Kiba: *Has a happy, peaceful life. A wonderful family, and a loving girlfriend.* The Universe: I'm gonna do what's called a "pro gamer move".

Faiz isn’t bad. It’s a soap opera. If you don’t like soap operas, than it won’t be your cup of tea. And I think anyone will love most of the characters. Takumi is my favorite rider. Keitero is my favorite character of all time. And Kiba had a great story and development IMO. From vengeful, to choosing to favor humanity, to suffering and revenge again. And the actor was great, RIP. Kiba was the leader of his faction on rebel misfits. Very thoughtful and kind, until pushed to the edge.

Reasons I like to watch Kamen Rider 555 series - 1) glow in the dark armor. 2) brutal when monster taking heart. 3) good monster vs bad monster. 4) triangle love story. 5) background music ost. 6) main character is monster. 7) naked shadow. 8) suspend and dark. 9) SWAT police also joining fight. 10) awesome vehicles and weapons.

ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-RANJA! *snap* Was not ready for that, Marcos. Kudos. My sides are still in orbit.

16:26 "I...have no words." WELL, I'M FREAKING TRAUMATIZED!

man there's a lot of story and character development in a show about men in bug suits doing kung-fu.

I mean the whole communication thing was one of the major themes of Faiz. The whole first half of the show felt like it was beating into your head how important communication is by having the characters completely fail at it. Kusaka was just another obstacle to communication in addition to all the characters being horrid at it.

I DO NOT want to see Masato as Cutey Honey EVER AGAIN. I can never get that image out of my head!!

R.I.P Masayuki Izumi aka Yuji Kiba.

I love Faiz. Takumi being an asshole is realy enjoyable for me (somehow), and I like character dramas a lot. Although...I will admit that Kitazaki was WAY more fun as Delta than...whatever his name was. Takumi's reveal as an Orphenoch was honestly LONG overdue, I pieced it together by episode 4 and had to wait *30 EPISODES* for anything to come of it. Kusaka was fun (when he was giving Seto Kaiba a run for his money for "World's Most Smug Rival"), Kaido was best boy, and...well, everyone else was just kinda there. I love it regardless, the suits and gear are some of my favorites in all of Heisei, with Delta having MY FAVORITE FINISHER EVER. Guns and flying kicks - no other combination can compare.

I like how disturbing the theme of this show is without being too gory like Amazons. Even the story of Faiz were darker than Amazons.

11:55 when you said, "guess who is gonna die first" that one hurt, but the joke got me GOOD

Kiba Yuji's final turn at the end made sense for the reason you skipped out in your summary. Takumi defeated him with Blaster form in what was clearly a clash of ideals. "... leaving Kiba screaming on the ground..." is not an acceptable way of saying, "... sparing his life and calling him human even after all of the horrible things he did after becoming President." Kiba honestly thought he should have died there but he thought long and hard about the ideals he was just defeated by and decided that if he is going to go on living, he'd rather learn how to live from the best example of humanity he's encountered. I threw that last bit in but it's not far fetched given the kind of person Takumi KNEW Yuji was from the start.

One thing I like about Takumi is that while he's an ass, when he's an ass he gets reprimanded for his actions or it can be used for comedy, same kinda goes for my favorite main Rider magenta man. He's brash and has trust issues, but he ultimately has good intentions because long as voice inside him says fight he'll always keep on fighting.

You're not alone, Faiz is my favorite early heisei series (i also really enjoyed kiva that many people dislike, i guess there's no accounting for taste.)

Faiz is just a insane season. Well written characters and so many of them,, cool outfits, the suitcases, almost every episode has big twists, a giant soap opera. This is easily one of the best tokusatsu seasons of any type. Even the alternate decade story was pretty neat. Also, I don't see the problem with calling orphenachs villains while some are good. Not everyone of a type are bad - same logic as Den-O's Imagins. Okay the ending is pretty terrible, but I couldn't peel my eyes away from watching how they would get there. And then again, a lot of seasons have dull ends. But Naoya alone has more personality than all the characters put together in some other seasons.

