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06-20-2022, 04:20 PM | #71 |
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This was a super good episode, and one of the ones I remember most from 01. I think the show's early and middle stages did a good job of highlighting just how advanced AI robots would effect the workplace and the sheer personhood of Humagears through many, many different fields, just about all of them honestly quite memorable. But the chef episode here is one of the ones that comes to mind the most both due to Yaiba's outlook and because - to my mind - it's the first one that really interrogated the idea of the line between Humagear and Human being very blurry. It's a great show at... setting up those ideas.
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06-20-2022, 05:06 PM | #72 |
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RealXEyez good song, Fuwa good Rider, Aruto also good Rider but in a much sillier way, if I find a unique opinion rattling round my brain somewhere I'll let you know.
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06-20-2022, 05:53 PM | #73 |
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So yeah, I definitely remember really liking this episode at the time. It does a great job building up the principle characters in exactly the way I expect from Writer-san, but I distinctly recall being surprised how much I enjoyed the guest-character plot here, because I remember the patients of the week in Ex-Aid rarely managing to grip me all that much. And also Valkyrie is really cool, so who even cares about that! Genuinely my favorite debut fight out of the three Riders so far. Going back to the whole "contrast" point, they do *such* a great job getting across that Yua is the only Rider right now who really thinks about how to approach a fight, as opposed to the heroic bumbling and vengeful fury of our other heroes.
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REALxEYEZ is pretty great too, if that needs saying. And even though she isn't the sole lyricist for it, this was also the first Rider opening since Drive to have Shouko Fujibayashi write for it, so just on that level alone, I would already like it.
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06-20-2022, 06:37 PM | #74 |
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RealXEyes, I'll admit, out of the three Reiwa openings, I feel like they got better onwards (even though I'm still at odds with myself on which one I like better). Nothing against RealXEyes, the lyrics are clever (I'm not going to go nuts thinking there's references to past Riders, but I did put together some connections), Zero-One's name is part of the opening, something we haven't gotten since Drive, and the visuals are excellent. I'm just not too into the song, but it's not bad, it is good, but not my favorite from Reiwa.
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Biting Shark! We're finally at the part of the show where we're introducing form changes, but it's interesting how the show is introducing new Riders while also letting it's protagonist get to show off their latest cool form. Like usually either the form or the new Rider would take precedence, but their balancing things out here.
Speaking about the form itself, I like how Zero-One's form changes are so distinct yet simple like Rising Hopper and how they carry such a strong silhouette. Biting Shark is kid of your typical "Speedy with an Edge" form and it just looks cool. Quote:
Valkyrie's pretty great! It doesn't surprise me that they went for orange as the suit's trademark color, considering Yua and Fuwa are very much meant to be a pair. Vulcan contrasts Zero-One's design well enough, but it's not really a Ryuki thing where we're dealing with some main triangle here. Aruto's got his whole completely different fluorescent yellow thing going on (to the point his alternate forms keep the Rising Hopper armor just to keep the color), and the AIMS Riders get this movie-poster blue/orange dynamic going on with their shinier metallic colors. It's all about contrast -- hence the whole cat/dog thing -- and that extends to the characters as well. Like, you'd definitely have to try way harder to find something they do have in common, beyond their occupation? Even the direct honesty that comes as an upside of Fuwa's constant emotional intensity is contrasted by the shady actions that come as a downside of Yua's much more calculated approach to life.
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About Aruto being alone to tell humans to get along with Humagears, this hits home about how someone have to come into terms about how something you find worthy of praise can be underrated, including many in internet, and that someone can also feel alone and contrarian in trying to explain about the worth of something they find good. Sometimes, having that view also can be discouraged, to have such outlandish different take, and that many feel forced to open up those with "unpopular opinion". Of course, the solution would be not caring about what people think and enjoy, like perhaps those who own Humagears and are satisfied, but people can vary, and it can be hard for those to try expanding their interest, but isn't successful or discouraged, and finding ways to present themselves in an interesting way.
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This was a super good episode, and one of the ones I remember most from 01. I think the show's early and middle stages did a good job of highlighting just how advanced AI robots would effect the workplace and the sheer personhood of Humagears through many, many different fields, just about all of them honestly quite memorable. But the chef episode here is one of the ones that comes to mind the most both due to Yaiba's outlook and because - to my mind - it's the first one that really interrogated the idea of the line between Humagear and Human being very blurry. It's a great show at... setting up those ideas.
Thanks! I look forward to it!
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06-20-2022, 06:50 PM | #75 |
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I know with Rider and Tokusatsu in general we're used to "_____ of the week" plots but I think Zero-One does a really good job of keeping it relevant to the core of the shows' theme and accomplishing world-building/character building/new toy introductions while also building up the main plot.
