Kamen Rider Henshins Ranked from Worst to Best!
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
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Kamen Rider Henshins are some of the coolest parts of an episode! They're all so different and unique and there's so many awesome parts about them in my opinion. Because of that, to celebrate 10,000 subscribers, I'm going to be ranking the 20 Heisei Kamen Rider henshins from worst to best, in my opinion! Be sure to put your own lists and opinions down in the comments!
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Decade is the reason that I randomly start wiping my hands together. ONORE DIKEIDOOOOOOOOOOO!
Same😆
Me too
😅🤣🤣🤣🤣
@simple M lol
This man can even be found in tokusatsu videos. Mad lad world we live in.
What i really love about Decade's Henshin is the fact that his Decade holograms not only are referencing the different Rider Powers, but that they are also referencing the rider worlds positioned in a circle coming together for the destruction (Decade was the reason why the rider World melted together and obliterated themselves).
Ooooh never thought about that!
The "massive incoherent mess" from W's henshin looks more like datas (in a way fitting since we know what Gaia Memories resemble) manifesting into the Two-in-one Detective in my opinion. It's especially more obvious when looking at Xtreme CycloneJoker W where you could cleary make out some digits flowing around W during the first Xtreme Henshin
Lol, I just commented this then found your comment. On point!
the fact that Kabuto, who came literal YEARS before the top 2 of this top 20, is #3 just goes to show that no matter how much special effects KR Henshins have in the near future, Kabuto Riders shedding their "skins" will ALWAYS be badass and unique
*Engine sounds
*Get my credit card out and place it near my face
Me: “Henshin!”
Cashier: “Wha- “
*throws credit card at the card reader
*slaps sides of the reader with both hands
Me: “KAMEN RIDE: DEDEDEDECADE!”
* SHOUTS OUT DECADE’S THEME
*DEEHNEHNEH DEDEEH DEEHNEHNEH DEHDEHNEHDEH*
Cashier: “WTF”
Random homeless dude outside: “CURSE YOU DECADE! JUST WHAT ARE YOU?!”
Me: “I’m just a kamen rider passing by.”
Dude...
Remember that!
torisuganimo kamen rider da, omoi to ke! HENSHIN!
kamen ride
DECADE!!!
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That's so over-the-top but I'd LOVE to see that lmao
Confusion
You forget that Hibiki transformation effect have an Oni faces appear on the user forehead
Oh yeah that looked so cool and scary because they are onis and i thought the riders would be taken over by the onis before gaining control
I love the way that in Zi-O's henshin you can see that each time the watch straps of the henshin go around the riders more of the armor's sillhouete appears until the armor itself forms.
Right? It’s so cool 😊
@@thomasjujube Me flashbacking to Ryuki’s adaptation: Aaaaaaaah
A note on Wizards magic circles, he actually points in the direction in which the magic circle appears. In the cases where he doesn't then its summoned by a motion of sorts, like Hurricane above him because he jumped or Land below because he lowered his arms in a defensive pose.
Oh, interesting
After watching Agito I like the scenes in the first couple of episodes where he transforms very slowly at night time with only the light from his belt illuminating the fighting. Those were cool as hell. It's kind of selling OOO short also to not mention how much swag the voice announcing his henshin has.
It's weird that for Agito he said that it's just a flash of light and then he transforms, when it was the first Heisei henshin with any form of interacting with the belt, even if it's very rudimentary (he poses around slowly and deliberately, says henshin, and then presses the buttons on the side of his belt). It really sells Agito short, when there's so many worse henshin sequences in heisei, like Build which is just such a long and awkward mess to watch.
And yeah, also agree with OOO, you can't just not mention the announcer for his henshin. It also ranks really high up for me personally because of how smooth the motions are for interacting with the belt. OOO doesn't pose unnecessarily (like Build lol), all the poses come from the way he interacts with the belt for the henshin. He straps the belt on, inserts the coins into the belt, he grabs the scanner with the right hand while tilting the belt diagonally with the left, then he scans the coins, and as a followthrough he momentarily holds the scanner in front of his chest. The motions flow into each other so fluidly and naturally results in a couple of poses that stick out as a henshin pose, it's so good that I find it criminal how the video boils the OOO henshin down to being a mess just because of the effects with the coins spinning around him.
@@youmgsandwiche to add on, I feel that he underrated Blade’s transformation process.
