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06-10-2021, 01:38 PM | #521 |
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I don't think we've really got a big enough data-set to say that, like, Otoya won't protect men, or that he only protects people he cares about. Maybe previously some of that was true, but, again: character arc! He is a little better of a man than he was before! He's never going to be, like, Ryotaro from Den-O, but he's clearly growing as a person.
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KAMEN RIDER KIVA EPISODE 28 - “REQUEST: TIME-ALTERING BATTLE”
I thought this was okay. It’s got a firm focus on Nago, and it says some interesting things about whether or not Otoya is fulfilled as IXA, but there are a few things that just didn’t quite work for me. Quote:
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Besides that, it was fine. The action sequences were fun (the Kengo/Wataru training scene was a funny diversion), and the additional clues in the mystery of Maya are sure to pay dividends (Taiga, the fact that Wataru’s mother gave him the button Nago gave to Maya in 1986), but I didn’t end up loving a lot of this episode. Everything with Maya was great, but I mostly didn’t buy into Nago’s arc over this story. When he does his little dance as Rising IXA at the end, I couldn’t figure out how the episode thought it’d earned that. It’s a story that clearly thinks its saying something profound about Nago, but it really just felt like a plot that went from A to A.
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06-10-2021, 01:57 PM | #522 |
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I thought Kengo and Wataru's training is, like Nago, a plot that went from A to A.... as Wataru's already a Kiva, and dunno if it's a problem to reveal Kiva identity to Kengo. It's shown that fighting as Fangire Hunter with Aozora organization can temporarily delay the Fangires, but doesn't really make an impact to the Fangires, as seen in Yuri or Megumi always needing help from the Riders, and of course it'll be worse for someone like Kengo doing it. Dunno what you refer as Rising IXA's dance... but I thought it's just how the finisher work, firing an orange beam then Rider Kicking it.
For the Kengo/Wataru part... I mean, it's such a minor element of the episode that I really didn't mind that it was irrelevant. It gives Kengo and Wataru a bit of screentime together again, it pulls Kengo deeper into W.A.K.E.U.P., it allows for a slightly different type of action scene, and it lets the show flip that scene around when Megumi is back. It's doing a few small things well, even if it's not doing any big things.
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06-10-2021, 02:26 PM | #523 |
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I saw a lot of cut content from this episode yesterday. Including a scene where Nago denies feeling anything for Maya, Yuri stops believing he’s from the future when he tells her that her daughter is in prison, Present!Jiro revealing that this time travel gambit is part of a promise to Otoya and we see that in the new timeline, Tanahashi gave up art and became Aozora’s main bankroller (making me wonder how they were getting funded originally). And parts of the collection I watched features a scene from an earlier episode (I assume 25) where it turns out Nago actually gives better romantic advice than Megumi.
Honestly, my biggest issue with this one is that I don't really like Nago very much and while it's fun to see him get smacked around by far more interesting characters, it doesn't make for the most compelling story. The stuff with Maya, Otoya, and Yuri is pretty good, though. The show does a much better job of selling Maya as a partner for Otoya than it ever did with Yuri (mostly because their relationship isn't built on a foundation of worn-down resistance). And respect to everyone involved in that final scene, especially Saki Kagami. It's a big risk to just let a naked baby hang out on your fancy set, much less to pick him up and hold him. I wouldn't do that without at least a drop cloth and probably a poncho. |
06-10-2021, 02:57 PM | #524 |
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I'm not surprised to hear that there are scenes cut from this episode, given how so much of it feels incomplete. I still read a lot of the X-Men comics and this episode reminds me of what's probably my least favorite book in the current line-up: Excalibur (I feel like I may have made this comparison in another one of the KRD Watches... threads, so if this sounds familiar just skip to the next paragraph). Part of that is subject matter, as the comic deals with what is easily the dumbest and most uninteresting part of the current status quo, but mostly it's a structure thing. Most issues of that comic feel like they have panels missing, meaning it often feels like we skip over important moments that would better connect the narrative. I got a lot of those vibes from this episode, with Nago getting his butt kicked by Yuri ending with him kidnapping her being the worst example.
-Nago tries to punch Yuri -Yuri catches his punch, just like Otoya did, and proceeds to beat the crap out of him -Cut to Mal d'Amour, where Otoya is informed via phone call that Yuri is being held hostage -Cut back to a handcuffed Yuri being menaced by a badly-beaten Nago As a logical progression of events, it's sorely lacking. My assumption is that, in a largely one-side fight (Yuri is blemish-free), Nago managed to get his handcuffs on Yuri. But it's mostly unaddressed onscreen, and almost all of the denouement suffers from the same problem. Like, is Kengo officially a member of W.A.K.E.U.P., even though the story where he was inducted never happened? Stories where characters rewrite history usually need more time spent on the details than other stories, and this one somehow spent less. (Also, I'd say that Children of the Atom is the worst of the current X-Men books. Vita Ayala is my least-favorite writer for that line. CotA and New Mutants are basically unreadable.)
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06-10-2021, 03:34 PM | #525 |
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I'm pretty sure Yuri let herself get cuffed so Nago would let his guard down. Otoya played along, throwing him the IXA Knuckle, trusting that Yuri would catch it.
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06-10-2021, 04:17 PM | #526 |
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(I don't even remember about CotA half the time. New Mutants would be fine by me if the art wasn't so smudgy; I can't hate any comic where Honey Badger is part of the main cast. Honestly, the line as a whole isn't doing a ton for me. With X-Factor cancelled I'm mostly just here for Hellions and to see if there's any payoff on Marauders' tease that Rachel and Kitty will be stepping out of the subtext closet and into explicit canon.) |
06-10-2021, 04:43 PM | #527 |
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I'm pretty sure that was just Nago. He knew they all met at Mal d'Amour, because some things never change, and he hoped to trade Yuri for the IXA Knuckle -slash- draw Otoya out in the hopes of beating him up and taking the Knuckle.
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06-10-2021, 04:48 PM | #528 |
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I'm not sure what it says about my mental state today that I considered that, but then was all "how would Nago even know about that place?"
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06-10-2021, 04:54 PM | #529 |
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Yeah, it was an opportunity to show how in sync Yuri and Otoya are now and to make Nago's defeat more humiliating than it would've been if Yuri just beat him up on her own. That would've been too easy.
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Also, the team of W.A.K.E.U.P.86 hear Nago's story of time travel and basically go Hilarious But We Only Believe In Monsters Not Science-Fiction. They've seen a lot of weird stuff over the last 28 weeks, but they are not willing to believe Nago. I can't imagine why.
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