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10-08-2019, 08:37 AM
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Layton13
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Kamen Rider Die
Holy shit, I would be
legitimately thrilled
to hear someone tell me why they love Wizard. There's things I think it does really well (suits, Beast, Rinko, villain spotlight eps, the last arc), but it's not a show I loved
by any stretch
. I don't want to put you on the spot or nothing, but I would be very interested in the view of someone who loved Wizard.
Ok, why I love Wizard, huh. Ok, I take every chance to talk about my fifth favorite Rider show.
So, I think one of the things every piece of media needs to know is what it wants to be. A story with intriguing and plot twists up the ass, a slice of life show, etc., etc. Wizard did know what it wanted to be really early on, a monster of the week show that examined the concept of hope, what forms it takes, what is destructive hope, how hope changes and how people refuse to give it up and together with that the concept of depression.
I personally am more a fan of slower-paced, filler heavy series because you just get to see the characters in smaller, more diverse situations and Wizard has a lot of episodes that still stick in my head, like the Christmas episode with the orphan buying presents, the episode with the baker who didn't want his apprentice to lose his job, the episode with the man mourning his dead wife, the episode where the Phantom tortured the woman by letting everyone hate her, Beasts grandma, Beasts old friend and the money, Haruto's old teacher and the toy plane, or the old football buddy of Haruto, so many good ones that just stuck in my head. Wizard is a series filled with great two-parters and I think it did that because it knew exactly what it wanted to be. That can also be seen in the Summer Movie which is an absolute blast.
I also adore the characters, especially Haruto who has managed to weasel his ring into my heart as my favorite Kamen Rider. I like how he appears on the outside, this confident, nonchalant guy who is so determined to save people. And I adore him, even more, when one looks past that shell of his, revealing an absolutely broken man plagued by survivors' guilt for the death of his family and the Sabbath. A man that only thinks his life is worth anything if he can be the hope of someone else. A man who whenever he is knocked down will only stand up stronger. A man that over the course of the show manages to learn to accept the things that happened and can even let go of those he can't save and still finds a place for them in his memories, in one of the best epilogues in Kamen Rider history.
Nitoh is also a great character, someone who is at first only out for himself that quickly learns to take his job as a Rider almost as serious as Haruto. I'm also a fan of his big risk, big reward lifestyle. Just a very cool character and one of the only things Wisemen didn't account for, and what ultimately foils his plans together with the power forged by Haruto.
The supporting cast is fine, never annoyed me all that much, minus a certain bird episode, Rinko remains useful throught the show through her connection to Section Zero, Shunpei doesn't annoy me, Wajima is nice enough. Koyomi is the character that is the least fleshed out, but ultimately her plot points still work well enough, even if I wish she would have had more to do. The three Mages are also fine, through Mayu stands out as a really cool character that maybe should have gotten a bit more to do, but still rocks.
The villains are all good, Medusas twisted hope of being acknowledged by Wisemen, Phoenix hopes for mayhem, and of course the ever despicable Gremlin with his hope of becoming a human again. A human monster in the skin of a Phantom, a great inverse of Haruto and really everything he stands for, tied down by the past and willing to sacrifice anyone for himself. Oh, and Wisemen, god do I feel bad for him, he is just a father who wants his daughter back but goes way too far. His plan was quite good and only broken through things he couldn't have known.
All in all, this is why I love this series so much, but if you want anotherone talking about it, I have a great video for you:
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