27:06 The best example of mood whiplash I have ever seen…

paradise lost is my fav kamen rider movie. and the visual, man. the kamen rider suit colors and design is simple yet it gives a luxury vibes, plus how they transform and the sound effects when they about to transform.. "STAND BY" so cool. the orphnocs is the coolest kamen rider villains i ever see. it gives me creep every time random person suddenly turns to orphnocs, and the story that orphenocs are higher form of humans, that only strong capable human can transform to orphnocs, i totally dig it.

Takumi at episode 50: "Boku no Inui takumi niwa yume ga aru!"

R.I.P kiba actor

"The helmet is based on a shark" Me: I thought it was based on a half sliced orange 🍊 😳 💀 😅 😂

Faiz is the last rider series I saw in full back when I was a kid and I have to say it’s one of my favs! The story moves at a slow pace and there are a lot of plot holes but the gears and the fights were dope! Nothing really happened in the grand scheme of things in this show but these characters were fun to watch

30:30 best line ever

11:56 "...and guess who's gonna die first?" fn HILARIOUS.

Fun fact : Masayuki Izumi (Kiba Yuji actor) failed an audition to become Inui Takumi because he is a left handed. Also Rip Masayuki Izumi

Marcos: Let them be happy!... Toshiki Inoue: We need more suffering!

30:31 are we not gonna talk about the perfect english here

I can't wait for Marcos to talk about the best kamen rider show featuring a kid that always helps people because he saw his parents die on a fire, the emo guy with the little girl, the meme himself and bipolar spiderman... and the most important character in the series: Milky Boy!

@36:07-37:27 *"It just raises too many questions!"* -Beuce Wayne (Batman Forver)

The henshin device is based on a cell phone and the show is about communication. That is weirdly brilliant.

YES!!! Takumi is the main reason Faiz is in my top 5 Heisei Rider series.

Crab kusaka's smile tho looking devious

27:02 One of the best mood-switching moment I've ever seen.

Hold up, I love this but I take note on your review of the faiz driver. The show aired in 2003, the Motorola Razor, the most popular flip phone ever, came out the very same year, so yes from a current standpoint is dated, at the time the thing was on the pulse for the most popular phone design for the year.

Tbh,Mihara can be a really good Delta user(not as great as kitazaki but there's potential).The casting was great,it's just that he needs a spotlight for himself,as a character,rather than simply filling the shoe.

I actually love Takumi's personality. He's heroic underneath all that hurt that he's felt throughout his life. I love how snippy he can be and how a bit dickish he initially is, and doesn't form friendships due to a fear of hurting them.

21:19 "Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed."

It’s interesting how you said in the movie, Kasako feels like he’s the only Rider that’s needed because that’s basically his attitude throughout the whole series. Or at least when he’s around Takumi. I agree with you regarding Kasako. This is the first time I have ever said I didn’t like one of the protagonists. People think he’s annoying and normally, I am ok with annoying characters but Kasako, is like toxic boyfriend. Which I feel bad for Mari because all the guys that like her seemed psychotic. When he died, I thought, good riddance. Which brings me to another point, his desire to protect Mari is driven by selfishness which is an oxymoron. Case in point when he said he needs Mari like Mari needs him. Which I was like, no, she doesn’t need you, Kusuka, so back off. Whereas, Takumi’s desire to protect Mari is because he cares for her. It’s interesting because I see a lot of contrasts. I disagree with someone who said that Kusaka fights for humanity. He admitted that he fights to test his strength. Takumi actually does fight for humanity. He has to fight for humanity in his soul and on earth. I see the contrast in the bond between Takumi, Mari and Keitaro and the bond between Ryussei students. The trio may quarrel but they trust each other and build each other up. Whereas the bond between Ryussei students is more toxic more than anything. Their only bonding factor is the school. I feel like, Mari, unlike her classmates, is the only one that is truly able to move on with her life after the incident. She still loves her classmates/ foster siblings but she is also able to open up to new people, something that the rest of the students fail to do. I noticed that people think Mihara is the most useless, character but I disagree. The most useless characters are the cops. They were there the entire season and added nothing. I thought maybe they were going to be connected somehow but nope. They could have done without them. Useless villain falls to the King. Seriously? You build him up for two episodes and he fights and gets killed a couple of minutes after his big debut?

