You know, there was going to be a lot more waffle in the episode description here about the line between a face turn and a redemption and one of your hosts’s eternal frustration with the conflation of the two in the fannish imagination… But have y’all seen that cool robot dog? Yes, Your Humble Hosts … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 247 – Extremely Cool Puppy, Extremely Still Murder

As the Ark arc begins on Zero-One, your Humble Hosts are going hard on having a bunch of long, winding thoughts about what made these episodes work; because HOT DANG do they work. The Ark has taken humanoid form, Gai is throwing down against Metsubojinrai.net, Aruto has an idea for a new product, Yua’s having a … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 246 – How Much Can One Machine Hate?

Hey, Laser Knees is back, too!  With two full episodes, no less! So that means the return of your third- or fourth-favorite team of 2020 masked heroes*, the crew of Laser Knees! And… well, it’s kind of a mixed bag.  But to say more would be to spoil all the discussion, SO! In this episode … Continue reading Laser Knees 116 – Round and Around

The pandemic (hiatus) is over! I mean, sure, it’s just the hiatus caused by Toei shutting down production and not, like, the whole pandemic being over but at least there’s some new Kamen Rider to watch (and, thus, UnKamenCast R!X! to listen to), so… That’s not nothing, anyway. Hoo boy, got a little dark here. … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 245.75 – Dads Must and the Devil’s Driver

It’s another exciting episode of the UnKamenCast R!X! and your hosts are once more taking a look at some episodes of Kamen Rider Zero-One.  Hopefully they won’t be so bad we want to turn in our notice of resignation (spoiler: THEY ARE NOT BAD AT ALL and are, in fact, quite good!).  So, in this action-packed(?) … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 245 – Yua, Get Your Gun

Before we get going, favored independent toy retailer Kotetsu Toys is being sorely affected by (intelligent, necessary) Covid-19 countermeasures.  We know it’s a rough time for everyone right now, but if you can spare some scratch to help a member of the fandom who’s always a joy to shop with, there’s a donation page here. … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 244 – Electric Sheep

Oh, what a fun episode we have for you all this time ’round!  Philosophy, kamentary, and trying to square with the pro-wrestling logic Zero-One works on with the touches of realism it sprinkles throughout. Though, honestly, that’s basically How Your Humble Hosts Do at this point. In this action-packed(?) episode of the UnKamenCast R!X!: A sticking point … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 243 – What is a Tool?

Things are falling apart in the world of Zero-One and things out here in the real world ain’t so great, either (though we didn’t quite know that at the time of recording).  So, while the world is going mad all around us, let’s hunker down and consider the fantastical problems of fake people and hopefully … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 242 – 31 Flavors of Evil

Ah, yes, a new episode of the UnKamenCast R!X! What strange observations will be made this time?  Only one way to find out, Dear Listener.  But by way of preview, here are three things from this episode! Aleph offers a mea culpa for the previous episode Sono laments a missed opportunity for equal-opportunity humor Our Heroes … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 241 – Jin’s Wallet Chain Phase

Not only are we catching up with the end of RyuSoulger, we’re also posting some Zero-One.  How the heck about that, right?! So, in this episode of the UnKamenCast R!X!, your “humble” hosts bathe in Gai getting dunked upon, Sono appreciates how relatively adult Chiharu is being about all this, and Aleph compares Fuwa’s situation … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 240 – Let Chiharu Smooch a Robot!

Once more, it’s time for your favorite Trial of Heroes judges to bring an episode to order!  As Gai the Zaiaman’s plotty plotting advances, we meet a strange new wrinkle in the story of Zero-One and things are just getting more and more intense!  In this episode of the UnKamenCast R!X!, Aleph ponders the nature of evil … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 239 – Not a Swarm of Bugs; A Swarm of Features!

Once more, it’s time for Your Humble(ish) Hosts to break out critical debugging tools and take a look at the dense thematic material that’s present here in Kamen Rider Zero-One! In this episode of the UnKamenCast R!X!, a real estate ace causes some property damage, Aleph once more laments our choice not to be sweary sorts, and … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 238 – The Smile is On the House

In these episodes of Zero-One, Amatsu Gai Zaiaman continues his plan of corporate domination beginning with the venerable art of ikebana!  And at the same time Your Humble-Adjacent Hosts have some thoughts about how he and his chosen flower-arranger goes about it. So in this episode of The UnKamenCast R!X!: Sono wonders just how much the ZaiaSpec … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 237 – “Aren’t you tired of being nice?”

Ah, the end of an arc.  A time of transformation and transition from one story beat to another.  Who will be our main villain?  How will we know?  What is going to happen?! Your guess is as good as ours.  We don’t keep up with the preview material, but we’re quite excited to see what … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 236 – “I AM the satellite!”

Sadly, it’s not a Fourze crossover special (Oh, if only), but these episodes of Kamen Rider Zero-One go beyond our atmosphere to wonder:  What if droping a motorcycle from orbit is a really wasteful and bad idea? Really makes you think, huh? In this episode of The UnKamenCast R!X!, stuff gets intense!  Sono admits she might have misjudged … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 235 – It’s Space Time!

There are a lot of things that could be said about these episodes of Kamen Rider Zero-One, and we will do our best to say many of them, but mostly it’s worth mentioning that the Assassin Complete suit is just the coolest thing in a show which has had a fair few really cool things in … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 234 – Assassin Ascendant

In this episode of the UnKamenCast R!X! we continue our Zero-One coverage with a surprisingly startstruck couple episodes.  In this episode: Oowada Shinya appears as himself, Sono digs into the AIMS team, and Aleph wonders if we got a setup to a punchline later on. |Right-click “Save As” to download|Episode Length 1:25:05| Kamen Rider Zero-One Episode 09 … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 233 – “Hey, Zaia? Don’t Build a Gundam.”

Sometimes things get away from us so updates go a little slower, but we’ve got a bunch of them coming so STRAP IN for another #contentsplosion from us at the ToH! network! Right now, we’re having some thoughts at some episodes of Kamen Rider Zero-One and in this episode of the UnKamenCast, everyone appreciates Kobe’s hustle, … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX! 232 – GTK (Great Teacher Kobe)

It’s time once again for an episode of the UnKamenCast R!X! where your humble hosts take a look at this year’s Kamen Rider, Zero-One!  In this episode, Sono continues to appreciate the HumaGear actors’ abilities, Aleph gets nostalgic for Kamen Rider OOO, and in the show, a man finds incredibly maladaptive ways of dealing with the loss of … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 231 – Robot Lucy Liu

Once more, your Humble Hosts return to have some more thoughts at Kamen Rider Zero-One, which is turning out to be one of the most thought-provoking Rider series in recent years. In this episode, we meet the Great Character Find of 2019 in Anna the Tour Guide, Valkyrie finally armors up, Aleph is moved by human-scale … Continue reading UnKamenCast RX 230 – Truth and Kamen Sequences