It's about time we talked about Gotchard
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ม.ค. 2025
- Kamen Rider Gotchard (仮面ライダーガッチャード) series review
The show's finale aired a couple of weeks ago, and it's about time I give my final thoughts. The series follows Houtaro Ichinose (Kamen Rider Gotchar), Rinne Kudo (Kamen Rider Majade), Spanner Kurogane (Kamen Rider Valvrad) and includes Kamen Rider Dread, Kamen Rider Legend, Kamen RIder Wind, Hopper 1, and the rest of the Chemy Cards.
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bro said ex-aid is mid.......................................im shedding a tear
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Yeah Ex-Aid isn’t mid…Wizard and Ghost (amazing suits…mid asz series IMO)
Drive in B tier... Ex-Aid and Zero One in C tier... I mean, I'm glad Gotchard is in C tier too, but they deserve to be one tier higher.
Ex-Aid was the 3rd rider show i ever watched
After rewatching Ex-Aid a few years ago, I agree with Christian
I’ll admit his acting was on and off but he had some great moments. I like Houtaro because he’s just being genuinely happy and vibing and that’s a rare thing now that gets crushed by adulthood and the world.
the way how he deliver his own catch praise is still really annoying to me
Yeeeeeeeeeeah his ideals and personality lack any depth…his best character development was and is DayBreak gotchard. His motivations are just “Toku BS” I ended the series right after the debut of the X chemis… I did enjoy the legend side stuff
you never seen him in other bandai promotions? when i watch them, i honestly prefer a fat kid promoting the henshin belt than the actor
@@akira8393 Poor take.
I know it’s probably the kid’s first acting job, but Hotaro’s actor was pretty bad imo.
Build in A? Drive in B?! ZERO-ONE IN C?!?!?! What is that tier list????
The tier list that aling with his tastes wich are as confusing to me than they are to you.
...his subjective opinions. Just like any other tier list. Chill or make your own lol
FACTUAL
You think the story of Zero One is better than Builds!?!
the two is fine but zero one should at least B
Gotchard just feels a bit empty, like all these concepts were thrown in a jar and tossed around until they got something. Nothing felt intentional, like they expected you to write the story yourself
May be a bit overdramatic, but I got a little angry when I read the producer notes and there was just huge chunks of lore that for some reason, none of the writers felt was important enough to include in the show. Why even bother introducing the abyssal kings to just not give them a proper backstory with at least one flashback. The story is so underdeveloped (and somewhat unfinished) compared to every rider show I’ve seen and prevents me from liking it.
Still better than Disney star wars or the MSHEU
Funny enough that was the idea of alchemy itself. Throwing a bunch of stuff together hopefully they'd turn into gold but a lot of other things came out instead.
@@blackRXriderincel ass comment
@@Tasty_Tango45 They care enough about legend but not gotchard. that's enough to me already
That’s it. All the cool ideas are teased and never be dealt with as a whole, and the little stories are more interesting than the whole grand narrative.
If gotchard is a food, it got this delicious ingredients and a flashy presentation from that place you once went to.
It’s fine.
7:26 Christian, do you, uh...do you have something you need to tell us...?
Considering how the last couple seasons have the Secondary Rider debut in the first handful of episodes, Majade is shafted.
Dread appears in ep 12, then Majade, the Secondary, is 17, with Valvarad becoming a Rider 2 episodes later.
Director's Cut dropped. Get a bit more with Rinne and her dad that gives them that actual "later" moment. (and other stuff too of course). Also technically Lachesis transformed into Valvarad twice (once against Clotho)☝🤓
Oh yeah and I think that the reason for the energy thing is that Rinne's Driver isn't an actual belt. Like she and her dad summon their belts through alchemy I guess, whereas Houtarou and Spanner have actual belts that they physically put on. You can still complain about the writing but at least there's a canonical explanation for it.
yeah i think it's a good thing they kept it in directors cut. it sounds more stupid.ughhh
I couldn't agree more. Thanks for summarize my opinions about the show haha great video btw, Christhian!
The crickets for spanner killed me
Ok bro cool,but uh when you gonna drop a video explaining the tier list rankings?
As someone who genuinely loves Gotchard, I fully agree that it is a C-tier show. There are issues to this season that I can point out, weird pacing, admittedly sub-par acting, and severely underutilized elements. Yet despite that, I put this as my number 3 of Reiwa so far.
Maybe it's just me, but whenever I see people have a negative opinion about Gotchard, I see two sides. One is where people give actual criticism to the show, and how it could be better had it have an actual plan from the start. But on the other, I see people who constantly have to say that it is a bad, or even the worst Kamen Rider show ever, which is such a big statement to make for a franchise that has a now 53 year lifespan, surely there has been something worse.
It's also weird to here that nothing good ever came out of this show, like really? Sure there were a lot of episodes that were filler and episodes with really bad writing decisions, but there is genuinely good and heartfelt moments, so it's impossible to say that there weren't good times form an objective standpoint. Makes me think these people don't like lighthearted series, ironic since the target demographic of Kamen Rider is kindergarteners.
