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Kamen Rider Die watches Masked Rider Agito
Hello. How's your 2020 been so far? I've spent a couple weeks watching the new season of The Crown (great cast, good episodes, didn't really get a sense that the season was a complete unit of storytelling), dealing with a bogus, malicious Yelp review of my business that went hilariously viral (dude managed to make up a story that made him a laughingstock), and kicking around these boards a bit. It's been good to spend a couple weeks resetting my brain after bingeing Kuuga, but now I'm refreshed and ready to jump onto the next Heisei series.
So, yes, hi, welcome back. My name's Kamen Rider Die, and this is going to be a thread where I watch Masked Rider Agito and talk about my experience. I'd be thrilled if you wanted to talk about it with me. A little background, first. I still describe myself as "new to the Kamen Rider franchise", since I've only been at it for not quite two years. (March 16th is my Riderversary, which is maybe something I should find some way to celebrate this year!) In those two years, though, I've watched what feels like way, way too much Kamen Rider. I've done the following series in the following order: Ex-Aid (Best part: My first ever Kamen Rider show! // Worst part: That demin-clad dink who stalks Nico in the Another Ending movies.) (I talk about rewatching the movies here!) Amazons (Best part: Jin Takayma! // Worst part: Finding out that a movie whose plot is best summarized as "Kamen Rider vs Never Let Me Go" could be infuriatingly bad.) W (Best part: Shotaro and Philip's chemistry. // Worst part: How the show squanders Wakana at the end.) OOO (Best part: Ankh! // Worst part: Not applicable.) Fourze (Best part: Flawless string of opening episodes. // Worst part: A bit of wheel-spinning in the last third.) Wizard (Best part: Last few episodes, the way the main plot concludes. // Worst part: Besides Beast and Rinko, I'm not sure a single other protagonist worked for me.) Gaim (Best part: Character development for miles, every character grows and changes... // Worst part:...except for the female characters, who, if you'll pardon the expression, are left to wither on the vine.) Drive (Best part: Theme song! // Worst part: My shattered heart, thanks to Heart.) Ghost (I talk a ton about it here!) Build (I talk a ton about it here!) Kuuga (I talk a ton about it here!) Which is a lot! Holy shit, it's a lot. Seeing it like that, uh. That's, that is a busy 22 months. Wow. Yikes. Anyway, so that's my background with the franchise. Over the next few weeks, I'll be watching Agito and posting some impressions here. A few things I should mention in advance, if you haven't read through one of these before. First, PLEASE DON'T POST SPOILERS FOR AGITO (OR RYUKI THROUGH DECADE AND ZI-O) IF YOU'VE SEEN IT ALREADY. I like to go into these cold, without any expectations, so please try to stay away from even teasing where the story might go. And, since I'm going to watch the other Heisei shows I haven't seen yet, please try and steer clear of talking about those on this thread. Second, I MIGHT SPOIL OTHER SHOWS I'VE SEEN. If you want to stay unspoiled on those shows I referenced up top, the Phase 2 Heisei stuff and Kuuga, this is maybe not a great thread for you! When things line up for comparisons, yeah, I'm probably going to refer to another show, mostly Kuuga to start with. Just, forewarned. Third, I TAKE THESE SHOWS WEIRDLY SERIOUS AND ALSO KIND-OF NOT AT ALL SERIOUS. It's hard to describe. I approach these shows as art, not just entertainment. I want to see what themes are being expressed, what the producers are trying to get across to the audience using the medium of Children's Superhero Program. I may legitimately forget to care about things like form changes and suit tweaks if there are Big Emotions happening in the storytelling. But, these shows are also entertainment, so I may goof around with things, riff on characters I don't like, make up names for people if it's easier for me, and just generally try and have a good time watching and talking about a Kamen Rider show. Finally, maybe most importantly, THESE THREADS ARE PARTICIPATORY. I like talking about how these shows are working (or not working) for me, but I love hearing how you feel about them. If you've got something to say about the episodes, or my take on the episodes, I definitely want to hear it. It's been a blast connecting with other fans through these threads, and they're a real part of why I want to keep talking about Kamen Rider. I think that's it for the preamble? I feel like I've gotten all the important table-setting out of the way. So, on to MASKED RIDER AGITO! Ostensibly a new hero! Presumably a new legend! GET ON! https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/agito/agito00.png |
Ooh, this should be fun! The way I like to describe Agito is The Best Show No-one Ever Talks About. Seriously outside of the occasional token "oh yeah, that one was pretty good", this is the one Heisei Rider no-one ever seems to have a take on. Which is a shame! Because it is pretty good! Probably MORE than pretty good!
