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What are you watching? (Kamen Rider Edition)
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09-05-2018, 12:02 PM
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ShyGuy
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After a long hiatus I finally got around to finishing Kabuto and it was, well…not very good. It wasn’t the worst I’ve seen, certainly not as bad as Faiz or Hibiki’s second half, but it was just kind of bland and mediocre. It had really cool suits and an interesting premise, but that’s about it. It was just so uninteresting, with characters I didn’t care about and a story that felt like it went nowhere most of the time. Ultimately, I just thought it was dull and unremarkable in about every aspect possible.
Tendou himself was a major contributor to my feelings on this show. He is the epitome of the flawless Gary Stu character type. Good at everything, has no weaknesses, and worst of all is aware of this fact and lords it over everyone else constantly. He has virtually no character growth across the series and is obnoxious most of the time, he is easily among my least favorite main Riders. This does get a little better towards the end when they give him some material to work with in terms of emotional vulnerability and motivations, but it’s too little too late.
Kagami honestly would have made a better protagonist, his storyline more closely follows the path of the main Rider in most other Rider shows. I definitely preferred him to Tendou, but even then he still wasn’t terribly interesting. It takes a long time before he even becomes a Rider which I thought was kind of unique, it makes it feel earned by the time he does get that power. But despite that I never felt that invested in him as a character.
Tsurugi had a really interesting story but it got mostly shafted until the end. I did think the conclusion to his story was good and liked the plotline of him
actually being the Scorpius Worm and in denial of his own identity,
but it took way too long to get to any real meaningful development of that and when it did get there it ended almost immediately. Instead he spent most of the series as a kind of annoying comic relief character and all of his good material was barely touched on until the end.
Daisuke was probably my overall favorite of the four major Riders. His relationship with Gon felt like the only effective characterization in the show, their connection felt genuine and believable. I actually didn’t like Daisuke during his debut, but as he continued to appear I think his interactions with Gon and the other Riders made him more likable and the only one of them I ever really cared about. It’s just too bad he wasn’t as regular as the others.
And then we get to the Hoppers, and oh boy were these guys something. I don’t even know where to begin, everything about them was so bizarre and comically stupid. Even before they gained their Hopper suits (Which came completely out of nowhere and are never given any kind of explanation) both of these guys sucked. Kageyama might actually be the single biggest loser in the entire Kamen Rider franchise, the guy is hopelessly inept at literally everything he does. Every other character treats him like a total joke and he does nothing to prove them wrong, constantly getting beat up and outsmarted by everyone else to an absurd degree. He was actually one of my favorite characters in the end just because he was so lame that it was hilarious, I knew as soon as he showed up in a scene that I would be amused by whatever stupid thing he tries and inevitably fails terribly at. Yaguruma isn’t much better, he barely does anything successful and his whole “I’m so dark and edgy” shtick after his inexplicable reappearance as KickHopper is completely ridiculous, I laughed every time he appeared on screen in his silly leather outfit. So I guess in a weird way these two were kind of my favorite thing about the show, everything else was so boring to me that the unintentional hilarity these two brought was a welcome relief to the normally plodding story and dull characters.
To build on that last point, the pacing and just general slowness of the plot was one of my major issues. It felt like the show was going in circles most of the time and making no real progress until things finally kicked in during the last few episodes. Those last episodes were probably the best, I actually felt kind of interested in where it was going, in contrast to how I felt throughout everything up to it. But it took way too long to get to that point, and on top of that the writing slipped into a common issue both Faiz and Ryuki had where characters will just seemingly teleport where they need to be at any given time, and intense fights that inexplicably come to a dead stop before reaching any kind of climax and the characters just walk away for no reason. It didn’t happen as often here as it did in those other two, but it was still jarring and annoying when it did happen.
Overall, my feelings on Kabuto can probably be summed up by using a food example, which is fitting considering the show’s bizarre fixation on food. Basically, it was like a saltine cracker. I don’t particularly enjoy saltine crackers, but by no means do I dislike them either. They are so bland, tasteless, and forgettable that I just don’t really think anything of them at all. That perfectly describes my feelings towards Kabuto. At its worst it was still nowhere near as bad as some other Rider shows, but at its best it was not particularly good either. Kabuto was utterly unremarkable in about every aspect possible. Now it’s time to move on to Den-O, which I’m much more hopeful for.
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