In the first twenty minutes of the first episode, Makoto Sonoda behaves like a normal tokusatsu protagonist.

Mysterious origin!

Encounter a series of accidents!

Extraordinary abilities/equipment!

When she took out the "Faiz device" from her bag, the audience in front of the TV and computer had already decided that she was "the first female rider of Kamen Rider".

Outcome...... That's it?!

I really didn't expect it! Kamen Rider actually has the setting of "transformation failure".

Through the lines of the villain eccentric, the audience learns the reason for the failure of Makoto Marata's transformation, as if she can't control the power of the belt.

Since she can't?

So what to do now?

Just as the audience turned their scrutinizing eyes on Qianqiao, Makoru Sonoda, who had failed to transform, made an extremely bold move.

She actually picked up the belt, fastened it around her waist, and gave him the flip phone.

"What...... What do you mean?"

It was too late to catch up with the draft, and Yang Mingjin, who was eating instant noodles in the living room, saw this amazing scene and was so frightened that he sprayed "noodles" on the spot.

No!

According to the previous knightly tradition, the next story should be that Sonoda Truth's life hangs by a thread, and he finally succeeds in transforming at the moment of life and death, defeating the strange man in one fell swoop?

Why did you bring the belt to someone else?

Not only was the audience in front of the screen dumbfounded, but Qianqiao, who was forcibly buckled on his belt, was also dumbfounded.

He blankly followed Makonoda's instructions, entered the transformation code of [555] on his phone, and then closed the phone and implanted it in his belt.

“STANDING BY！”

“COMPLETE！”

A blood-red vein suddenly appeared, covering Qianqiao's entire body. The shape is similar to the style of "chain mail", and then the red light flashes, and the silver-black armor covers the whole body.

Unexpectedly, the transformation was successful!

"It turns out that he is the male protagonist......"

After being stunned for a moment, Yang Mingjin had just swallowed a mouthful of instant noodles when a question suddenly came to mind.

Judging from the transformation process of Makoto Sonoda and Qianqiao, it seems that as long as you meet the standards, whoever gets the belt can transform into Kamen Rider.

What about this belt......

Will it be robbed?

This thing is in a bag, and you can't hide the belt inside like an empty me, in case someone snatches it, what does the protagonist use to transform?

Before he could figure it out, the battle in the play was over.

With a "mediocre" kick, the ingenuity of the first transformation actually solved the weirdo. This performance also confirms a sentence:

The opponent of the knight's first battle is either weak chicken or cannon fodder!

With the clever victory, the first episode of Kamen Rider "555" also ended smoothly. The final act? To Yuji Kiba, who became a weirdo? Lifting the sword kills the rival who took away his girlfriend Chie.

This made the audience a little confused!

Who is Yuji, why did he become a horse-faced monster, why can he have so many scenes, and even more than the main character!

Just about? Neon ANB aired the second episode? Many viewers who couldn't hold back their curiosity went over the wall to see the original version on the neon side.

Nothing came of it!

In the second episode? Although Yuji comes into contact with a strange woman, the mystery on her body remains unsolved.

Is it a combination of ingenuity and Sonoda truth? What a surprise!

Qianqiao is a cat-tongued tsundere man? There is no interest in the so-called "secret" of Makoru Sonoda. And the reason why he was eyeing the truth of Sonoda and being forced to get involved in this dispute also makes people laugh and cry.

His bag is lost!

Because the satchel that Mari Sonoda was carrying the "Faiz device" was the same as his bag, he chased after him......

The story of the second episode? It's all about this package.

When Qianqiao retrieved his bag from the police station? He always wanted to shake off the truth. Because the two bags looked exactly the same, he took the wrong one!

What should I do if I get the wrong bag?

Don't panic!

I turned around and went back to find the truth, just in time to see the truth being hunted down by strange people. Anyway, I've been transformed once, and it's not bad this time.

Qianqiao transformed again, but he was deflated because he was not very skilled in equipment.

OK......

Is Makonoda a woman who has read the instructions? She quickly fitted Qianqiao with accessories and taught him to press the "Enter" key to release the Killer Knight's Kick.

“REDAY！”

“EXCEED CHARGE！”

Clever and perceptive? Although he hasn't read the instructions for the second episode, but under the direction of the truth? I still made the sound effect of [Energy Recharge].

