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08-02-2020, 06:52 PM | #391 |
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So, Kiryuu is actually not as rotten as this in past time. Hirose and Tachibana knew him well (as Tachibana convinces her to forget the past him), but I wonder what's Kenzaki doing against him back in the BOARD days (he gets introduced to Tachibana that time so...). Then I still wonder what actually makes Kiryuu fell from grace at the present time here, his acts are done before Leangle chose him. Previously he seems envious that Tachibana is chosen to be Garren instead of him, and mocks him while he can. Then it's revealed that Kiryuu actually pleads for Tachibana to fight in his place (something that finally made Tachibana return!). And what Kiryuu thinks is only his take, not a factual description about justice and power.
And then, on top of that, he finds out that Tachibana is just locking the Garren belt up in a drawer. For a guy who who wanted that power more than anything, it probably made him lose a ton of respect for Tachibana basically overnight. Quote:
I mean, Kiryuu still makes some heinous mistakes, what with the two people (minimum!) that we see him outright murder, but that can get filed under Misguided Justice. In Kamen Rider terms, that's barely a misdemeanor. Plus, Kiryuu never got a chance to atone! He got murdered! That's sad for his friends, who maybe hoped he'd get to atone! I also said "Or, if it does, I can't find it as easily," right after that! It's all opinions. If you ever think I'm making a statement of objective truth, please know that I'm not. I would never want to diminish someone else's experience with these shows by stating that something IS. I can only say what I'm getting out of them, how they're making me think or feel. That's all I'm trying to express.
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08-02-2020, 09:14 PM | #392 |
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KAMEN RIDER BLADE EPISODE 21
This time on Kamen Rider Blade: Tachibana takes Mutsuki under his wing! Meet-Cute and Lazer But He's On Blade team up to take down Kenzaki! And Chalice so doesn't like Kotaro oh my god you guys shut up! Hey, Meet-Cute's an Undead, who'd have guessed. Honestly, even if you weren't certain of it last episode (I was 75% sure she was an Undead, 25% thinking maybe it was a fake out), the Next Time teaser pretty much confirmed that she's an Undead. Not much of a surprise there. Even still, cute little story. Not doing a whole lot, but the fights are good, and it weirdly progresses the Hajime/Kotaro story. I think Hajime sees more of himself in Kotaro than he'd like. He doesn't really like Kotaro, but as he sees Kotaro's inability to be the best version of himself and protect Haruka and Amane, I think it strikes a chord. There's an indecisiveness within Hajime right now, this struggle to be an Undead who feels human emotions, and it's not a million miles from what Kotaro's dealing with. I think it's weakened Hajime's loathing for Kotaro. I mean, maybe on the inside, because on the outside he is very loudly telling everyone that any actions that result in Kotaro's safety are totally accidental. It's never not funny, Hajime shrugging off the You Saved Kotaro comments with a sneered Nuh Uh Shut Up. Besides that, not a lot to the Undead plot here? They're definitely scheming a lot more, the Undead. It's not the typical monster slaughter randomness. There's a little shading given to Lazer But He's On Blade, where he's frustrated by his early loss to Blade, but he's a very exciting performance (and fun wardrobe) around a very one-note character. Meet-Cute fares better, which she definitely should if she's going to be hanging around longer. She's more about sussing out weaknesses, finding ways to manipulate her targets and surroundings to gain the advantage. Once she loses the upper hand, she bails. And as far as upper hands go, seems like she's found a new one in Mutsuki? The Mutsuki and Tachibana stuff, it's probably the sub-plot for this episode, but I found it more interesting than the main plot. Like, the main plot has a bunch of things happening, and some great tension (the climax was thrilling), but I don't feel like it was telling me a lot about Kenzaki or Kotaro. Kotaro gets manipulated, but it's not like he ignores anyone's advice or acts rashly. He goes on a date and his date turns into a monster and tries to murder him. It's something that happens to him, but it's not really brought on by him. The Kenzaki stuff... he cares about his friend and wants to save him? That's it? It's thin, and it's all external forces. The Tachibana and Mutsuki stuff is the opposite, where it's all internally generated. It's all decisions those two make. I get what Tachibana's hoping for with Mutsuki. He sees a way to give back, to keep someone from falling to the same darkness he did. Mutsuki's a kid who needs help, and Tachibana can give it to him. It's the early Tachibana/Kenzaki stuff we never got a chance to see. Mutsuki's attitude is really interesting to me. It reminds me a lot of Luke Skywalker, and the way he had a brief apprenticeship with Ben Kenobi. (This is from the movie Star Wars. Have you seen it?) Ben's very quick to believe in Luke, very quick to move his training along. Maybe too quick? There's a lot of weird psychological damage in Luke, a need to be powerful that doesn't feel as much like altruism as it does selfishness. Mutsuki's got that same feeling, where he'll tell this story about childhood trauma that ends in I Want To Protect Smiles but all I'm hearing is This Dude Has Intense And Unresolved Childhood Traumas. I definitely feel like Tachibana is missing some big ol' warning signs from Mutsuki, as he tries to train Leangle like he'd train Blade. But, like, what other choice does Tachibana have? It's unclear how long Leangle's going to keep toying with Mutsuki, and the more Mutsuki psychologically deteriorates as a result of that manipulation, the worse things might end up getting for Team Blade. It's a real rock and a hard place situation for the Team, and I hope Tachibana's up to the challenge. (Ha ha! He almost certainly isn't!) Next time on Kamen Rider Blade: More training with Tachibana and Mutsuki! Meet-Cute returns! And something about Chalice but it went by really fast!
