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08-11-2020, 04:33 PM | #541 |
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...I really hope #3 is writing those "Tezuka is a s*** roommate" gags, by the way. That joke didn't have much longevity, but it was amazing while it lasted. Much like Tezuka!
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08-11-2020, 10:24 PM | #542 |
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08-11-2020, 11:42 PM | #543 |
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KAMEN RIDER BLADE EPISODE 30
This time on Kamen Rider Blade: Ryou, abandoned! Street food stands, in conflict! And the debut of Taiyaki Master Ultimate Form: Special Turbo! (Also Garren or whoever gets a new form, if you care about trivial details.) It's late, I'm stuffed, and it's the finale to an Inoue fill-in. Let's get to it. In a lot of ways, I should dislike this episode. It's not like Hajime needed to go on this journey, emotionally. This brief sojourn into a... not a simpler life, but maybe less Evil Monsters From Eternity life, it didn't really illuminate anything for Hajime. None of the core cast really grew at all because of this story. Kotaro's brief friendship with Hajime dissolves by the end, with Kotaro not thinking it strange that he weirdly got along really well with Hajime for a day and a half. Tachibana gets a Rouse Absorber, and it's done in a traditionally half-assed Inoue way. (At least Blade had to earn his Rouse Absorber through emotional growth. Garren gets handed the Absorber and the Queen!) It's a story that only matters for characters that we're likely to never see again. And, y'know, writing it out like that, I guess I don't like this episode a whole lot? It's a step down from last episode, with more time given to the traditional Superhero Story elements. The Ryou/Michi storyline flourishes are great, but the Blade/Garren fight, along with Hajime's return to Amane, are the most perfunctory We Have A Quota story beats. It's a story that never really was about more than Ryou, and that makes it kind-of an unremarkable conclusion. Like, it never really figured out what it was trying to say about Hajime, and that's a big knock against it. We never got to see what he was getting out of being Ryou, since he spends the entire story in a semi-amnesiac fog. He doesn't end up caring for Michi or the takoyaki gang or whatever. He just wanders into Ryou's story, and then wanders right the hell back out at the end. Ryou's story, though, it's cute! It goes hard on being ridiculous, which is the stuff that works great in this one. The actual Hajime Is In Danger And The Team Needs To Stop The Undead, holy shit does no one involved in the making of this episode seem to care about that storyline. All of the momentum and tension is in Ryou reclaiming his life, and that part's hilarious. I loved that Michi was able to convince Ryou's own father that the nearly-monosyllabic, dead-eyed Hajime was actually his son. (Bonus points for him declaring "I have two sons?!” when he first sees Ryou and Hajime together. Dude thought he'd miscounted his offspring all these years!) It's a great gag that, despite being a different personality entirely, people who've known Ryou for years accept that the talkative coward is somehow the imposter. It's a ludicrous premise, and I love that the show committed to it. (Similarly, I like that when Team Blade has Ryou telling them what happened, Kenzaki's just like Oh That Wacky Hajime Trying To Get Out Of Fighting. I mean, it's normally insane to suggest that someone got replaced by their doppelganger due to narratively-convenient amnesia, but Kenzaki's bemused dismissal is equally as insane. But I love that choice in the writing! I love how dense and unobservant it makes Kenzaki! It's so stupid it's great!) The rest of the Ryou story, it's formulaic, but the specifics are bonkers enough to forgive it. Ryou's suit of armor is... have they made that into a Figuarts yet?! The design is perfect, which is a lot more than I can say about Garren Jack Form. (The gold 100% doesn't work for me. Too busy!) It's a neat way for Ryou to feel like he's on Hajime's level, and just a hilarious bit of costuming. The light-up taiyaki! Brilliant. Overall, this one was fine. The Ryou stuff was appropriately insane, but it's a bummer that Inoue couldn't figure out what he wanted to say about Hajime. It's like this story needed another half to it, and we never got one. Pretty fun, still, but not as relevant as I'd hoped for. Next time on Kamen Rider Blade: New characters! An attack in Team Blade's living room! And probably a lot less emphasis on putting seafood inside batter!
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08-12-2020, 12:04 AM | #544 |
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What is the point of the show continuing if we're not following the adventures of Kamen Chef Taiyaki Master Extreme?!
I'm now extra surprised I didn't remember these episodes since Garren's Jack Form debuts here, but I'm also not at all surprised I didn't remember that a form debuted here because it's as if this writer goes out of his way to make those feel like afterthoughts. Still though, I can't say this wasn't fun, and as brief as it was, I kinda got invested in this conflict of food stalls? I might have found stronger feelings for it than I ever did some of the BOARD stuff... Congratulations by the way of your one year anniversary of 'dying' and becoming a Ganma. Right up there with your montage of Houjou's finest moment, my personal favourite series of images in that thread was where Hikawa just runs away from Shouichi in favour of any other sensible reaction (I mean same). |
08-12-2020, 12:23 AM | #545 |
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What is the point of the show continuing if we're not following the adventures of Kamen Chef Taiyaki Master Extreme?!