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06-20-2022, 08:33 PM | #76 |
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KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE EPISODE 4 - “THE TRUTH THAT BUS GUIDE SAW”
Hmm. Unsuccessful episode, I’d say. It’s incredibly concerned with dry plot stuff, but it doesn’t compensate with interesting character pairings or clever morals or relatable guests. Worse, it lands its central premise in the weirdest, most Uh Hold On way possible. The premise here is that you need to have faith in the people you care about, even if everyone’s against you. Additionally, we’re in a story about how finding out the truth can be difficult to handle, but it’s better than settling for an easy lie. Both solid lessons. The problem is, both of those lessons are filtered through the prism of Fuwa’s experiences, and it takes them to such an insane level that they start to become cautionary tales. The whole idea of Fuwa telling this kid to not believe his dad caused a tragedy – this is Fuwa telling a child to hold onto his rage and never stop blaming someone else for what might just be a tragic accident. Fuwa is telling this kid that, no matter what anyone else says, the Humagears are responsible for his dad’s death. The fact that Fuwa turns out to be right in this one instance (sort of, but we’ll get to that) doesn’t alter the fact that we’re watching a story where Fuwa teaches a child that there’s always someone to blame when anything hurts you. That’s… I don’t love that message! And the other one, about searching for the truth… it’s noble, and I like Aruto’s version of it okay. It’s more about corporate responsibility, and respecting your customers more than your shareholders. Protecting The Company should never take precedence over Protecting Your Customers. But the Fuwa side of this works as a reckless insistence that the truth is always being hidden, if it’s not what you wanted to hear. That’s, y’know, fine if you want to tell a story that exposes Fuwa’s worldview as one that’ll never offer him any solace, but here it’s all just him being dead-on right that Hiden was covering up what happened in Daybreak Town. The lesson, in all cases, is that Fuwa’s worldview is right. (To be fair, Fuwa does learn a lesson about Aruto’s trustworthiness, and the fact that MetsubouJinrai was behind the destruction of the town. It’s not some huge change in his attitude, but it’s a nice button on an episode that sees Fuwa acknowledge Aruto’s good intentions as Kamen Rider Zero-One.) Even without the upsetting inability to really interrogate how inappropriate it is for a vengeance-crazed gun-nut to be imparting wisdom in a disaster zone to a bullied child, this episode exposition-dense structure didn’t leave enough else to really enjoy. Izu’s barely in it. Yua shows up to deliver a collectible and say, basically, This Thing I’m Helping You Do Is Enormously Unsafe. The Flying Falcon fight does not have my favorite effects. Anna the Bus Guide is a neat idea, but she doesn’t really have an arc to speak of. (No time!) It’s… this whole episode is trying to deliver relevant background, which is fine, but it’s dressed up in nothing but a vaguely repellant Fuwa story. (I genuinely don’t understand how the only lesson that you can have Fuwa learn in this story is I Was Not Lied To In The Exact Manner I Was Expecting. There are… there are a lot of things Fuwa needs to learn! That is not one of them!) I didn’t like this episode? Sort of at all? — KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE SO-DO AI 01: KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE - FLYING FALCON I don’t like the Zero-One form changes, either? The contrasting red and COLOR are unpleasant, visually. I can appreciate how the Rising Hopper mask splits and spins around to give some height to the back of Zero-One’s helmet, but it also gives him two faces on each side of his head, like the Another Double suit got stripped for parts. I just… I do not like the whole folding-back part to the form changes. Seeing bits of Rising Hopper hanging around, fluorescent and unmissable? It just doesn’t work for me, aesthetically. Built this one a while back, and it definitely tripped me up. I didn’t understand the folding-back thing, so I couldn’t figure out why so many pieces and stickers were around the edges. One of the main figures that got me putting a pin in Zero-One SO-DO. Now that I get it, though, I’m still not a fan. Very fun resolution to that wait!
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06-20-2022, 08:39 PM | #77 |
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06-20-2022, 08:45 PM | #78 |
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I'll be honest... I forgot this was an episode.
I thought our next episode was Episode 4. The most I remember from this episode is Punching Kong (A Legendary Form for multiple reasons) and the fact that Flying Falcon doesn't really get a proper debut to speak of. It doesn't finish the Humagear it's technically designed to defeat... Fuwa does. But I suppose that's what the early pack in form/movie debut form gets. |
06-20-2022, 09:02 PM | #79 |
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えぇぇぇ~ Man, you're dissing episode 4 AND Zero-One's form changes in one post? I happen to be a huge fan of both of those things, so this is something of a bummer. But you know, I guess seeing you still can't decide what color Zero-One is just reminds me how subjective things can be. I really love how this episode manages to flesh out Fuwa so well while doing so much else at the same time. It's an episode of the show that's always stood out to me, the same way Zero-One's neon yellow coloring always stands out!
(I always thought it was odd how swiftly the show introduced and dropped the whole secret identity shtick for Zero-One though. It doesn't actually end up feeling particularly unnatural in terms of pacing -- somehow -- and looking back I definitely feel like they made a good call, but it just seems like the sort of thing that would've lasted until some dramatic end-of-story-arc climax or something, you know?)
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06-20-2022, 09:41 PM | #80 |
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This is a play on the syllable "DO" in "SO-DO" resembling the English word "do", and its inverse, "don't".
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I thought our next episode was Episode 4. The most I remember from this episode is Punching Kong (A Legendary Form for multiple reasons) and the fact that Flying Falcon doesn't really get a proper debut to speak of. It doesn't finish the Humagear it's technically designed to defeat... Fuwa does. But I suppose that's what the early pack in form/movie debut form gets.
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えぇぇぇ~ Man, you're dissing episode 4 AND Zero-One's form changes in one post? I happen to be a huge fan of both of those things, so this is something of a bummer. But you know, I guess seeing you still can't decide what color Zero-One is just reminds me how subjective things can be. I really love how this episode manages to flesh out Fuwa so well while doing so much else at the same time. It's an episode of the show that's always stood out to me, the same way Zero-One's neon yellow coloring always stands out!
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(I always thought it was odd how swiftly the show introduced and dropped the whole secret identity shtick for Zero-One though. It doesn't actually end up feeling particularly unnatural in terms of pacing -- somehow -- and looking back I definitely feel like they made a good call, but it just seems like the sort of thing that would've lasted until some dramatic end-of-story-arc climax or something, you know?)
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