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MASKED RIDER KUUGA EPISODES 21 - 22
A fairly standard Kuuga two-parter (there's a Grongi murdering people, the team investigates, a short fight, Kuuga explodes the monster) that has a total grab bag of subplots (Nana's drama teacher has been murdered, Enokida is a shitty mom, Jean failed a child in the past) that, like,
it's hard to see the story that's being told here
. Events are washing over me without feeling like there's a coherent theme being explored. It's hard to talk about this story without just, like, recapping it. That's not fun for me! So, here're two things I wanted to pull out from these episodes.
First, the Grongi plotline is coming on
incredibly
strong. It's shot beautifully in episode 21, super-saturated colors and bizarre angles, a weird fever-dream haze to the scenes. We start to get a bit more info, just enough to make the Grongi seem like more than bloodthirsty monsters. There's a bunch of stuff in this two-parter that feels undercooked or unimportant (So much Jean! Why so much Jean!), but the Grongi scenes just
snap
into focus. Their culture feels appropriately alien, making any new nugget of info something to be treasured. It's a slow-burn that has somehow not made me impatient. I'm really enjoying how this mega-arc is progressing.
Second, it's weird to me how much of the investigative stuff in this series takes place in the present tense. For the most part, we don't get any, "Hey, here's info we learned off-screen and now you can know it so we can get the plot moving." If someone learns something crucial to the plot, we have to see them learn it, then see them tell Ichijou, who then conveys it to Godai. Similarly, if something's happening somewhere, we have to see the police find out about it, see them deploy Ichijou, see Ichijou tell Godai, see Godai ride to the location, then see Godai encounter a monster. It's an, um,
interesting
choice? As someone who fairly recently was watching Ghost ("Takeru! A monster is attacking!" - how 85% of storylines start) and Wizard (five seconds of monster followed by Haruto jumping into frame), this sort of point-by-point plot progression is the single largest adjustment for me to make. I don't feel like I'm doing too great. It's deliberate in a way that I don't see enough value in, relative to how long it takes for a monster fight to happen. I don't know. I've said before that this show has more of an X-Files vibe to it, but even Mulder and Scully could be in a place and just tell us in dialogue how and why they're there. I am not going to assume Godai's full of shit if he tells me he got a call from Ichijou to go to the place we're seeing him in.
He's a trustworthy guy!
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