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What are you watching? (Kamen Rider Edition)
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11-27-2020, 11:16 PM
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Kurona
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Kamen Rider OOO Episode 11
An episode about a guy trying desperately to be as good as other writers more famous than him and disregarding everything unique about his own writing because the bigwigs say "we only care about writers who are just like this currently popular one"? Well DAMN that strikes a chord!
I mean, c'mon Yonemura, you haven't even written Super Hero Taisen yet! People liked Kabuto! I think! Trust me, dude: you've got a handle on OOO just fine. Along with a VERY funny two-parter later and the movie it leads into, this is Yonemura's only guest credit in OOO, but what has always impressed me is just how naturally he understands this cast. I'm not gonna act like he brings this magic to the characters' developments or that it was critically important these episodes existed (though I don't know how I'd live in a world without the 1000 2-parter), and true enough I don't actually have a lot to talk about this episode mostly because like the last time this happened, this is the set-up portion of a 2-parter; but it's the sort of thing where if you told me Kobayashi had written these episodes I wouldn't have blinked an eye. Eiji feels right, Ankh feels right, Gotou feels right; just the whole vibe is on point and I have to wonder if this is maybe one of this writer's strengths -- maybe that's why he was brought on for Super Hero Taisen in the first place. He watches a few episodes of a show and he just Gets characters.
I'll probably get more into the character of the week and his whole deal next time, but what's really striking me about the episode right now is Gotou. Once again he's got his big whole Tsundere deal going on, stretching to the point of literally just showing up after Eiji gets beat to say "Huh.
I'm
going to save the whole world". No point to him doing that, at all,
and it's so perfect.
This man is such a wonderful mess powerless to do anything while his boss goes "Yeah no you actually like Eiji it's written all over your face", and it's a wonderful contrast to our main hero. The man trying to save the world is being outdone at that task by someone just doing his best to help the people in front of him. Simple, wonderful, elegant poetry.
So let's blow him up!!!
Kamen Rider Ghost Episode 7
I love to see a Kamen Rider protagonist decide not to choose and to just do what both benefits themselves and the world around him. I love to see it.
Guess the theme of today is piling on the parallels because our character of the week is worried about his childhood friend acting strange and not responding to their friendship stuff after not seeing each other for years despite them having the closest of bonds as kids. I mean, uh, that's not a parallel at all; that's completely unrelated to Takeru's flashback about his childhood friend and Specter strangely looking at Takeru's father's grave and getting his backstory exposited to him by Saionji! I like that they're not beating around the bush too much with this reveal, by the by; while at the same time not outright saying it. The characters don't know yet and the show doesn't say it to the viewers, but this is the episode practically spelling out to you that yes, Specter is Takeru's childhood friend acting strange and not responding to their friendship stuff after not seeing each other for years despite them having the closest of bonds as kids. I'm a fan of this! I like when a show respects your intelligence enough to both get on with these story arcs so we can get to the juicy emotional beats while also not just saying to your face what's going on. It's perfect timing, too -- Specter's had a good few episodes now of Being The New Badass, and now he's actually starting to lose ground to a Ghost with newfound confidence, they're quite happy to move on with his story.
Talking of his newfound confidence, following on from last episode; I love how quickly Musashi has gone from getting merced every episode to now practically being Takeru's first super form. It's maybe not granting him great power as much as it's a sign that he's about to get real and kick your ass -- and on the flipside, I love that he
stopped using an extra eyecon
to do a Rider Kick in his base form. There is, like, no upside to that! But he did it just to show he has confidence in what
he
can do alone!
And it works!
Sure he needs the new Eyecon to win against probably the best bee woman suit this franchise has ever made (she's so
cute
), but new toys are new toys and symbolic acts are symbolic acts. I can take them using an american outlaw or two if it means the show can be as fun as it is right now.
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