I really don’t know why… but I really enjoy the Japanese Super-Sentai series.  Maybe it’s because I enjoyed the North American Power Rangers shows when I was younger which used footage from the older Sentai series and just replaced the voice tracks and actors.

In a way I see Super-Sentai as the more refined and for older viewers version of Power Rangers.  I guess I enjoy it, in a morbid way, when the monsters start killing civilians and you see blood and bruises after the battles.  It seems more real as people and rangers die in battle.

Anyway… because of the latest Super-Sentai, I have now been exposed to the world of Kamen Rider. I had always known that it had existed but I never watched it for some reason. But they gave me a reason to watch it this time as there was a cross-over with the two shows.

Like with most of the Kamen Rider series you do not need to watch the previous one as they are in completely separate worlds/realities whatever you want to call it.  What makes Decade unique is that Decade travels to all of the worlds.  You see Decade fighting with or sometimes fighting against that world Kamen Rider.  The only thing that I am unsure of is if they brought back the original actors to portray the other Kamen Riders as I never watched the previous series.

In closing I will say this… I think it is a safe bet that if you like Super-Sentai you will like Kamen Rider…

Kei