1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,960 This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:09,660 at MJMunoz.com. I happen to have a car full of kids right now. Hopefully they won't be 3 00:00:09,660 --> 00:00:15,440 too noisy, but we'll see what happens. I am here, or this is a Rider Tears. I'm here to 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:20,760 talk about the Kamen Rider manga part 2 of 6, which means I'll come back at least four 5 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:25,720 more times to talk about the rest of this manga. And I gotta say, this manga was delight, 6 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:30,240 or this chapter, this second chapter, was an absolute delight to read. It was a lot 7 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:38,760 of fun. There was so much good, like, emotional dynamics, and that's not only personal stuff 8 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:45,640 between, like, Hongo and Tachibana and Ruriko, and then, like, also someone with her friend, 9 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:51,280 but then also the evil of Shocker and their desire to control mankind's minds is revealed 10 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:59,000 in a more profound way through Manbat and his virus. And then also the desperate fight 11 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:04,400 that Hongo has with Manbat. Oh, and by the way, Man-Spider, who comes back and begs to 12 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:11,600 be... Oh man. He begs to be given a second chance by Shocker's leader, and he gets four 13 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:17,520 new arms, somehow, I guess? I mean, if they gave him four additional arms... Wait. Two... 14 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,840 Yeah, two additional arms. Anyway, he has four arms total plus two legs for six, so 15 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:28,280 he's not a full, you know, fully representative Spider-Guy, but whatever. But he gets two 16 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:33,880 more, so he has total four arms, and he tries to kill Hongo, and when he fails, he, I don't 17 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:37,320 know, takes a cyanide capsule, he poisons himself. I don't know what he does, but he 18 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:43,360 does something, and then he falls dead, and then melts away as Shocker, Cyborg are meant 19 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:50,800 to do, or want to do, and that's too bad for him. Anyway, before Man-Spider dies, we get 20 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:57,200 to see him swinging on his web, which is really weird looking, and I was gonna say Eldritch. 21 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,680 I feel like I'm gonna use that too much talking about this manga, but I'm just gonna say it. 22 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:06,440 It's Eldritch. It's really weird, and yeah, it's funky looking, but pretty cool, too. 23 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:11,520 So anyway, so that happens, and Manbat ends up coming along and taking Hongo out of the 24 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,400 fight, and it's funny, one of the things that he does is he flies him up real high and he 25 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:21,680 drops him, and Hongo gains all his power because his turbine turns the wind power into power 26 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:30,720 for his body, and he's able to counter Manbat in a very significant way, so that was cool. 27 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:35,600 But then, of course, the plot gets a little crazier, and Manbat basically has all these 28 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:42,920 people he's controlling in Ruriko's friend's building? Yeah, because like I said, there 29 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:47,680 was a moment, or an emotional thing with Ruriko's friend, can't remember her name, Glasses Girl. 30 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,160 Just call her that, because she had glasses and they got broken, and well, anyway, there's 31 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:55,040 a really interesting cinematic shot where her glasses fall to the ground and one of 32 00:02:55,040 --> 00:03:01,080 the lenses breaks and the other one captures her becoming infected by Manbat biting her, 33 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:06,080 and it's pretty grisly, but very cool, you know, in that horror type of way, and then 34 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:13,160 she goes and tries to attack, no, she does effectively, no, they save her. Well, let's 35 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:19,240 pass them up some more. Anyway, so Tobi ends up saving Ruriko at that time in Hongo's mansion, 36 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:24,480 or in the, yeah, I guess in Hongo's mansion. If you pause to think about it, it's really 37 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:29,860 sad because Ruriko loses her father first, and then her friend dies, and it seemed like 38 00:03:29,860 --> 00:03:33,720 she was her best friend, and you know, this woman that she wanted to confide in after 39 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:40,640 the death of her father, and she's having to stay in the house of the man she believes 40 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:47,320 murdered her father too, so it's a very emotionally fraught situation, and anyway, I think that's 41 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:53,920 cool, it's very good drama, very intense, and I love, you know, there's a little bit 42 00:03:53,920 --> 00:04:00,960 of emotional stuff, and oh, later on, so the Man-Bats virus can control people with ultrasonic 43 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:08,000 waves, and he tries to control Hongo, it's a little unclear, it seems as if Hongo maybe 44 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:16,120 injected himself with the serum to dull or mitigate the harm done by Man-Bats virus, 45 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,800 so he's able, like he basically fakes that he's being controlled, and he's not, and it 46 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,440 enables him to injure Man-Bats wing, which ultimately is the thing, it's like the keystone 47 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,040 that brings him to victory over Man-Bat, because otherwise he wouldn't have been able to beat 48 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:32,080 him, at least not as quickly and easily as he did here, so, and it was still a desperate 49 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,120 fight, but I mean, it