Also note that these are the same people who dropped the show only after the first episode, which is insane because you based your judgment without even giving it a chance.
I also want to talk about people hating Houtarou. Sure, you can dislike him for being annoying and, honestly really awkward acting, at least for the beginning, that's understandable, but what makes him different from other energetic main protagonists from other shows?
I see people complain so hard about the "Gotcha!" catchphrase, and sit there looking at them like, what do you expect from a clearly young oriented character? He is obviously better than Houtarou, but Gentarou from Fourze, which is one of my favourite shows in Rider, has the exact same mannerisms, sure he only says "Uchu Kita!" in his transformation, but what makes Houtarou so bad from that? He doesn't even say it that much towards the end.
Say what you will about it, but at least their writers were actually involved for a majority of the show, *cough* Saber *cough*, or have so dropped the ball so hard towards the end of it's run that it's basically unwatchable, *cough* Revice *cough*.
I understand why Gotchard is such a contentious season, especially coming after Geats, a show I've seen people actively praise and call it the best in years.
But what I ask of these people is a simple question: What makes a good Rider show for you?
There are the obvious answers, a coherent story structure, good character development, and good visual design, but to me, those are things that add to a season being good. What I find makes a good Rider show, or even any franchise in general, is sticking to it's core principle. Gotchard is no different from the previous, a hero whose powers are inherently evil, but choses to do good with those powers instead, that it is the literal fundamental for the franchise since 1971.
I'm sorry if this seems like me romping on people who dislike this season, but that's not the problem I have. My problem is how newer fans coming in are going to view this show. With all these people claiming that it is the worst in the series, it might deter newer fans from experiencing other shows like it. It's disheartening to see the community act this way in recent years, it really feels like their gatekeeping at this point. I've only become a Toku fan five years ago, so I can't say I have experience, but I think this is how Ghost fans felt during that seasons run.
I encourage people to just, check out any season that catches their eye, and not influenced by what others are saying, for the most part. This is why I don't really like to recommend a particular season for a franchise like Kamen Rider, because I want a fans first exposure to be explorative, to see what clicks in them.
Wow, this ended up being way longer than expected. I'm not coming out as a Gotchard apologist, but I do want to speak out on the show's perception overtime. My final consensus, if you didn't like the show, that's fine, just don't discourage the new people from checking it out.
All of that aside, I have positive outlook for Rider moving forward, Gavv actually hooked me in, and I'm excited for the future.
And Christian, in the small chance you read this comment, thank you for not being one of those Tokutubers who have to cater to the audiences consensus, you speak your piece and stick by them.
And as one last statement to cap of this journey.
"Thank you Kamen Rider Gotchard. You might have not been the best series out there, but you still made people happy, even with your flaws. One last time, we all yell, Gotcha!"
i say a lot of this is bullshit. your biases on liking gotchard, yeah that's obviously you. i watch a lot of rider, i have never seen one that is this level of bad. every paragraph in here is as stupid as it sounds except the encouragement to check other seasons, because i know better shows out there at least have some semblance of a show.
why the fuck you want people to try out something that is obviously bad? i say people are not braindead, and know this show as one of the bad if not worse (cuz it is) can help people see how bad this franchise can get and if the new fans like this, then they can get into the cheesyness of tokusatsu early on. if you make belief that the show is good, people think youre lying and assume the franchise is bullshit so if anything it discourages the newer people to go other series because "well if they think gotchard crap is like the best in the world then the others must've been the same if not worse" that's just how people's brain work. it's 101 on marketing.
i prefer people just be real with themselves when even the showrunners doesnt give a fuck about gotchard. they gave up on him just as much as i do and wanna move on to gavv that is doing beautifully. scream gotcha on the other planet with the rest of chemies. we're just gonna be on a better season with gavv's delicious treats!!
goodbye gotchard and i never wanna see you again.
Very well put.
I'd like to add that the sheer amount and intensity of negativity aimed at Gotchard, a show that earnestly strives to inspire people to be positive, are undeserving. Sure you can criticize it fairly, but calling it and the actors involved garbage is just too far imo. I feel like even if you aren't able to find enjoyment from the story or the depths of the characters, it's still nice to watch this show purely for dumb fun, or to see the characters interacting with each other and being put in situations and learning life lessons. To me it's like a slice of life show where I know I'm in for a fun and relaxing time, but that's not to say it doesn't have dramatic or exciting moments.
Forgive me for rambling there. I love Kamen Rider for the positivity and inspiration it gives me and it hurts to see people bashing it so much. To me Gotchard will probably be remembered similarly to Ghost. I didn't enjoy every single thing in both seasons but damn I'll miss the characters when they're gone.
i say a lot of this is bullshit. your biases on liking gotchard, yeah that's obviously you. i watch a lot of rider, i have never seen one that is this level of bad. every paragraph in here is as stupid as it sounds except the encouragement to check other seasons, because i know better shows out there at least have some semblance of a show.
why the fuck you want people to try out something that is obviously bad? i say people are not braindead, and know this show as one of the bad if not worse (cuz it is) can help people see how bad this franchise can get and if the new fans like this, then they can get into the cheesyness of tokusatsu early on. if you make belief that the show is good, people think youre lying and assume the franchise is bullshit so if anything it discourages the newer people to go other series because "well if they think gotchard crap is like the best in the world then the others must've been the same if not worse" that's just how people's brain work. it's 101 on marketing.
i prefer people just be real with themselves when even the showrunners doesnt give a fuck about gotchard. they gave up on him just as much as i do and wanna move on to gavv that is doing beautifully. scream gotcha on the other planet with the rest of chemies. we're just gonna be on a better season with gavv's delicious treats!!
goodbye gotchard and i never wanna see you again.