But that's all my opinion and you wanna go into it fresh, so "No-one Ever Talks About" is probably as good as can be for you. There's some conceptual stuff I could say but I think that's best saved until a few episodes in when all the cast and stuff is set up and you've got to know em a bit; so for now you just go awaken that soul! |
MASKED RIDER AGITO EPISODES 01 - 03
https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/agito/agito01.png Are we 100% sure that Agito isn't just the subtitle of the second season of Kuuga? Like, is that settled case law by this point? Because, you guys. You guys. This show... it's just more Kuuga, for better or worse. Let's start with the better, since (and maybe you'll be as surprised by this as I am) there's more of it than the bad parts: holy shit this show looks great. If you'd've asked me to guess how many years passed, production-wise, between Agito and Kuuga, I'd've said five or six. It all looks so much better to me than Kuuga did. The action's shot better, sure, but this one's just so much more stylish to me than I found a lot of Kuuga. There's so many cool shots in the premiere alone, with Ryou's pool workout, Shouichi and Ryou passing each other on the stairs (crazy foreshadowing energy for days), the G3 introduction, the Unknown murder scenes, it all looks more accomplished and assured than I thought Kuuga frequently came off. It's like they found a way to tell the Kuuga story with more energy, more drama, a tighter pace, a better plan each episode to move the story wherever it made the most sense. It's Kuuga scenes, but done with more flair. And that was the overall feeling I got from the first three episodes. It was Kuuga, but I was into it. Kuuga has this reputation of being realistic, of being gritty, of being serious. But, the flipside is, it could often play as dull, as grim, as self-serious. Agito so far is Kuuga without the parts of Kuuga that bothered me. There's no constant reminder of what time of day a scene is happening in, or exactly what prefecture a character is in. The body count is rising, indicating a need for a rapid response, but not skyrocketing, indicating that the heroes are doing a terrible job. Scenes get in and get out, instead of lingering on inconsequential movements and blank looks. The monsters get a group name immediately, even if it's just The Unknowns. Agito's full Agito from the first episode. There's a reason why the monsters are killing who they kill, rather than just slaughtering whoever is closest to them. New Ichijou (Nijou, I think that was his name) gets to have a Kamen Rider suit to be a part of the action, rather than the action having to warp around his presence and skill-set. There's a bunch more things (I don't hate the new Nana even a little bit!), more than I could've hoped for. It really felt to me like an improvement over Kuuga in basically every way. But, it's just an improvement over Kuuga. I wanted a new show, and I got Better Kuuga. I mentioned in a different thread (probably the Rewatches Ex-Aid Movies one) that one of my favorite things about Kamen Rider as a franchise is the ways stories are allowed to end. That a cast leaves the stage, to make room for a new cast, a new set of stories. And, yeah, this series may lack Godai and Ichijou and Enokida and Sakurako and Nana, but it does not lack Handsome Hero Who Wants To Make People Safe And Happy, Action Cop, Scientist Cop Lady, Academic Who Knows About The History Of Magic Powers, and Teenager Who Has A Crush. Like, those are a pretty specific batch of character types! They sound real familiar. (Nijou looks disturbingly like a younger Ichijou. They even gave him the same goddamn haircut! They are making these comparisons way too easy for me!) I'm sure Agito will differentiate itself from Kuuga, but, Jesus, I couldn't believe how much this felt like a recast second season of Kuuga. It's better in every way, to me, but so familiar that it's distracting. https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/agito/agito02.png |
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Watching the first few, I kind-of get why. I'm not sure (yet?) why someone would need to watch Kuuga and Agito. They are very, very similar shows, and Kuuga has the shine of Got There First. I think Agito is an improvement, for sure, but it doesn't really have the uniqueness of the other 19 Heisei shows. |
Oh, wow, that was quick!
