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Kamen Rider Saber Episode 13- "I Will Stick To My Convictions!" Discussion
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Fish Sandwich
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I'll say this right now: I'm going to be angry if Touma turns into one of those Riders who only ever uses his upgrade forms from here on out. I see regular ol' Brave Dragon in the preview, which is a good sign; Saber has been quite good about about getting the default forms in there despite all the Books already in the show. But what I'm more concerned about is Touma losing his unique storyteller fighting style in favor of just hitting things hard. The scenes of him trying out random side forms and doing weird special attacks, I love those. It's something unique to Saber and the variety it adds is a lot of fun. When have you seen a Kamen Rider get used as a sword by a giant robot before?
Dragonic Knight is pretty traditional in its execution, by comparison, but at least for the purposes of this particular episode, I did quite like it. It's a well directed fight scene, and Ishida even got to tell somebody to light something on fire, so you know it's good! The end bit where Saber fights Calibur in the form a purple ball of light is maybe a letdown, admittedly (could he not just have had five dragons or something cool?), but overall, it's a strong first impression. Hopefully, at the very least, they do creative and cool things with the not-Dragvisor's ability to read the existing Books though. I know I'm harping on about this, but it's just... there was a really awesome shiny silver form for the main Rider in the last show that got old quick for me, and I'd like not to feel that way about another one.
In terms of the story for this episode, it's not doing anything I didn't expect, but I thought it was quite solid... right up until the end, where it did something I didn't expect and impressed me a little more. Again, Kento is absolutely going to be fine in the long-run (him and Touma have a promise to keep!), but I do like that there was some legitimate, immediate consequence to him rushing out to get beat up by Calibur three times in as many episodes. It added a nice bit of weight to the story, and helped ease some of the repetition of how many swordsmen have been out there heroically throwing themselves on the line lately.
And it's seriously like
everybody
in this one. Daishinji chills at the base the whole time like the nerd he is, but for the rest of Sword of Logos, it's a whole lot of bruised makeup and laying on the ground making dramatic proclamations through gritted teeth. I don't hate it! It's all got extremely great direction (of course), and these actors deliver their lines with appropriate conviction. Funnily enough, the most legitimately emotional moment in the episode for me was actually when Rintarou did the
homo-sapiens
thing again. Struck a really good balance of heartwarming and chuckle-worthy. Sometimes it's the little things that count for the most.
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