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01-20-2020, 06:04 PM | #15721 |
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So with Switchblade formally withdrawing from rewatching Super Hero Taisen as part of going back through Fourze, I figured I'd do my part to keep the experience complete and rewatch it for everyone. I mean, I haven't seen it since it got subbed, but, hey, what's the worst that could happen, right?
Well, it didn't literally kill me, so that's a positive. I was bored out of my mind though. It actually gave me a newfound appreciation for Chou Super Hero Taisen, which was at least fun to roast, an experience I was hoping to repeat here, but man, this movie is so dull. The direction is utterly lifeless for the most part, a common complaint I remember not understanding back in the day, but now that I've had years to develop a better sense of this stuff, oh man does it look bland. There are probably Hyper Battle Videos out there with more dynamic cinematography. And that story! I'm not even gonna try and comment on it, except to say that this movie's greatest legacy for me personally will always be cementing in my mind that Kaitou is definitely in love with Tsukasa. The whole thing is just such a mess. It's like the magnum opus of the bizarre genre of cynical nostalgia Toei had going with Rider for so long where I guess, as fans, we're supposed to be excited when a suit we know gets slaughtered with as much dignity as the average Sentai mook. I think the most fun I had was hearing Meteor transform for the first time in a while. It slipped my mind just how groovy that music is. The fun got cut short when I realized how much more fun it would've been to just have a proper Fourze/Go-Busters crossover instead. Imagine the chemistry there! Gentarou could get himself wrapped up in some Vaglass plot and have to work with the Busters, and the whole time Youko would be all like "are we sure this guy's brain works right?", and Hiromu would just be actively insulted at the notion of having to work with some random punk high-schooler, saying nothing but constantly giving him dirty looks. Then Ryuuji would be desperately trying to keep the peace, while secretly being the most flustered of anyone by Gentarou's youthful exuberance, because Ryuuji is an old man who can't keep up with the kids these days. I mean, I think there's potential there, anyway. But I guess having them on-screen together for maybe a minute or two tops is just as good, right? Wait wuh- Oooooohhh, that frequently despised Inoue show, I get it. Still, definitely some people out there (and around here!) who love Kiva. I think I'm one of them, but Kiva is also my favorite Rider show to make fun of, so I'm not sure that counts.
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01-20-2020, 07:01 PM | #15722 |
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For me, I felt Kiva was pretty solid during both the first and last acts, but man, that middle chunk is definitely tough to get through. I don't hate it, but I can see why some people would.
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01-20-2020, 10:12 PM | #15723 |
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So with Switchblade formally withdrawing from rewatching Super Hero Taisen as part of going back through Fourze, I figured I'd do my part to keep the experience complete and rewatch it for everyone. I mean, I haven't seen it since it got subbed, but, hey, what's the worst that could happen, right?
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01-21-2020, 09:59 AM | #15724 |
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Fun Fact about me: Not counting miscellaneous Power Rangers episodes from my childhood and that one time I watched RPM, Super Hero Taisen was the first Toku thing I watched.
It was an... interesting introduction.
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01-21-2020, 10:23 AM | #15725 |
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You know what's funny? I know about the reception about Faiz and Kiva, and watched them with zero expectations and ended up not hating it. Though I can see how terrible it is.
I would say Kiva is better than Faiz though. Faiz had that horribly rushed finale that could've easily been 2-3 episodes. Quote:
It doesn't help that this movie had a very weak action scenes, even the hyped up Decade vs Gokai Red felt so.....tired, lazy and amateurish.
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01-21-2020, 04:48 PM | #15726 |
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I watched the SD Kamen Rider anime OVA earlier today, and boy was that a riot. I loved almost every second of it. It really makes me wish that there were more Kamen Rider-related anime out there. I think the only other one is the Imagen short-form series, right?
Highly recommended
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01-21-2020, 08:44 PM | #15727 |
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01-22-2020, 12:09 AM | #15728 |
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ZI-O Over Quartzer. Honestly one of the worst Toku movies I have ever watched and I've seen the Taisen movies
the movie does raise a metric crap ton of questions though given some of the riders that appeared and some forms of certain riders/chracters Last edited by Denshin48; 01-22-2020 at 12:36 AM.. |
01-23-2020, 09:27 AM | #15729 |
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I decided to start rewatching Blade, this time using Turn Up Scrubs translation(my first watch being the infamous TVN subs). And yeah, the translation is alot cleaner from what I can tell.
It's also been a firm reminder of two things: -Just how weird Blade's' pacing is during its first act. -How much I liked Kenzaki as a protagonist. Like, for real, I love how, yeah, Kenzaki is a good and nice dude like most Toku protags, but he also has a backbone and doesn't take people's' crap, even if he is a bit gullible. It's a nice balance that I personally don't see too often. |
01-28-2020, 01:56 AM | #15730 |
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Fourze 31-32
In which things get anime as hell. We're getting closer to the part of the show that I don't remember as well. I'm already seeing some moments where I recalled the main story beats correctly, but got a lot of the smaller details wrong. Obviously I remembered that these are the episodes where Ryusei kills Gentarou and he's subsequently survived by the raw power of friendship. The way it played out was definitely not how I remembered it, though. I forgot that this was also where Ryusei's secret identity got exposed and that we saw the return of a good ol' fashioned Rider ally crucifixion (although it doesn't feel the same without Tachibana Tobei there). It's a good story arc, though. We finally get to see Ryusei stop hiding his real personality and the development he goes through here is great, culminating in a long delayed friendship handshake. I really liked the scene where he went up against the Zodiart mooks without transforming, although that also made it clear that the Bruce Lee whooping sounds really silly when he's off camera. We got Cosmic States in this episode, of course, which is a suit I've never been a big fan of. It is, in fairness, better than I remembered, but still a little ugly. I forgot that it could combine Switch powers, although I don't think that's a trick that's going to get used much from here on out. I still think the sword is awful. I really hate Rider weapons that obviously look like giant plastic children's toys, and the rocket sword thing is one of the worst examples of that (not THE worst, that's Specter's stupid grabby-hand staff). I also don't like how Cosmic States' fighting style in its premiere is basically "stand still and throw CGI at things." Fourze's fighting style is so unique and fun that it's disappointing to see less active fight scenes. There's one other big change with this episode. This is the first appearance of a Horoscope as the Monster of the Fortnight. Cancer wasn't around as long as I'd remembered, but it was still several weeks. From this point on, the Horoscopes are going to basically replace regular Zodiarts because Fourze had an episode limit (as it turned out; I may reminisce about the rumors of Fourze season 2 at some point during this retrospective). I was always disappointed to see what had been major event enemies get turned into regular weekly monsters. This is the big place where Fourze had pacing issues for me. Anyway, the preview for the next episode shows that it's the Kyoto arc and apparently the debut of two prominent new character who actually stick around for the rest of the series: Leo, who has finally found his way to the main series from the Movie War, and Yuuki's Hayabusa puppet, who... well, let's just say we're about to hit peak Yuuki. |
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