The controversial Kamen Rider Hibiki will be the next Kamen Rider series to make the leap to high definition!
Released in 2005, Hibiki quickly became famous for sidestepping some of the more “traditional” Kamen Rider elements AND a sudden crew change roughly halfway through the series resulting in a somewhat drastic tonal shift.
Kamen Rider Hibiki will be released in three separate box sets-
*Set 1 will be released on January 9 2019 and contain the first fourteen episodes.
*Set 2 is scheduled for release on March 6 2019 and contain episodes 15-29.
*Set 3 rounds out the series with episodes 30-48 & will be available on May 8 2019.
In addition the various volumes will contain interviews and retrospectives from a number of Hibiki cast members.
Each Blu-Ray set of Kamen Rider Hibiki will cost a steep 17800 Yen before shipping and handling.
Three sets, coming January-May 2019.
https://www.toei-video.co.jp/special/hibiki/
If it had subs I'd be more willing to swallow that price tag. I just want official subbed sets pf Hibiki and Ryuki
Huh. Hibiki's been getting a lot of love lately. All of the main Riders are getting S.S. releases within the past few months, now this.
*Set 2 is scheduled for release on March 6 2019 and contain episodes 15-29.
Hibiki was one of those series that once you take a step back out of traditional elements, it really shines as art itself.
Was one of the earliest that bucked the trends too that set the way for so many to follow. Without Hibiki there's a lot we wouldn't have gotten later. It truly is the "Art house" kamen rider, and made so many great series possible later.
Was one of the earliest that bucked the trends too that set the way for so many to follow. Without Hibiki there's a lot we wouldn't have gotten later. It truly is the "Art house" kamen rider, and made so many great series possible later.
For Kuuga, they wanted to come out of the gate with a straight up "not the Kamen Rider you remember" kind of debut, and this was before the full advent of digital effects to that kind of degree. Practical was preferred back then.
And tbh, his push on Kuuga is what got him Hibiki. An auteur is exactly what was needed early on with how it was planned and the push on sound to set the initial tone and perspective. And how he framed it around Asumu's choice was brilliant.
He gets a lot of blame for those two things, but he really wasn't doing anything more than he was asked to do. And because of both those things pushing boundaries, more became possible later in the franchise as a whole, and people became more accepting of wider ideas.
Honestly, without those things, we wouldn't have gotten Den-O, Kiva, Decade, Gaim, Ex-Aid, Ghost, Build, and more. Even chunks of Agito would have been different, and how that impacted Drive. Probably many more too. So hiring him back then was the right choice.
And to really set the tone of the modern Heisei, that Kuuga church henshin is still freaking iconic and glorious.
If you ever notice, the fan "hate" areas that condemn don't ever seem to line up to Toei. So internally, they know more about those things than fans that talk about them. Same as how Toei has faith in the current Zi-O writer, otherwise they wouldn't have given him as big of a task as Zi-O. So they don't hold Nin against him even though fans do. Because Toei knows that was out of his hands and he did the best to what he was asked. The same applies here. They hire based on what they know, not what fans think they know. Internally, Toei knows more about the ins and outs of different things than what's publicly known.
Hibiki may have been trashed by fans back then, but now, once how "new" it was has finally settled, it's seen for how groundbreaking it really was. That's one of the bigger issues to dealing with fandoms. "New" tends to be all they say they want, but give them new and different, and they complain until years later when they can finally open up to looking at it with open minds. Same tends to be true for any franchise. The more it diverges, the more it's lambasted, until later when it's looked at fondly. Rinse and repeat. We see it pretty regularly with all franchises. Whether it's Spider-man, superman, or Transformers, and anything else.
Fans say they want new, but what they really want is the same thing over and over again(which is actually creatively stifling). Give them actual new, and they complain. But once that "new" has been done, later boundaries are open to be pushed even farther. Sadly it's part of what fandoms are in their views and acceptance tolerance. Besides, we kind of needed that Kuuga bookmark and the bent corner it left in the page for other reasons.
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