The thing about Rinne, I feel like there is no emotional connection. The actress was rather bland and the debut of Majade was handled poorly. I feel like they needed to take a page from how they handled Valkyrie, Jeanne, and especially Na-go. Na-go had so much character development and I felt so connected to her character. I hope we get another female rider like that.
@@aaronlasly5800 Majade as a secondary rider didn’t really impress me.
I wouldn't take jeane as an example of good female rider Poppy is way better
@@kamenriderfr of course there is Poppy. I love Poppy. She was a great character too. The thing about Sakura aka Jeanne is that I really liked her beginning. She was a fighter and she fought to find her own path. Even if it wasn't perfect she moved forward. I liked the chemistry with her and Aguilera. Not saying that she was my favorite but her story drew me in.
@@kamenriderfr Jeanne’s not my fav female rider, but I do like how she was pretty active throughout the show.
@aaronlasly5800 to me the chemistry between Sakura and Aguilera feel forced. But it still better than Rinne and Atropos
You also missed the fact you also need to watch the crossover movie with Geats since those events immediately tie in to the show
you have every right to feel the way you do about Gotchard i felt like it had a lack of direction
i really likes gotchard solid show, but it also had so much potential that i think got lost in the restructure of the show. I wish it had more time to be fleshed out well but its still a 6/10.
I think the gotchard cast will be so good in crossovers
The whole restructuring thing claim about Gotchard feels so weird to me. Mostly because there's nothing that really hints that the show had a major restructuring. We still had smaller stories that focused on chemies even after the supposed restructuring happened. To me having more serialized stories is more of the escalation of the story. Plenty of other seasons have had their shows dramatically change as the story went on but there were no claims of restructuring.
The only ones I can really see being restructured are things like Rinne's dad not being around likely because his actor wasn't as available as they wanted. So a lot of his and Rinne's story got gutted because of that. Which was a similar thing to what happened with Revice with Hiromi and Genta leaving the show for long gaps.
What sucks is that I don't hate a lot of the ideas Gotchard had. But its clear that 50 episodes wasn't enough to tell all the stuff they wanted to do.
it's a good show. it's just kind of all over the place.
side note: when i saw legend was going to be inside the main series all i thought was "wow... there is going to be a lot of confused people here"
Was made even worse because I was still relatively a noob Kamen Rider wise at that point. I still haven't seen all of the characters the Handred cosplayed in their fights and the tie in with Outsiders with Zein getting the last hit on one of them didn't help in the slightest.
Thought it was crazy that without watching the winter movie at a really specific point, the whole plot point of gathering the level 10 chemies seemingly happens off-screen
Good video. Really enjoy how you explain your mind about the show
I really like this video.
I loved Gotchard, and Hotaro is a comfort character in a world that is so negative, and I just want to feel good about seeing an earnest kid who tries his best and I got that with Hotaro.
I get that there was a lot of undercooked ideas, especially with the overused anniversary stuff taking over, and they really should've sat with the ideas more... but that's fine. What I loved, I got and that makes ME happy at the end of the day.
Same
i dunno if we even watch the same show, what in f is the negative? the final boss turning everything to gold and hotaru just deus ex machina for the ending?
I mean those impressions of the characters are spot on. It was like i was watching the show.
7:30 peak antwan.
For real though, if you ever feel like you don’t get your point across, you’re actually super articulate and a good speaker on these topics. I myself need to try not to ramble in circles 😅
I personally would put Ex-Aid at B. It is certainly better than both Zero One and Gotchard.
At this point, I don't blame Toei. I blame the writers and Bandai for not having a common ground.
Damn I remember the Kamen Rider Decade Movies and Movie War are like the DLC thing for knowing story and ending of it
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*Cries in Yua's progression gets full halt after Zaia's arc, and only 1 minutes of Her final form, before gets bodied like some fodder.
After watching this video, I certainly have to agree with a lot of things. Gotchard was my first Kamen Rider series, but I have to say I absolutely started enjoying it a lot less once I actually watched other series. All of OOO, Fourze, Gaim, Kuuga and 4/5 of Drive. Houtoro is like a true hero other characters would be, being pure of heart, but there isn't much interesting about him. I could barely say why he cares this much about the chemies. It also doesn't help Gotchard doesn't explain shit about alchemy. I ultimately consider this series to be mid at worse, but I do always think of it's flaws. I think it's notable I've enjoyed the first two Gavv episodes more then the entirety of Gotchard, even when it was the only Kamen Rider series I watch.
