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11-16-2019, 01:25 AM | #15681 |
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I was never able to finish the Eternal movie. Got really bored halfway, and wanted to get started on the next show I was planning on watching, which funnily enough was Faiz. Seems like I didn't miss much
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11-16-2019, 08:50 PM | #15682 |
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Faiz HBV:
Man, this thing is straight up terrible. Way too much singing. ... Nah, I'm just messing with you, Faiz's Hyper Battle Video is a legend. It's also something I didn't remember a thing about. That is, I recall the concept, but when it comes to what actually happens, it was all totally blank. It probably will be again soon enough, but at least this time I'll know why. The entire video is paced out like a dream. It flows from beat to beat in a way that's just barely structured enough to actually make it more confusing than if it were completely random. It resembles a proper story, but it isn't one. We start out with Smart Brain trying to turn Japan into a musical with their fancy new boombox, a lot of distractions happen, and then Faiz defeats some Orphenochs with his fancy new boombox and everybody congratulates him for saving the day. So, it probably shouldn't come as a surprise that at the end it turns out to actually be a dream. Takumi's dream, no less. I know it's probably unhealthy how much denial Takkun has going on, but honestly, it's hard to blame him for saying he doesn't have those after seeing this. Shinji just dreams about being friends with people and fighting evil, but this? Look, I'm no psychologist, alright? I'm not even gonna try and analyze what's going on here. But it's definitely a good time. Is it the best Faiz thing ever? Not when Paradise Lost exists, it's not, but it's definitely up there. W HBV: Double's Hyper Battle DVD, on the other hand, is basically just a compressed, slightly sillier than usual episode of the show. They didn't even do the gimmicky choose-your-own-adventure shtick that was standard at the time. Considering how good any random episode of Double is, I'm more than okay with this. There's not much to say about it, but it's consistently quite funny, and the only place where you'll get to see Shoutarou's discerning tastes when it comes to boiled eggs. Oh, and I also watched the Gaia Memory Library Special, of course, but there's even less to say about that. It's not so much the other half of a two-in-one HBV, as it is exactly what it claims to be. A quick rundown of Double's various Memories and their abilities, that is both very concise and mixes in fun banter between Shoutarou and Philip. W Net Movies: These were hilarious as usual. The skits with Shroud and Akiko are something of a weak link, but all the rest are total winners. Jinno and Makura as mad scientists giving you the inside scoop on Gaia Memories! Kirihiko's futile struggle to avoid realizing that nobody cares about him, be it his wife who moved on immediately, or even his own mascot character! The main cast showing off their art skills! Isaka perving on Dopants... written directly by Riku Sanjou! In case you needed any more proof how much that man loves his job. Sanjou, that is. Although I guess it applies just as much to Isaka... Well, you can all ponder the implications of that yourselves, because I'm calling this the end of the road. I've actually still got quite a few random bits of Double I'm planning on getting around to, but like, to be perfectly frank, there's no way I'm making a hard commitment to listening to like 8 hours of Wakana's Healing Princess and then explaining my thoughts on it. Odds and ends like that, I'd rather take completely casually. Either way, I'm out of things from Faiz and Double that pair nicely, so the gimmick this time is over. So what did I learn from all this? Well, mostly what a nightmare old fansubs are. Everything else, I pretty much knew already. Faiz is great. Double is also great. I guess I don't actually have any kind of real conclusion to go out on this time. I did say upfront I wasn't going to try and be comprehensive. Well, maybe there is one other thing I learned, in that case. I'm a little jealous of Shoutarou's writing talent.
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11-16-2019, 09:07 PM | #15683 |
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If the future Seihou Faiz doesn't come with the sonic cannon we riot.
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11-16-2019, 09:10 PM | #15684 |
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Honestly, my hopes for a Seihou Shinkkochou line is a figure of Chaco. For me, he was the real breakout character; and the real reason I'm not a fan of Faiz is that he never got a scene at the show's conclusion!
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11-16-2019, 10:28 PM | #15685 |
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Been watching Zi-O episodes 1-6. I enjoy it so far, But I've only seen the 3 tribute arcs so far.
I love nerding out trying to recognize the episodes/fights from the original series where they diverge the timeline in Zi-O where they travel back to. I also appreciate how in the Faiz episode, there was an attempt to recreate the style of Faiz's look/cinematography from back then. Isn't Takumi supposed to be dead after Kamen Rider 4? And so isn't Kusaka after Super Hero Taisen GP? I guess with Time Travel, it's possible that intervention during the main series caused this |
11-17-2019, 03:13 AM | #15686 |
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If I remember correctly, the justification is that when an Another Rider is created during the year the Kamen Rider was created, the Another Rider overwrites the Kamen Rider's timeline, undoing everything that happened in the show
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11-17-2019, 04:20 AM | #15687 |
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I liked Zi-O as well, I'm always surprised when I see criticism of it because at least it was better than Decade!
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11-17-2019, 06:17 AM | #15688 |
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I still preferred Decade, but Zi-O was a lot of fun
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11-17-2019, 04:45 PM | #15689 |
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Heisei Generations Forever.
God damn this movie's plot is a hot mess. The time travel stuff was fine, it's just the world hopping stuff makes my god damn head spin. I'm glad the movie didn't entirely center around a kid again like many other Rider movies. He's more of a means to an end and not the main focus of everything all the time. God damn, since we got so much stuff brought over from this movie into Zi-O proper (Another Double, Another Den-O, Double armor), really makes me wish they could have brought over Tid. Maybe not for the whole series, but it would be cool to see a Another Kuuga humanoid suit fighting Zi-O. So, the world this movie takes place in is "Reality", where Kamen Rider is just a TV show, despite the fact that the Aruto summons an Imagin, an entity from that fictional reality, to do so? Or how that Tsukyomi and Geiz travel back to the year 2000 where there's Riku's corpse and a real Kuuga despite Riders being fictional in this universe? I know the plot is about the Riders being erased, but why do they keep reaffirming even after all the revelations that this world id "the real world". Whatever They never really make clear how the world layout works in this movie. If they had just said, "X world is where the Riders are real, Y world is where the Riders are fictional, and stated which realities they were traveling back in time into, I wouldn't have as much a problem. Also, insanely cool to see Woz access the GaiaLibrary for the one scene It sucks that this movie is the best Kuuga tribute we could have gotten without anyone from the OG cast back. Although, Kuuga armor I think is by far the best looking Rider Armor, so I'd say that may be a good enough tribute for me personally. Last edited by Powerman293; 11-17-2019 at 04:49 PM.. |
11-17-2019, 05:35 PM | #15690 |
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I still love this one. Ignoring the last ~10 minutes with the forced fight, this is one of the crossover films that really got good mileage out of the returning characters. The Takumi/Keisuke stuff, in particular, really worked for me.
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