Not only does the attaching of the belt fit the card-theme of the season, but it is also aesthetically pleasing to look at, seeing all the cards attach to become a belt.
It’s something extremely unique, and offers an exquisiteness uncommon to newer Heisei riders (except Ex-Aid);
I grew up with the Showa Kamen Riders and my all time favorite has to be Black RX. I'm a sucker for the low tech firework effects and the move he does as he shouts "henshin" is just so badass. lol
I bet that if Hasbro does has the idea to adapt Kamen Rider, it'll be Ex-Aid. Two Reasons.
1.) Stock Footage Transformations
2.) What kind of kid doesn't like Video Games?
I think they should just dub it, they made an English dub of Kabuto for the Philippines for Cartoon Network, but it never found it's way to the US... legally
I'd still prefer dub or sub as the original versions tend to be better than the American adaptations, besides the US has failed at adapting Kamen Rider twice
@@kamenraider1175 damn dude same. I remembered watching kabuto in CN long time ago. Also remember hero TV? They also have tagalog dub version of blade and faiz iirc
And now I am imagining them making a Ex-Aid crossover with MLP somehow due to Hasbro.
Its going to get crazy.
@@kamenraider1175 Thought Kamen Rider Dragon Knight did good?
I do know Saban did Kamen Rider Black RX(as Masked Rider) and botched it up.
You HAVE to do this again for Reiwa anniversary (if you're still around)
I think the best thing about Ohma Zi-o's henshin, was that the entire sequence lets you know, schwartz and his goon squad are about to get a grade a curb stomping, and they can't do shit about it.
Bro I remember when you still had like 4k subs. You've grown so much
Haha you’ve been here awhile! Thanks for sticking around!
Dude this was only when u had 10k u will probably get 50-100k in a few months
I'm just a passing-through CZcams comment
*Remember that*
no i will not remember that
@@breadnon *ANGRY DESTROYED OF WORLD NOISE*
Heheh
You're comment made my day.
Amazon's henshin is interesting because of the heat leaving their bodies to become a cold blooded beast and they take the heat from their surroundings when they de-henshin.
for me, zero one and faiz have the best henshins, everytime i hear ''PROGRISE'' or ''Standing by.......Complete'' maaan i get really hyped
And then Zero One came along and now it’s my favorite transformation sequence. I could gush about all of Zero One’s transformations for *hours!*
For me, Kabuto is still the best transformation.
Very simple & modern design looks.
The device it representing each symbol of insects.
The core through a principle & motive, if you've failed to hold that oath.
The insects will abandon you entirely for another worthy user.
The Ultimate Kuuga Henshin will forever be the best transformation for me in Kamen rider history
I'm onto Drive, but I gotta agree with you with Zi-O especially Ohma Zi-O henshin, he's just simply powerful describing into design too.
Kamen Rider Kabuto is the best of the best, the characters and storyline are perfect. Tendo is completely op, he masters cooking, combating, almost any kind of sports, piano and knows four kinds of language. Not to mention that he has genius level intellect and peak human condition, even can dodge bullets. Kabuto hyper form can hyper clock up which is faster than speed of light due to its time travel properties and his combatant skills is unrivalled. He is the BEST Kamen Rider ever!!!!!
He could have the most powerful Heisei Rider if Decade didn’t exist
I find it Ironic that Kabuto and Ex-Aid are near each other considering both start at Bulky Forms and then their sleeker armor comes out by removing the bulky armor and their belts even have an opening and close mechanism.
I didn’t really think about that what a coincidence lol
Den-O was my first Rider series, so it’ll always rank high on my list because you never forget your first. Loved the train track motif with it too.
I always thought with W that the junk that flew around was because they were in Futo, the Windy City, so it was stuff blowing in the wind or something.
While I agree that most of Kuuga CGI henshin dated pretty badly, his final form Ultimate Kuuga henshin definitely out performed the rest for me. Even now Ultimate Kuuga is my no 1 favorite form. Mainly because i think it made him look like he’s the villain in the series.
I love the mechanical/chemistry aspect of Kamen Rider Build.
While I understand the transformation sequence of Genius, I still hate its design and the form underperforms in using Fullbottle powers.
You sound so passionate and excited with this video. I'm excited to check out more of your content.
Thank you so much!!
You're forgetting the 2 most important aspects of Kamen Rider henshins: Hand-waving and belt interaction.
Showa riders have the caveat of having very little belt interaction so their hand-waving becomes their only defining aspect of the henshin.