Well uhhhh. Yeah, sweet, glad you're enjoying it! "Kuuga but different and with more style" is definitely an impression that's not surprising. Especially because the precedent of the way Showa Riders did things was still prominent and because Kuuga done pretty well, Agito was in fact originally conceived as just "Kuuga 2". I believe Agito was initially supposed to be an 'evolved' form of Kuuga in a similar way to Black becoming Black RX, and you can certainly see other elements in there too -- the Unknown operating and having a style very similar to the Unidentified Lifeforms; the Police having a massive presence and their having Rider technology feeling like an advancement over what they learned last season; a lot of mystery and ancient mysticism in general... it's all pretty clear. G3 as well is visually very much based on Kuuga himself, and obviously you've got the little direct callbacks to the Unidentified Lifeforms and "No. 4" as your screenshots showed. That said... it was originally conceived as Kuuga 2, but eventually the concept moved away from that and it was retooled into something different. Many of the same themes and directive choices are still there (such as the heavy involvement of the police and how the Unknowns operate), but eventually the show does start to move away from that and develop its own identity much more solidly. |
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Agito is not pretty good. It's the BEST of the Heisei phase 1! :thumb: Also, it's the best of all KR shows that Inoue Toshiki wrote. :thumb: |
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Please be nice to Hikawa, he's much more sensitive than Ichijou... But alright! Agito! The first episode is fairly fresh in my mind even after all this time, what with the ending of Agito destroying the unknown and walking away from the flames at night as the first and best insert song in Kamen Rider plays.
I look forward to you unravelling all the ups and downs of this show. Its much closer to Kamen Rider as I know it today than Kuuga was. |
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Yeah, Agito absolutely benefits from the experience a lot of the staff had from working on Kuuga. That show was made with a whole bunch of new equipment and different style of ADR and all these other things that they had clearly gotten the hang of by the end, which left Agito in a position to improve even further. I also think you're going to find, at least in this show, that Toshiki Inoue's style of writing will be extremely refreshing given your issues with Kuuga. Inoue (who wrote all but one episode of Agito, if you're ever wondering) doesn't write reenactments. He makes TV dramas, and it kind of sounds like you're in the mood for one of those right now.
Agito has always the been the show I kinda consider the "real" start of Heisei Kamen Rider. Kuuga was an at-times borderline auteur series that I don't think truly fits in with anything before or after. Agito is where a lot of the "language" that's still in use today came from. Multiple Riders who act as foils to each other to increase the drama being an obvious example. |
MASKED RIDER AGITO EPISODE 04
https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/agito/agito04a.png It's fun to me how much more normal everybody feels in Agito, compared to Kuuga. I mean, killer monsters and henshins and mysterious amnesias, yes, of course, sure. But, like, I get why people make the decisions they do in this show. Shouichi doesn't understand his abilities, doesn't know why he's Agito, so when Mana runs off in shock, he doesn't know how to explain himself to make her feel safe and he runs away. I get that. I get how he'd feel ashamed of scaring someone who looked up to him. And Mana was shocked, but she wasn't terrified. She feels bad about making Shouichi ashamed, so when she sees him again she talks it all out. (He just... came home? To make sure she looked after his garden? It's stupid, but sort-of adorable, which: Shouichi, I guess.) It's a reasonable way to handle this obstacle. It doesn't drag it out, it doesn't wallow in melodrama, it's just, I'm Sorry I Made You Feel Bad. That's all it needs! Shouichi running away ("running away”, he's a grown-ass man!) and then coming home one scene later could feel unnecessary, but it's given just the right amount of gravity to land, but not so much where it seems overblown. A realistic amount of stakes, which is very much a part of the overall course correction from Kuuga that's working for me. The G3 stuff is working, too! I thought the G3 system was a bit of a joke in the first three episodes, getting whooped early and often by, like, Starter Unknown. While the idea of a police solution to monsters is a good one, the G3 execution so far felt like... do you remember when the Captain in Drive got to be a Kamen Rider, for the mass-production attempt at Mach? And he immediately hurts himself? That's what the first few G3 outings felt