The classic reboot Kamen Rider Black finally arrived at Amazon Prime Video today (28). With 10 episodes, the new series for its first episode is more than a promise and is sure to please fans of the character and the franchise.

It is worth mentioning that this new series is totally adult, with a critical content to society and often reminds what Brazil is going through where there are only two sides disputing and with a lot of hate.

Kamen Rider Black Sun certainly enough to show that Japanese series are much more than rubber suits and episodes that are implied by criticisms related to the environment, prejudices and the way of life not only of Japan, but of the whole world. So much so that the series still has a 14-year-old girl who is the voice against all this prejudice and who wants a fairer society where human beings and kaijins can coexist in harmony.

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She even gives a speech at the UN. If you're thinking about the teenager Greta Thunberg, who is an active voice in the fight for the environment, certainly thought right. The new series already starts with the hate speech against the kaijins. Those who are practically white supremacist (another more than clear reference of those who are against blacks, Latinos and other ethnicities), who do not accept that kaijins live in Japan.

This is a great allusion to foreigners and other ethnicities, as during the episode this is very clear when the prime minister comments that the k(g)aijins were not created in Japan. In a very general way, the criticism of everything that is different is more than clear in Kamen Rider, showing how much the writers were concerned with world events and not just Japan.

As it turns out, everything that's troublesome is the fault of the kaijins. In addition, the kaijins do not have a very good life in the country, seeming to be a much poorer class and totally cheap labor. But that's just the first episode and the others that are already available should show a lot more of the problems facing them.

The two main characters, Issamu Minami (yes, the character's name was like from the 80's in Brazil), and Nobuhiko Akizuki, had little introduction, but enough to understand the events that separated them for 50 years. The actor who plays Issamu (in Japan Kotaro Minami), is played by a strong name, the actor Hidetoshi Nishijima, of the movie Drive My Car, winner of the Oscar for best foreign film.

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His interpretation is excellent with a more intimate, bitter and mysterious Issamu. A person who works doing dirty jobs, in the best Rock Balboa style before becoming a Boxing champion. Already Tomoya Nakamura who gives life to Shadow Moon, appeared little, but the hatred he has against those who created him can be seen.

Kamen Rider Black Sun had a good debut on Prime Video streaming, showing violence (full of blood and guts) never seen in anything in the franchise. With a strong criticism of racism and intolerance, it is undoubtedly a series aimed at the world audience and not just the Japanese or tokusatsu fans.

24 COMMENTS

  1. Putz. The person who wrote the text forgot that there are practically no blacks in Japan. And that the series is much more likely to be drawing a parallel between native and foreign Japanese. So much so that the word KAIJIN is very similar to GAIJIN (pejorative term for foreigners).

    But then the person decides to seal it and can even see a Greta Thumberg in the story lol

    • I thought the same. People with no idea of what Japan is.
      Another thing I remembered, the people here associate the character Sailor Pluto as black and she is not. She is darker-skinned Japanese than she has in certain areas of Japan.

  2. Lol Rafael's analysis is perfect, because whoever wrote this text traveled so much that soon he'll call the great king Lula... It's hard to see a review about a series without these leftists putting their bias in everything. leave the sealing aside and just analyze the content of the series and period.

    • Sealing your tail. The series is, yes, about prejudice and racism. See that it has nothing to do with senseless laceration, in fact it has more to do with a serious matter that happens around us all the time. concern for both the left and the right. I think the more adult and contemporary theme is great.

  3. Two unnecessary comments, it is obvious that the criticism of history portrays the disaster of when society is divided by political parties.

  4. Who says to "leave the sealing aside and just analyze the series" clearly EITHER has not watched the series, or watched and not understood shit. It's the most politically charged tokusatsu series of all time (which isn't difficult, by the way) but it's absolutely impossible to separate politics from series analysis, when ALL its basis is politics. Damn, the politics on the show are LITERALLY more important than THE MAIN CHARACTER HIMSELF.

    And anyone who doesn't see that is just some dumb proto-fascist who doesn't want to accept that he's on the wrong side.

  5. Whoever writes protofacist is a pseudo-revolted effeminate woke otaku in the style of that baitola who finds North Korea habitable. Putting Greta as a reference shows that the commentator (a journalist is not) writes about the inequalities of the world of an iPhone14. Don't have a lot of Rider Black fans anymore? When you called someone a bloody miserable 3-year-old and no one got hurt?
    The theme discussed in the series is about gaijins and immigrants who go to Japan in general (like Koreans and Brazilians). But it's just a background for Rider… that was the Meta. But as streaming now satisfies this cancellation generation, there is a greater focus on these themes. Before it was more subtle. Including the smuggling and abuse of minors by secret societies. But no… prejudice is everything.

    • Japan comes from a millenary culture, that is; Their traditions and customs have remained unchanged since the emergence of their society. So prejudiced thoughts are a normal thing for them.

      In fact most of the countries that make up the Asian continent behave in almost the same way. And it's no use for Westerners to complain or attack their culture as if that would cause some kind of change, because they don't care about who outsiders can think of the way they act in their society.

      • There's always a chupa CU from Asia. The Japanese left their ancient culture a long time ago. Your people don't even breed decently anymore! An oppressive place and they will sink deeper and deeper! South Korea is another, top 3 in suicides. You who are nothing more than a western BABACA who worship an outdated culture that has not helped even them!

  6. I didn't like the ending, because Black dies.

    I know it was necessary, given the context of the script. But I did not like it.

    Other than that, the series exceeded my expectations!

  7. In terms of violence, it was very similar, with kamen rider amazon and it doesn't also have the phrase, traditional from the Henshin series to transform, the protagonist concentrates an energy to change shape, that's what I didn't like, I prefer the traditional kamen rider But I have to watch more.

  8. Guy manages to keep his member erect with so much desire to seal it... the plot may even be similar to the “guys” of the seal, but for sure Japan doesn't give a shit about the west. The idea of the series is to make a comparison between the Gaijins and the Japanese.

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