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10-23-2021, 09:15 AM | #401 |
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They're set in the same universe, but never fully crossover.
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10-23-2021, 02:38 PM | #402 |
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Episode 11: What Wish Can't Come True? While this episode does have alot of the usual Dynazenon fare, it does have a few aspects to it that help it to stand out. To start with the one major negative I had, I didn't like how Gauma was treated like a crazy person or the one who was in the wrong throughout all of this, because he was right. Just because Kaiju have stopped appearing, that doesn't excuse the actions of the Eugenicists at all. As well, the twist about him being revived as a zombie would have been an interesting hook... if it had been at all brought up earlier. I suppose our hint was the dark circles around his eyes, but I always felt that that was more of a result of how tired and worn down he was due to his overall situation rather than anything else. To do something like this so late seems pointless to me. Besides that though I felt this episode was... alright. Raising the question about what do after something you've been invested in for so long is over is a pretty good question to ask, even if I felt the show didn't adequately go through with it, especially given this is the penultimate episode. The one major positive of the whole thing though was actually the twist with Shizume being a Kaiju all along. It not only makes sense, but the foreshadowing of it was right there all along and I can't believe I missed it(it's his red eyes if anyone doesn't know what I mean). I suppose this also provides a meta reason as to why Knight keeps his left eye hidden ontop of the in-universe one. So yeah, don't say I never gave Dynazenon credit for anything. Not really too much else to say about this one other than that the next episode is the finale and... I don't have high hopes, unfortunately. But, calling it now, the soul of the Princess is totally inside of Dynazenon.
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10-23-2021, 03:02 PM | #403 |
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Not much to say on this episode really, no gif even since I didn't feel like there was much to the brief fight we got. That being said, next time has a gif of the first ever thing I gif'd for Dynazenon because I thought it looked cool. So look forward to that!
Though it was at this point I realized what Dynazenon was trying to go for completely when it came to it's finale. To the point where I ended up imagining and calling a few things correctly. Though I'll save that for next episode. But yeah, stuff like Sizumu trying to be around the younger members of the group as much as possible, his remarks when it came to Episode 10's Voice Drama, and just stuff in general he talks about. It's what basically tipped me off that he'd be our big villain. Speaking of Voice Drama's... Unfortunately I can't find like an audio and sub combination of the third Blu-Ray Voice Drama, so have the transcript alongside the streamable link I found for this episodes Voice Drama. The one where I really want to try these meat skewers they keep talking about... Episode 9+1 Episode 11.11 |
10-23-2021, 03:34 PM | #404 |
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10-23-2021, 03:55 PM | #405 |
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Well, there’s a lot to explain reference wise. Not least that Gauma’s blurry flashback is actually footage from an episode of the OG Gridman, entitled “The Legend of Dragon”.
To explain the plot of that episode, and how it relates here, said episode revolves around a 5000 year-old Chinese mummy being brought into the local museum, with a legend stating that he was separated from his lover, a Princess. The bad guys think this will mean he has a lot of pent up rage and send the monster Mecha-Baguila into the museum’s CAT scanner, reprogramming it to revive the mummy and send it on a rampage. But the kids trapped in the museum realise that the mummy isn’t angry, he’s sad that he didn’t get to reunite with his lover (who one of them just happens to resemble). Meanwhile, Gridman fights Mecha-Baguila and gets help in the form of a new Assist Program modelled after the sarcophagus the mummy came in, Dyna Fighter, which can transform into the Dragon Cannon, allowing him to win. And other things to note about this episode include: When the subs came out, Funi mistranslated “mummy” (mirraa) as “mirror”. Though that’s been corrected since, any third party sites you may or may not watch still have the original preserved in all its glory. Shizuma’s monster form actually appears briefly in the opening credits, during the shots of the Eugenicists. But it’s zoomed in so far you can’t tell what it is until this point. |
10-23-2021, 04:00 PM | #406 |
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Well, there’s a lot to explain reference wise. Not least that Gauma’s blurry flashback is actually footage from an episode of the OG Gridman, entitled “The Legend of Dragon”.
To explain the plot of that episode, and how it relates here, said episode revolves around a 5000 year-old Chinese mummy being brought into the local museum, with a legend stating that he was separated from his lover, a Princess. The bad guys think this will mean he has a lot of pent up rage and send the monster Mecha-Baguila into the museum’s CAT scanner, reprogramming it to revive the mummy and send it on a rampage. But the kids trapped in the museum realise that the mummy isn’t angry, he’s sad that he didn’t get to reunite with his lover (who one of them just happens to resemble). Meanwhile, Gridman fights Mecha-Baguila and gets help in the form of a new Assist Program modelled after the sarcophagus the mummy came in, Dyna Fighter, which can transform into the Dragon Cannon, allowing him to win. Quote:
And other things to note about this episode include:
When the subs came out, Funi mistranslated “mummy” (mirraa) as “mirror”. Though that’s been corrected since, any third party sites you may or may not watch still have the original preserved in all its glory.
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10-27-2021, 06:45 PM | #407 |
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Super Robot Wars 30 is now out, as such we now have these two remixes!
What do you all think?
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10-27-2021, 07:12 PM | #408 |
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Do love Union. Yume no Hero I think works better with vocals.