like, except not played for laughs. But the team rallies, or whatever, and Nijou takes out an Unknown more or less all by himself. It, honestly, it worked really well for me. It felt earned. It felt like a hard-fought victory. After a few episodes of looking inadequate, G3 saved lives and blew up a monster. Shows improvement! I'd almost be okay with G3 continuing to suck, because, Houjou. Houjou. Hilarious! Dude exists purely to tell Nijou he sucks. That's it! Hangs around outside a meeting to tell him he sucks and that he's a liar. Tells the brass to support the G3 System so he can tell him he sucks at being G3 and that he's going to let people down. Every time the Unknown kill someone, it's because Nijou sucks. Like, this dude is living his best life telling Nijou he sucks. It's not supposed to be funny, it's supposed to be the pressure on Nijou's neck to shape up or quit, the rivalry forging him into a better G3, but, seriously, eff that. EFF THAT. It's a beautiful, catty, gloriously mean-spirited version of a professional rivalry, and I almost wish it was the whole show. I wish I cared as much about Shouichi as I do about Nijou failing and Houjou rubbing his nose in it, and I care about Shouichi. https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/agito/agito04b.png |
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Obviously, that's for all of the police characters than for Agito (dude knows his way around a Rider Kick), but since the majority of the POV is from non-Agito characters, it really sets a tone for the show. |
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Rider Broom. :D |
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- less c********, - less t****, - less s******, - less a********, - waaay more secretly q*****, - and the last one, :thumb:THE highlight:thumb: of interaction between him and Shouichi: he is c*****. And he complements all those qualities with courage and sheer d***********, making him my 3rd favorite Rider, ever. :cool: What are those qualities? I will reveal them as the story unfolds. :D Quote:
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Another fan (of the first half?) of Kamen Rider Zen! :D Quote:
You're correct in stating that Agito was the true start of Heisei, while also served as a "transition" period. The classic "somber" vibe of the Showa era is still present, with several concepts that were expanded and experimented with in Agito: - Multiple Riders, a concept that was later taken to extreme in Ryuki, - Multiple types of Riders, mystical, robotic/hi-tech, and biological/organic, - Robotic/hi-tech Riders, TRUE hi-tech Riders that draws their power from purely modern man-made items. This trend is continued to this day in varying degree, - And the last, the final appearance of biological/organic Rider. This is the last KR series that features a Rider that displays grotesque bodily change when he transforms, with a very bad side effect. You know, that guy that Lady Luck always seems to turn her back on. :D After this series, different themes & motifs began to be explored, to better fit the Kamen Rider franchise to today's culture & technology. And of course, more importantly, to create more merchandising opportunity. :D |
Ahhhh! Finally, we reach the stretch of series I feel really strongly about, in either direction. Agito definitely falls into the love category.
And your description of how you felt during the first three episodes reminds me a lot of how I felt when I watched them. I slogged through the end of Kuuga. I knew it wasn't bad, I just wasn't invested. Agito reminded me why I loved Rider after Kuuga left me so unaffected. Why I had watched everything from W-Ex-Aid at this point. Characters. Seeing characters struggle and trie to come out the other end as better people, and some failing. Kuuga didn't really give me that, especially with how it's lead was so optimistic with seemingly no reason for it. Agito immediately made it clear, that these people weren't just gonna be alright, they would have to fight for it. That things wouldn't just magically work out, they had a long, hard road in front of them. And yeah, Agito has a certain feel to it. It isn't overly dark and depressing, but it's also not happy. There is this looming darkness everywhere, seemingly waiting to strike at any moment. Also, the way you described the way G3 felt in these episodes, good catch. That is a first teaser on what this series will focus itself on later on when it establishes its own identity more. I didn't even catch that the first time, but really cool that stuff like this was already around from episode one. I hope you have as much fun with this show as I did. |
There's one comedic scene that I remember fondly from the show, I'll talk about it once Die reached around episode 35 or so.
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Agito is a real favorite of mine (I think it was my 2nd Rider tattoo) and I'm glad you're enjoying it so far Die.