Also Gotchard has so many frivolous forms, I've heard this is an issue with a lot of modern rider series but like, he has so many barely used forms that fail to stand out. Only like 4 of them actually matter. And he easily has over 15.
I myself got enjoyment of the Legend episodes and really love Kaguya as a character, but it really killed all narrative pacing. And I was really behind on Gotchard so I could speed through the episodes on a binge. Doesn't help I could never take Hundred seriously as a threat when they kept getting defeated so easily, and then offscreen for their entire army.
If I could pick the best word to describe Gotchard, it'd be "unfocused". Like a dog that can never catch a squirrel because it keeps getting distracted by new squirrels.
It just never elaborated on its ideas or concepts because it kept moving on to the next thing. And the stuff that actually could have been an entire story arc (like Spanner taking over the alchemy association or Fuga's "return") are literally over and done with in the span of 2 episodes, making these moments feel forgettable and inconsequential.
RYUKI IN B? NAHHHH NO WONDER EVERYONE HERE ONLY TALKS ABOUT THAT CLIP
Fantastic video though! You do a really good job of breaking down the problems of the season
hotaro's dad 🤝deku's dad: never revealed even at the end of the series.
Flophard is in my top 5 of Reiwa Kame nRider series.
The series was interesting but nowhere near as good as Geats was
Houtaro is Gentaro from Fourze but without any of the charisma and the acting chop to back him up.
you can't even shit a tear with hotaru. i watched this season laughing at him rather than rooting for him
Before this video, I honestly hated this season and thought it was the worst season of kamen rider I've watched. But you've convinced me to just go eh I didn't like it and I'll add it to the small list of seasons I didn't care for, move on, and hope the next season is better. And while I like the parts where you talk about the negatives because it validates my criticisms of the show, I'm also grateful for the parts where you highlight the good parts that I overlooked or took for granted.
Gotchard was always going to struggle coming straight after Geats, a season which is generally quite loved and is a much more serious and serialised show, and the first 5 or so episodes really didn't help Gotchard's case. It is a very flawed show imo with a massive problem of lack of direction for the most part, but it is also a show with some of the highest highs in all of Kamen Rider that I have seen. The entire stretch of episodes between UFO-X all the way to Geryon's initial defeat I was locked tf in, I was so invested I think I binged all 16 something episodes in almost a single day and was having the time of my life. But it also has some of the lowest lows; the beginning few episodes, the stuff with Gigist, anything regarding Legend all made me hate the show I had just grown to love, and in the end I did drop it. I can see why people could love this show, and I wish I was one of those people, but It's just not for me. Hopefully Gavv will be peak though
TL:DR I agree, Mr. Antwan
no it's not. gaim being an amazing show and no one look at drive being a garbage show. flawed show is generous at best because even the showrunners doesnt even wanna try.
Ok 👍
@akira8393 Ehh....I remember Drive actually being pretty hated on as a followup to Gaim when it first came out. It wasn't until around its second half (Kamen Rider Chaser's debut roughly) where it started getting mostly positive reception.
However, I don't know if Gotchard will be remembered as fondly. Drive just needed time to kick into gear (heh) and get to the heart (double heh) of its story, but Gotchard has some pretty legitimate flaws with its story structure
@@SymbiSpidey i remember people saying it was meh but not bad. 🤷 and yeah drive did kick off at some point but gotchard it's not just flaws, but even the showrunners was like "fuck it."
GOTCHARD AS SAME LEVEL OF ZERO ONE? WAIT, ZERO ONE IN C????
Bruh , gotchard is good but it just needs more exposition and I think we should try to look at things with an open mind
Hotaro's dad is probably a fellow alchemist brother of rinne’s dad. If there is a v cinema, then it'll going to flashback to how he take Hotaro there for work or vacation. It will probably retcon and change the origin of chemy and the in show world itself again like every other v cinema return with a huge truck load of new lore dump. However, given how it isn’t well like even after the retooling in Japan maybe there won’t be another movie announcement instead it will just be the winter vs will serve as the epilogue.
Greyon is a fine boss villain, but what so interesting about his goal was revealed too late in the show. I doubt the writers thought of that from the beginning. It's probably like quick find a reason or philosophy for Greyon that's the opposite of Hotaro. Oh, I wished we used that line earlier and build upon it instead of saving it for a last minute twist.
valvarrad lost aura after his rider debut
The Sisters should've been the protagonist of Gotchard
Bro gotta make a explanation video for that tier list
Lwk it feels as if they had a different idea of how the show was going to go as If we were going to have a female protagonist but changed it last minute just think abt it rinne was supposed to have hotaro’s personality and life style but her connections to the alchemy school was through her dad which would’ve made sense on why hotaro’s dad was out of the picture maybe the whole show from episode one was just written last minute and just write as it goes
Dude, I’m tired of people talking shit on the Hotaro’s Dad thing. Not only does it NOT MATTER, but there is an obvious answer that makes so much thematic sense and I’ve never seen anybody else talk about it ever. Dude, it’s fucking DAIKI!
