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02-14-2020, 07:13 PM | #15741 |
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Fun fact: I distinctly remember it blowing my mind skimming back through Ghost when I made that huge thread and finding out Takeru had been on the Infinite Potential™ train from that early on.
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02-17-2020, 12:52 AM | #15742 |
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So this made 0 sense when I first watched this episode, but going back it's kind of mind blowing. Anyway Episode 3 of ghost! it was really good. I don't a 100% agree with the moral of the week (I think Takeru should've encourage the victim of the week to form their own marry band and organize a group of like minded journalist), but the rest was really solid stuff. The comedy beats hit well, particularly when Takeru and the Ganma become visible to everyone. Yuresen established a rule here about the creation of eyecons, that they can come from when ganma play upon the emotions of people, that I feel was forgotten, but then again they collect all 15 eyecons by like ep 16, so -shrugs-. This ep was also good because everyone got something to, Onari had a good subplot about getting work for the detective agency, and Akari had her subplot about creating the ghost visualizer sparkles. I really like the prop of the ghost visualizer leaf blower. Also the final fight of the ep was great! it was good to see everyone contributing in some way, and robin hood damashii looks great, as does the bow gun oddly enough. So good ep yeah.
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02-20-2020, 12:10 AM | #15743 |
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Now up to episode 30 of the Turn Up Scrubs version of Blade. I think they actually did less and less "scrubbing" as episodes went on because these last few episodes have been full of typos and some very literal dialogue. Like, I'm 75% certain that the TVN subs were not all that different, but maybe I'm misremembering.
Anyway, this is around the time most people say Blade starts to improve, and yeah, it's easy to see why. The pacing gets alot better, the show begins to realize how much building a proper mystery can help your narrative, and we get some better comedy moments. Also the body-double two parter with Hajime is just alot of fun overall, even if him getting amnesia kinda just happens because. The reaction shots especially are all really funny and well done. Props. |
02-20-2020, 02:37 AM | #15744 |
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Okay, so I fell really behind on Zero One, but I've caught back up with that and now it's time to get back onto this train (rocket?), too.
Fourze 33-34 The school trip arc. First and foremost, there's a lot of really nice location filming in Kyoto here. After Hibiki it's really rare to see Kamen Rider film anywhere outside of the usual dozen or so same locations, so it's great to see the show invest in a travel budget for a change. It really is a pity that the show doesn't do this more often, although it probably does save a lot of money. I'd be curious to find out when Movie Wars Mega Max got a home release, because there's a lot of stuff from it that shows up on the main show for the first time here. Foundation X makes an appearance, but the big deal is that Leo finally shows up after spending months doing... something, I guess. Leo makes a good debut here, easily taking down Gentarou and Ryusei in their strongest forms. Libra is also there, but much less impressive. There's a major plot development for him that I completely forgot about, though: this arc ends with Libra gaining the ability to see who will manifest a Horoscope. That's a big development for the character, but it also retraoctively fixes one of my big problems with this era of Fourze. I remember being really annoyed at the time that we suddenly had new Horoscopes popping up every other week, effectively replacing the standard Zodiarts. I completely forgot that Libra could now track them, which obviously means that they're going to be more frequent. I still prefer the extended arcs we got with Scorpio and Cancer, but this does make the pacing seem less abrupt. That aside, the main plot here is about Gentarou, Kengo, Ryusei, Yuki, and Yuki's Hayabusa puppet (like I said last update, we are now at peak Yuki) going on their school trip. Things get dicey, though, as a classmate named Yukina has decided that she is going to make Gentarou her boyfriend. I liked this story. Yukina was very frustrating for most of it, although that was kind of the point. Yuki also ended up the butt monkey of most of her shenanigans, which actually got some good laughs from me. What salvaged the character was the revelation of why she was so insistent on pursuing Gentarou: she knew he was Fourze and she wanted him to have a fun, normal school trip. That was a nice touch and it made for some good moments near the end of 34. Oh, and I almost forgot, we got the first appearance of Professor Emoto, who worked with Gamou and Kengo's father back in the day. He eventually turns out to be both Virgo and Tachibana. Next up we're into an arc that I really don't remember much about. The preview shows Yuki and Nozoma rocking out on electric guitars, though, and that can't possibly end well. |
03-07-2020, 09:24 PM | #15745 |
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Just watched the Zero-One Hyper Battle Video, and I really enjoyed it. As in like, actively. It's hard to totally pin down why. Something about it just seemed more straightforward and solid than a lot of more recent HBV's... is what I'd like to say, but then, I can already barely remember most recent HBV's, so, uh... at the very least, I think it was better than BiBill Geiz. Not to single that one out, or anything, it's just the only one fresh in my mind.
I guess that'll be the real test. If I actually can remember anything from this in a couple years, I'll know for sure it was good. For now, though, I thought it had a very focused script, surprisingly enough courtesy of Masaya Kakehi, who for the record, I'd still love to see writing more of the show proper! Obviously there's no ambitious narrative here, but you can tell by things like the pacing it wasn't phoned in. What I think I was getting into more than anything though was just Fumiya Takahashi's performance as Aruto. I found myself paying more attention to it than usual in light of some of the discussion in the thread for episode 25, and I'll stand by what I've been saying since episode 1. The guy has loads of talent. He spends the vast majority of the HBV in total clown mode, and nails it the whole way through. He's great at knowing exactly how pathetic to make Aruto look at a particular moment, he's got an excellent range in his intonations, and his dubbing when Zero-One is on-screen is seamless (that last one owing as much credit to Nawata, too, of course). I've seen inexperienced actors playing screwball leads in tokusatsu who take a while to really "lock on", and I'm tellin' ya, he ain't one of 'em. Oh, and this is just one last minor thing I found funny: Hopping Kangaroo's messed up text-to-speech transformation jingle is inadvertently justified by its in-universe origin as a Key that Zea made after basically having a mental breakdown. Talk about lucky!
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03-08-2020, 02:14 AM | #15746 |
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Can't believe Rogue's train ticket troubles, Ex-Aid's adventure with the spirit of his bike, and Drive indulging in luxury cars aren't all considered masterpieces to you. (I don't actually remember what happened in Ghost's.)
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03-08-2020, 05:08 AM | #15747 |
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In the first one, he competes with a Ganma for an Eyecon, while Ōharu crushes on a fat woman. In the second, the guy from the first few episodes revived and brings the Leonardo Ganma from Movie Wars Genesis back with him. Ones a recap, the other’s an explanation of why they chose THOSE historical figures to be Ghost’s main 15.
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03-08-2020, 05:56 PM | #15748 |
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Ghost's first one I mostly remember for making Onari into a creeper. The second one is very impressive with the way it expands on the lore and ties up Saionji's character, but it also kind of completely misses the point of an HBV in the process. The Ex-Aid ones, I'll admit, are largely down to that show's mountain of side material starting to blur together in my mind. If they didn't go crazy and have Emu getting his face shoved into medical waste or something, they tended not to leave much of an impact. Build has pretty much the same issue. I'm totally blanking on the first one, and while I remember liking Prime Rogue well enough, I... uh... you know, I'm not sure why I didn't mention it as an exception. Maybe I'm still just confused why, coming right off of Amazons, it wasn't some kind of thing on Amazon Prime.
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03-08-2020, 06:41 PM | #15749 |
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Award for best HBV goes to Faiz. Don't even @ me.
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03-09-2020, 11:28 AM | #15750 |
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I've seen Masked Rider Dragon Knight (As Saban would have called it) on CW but missed the last 4 weeks as they were stream exclusive.
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