#Bishium

[paperconsumption]

bishium really was the only one who gave a fuck about their mutants, literally the second she dies baraom and darom cause a mutant to rebel by openly discussing how little they care about his home being destroyed. whenever she mourned a mutant death going noo my beloved mutanttttt they must’ve shared a Look. so glad you care about these little freaks bishium but that won’t be me

[i-tadanobu-satou]

Kamen Rider Black vs Bishium

[floater0352]

The opportunity to binge #KamenRiderBlackSun came to me the past weekend and I finished it today.

The series is an unapologetic attack and commentary on contemporary Japanese societal issues, the undercurrents of #unseenjapan that #cooljapan probably tried to paper over throughout the Olympics and decades of LDP rule, and it just grew keener with the assassination of Shinzo Abe and the near-interminable desire to demand change in a society unable to accept it. It is an attempt at portraying, through fiction, that Japan is more multicultural than it tends to see itself, it is harming its soul by denying that, and it deserves better by listening to its youth, and it better do so before they swallow them and their most vulnerable.

Perhaps it is inevitable that this will be another battleground in the role of political commentary/applicability especially when it is appearing in long-running franchises. This is currently the biggest dilemma of franchises like the ones owned by Disney (Marvel and Star Wars), not to mention fantasy (the recent tussles between House of the Dragon and The Rings of Powder for ex.). The fact that *Kamen Rider Black Sun* is in Amazon Prime further highlights this. And yet if Japanese fiction can begin coming to terms with contemporary issues through the medium of its classical heroes (the way *Shin Godzilla* and *Shin Ultraman* already did, not to mention *Shin Kamen Rider* will do soon again), why not this way?

It is a testament that *Black Sun*, based off *BLACK*, probably the most successfully exported Kamen Rider before the Heisei period, is the best way to do this unbridled revisioning. (I personally grew up on BLACK on IBC13 in the Philippines.) This series speaks not only to the child who grew up with Kotaro Minami/Kuya Robert, but to the man, scholar & advocate I grew up as.

This is an unrivalled opportunity to revisit how Kamen Rider stories are told, what kind of storytelling the original creator Shotaro Ishinomori is interested in, and what can heroism possibly mean in a post-nuclear, heavily polarized and infuriating time. It is finding your lines, those who will hold your hands and back, and passing them on.

[totally-addicted-to-twice]

[skemaid]

マリバロンとビシュム

マリバロン様は資料によってかなり衣装にバラつきがあるのでどれを参考にすればいいのか悩む。

2017

[tsunflowers]

oh do they now

[cina-full-moon-xanadium]

Bishium on da phone

[kabutoraiger]

i do really love this evil flower field that bishium has transported him to. kamen riders surrounded by flowers is a big fave aesthetic

[sugereguacamole]

got this from a forum. the 1st pic rock my head off the moment i saw it this morning. Gorgom's trio of High Priests turn Great Mutants. and then it hit me. does anyone knows the show of the collage of characters on the 1st pic? or are the two pics came from something related to a story or what? i mean, the way the 3 were depicted in the 1st pic and from Kamen Rider Black Episode 36 are the same. so can i ask anyonbe out there?

[totally-addicted-to-twice]

[skemaid]

ビシュム

2017

[skemaid]

デイリーパンツ

っていう企画がね、あったんで

やってみたんですけど、描いてから気がついたんですよ

パンツはいてないって

2016

[skemaid]

ねるげにあ

2016

[skemaid]

ビシュム

2015

[skemaid]

三神官

2016

[skemaid]

バラオム x ビシュム

うしろのセットどうなってるんだよってキレながら描いてた

2016