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07-02-2020, 10:43 AM
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Kamen Rider Die
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Fish Sandwich
So you remember how after you got done with Agito, I said that was my favorite thread you've done so far? Apparently you and Inoue turned out to be a Best Match, because this blows that out of the water.
Faiz went over
astonishingly
well with you, and I think that sort of enthusiasm rubs off on everyone else. If we had a lot to say about Faiz, it's only because you had a lot to say about Faiz. Your thoughts on it were consistently super insightful and interesting. The fact that you've had people saying you've opened their eyes to the things about the show that maybe worked great after all is really all the proof you should need that you did a fantastic job with this one. You took an extremely divisive series, and made a compelling argument why, even with its flaws, there's more in there worth loving than people often give it credit for. I'm downright
proud
of you.
I have a feeling Faiz will maybe be a hard show to top for you? It sort of seems like this is going to go down as one of your favorites of this era of Rider. Or, I don't know, maybe this is a general trend, and by Zi-O, these threads are going to average 500 pages each, and you'll be writing an entire essay for each individual segment of an episode between commercial breaks, but it's totally fine if they get smaller instead of bigger, too! Enjoy your break! It's important not to wear yourself out with this stuff! Whether Blade ends up being another hit with you, or just a moderately enjoyable good time, I'll be sure to Turn Up for it, when you're ready.
That... wow. Wow!
Thank you
. That is a beyond generous thing to write. I'm not sure my brain is built to break down and process that much positivity directed at me, so I think I'm going to tear off little chunks (a couple sentences) to absorb over the next week. I want to portion it out.
Yeah, Inoue,
right?
I remember not liking his Kuuga's pretty much at all, and folks were like Oh No You Got Way More Inoue To Go, and I made a joke about him being my nemesis. Then Agito's actually really good? And his Ryuki fill-ins were mind-blowingly funny (Yui knocking over a bookcase, Kitaoka's silent Henshin)? And now Faiz? I'm not sure "nemesis" is appropriate, you know? Feels like a different connection he and I have.
I'm not sure how I want to approach Blade yet. I've got a tiny framework, something to give the episodes a little more context for people who haven't watched them in a while. I don't know. Part of me wants to make the posts shorter, punchier, but... that was what I wanted to do with Faiz, and that show was like Cool Cool Cool Here's Deep Themes And Fascinating Characters. We make plans and Kamen Rider shows laugh, is I think the expression.
(I
do
have a larger thing I want to do for Decade, a special project. We'll see how/if things line up for that. Probably something I won't talk about until Kiva.)
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Magnugiga
Congrats on the thread completion! Man, you write so much faster than I can keep up
The Orphnoch King nonsense and the way they badly fumbled (IMO) Yuji's arc almost had me soured on the show as a whole after the highs of Takumi's reveal and Yuka's arc, not unlike how the mid-series Ryusei sub-plot significantly offset the show's stellar first quarter. I always had a sense that the endgame would be Yuuji vs. Takumi ever since the first couple of episodes, and it's something I was really excited about for its immense dramatic potential, but yeah... I really wish it could happen in a more organic and deliberate manner.
That said, the highs of Faiz are just as good as any toku shows I've seen, and it's likely I'd appreciate it even more on eventual rewatch. As I said earlier in the thread, I really do adore this band of jerks and losers. I don't think I can ever ignore the many missteps it made along the way, but reading through this thread and others' opinion, it also dawned on me that the core of the show is even more clever and thematically interesting than I first thought.
It's a (pleasant) surprise that you like the series this much, and that so many people have strong opinion on Faiz! As someone who's always been more partial to the Phase I Heisei, this thread has been really delightful. Also, I don't know if this has been mentioned here, but while opinion on Faiz is seemingly very mixed among the Western fandom,
it's actually the most popular KR show in Japan according to recent-ish poll.
A combination of peak J-drama + high toyetic value + flip phone (*they really do love their flippers), perhaps? Whatever it is, I got the feeling the show has successfully tapped into the cultural zeitgeist in the country at the time. Faiz is also quite popular in my country; the series ranked third and the movie ranked second most favorite in last year's poll across all the Heisei shows/movies.
I think they just, at the core of the premise, created the right characters (the main seven kids) and cast the perfect actors for the roles. There's a lot of great thematic stuff going on, but none of that would matter if you weren't invested in Yuuji's morality, Kaido's theatricality, Yuka's loneliness, Keitaro's hopes, Kusaka's monstrousness, Mari's dedication, and Takumi's growth. And that's the stuff I think the show nailed. Everything else is gravy.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Kurona
Weeell, Hibiki's Figure-Rise should be out by the time you finish that! The real one I'd worry about is Kabuto...
And I'm definitely going to get that Hibiki! But the Figuarts are my little trophies. The Figure-Rise kits I get all of, 'cause they're fun to build and pose. The Figuarts... they symbolize something to me? I don't know. It's probably dumb. I'm still an adult with a realistic budget, so some of these guys are going to be out of my reach. (Still haven't dropped the cash for Seihou Wizard, despite that being my favorite suit and a show I finished a year ago.)
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