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10-29-2021, 01:03 PM | #409 |
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Episode 12: What Was I Entrusted With? I have a feeling that this post is gonna come across as extremely backhanded. But, please keep in mind, I'm literally just typing my thoughts out as they happen here. I am in no way going out of my way to be mean spirited. Because man, I have so many mixed feelings about this. As a standalone episode, as a finale, as an emotional roller coaster, as a symbol of the series as a whole, and the overall writing style and message it's trying to present. Here's the thing, if I had at all been having a better time with SSSS.Dynazenon as a show up to this point, then I would not at all hesitate in saying that this episode serves as a perfect emotional finale to the season as a whole. I can very easily see how fans would fall in love with this. Heck, I myself even got swept up in the sheer emotion present all throughout the story of this one. I didn't want to see Gauma die. I was happy to see the entire group working together and displaying their bond as a family. I was super ecstatic that the episode basically ended with Chise and Goldburn. And the final action sequence felt like something the whole season had been leading to. But, the issues that take me away from the entire experience is how, as a finale, this episode does not at all bother to properly wrap up much of anything in terms of plot. There have been so many plot threads that were brought up through the show's' run that are now never going to be followed up on. So many potential character moments that, with the death of the Eugenicists and everyone parting ways, will never be seen to their full potential. It's also difficult for me to say too much in regards to the episode itself because there's alot of thoughts racing through my head right now in terms of how everything fits together overall, and I wanna save alot of those thoughts for the final wrap up post that I plan to do once things have settled down. That said, I do think that, given its major highlight in this episode with both the above screenshot as well as the talk between Yomogi and Shizumu, there is one aspect of discussion I can quite possibly raise: Instance Domination. I... am very confused as to what exactly the overall use and purpose of it was? Keep in mind, it is very possible that it's something that went way over my marble-sized brain, but again, I'm confused. Because as this episode seems to present it, the "Domination" part of the name is kind of the wrong term to use? It appears that in order for Instance Domination to be successful, the Kaiju User has to be in tune with the emotions and heart of the Kaiju itself, which WOULD thematically fit in with the overall message that Dynazenon seems to want to present. But on the other hand, that also doesn't change that the User does still infact Dominate, take control, over said Kaiju. Which kinda gives the sort of exact opposite message, doesn't it? Not to mention, Shizumu was already Dominating himself, ontop of having absorbed the other Users and thus uniting all of their hearts as one, so how could Yomogi have possibly Dominated Kaiju Shizumu clean the way he did? Hell, the entire sequence even emphasizes what might be my major problem with the season as a whole: It's clear with this that the writer's' purposefully went out of their way to not expand upon or explain anything, highlighted by Gauma telling the Eugenicists to shut up. Overall, this episode is the perfect emotional finale to Dynazenon and its characters as a whole, but if you're like me and the show has been majorly rocky for you, don't expect it to accomplish too much. I liked the episode overall, I think, but did it overall save the show or justify any of my previous critiques? No, I personally don't think it did. The final thoughts posts will come tomorrow after I've allowed my thoughts to settle some. Until then, what did this final episode do for all of you? I'm curious.
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10-29-2021, 01:23 PM | #410 |
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Yeah I figured, shame to see that you weren't able to vibe too well with it. I for one thought this was a pretty strong finale. You could tell they were definitely holding back after Gridknight's debut on some of the fights sans Kaiser Gridknight's debut purely so they could get this final battle going. There's a lot of cool CG stuff, a ton of beautiful traditionally animated shots (That part where they're shrouded in the light and they unfurl the cape? *chefs kiss*)
Everyone just shouting their pathos and punching the shit out of each other? That's basically my jam, especially when it involves gigantic robot fists. Also I'm a Yomogi and Yume shipper through and through so the final sequence of them at the school was a delight to see, and also them basically hard confirming that "Yes they are together" instead of like the teasing and complications that came from Yuta and Rika's whole thing. I have a feeling we might not be done with Chise admittedly, and feel like she's one of the likely ones to come back during Gridman x Dynazenon while everyone else seems like they've moved to their endpoints. Other than that, my mindset going into the finale was basically like "Are they going to answer like the big looming questions?" and I thought back to Episode 7 when we get introduced to Knight after watching Episode 11 was like, "No they aren't". This especially becomes the case when they focus everything on the fallout and how the Kaiju Eugenicists are having a hard time coping with their loss in Episode 10. Dynazenon wasn't a story about the greater Gridman Universe, it was merely a story within it. A story of a feud that was revived and needed to be put to rest while helping those in the present days with their issues. So much so that I didn't expect any big revelation move from Dynazenon compared to what we got with Gridman. We did get a cool combo with Gridknight and Golburn though and that was fun to see. But yeah, I found it fairly enjoyable. I think the thing with me that made me enjoy Dynazenon more than SSSS.Gridman were a few factors. The fights were definitely improved I feel, there was a lot more cool stuff that I recall from Dynazenon than SSSS.Gridman. Not to mention, where in I only care about two characters in SSSS.Gridman (Anti and Akane), Dynazenon had me latch onto basically all of them in some way or form. The fact that I even decided to sail on the Yomogi and Yume ship is definitely a sign of that. Not much else to say aside from rambling... but, here's the gif I first made when the finale aired because it was too cool to have it just not be gif'd. That run, the missiles following along and encircling the arm, the slowdown, and then the hit connecting! Real good stuff! |
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