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02-09-2020, 06:30 AM | #11 |
Dai Shogun
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This is not Metal Cluster Hopper's true debut. Much like how Shining Hopper's first fight/debut with Dodo wasn't. Notice how when Thouser presses the progrise key button and places it on Aruto it says: "Metal Cluster's Ability" and not "Everybody Jump!"
Metal Cluster Hopper's true heroic debut is with the Hopper Blade. To be fair, it wasn't in this episode It also doesn’t work as well as, for example, the Daidaimaru & Musou Saber combo from Gaim either; the colors and different styles just clash too much IMO. But hey, let’s see what this puppy can do in the show before I make my final judgment. |
02-09-2020, 08:27 AM | #12 |
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So I guess one of my speculations sorta came true in that his consciousness is not completely hi-jacked but rather he just helplessly watches himself wreak havok. And the swarm of grasshoppers, THAT IS A FRIGHTENING SIGHT. Oh yeah, next episode we get a Go-Busters reunion. This means all three main Go-Busters have now appeared in a Kamen Rider Episode recently as guests since, let us not forget, Takahiro Suzuki who played Hiromu/Red Buster was Kamen Rider Quiz in Zi-O.
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02-09-2020, 08:58 AM | #13 |
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Kinda like a swam of locusts, which incidentally, look similar to grasshoppers.
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02-09-2020, 09:42 AM | #14 |
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Fight today were really good. Even the ones not involving Metalcluster were really good.
Especially Fuwa henshin scene was truly exceptional. I'm disappointed by Yua. At first you would think she is kind of blackmailed or pressured by Gai to work for him, but that smile she gives when he praises her when handling the metalhopper. urgh I dislike it so much. I continue to hate Gai so much. "the humagears have caused more harm than good" => yeah. because of you that is. What a flawed logic... I really hope after this arc, Gai doesn't become a regular character, and certainly not a good guy like the trend is in KR nowadays, or i'll be really mad. I liked the fact Aruto investigating ZAIA happens in a trial/courtroom based episode. Feels like an Ace Attorney reference. |
02-09-2020, 10:25 AM | #15 |
Alias: ZeroEnchiladas
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This is not Metal Cluster Hopper's true debut. Much like how Shining Hopper's first fight/debut with Dodo wasn't. Notice how when Thouser presses the progrise key button and places it on Aruto it says: "Metal Cluster's Ability" and not "Everybody Jump!"
Metal Cluster Hopper's true heroic debut is with the Hopper Blade. Is it cool and horrifying, yes! But that's not what I wanted from a form debut given the preceding weeks of this show. I was hoping that the form would give us some kind of change, but it looks like we have to wait another 2 weeks for anything actual meaningful to happen. And I really hate that. Especially given Zero-One's snappier pacing beforehand in regards to arcs. Everything is just dragging and I hate it. Still Fuwa continues to be the MvP of this entire arc and I will hopefully stan him till this show ends. |
02-09-2020, 12:38 PM | #16 |
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Izu is the best. And the episode was very well done,nice "pseudo"-debut of this frightening form just chock-ful of(wonder what the "improved" version will be like? ...pure spec there..) METALLIC SWARMS OF ANGRY GRASSHOPPERS
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02-09-2020, 07:58 PM | #17 |
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While a nice intro to MCH, I'm still waiting for this arc to finish, cause it's been a real drag.