If they couldn't find a good way to insert him in the story then their better off changing their minds to focus on something else. Sure it leaves a weird feeling on how it's never talked about again- to the point I flat out forgot about him to the finale. But it's better then inserting another character into an already fairly large cast.
god forbid we want a decent show
I thought it's just a trope that the protagonist's parent(s) is never shown. He doesn't matter, they don't need to literally explore every single thing shown.
The problem is that the writers fooled the audience into thinking his identity would matter. You can't get mad at the audience for assuming Hotaro's dad would be important when they go through so much effort to hide his identity.
In other seasons of Kamen Rider, dead parents don't really get a ton of attention unless they end up being important to the story.
Honestly, Greyon is just Dr Maki from Os plus Gold drive from drive that’s in to a total global freeze and nothing less left beside his very self. He’s not interesting in seizing the chemy for power anymore or shown any interest in ruling the world except for that one time he need a few of them to access a portal. He even completed the so called important philosopher stone with an imposter fake clone duplicate dark repaint Chemy. Gotchard is a show that throw things like plot points on the wall to see what stick. Was it necessary to have future daybreak or legend in the show? Was the 102nd Chemy arc necessarily since Greyon creating his own 101 chemy didn’t even reference it. On one hand, it’s more interesting to see and learn more of the battle between the full power combined dark king.
They outright forgot about hotaro meeting the chemies as a kid. It’s NEVER explained, it didn’t feel like anything actually got built up like rainbow literally just appears. Geryeon dies and atropos says NOTHING. Forbidden alchemy clearly doesn’t mean anything oh yeah they don’t actually explain alchemy they show some lab equipment but they only use the rings? Gotchard has to be easily the worst kamen rider
And honestly hotaro sucks as an mc, even as the naive over enthusiastic type he sucks so bad. Legend episodes pretty much killed the series since after that it felt like the plot had no structure
Luckily gavv is looking so much better even the gummies are looking more fun as a gimmick
I recall near the start there was some interesting produces blogs about how the Gotchard powers actually works, how he's like a doll. It's been a long time sense I've read that, sure is a shame none of this was ever explained in the show.
@@plumfadoodle4908 I feel like that producer's blog is one of the biggest fraud in KR history. They fucking did that just to gaslight the audience that there are actual things going on in the show when in reality they dodged the most important thing in show itself: Alchemy. Not even Ghost need to resort to such thing.
@@shinyanakagawa8241 I've never watched Ghost- or exactly intend to anytime soon with how that series reception seems to be. But doing such a poor job at explaining the powers of every character in the story isn't a good thing. I really wouldn't call it fraud, just bad writing they wouldn't put this important information in the story.
The complaint about Zein is so silly to me. Like all it is is just to promote Outsiders. Toei doing this kind of shit isn't new people. Considering how brief it is I find it very hard to take it seriously as a criticism. We've had far worse episodes that have interrupted their stories just to shill a movie. Gaim is the biggest offense to this with the Kikaider and summer movie episode tie-in. I get the whole derailment thing, but it never really came across as derailment due to the fact that we were in a lull point in the show. Gigist coming in I can agree does feel weird to do at that point, but it's not like he had a plan in motion that was immediately interrupted by Hundred showing up. I brought Gaim up because their tie-ins came at terrible points in their story that it literally halted the flow. Far more than what happened in Gotchard. The Hundred arc to me felt more like one of those smaller chemy stories just made bigger because legacy stuff was in it.
Watching Gotchard made me miss Geats…honestly
Gotchard was Garbage to me…
Gotchard for me was an interesting, albeit disappointing year for Gotchard with how back and forth it was with a lot of its ideas.
I think this show just had so many ideas that it wanted to cook with while also dealing with the toy schedule, so it just creates a lot of pretty underbaked story arcs that feel all over the place. The show really is at its best when it's doing episodic stuff, but that definitely changed as the year went on.
I agree everything you say
Gotchard had some potential, but they gave up a lot which made the show being bad. And its pointless how Hotaro is the main protagonist but theres no focus episode about him in the plot at all. Atleast they could've done something about his dad…but no, they focus on Rinne with no love.
Gotchard was a missed opportunity. They should have either focused on the Chemies or the Alchemist aspect more and they did neither. They took the core of Gotchard and unfortunately at later episode making them become background aspect.
oftentimes even when I don't like a rider series, I find chunks or parts of the show that keep me watching. For example, the occasional manipulative traits shougo has in zi-o keeps me interested in how he's going to not become the villain. Or the suit in ghost and saber, george and the dad in revice, etc.
I genuinely had a hard time with gotchard, not that I don't have things I like. Like most I like lachesis and the dark sisters, I like the few time spanner is highlighted. But my hate for houtaro and the way legend meddled in the show, how they handle the side stories and forcing a tie-in into the show topples my few positive feeling for the show. I pity the dude playing houtaro, this isn't the first time a beginner actor who's not so great at acting is used in rider but it is by far the worst way it is handled. If any of you is watching ultraman arc right now, the mc is played by a beginner no better than houtaro's actor, difference being the writer and director made it easier for the mc to act in arc, the way they did houtaro comes closer to bullying.
pretty wild to have ex aid same tier as gotchard, even zero one, i dont think its good either but its not gotchard
the tiers should be ex aid
Ngl Gotchard is my top 5 riders only behind kamen rider Agito because i can relate to Ichinose but there are somethings that sucked but the smaller stories are the best for this series and charecter development for Valvarad was a masterpiece and the episodes feel connected well so i do love the series but the summer movie kinda is in d tier ngl but the series as a whole is a low S tier, high A tier 7.8 / 10 have you noticed the past riders have a G in their name Geats, Gotchard, and now Gavv ain't that funny but yeah completely valid opinions.