It wasn't until Kuuga where the rider interacts with the belt to initiate the henshin. Problem is, this makes hand-waving of any kind just weird and unnecessary. Drive's shift car and Ex-Aid's gashat flipping nonsense are especially bad. Hand-waving for the sake of hand-waving.
The best henshins are the ones that balance hand-waving with belt interaction.
Top 3
3. Faiz
2. Geiz
1. Blade
Wait why geiz? 🤔
@@akiMKH The way Geiz swings his arms in a circle makes sense to get his hands in position to spin the Ziku Driver. Also very reminiscent of Skyrider's and Super-1's henshins which had martial arts influences.
@@MansMan42069 Oh! I see! Thanks for explaining. 😁
Then what about zi o? One arm looks like it's pointing towards 12 and the other is at 9
@@akiMKH It's nice but kinda underwhelming since he only uses one hand to spin the ziku driver. Also he just kinda lazily puts his arms in that pose.
Please never quit CZcams. i really like your channel
I agree with most of your rankings.
But for me, Blade should be a bit higher.
Also Ex-Aid and Zi-O should be lower.
Ex-Aid's transformations are cool but the spinning select screen was not explored too much. Like, what if, they can select various armors from there? Or what would happen if they selected the wrong item?
Zi-O's transformations are also cool, especially with the spinning of the belt, but there's nothing really special in them IMO.
Kuuga's "piece-by-piece" transformation would actually make it higher if he does it all the time.
With W's, I think the "CG trash nonsense" that converges into him to form the armor are data, since one of the themes of the series is "information" from Gaia Library, and those data are stored in the gaia memories. Also the way they converge into him is based on wind, since it's also once of the series' themes.
For me, I think Build, Kabuto, and Gaim's transformations are the best. I don't care which comes first. Those three are the absolute best.
Grand Zi-O's is my favorite out of all. They made a song with the names of all the past riders and made it awesome!
Zi-o no.1? 🙂Pfft! That's cute..😏 (insert anime smug face)
You know what could've made Zi-o's henshin a lot better?
The hand clock of Zi-o spins much like the the show's title after the eyes slapped on the helmet😏
Now that would be a lot cooler...
This is just a joke....so don't take it seriously
Akira oK
I can’t believe your at 10,000 Subscribers congrats, I remember when you first hit 3k and that special came out.
Thanks! You’ve been here awhile hehe thanks for sticking around
My list is as follows for the main riders:
20. Ex-Aid
19. Build
18. Den-O
17. Ghost
16. Hibiki
15. Ryuki (Dragon Knight)
14. Double
13. OOO
12. Wizard
11. Fourze
10. Gaim
9. Decade (and Neo Decade)
8. Kuuga
7. Faiz
6. Blade
5. Agito
4. Kabuto
3. Kiva
2. Drive
1. Zi-O
Did you just put build on 19?
@@larrytherustyboii7442 I enjoyed Build's henshin and all but not that much to move it any higher
Ending the video off with the Beyondriver's standby music?
I like you.
😁
The coolest thing about Zi-O in my opinion are the eyes, each seperated part of the symbol combine to the shape of the eye, and it is sick! Also, isn't it pronounced ZEE OH and not GEE OH
I agree! Also, there is no “zee” sound in Japanese so the “Zi” spelling is supposed to be pronounced “Ji.” You can pronounce it how you like but Ji-o isn’t wrong
@@thomasjujube XP EARNED, had no idea
No worries!
I also love how Zi-o rider armor mimic Old rider pose
- Uchu kita pose
- Build pose
- Faiz armor do the hand waving of takumi
- Ex-aid pose
So sad that they dont make complete 20 armor on screen :(
@@haitang6062 Me, causally making all the Rider Armors appear: Laughter
"Kabuto's henshin's really take that to the NEXT LEVEL."
I'll let you decide on its intentionality.
Congrats on the subscribers dude! Also i kinda agree with your list. I thought your gonna put Ex-Aid as your #1 but im surprised its our clock king boi Zio would be your number one.
Thank you!
I have not watched all of the seasons yet, but from this video I would say number 7 is the best. Seems like it has the most unique cool transformations for everyone.
Although my favorite is still Kabuto's henshins. Its the only one where they have the armored version that is made with focus in defense, but then they can Cast Off and get the real powered form focused in speed! Its like releasing their limiters, which I always love to see!
15:20,stock footage transformations?
