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What are you watching? (Kamen Rider Edition)
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Fish Sandwich
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Faiz 3-4:
I really love the initial road trip section of Faiz. It's neat to get Rider away from the same big city environments for a bit, and it actually serves something of a narrative purpose by keeping the two main groups of protagonists very clearly separated before the show is ready to have them start interacting. I don't know, it's cool. I joked that this is the least fun Rider show before, but there's a certain charm to it when it clicks with you that actually does make it really enjoyable, despite being so
aggressively
macabre. I get the feeling from Faiz that after Ryuki kicked the door open with regards to how much Kamen Rider could change things up, this is the show that just went for broke. If nothing else, it's hard to accuse Faiz of playing it safe. Not only is the main protagonist introduced in a ~misunderstanding~ that makes it look like he's the bad guy for a second (and yes, the ~misunderstandings~ start in the very first episode), it takes him what would've been a month in real-time to even remotely commit to being involved in the plot, and that's only
after
we already had a second Faiz. In the fourth episode! We'll see how much this holds water later on, but it's that sense of wild creativity that draws me to this show.
Speaking of which, episode 3 has one of the more inexplicably memorable moments of the series to me. It's the first time Faiz uses his gun. Obviously it's gotta be some epic moment, right? Probably a really dramatic shot where we see him looking down the barrel, all determined and cool.
Oooooorrrr
he could just be chilling on the ground taking a little break after the monster knocks him down. See? Inoue's "whatever" approach to writing Faiz has its upsides!
W 3-4:
Holy crap this show knows what it's doing. This two-parter is solid gold. Even a decade later, this show
still
feels like a breath of fresh air in a way little else can compete with. Double has this insanely strong idea of what it wants to be, and it gets right to it. There's no waste to be found here. The central plot is a perfectly genre-appropriate shady casino mystery that does its job of further developing the main characters, effortlessly getting Philip directly in on the action during the climax, just so you know he won't
only
be sitting in one of two rooms the entire series, and everything around it is no less amazing. Something I wouldn't have appreciated when I first watched it is the gradual build to Nazca's reveal. It's this neat progression of the ongoing bad guy subplot where we see a few brief glimpses of him, generating some intrigue until we finally see the full suit at a particularly dramatic moment that amazingly
doesn't
involve a fight scene. I guess Double is just too clever for that.
Also, the Money Dopant is awesome. I don't know if monster commentary is going to become a recurring thing, but considering I dissed T-Rex last time, I feel like I should at least give some props to a villain that's more my speed. The design is a perfect blend of weird and cool, being neither as silly as T-Rex or as generic as the Magma Dopant, and as a character he's got a fun personality and a suitably scummy scheme to get you wanting to see him taken down a peg. 10/10 stuff right here:
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barnstenchfartface
A group called Agony released Faiz at some point last year. I'm not 100% sure on whether it's just a scrub or a full resub, so I don't know how it compares to TVN, but it's an option.
Thanks for the heads up! For what I've skimmed through, they have noticeably cleaned up some of the more wooden lines, but it pretty clearly is just a scrub, because all the mistranslations, including the exact one I was complaining about, are still there. And also the episode previews aren't translated at all?
Honestly, I'm appreciating all over again how amazing it is that Excite! went and did such a nice job with Blade out of nowhere. I hope Faiz (and Den-O!) can get the same treatment some day.
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Originally Posted by
Kurona
It's kinda wild that I started Faiz at basically the same time as two other people here; and I feel pretty bad that I seem to be the only one with not much positive to say!
Actually, in my case it's not that wild, because the knowledge that you and Kamen Rider Die were both liable to get around it soon was one of the things that gave me the push to give myself this refresher. I want to be able to actually
talk
about Faiz, and that's hard to do when so much of it is a blur to me.
Definitely don't feel bad about not liking Faiz, either! I'm pretty sure that's the "normal" reaction to being exposed to this level of Inoue.
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Auto Vajin is great and I'm trying not to get too excited for an explanation on its pseudo-sentience and acting on its own because this is Inoue, and, uh. Inoue.
Now, you're actually farther ahead than me right now, and I just said I barely remember this show, but I believe Auto-Vajin's entire shtick is that it's specifically programmed to protect Mari. Hence why Takkun's always getting caught in the crossfire and all that. It just doesn't care about anything else.
I don't think this is something ever
explicitly
addressed in the show, but they do specifically show him activating for the first time in episode 4 by reacting to something Mari says, so there's a fairly clear implication.
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