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Kamen Rider Die watches Masked Rider Kuuga
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12-06-2019, 01:44 PM
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Kamen Rider Die
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Kurona
Oh hey, was just wondering about you the other day! Was worried I'd scared you off, haha
Congrats on the new store!
Thanks! I really thought I'd be able to juggle night and day, 24-7 work with 30 episodes of a Japanese superhero show, but that was
maybe a miscalculation
. I'm excited to be back watching this weird-ass horror show, though!
Quote:
Originally Posted by
FreshToku
Honestly I think at this point that Kuuga as a whole might not be your kind of rousing superhero show, but I hope you'll have found plenty to like about it by the time you reach the end.
Congrats and all the best with whatever more work comes your way!
Thanks! Yeah, it maybe is never going to be my favorite Kamen Rider show. But, like, I don't
hate
it. It's just so weird, in its bizarre dialogue scenes and anti-humor and bonkers violence and confusing commitment to procedure at the expense of pacing... It's, I don't know. I'm glad I'm watching it, since it's a Kamen Rider show and I really like those, but it's so long before the franchise added all of things I think of as "a Kamen Rider show". It's like telling someone you like hamburgers and they hand you an uncooked beef patty. It may eventually become a hamburger, but it needs so many more things done to it first.
And, I'll acknowledge, that it's definitely a Your Mileage May Vary sort-of situation. I'm someone who came in through Ex-Aid and Double, so, yeah, this is an adjustment. I do like trying to figure this show out, enjoy what it's trying to do without judging it unfairly. (That Godai/Kuuga switch-out shot! So cool!) Hopefully these posts aren't too frustrating to the Kuuga fans out there. I don't know that I can ever see the show you do, but I really want to see what it's doing.
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Originally Posted by
BagJo
I definitely like Kuuga, but much like with Fourze I'm pretty surprised when people tell me it's their hands-down favorite Rider Series. I feel like both shows suffer a bit from leaning too hard in one direction.
But hey, I like Kiva and Faiz, so everyone's different.
Also, I'm glad to see you're back Die, this is my first time commenting on this thread but hardly my first visit.
Thanks! I'll try not to take another unadvertised break again. I really want to try and wrap Kuuga up before Christmas, then maybe a week or so off before Agito. Fingers crossed!
The Kuuga as a favorite, while it's not me, I can see how folks would say it. It's definitely doing a different kind of thing to the modern stuff, while not feeling as janky as the Showa stuff can. It's a very clear middle-ground to the horror aspects of the Showa era and the form-change-heavy Heisei era. Not to keep making food references (I should really get lunch) but Kuuga, for the right kind of fan, is a very Chocolate In My Peanut Butter type of show.
(Fourze is just great, though. They defeat the main enemy
by telling him that they're proud of him
. It's probably in my Top 5 shows, and I can easily see it being some folks' favorite. Without getting too deep in this parenthetical, I really enjoy how committed Fourze is to its themes and motifs. It's Degrassi, if they had a clubhouse on the moon and fought monsters. It's about friendship, and accepting people, and how no one's beyond redemption, and it's doing it within the language and framework of both a high school dramedy and a superhero show. High degree of difficulty, and there are some late-game pacing issues, but it never didn't feel like a Kamen Rider show to me.)
I'm real interested in seeing Faiz and Kiva. They both have (from what little I've checked out), uh,
reputations
. But, like, so did Ghost, and I'm incredibly glad I watched that show.
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