would have been way more difficult had he not, you know, stabbed 50 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,120 through his wing, so that was pretty cool. 51 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:44,920 There's an emotional beat though, where Hongo ends up in Ruriko's friend's apartment, I 52 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:51,520 believe, trying to save her, it's really sweet in a, you know, odd kind of way, because Hongo 53 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:56,440 is desperate to get away from the people who are being controlled by Man-Bat, because he 54 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:01,000 will kill them if he has to, but he doesn't want to, because they are innocent bystanders, 55 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,680 and later some guy shoots him, I don't know if it was a rifle or a shotgun, it was a little 56 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:10,800 unclear, it was dark, it was night, I couldn't tell, anyway, he cracks the guy, gives him 57 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:15,400 like a rider chop to the clavicle, and the guy collapses, and it looks like he's, by 58 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,480 his face you can tell he's controlled by the virus, and it kind of looks like he starts 59 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:24,760 to turn into foam, but it's not shown at that point, but he's very ginger, he's as ginger 60 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:30,880 as he can be with all of the controlled people, because it seems like he calls it a side effect, 61 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:35,040 that they'll melt, like the other shocker, you know, kaijin type people, if he's too 62 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,720 rough with them while he's trying to evade them, and it's, I don't know if I said it 63 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,600 specifically, but he says something along the lines of like, I don't want to hurt you, 64 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:47,960 please stay away from me, and they're controlled, so they can't understand that, and they keep 65 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:54,640 coming after him, and then interestingly enough, when he learns that the cure for the virus 66 00:05:54,640 --> 00:06:00,640 is in man bats, like thumb talons or whatever on his wings, first of all, he rips off his 67 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:08,600 wings in one of the most awesome, crazy things I've ever seen in a manga, you know, it reminded 68 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,400 me of Giver with like the hyperviolence, right? 69 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,320 I mean, because he, anyway, what's great about it is the way it's laid out on one page, he's 70 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:18,600 grabbing it, Ryder's jumping up and grabbing his wings, and as you turn the page, you get 71 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:23,400 the reveal of the wings being torn off, and there's, you know, a little spray of blood, 72 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,400 and man bat is not happy, and then he lays on the floor, and this is like really what 73 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,040 gets me about Hongo. 74 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,360 Man bat's lying there on the floor, and he says something along the lines of, I know 75 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:37,720 you're a victim of shocker too, and I pity you for that, but you were too dangerous to 76 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,440 be left alive, and then because of course, each and every time we put them in a graveyard 77 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:47,240 for this fight, he grabs a cross and impales him through the gut or the heart, I'm not 78 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,560 sure, it's like a, it looks like a metal cross for some reason, even though it should be 79 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:56,240 like stone, but anyway, he steps with this thing, and like that is the end of that chapter, 80 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:01,000 or that, yeah, yeah, it's the end of chapter two, and it's amazing, and I think the, I 81 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,000 want to pick, as I'm going through reading manga, I want to pick a favorite, like emotional 82 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:11,000 panel that captures something, well, emotional about the story, emotional slash story panel, 83 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,120 and I want to pick an art panel, and I got to say, if I had to pick one panel, it's the 84 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,000 panel where he's ripping off the wings. 85 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,920 If I could pick two panels or pages really, it would be the setup where he's, you can 86 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,760 see the energy, the momentum, the posture as he's grabbing onto the wings, and then 87 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,280 as you make that turn, it's just, it's incredible. 88 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:33,400 The guy had, each and every one had an amazing cinematic eye, and it just looked fabulous, 89 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:39,080 so as horrible as that might sound, but then the emotional panel is definitely him telling 90 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,360 all those people as he's leaping away from them dramatically that he doesn't want to 91 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,960 kill them or hurt them, so that was fabulous. 92 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:49,880 Anyway, the manga continues to be great, and there were no crazy jumps in logic like in 93 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:54,640 the last chapter, and to clarify, in chapter one, there was this weird thing that happened 94 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:59,320 at the docks when Ryder, when Kamen Rider and Midori Kawa escaped Professor Midori Kawa, 95 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,880 and it didn't make any sense because it just stopped going and stuff happened, and then 96 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:07,320 they were somewhere else, and it was like a new scene entirely, there was no transition, 97 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:08,320 no anything like that. 98 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:09,840 Yeah, I know, it's a big truck. 99 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:10,840 Cool, right? 