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05-08-2020, 02:12 PM
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Kamen Rider Die
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*musical note* Catch-ing Up On Faaaiiiiizzzz Posts 'Cause I Don't Want To Wo-ork *musical note*
I had weirdly vivid dreams about watching Faiz last night. Like, not about Faiz, but about
watching Faiz
. It was a weird thing where I'd written about a couple episodes, but then I watched another few and things happened that changed the context of the earlier episodes (one of the Riders was a double-agent?) and that was screwing with my head to not be able to talk about that stuff yet? It was weird. I feel like talking about Faiz is going to get real weird for me.
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Originally Posted by
Kurona
Don't hold me to this because I break promises a lot - I had a lot more good to say about Ryuki than I thought, which is nice! - but I definitely think this is the point I'm gonna konk out aside from when there's a funny good toy. I'm afraid Faiz is a show I don't have much good to say about -- it's a very marmite show, I find. You either completely vibe with what it's going for; you love what it's doing; or you really,
really
don't. It's probably one of if not the most polarising Riders I've seen, and you can probably tell which 'side' I'm on.
Still! ... I like the belt! Come to think of it actually, there's a couple early merch things I gotta talk about as they happen. And the Faiz Belt is one of them -- a lot of people love how simple and realistic it is and I really gotta agree. Even if it's not something I want to totally see a return to (if we stuck to this we'd never have Taka Kujaku Condoru, like; come on), it's really nice for what it is. Just a good ol' flip-phone that reminds me of when I used to play Snake when bored sitting in the car and then it takes a step-up over your usual Sentai changer by shoving it into a belt. Epic.
I really interested to find out how this show gets so polarizing for people. It seems fairly uncontroversial right now, so I can't quite see the edges of how it turns so many folks off. That'll be a fun reveal!
The belt is great. One of my favorite things in Amazons was that the belts didn't just show up out of nowhere, which was an Ex-Aid staple I always found hilarious. (The Gamer Driver was the size of a
toaster.
Where the hell were these doctors hiding it?) Having to drag the belts around (sometimes literally!) gave things a different flavor, less wish-fulfillment and more This Terrible Responsibility. I really like that for Faiz, in this episode. That the belt was precious to Kamen Rider Aubrey Plaza, and became something to battle over at the climax. It's neat!
And, yeah, god, it takes me back to my first cellphone, a Motorola Razr that I got because I was last-minute working the San Diego Comic-Con (2005?) and I needed to be able to coordinate with people. I love that the most about Kamen Rider, I think, the way they incorporate semi-recent technology in magical ways. Can cellphones turn you into a superhero? Why not!
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Originally Posted by
Fish Sandwich
Oh geez this popped out of nowhere! Uh, let my try to catch up real quick:
- So, obviously, because it's come up a few times, I'm extremely fond of Faiz, for starters. It's another show I've rewatched fairly recently and even wrote all about it, so I should be in a good place to discuss whatever about it.
- When I was doing that, the subs were driving me so completely insane, I did indeed make correcting them a regular feature of my posts about it. Faiz's subs are
bad
. I know you don't like spoilers, but since you're using TV-N, I'll just say, get ready to find out who carries magazines around while intentionally going soon enough. I may be on standby to defend this show, but I'm also just on standby to play translation cop for a series that relies heavily on dialogue to carry its story.
- I've also been so absorbed with Kuuga lately for obvious reasons that I may have pushed a lot of this stuff out of my head, but I don't actually remember that much wrong about the premiere.
- I also really love this first episode, of course. Faiz was one of the earlier Rider shows I watched, and it was mindblowing to see how downplayed the actual Rider stuff is here. Really strong characterization, too, even for characters that aren't truly in the spotlight yet. It was
worlds
away from something like OOO tonally, and I think the way Faiz highlights the variety of this franchise is one of the things I love most about it to this day. I kind of see Faiz like, after Ryuki kicked the door open for what "Kamen Rider" could mean, it was the show that got to really enjoy that newfound freedom.
Yeah, please, let me know what the translation is misattributing! Nothing felt too murky in the premiere, writing-wise, but it sounds like there'll be some bumps in the road.
It's a really strong premiere, I thought. It covers a ton of ground in a really smooth way. The writing's real on-point, so a bunch of short scenes manage to give you everything you need to know about Yuuji and (to a less complete degree) Kamen Rider Aubrey Plaza, so you get why they behave the way they do and why they make the choices they make. Like, that little bit with Yuuji and his mom and his girlfriend in the beginning, it's sweet without being saccharine, and the performance has a warmth without being cloying. It's pitched
just right
, and I felt like every short scene had that same balanced feeling.