I really hate houtaro as a character because he feels more of a background character really and if anything at the end when we get to the final episode he gets turned straight up into gold but with the power of believing in yourself you're able to move which is stupid and really pissed me off that he is able to create an entire new Earth and move all of the Chemys there even though some people wanted a happy relationship between them but no everyone just forgot about them or just stop caring about them really and honestly I prefer Sabinmaru to be the real main character I said this background character look alike that is houtaro
But it is like you said, it's so much build up and hype around some concept only for it to be hot air. Like Spanner, he was to be this unstoppable genius but they rarely show him truly succeeding, but only saying that he's strong then make him lose to show how strong the villain is. But that only made Spanner look wank I'm sorry.
Gotta be honest here though. I had a crush on Lachesis and her dying? Wasn't ready for that, total great move. Only the way she died. Mmmh maybe not that great.
I did wish for her and spanner having an actual future with all the anticipation. Their dynamic has been planted since the beginning and then just make it poof
Half baked ideas nuff said. For a sec, really thought you are so upset that you decided to go bare for the rest of the video. Early 2010s the best time to make toku and pr toy reviews from the greats of mmprtoys and more.
So much stuffs happen all at once in the final three episodes. Honestly, the last episode could be two episodes long. People complain about the village and vampire episode being filler wasting time and the legend stuff is cool for action visuals. You can’t win and please then all. So far, everyone deep down isn’t satisfy with how the show treated rinne and Lachesis. It’s arguably worst than even kiva, gaim, and 01 where there’s import female “riders”. Fans will riot if misora gets to transform or actually do something in outsider. Maybe, it’s the target demo they’re trying to appeal to. Maybe there’s just not enough girls that voluntarily choose to watch toku over something like precure unless they have a brother.
Also the winter film did nothing in the show and I don't understand why they think the movie was such a big importance when it really was not because for one it did nothing to make me like Rinne because when I watch the show and the movie I realize she has no character in my opinion
Gotchard is in the top 12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you like gotchard good for you. I want you to sink in the idea that the people working there dont even care enough about it. they're like me where they wish they could skip a year to dump gotchard and move on for gavv. the show doesnt even wanna try to be good besides legend. i have every reason not to care. this is literally like the star wars's rey skywalker.
The inexperienced actor and ai like script makes it hard to rank it. The more interesting actors are the villain sisters and supporting actors who didn’t get their time to shine instead must follow the lead of the heroes. It’s like the big tribute in little China movie experiment where the sidekick end up as a lead except he isn’t charismatic or capable. It’s like if hotaro is shunpei from wizard that end up being the main character while spanner having the skills and special latent talent end up being the punching bag rival.
the executions were done.....awkwardly. i think HOW they mesh the legend story is why the show was paced so weird and messed up
Okay 6:40 - 7:40 was a trip 🤣
This show concepts are even less explored than 01´s
Gotchard is...not something i'd bother to rewatch. When the show first came out, I wasn't interested. But then i told myself to come back, maybe during the summer, when the show is close to finishing. And i did. On the day the last Ep aired, i sat down and thought to myself "If im not hooked within the first 5 eps, i will just drop it."
Nonetheless, i stuck through to the end, and...It's okay. Out of all the Reiwa Riders, Gotchard is my least favorite. The MC is so FUCKING annoying with his "Gotcha" Catchphrase. like, oh my god, shut up, you child stuck in a teenage body! The only other rider I actually enjoyed seeing, was Kurogane. When it got to his story arc, I REALLY liked it. But then...Bro got sidelined for the rest of the show afterwards. It sucked to see, and I wish we'll get a special focused on him.
The only real times i really liked the show, was the plot twists/reveals. That's about the only reason I kept watching. The suits, except for Valvarad's, are not that good looking to me. The Card gimmick is overdone, and the powerups were mid. Can't we go back to when Trinkets didn't talk?
Overall, I think Gotchard, while not the worst, it certainly isn't the best. Loved the video, man!
wheres decade?
Good question. I wish we knew.
i reakky like the idea that daybreak is the main evolution of gotchard, its the surrounding factors that create what daybreak is
as seen in the finale, after the gotchardriver is destroyed, houtaro makes the daybreak driver, which means the same thing happened to daybreak, and because it happened earlier on for him, nijigon is basically dead. houtaro used his will to create ultima gotchard, a symbol of hope. but daybreak, with all the circumstances around him, made kamen rider daybreak. a last ditch effort to protect those he loves and stop eldroado for becoming reality
really kickass concept daybreak was
Gotchard is......alright. its average , but being average after kamen rider geats just made it bad imo. They had some good moments, but they also have some boring moments that i think easily pointed out. To me if only keiichi hasegawa took full control of the series it would have been better
To me gotchard gonna have the same status as ghost
Kudo literally abandon rinne like 4 times in the series...
