when you realise how Agito summons the Altering similar to how Kuuga activates his transformation on the Arcle

Scissors: Medium-easy The reason why his transformation is a little complicated to imitate is because he has only one such scene in Episode 6 and because of the camera angle, you can’t quite see what his right hand is supposed to be doing. Although it is side-on, you can see a better version in the 13 Riders special

Tiger: Hard Tiger holds the Advent Deck with his right hand and does some complicated moves in order to get it on the left side of the V Buckle

Imperer: Medium The difficult part to get is the fingers, the rest is alright

Blade: Medium The hand-changing bit as you pull the lever on the Blay Buckle is a bit complicated to master, but you’ll get it

Caucasus: Hard I swear, the moves would be a bit easier to follow if it weren’t for all those petals

Heisei era Phase 2:

Meteor: Medium It’s the hands, it’s always the hands. I also read somewhere that Meteor’s transformation homages Blade whereas Fourze’s transformation homages Garren

Beast: Medium Same as above, but Beast’s transformation kind of homages Black and ZX

Ryugen: Medium-easy It looks easier than you think, but I’m including it just in case

Duke: Hard There’s a bit where he crosses his arms and rotates his hands around that I can never seem to master. Him having very few transformation scenes with that same pose doesn’t help matters. I like Baron’s Lemon Energy Arms transformation better

Drive: Medium-hard It looks easier when you realise that he’s drawing his logo in the air with his arms

Mach: Medium-hard Mach’s transformation is an homage to Super-1, but that doesn’t make it any easier

Ghost: Medium-easy The main transformation is easy, it’s that final flourish at the end where the parka goes on that gets me

Build: Medium-easy At the start of the series, his pose is done with the left hand out and the right hand in a fist, but after Cross-Z’s debut (and maybe once or twice before that), the hands are swapped. I don’t know if it’s because I’m right-handed, but I can’t seem to do the swapped version perfectly

Shinobi: Medium-hard There’s quite a bit of moving involved, particularly with the legs

Hattari: Medium Same as above, but not as much moving needed with the legs

Reiwa era (up to Saber, February 2020)

Valkyrie: Medium-hard It’s mostly to do with the spinning gimmick, but it is still easy to imitate if you skip it

Saber/Blades/Espada: Medium-hard Their transformations involve sword-flips that are somewhat complicated to imitate if you don’t have a sword (or sword-like object) at hand, not to mention the nature of the (stock) transformation scenes

So that’s my take on the list of complicated Kamen Rider henshin poses. By the way, I’ve updated a couple of posts from a few years ago about putting on Kamen Rider belts to complete the list following the end of the Heisei era. Check them out here.

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dynamitesunshine · 7 years

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Jon’s Toku Thoughts: Favorite Tokusatsu Shows I watched in 2016 not from 2016

7. Space Sheriff Gavan

Space Sheriff Gavan I watched like half the series but then waited for the subs to finish. They finally did and I am pushing my way through the series. It’s a bit slow because I think they were trying to find their footing. It reminds me a lot of GARO’s episode structure honestly. Though I love Kenji Ohba since Battle Fever J and he is brilliant as Retsu. It’s really entertaining action and the episodes that aren’t filler are insanely brilliant. This will probably make it for this year too as I finish the last 10 or so episodes.

6. Mahou Sentai MagiRanger

I don’t remember how many episodes I watched of MagiRanger last year but I got to MagiShine and enjoyed the hell out of what I’ve watched of it. Tsubasa continues to be my favorite.

5. Choujuu Sentai LiveMan

I finished LiveMan and it was a fantastic series. The ending was a little weak but the overall show is great. Jo was my favorite. Also the villains were a big highlight here.

4. UltraMan Neos

It’s a short series only 12 episodes but it was 12 episodes of UltraMan awesomeness. Kagura is a great main character and Neo is one of the most agile UltraMen out there. UltraSeven 21 was pretty awesome too.I loved the HEART team too. It has an amazing finale too..