Kiva's Rising Ixa and Ghost's Deep Specter wants to talk with you on that.
Been here since 1k subs you have really grown a lot!!
Aww thanks for sticking around for so long!
The colorful eye pieces for the KR Geo's actually say "Rider" in Japanese katakana lettering! I enjoyed your video cos I was a Showa KR fan and didn't know much about the Heisei riders. I noticed some of them do their henshin without the standard belt or kata to activate the transformation. Do they still all ride motorcycles or fancy vehicles?
i prefer the henshin sequence quicker and less gimmick but still looks cool
such as : Fourze, Drive, Decade
Having Kabuto #3 was well deserved. Great video!
Thank you!
Both Shin Kamen Riders have amazing transfomations, they are so different (one organic and slow and one mechanical and fast paced ) yet both equally amazing
Congrats on 10K subscribers!
Thank you!
I’m surprised I actually agree with most of your choices! (accept zi-o's henshin) Thanks for this great video
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
I love all the riders henshins sequences .
the W one makes sense because it to merepresents data. it feels like the physical representation of bits coming from the flashdrives
The Kiva, Faiz, Ex-aid and the Den-o henshin are all my favorites because they all gave me goosebumps and it's a classic.
Do you hear that? It's the sound of bike throttles when Agito transforms
I have recently just finished KR Zi-O and what really caught my attention the most is Grand Zi-O. It is just amazing. It got every single heisei riders at the background and that is so awesome. Which more awesome is when he is about to turn the clock, there is every single the riders' henshin sound which is really nostalgic..." ADOVENTO, COMPLEEETE, TARN TUP..." MANN, and when he goes henshin, there is a freaking song about riders' name and I was like "Holi shet, those names can be used to make a song?!"
Can't forget the best part about the ex aid henshin
"Let's Game! Metcha Game! Mutcha Game! What's your name?! I'm a Kamen Rider!"
I love Zi-os clock bell before his henshin, you know you are screwed when you hear it.
When you said "try to break through their seal" my dude blade in zi-o literally said he sealed his power
Whoever thought that the mirror dimension making another Zio for Zio II and that Decade's ridewatch is the power up item is a genius
“You never see stock footage in kamen rider”
Bruh do you know Ixa final form is ONLY STOCK FOOTAGE EVERY 👏🏻 SINGLE 👏🏻 TIME 👏🏻
Kuuga is timeless
Honestly, this list pretty much mirrors my own. Zi-O might have disappointed me in the end, but the actual henshins were top notch. ESPECIALLY Grand and Oma.
Agreed!
I just like the use of the phone in KR555 but yeah the Tronline effects in the Henshin is cool.
My interest in kamen rider mostly from their storyline not to forget their henshin sequences, costume theme, creativity & precision of their job, in my opinion, kamen rider blade, 555, W, fourze & kabuto really meet all of my requirements😊, simply stunning costume design, match with user, without ridiculous useless part & messy attachments on their body🤣
I feel like Ex-Aid also nails the transition between Cg and actual shot for the transformations
Agreed
Then you have Woz-
I love his henshin-
And his standby theme,
I have it as my alarm
Ohma Zio is number one for me. The entire show is a mess, but 10 second of his henshin is damn worth it.
I know right. That henshin is truly a fit for a king
I like the pun you make in Kabuto's clip ~Next Level~
It was unintentional lol ;)
In all honesty my number one is Zero one i always loved the robotic insects just melting into code to form the suit and the transformations to the alternate forms are amazing
Drive IS pretty dope.
I just wish Type Trideron had used ALLof its tire mixes.
All we saw was 123, People Saver and the pit crew.
Decade at number 10 is the most decade thing ever.
I am very new to Kamen Rider. Where do you guys watch Kamen Rider from? I’m very interested
3:07 I have no idea why the metallic effect is there
Good list the zi-o henshin is cool af also wizards henshin is cool and simple but i gotta say i like beasts henshin in that same season more just cus of how theatric it is
It's kinda unfair for Ryuki when you showed the footages of cheaper henshin effect in Rider Time than the actual show that suit actors' crop of effect were matching actors' poses.
I just want to praise people behind W and kabuto henshin effect! Those are the hardest to pull,
Compare to what we got now a days are just some CG noise
I'm gonna be honest, I'd love to find out where I can watch the Heisei Kamen Rider stuff, because I got introduced to Wizard a while back, never got to finish the series and just absolutely loved what I had seen.
