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Just finished watching Vulcan & Valkyrie, and I gotta say, it's really locked in how I feel about the whole 01hers duology – it's got a lot of great concepts, is pretentious as all heck, has direction that keeps wavering between unusually stylish and unusually
sloppy
, takes what it's doing a bit too far in places... and yet all that boneheaded ambition, despite my frustrations, ends up feeling endearing to me when all is said and done, exactly how Zero-One always seems to.
I mean, it's a movie where a wounded Fuwa has the classic Rider tears painted on his face with his own blood. I just can't hate that, you know?
A lot of what I adore about Zero-One is how I feel it's thematically rich in a way that's specifically geared to get people
thinking
, and while these V-Cinemas have this almost self-satisfied bluntness in how the characters talk about some of those themes, as ever, I deeply appreciate the effort to put some very real substance behind all the drama. In a lot of ways, I think this one of the tightest, most natural continuations a Rider show has gotten. In many other ways,
it isn't
, but hey, I learned things aren't always black and white from watching Zero-One well before they made two movies all about that idea. Because it really isn't like there are good things and bad things about Vulcan & Valkyire; there are just
things
, and there a lot of different ways I feel about them, which I figure is way better than if I didn't feel anything at all.
At the end of the day, MetsubouJinrai is still a really charming and unique "character", and I think they did great work highlighting how much both Fuwa and Yua live up to that whole Kamen Rider ideal. (
Significantly
more subtly for the latter, mind you, but that's actually just being even more true to their characters.) MetsubouJinrai sort of left a bad taste in my mouth at the end, but for whatever reason, Vulcan & Valkyrie didn't, even though there are at least an many things about its ending I found unpalatable. I'm sure this post comes off a little ambiguous, but I honestly do think I'm rather satisfied with this one.
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