The thing about his father really annoyed me. I get you could just say he died or just went missing, but then why keep playing up the mystery and hiding his face? I also never saw the summer movie, but did we ever even get an explanation for Hotaro's missing memories?
The telling part for me was that after finishing the last episode I felt just nothing. Then I went to watch the Geats movie that I never saw and caught myself just sitting there and smiling seeing those characters interacting again
And very common response in denial. After making the content.
still waiting for that movie
I agree with most your critics, but HAVING EX-AID AND ZERO-ONE IN THE SAME TIER AS GOTCHARD IS ILLEGAL!!
Put it in High D, but not in the same Tier as those two, I already desagree with that C tier, but fine, just don't put them together, No way you think Gotchard is at the same level as Zero-One and Ex-Aid 😭😭😭
I also saw that Revice in D... Damn... Do you have a video talking about revice? How is it that low!!? I genuinly need to know now
1:17 saw what you did there
Majade doesn't even have a super from
This has always been my problem with the funny type rider series, I agree that when they do the single episode monster of the week, it's great. But they always fumble at the overall story arc. It's like they were writing those single episode and thinking "how can we put it together for it to become the whole series" unlike the rider series that is more serious where they go "this is the whole series, now lets divide it into proper episodes"
I swear I've lost interest in more of the funny riders compared to the serious ones
I dropped Gotchard at the first episode, really dodged the bullet here and not waste my time.
Ex aid in c is criminal
and i thought my taste was bad putting revice as my favorite.......
Okay if atroops is based off of a child Rinne why does she look nothing like Child Rinne
Houtaro is a comfort character of mine and I agree with pretty much what you said. The way the show handles him leaves much to be desire.
The moment that really click Houtaro in me was when rainbow debuted. Both Nijigon and Houtaro was scared of the outside world. Both could simply choose to remain comfortable in the egg but no Houtaro chooses to become the bigger person to encourage both to face the world together.
A theme of gotchard that I don't think people said about is "how to keep move forward". Houtaro represent more of an idea of the mind rather than a character. Positive and connect to the people around you. That to really move forward you need to be positive and need friends family that you can fall back on, people who trust and root for you.
Through out the show we have people keep moving forward (to bring change) but often in a unhealthy, self destructive way (most notable Minato, Spanner, Clotho). Houtaro was simply there and set them on to the better path. You also notice how most of the battles are won thanks to having emotional support/cheerleaders.
Even Houtaro himself has an emotional support to fall back on that is his mother who always support him no matter what.
The theme of keep moving forward but don't forget to have a good emotional support is the more consistent element of the show.
I love Gotchard, i love it despite the flaws.
Later in kamen rider are meant to be VCnext
the pacing was weird...especially the last 10 episodes
Kamen Rider Gotchard Review
An analysis of Gotchard Series highlights several significant issues. The performances of the lead actors, particularly in portraying the protagonist, fall short of expectations. The character, designed to embody the energetic and optimistic traits typical of shounen anime-such as frequent shouting and exuberance-fails to resonate effectively. This portrayal often comes across as forced and unconvincing, leading to numerous cringe-worthy and obnoxious moments.
The comedic elements of the series also feel contrived and disrupt the narrative flow, resulting in awkward interactions. Additionally, the inclusion of numerous filler episodes detracts from the main storyline and adds little value to the overall plot.
Characterization of the villain is another weak point, with their goal of turning the world into gold lacking clear rationale and purpose. This ambiguity undermines the central conflict, rendering it superficial and underdeveloped.
Moreover, the series struggles with its alchemy theme, frequently violating established alchemical principles and creating numerous plot holes. The involvement of three different writers has further contributed to a disjointed transition between story arcs and inconsistent pacing. These factors collectively impair the series' coherence and overall appeal.
We all know that Kamen Rider is a show aimed at children, and we can't expect complex and realistic storytelling like in movies. The series often presents illogical moments, such as villains waiting for the MC to finish transforming or the MC not chasing after the enemy after a rider kick. These things are acceptable because, at its core, the main purpose of a series like this is to sell toys and gimmicks. However, even after lowering our standards and understanding the commercial intent behind the series, Gotchard still feels bad. Weak character development, filler episodes that add nothing to the main storyline, and a messy handling of the alchemy theme all make this series difficult to enjoy, even with already low expectations. And to be bad even by such low standards, I think that's quite an achievement.
"You can't expect complex storytelling in Kamen Rider"
How to tell me you haven't watched the good ones without telling me you haven't watched the good ones.
Calling me a kid back then yet Copy and Pastes a wall of text, I’m baffled Brodie after you call a perfectly mid show “Objectively Bad”, keep smoking that Blunt ig 😭
@@Panji_2950 Mocking my review just because I posted it on multiple videos is honestly childish. Instead of addressing the points I made, you're focusing on something irrelevant, like how often I used the review. If you really want to have a proper discussion, the focus should be on the content of the review, not where I posted it. This kind of attitude shows immaturity, as you're choosing to ignore the actual critique and attack trivial things instead.
