Kamen Rider - 1971 TV series

Mom and I started watching this a while back. We haven't missed an episode, and it's been an addiction for us. I've also gotten my kids to watch multiple episodes. They've enjoyed seeing Hongo and Ichimonji take on Shocker and keep the world safe.

The show revolves around Kamen Rider, a cyborg, taking on the evil organization called Shocker. He has good friends helping him along the way. My favorite was Tachibana, and my daughter really liked Taki, the FBI agent. Shocker is made up of former Nazis, which becomes obvious really early on. They create monsters to try and take over Japan, and then...THE WORLD!

I loved this show. There was maybe one episode I didn't like and that was only because they drove around for most of it. I loved the way Kamen Rider transformed. By the way, there are two Kamen Riders. One comes in from South America for a while. He has a pretty epic transformation, but Hongo was definitely the favorite around here.

Shoutout to the Ees. These little minions were inexhaustible. I preferred the OG black outfits versus the purple Gel-Shocker ones, but they seemed more acrobatic in the purple ones, so it's a bit of a wash. We call them Ees because that's the noise they make most of the time. Every once in a while, they'd actually talk, and then we were disappointed.

The generals were interesting, but my favorite had to be Dr. Death. Sometimes he was getting wheeled around and other times he was spry and walking about. His hair seemed to have a mind of its own. He just cracked me up.

I could go on and on about this show. It was amazing, and I loved it. There were 98 episodes. The actor for Kamen Rider #1, Hiroshi Fukioka, actually sang the theme song for the first 13 episodes. I thought that was great, and it's still my favorite version of the theme. If you love campy, sometimes ridiculous superhero action, maybe look this up. Great Show!