Week 2 - The Japanese

Call me lame, but I love Japanese entertainment when it comes to cartoons or shows on tv. I always notice that the Japanese have a strong sense of color and light. Whenever I look at this picture from the show known as "Kamen Rider Decade," I always get so many mixed emotions. The show is based on a character who is able to transofrm into a robot that fights crime while traveling to different worlds to save our world. This picture of the Kamen Rider features the newest rider and is part of the introductory scene for the show.

The pink, green, and black color of the Kamen Rider in this picture always gives me this feeling that I

am being introduced to a sleek and a high tech crime fighter. There is also a shine from the rider that gives me the impression that this is the latest and most high tech of the Kamen Riders. There have been over twenty Kamen Riders in the series. This rider is the newest one. In the introductory scene, we also notice that the background is usually white as it is in the picture. This white light always makes me feel as if the world has been erased, and the only remaining entity is the Kamen Rider. It makes sense since the Rider is always accused of being a destroyer when actually he tries to save the worlds and the human race. Therefore, the introduction could be using this white light to give the audience an impression of loss of life. The shine from the picture that was mentioned earlier also gives me this feeling that the character is a hero since the shine makes me think of a ray of hope. Therefore, I also get this feeling of an epic battle since the shine of the Rider conflicts with the white backgroud meaning that the character is going save the world or destroy it.

I find the color and lighting schemes to be very useful in entertainment as they add so much. Without light, half of the emotions that we receive from a show would be lost.