3. Kamen Rider Amazon

A-MA-ZON!!!! Amazon was a spectacular Showa Era show. Mainly because their was growth for Amazon each episode as he learned how to speak English and understand humans. His battles against Gedon and the other group too were tremendous. I understand why it got cancelled but I was totally fine with all the brutal and bloody fights there were. Also, the finale was something else where he had to stop a Helium Bomb was something else. This show was brilliant.

2. UltraMan

I watched the Original UltraMan for the anniversary. It was a brilliant series and I totally understand how it continued for so long. Shin Hayata is a great host and the fight scenes were really good for back then too. The episodic nature really worked here because of it just being a monster of the week. The Science Team was great too and everyone was great.

1. Kamen Rider Fourze

SPACE KITAAAA!!!!!!!! I Will Decide Your Fate! After much thinking about it all, there was no question that Fourze was the best series not from 2016 that I watched. Gentarou is simply one of the best riders freaking ever! His belief in friendship turned so many people from bad to being the best they could be. Ryuusei also was a kickass Rider who had great character development that I could relate to as well. Also, the Kamen Rider Club is so much fun too. I’m sure if this was a newer series I could have imagined all of the KRC becoming Riders some how. The school setting worked really well and the Horoscopes were amazing villains. Also, the mysteries laid out were really well done and I didn’t see some of those things coming. I also love the net movies for it and the Hyper Battle video got me to watch Amazon after this too. It is a very powerful series.

Favorite Movie not from 2016: Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider Sangou

I wanted to watch this movie for the longest time and said why not? It’s been a while since Drive ended and besides missing the Drive cast, I also love Faiz, Black, and Garren’s actors were in it too. So this movie has given me some brand new favorites in Kamen Rider Sangou, even though he deceived the Riders he had a change of heart and helped re-write the timeline, he basically gave up this life and this power to help save everyone. I also liked his personality of making sure he’s won too. His courage to do that is just amazing. My other favorite from this movie that I haven’t seen before but have played in a lot of the video games is Fairly Strong from the Start: Zeronos! I haven’t finished Den-O yet and I want to know more about him; he was just so freaking awesome in this movie. This was also one of Mach’s best appearances too and I am a huge Kamen Rider Mach fan. Mach vs Faiz was brilliant and very difficult for me because I love Faiz too. (I have said Takumi is my Spirit Animal before.) Shinnosuke was great too with solving the mystery and fighting against Shocker. I loved seeing Kotaro again and him being both Black and Black RX was definitely a nerdgasm moment here. The Blade cast were good too. This is arguably the best Super Hero Taisen movie. Though the Ninninger’s were good in their small appearance it should have probably had a little more of Sentai essence here. Everyone was on fire in this movie and it was so much fun to watch.

Favorite Special: Kamen Rider Yongou:

The fun doesn’t stop with the Sangou movie! It continues into the equally amazing Yongou Special. This was a brilliant showcase of Drive, Mach, Zeronos, and Faiz. It made me love Zeronos more, Mach and Drive were amazing like always, and Faiz stole the show here. Faiz from his baseball slide kick to his amazing story arc that made me super emotional at the end was amazing. Takumi is definitely a spirit animal of mine and we need more amazing specials like this. Though I want to know more about Yongou since he was a powerful Cyborg but we didn’t get to learn who the man behind the mask was. Still a fantastic special.

#Jon's Toku Thoughts #Space Sheriff Gavan #Mahou Sentai MagiRanger #Choujuu Sentai LiveMan #UltraMan Neos #Kamen Rider Amazon #UltraMan #Kamen Rider Fourze #Kamen Rider Sangou #Kamen Rider Yongou #Super Hero Taisen GP #Kamen Rider No 3 #Kamen Rider Sango #Kamen Rider No 4 #Kamen Rider Yongo

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