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Well, I’m finally back in a comfort zone, from a connection standpoint. Since Fish Sandwich has done the memes thing, I’m just going to skip it his time and get on with the monsters.
Bio Plant An immortal creature that is the ancestor of all but one type of plant. Category 7 of Hearts. Has control over vines, which it can use for attacks. Rouse Card details. - Suit: Heart - Category: 7 - Effect Name: BIO - Card Name: Bio Plant (バイオ・プラント Baio Puranto) - Consumption Points: FP 1600 https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20121110144453 Thunder Deer The ancestor of the Deer, who has electrical powers. Categorised as the Six of Spades. Rouse Card details. * Suit: Spade * Number: 6 * Effect name: THUNDER * Card Name: Thunder Deer (サンダー・ディアー Sandā Diā) * Consumption points: FP 1200 https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20121110111216 Reflect Moth The ancestor of the moth, it possesses a highly flammable powder which it uses to create destruction. It can also repel attacks directed at it. Categorised as the 8 of Hearts. Rouse Card details. * Suit: Heart. * Number: 8 * Effect name: REFLECT. * Card name: Reflect Moth (リフレクト・モス Rifurekuto Mosu) * Consumption Points: FP 1800 https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20121110144526 Edit: not really part of my usually scheduled spiel for this thread, but two things worth mentioning. 1. The password in episode 3 is DOUBLEJOKER, which is ironic in ways you both do and do not understand. 2. If I could suggest one reason that Blade wasn’t a success, it’d be the fact the first two episodes are the best-rated of the show. After that, they just drop and despite its best efforts, Hibiki fails to recapture the lost viewers until major changes are made. |
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I mean, this is the stuff I want Kotaro investigating! |
He does comissions for various people who need writings done on the web forums. It's not much, but it's honest work.
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The Alleged Car is a thing of beauty and deserves to be admired. From a safe distance. That in no way involves physical contact with its interior. :lol
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Imagine a brand-new character coming in, shooting Hajime, and then leaving. It's a surprise! But it's totally unfulfilling because you don't know who the new character is, why they'd shoot Hajime, and what they might do next. There needs to be some expectations set for a character if you want that character's actions to be surprising to an audience. |
KAMEN RIDER BLADE EPISODE 05
This time on Kamen Rider Blade: A trip to the Whispering Cave puts Amane in the hospital! A Centipede Monster is her only hope of survival! But can she survive being treated in the exact same room that Mari from Faiz died in?! https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/blade/blade05a.png This is an episode that didn't really do anything wrong, but never really dazzled me. It's got some tense action sequences, and it's great to see all of the Riders involved in the same story for once, but it... I don't know, it never rose above Entertaining for me. I was still entertained, though! Thematically, I really liked what this episode was talking about. I'm not sure if it's just where we're at in the story, or if it's something the series is going to be about, but I'm liking the prolonged discussion of how we process mortality. It's an interesting idea for a Kamen Rider show to be about. Most Rider shows have an element of How Do We Live, an emphasis on struggle and goals and appreciating what you've got. Blade seems to be spending more time on Death Is A Natural Part Of Existence. It's all over this episode, what with the trip to the Whispering Cave. It's a location that's all about the ways we can't let go of people, how we can let grief push us into making dangerous decisions. It's something that dovetails well with Hirose's continuing crisis, as she starts to suspect that her dad might've been integral in freeing the Undead in order to save her mother. (Just in case that parallel was unclear, the show puts Hirose's emotional struggle directly after the scene of Amane declaring she desperately wants to talk to her dad no matter the cost. They are not being terribly subtle with their themes!) And that's on top of Kenzaki giving his But Why Heroism speech, which mostly spells out what was a pretty easy guess. Kenzaki feels guilty about not being able to save his family, so he wants to keep trying to save others. He's another character that can't seem to let go of the dead. But then you've got someone like Tachibana, who can't let go of his own mortality. He instantly deduces that CHAIRMAN of the BOARD faked his death using magnesium and a hologram and... what?! So, CHAIRMAN got up off that table, snuck out, left behind a hologram, and then burned that hologram to ashes? Ashes made from a hologram?! It's an absolutely bonkers resolution to last episode's cliffhanger, and it's both insultingly/hilariously convoluted and serves to push Tachibana's quest for answers a little further down the road. It's fun to keep seeing Tachibana vacillate between determined badass (he's almost respectable in parts of this episode!) and self-centered coward (he really really doesn't want to die!), and while he's maybe not showing any new sides to his character in this outing, I like how extreme he is in trying to accomplish his (ridiculous) goals. Mostly, this is a story that pushes Kenzaki and Hajime a little closer together, and that's the most interesting plotline for me right now. They, first of all, do not get along. Kenzaki tries to politely invite Hajime to come with them to the Whispering Cave, and when he gives a brooding denial, Kenzaki's like Aw Shucks GOTTAGOBYE. Like, he can't get away from this grumpy jerk fast enough. It's a unique relationship for this show, where proximity keeps these characters in each other's lives more than any friendship or rivalry. But then they sort-of have both in the end? The easiest way to get Riders to work together is to place a child in danger, so Amane's injury and poisoning at the mandibles of Centipede Monster rallies Chalice and Blade to get the antibodies necessary for Amane's survival. It's just, Garren would very much like to kill that monster because he's really going through a lot don't you have any care for his pain why are you being so mean to him. That leads to a solid final fight in the episode, with Blade trying to keep Garren at bay long enough for Chalice to figure out how to get the antibodies out of the monster. It's a solid enough dilemma, even if it's a little rote. Everyone's doing what you'd expect their characters to do, but nothing more than that. It's fun to see Kenzaki start to put the pieces together on Hajime/Chalice, but the rest of their interaction is just Heroism, and it's a little predictable. (Best part was Kotaro accidentally humansplaining the Undead to Hajime.) Of course Chalice is going to try and save Amane. Of course Blade is going to defer if someone else has an idea on how to save someone. (He's a real good follower, Blade is.) Of course Garren is going to think only of himself. It's competently executed, as a climax to an episode, but it's not very surprising. So, yeah, a fun enough story with some interesting thematic threading that never really makes enough turns to be worth raving about. Still fun, though! https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/blade/blade05b.png Next time on Kamen Rider Blade: Hirose needs help from her friends! Blade is captured! And nobody understands Tachibana's pain! |
Well, Die, given what I now know about you and memes, I'm sure what I have to say next will really do a lot to enhance your enjoyment of this episode.
Learning Ondul the Easy WEEEEEEI! (#3) https://i.imgur.com/jcDcByFl.png Today's lesson is an easily quotable moment, Garren telling Chalice to back off in episode 5. Another classic example of Tachibana being WAY too tense, with the first part of the line in particular, more directly translated as "What are you saying?!" (nani itten da?! -> naniitenda!), being jokingly applied to other contexts often. Once again, the actual mispronunciation here is quite minor. I was even under the impression the second part of the line is another instance of him saying fujakeruna!, but from what I can find, it doesn't seem to be universally agreed upon whether or not he's pronouncing fuzakeru na improperly there. Either way, it tends to go hand in hand with the first part of the line. In general, it seems this one comes with quite a few variations. Sometimes the third part of the line, soitsu wa ore ga!, is even written as toisuto-ri-ga!, but while the idea of Dadi yelling at Hajime about Toy Story apropos of nothing is hilarious, it's just not as applicable as the first two thirds of this surprisingly layered bit of dialogue. |
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