As others have said, it finds it's own identity as it goes along, but it definitely has that "This is what we learned from Kuuga" vibe going for it. I actually saw Agito about 4 years before I watched Kuuga, which is probably why I don't hold it as (almost) "Sacred" as some. I also have to agree that the Hikawa/Hojou G3 stuff is some of the strongest in the show. |
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But, luckily, 100% not the case. It's still got that Working Class Kamen Rider vibe of Kuuga, but it feels more into being a superhero show this time. The Kamen Rider parts and the police procedural parts and the drama parts and the humor parts, they're all working together in harmony this time. Quote:
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MASKED RIDER AGITO EPISODES 05 - 06
https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/agito/agito05.png Despite a few funny/interesting scenes, our main cast recedes to the background for this story. (For the record: Shouichi being inappropriately horny; Houjou being all "Wow, it must be so great to be a secret hero who can leverage their secret heroism to get a job they should never have been offered” to Nijou; Spooky Kid haunting Lady Scientist; and Lady Cop yelling at Junior Cop for dwelling on the whole Didn't Agito Almost Murder G3 A Few Weeks Ago thing.) Nope, they're in this story, but it's definitely not about them. It's about Ryou. It's also about taking some of the dark, fatalist tone from Kuuga, but applying it in a way that best serves the story of Agito. Ryou's story so far is someone who's been cursed by darkness, turned into a monster, and found himself abandoned by the people he most depends on. His coach ghosts him. His teammates belittle him. His girlfriend tells him that it's his fault she's in danger. He's isolated and afraid, but he harnesses that fear, that self-loathing, to protect the people he cares for. I was surprised how into Ryou's story I was, because it has that suffocating despair that Kuuga tried to do often, but I thought it worked way better here. Some of it's the catharsis of a henshin and a monster explosion, but I think a lot of it is how Ryou's story is allowed to exist in parallel to the Agito/G3 part of the story. Ryou's story gets to be about him, his losses, his determination, his sacrifice. It doesn't have to have Shouichi's likely enthusiasm or tactlessness. It doesn't have to spill over into other scenes, leaving room for jokes and counterbalanced high-energy pure action scenes. It gets to live as this thread of a guy losing everything, but trying to persevere. Plus, it feeds into the larger story of special powers being a curse, but maybe also useful? That's a very on-brand Kamen Rider theme, and it's one that, again, I feel like Agito is expressing better than Kuuga. Kuuga had this tendency, for me, to kind-of miss the forest for the trees, spending a ton of time on the minutiae of How To Police and forgetting to address the emotional core of its characters, its stories. This one felt like an important counterpoint to Shouichi's story, someone who's isolated by his powers rather than embraced, someone who's haunted by his losses rather than allowed to forget them. It's anchored by heartfelt performances and subdued camerawork, and buoyed by Big Hero Shots and some awesomely violent action. (Very Amazons!) More than G3, I feel like Ryou is the right secondary Rider for Shouichi. https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/agito/agito06.png |
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And this is also a good look into how Inoue writes his stories. He takes a character and then beats the ever-loving shit out of them, mentally and physically until they either perceiver or wither and die. That isn't always something everyone will like, but for me, that is exactly how I like it. If a character doesn't suffer, I most likely won't be invested. https://pics.esmemes.com/t-love-thts...r-25092510.png Quote:
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Man, Die, you are seriously impressing me with quickly and accurately you're getting a grasp on what this show is about. I expected you would like Agito a lot, but I figured it would take at least a second, you know? :lol
But yeah, Ryou is great. Hopefully Hikawa will earn being called by his name soon enough. Agito was the first real multi-Rider show, and one thing it does better than most shows after it is how it makes each of its trio of heroes an integral pillar of a whole story. Each Rider has their own supporting cast, unique plotlines, and even overall tone, and they all connect to each other even when they aren't directly connecting. It's crazy organic. |
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Nijou gets a name when he's more than Young Ichijou. (They shoot his driving scenes exactly how they shot Ichijou's driving scenes! They are doing it to me on purpose!) Speaking of the connections, yeah, it was neat to see them thread the story from Agito/G3 to Ryou with Mayumi as the lynchpin, but in a way where the two hero groups are completely isolated. "Organic" is the right word for it. There's a logic to how things progress, how the characters are involved or invested in the threat. It's compelling storytelling. I really missed having multiple Riders to carry the narrative load. Multiple Riders feels like real Kamen Rider to me, in a way that Kuuga felt like it wasn't as into being. It's... Does anyone else watch the CW superhero shows? When they started, it was very We Are Not Doing Superheroes. Green Arrow wasn't called Green Arrow, it was dark and serious and definitely not a superhero show. But, very quickly, it seemed like they wised up and went, "Why are we working so hard to make a superhero show that's ashamed to be a superhero show?" Agito feels like a Kuuga that's sick of pretending it's not a superhero show. More superpowers! More suits! More monster fights! Lean into what's special about your show! |
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The way I describe Agito is either as the Twin Peaks of Kamen Rider or something Rod Serling would write if he was born decades later, took an interest in tokusatsu, and got a job at Toei as a writer.