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Originally Posted by
Sunred
After a good year of trading cards and then getting a rider who uses a cellphone to suit up was pretty wild at the time. I mean cellphones were already done twice in Super Sentai but this was next level. The Faiz Driver was just an amazing piece of hardware itself and while somewhat expected, inputting the code to transform and then docking it to the belt was just satisfying to see every time.
I really like prepping sequences? Like, not just the Henshin, although I love those, but docking and inputting codes and choosing functions and all of that shit. It definitely releases some weird chemicals in my brain. I came in through Ex-Aid, which has
so many steps
to get a Rider onscreen. I guess what I'm saying is the more convoluted, the better.
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Originally Posted by
Androzani84
Ah we’re finally onto a good show (by my standards, I prefer it to Kuuga and Ryuki. Havent seen Agito yet).
Anyway, if you think Faiz looking older than his actual age is crazy, I’ll point out that the girl was only FIFTEEN when they shot this episode. (Which is still younger than the youngest actor to play a main rider [which is currently a tie between Gjost and Zi-O, both of whom were 17].)
Also, I kind of like that after 3 seasons of straight up nice guys with magic powers, we go to a slightly more aloof individual who’s entirely grounded in technology. But then again, this show is going for a more “Showa” vibe than the previous three. I’ll explain what I mean at various points when they come up.
Well, the general horror vibe fits in my assumption of Showa, so I'm not super surprised to hear Faiz described that way.
I really like the ambiguity of the first Faiz episode, how it feels like Yuuji's the star until NOPE Horsepower, and how Faiz is this weird creeper in the background until NOPE Kamen Rider. It's a really fun choice for the show to make.
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Originally Posted by
Switchblade
Standing by....
Complete.
I've been looking forward to this. Faiz is a show that I have... let's say "mixed feelings" on. It has great suits and the sexiest belt voice ever, it has some good characters, it has some cool ideas, but it also...
Okay, let me put it this way for the sake of avoiding spoilers: what Faiz does well it does really well, and what it does badly it does a lot. Compared to the other early Heisei era shows so far, you're going to see this one skew a lot more towards melodrama. This is
the
Kamen Rider soap opera and I'm curious to see how much that works for you. For me, it often crossed the line into unintentional self parody. I liked it a lot when I first watched it, but I hit a point where I started realizing how its storytelling engine worked and from that moment on I found the show increasingly frustrating. It's also a show that has soured a lot more in my memory as the years have gone by. I've considered rewatching it a few times to see how much of it matches up with my recollections (and may still do so alongside this thread; we'll see).
The subs probably won't be too bad. Faiz was one of TV-Nihon's first projects and the original subs have a lot of issues. They did go back and re-do the series several years ago, though, with better video quality and a new translation. As for the quality on it? I don't know. TV-N's biggest problem has always been that they still sub like an early 2000s fansub group: flashy fonts, translator notes, untranslated words that don't have a one-for-one translation, and a tendency to sacrifice grammar for correlation. Last I saw they'd gotten over some of that (and we're years out from the "o-baka-san-tachi" days), but I'm not sure where the Faiz re-sub lands in all that. I do know that you're going to be seeing the word "nekojita" pop up a lot.
My favorite Driver voice
full stop
is Necrom's.
It's
perfectly
sinister. It's not just powerful, but
scary
. It is a Driver sound that is working overtime to be intimidating, and I love it. Faiz's Standing By thing, I didn't really get a great listen to it yet, but it definitely reminded me of Necrom's, and that's the highest praise I can give a Driver.
I can see the melodrama criticism. Yuuji's story is so bleak in just one episode, in just
a few minutes
, that I can see it not working for some folks. I'm generally pretty okay with melodrama in my Kamen Rider. It's a superhero show, and that's always going to mean Heightened Emotions to me. It's a genre that's about expressing universal themes as punchable villains, and encoding emotional arcs into deaths and explosions and superpowers. There's... I think that whole genre works less good without melodrama. Trying to do Realistic Emotions while also having monsters and transformations and some number of villainous schemes, it's working against the grain of the genre. You can do it, but it's always going to feel slightly unnatural. Still! You can definitely push it too far, and I'm not surprised that Inoue maybe did for some viewers. (I mean, he's the man that brought us DOUBLE SURGERIES.)
There was at least one, like, Yuuji-kun or something in the subs for the first episode, and I do not love the font they're using on this show at all. The content's been mostly fine (and I've got the Fifth Anniversary version, which might be improved from what other people had), but it's not going to be my favorite subbing. Couldn't find another version, though!
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