Being A Kamen Rider Is: You Live With Your Choices, And Maybe You Suffer For Them. Usually You Find Some

Being a Kamen Rider is: you live with your choices, and maybe you suffer for them. Usually you find some friends along the way.

It’s: you save the World, or the Worlds, at a cost, be it to yourself or to loved ones. You fight because people need you.

You die for it. You live for it. You change for it.

Being a Kamen Rider is: you believe in your heart that humanity is good. You believe with everything in you that the future is bright.

Being a Kamen Rider is about hope, and it’s about despair, and most of all, it is about undying love.

Why do you put on the belt? Why does she? Why does he? Why do they, plural and singular, because anyone can choose, and sometimes being a Rider is no solo endeavor, and does it matter?

Being a Kamen Rider is like the line between a fall and a rise, the best and the worst of the World, the Worlds.

Being a Kamen Rider is about smiles, and laughter. Protecting it and taking it back for yourself in the knowledge that you are making a difference. Bring it out in others, learn to smile again.

Learn to grow.

Being a Kamen Rider is about growing. About bringing out what’s already in one’s heart. Because there is good in there, hopefully.

Sometimes, being a Kamen Rider is staining the legacy, blending the line between monsters and heroes even further, when villains, some even with the best of intentions, use that same name.

Kamen Rider.

It’s about denying destiny. Because destiny will cast you as the villain, or the tragic hero, or perhaps both. But in turn, as always, it is about choice. Choosing for yourself, to fight, and why.

Maybe you chose whether to fight or to cower. Maybe you had no choice. Maybe you chose to change or to stay as you are.

…And again, maybe you had no choice.

There’s always that possibility.

(Maybe you chose evil, chose to become the blurred line… maybe you had no choice.)

But there’s always a choice in it, somewhere.

What will you choose?

There’s no thanks, in this. You will suffer. You will blur the line yourself, no matter what pinnacle you create or reach. And if you do?

Being a Kamen Rider means realizing power only leaves you lonely…

Loneliness is a part of it, the inevitability of otherhood, and that is the center of it, isn’t it? The Cross of Fire is yours to bear. And it will leave you lonely. It will make you resent your fate, perhaps. It will remind you of your sins.

Being a Kamen Rider is lonely… but.

But it also can bring you to friends, perhaps to family.

Being a Kamen Rider is about friendship, too. It’s about the ones who are there, when it’s too much. The ones who celebrate your greatest victories and carry you through your most crushing defeats. The ones who fight with you.

The ones who betray you. The ones who kill you and the ones you kill.

The ones you lose.

There’s always another side, isn’t there, but isn’t that the beauty?

Because for every darkness, there is another candle, holding the light.

It’s hard, it’s ugly and brutal, so cry, so rage, so scream, Kamen Rider. Feel it, because this is a part of you.

But… get up. Hold onto your heart. Pull your smile and your love and your hope back together and turn that into your passion…

And now, listen.

Kamen Rider!

Do you hear it, Kamen Rider? Do you hear them calling your name?

Being a Kamen Rider is this, this culmination of legacy. It is the cross of fire, the evil in your blood. It’s fifty lights, no more, and more every time you blink, against the flame. It is a million double sided coins.

It is you, Kamen Rider.

Kamen Rider!

…remember what was said about choice?

So I wanted to do a pfp for my art twitter but shit is dying lol

Black Jack Media Compilation List

So a while ago I made this post here asking if anyone had seen a link to and/or might know where to find the Black Jack ONA episodes online since I have been going through the anime portion of the franchise, and I had yet to find any place online to stream said episodes.

That said, thanks to the much appreciated help from @jesidres as well as @tiredmoth-cryptid (which I am forever grateful for btw; seriously thank you so, so much I can’t tell you how much finding out about this information has made this past week for me), I have indeed discovered that the ONA episodes are not only still online via torrent sites like nyaa.si and bakabt, but that you can also stream them on the site bilibili as well!

However, as nice as this is, through the help of @tiredmoth-cryptid I have also found a multilanguage media compilation list created by the twitter user @Rikiishiapple for just about every piece of Black Jack media that exists, which is as follows:

 https://black-jack.carrd.co/

Said list not only provides the links to the various anime, games, manga, etc. of Black Jack that have existed over the years, but it also has links to copies of the original Japanese versions as well as the media in other languages such as Spanish, English, and Chinese (although it also has many more aside from these languages as well).  That said, after going through the list, I have found the vast majority of the links to still be in working condition, but even if there are broken links listed, I still wanted to share this list because this franchise isn’t very well known where I live, and with help from others, the community might be able to find updated links to replace the broken ones (especially for the links to media in languages other than English)

As such, if you do indeed find said updated links, please consider contacting the original twitter user (again, @Rikiishiapple) so that they can update this compilation list as they wish!  Otherwise, thank you so much again to @jesidres and @tiredmoth-cryptid for your help in my search for the ONA episodes, and if you read this post all the way, I hope you have a wonderful day~

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PSA to New Tumblr Users

DON'T CENSOR YOUR TAGS. DON'T.

Write out 'Suicide' Write out 'Rape' Write out 'Abuse' & 'Assault' & 'Gore'

If you don't use the real words in your tags? People won't be able to filter those out and stay SAFE.

You need to tag properly to keep everyone safe.

Don't water down warnings just because social media has trained you to water them down.

This came out after a late night vc with my friends and me resuming Black Jack's plot in a very out of context way