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What are you watching? (Kamen Rider Edition)
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But as for what story that structure was serving? I... man, I have absolutely zero idea what to feel about it. For the most part it was what I liked about Kobayashi's writing -- extremely high stakes and lethal scenarios that despite which, hope is still present and will emerge. It's not like Rider doesn't do that outside of her - hell, I just finished Kuuga; and that's a phenomenal example - but something about the way she does it hits closer to home and feels more genuine.
But something felt off about this, and especially in the way the last 6 episodes resolved it all? It didn't... feel quite right.
Much like how I feel Toshiki Inoue wrote great stuff like Agito but then at some point just went off the rails and became absolutely goddamn weird to say the least - and, actually, having watched Ryuki? I feel I can pinpoint the exact moment that point was - this feels like the opposite for Kobayashi. That she hadn't yet gotten to the type of writing and moral & philosophical core to her work that I've come to associate with stuff like OOO, Den-O and Go-Busters. I get an almost similar feeling - god help me - to Movie War Core, where it feels like a rough draft of a masterwork.
I feel the same way, I really like Kobayashi's work but Ryuki doesn't feel quite as polished as her later stuff with Den-O and OOO. I think there are a couple reasons, one is that Inoue actually wrote around 14 or so episodes of the show, so he actually wrote almost 30% of it. Kobayashi still wrote the majority, but his contribution is significant.
Beyond that, I also think the main thing that differentiates Ryuki from her later work is the personalities of the cast. Den-O and OOO both have casts of genuinely good people who are friends. Sure some of them are jerks but they ultimately mean well and care about each other (Even Ankh comes around in the end). Ryuki, in contrast, has a cast made up almost entirely of unlikable assholes or outright villains, most of whom do not get redeemed or have any real positive qualities. Ryuki has a much darker overall tone than her later works. A lot of her standard themes are still there, but like you said, Ryuki seems kind of "off" in comparison to her later stuff and I think it's a combination of the bleaker tone of the show and that she just hadn't hit her full potential quite yet. Personally I really enjoyed it and would like to see her return to something like that, but I think it does make it feel a bit odd compared to her later material.
Incidentally, I still haven't gotten over the fact that Inoue wrote the recent Ryuki miniseries and not Kobayashi. I would have loved to see her come back to Ryuki all these years later after solidifying her style and skill, and getting Inoue of all people instead hurts me deep in my soul. There were things about it I enjoyed, but it felt like so much missed potential. I still sometimes think about what it could have been had she returned to write it.
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