I'm now extra surprised I didn't remember these episodes since Garren's Jack Form debuts here, but I'm also not at all surprised I didn't remember that a form debuted here because it's as if this writer goes out of his way to make those feel like afterthoughts. Still though, I can't say this wasn't fun, and as brief as it was, I kinda got invested in this conflict of food stalls? I might have found stronger feelings for it than I ever did some of the BOARD stuff... Quote:
Congratulations by the way of your one year anniversary of 'dying' and becoming a Ganma. Right up there with your montage of Houjou's finest moment, my personal favourite series of images in that thread was where Hikawa just runs away from Shouichi in favour of any other sensible reaction (I mean same).
Hikawa is kind-of the proto-Tachibana, isn't he? Such a weird disaster of a man, but worth rooting for all the same. He tries so hard to be worthy of helping people that he keeps failing them. But, man, when he finally figures it all out!
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08-12-2020, 01:30 AM | #546 |
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Once again, Die's way ahead of me here, but just like the last time this happened, that's only proof that we're dealing with some top tier meme material.
Learning Ondul the Easy WEEEEEEI! (#14) Hajime's doppelganger Ryou starred in two of Blade's most memorable episodes, and the fact that said episodes were intentionally shooting for comedy can only help when it comes to creating some memorable memes. The sheer absurdity of Taiyaki Master Ultimate Form is matched only by his sheer awesomeness. How cool is he? Well, he: - Is the Master of Taiyaki (duh) - Debuted his final form before Blade himself, and right in the proper episode 30 range, at that - Has his legendary "Special Turbo" ability, easily putting him alongside Riders like Faiz Accel in terms of pure speed - Successfully fought an Undead without a Rider System, a feat unmatched by any other human - Was deemed important enough to be included as a playable character in Blade's PS2 game, allowing fans the chance to see him go toe-to-toe with some of the toughest opponents from the series, and win It's a pretty impressive skill set, to be sure, despite not including the ability to speak Ondul. We're kind of past the point in the series where the actual slurred speech was any sort of problem, which means there aren't many of these lessons left, and they'll be more about the Ondul culture in general. And of course, the Taiyaki Master is hugely popular in those circles, with his memes often being directly associated with Hajime, and, of course, the obligatory appearances in the remixes.
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08-12-2020, 01:46 AM | #547 |
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Interesting to note that that the gold is an improvement on Blade, but apparently throws Garren's design off, by the way. And his Jack Form gets a way more weightless debut. Tachibana just can't stop screwing things up! But yeah, as fun as they are, these episodes never really do lock in on something to be *about*, and that's maybe a bit of a shame when that extra little spark of focus and actual meaning could've propelled them to straight up best-of-the-series level. As it is, it very much feels like Inoue just holding down the fort for half a month while Aikawa gets ready to take over as writer, which is, uh, exactly what they probably are, so I mean, it's still mission accomplished! Hard to complain too much about this episode when it's still hilarious.
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08-12-2020, 04:38 AM | #548 |
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Anyway, I digress. While Die seeing Garren’s Jack Form is a surprise because he’s watching it now, if he’d been watching this when it first came out, he’d have known about it from the toy version. https://youtu.be/Zgu1_VJG-zU Also, the fact that only Blade and Garren have Jack forms is part of the joke of “Leangle is the strongest”, since he never receives any such upgrades in the tv show. Didn’t stop the designer from giving him one though. Hope you liked the OP for this show (I know I didn’t), because his is the last time you’ll hear it. |
08-12-2020, 04:42 AM | #549 |
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And that, I believe, is the last of Inoue you'll see in Blade until the movie. I remember this in particular because, like, this was a special moment for me. Blade was my final Heisei series so when I got to these episodes I was like "... oh my god I'm finally done with Inoue". Slight difference in how we see the guy's writing!
Which, like, I guess I'm gonna go ahead and represent in Jack Form Feelings? Because I actually think the gold is by far the worst part of Blade's Jack Form; it's just way too gaudy and tacked on, but for Garren it fits with his colour scheme much more and feels a lot more subdued due to it. And while I don't have... too many complaints with Blade sticking a knife at the end of his sword, Garren upgrading to bayonet is just awesome.
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08-12-2020, 09:19 AM | #550 |
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And that, I believe, is the last of Inoue you'll see in Blade until the movie. I remember this in particular because, like, this was a special moment for me. Blade was my final Heisei series so when I got to these episodes I was like "... oh my god I'm finally done with Inoue". Slight difference in how we see the guy's writing!
Which, like, I guess I'm gonna go ahead and represent in Jack Form Feelings? Because I actually think the gold is by far the worst part of Blade's Jack Form; it's just way too gaudy and tacked on, but for Garren it fits with his colour scheme much more and feels a lot more subdued due to it. And while I don't have... too many complaints with Blade sticking a knife at the end of his sword, Garren upgrading to bayonet is just awesome.
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