You can insert most other Kamen Riders in Eiji’s place and you probably wouldn’t miss him. Unfortunately, that’s essentially all he is. He has a tragic past, but he has a good nature and he wants to save everyone who might be in jeopardy. Shu Watanabe plays Hino Eiji/Kamen Rider OOO. We turn to Kamen Rider OOO’s characters which are a peculiar mix of the strongest and weakest elements of the series. The war over these medals is the central conflict and while there’s your atypical end of the world looming on the horizon, the apocalypse is also dependent on who controls these medals. Also, the Greed are often at odds with one another so it’s not uncommon for infighting to lead to a medal ending up in OOO’s possession or in possession of another Greed.
OOO unlocks a number of forms throughout the series and so the fight scenes are always entertaining. OOO can mix and match elements, but a set of three creates a combo which gives him tremendous power in combat. These same medals are used by OOO to transform and different combinations thereof allow OOO to obtain different forms. This longing, this need to be whole is the major driving force behind the actions of our villains. As the Greed’s themselves are aligned with a particular element so are the medals they need to become complete. The gimmick or motif of Kamen Rider is sometimes a major thematic part of the series, sometimes it’s only minor. When I first saw Kamen Rider OOO, I bailed after the first five episodes because it was so different from what I was used to, but I gave it another go recently and I’m glad I did because it’s not until episode seven that the show hits its stride and starts to shine. I point this out because the post-Decade era Kamen Riders tend to be lighter in tone, have more comedic elements, and some interesting and at times very strange changes to the Kamen Rider formula. Kamen Rider OOO is from the post-Decade era of the Heisei Kamen Rider entries.
He offers to help Hino destroy the other Greed to save the city if Hino helps him become complete and so begins a long, complicated series filled with intense action and complex emotions. It turns out that Ankh is a Greed whose revival was incomplete. As OOO, Hino defeats the creature, but when he returns to the detective he finds that Ankh has taken over Izumi’s body. Suddenly, a severed arm calling itself Ankh appears and gives Hino a mysterious belt that turns him into Kamen Rider OOO. Hino tries to come to Shingo’s aid, but he is nearly killed himself. Detective Shingo Izumi is first on the scene, but he is fatally injured by the Yummy. Sealed away eight centuries ago, the Greed create monsters called Yummy that are spawned from human desires and the Yummy start wreaking havoc among the populace. Elsewhere, a pair of thieves break into a museum and remove the seal on an ancient tomb containing metallic creatures known as the Greed. A tragic incident in his past left him empty and he’s returned to Japan in his continuing mission to find a purpose in life. OOO centers on a drifter named Eiji Hino. In 2010, Dragon Knight was nominated for and won the Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Stunt Coordination".Written by Yasuko Kobayashi, Kamen Rider OOO is the twenty-first entry in Toei’s long-running Kamen Rider franchise created by Shotaro Ishinomori in 1971. While it did not see too big of a commercial success in the US, it saw huge success in Japan when it was dubbed over, even having a sequel in the form of a novel. The second was Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, an adaptation of Kamen Rider Ryuki and wad produced by Adness Entertainment. This series was produced by Saban is known to fans as the worst thing to come out of the series due to its poor plot development, acting and editing. The first being adapted from Kamen Rider Black RX simply known as Masked Rider, which premiered on September 16, 1995. In the same vein that Power Rangers was adapted from the Japanese Super Sentai series, there have been two American adaptations of Kamen Rider. The popularity of the series has been gradually growing in other countries such as the US, in part due to the popularity of Power Rangers. Although the Kamen Rider series is primarily targeted towards Japanese children, the popularity of the series has grown to older audiences, (a good portion of which have grown-up watching the series).