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But yeah, that strip is fucking perfection. |
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MASKED RIDER AGITO EPISODES 07 - 08
https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/agito/agito07.png The monster stuff this story, whatever. The final fight between Bird Unknown and Red Agito was cool, because a monster got bisected and exploded, but the rest of it felt perfunctory and rushed. There's a vague handwave towards the victims being related, but no one involved really cracks a case or anything. Agito fights it, loses, fights it again, wins. The police are nowhere on this one, arriving to crime scenes and shrugging their shoulders. It's a little understandable, what with the G3 plotline (more on that in a minute), but with a superhero who doesn't know how to investigate and an investigative unit who can't fight, it leaves the monster-fighting part a little lackluster this time out. And, honestly, while it's worth calling out, it doesn't sink this story or anything. There's a few things to fill the time, to varying levels of success. First, all of the G3/Houjou drama, which, you guys. You guys. It's so good! It makes sense that the brass would be like, "This one dude does get his ass kicked pretty much regular, was he the right choice to save Japan?" And, you know, maybe he wasn't! He's kind of a doofy, clumsy failure! It doesn't surprise me that they'd give the nod to Houjou, at least as a trial. Nijou has not exactly made a great case, through actions or speech, to say why he's the one to pilot G3. (The subs keep referring to him as "G3's equipper", and, Jesus. Equipper? Pilot. He's piloting G3.) And Houjou just slam dunks Nijou afterward, with the most shit-eating grin and condescending condolences, all "Gosh, what a shame. But you'll probably be good at something else someday, buddy!" He's perfect, Houjou. Perfect. Less perfect are all of the many, many mysteries this two-parter juggles. We've got the two-years-ago boat accident, Mana's dad's death (ALL DADS ARE DEAD), the possibility of superpowers, Spooky Child/Teenager/Man, and Ryou's problematic hands (moisturizer and a humidifier, works a treat, you do not need the help of a demon child). That is a lot for a story that is not interested in solving really anything. One of those, the boat one maybe, and you've got something where it feels like there's some progress. All of those, and it feels like I'm watching the superhero TV show version of someone Just Making Conversation. Like, obviously, all of this stuff will become very relevant at a point (or several points) in the future, but right now it's just a lot. It is too much. Nothing gets to breathe, and there's this cloud of uncertainty over everything. It's... it's not a great way to start to foreground some of these plots. But, for me, it was the Mana plot that was pretty spectacular. It had a nice emotional arc, as she learns about Shouichi's "involvement" in her dad's death, feels hurt and confused, but chooses to believe in her friend. More than the solid, relatable emotions at the core, it does a great job working on the Power Is A Blessing And A Curse theme, showing how Mana's abilities are both hurtful, causing her to question Shouichi and making her witness her father's death, but also how those abilities allow her a chance to see her father's dying gift to her, and a chance to get closure. (That said, the high point for me was her yelling at Nijou to spend a little less time hanging out with her uncle and a little more time solving crimes like when college professors get murdered okay maybe how about that Nijou.) It's a plotline that shows the improvement of Agito over Kuuga, to me, in the ways Mana gets to feel her feelings, work through them, and make a decision to trust someone. She gets to be angry, but not in a way that immediately ignores her history and friendship with Shouichi. She's allowed to process things, to allow her to be the star of her story. Like the Ryou story from last time, it benefits from not having another character give a speech or make a move that solves the problem. She's never portrayed as being unreasonable, despite the viewer probably not thinking that Shouichi is a secret murderer. (No spoilers! Even spoiler text! I see the non-spoilered part when I get notification emails! Thanks!) It's... it's like a balance, allowing the characters to feel normal emotions, to make the consequences of where the story's going feel real, but always keeping an eye on the fact that it should be in service of telling a better sci-fi superhero story. It's tough, to see how much you can bend these relationships for a story, but Agito's got a handle on it so far. oh and also ryou is called gills now and he's about to attack spooky man holy shit this is going to be nutsssssss https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/agito/agito08.png |
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I feel directly responsible for your decision to go with TV-N's subs, so allow me to preemptively apologize for any more overly-literal (but accurate!) translations like this. Mind you, I don't actually remember for sure that Gomen-Rider didn't have that same exact problem with G3, but still. |
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