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09-30-2012, 02:44 AM | #11 |
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Me: :blubbering: Girlfriend: .. What's wrong? Me: He cares.... GF: Who, your dad? Me: Kengo! That little bastard cares! GF: ... :beats over head with her pillow: |
09-30-2012, 02:47 AM | #12 |
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you lightweights crying during fourze
i didn't even cry during the end of Ryuki, and that was way worse than anything in fourze. you truely know sad when you watch the anime clannad everything else is smalltime
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09-30-2012, 03:10 AM | #13 |
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I don't find any of Ryuki's endings to be that sad. But yeah, who doesn't cry watching / playing Clannad ?
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09-30-2012, 03:11 AM | #14 |
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My major complaint with Wizard so far is the lack of characterization for Haruto. I haven't seen as many of these shows as you guys have, but I'm 20-something eps through Fourze and 12 through OOO and compared to those this guy's a complete cypher.
We know part of his origin. We know he likes donuts. Everything else is a mystery. We don't know what he was doing before the eclipse. We don't know what his life's ambition is if he ever defeats all the Phantoms. His personality is pretty bland. We know he takes his mission very seriously but thats a given. Meanwhile by the end of episode 1 of Fourze and OOO we know quite a bit about the protagonists. As of Episode 4 of Wizard... next to nothing about Haruto. This is probably intentional though so I'm not holding it against the show. But he is pretty much a blank at this point. |
09-30-2012, 03:22 AM | #15 |
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My major complaint with Wizard so far is the lack of characterization for Haruto. I haven't seen as many of these shows as you guys have, but I'm 20-something eps through Fourze and 12 through OOO and compared to those this guy's a complete cypher.
We know part of his origin. We know he likes donuts. Everything else is a mystery. We don't know what he was doing before the eclipse. We don't know what his life's ambition is if he ever defeats all the Phantoms. His personality is pretty bland. We know he takes his mission very seriously but thats a given. Meanwhile by the end of episode 1 of Fourze and OOO we know quite a bit about the protagonists. As of Episode 4 of Wizard... next to nothing about Haruto. This is probably intentional though so I'm not holding it against the show. But he is pretty much a blank at this point. |
09-30-2012, 03:25 AM | #16 |
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My major complaint with Wizard so far is the lack of characterization for Haruto. I haven't seen as many of these shows as you guys have, but I'm 20-something eps through Fourze and 12 through OOO and compared to those this guy's a complete cypher.
We know part of his origin. We know he likes donuts. Everything else is a mystery. We don't know what he was doing before the eclipse. We don't know what his life's ambition is if he ever defeats all the Phantoms. His personality is pretty bland. We know he takes his mission very seriously but thats a given. Meanwhile by the end of episode 1 of Fourze and OOO we know quite a bit about the protagonists. As of Episode 4 of Wizard... next to nothing about Haruto. This is probably intentional though so I'm not holding it against the show. But he is pretty much a blank at this point.
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09-30-2012, 04:00 AM | #17 |
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09-30-2012, 09:49 AM | #18 |
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I never got far in Clannad because I wanted to kick Fuko down a well, and she was the first character to get a story arc...
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09-30-2012, 10:41 AM | #19 |
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Hello.
So Kamen Rider Fourze is my baby. I love the show, I love the characters, and I will defend the show to anyone who wants to argue about it. THAT BEING SAID. The difference I see so far between Fourze and Wizard, is that the villains in Fourze were all characters we got to know (with the exception of just a few). Even the 2 episode bad guys who weren't Horoscopes were often characters they introduced and you got to know and the group had to find a way to save the person and not just destroy the monster side. In Wizard, the bad guys are people that are already "dead" and the phantom beast inside them has taken over. So there's no "getting to know" the bad guys, they're just there and the surprise is when you find out who the bad guy was (well, for two episodes at least). Because of that, Fourze (in my opinion) had a bigger impression ... when a character died (Emoto for example) it was really sad, because you got to know that character aside from the good guy/bad guy part of it. Wizard? Not so much, not yet at least. Thoughts? A lot of that comes down to motivation. We already have a clear motivation for the Phantoms. They want to break open the Gates and create more Phantoms so that they can retry their big ritual thingy. With the Zodiarts it took us almost a quarter of the series to get told that kids were being given Astro Switches in hopes of finding the rest of the twelve Horoscopes. And even then we didn't know what the point of the Horoscopes was until the end of the series. For me, one of Fourze's biggest failings (outside of the pacing problems) was that the masterminds behind the monsters lacked any obvious end goal for most of the show. It was very frustrating. At this point it at least feels like we have some sense of what the Phantoms are trying to do, even if the details are still vague. Quote:
My major complaint with Wizard so far is the lack of characterization for Haruto. I haven't seen as many of these shows as you guys have, but I'm 20-something eps through Fourze and 12 through OOO and compared to those this guy's a complete cypher.
We know part of his origin. We know he likes donuts. Everything else is a mystery. We don't know what he was doing before the eclipse. We don't know what his life's ambition is if he ever defeats all the Phantoms. His personality is pretty bland. We know he takes his mission very seriously but thats a given. Meanwhile by the end of episode 1 of Fourze and OOO we know quite a bit about the protagonists. As of Episode 4 of Wizard... next to nothing about Haruto. This is probably intentional though so I'm not holding it against the show. But he is pretty much a blank at this point. It's probably also worth remembering that Wizard's head writer worked on the good part of Hibiki, which was a show that wasn't very interested in backstory and preferred to spend time examining the characters relating to each other in the present. |
09-30-2012, 10:45 AM | #20 |
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It's also good to remember that it's only been 4 episodes. You weave a story in, not spurt exposition to the viewer
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