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08-03-2020, 12:36 AM | #393 |
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There’s something that cracks me up, the last few episodes of Blade. The opening credit sequence has all four Riders racing across a beach together, four champions of justice, working to protect people. Except that’s completely not this show? Ever? The best team-up percentage the show has ever had was 75%, and that was when Blade, Garren, and Chalice all fought Leangle. Usually, they’re between 50% and 66%, depending on the amount of active Riders. All four of them together?! What show is that opening supposed to be attached to?! It sure as hell isn’t Blade!
Tachibana's wreck moment is now useful as his experience to mentor Mutsuki with. And for Mutsuki's role, protagonist/antagonist isn't the same as alignments (protagonist =/= good, antagonist =/= evil). For now, it seems that his alignment is the one that is hazy. Probably Mutsuki wants to have power, but doesn't mean he wants to terrorize people with Undead so yeah that way he feels guilty, the one that released him also was partly the Spider Undead that controls the Leangle belt. Quote:
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It’s a neat idea to explore, the consequences of trying to let people keep their secrets. It’s easy to say, in the moment, that you value someone’s friendship more than you worry about their secrets, but it’s never that simple. Once you know someone’s hiding something from you, you can’t just not think about it. You’re biting your tongue around them, wondering why they won’t share with you, and meanwhile everyone’s uncomfortable. Hajime and Mutsuki are reaching the limits of their friends’ patience, and something has to change.
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I also said "Or, if it does, I can’t find it as easily," right after that! It's all opinions. If you ever think I'm making a statement of objective truth, please know that I'm not. I would never want to diminish someone else's experience with these shows by stating that something IS. I can only say what I'm getting out of them, how they're making me think or feel. That's all I'm trying to express.
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08-03-2020, 01:05 AM | #394 |
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So we finally get to see Mutsuki's personal trauma here and, honestly, I've always thought it was really dumb. He was kidnapped as a baby and stuffed in a bus station locker, and the memory of that experience has forever hung over him. Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on that. There is no way he'd remember an experience from when he was that young. It really feels like a stretch to have that be one of his defining moments as a character. |
08-03-2020, 04:23 AM | #395 |
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08-03-2020, 04:30 AM | #396 |
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Learning Ondul the Easy WEEEEEEI! (#11) Today's lesson is extremely borderline, as Tachibana shouting san! is entirely comprehensible. Still, the line, and the scene from episode 21 it comes from as a whole, are heavily associated with Ondul to the point of being considered a part of it, thus warranting a mention here. This is another time where Tachibana being genuinely cool became a joke specifically because it's Tachibana we're dealing with. Having the downright superhuman ability to read the tiny numbers on baseballs being thrown at 150 kilometers per hour is impressive, but it's mostly just adorable when it's Dadi doing it. This meme is another one with some serious legs on it, too. To promote the release of its obligatory secondary Rider V-Cinema spin-off, Zi-O's official Twitter page did a daily countdown featuring memorable lines from secondary Riders past. The selection of quotes varied between obvious catchphrases, like Brave saying there's nothing he can't cut, to more obscure dialogue that gives a good glimpse into the personality of that Rider, such as Kaixa asserting "I'm the savior" from Paradise Lost. For Garren, though... well, I don't think I even need to finish that thought, do I?
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08-03-2020, 04:56 AM | #397 |
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To apologise for my cock up yesterday, I’ll just quote that message here.
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Today at the Unded Information Kiosk, we have something rare. Two of the same rank
Absorb Orchid A cunning Undead, using others to get what she wants. She can summon vines to bind victims and fire a mist from the face on the back of her head. * Suit and Category: https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Karen_Mizuki * Effect name: ABSORB * Card name: Absorb Orchid (アブソーブ・オーキッド Abusōbu ōkiddo) * Consumption points: EP +2000 Absorb Capricorn. The Category Queen for the Spade Undead. He possesses a high pitch scream that can obliterate anything and the ability to drive a car. * Suit: Spade (♠) * Category: Queen (Q) * Effect name: ABSORB * Card name: Absorb Capricorn (アブソーブ・カプリコーン Abusōbu Kapurikōn) * Consumption points: EP +2000 Next time, a new significant face appears, both in front of and behind the camera. |
08-03-2020, 06:19 AM | #398 |
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I always liked Tachibana and Mutsuki's little thing, especially with how it continues through the series. Tachibana is screwed up, and with Mutsuki he sees a way to give himself a bit of stability in a way that doesn't directly involve fighting, and *maybe* make up a little for the whole "getting-addicted-to-seaweed-and0-not-facing-my-trauma" deal. Mutsuki is fine, just a kid getting in way over his head, I'm sure this will go well for him.
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08-03-2020, 04:21 PM | #399 |
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I'll also toss in that I'm quite fond of Tachibana's turn as a mentor for Mukki. It's like a pairing that was just born to fail, and that's why it's fascinating to see them trying to make it work. It's a very fun dynamic for the show to explore. It's pretty clear that Tachibana sees a lot of himself in Mukki, what with the first time he sees him being with his girlfriend right after Tachibana was reminiscing about Sayoko, and on a base level, you can understand why he'd want to make sure this kid doesn't become the walking disaster of a person that he was not too many episodes ago, but that also kinda underlines the issue that maybe Tachibana isn't the best guy to be taking on apprentices when he only got his own life together like a week ago?
The rest of these two episodes, they definitely feel like another set of just nice, cozy base-level Rider episodes. They've got a lot of heroic action, and the characters are all doing things, but they're not doing anything crazy. It's exciting drama without any particularly complicated stakes or dilemmas. Nothing that demands you think too hard about it, which I know is going to sound backhanded, but I genuinely think it's important for Rider to just be light entertainment sometimes.
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*ahem* DROP FIRE GEMINI BURNING DIVIDE SAYOKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
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