TrialOfHeroes

On this episode of the UnKamenCast, the buildup to the doubtless-massive finale of Kamen Rider Build continues and your humble hosts are gathering together across the Atlantic to try and find some kind of calm in the raging storm. And while we wait to see if Kamen Rider Build will blow us away or just leave us … Continue reading UnKamen 203 – Crown Him Dragon, Queen of Mars

We’ve finally got our extra hero/sixth (or rather seventh) ranger and here’s where we start to get to know him and your humble hosts–once we got over the explosion of excitement that is that Noel’s robot has lasers on its knees–set in to have some thoughts about him at one another and at you. This … Continue reading Laser Knees 70 – Laser Knees 2: Laser Knees Harder

  Well hey there, UnKamenCast and TOH Network listeners!  Been a while, hasn’t it? After a long, unplanned hiatus for reasons a bit beyond the control of your humble (and apologetic) hosts, releasing episodes got held up for a bit there, didn’t it? But we’re back!  So prepare for a veritable plethora of TOH! Network … Continue reading UnKamen RX 202 – Six Degrees of Katsuragi Takumi

We did our best not to make as many of these jokes as we wanted to. [Hi, Aleph here!  Iiiiiii forgot to properly enter the scheduled date for this episode to go up; sorry it’s late!] Dear Listeners, this is gonna be a weird one. Not only is there some discussion of a mildly insulting … Continue reading Laser Knees 69 – The Nice Guys

We’ve got our final form, we’ve hit episode 40, and we’ve introduced the newest (and maybe final?) plot wrinkle.  Stuffs only getting more intense on Kamen Rider Build and your humble hosts have Some Things to Say. Aleph expounds on the themes of destruction and refinement embodied in the hero and villain. Sono examines the nature … Continue reading UnKamen RX 201 – Kamen Rider Pride

Ah, Sentai.  The time when your hosts’ fancies turn to feels and a young officer’s fancy turns to   JUSTICE!!!!!!!!   Even though that’s less than ideal. In this episode of Laser Knees, your hosts go beyond all time and space to have some thoughts about: Naruhisa Arakawa: all-time tokusatsu MVP. The power of a complicated … Continue reading Laser Knees 68 – That Melan-cop-ly Feeling.

  It’s been many years now and we’ve now reached the two-hundredth installment of the internet’s own UnKamenCast R!X!.  It’s been a long, winding trip through an eternal cycle of birth, death, and metamorphosis, one transformation after another.  A mad chimera of commentary, changing in scope and form and format. And as we continue our headlong, … Continue reading UnKamen-RX 200(!!!!!!!) – All Around Me Are Familiar Faces

In this episode, our heroes struggle to find themselves after it turns out that, surprise of surprises, the putative leader of fully one half of the series’ sentai teams does not, in fact, die and then Touma has an identity crisis of an entirely different flavor. Meanwhile, your hosts continue to brace for a possible … Continue reading Laser Knees 67 – Finding the ‘Me’ in ‘Team’

Ah, the eternal cycle of violence, self-justification, and wanton destruction.  Faces change, but does the song necessarily stay the same?  Your hosts have some thoughts. In this episode, we touch on that, as well as: Aleph posits that Evolt may, himself, essentially be the Amadam. Sono wonders why anyone, especially someone who’s seen him betray all … Continue reading UnKamen-RX 199 – From the Start, I’m an (Anti)Climax!

Boy, Toei really has been doing a lot of stuff with poisoning lately, haven’t they? But while Keiichiro recovers, you can sit back and listen to your humble(?) hosts talk about a couple episodes of your favorite extended piece of Super Sentai infighting! Subjects touched on include: Ponderings on a taxonomy of reds (and attendant Patreon … Continue reading Laser Knees 66 – The Shadow of Death