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07-01-2020, 07:03 PM | #1011 |
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Orga suit design is stunning. Head always reminds me of the Amadeus movie poster.
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07-01-2020, 07:30 PM | #1012 |
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Awesome! I hope so!
Yeah, it really does. I think it just says Emperor Belt really well. Black and gold, for sure, but just how ornate it is? How it looks impractical in combat, which makes its dominance seem even more daunting?
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07-01-2020, 07:42 PM | #1013 |
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Look, I'm just surprised they didn't give him Japanese subtitles to be actively unhelpful, at least English subs could help if, like, you're hard of hearing.
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07-01-2020, 10:41 PM | #1014 |
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--5-- Well, that's it. We did it, everybody. We watched all of Faiz, we talked about it for months, and I finally opened my celebratory Figuart. (That's him up there.) I said before (I think?) that getting near the end of a Kamen Rider series feels a bit like leaving high school. There's a melancholy aspect to it, where the time you'll get to spend with these characters, in this particular world, it's about to end. There's less road ahead of you than behind you. Actually getting to the end, though, it's like graduating. It's more bittersweet than melancholy. It's sad to never get to see new episodes of Faiz, sure. But there's also the pride in completing the series, knowing that you reached a goal you set for yourself. (There's also a little bit of relief that you can move on. I didn't have a million more things to say about Faiz!) Mostly, though, there's excitement about starting a new series, getting to learn more about another cast, another story. It's a good feeling, really. --4-- This one, the Faiz thread, real happy with how it went. Didn't feel like this one got as much away from me as other series. (Ryuki, not crazy about that one!) Felt good about being able to communicate what in this was entertaining, or disappointing, or clever, or funny. I felt like this series clicked for me a lot more than the earlier Heisei series. There's a complexity to the themes, but also a willingness to have less likeable protagonists and more sympathetic antagonists. There was an ambiguity I really enjoyed. And, god, real fun show to talk about. It went hard on wacky hijinks just as often as it did devastating melodrama, so I'm thankful for that. Nice mix of big ideas and dumb jokes, kind-of the sweet spot for me. For those interested in statistics, the Google Doc for these writeups (not responses on the boards, just episode posts and stuff like this) ran 134 pages. Ryuki was about 86. And this was the one I was trying to be succinct on by using this five point structure. Obviously, a huge miscalculation, but a fun experiment nonetheless. I'll probably do a Faiz word cloud, pulled from the Google Doc, in the next little bit. --3-- I'm unbelievably thankful to everyone who showed up to this thread to share their thoughts on Faiz. Did not think there'd be a huge turnout, but folks were very active and it's incredibly kind of them. Big big thank yous to everyone who stopped by, whether it was for one episode or the whole run. I've said before that when I do a post on an episode, it's not meant to be the final word, it's meant to be a conversation-starter. Well, you all delivered some of the best Kamen Rider conversation I've been lucky enough to be a part of. More than once I was happy to just sit back and watch smarter fans than me give their takes on this show, and that's such a gracious gift for them to give to other fans. To quote Owen Ashworth from a Casiotone For The Painfully Alone live show, "Thanks thanks, and thanks thanks.” --2-- This is very sad to type! I'm getting a little choked up here. I'm seriously going to miss this thread. I've said other times that doing these isn't, like, performative, it's self-care. Watching Kamen Rider, I need to talk about it, and posting about it here helps get my brain right. Well, man, these last couple months of life outside Kamen Rider have been unbelievably stressful, and this thread has brought some stability to crazy times. (Nothing exceptional for me personally, just the same insanity everyone's dealing with.) Being able to watch a Faiz one night, then spend the next day getting to talk about it, then repeating the process, it was a lifeline. It was comforting. You all... I will be grateful to TokuNation forever for giving me a space to do this stuff, and grateful to everyone on this board who participated. You helped make the last couple months a little bit less awful. To paraphrase Soeno, you've protected a small amount of happiness. You're my heroes. --1-- Doing these, especially over a two month period, it can take it out of me. I'm at low-ebb right now, for being able to talk cogently (or coherently!) about Kamen Rider. I'm going to be on a little break for the next two weeks, give or take. I'll still be around the boards for sure, but I'm not watching anything for a little bit. Need to recharge that part of my brain, let that excitement build for superheroes having allegorical fights. I should be back with Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Blade somewhere between the 13th and the 17th of July. Hopefully a few of you will want to talk about it. This thread, like all of the older ones, will stay open, so feel free to drop in if you've got more thoughts you want to share about Faiz. I never get sick of hearing what people think about Kamen Rider. Thanks to Faiz for being so much better than I'd feared. Thanks to TokuNation for having an outstanding fandom. Thanks to every single person reading this for being a true delight and a genuine human. If I've made you happy, that's made me happy. Go Meteors! TIME OUT
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07-01-2020, 11:06 PM | #1015 |
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And to further the hype for the next show...
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07-02-2020, 01:40 AM | #1016 |
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So do you have a figure for every Rider tucked away in their boxes somewhere?
