Kamen Rider Ryuki was the very first Kamen Rider series I ever beheld. I remember it clear as day, that I downloaded a clip from Japan Hero where Ryuki was throwing down with Taiga and my eyes flew wide, my heart fluttered and I pounded the internet ’til I find a way to watch this show in subtitles. Unfortunately the subtitles were courtesy of Hong Kong and it was necessary to translate the translation a second time in my head to keep track of what was going on. To this day, the Ryuki Rider known to me better as “Torque” (I could never keep track of the Japanese names for the life of me… all other KR Series the names stick just fine, but Ryuki…. NOOO idea outside of Ryuki, Taiga, and Knight)…. anyway the Green Tank Rider will aways be “The Lawyer Bagon” first to me, and I still don’t know what his real name is.
It was like nothing I’d seen before. It opens like a horror movie, and then kicks in with high flying martial art action. While I’ve know witnessed better, IMHO, Ryuki will always hold a place in my heart as the very first.
And now thanks to TV Nihon we can enjoy the show how it was meant to be seen. Hit the jump and behold the saga that will be hitting the states in the form of Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.
