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01-19-2020, 07:44 PM | #11 |
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I hope Aruto develops pattern recognition because its twice now that he has seen a human provoke a humagear into going berserk, and that if the next episode shows the property agent turning into a monster of the week, its pretty obvious this competition is a set up.
Plus, if Gai is warning against underhanded tactics, then isn't he underhanded as well when he is fully aware that the Ark is turning negative singularity humagear into Magia? Yua didn't realize what an utter hypocrit Gai is? Her credibility drops with each of Gai's successful attempt at pulling off this shenanigan. |
01-20-2020, 01:38 AM | #12 |
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messing with the floral arrangement was a no-no. becoming a raider and destroying house is a no-no. But pushing his candidate to mess with humagear functions so that it goes berserk ? no problem. I kinda get the logic. Being underhanded in a way that makes ZAIA look like cheaters is not good to him, while if it's a humagear going berserk, that's Hiden who's going to have the bad image. But still. At this point Gai is like that kid in art class who is doing a shitty painting, and when he sees the painting of his genius classmate, he throws paint at it to ruin it and say to everyone : "hey look how bad is his painting boo boo". Humagears are good at the core. But this guy messed with the Ark and still continues via his human friends enhanced with ZAIA Spec. Basically he wants everyone to see humagears are bad by making them bad himself. |
01-20-2020, 07:12 AM | #13 |
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I don't dislike this arc but surely there's no way the show is going to actually do five of these competitions before something comes in and throws a serious wrench into it all.
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01-20-2020, 07:13 AM | #14 |
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So I guess all ZAIA representatives are gonna be jerks with sad back stories then huh?
And Gai is a piece of trash really. He knows exactly what he's doing while claiming to want a fair contest. And Horobi telling Fuwa to follow the raiders made me think "So, Las Vegas then?"
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01-20-2020, 09:30 PM | #15 |
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Yeah, I hope something happens to shake up the "job battle" formula soon. It is a neat way to introduce the Raiders and Gai's role as an antagonist, but this episode was very much a repeat of the previous two. I'm glad we still have Fuwa's investigation advancing the bigger plot, hopefully soon that will bring new developments to light and Aruto will realize he needs to change his approach if he wants to keep this from happening again.
On the positive side, I felt the suit actors for the monsters did a particularly good job this episode, they really sold the Whale Raider's arrogance and the Neohi Magia's panic. |
01-21-2020, 05:08 PM | #16 |
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Late to the party as always, but I guess I'll throw in my two cents as well.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First off, I really like the design of the Whale Raider, or more specifially I really like the "face": The red compound eyes, the angry eyebrows, the jagged "teeth" curved into a disturbed smile, honestly the whole thing looks terrifyingly amazing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote:
AI's sole purpose is meant to help advance humanity, not to replace it, not to live along side it, not to even be humanity's peers. "AI is nothing more than a stepping stone in human evolution." Humans are always better, and will always triumph over AI in any scenario. By following this logic, I think Gai expects the ZAIA representatives to always beat their HumaGear opponents "fair and square" because cheating would imply the HumaGear would've won, which further implies the HumaGear was better than the Human in some regard. Meaning for him, the TOB will end the moment Hiden wins a single time because the Humagear was able to outmatch a human, and the idea of that happening is what Gai considers truly unacceptable. Thus, in Gai's perspective, pressuring his human rep into a corner forces them to draw out their "best" to overcome their HumaGear obstacle, so it's perfectly fine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lastly, yeah I too am not the biggest fan of this formula, I get 2-parters are a staple in KR, but spending a 2-parter on each round of this 5 round event equals 10 episodes, meaning we're going to spend around a 1/5th of the series run time solely for this. The best I can hope for is the next round is a crushing landslide for Hiden resulting in Gai stopping the T.O.B early due to his beliefs and going into the next arc immediately. |
01-21-2020, 05:11 PM | #17 |
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feels very formula at the moment, it's just a repeat of the flower girl arc, only now it's real estate agent arc.
Getting bored seeing "Our Hero" getting his butt kicked repeatedly too. ...Izu is still Best Girl though. |
01-21-2020, 07:00 PM | #18 |
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This one... was not good.
Don't get me wrong, it's a relative thing, and a matter of context. If this was your first ever episode of Kamen Rider, you know, it hits all the beats. I actually really appreciate some of Hidenori Ishida flourishes on the direction here, like Izu giving exposition directly to the camera like a pseudo fourth wall-breaking "freeze frame", which are pretty fresh. But as a fan of the series, I just watched this exact episode two weeks ago, and I see I'm not the only one who made that observation. Considering so much of my respect for Yuuya Takahashi as a writer is how perfect I feel the structure and pacing of Ex-Aid was, I have to wonder what the heck happened here. I already have an idea. It's likely the back half of this plot actually will be different than the florist one, and this episode of setup was "necessary" to get us there, but that's not a satisfactory explanation. If that was going to happen, change something about the setup. Start us in medias res, or something. Have the personalities switched around, where maybe it's a more hotheaded Humagear going up against ZAIA this time. Do something! As it is, this episode accomplished nothing but spinning the wheels, and it keeps up a trend that's starting to bug me about Zero-One where it feels weirdly averse to having too much drama. The plot to a Kamen Rider episode probably shouldn't start with two characters sitting down for tea and politely saying "hey, we should progress the current story arc". If the nature of Assault Wolf is still building to something, show Fuwa coughing a bit even after a brief transformation to remind us of the ongoing danger. It also feels like the show is building up to some point about humans being the real monsters, now that they're literally becoming the monsters, which is rich in thematic potential, and I don't see why you wouldn't want to get a head start on that ASAP. Maybe have Horobi and Fuwa talk about that, instead of a repeat of the same conversation where Fuwa asks Horobi about his friends, and Horobi says he has friends. Like, this one really rubbed me the wrong way, guys. I'm not exactly angry about it, and Zi-O had a bit of a dip with the Quiz arc at this same point between some great episodes, so I'm not too worried, but I expect better from this show, and bringing back Rising Hopper is not enough to placate me in this scenario. I did really like seeing Rising Hopper though.
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01-22-2020, 10:41 AM | #19 |
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yeah I thought that too when he henshin'd right into wolf form. Like, "So is this his base form now? I thought it practically killed him to use this form?"
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01-22-2020, 11:58 AM | #20 |
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Wait, even Fish Sandwich didn’t like this one?
Well, now really is the time to step up and say: I liked this week’s episode just fine Seriously, I don’t think this one is too similar to the last competition. Of course the skeleton is still the same: Competition between human and machine, human cheats, machine goes mad, contest restarts, human transforms into a bad guy. But I don’t find the overall structure noticeably similar. This time the human gets his Raid Riser early and actively uses it to sabotage the ongoing competition instead of cheating during a contest and transforming out of despair later. I found this episode highly enjoyable and didn’t think it was all that similar to the last two-part story. Also, this episode I realized that the way they have Aruto transform into different Zero-One forms so that Thouser has new powers to steal every week is actually done rather clever: The HumaGear that go berserk transform into Magia that Zero-One previously defeated with an effective countermeasure form, so instead of busting out Shining (Assault) Hopper every time he transforms into the form he knows is best suited for the job instead. |
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