100 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:13,960 And that was weird, but this one, it was perfect. 101 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:19,520 Ironically, it was a longer chapter, but it was way, and I know it took probably the same 102 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:24,260 amount of, you know, eight pages a week or whatever to publish, and it was just, it ran 103 00:08:24,260 --> 00:08:25,920 for longer weeks until the chapter was over. 104 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:27,180 Come on, this way. 105 00:08:27,180 --> 00:08:28,180 But it was fabulous. 106 00:08:28,180 --> 00:08:31,280 It was like a masterpiece, like oops, are you okay? 107 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:32,280 Come on, get up. 108 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:33,280 Let me help you. 109 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:38,360 If he'd started with that man bat chapter as the first one, that would have been better, 110 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,200 and it could have been really cool. 111 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,200 You tough guy, come on. 112 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,520 So I don't think I'll be doing another recording like that because it was a little bit of a 113 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:50,040 disaster, and I hope it wasn't a too difficult experience for you. 114 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:57,760 Let's see how well my noise cancellation aspect of my editing software works to mitigate some 115 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,760 of the yelling and stuff from the kids. 116 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:04,720 You're 10 minutes from home and they have to complain as you're taking dinner home. 117 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:05,720 It's unbelievable. 118 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,840 Anyway, or maybe it's very believable. 119 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,800 So yeah, anyway, I liked that manga, that chapter of the manga. 120 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:12,800 I thought it was fabulous. 121 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:14,840 There was so much good in it. 122 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,600 One thing that confused me at first, and then as I thought about it more and more, it made 123 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,000 sense, and it wasn't actually that I kept meditating on it or anything like that. 124 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,560 It just came to me. 125 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:30,560 There were two figures who carried a coffin into the Hongo mansion, and I'm pretty sure 126 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:35,880 it was Tachibana and Midori Kawa, and I don't remember who was in the coffin. 127 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:36,880 Was it Manbat? 128 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,160 That would sort of make sense, but also I don't remember seeing him actually come out 129 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,640 of the coffin there, but I did read it a couple days ago, most of it. 130 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,840 I finished the last 20 or so pages today, and the rest of it I read a couple days ago. 131 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,560 So anyway, but it was fast paced. 132 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:55,360 It was longer, but it felt like it took less to read than the other one. 133 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,360 And there was a lot more action. 134 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,360 Like I said, it was very cinematographic. 135 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:04,760 It just flowed visually, and it was very well composed and very exciting, and there's a 136 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:05,920 lot of great shots in there. 137 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,560 So anyway, I told you what my favorite story panel or page is. 138 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:11,800 Really it's going to be page. 139 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:19,960 And I also showed you or told you what my favorite visual page was, and I'll have those 140 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:25,240 in the... you can find the link to the full show notes in the show notes on your pod feeder, 141 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:29,760 which will take you over to mjmunoz.com, and you can see the images there. 142 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:30,760 I'll post them there. 143 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:35,320 I don't know if I'll stamp them with like story and art, or art on one and then story 144 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:41,760 on the other, or what I'll do, but I will post those up there for you to see them so 145 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:43,560 you can see exactly what I'm talking about. 146 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:48,320 And if you're reading this, if you have read it, if you remember anything from it in particular 147 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:53,280 that you want to share, like what your favorite story panel or page was, or your favorite 148 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:57,440 art page, I'd love to hear from you, you know, from this chapter specifically, what did you 149 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:03,600 love in the Kamen Rider manga, chapter two, the flying man bat. 150 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:05,120 I'd be very curious to hear that. 151 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:09,400 So anyway, without much more delay, I'm going to go ahead and let you go. 152 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,920 I thank you for your time and attention, and until next time, be well. 153 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:16,280 This is MJ signing out. 154 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:17,880 I hope you enjoyed that. 155 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:24,680 Go to MJMunoz.com to leave any questions, comments, or other feedback you might have. 156 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:28,440 There you can find all of my analysis, art and fiction. 157 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:33,740 I cover books, tokusatsu, comic books, anime, and more. 158 00:11:33,740 --> 00:11:37,400 Look around, you're sure to find something else that you'll enjoy as well. 159 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:48,840 This has been a story over everything production.