Google is your friend for that
I really like the Henshin of Kamen rider wizard all forms and kamen rider zio Henshin, from first forms until the Trinity Form, ohma zio and lastly the grand zio form
i love the little jingles in ex-aid though.... dreaming girl! koi no simulation! otome wa itsumo tokimeki crisis!!
It's 2022, I stumbled on this video again. You reminded me how I always had goosebumps when I watch the Ohma ZI-O henshin. Zero-two Henshin was good, The Xross Saber was kinda meh for me just disappointing in my pov and the Ultimate Revi and Vice decent enough to give me a slight of "Woah". But All of the Henshin I've watched nothing gives me goosebumps other than Ohma Zi-O
I prefer the simple, no-nonsense henshins of the early Showa era. :)
The stock footage henshins from Ex-Aid are game cutscenes.
Personally I still loved watching Shinobi's henshin
I think I have a stupid reason to like my favorite Kamen Rider, that being Faiz's wrist flick.
why does zero-one still feel like rider from heisei phase 2 despite being first reiwa rider?
-his belt still has voice
-he still has many form
-he still use collectible device to henshin
i wish reiwa rider was different to heisei rider
well... money. DX is not expensive, so people would buy the gimmick everytime they have new Rider or form.
if it aint broke dont fix it
hes more like a combination of showa and heisei in design
Bandai: MONEY.
Basically the Nichi Asa Time Block (Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Pretty Cure) is one big Bandai toy commercial.
while your observations are all valid, they brought the simplicity in suit design back to its roots. so in all honesty I find zero-one somewhat a combination of early heisei phase 1 with mid-end heisei phase 2, which is something I never knew I needed and would love
My list:
1 OOO
2 Agito
3 Fourze
4 Drive
5 Kuuga
6 Zi-O
7 W
8 Den-O
9 Wizard
10 Decade
11 Gaim
12 Kabuto
13 Faiz
14 Ex-Aid
15 Hibiki
16 Build
17 Kiva
18 Ghost
19 Blade
20 Ryuki
000 was my 1st rider series. If had to made my dream rider suit, I'd would combine the ascetics of Kabuto and Faiz.
Thomasjujube: number 1 Zio
Nobody:IWAE
Can you make a video of ranking your least to favorite rider kicks
Decade's sound effect is still the best one to this day, doesn't matter what they do with the new ones
Fourze Henshin: Beam Me Up Scotty
For Doubles henshin I am pretty sure it is actually data that creates the suit
Apparently the Fourze Driver also functions as a transportation device. It has never been stated anywhere on how exactly that is the case, but it has been implied to be a personal teleport (as opposed to basically just using the Rocket Module) twice. First with how the initial intention was it was supposed to allow the wearer to go meet an alien race. Second when Gentarou pulls out his Driver when asked how he planned to get away from possibly being trapped and dying when discussing a plan in a Rider movie. Anyone know of a source that can confirm this?
Will you ever make a Ranking for All Heisei Rider series?
Once I actually see all the Heisei Rider seasons
My favorite henshin sequences:
Heisei: Kuuga, Agito, Kaixa, Kabuto, and Double.
Showa: Ichigo, Nigo, V3, Black, and Black RX (Black and Black RX are my all time favorite cause I grew up watching them).
Some henshins may be the same as the primary's like ryuki henshin with his other riders and ex-aid his riders but some henshins are different with his other riders so you probably could rank every henshin
My favorite single rider henshin is Dangerous Zombie. He is so menacing when he first transformed. Kronos is a close 2nd with the clock aesthetic
It’s worrying to me how many people have said wizard is hard to watch as it’s where I plan to start, the suits and transformation sequence are really cool imo and I love the simplicity of the belt and rings
Just watch it, maybe you’ll like it!
I don't know why, but it's pretty rare for me to see some (god speed) love for Kabuto online over other Rider shows after the Den-O season, so it's pretty great to see my personal favorite ranking pretty high all these years later
Fourze henshin reminds me of 2001: a space odyssey. There was a space ship based on a wheel. Maybe that was the inspiration.
Exaid's takes too long
Hold on, but what about the new ryuki henshins in the Revice and Geats crossover?
I like where you mentioned the stock footage usage in ex-aid! but didn't ghost also kinda use stock footage as well?
Yeah it does but tbh I completely forgot about them and if I did they’re not cool enough to me to move it
thomasjujube I can respect that.
thomasjujube fair enough. Awesome vid tho. 👍