Rivaclaw 🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

the English translation that circulates on the Internet is pretty bad. this is mine and I'm not trying to be political, I'm letting it sound awkward to stay as close to the meaning as I can, the song is just that way.

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WAKE UP!

Clad in an aura of light
O do become someone who fights
If you stay afraid of getting hurt
Then Earth will fall into evil hands.

WAKE UP THE hero
Burst into flames!
The battle of light and dark has no end.
WAKE UP THE hero
O Sun!
please add courage to love!

Kamen Rider—a black body
Kamen Rider—scarlet eyes
Kamen Rider Black—RX

You see, there are times when
Rather than kindness, we need violence.
O make of your rage a lightning bolt
And release it flashing into the cosmos.

WAKE UP THE hero
Deep in your chest, see,
Lies another you, unknown to yourself.
WAKE UP THE hero
Open your eyes
When things get real, who else can help?

Kamen Rider—flashing lightning
Kamen Rider—warrior of love
Kamen Rider Black—RX

WAKE UP THE hero
Burst into flames…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5N3JoIh9Jk

this is my periodic reminder that Kamen Rider Black Sun (2022) is about Japanese Greta Thunberg finding out that if you start a revolutionary worker's party you just get coopted, and the true way is to run a violent guerilla insurrection. this is portrayed as a good thing.

and yes it's still a show about edgy cockroach superheroes fighting bug anthros. only the anthros are a very blatant metaphor for immigrants and the real villain is the President. by the end of the show it's not a metaphor anymore, they spell it out. also it's a pro-political assassination show. published *after* Abe was killed in the funniest possible way.

I have no idea how this thing is allowed to exist, and with my childhood cockroach hero to boot. they even made the main character a girl, specifically for me

topical kamen rider antifa criminal