Unfortunately the show's narrative constantly has the characters losing and gaining medals, so certain combo appearances are fleeting and a lot of it feels like wasted potential.īirth: Now in standard and prototype flavours Matching sets make up the "power up forms", and then a final set of dinosaur-themed medals make up the final PuToTyra combo. Each Greeed has three different variety of core medals, which makes for a potentially huge variety of combos. With the TaToBa combo as the base (Takka = Hawk, Tora = Tiger, Batta = Grasshopper), OOO is then able to switch out a core medal to change either the head, torso/arms, or legs of the suit.
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Following that Gotou undergoes development cultivating with Date taking him under his wing to raise him as the next Birth.įollowing on from a series that used two items for transformation, here its taken the next step with three core medals powering Kamen Rider OOO. Gotou is introduced from the very beginning of Kamen Rider OOO and built up to be the ideal secondary rider, but his pride gets him in the way of achieving his goal and the unknown Date is brought in as Birth. The second strong bromance in the show is that between Date Akira and Gotou Shintaro, the two men that become Kamen Rider Birth. These two very different ideals regularly clash, the series never letting you forget that should circumstances be different Ankh could certainly be classed as a villain. Meanwhile Ankh is a monster composed entirely from desire, and merely sees both Eiji and the rest of the human race as tools that can be used to achieve his goal of reclaiming his body. Our rider Eiji is a naive traveller with a traumatic past and no desires to call his own. This series main strengths lie in its cast, particularly between the four male leads.
As they too join the fight with their own Kamen Rider Birth, Eiji learns more about the history of OOO, the Greeed and the importance of his own desires. He presents a mysterious belt to the happy-go-lucky traveller Eiji Hino, providing him with medals to fight the monsters as Kamen Rider OOO.īut they aren't the only ones interested in the Greeed, as the Kougami foundation and its loud, birthday-obsessed president approach Eiji with extra resources to fight in exchange for the cell medals they receive from defeating Yummies. However one Greeed, Ankh's, awakening doesn't go as smoothly and he wakes up as a disembodied arm. When medal-based monsters the Greeed awaken from their 800 year slumber, the proceed to wreak havoc on the world by creating monsters named Yummies from humans that spawn from the desires of their hosts and carry them out to create cell medals which the Greeed feed upon.
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The 2010-2011 series ran for a total of 48 episodes, and the character was featured in three feature films during its tenure before returning during Fourze's run in Movie Wars Megamax. As Eiji fights the Greeed and their Yummy monsters, learning more of the Greeed and Ankh, he starts to find a purpose beyond his journey.When making a television series which makes most of its money from toy sales, what are the first themes that come to mind? Why, greed and desire of course! Ironic as it may seem, this was the core of Kamen Rider OOO, the 21st Kamen Rider series and successor to Kamen Rider W.
The mysterious Kougami Foundation approaches Eiji and begins assisting him in his fight against the Greeed, though their true motives are not clear. When coin-based homunculi known as the Greeed awaken after their 800-year slumber to attack humans and feed off of their desires, the disembodied arm of the Greeed named Ankh gives Eiji a belt and three Medals to fight the other Greeed as Kamen Rider OOO. Hino Eiji is a traveling man who has no place to call home and a tragic past. Opening theme: Anything Goes by Ohguro Maki.
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