It's about damn time!!!I have been waiting for this one for a year.

First, I also thought Takumi was a great lead Rider. Not my favorite but still a great one. Second, Hibiki will just make you insane once you watch it after Blade. It was one of the most infuriating experiences I had with toku and I don't want to relive that.

Is it just me or is Murakami one of the dumbest villians in the history of kamen rider or WHAT? -Hands the faiz belt to an orphenoch he just met (who has never killed anyone) and has 0 combat experience -Gives resources to humans (the very people he is at WAR with) and is SURPRISED when humans figure out how to kill orphenoch w/o rider belts -Waste valuable time and resources (the few orphenochs) hunting other peaceful orphenochs instead of turning humans -For some reason in Paradise Lost makes this extremely convoluted plan to kill Mari when he had her in custody and could have killed her AT ANY TIME... There are other examples I'm sure but Marakami is just dumb! Kusaka may be a human dung but at least he's actually effective at manipulating people, when Murakami tries to do it It's just sad

Even though I've never seen Faiz's whole 50-episode series, I have seen the Paradise Lost movie and I thought it was okay. I really liked the stadium fight at the end.

i love this series. its a mess but a good type of mess. i love back when kamen riders feels more like a j-drama with transformations. the story might not be the greatest, its not overly sad like ryuki/blade, but i personally really enjoy kiba and friends side story more than takumi and co. and the rider designs are really cool. also i would like to see you cover kabuto lol. that series is crazy. one episode you have a anime style cooking contest, and the next episode is suddenly super depressing. its also a great series but it doesnt have a clear tone.

The series that dares you not to hate it.

TWO HISTORY OF KAMEN RIDER VIDS MARCOS STOP MY HEART CAN'T TAKE IT

Faiz is one of my favorite Kamen Rider series, toku series and superhero shows.

16:26 "I really have no words" Marcosatsu,2018. AGREED

Amazing video btw!

I love Faiz. It's still one of my favorite Kamen Riders. It was my first induction to Kamen Rider. I started watching it when I think Decade or Double was airing. I think it was early 2010's. I knew what Kamen rider was somehow, so I decided to take a chance on one of the series and something stuck out about Faiz. This waiting on a 2.0 figuarts of Faiz.

*insert original joke about protodubs here*

good to see you guys taking care of all of you is also apart of my job

i finished this season a long time ago and this is really bringing back alot of good memories :)

Paradise Regained just got announced and not only it was a smartphone but looks like it's hologram phone I think..? And Kusaka returns! Haha!

I feel like Kaito Kumon from Kamen Rider Gaim is what the producers wanted Kuaska to be. The complete opposite of the main character with similar goals but different methods to achieve them.

I think you pretty much nailed it. Faiz is one of my favorite riders but I could never really say why. The villains were bland and it was pretty much all over the place plot wise. But it really is the characters that keep you invested. You want to see them, and see what they're do next. Good video dude.

I love the fact that takumi being an orphenoch is foreshadowed very early on

21:19 this frame is glorious

30:26 GOD DAMN THATS GOOD ENGLISH

Holy smokes at 30:30 did that guy actually speak English 😱

This is the first I heard Faiz’s helmet is based on a shark. That’s pretty neat.

16:26 I don't want to open my eyes

A shame, Delta's final user acting is great on GoGoV as GoGo Green. Also Sawada turned into Toguro is hilarious. Fun fact Peter Ho (Psyga) is the guy from some chinese drama who spits blood used as a meme.

15:41 Xehanort: X -Blade

One thing that i would love more in this video is you bringing up Mina from the Paradise lost movie, sure she would be just another small story that you would ignore to like every other thing that is left out or be nothing for in the original show, i think her story with the amnesiac Takumi is sad and tragic enough for me, but yeah Great video as always.