“CRIMSON SMASH！”

Accompanied by a crisp system prompt sound, after the dry through the standard "rogue squat" after charging? Run-up jumps up with the right foot through the red cone? Eliminated the opponent in one "Ф" character.

The special effects aren't gorgeous!

Compare the dragon rider's kick? There is only one "red cone" of cunning, and it is obviously a complete failure in terms of the magnificence of special effects.

But!

The more gorgeous the special effects, the better, sometimes the simple but not simple special effects, the visual effects created are better.

At least in the minds of the audience, the knight kick that appeared for the first time in "Kamen Rider 555" is well coordinated in terms of special effects, music, action and editing.

Great look!

There's just one catch......

Compared to previous generations of Kamen Riders, Kamen Rider 555 is more similar to Kamen Rider Dragoon.

Both fall into that category......

In addition to the traditional "Henshin" shout, there is also the presence of "voice-over sound effects".

This setting was not pleasing at first.

During the Dragoon period, there have been countless discussions about whether this "narration sound effect" affects the viewing experience.

This time the 555 is even more excessive!

If Dragoon was just a "superficial taste" and did not make extensive use of "narration sound effects", then 555 completely brought the role of narration sound effects to the extreme.

Whether it's transformation, or unleashing nirvana!

As soon as the knight appears, the narration sound effect, which can be called "auditory pollution", will always appear, and the nonsense will become more and more, which seems to be particularly noisy.

This made many old viewers unhappy.

In their opinion, this is too pompous and childish!

Kamen Rider, it shouldn't be like this, the protagonist just shouts "transformation", why are you doing so many bells and whistles?

But there are also people who like narration.

They believe that the appearance of voice-over sound effects can be called the "finishing touch", and it is by no means the so-called "auditory pollution".

Don't you think, that's cool?

Whether the narration sound effect is cool or not, Yang Mingjin doesn't know. He just felt that Kamen Rider 555 was like a watershed and didn't look like Kamen Rider at all.

How do you say that......

If you ask if it's good-looking? Yang Mingjin's answer must be good-looking! But you say, is this the style that Kamen Rider should have? It doesn't seem to be!

"I've got a problem!"

Yang Mingjin sighed and put his hands on the keyboard, but he didn't know what to write to describe his feelings.

No doubt!

There are thousands of viewers at home and abroad, who have fallen into the same thinking as Yang Mingjin.

The "Kamen Rider" series has been innovating since the beginning of the empty self, and the production team has been innovating and changing. Innovations such as the empty self and Ajita can also be said to be "knightly orthodoxy".

But Dragoon and the new 555 simply subvert people's inherent impression of "Kamen Rider". Especially this 555, it doesn't look like the Kamen Rider it used to be.

Of course, the story is quite good!

Although only two episodes have been broadcast, many of the settings have not been explained clearly. But the precedent for AgitΩ is here, and Toshiki Inoue is still a trustworthy screenwriter.

Only there is a lot of controversy in the setting!

Tech Knight, or Mechanical Knight, Faiz isn't the first. But with so many transformation props and such a strong expansibility of mechanical knights, Faiz should be the first.

Dragoon riding is fine!

After all, it is a card, and it is easier for the audience to accept it.

But Faiz's transformation prop, the so-called "Faiz mobile phone", really surprised the audience.

The mobile phone becomes the first person!

Qianqiaosang, you are so sassy!

......

The premiere of "Kamen Rider 555" ended, and counting the ratings of various countries and collecting audience feedback has become the top priority of PD film and television.

Ratings aren't a big problem!

After the influence of "Kamen Rider AgitΩ", the influence of Kamen Rider's IP has been further improved. As the successor to Ajito, 555 attracted countless viewers as soon as it was launched.

The weekly ratings champion is proper!

Compared with the ratings, real-time feedback from the audience is what Meng Lang and Bai Cang are most concerned about.

"Not bad!"

During the video conference, Bai Cang reported with a smile: "Neon ANB TV has sent out a thousand questionnaires, and the results are not bad. ”

"More than 90% of viewers said they would watch Kamen Rider 555! More than 85% of viewers thought that 555 had a great rhythm and a good story......

"What about the percentage of viewers who are willing to buy peripheral derivatives?

"Yes!"

"More than 74% of the audience were interested in the Faiz device that appeared in the play, and about 51% of the audience said that they would be willing to buy a Faiz device if the price was right!"

Half of the potential consumers?

