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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Den-O
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04-18-2021, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by
Sunred
Whatever your verdict for Kai is, please please please watch Ultraman Orb. Hideo Ishiguro came a long way from Kai to Gai in a span of 9 years and it is his best work to date. And it is 25 episodes if I recall. Gai is every Clint Eastwood cowboy but with a funky harmonica, loves public bathhouses and soda pop.
I'm sure I'll be doing some Ultraman stuff at some point. It's a real blindspot for me (literally no idea what the premise really is, despite seeing it satirized a little in the Kaijumax comic), and once I finish Saber (
in 2022
) I'll be checking out Sentai and Ultra stuff in-between Rider rewatches. Maybe Orb!
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Layton13
Oh Den-O... What a peculuare series you are.
One of the few that can make me slam my head against the wall because of some nonsense, or one of the, for me, unbearable characters, and ten seconds later I'm balling my eyes out.
The show has amazing highs, like a certain talk inside the terminal between Ryotaru and Momotaros, and in general, their friendship, which I even find better than Ankh and Eiji, is absolutely fantastic! Same with Yuto and Deneb.
But the lows are abysmal and sadly, typical for almost any Kobayashi show, minus OOO's. I can't stand the three other residents of the Den-Liner with their just annoying character quirks that seem to overshadow them as actual characters. The show lacks a good sense of momentum and the villain, in typical Kobayashi fashion, is a big fat nothing. Granted, none of these problems are as egregious as in her Sentai outings, where these things tend to tank the show for me in general, but still...
All that said, I liked my time with this show. It wormed itself into my heart, even if it's a love-hate relationship.
And now I want to watch Final Countdown again
I will actually fight for the storytelling
brilliance
of making Kai a disinterested "big fat nothing" of an endgame villain! This is my Fish Sandwich hill to die on, where I defend something that is objectively lame
because
its lameness is intrinsic to its success. I have become what I what railed against, and I don't know what to do with that.
Beyond that, yeah, complicated feelings about Den-O! Same! It's not one I can endorse wholeheartedly, but it was a fun show to spend a couple months with. There's some real big wins nestled against some shocking disappointments. Glad it ended up kinda sorta winning you over!
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