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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Den-O
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02-26-2021, 02:18 PM
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KAMEN RIDER DEN-O EPISODE 7 - “JEALOUSY BOMBER”
Visually, though… this episode was an absolute stunner.
It starts with this Ryotaro yawn, big as the screen. He’s not just tired, he’s TIRED. This is an ALL-CAPS episode, where everything is heightened, everything is shouted out as loud as possible… except for what really matters.
He needs treatment for that, and it'll require Airi household's treatment as one of the ways!
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These beautifully framed shots of Airi and her telescope, a feeling so massive it stays silent. Hope? Joy? Longing? It’s an episode where the biggest emotions are kept inside, hidden from the world. She wants her brother to find his way, to discover what he’s meant for. But what does she want for herself? What is her passion? This is the first episode to really press on what Airi is all about, and it’s as beautiful in its mystery as you’d expect.
She's a relative of a main character, she would of course have something that she's about. She's Ryotaro's older sister, but is actually a motherly figure to her brother, she constantly tries to help Ryotaro in an attempt to find his lucky star, which fits for the telescope thing here. Though still, what do you count as something that explains a character is about? (before Airi was a keeper at a coffee shop, and her motherly trait to Ryotaro still exists like taking care of his body. She also had many admirers, but that's on the other characters not her though) Like it seems that, you only count the primary Rider (or someone that has that trait like Keitaro) for minding other people's business such as calling other people's views out, but for other characters, it makes them not understandable instead.
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Great staging for this shot, with Momo and Ura on opposite corners of the frame. It’s this gulf of animosity, where the two of them are like boxers before a match starts.
With Naomi as the enthusiastic referee. DenLiner should be given a makeover, like an actual boxing ring (and jokes aside, this is also related to my view for their gag in this episode) for another entertainment but making it safe for the customers.
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Terrific hero energy in these shots, establishing Hana’s determination and drive.
And with DenLiner residing on Sands of Time, Hana is also someone who has walked on these terrain (this is episode 2, dunno how often she crosses that area):
Gotta suck for anyone being under those shoe.
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HOW HANDSOME IS THIS MAN?! Too handsome. I cannot have him spiking the lens like this again, it’s going to make me swoon. I dislike swooning! Not a fan!
A Miura defender!
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The pink of the room is great for how forced it is, which is the key to understanding Yuumi, this story’s victim, played by Ryuki’s Shimada (and Faiz’s Live-Action Hatsune Miku). She’s a fantastic actor , with this face that’s big and round and sad. The way these two shots use the filtered sunlight for her big smile, and then flip her around for this shadowed fear… great use of light. Yuumi doesn’t really get much dialogue in this episode, but the way she carries herself, the way she’s constantly trying and failing to psyche herself up, the way her entire apartment is designed to trick her into being happy… every scene with her in this space is heartbreaking.
Hitomi Kurihara here really resembles Shimada more compared to Smart Lady. Yuumi seems to fawn over Uryotaros. And this is the part where Urataros gives Ryotaro some good luck with him in his control, that he can score many ladies. But Ryotaro wouldn't be able to handle the sudden affection from those ladies, it's like if someone gets a sudden celebrity status without any real skills to maintain it.
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Hilariously shot gag, with Ura and Momo brawling on the floor like children, Owner threatens to kick them off the train, same over-the-shoulder shot but now they’re chummy. Just a solid, classic gag with perfect execution.
The Owner is the real ruler of the DenLiner. And from the boxing ring joke above, this gag actually upsettles me. With of course the thoughtless brawl in middle of the customer just enjoying food at DenLiner, it'd just be a monster attack to them, and this also reminds me of how Hajime in Blade fought an Undead thoughtlessly in a restaurant with little regard for the others, and with the scene not played as a gag, that was really intense one. The Taros pretending to be buddy-buddy in front of him is a sure quality gag though.
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Just a stupidly fun fight sequence, with Momo having an absolute blast deflecting the Imagin’s attacks. The whole fight is a winner, from Ryotaro’s gentle scolding of Momo’s excitement, to Momo’s over-the-top joy at getting to test himself in combat, to Momo’s over-the-top despair at the Imagin cutting the fight short. Momo begging an Imagin to come back so he could fight it is maybe the defining moment for that character in my brain right now. He’s nearly beside himself with grief at only getting a portion of a fight. Loved it.
Great use of that birds-eye camera again, this time literally for a bird’s eye. Them swinging a camera over Den-O to simulate the charging and diving of the Imgin is incredibly kinetic, and works great for the cliffhanger. An exciting final fight for an episode of top-shelf camerawork.
Yeah, the fight scene is clever, showing how a fight is determined by matchup too, Den-O Sword Form, being a ground based attacker, would be mostly helpless against flying enemy. But the missing strategy (which of course, the character's flaw) is that, well, flying is only defensive move, that you need to close in to the opponent to inflict actual attack, but that's negated by how the Imagin has long range attack from his wings.
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This whole thing with the jealous ex-boyfriend showing up at Milk Dipper… it’s a lot. Even for an episode where the jokes are turned up to 11, this scene turns the performances up to 12. It is almost criminally broad. If there was a prison for Wacky Toku, everyone involved in the production of this episode would probably still be serving time there. But! I love the use of lighting on Miura’s face here. Split-second timing to get this gag to work, and they nailed it.
This whole interrogation scene… I don’t love the Jealous Ex, honestly. He’s so insanely over-the-top, even for this episode, and the show is scrupulously avoiding giving us any real context for what he’s on about. He’s Angry and Possessive, and it’s hard to see the person inside all of these comedic outbursts. But, man, some clever camera and editing choices here. I don’t know if I love them going so hard on He’s Crazy, but the execution never wavers from its goal.
So this is the limit of over-the-topness. It seems that comedic outbursts can't replace what's a person is about. I've seen about how not knowing what a person is about comes from a character being grounded, hence them having "no personality" or "badly acted", and that a misconception about creating character is creating quirk (only that being enough) to give them "characters", the "quirk = personality" mindset. So far in this episode, it's about how Urataros brings bad luck to Ryotaro by wooing females, that Ryotaro had to deal with the ex.
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