This seems to have broken the previous record, and the original dragon riding toy performed eye-catchingly, and the results of the survey were only 30%.

This survey, no children.

ANB's questionnaire is generally sent to audiences aged 16-36. Audiences under the age of 16 are not included in this survey.

Other words!

The real proportion of data is definitely better than the results of the questionnaire. After all, the audience of Kamen Rider is still dominated by "minors".

"Good! good!"

Receiving this result, Meng Lang was very happy.

In his opinion, "Kamen Rider 555", which has so much support from the audience, is already a success!

I can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

The reason why he is so attentive to "555" and even attaches more importance to "555" than to "empty self" is also very simple.

555 is about the fate of knights!

As the pioneer of the "drive" era, the leader of the "bottle and can watch" era, and the biggest turning point of Heisei Kamen Rider, 555 is not unimportant.

You can only win, not lose!

No one knows better than Meng Lang how popular the peripherals of the original Faiz are.

"Qiaoye" is the nickname of fans for the protagonist Qianqiao, and it is also the embodiment of Faiz's status in the "knight world".

It is no exaggeration to say that Faiz is also in the forefront of popularity in the entire Heisei knight sequence, and there are very few knights who can suppress him.

The plot is good, the characters are excellent, the holster is classic, the clever master is handsome, and the little brother is unmistakable......

As the pinnacle masterpiece of "Min Ghost", no matter how much you tout 555, it is not too much.

Of course, 555 is also worth blowing!

After all, among the most aesthetic demons and monsters, it is rare to have a simple and handsome science and technology knight holster like "Faiz", so you can't blow it?

Do you like to be aesthetically pleasing to Aunt Dong?

The 555 was a great success!

For Meng Lang, this news is enough for him to spend 2024 happily.

As for the problem of some people criticizing the sound effects of 555's narration as too noisy, which can be called "auditory pollution", he didn't see it!

Is this auditory pollution?

It's so young!

Look at the knights of the new ten years of Heisei, the sound effects are noisier than the other, and the narrator's voice is almost hoarse when he shouts, so it's called auditory pollution!

Not to mention......

What's wrong with hearing pollution?

RGB hardware is still light pollution, and I haven't seen you dismantle the host and give it to Meng Zai?

said "Don't want Meng Zai don't want it", but in his heart he thought about the slut who was "vigorously Meng Zai vigorously", he had already seen through it.

The narration sound effects are really noisy!

But this is a children's tokusatsu drama, and the audience that caters to is mainly children. And the children's requirements are simple, to be cool and bright!

Isn't that cool?

Not to mention children, how many men can bear it in the face of this sound [COMPLETE]?

Don't pretend, everyone understands!

What young man can withstand the impact of this thing?

Maybe only girls don't understand why this group of "toads" is as excited as they are beaten with chicken blood when they hear "COMPLETE".

Men's romance is sometimes as simple as that!

Boys who think that the narration sound effect is "auditory pollution" cannot be said to be completely absent, but the number is absolutely rare.

After all, for the vast majority of knight chefs, the most fun and interesting part of the drive is to complete a set of commotion operations when transforming, and then the sound effect sounds.

A driver without sound effects is an incomplete driver!

The same can be done!

A Kamen Rider transformation without "voice-over sound effects" is also an incomplete transformation!

Of course, this is a bit extreme.

After all, Meng Zai's identity is a toy dealer, and from the perspective of a toy dealer, this is indeed the case.

He's also counting on selling a few more Faiz drives so that he can have a "good year" this year!

"That's right, Mr. Meng!"

Just as the video conference was about to end, Bai Cang suddenly remembered something, patted his head and said, "Director Amamiya asked me to ask you, when will "Tooth Wolf" be scheduled to be broadcast?"

"Are you in such a hurry?"

Meng Lang pondered: "If it's broadcast while filming, then you can promote it now." ”

"You tell him that he can decide this kind of thing for himself, and there is no need to ask me. ”

"But Mr. Meng ......"

Bai Cang, who was on the other end of the video, couldn't help but laugh and said, "The reason why Director Amamiya came to ask for your opinion is because he doesn't know what to do!"

"TBS and ANB won people, and in order to compete for this work, they both fought on the set! Director Amamiya had no choice but to ask your opinion......

Fighting again?

Wait a minute!

Why say "again"?

Meng Lang blinked, and asked with curiosity on his face, "How is the battle going, who won?"

Bai Cang: "???"

That's not the point, President!!