History of Kamen Rider W

fun fact: hidari in japanese means left, and raito is right, which means: phillip is the right side and shotaro is the left side.

Suda Masaki was only 16 years old when he shoot this series, pairing with Kiriyama Ren who is 8 years his senior, and yet they gave us a marvelous chemistry. For me that's my most favorite part of this series

I never had an issue with Phillip coming back. I thought the point was more that Shotaro didn't actually need to be completely independent. At least not yet. Sometimes its okay to lean on each other. Kind of like how everyone in the show pokes fun at Shotaro for being "half-boiled" even though that's part of what makes him such a great character and Kamen Rider

Philip passing away is one of the most touching, if not The Most touching moments in Kamen Rider History. Kiriyama Ren, the actor of Hidari Shotaro is a real life fanboy of Kamen Rider. So he cameos whenever he can. Kamen Rider W is the start of continuity of all phase 2 riders, which you see the next rider and the previous one show up in the same movie, much like Power Rangers

So fun fact about Riku Sanjo. Before getting into screenwriting he was a manga writer who published in Shonen Jump. His two major works before getting into Toku were Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai and Beet the Vandel Buster. Now here's some fan speculation on why he's great with character writing pertaining specifically to the partner dynamic and why the last episode of W was the way it was. Up until he switched to screen, the two manga's that Sanjo worked on were illustrated by Koji Inada. The two of them described their partnership as a "50/50 between the know-how from the long years we've been a team, and tackling new difficulties." Their partnership started in 1989 and was suddenly put on a very long pause in 2006 due to Inada becoming seriously ill. After that Sanjo hung up his manga career and focused on screenwriting. You could say W was a sort of letter of friendship to Inada with the last episode as an "I wish you'll recover soon." Inada has since recovered and in 2016 he and Sanjo teamed up once again to continue making manga.

The "eyes" actually don't light up signifying whomever is speaking. The eye lights up only when the "soul" portion of the rider is speaking. Philip's side represents the soul of W while Shotaro's side represents the body of W. Notice how it only lights up whenever Philip is talking. Another example of this is in the FangJoker form of W. In this form, the soul and body of W is switched, and Philip is the body and Shotaro is actually the soul. Whenever Shotaro talks, the right side of the visor lights up. Its a cool little detail indeed!

"It's not like Emperor Heisei came back as a cyborg." Toei writing staff hastily puts their pen to paper

"Double" "Doburu" "W"

Suda Masaki's career is started here, from a Kamen Rider to the one of the most paid actor in Japanese entertaintment

We need Accel to be different from W Accel:I hate Fuuto

Wow this video is really helping me understand the plot and the characters because I just watched Fuuto PI without knowing that it was a sequel to something. Didn't even know Kamen Rider existed but now I wanna watch W

It's no coincidence that W and Drive are two of the best seasons, especially since they were both written and directed by a creator of detective fiction and made the show "Robot and Sexy Voice". Part of the intro even matches the R&SV's opening art style. Also, the female characters actually add to the story and weren't just there. Also, the Japanese dub of Sonic Colors uses the Same Voice work for the Wisps as the gaia memories. One more thing.........NEVER HATE ON AKIKO!

Kamen Rider Skull is simple yet smooth and dope af

The reason they tried to stop his gaia impact is that it would turn everyone into a mass of data like phillip

Kirihiko was too good for this earth. Shame we never got Kamen Rider Nazca

3:57 One thing I love about the suit is how the various different textures play into the W motif, I feel like I notice a new W in the fine details every time I see it on screen. Double strikes the perfect balance between being a simple return-to-form while also committing to its theming in subtle ways, which is just so cool to me.

This does leave a smile on my face that you are doing a history of Kamen Rider W. It's one of my favorite Kamen Rider series next to Gaim and a few others. W has a simple premise and it works so well. Not to mention the characters are great and the music as well. I love the opening theme and the insert themes too with my favorites being Cyclone Effect and Finger on the Trigger. The Acoustic version of Cyclone Effect... it can really drive you to tears. Yeah. Part of me is going to want to rewatch W again.

Are there any Kamen Rider shows that are just as if not more memed then Blade? Edit: YOU MET SHOTARO'S ACTOR?!?! I will never question your videos ever again.

FINALLY. This video is definitely HARD BOILED. Keep up the great work :)

I would have preferred it if they didn't revive phillip straight after, what they could have done is after the time skip dopants slowly start returning, then we could have some episodes with Kamen rider joker and we could also have Akiko play a more involved role as Phillip is gone ,Terrui could also be involved in more fight scenes which would give the possibility for really good choreography with shoutaro and actually give these two more bonding time instead of just one movie