Plus I really can't stand Aruto now. The screechy voice just gets on my nerves. |
02-09-2020, 09:28 PM | #18 |
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THIS! THIS IS THE ZERO-ONE I REMEMBER FROM LAST YEAR! I mean, not the character! Last time I checked Aruto doesn't go around strangling people! But the show! This episode is spectacular! I'm honestly shocked just how much this one stuck the landing. The first part was already a huge improvement over what we'd been getting, but the conclusion tops even that, finally bringing back that edge-of-your-seat excitement that I've come to expect from Rider shows written by Yuuya Takahashi. I just... where do I even start? Alright, in no particular order: - Direction direction direction! Sugihara delivers on some truly astonishing action here, from Zero-One and Thouser's fight at the start which shows how much mileage he can get out of Shining Assault Hopper's speed, to Zero-One and Thouser's fight at the end, where he just plain shows off by somehow making a fight where Zero-One is standing still look dynamic. Wow. - Fuwa gets to be a crazier Ichijou from Kuuga and a less crazy Nago from Kiva, going all bounty hunter on Aruto's behalf, which is awesome. - A lot more of the themes being advanced, with Aruto getting let in on even more plot points the audience has been privy to for a while. - On which note, Aruto gets some of his best characterization yet, with Fumiya Takahashi getting to do more great foaming-at-the-mouth anger in a plot about whether or not humans can control their darker impulses, something that's set up right at the start with how heated he gets fighting Thouser, and carriers through right to the end, with Metal Cluster Hopper. - Speaking of that initital fight between Zero-One and Thouser though, I can't stress enough how great it is. The stunning visuals complement the added intensity it already has as part of the story, and after these fights were starting to get repetitive, it was nice to see the twist of Aruto just absolutely flipping his s*** after putting up with Gai for so long. - The fact that Aruto's entirely justified anger also doesn't solve his problem is yet again Zero-One showing it knows how to beat its hero down when it needs to. Most good heroes don't win by letting themselves lose their cool, and that's certainly not an admirable trait for the head of a major corporation to have. - The way Bingo teams up with Fuwa to save the day was a really well deserved way for Hiden to get their first win in the competition. Aruto suggests Bingo might be able to do something only a HumaGear could to help, and we actually see that happen, with him processing and analyzing an entirely different set of information from a different location being fed to him wirelessly during the trial, which I don't think is something most lawyers who aren't computers could pull off. - The twist with the Raider's identity was indeed extremely telegraphed, but I'll refer you to my post on the last episode where I said whether or not the twist was obvious isn't the point. - And of course, the big deal here is Metal Cluster Hopper, which hooohhooohoo oh MAN did that leave a great first impression. Sugihara's direction once again really helps sell the story, with the new form coming off like some truly unstoppable force of nature. Hazard was just good as punching things mercilessly. Metal Cluster Hopper feels like it barely even registers what it's actually doing, and also doesn't care. Not a good combination for a form with the power to sick swarms of locust on people! Using the established fact that Aruto's mind is connected to the satellites to show us firsthand how horrified he is by what's happening, and how completely helpless he is to do anything was also another good touch. I don't think I was alone in worrying this would just feel like a retread of one of Build's best storylines, but I'm happy to see there's a lot making this feel different. - Oh, and I've gotta give a shout out to my main man Fuwa for taking control of the situation before it went too far. By using brute force, naturally. Izu can say what she will. Sometimes, you've just gotta be a gorilla, and Fuwa gets that. Whew! I think that's enough for now. I wish I could've come up with something more coherent, but I'm practically shaking with excitement from how much I enjoyed this episode. Quote:
Still waiting for Hiroya Matsumoto to play a Rider, but hey, I don't want to seem ungrateful.
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02-09-2020, 10:22 PM | #19 |
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Thouser vs Shining Assault Hopper:
so we have Psycho-Trigger themed detectives and a Newtype bit/funnel fight between riders the creators must be NERDs Fuwa: you arrested the detective and brought him into a courtroom . . . WITHOUT SEARCHING HIM FIRST? i mean take the damn extinguishriser off him, you idiot! Gai: you fucking idiot. Thus far, Aruto has, at best, been able to get to a draw with Thouser even in his best form. You beat Aruto like four times, including with fuwa's help. So you go out and create a progrise key that is SO OVERPOWERED it basically turns him into goddamn T-1000 and drives him insane so he is willing and wants to kill you? What the hell? That woulda been the dumbest way to take out Gai ever. they better not go that way, it would be such a character failure for a guy who has thus far been calculating
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02-10-2020, 02:16 AM | #20 |
天心の英雄たち
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I'm glad to see the Detective is starting to grow as a character. For a long time it seemed like when he wasn't being a Rider he just kind of scowled a lot.
Weird that Wolf seems to now be his base 'go to' form considering when he first started using it it just about killed him. That aspect of the form in the storyline seems to have been completely forgotten about. The new zero-one metal form reminded me a lot of Build Hazard, driving the Rider crazy and turning him into a killing machine. I've been pretty bored with the whole contest arc but this episode wasn't bad, and I liked seeing the Humagear lawyer processing information and investigating while he was doing The Lawyer Thing in the courtroom. It's a good illustration of a Humagear doing something a normal human lawyer could not do. and Izu still managed to sneak in a cute moment at the end... |
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