@@Nocturne989 yeah, sorry for that, im compeletely wrong , i think my point is its not "Realistic" Like movie or series and often presents illogical moments: Some enemies of the kamen rider series who always hold back and don't attack the main character with full force, the main character who lets the villain escape in human form when he has been riderkicked, villains who wait for the character to turn into a kamen rider, police and military and countries that do not intervene when there are monsters and cyborgs fighting in their territory, the absence of crowds chasing kamen rider chasers even though many of them change in front of them.
@@LordDecaderBuddy. I literally talked more about the positive aspect because I’m POSITIVE LIKE THAT. I didn’t ATTACK you. I just didn’t like your argument being baseless criticism to make it look like it’s AGAIN “Objectively Bad” you HAVE to be illiterate because just like what my goat Antwan said in his actually good review and criticism, We ain’t gonna spend 20 minutes with ONLY negativity. You are legit downplaying and throwing away the good aspects just because you’re an unwarranted hater.
Like legitimately this ain’t healthy for you. Copy pasting the same baseless argument.
For me, Gotchard is an F.. Worst Kamen Rider series in the last decade, even worst than Ghost. At least, Ghost had a mid story and still very compelling, but Gotchard.. Oh man, they lost the goddamn plot. worst MC, worst Duos, worst final form debut, worst final episode, worst story progressively.. The amount of unnecessary plotlines, unnecessary comedic timings, can't even decide wether they're in serious episode or fillers one. This is the first time i hate a kamen rider series, dropped this fuckin show 6 times and never watch the last 5 episodes, and i know its fuckin garbage. Feels like wasting my money watchin this show.
ghost make up with characters like makoto and alain. you actually root for them. you got nothing to root for in gotchard when shit is like deus ex machina. even saber had it's last moments where every swordsmen died in battle
15:52 is that a boonboomger reference
Always lol
Just watch fourze
fourze really is peak high school + power of friendship into a kamen rider, its kinda funny and sad they tried many times after that all failed (ghost, gotchard, and technically saber, saber is fairly decent at least)
honestly yea, at this point Fourze is the one and only worthwhile on themes similarly akin to this, while actually maintaining its qualities consistently and strongly
I don't find most of the characters interesting (with the only exceptions being gotchard daybreak and legend).
For gotchard himself, the suits are all mid at best ( with rainbow gotchard being the worst looking final form in the franchise and platinum gotchard being his only good suit
I know this one will be hated on but the original chemy x story is a generic song with no personality with the flow version being slightly better
The only other thing i like from the show is the card artwork
Not going to lie, I felt gotchard felt very dry, and went nowhere and everywhere at once.
I mean yes it's a cool concept but when you really get into it gold it's all the way he's saying it it's not internal it's made out of a soft metal which is not even good for property defense and I think it's really stupid that he wants to turn everyone and everything in the gold I'm like why that's you are the worst villain ever because you are just a joke if you want to make the entire world and everything gold
I hate to say it but it did a compete 180 on me it was my least favorite reiwa seaosn to it becoming my favorite
Umm..
Show had a lot of missed potential
Are studio gonna ruin shotaro ishinomori legacy of kamen rider history they made gotchard story is a mess
Your tier list is F tier, for FALSE. You put wizard and fourze above the super hobo himself OOO, and you put exaid above ooo, this is heresy
Hotaro is such a bad actor. I'm so sorry. I bet he's a great guy, but he's just so whack as an actor idk. And his Gotcha mmmmh meh.
Him as the sunshine losing practically anything in Daybreak was waaaay more interesting. Like always breaking the hero gets old, but if that's someone you found to be annoying suddenly getting totally nuked and losing that spark? Damn even if I thought he was annoying, it felt like something was missing and that was beyond
@@FeliXtreme I mean it’s he’s first big acting role but I can see why people hate on him. But I think the hate for the actor is really unnecessary
I was right to drop this at episode 1. Because Uncooked Ideas is one of my worst pet peeves in KR story telling. after that, the mid season brain rot of new antagonists for no reason (As much as I like Thouser and ZAIA but god damn...).
Ah yes spanner the Emperor of L's I'm not even joking on that one that man caught too many L's to even count
I remember watching the first episode and being turned off immediately. The main actors face was just… so EMPTY all the time😂
One thing that shouldn’t have existed in the show was the legend stuff.
An anniversary season should happen every decade. In the first decade of heisei, we got decade, and we got Zi-O in the 2nd decade. Reiwa hasn’t even existed for a full decade, so any anniversary stuff just shouldn’t exist.
And what makes things worse, is that the anniversary stuff just takes away from existing character development. Valvarad literally got his final form in the PENULTIMATE episode, which is WAY TOO LATE considering that the big bad was established in the SAME EPISODE.
So after Valvarad practically beats up a "miniboss", we finally establish Geryon as the final boss (even though Gigist would’ve been way better), and then he’s DEFEATED IN THE VERY NEXT EPISODE. ALL THAT GARBAGE, because of some ANNIVERSARY BS that SHOULDN’T EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE.