Being comedy-based, a lot of the comedy comes from the enigmatic Kougami Foundation and how its president is a total whackjob who is a giant mastermind.Įach Greeed has their own unique way of gathering Cell Medals, somewhat matching their personality so it makes each encounter different and interesting on how Eiji and Ankh will tackle them. That is their only drive, so they are just as much each other's enemies as Eiji and Ankh's.
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And the series keeps you from getting bored by introducing the fact that the Greeed are monsters of.greed.
Eiji and Ankh more or less stick to crazy antics being practically homeless until Eiji gets a home in the "theme of the week"-based restaurant Cous Coussier and fighting each other on morals as much as they fight the "Yummy" of the day (my favorite pun in Kamen Rider history so far). Rather than painting greed as a black and white sin, the series actually takes it into a gray area and addresses greed more of a concept of void vs excess and how even greed and human desire can be GOOD things. The characters immediately grabbed me with their comedic antics, as this series is certainly more comedy-focused than the dramatic W.Įach two episodes show how one of the Greeed is planning on gathering Cell Medals by picking a reluctant human to be their puppet to foster their Greeed in each of their own unique ways, addressing the subject of "greed" and its many interpretations. Once again, we don't really have "filler" episodes, something I'm actually KIND of missing from these shows as I have finished my fourth series now. With such a BIG set-up and many Core Medals to track down, OOO was definitely given enough material to keep a lasting story that can drag out through 50 episodes instead of dragging on. And so, the two unlikely allies are joined together and backed by the mysterious Kougami Foundation to combat the Greeed and gather all of the Core Medals. While Eiji wants to use this new power to protect humans from the Greeed, Ankh only cares about using Eiji to destroy the other Greeed to grow stronger himself. Ankh, the red bird Greeed reduced to a floating right forearm, is the common enemy of the remaining four and is their first target until Ankh finds assistance in the ambition-less, passionless vagabond Eiji Hino and grants him the power to transform into the titular Kamen Rider OOO, using the Core Medals Ankh stole from his fellow Greeed. To obtain power, they go out to farm the Cell Medals from humanity and ever go after each other for their Core Medals and become whole.
The Greeed are beings made of "Core Medals", three sets of medals that contain the power of the animal species they represent that give them power and life, and consume and are fueled by "Cell Medals" common silver versions of Core Medals that are mass produced by human desire and greed. In this series's case, the world destroying artifact was holding the monstrous Greeed, five powerful monsters based on animals are unleashed to wreak mayhem upon the people.
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In an unnamed Japanese city, a museum goes through the usual antics of having world destroying artifacts get damaged, opened, and all sorts of usual shenanigans that crack it open like a pinata.