Just finished watching this season for the first time. Wow definitely now on my top 5!

orpenoch king foreshadowed at the beginning when mari tell story about her burned aparment & later that her adopted father open the school and adopted the kids to find the orpenoch king, that ironycaly founded and saved by another orpenoch

Five years later and I'm rewatching Faiz

I think Kusaka is one of the prime-examples as to why that shows character- and story-progression was more or less non existent. The idea behind his character is actually not bad. He was a former victim of bullys who, when he grew up, became one himself. He became an over-achiever who constantly had to show to everyone else and himself that he is the best at everything and better then anyone else, even going as far as to do literally anything necessary to achieve his goals not matter the cost. He caused most of the trust-problems for the main-cast (and esspecially Takumi) just so that he would be the one and only hero of this story. This was the allmost perfect set-up for a great "Wolf-in-the-sheeps-den"-type of villian character. Everything was build up so nicely for that one moment that never came. Everyone who watched this show back when it aired was eagerly waiting for that one moment when Kusakas construct of lies and deceit would come crumbling down on him. But there was nothing. Literally nothing. No-one besides Takumi ever saw through Kusakas lies and eryone else thought these problems were the results of an miss-understanding at most. He never got what he deserved, he stayed a bitter and slightly psychotic young man from beginning to end. His plot went nowhere because nothing in Faiz had any kind of consequence for the characters. "Oh? Takumi is an Orphenoch? Okay, moving on!", "Oh, Mari is death? Lets revive her! Moving on!" Things seemed to just happen and get forgotten afterwards. This is why Faiz is considered to be on of the worst written Kamen Rider seasons. Things just happened in the show with no rhyme nor reasons. The focus was not on the characters, it was on these allmost soap-opera-style love-stories that, oh suprise, went nowhere in the end. The characters just existed with stuff happening around them with next to no real reaction to these situations with a poorly made world around them. The plot-holes became just so big at some point that it negativly effected the show to a gigantic degree.

It's okay man. I totally understand loving a Rider Show that clearly has problems. My favorite Season is still Decade and I definitely know that it has problems.

I hope that once faiz 20th paradise regained comes out I'm looking foward to seeing the return of the history of kamen rider faiz

I’m glad that the history of kamen rider series exists

Welcome back

16:25-16:44 what on earth did I just witness?

damn Marcos, back at it again with the Kamen Rider videos

i didnt know people hated faiz its my favorite show

I'm glad marcosastu is safe for now

Fun Fact:Kamen Rider Psyga is the only English speaking Rider

30:32 why is he speaking in perfect English?

Im coming here after finishing it. I will say i enjoyed myself even if the paradise lost film was a mess. I got started with this as my first. I was interested in them due to the riders designs and the ps2 game. Also kaidou is my favorite character besides takumi and to some extent kitazaki. I really dont like kusaka as he felt more like a villain and unlikeable

21:55 this is super unrelated but the australian inside me always screams at that qantas in the background

I've taken a look at the weapons and items that the brighter is use and surprisingly there actually designed to look like regular everyday items until they are used by the riders. For example the The rider kick weapon is actually disguised as a sort of telescope or binoculars, and the rider punch weapon is a camera

adore the faiz riders' aesthetics and the slice of life aspect was great change of pace for me when I first experienced faiz If I were to choose my biggest disappointment i would have to say miharu being such a non-character, the delta gear being my favorite suit too

Keitoru and Yuka, a better love story than Twilight

I haven't watched Faiz yet, but from what i'm picking up here, I can only guess Kusaka being bullied when he was younger was what caused him to be the psychotic manipulator that he is in the series. (and as a friend says, the original Meme Lord before Shin Dan Kuroto came into existence) Another friend of mine says that this is the point where Toshiki Inoue is starting to shows signs of burnout, the same way Yasuko Kobayashi did in Go-Busters and possibly Judd Lynn in Dino Charge.

Faiz in paradise lost was fucking badass a hero in tragic story

Karate light shark themed stop sign bugman is cool. stop sign is referring to the faiz symbol if your confused

best Kamen Rider to me so far. I loved every minute of it.

