Kamen Rider Spirits Chapter 9 - F*** Yeah Amazon Time!

[darkblade]

It's time to talk about my favourite of the Showa era Kamen Riders. Kamen Rider Amazon, the oddly named Tarzan/Mogli jungle boy turned magical lizard monster who made silly cute noises as he ripped apart monsters in a gory fashion with his teeth and claws. Yeah this shit be crazy awesome.



We open with some kid locked in a dark room with a computer. Totally what I think of when I think of Amazon. Okay he is researching a mysterious mountain top that strange not quite humanoid bodies have fallen from but no one has been able to climb to investigate before.




That works out about as well for those guards as you'd think it would.



The kid is kind of a prick, but forget him. Amazon time!

So the kid gets attacked by the fire breathing Crocodile Dundee (hence forth Dragon Dundee) and his two bugmen minions but Amazon won't take none of that shit.



He throws the kid out the window. Damnit Amazon, we already had dickery (possibly sentimentality but I prefer dickery) from X. You need to be better or Stronger isn't going to pass as the Troll Kamen Rider when his turn comes.



That's better and a very nice two page spread at that.

The Bugmen stop pursuit for some mysterious reason and Dragon Dundee retreats.

All is not well though since the several story fall was too much even for the magical lizard powers of Amazon.



We meet some bad guys who won't be important until we get into ZX's story but they explain that the boy might be a “Chosen One” and Amazon along with the other Kamen Riders are 'miscreations'. Basically the same evil transhumanist crap all Kamen Rider villains (and a third of X-Men villains too) spout. There is a little more to it than that but we'll get more information on them later and I don't want to leave out any Amazon being awesome so you'll just have to wait.

So...Amazon riding a motorcycle up the side of an unclimbable mountain.




Damnit kid, you're ruining my Amazon buzz.



No time for that Friendship is Magic crap though. Dragon Dundee is back.



Dragon takes Victor up the top of the Mountain



And the bad guys have pet dinosaurs.

Comments

[akodo_rokku]

Amazon *is* pretty high on the "wtf awesome" scale.

[icon_uk]

Kid, if the guy who just saved your life from fire breathing monsters and bad guys, and leapt from a multi storey building to do so, injuring himself in the process says he wants some water with his painkiller, YOU GET HIM SOME BLOODY WATER FOR HIS BLOODY PAINKILLER.

Personally I thought he meant he needed to bathe in water or something to restore himself, given his lizard-y look.

[silverzeo]

There is no denying that Amazon has the best battle cry, AAA-MA-ZON!

... why does a kid need to carry painkillers?

[skjam]

His freakish intelligence comes with migraines?

[silverzeo]

And to relive himself with them, he takes painkillers, made to inhibit the body and mind? That's like taking a beer to relief a headache!

[skjam]

Given a migraine can knock you flat on your back for hours, unable to think at all beyond "my head hurts!"? Some mild inhibiting of mind and body might be acceptable to Victor.

[silverzeo]

But didn't that stuff knock Amazon, a full grown adult with superpowers, right out?

[darkblade]

Amazon lives in a jungle and has a low end healing factor, these combined factors give him little tolerance for modern pharmaceuticals

[darkblade]

I had to leave that part out but part of his chosen one-ness comes with surges of immense pain that cause him to pass out at least once a day.

No it doesn't make any medical sense but whatever.

[silverzeo]

Well... tv/comic (that includes anime/manga) medical logic doesn't always have real world consequences, take a look how much pain Bruce goes through to the build up of RIP... HECK, there is a website that points out those kinds of errors...

[full_metal_ox]

HECK, there is a website that points out those kinds of errors...

Polite Dissent, a blog written by a physician and comics fan, at your service.

[eaglet_auditore]

That's so cool! *insta-saves for later*

[eaglet_auditore]

It's been a while since I last read this kind of manga. (Or any manga at all, for that matter.)
Love this artstyle!

[mas]

I love Amazon so much.