Some of those 134 pages and a good chunk of this thread's very own 100 pages is probably because we all kept responding to your essays with essay, and then demanding you further responded to the essays in response to essays... Anyhow, good job again on another nice thread. It is always nice to see you dig deep into Kamen Rider like this and then write it out, and I hope you keep it up only for as long as you continue to enjoy doing it! I, and I'm sure others, would hate for you to ever feel like you were obliged to do these write-ups just for other people. As long as you're still up for it, looking forward to you Opening Your Eyes For The Next... Blade (Blaiz!?). |
07-02-2020, 01:57 AM | #1017 |
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I'm so excited to see it! I've been looking forward to The Train One for a while, and, y'know, not seeing a ton of trains, but I imagine they'll factor in once the show gets going. No spoilers, though!
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Unfortunately, that means that I might have to decide if I want to pay difficult-to-swallow aftermarket prices for some figures I missed out on, like Hibiki and Kiva. (The vampire one and the drumming one, respectively.) I don't know. Maybe? We'll see what reissues maybe get announced, and where my disposable income is around then. It'll be awhile before I have to make any decisions, thankfully. Quote:
Some of those 134 pages and a good chunk of this thread's very own 100 pages is probably because we all kept responding to your essays with essay, and then demanding you further responded to the essays in response to essays... Anyhow, good job again on another nice thread.
It is always nice to see you dig deep into Kamen Rider like this and then write it out, and I hope you keep it up only for as long as you continue to enjoy doing it! I, and I'm sure others, would hate for you to ever feel like you were obliged to do these write-ups just for other people. As long as you're still up for it, looking forward to you Opening Your Eyes For The Next... Blade (Blaiz!?). Thanks for the kind words. Honestly, I feel less like I'm obligated to do these and more that I'm lucky y'all let me. It... I sort-of just showed up here and was like Hey I'm Going To Talk About Ghost As Someone Who's Watched Kamen Rider For A Few Months and you all let me. Folks actually encouraged me, which, unbelievable. I only do this to get to talk about these shows, so people regularly responding is... I mean, amazing. So nice. I am looking forward to Blade! I don't love the helmet, but he's in an Ex-Aid special that I think is one of the smartest pieces of plotting I've ever seen.
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07-02-2020, 04:41 AM | #1018 |
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So you remember how after you got done with Agito, I said that was my favorite thread you've done so far? Apparently you and Inoue turned out to be a Best Match, because this blows that out of the water.
Faiz went over astonishingly well with you, and I think that sort of enthusiasm rubs off on everyone else. If we had a lot to say about Faiz, it's only because you had a lot to say about Faiz. Your thoughts on it were consistently super insightful and interesting. The fact that you've had people saying you've opened their eyes to the things about the show that maybe worked great after all is really all the proof you should need that you did a fantastic job with this one. You took an extremely divisive series, and made a compelling argument why, even with its flaws, there's more in there worth loving than people often give it credit for. I'm downright proud of you. I have a feeling Faiz will maybe be a hard show to top for you? It sort of seems like this is going to go down as one of your favorites of this era of Rider. Or, I don't know, maybe this is a general trend, and by Zi-O, these threads are going to average 500 pages each, and you'll be writing an entire essay for each individual segment of an episode between commercial breaks, but it's totally fine if they get smaller instead of bigger, too! Enjoy your break! It's important not to wear yourself out with this stuff! Whether Blade ends up being another hit with you, or just a moderately enjoyable good time, I'll be sure to Turn Up for it, when you're ready.
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07-02-2020, 04:45 AM | #1019 |
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Congrats on the thread completion! Man, you write so much faster than I can keep up
The Orphnoch King nonsense and the way they badly fumbled (IMO) Yuji's arc almost had me soured on the show as a whole after the highs of Takumi's reveal and Yuka's arc, not unlike how the mid-series Ryusei sub-plot significantly offset the show's stellar first quarter. I always had a sense that the endgame would be Yuuji vs. Takumi ever since the first couple of episodes, and it's something I was really excited about for its immense dramatic potential, but yeah... I really wish it could happen in a more organic and deliberate manner. That said, the highs of Faiz are just as good as any toku shows I've seen, and it's likely I'd appreciate it even more on eventual rewatch. As I said earlier in the thread, I really do adore this band of jerks and losers. I don't think I can ever ignore the many missteps it made along the way, but reading through this thread and others' opinion, it also dawned on me that the core of the show is even more clever and thematically interesting than I first thought. It's a (pleasant) surprise that you like the series this much, and that so many people have strong opinion on Faiz! As someone who's always been more partial to the Phase I Heisei, this thread has been really delightful. Also, I don't know if this has been mentioned here, but while opinion on Faiz is seemingly very mixed among the Western fandom, it's actually the most popular KR show in Japan according to recent-ish poll. A combination of peak J-drama + high toyetic value + flip phone (*they really do love their flippers), perhaps? Whatever it is, I got the feeling the show has successfully tapped into the cultural zeitgeist in the country at the time. Faiz is also quite popular in my country; the series ranked third and the movie ranked second most favorite in last year's poll across all the Heisei shows/movies. |
07-02-2020, 06:16 AM | #1020 |
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I was lucky to grab the Zi-O Rider Kicks SHF releases when one of our wholesalers offered them. I've got a Blade and Den-O ready to go for future threads. (Den-O is the 10th anniversary one, I'm pretty sure.)
Unfortunately, that means that I might have to decide if I want to pay difficult-to-swallow aftermarket prices for some figures I missed out on, like Hibiki and Kiva. (The vampire one and the drumming one, respectively.)
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