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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Opening
Thought I’d try my hand at writing my own English lyrics to one of my favorite Kamen Rider openings. Let me know what you think.
If you wish to do a cover using them, go ahead. Just be sure to credit me (lyrics by houserproblem).
Original Lyrics
My Lyrics:
EXCITE
(I gotta believe...) I don't wanna know, real life is too demanding I don't wanna know, I’m better off not understanding Why? Why? Why? Why? Now I know that I’ve come too far Can’t stop this sick and eerie feeling something is coming The new beginning Future’s uncertain, things are getting bleaker, but I know I gotta believe! (Turn it on!)
I’m so... EXCITE! EXCITE! My heart’s dancing EXCITE! EXCITE! Take a chance and Ride with me where no one’s been to, We’ll clear this game using no continues (Hey!) I'm on a mission right now (Hey!) I'm on a mission right now EXCITE! EXCITE! What’s the answer EXCITE! EXCITE! Here’s my answer (1) I hold within my hands (2) This single precious life (3) That I have sworn to live
...would you still love him if he was a worm
Hyakki yakō wo buttagiru!
Jigoku no Banken!
DekaMasta!
I’ll protect you as long as we’re together
gonna dump all my art here of this show don’t mind me
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?
South Korean print ad for Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967).
Behind the scenes of Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967).
Korean poster artwork for Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967).
Korean print advertisement for Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967).
Title cards from Yongary, Monster from the Deep: from what’s left of the original Korean version, and two AIP TV versions from the US.
Behind the scenes of Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967).
Behind the scenes of The Mighty Peking Man (1977).
ok so for those of you who don’t know, there’s this twitter account of a japanese local hero mascot named dentman who went viral recently due to this tweet
but yeah he saw the tweet. and his response went viral as well (which is how i found his account)
and he just has like. hourly posts reminding you to brush your teeth
oh and his rival? his name is mr. mutans. whenever dentman posts he makes a post of his own, ofc
but THAT’S NOT ALL. literally while making this post i found a THIRD ACCOUNT that’s all about taking your meds
safe to say i’m losing my mind
anyway the point of all this was that people are ALREADY beginning to draw them ship art 😭
and the reactions are everything
I CANT ADD ANY MORE IMAGES BUT TRUST ME THIS IS SO FUNNY
toxic one-sided dentman yaoi wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card but it DEFINITELY IS NOW!
Did you know in the original run of Sakura Wars musicals (one of the first big successful anime/game to theatre series there was actually), they had the voice actors actually perform as their characters, and since Michie Tomizawa was an actual JAC stuntwoman, she actually did the action scenes too:
I knew the voice actors performed in the musicals but I didn't know ms tomizawa was a stuntwoman and did action scenes! that's amazing I love this so much
Check out my new blog: Triple Thoughts
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