One of the best Kamen Rider design, love it

I like this series because of the catchy song and the story line is good plus there was the classic rider attack tune for awesomeness

I'm with you Marcos. I enjoyed it just as much as you did...

i really enjoy your content ! (please do kabuto and decade cuz its my favorite rider)

Wow...i love kamen rider since i watch kamen rider decade on youtube...but it's tooooooooo much i must watch..thanks for video..this is help me so much

I flipping love the intro for Faiz.

31:19 in kiba's(or whatever he is called) kiba:"all my friends are dead"

I mean I finished this show and to me, it’s actually pretty good. Sure, Masato might be annoying and the middle section is kinda slow but to me, Takumi is a really relatable guy and to be honest I love the show. It’s really only a certain kind of person who likes this.. and I’m one of them. If you like dark stuff, well here’s the show for you

Hey there Marcosatsu, I wasn't able to find your channel again some time ago, and I was getting worried that you were deleted or something like that, because I really like your channel. I'm glad that you're back :)

Thank you so much to say this kamen rider is the best

I just always wondered during lost paradise, why were they so picky on obtaining the emperor's belts and not just experiment on the riotrooper suits first and try to develop something better than the emperor's belts

First time I saw the suit, I facepalmed. But then I got into the story. It's amazing that we got to see a villain that we could sympathize more than the hero, who's already quite good himself. Takumi is a proper dude, and he never lets up.

Ok so I finished this video and I have to give u credit u really get spot on into these series. When u showed the drive video some days ago and u did his movies that's when I noticed doing drive without looking at his predecessors namely Faiz and deno and then mention the series characters kindve over bogs the summary. Faiz was confusing to me the 1st time I watched and then I noticed faizes story was more about watching youths try to live and have a peaceful exsistance against an extremely violent world it was all character driven the fact that orphenoch (weird pseudo-biblical reference there) rider gears and smart brain played into their lives made the "talking" moments necessary and more impactful to me it also fleshed out kusakas character without him having to be explained. kusaka was just an evil Steve urkle he had an affection that controlled his actions and in his mind the world only needed him and Mari. Everyone else was only useful to that point and when he saw Mari's involvement with kiba and takumi people had to go. An example of this is in the sic story: where he left mihara to die and abandoned the delta gear to murakami and Leo because he thought mihara sent mari the roses. Looking at the story and my statement earlier. U had all these kids with dreams have their lives torn apart and shattered and instead of giving in and becoming subjects or victims of smart brain they seeked to live with relationships and friends in peace. The world just didnt allow it and forced all of them to fight for it... Fighter or not like a less explosion ridden gundam series Lol. Smart brain is kindve basic. its a send up to old school rider villains which were normally organization of vast influence and control. Smartbrain was just using early 2000s biggest draw- video and communications technology. Like foundation x, shocker, and other organizations they were a supremacy group dedicated to their own kind in a bid for world domination. That's why their equipment is tailored to orphenoch. I thought the gears they built were made to protect the king they just happened to be strong enough to kill him, anywho every kaijin group in kamen rider sees humans as just as big of an enemy as we see them. And looking at the complexity of orphenoch (especially the means of creation), undeads, grongi, greeed, riomudes, and bugster its easy to see why certain kaijin hate us. And just asking another conesiur (I know i said that wrong) have u noticed that a lot of hesei series feature heavy biblical and Christian/other western themed overtones... Like creepily so. The whole god making undeads and their purpose, the very term orphenoch- their color scheme and kaijin reference, just about everything in gaim, the seed of agito, alchemy in both wizard and build. Like just a whole bunch of things have these nods. One thing im opposed to tho if it's a history of the series can we just get that and then a follow up video of your views on the series it just appears that at times your opinions can cut into the material and it can promote a negative view of the series and most of its done in the midst of the video when ur talking about story and plot points or characters. I do like your videos tho, I would just like a seperate video that has your personal opinions one that could also invite room for comments and discussion. Please keep up the great work!