Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-39213635-20190504145653/@comment-39213635-20190513193557

I just read the premiere of the original Kamen Rider series: "The series takes place in a world plagued by Shocker, a mysterious world-wide terrorist organization formed by remaining members of the Nazis. To further its plans for world domination, Shocker recruited its agents through kidnapping, turning their victims into mutantcyborgs and, ultimately, brainwashing them. However, one victim named Takeshi Hongo escaped just before the final brainwashing. With his sanity and moral conscience intact, Hongo battled Shocker's minions as the grasshopper-themed altered human superhero Kamen Rider."

This is actually very similar to Samurai Jack (or the other way around? Since Samurai Jack was created later) with the "lone hero travelling in the dystopian world to fight monsters and find the ultimate tyrant" theme. Heck, Jack as Kamen Rider and Aku as the Great Leader of Shocker. Couldn't be fitter.