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03-11-2021, 03:09 AM | #351 |
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The Imagin is meant to be a wolf. As in, the big bad Wolf.
Yeah, I mostly remember this as “the one where the Gate was perfunctory, rather than vital”. And yes, Kiriya tadaima sanjoh. I distinctly remember a certain someone mentioning Sakurai briefly in the Hibiki thread, to which someone else responded by stating his opinion on the actor’s two roles was the opposite of the common one (namely, that Kiriya is the worst of the two). Speaking of vague memories of your past threads, my thread will be covering an episode that not only aired around the same time as a Ryuki episode (I think) you called your favourite (it might’ve been the one after it. Either way, Fish Sandwich was dumbfounded) and has a similar plot (various males all end up inadvertently in romantic involvement with the same woman). |
03-11-2021, 10:53 AM | #352 |
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Not a ton to say about this one. Its main purpose is to be the exposition dump on Sakurai, which in turn sets up the introduction of Zeronos. There are some nice bits - Momo's apathetic fight, Kin asking Ryotaro to make a wish, Elly from Ultraman Max is still hanging around a bit - but it's not the most exciting or dynamic episode.
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Speaking of vague memories of your past threads, my thread will be covering an episode that not only aired around the same time as a Ryuki episode (I think) you called your favourite (it might’ve been the one after it. Either way, Fish Sandwich was dumbfounded) and has a similar plot (various males all end up inadvertently in romantic involvement with the same woman).
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03-11-2021, 03:44 PM | #353 |
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Sorry, just asking for what causes the lack of response?
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Airi's thing is giving pep-talk to others! Like to ep. 7, ep. 15-16, and also here. It mostly is done to male and works wonders due to... ehem... Airimirers ability she has, but it's done on female here, although she's a close relative to the Nogami family. And also, for Sawada recovering well, do you talk about her physically or psychologically after the monster attack? And for those 2 tropes, the amnesia one is like, done on a good number of Rider series, and those which you like too, like Kabuto's Gon? And the keeping the truth part, if you direct that to Kobayashi, it's also an Inoue thing.
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03-11-2021, 04:57 PM | #354 |
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Sometimes I don't have anything to contribute! Also, sometimes I have long days! Sorry!
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03-11-2021, 06:09 PM | #355 |
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This is a set of episodes I definitely love more than Die does. Even though there wasn't any break in the airing schedule or anything, I consider it the sort of "season finale" for Den-O, like a lot of Rider shows from Double onwards do around this point in the episode count. I like how it drives the overarching plot forward enough to actually start resembling an overarching plot, and it keeps it all grounded in great character development for both Ryoutarou and Momotaros.
Between these two and episodes 3/4, I have a theory that it's a particularly good arc of Den-O whenever Plat Form gets significant screentime. Which isn't saying that all good Den-O stories have Plat Form, mind you, but that all Den-O stories with Plat Form are good, no exceptions. Anyway, while it's nothing compared to how whimsical some of the others get, I will note that the title for 18 writes "fiance" in kanji as konyakusha, only to tell the reader right above that it's supposed to be said in English for some reason. Maybe for no reason? It's hard to tell with this show sometimes!
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03-11-2021, 06:26 PM | #356 |
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This is a set of episodes I definitely love more than Die does. Even though there wasn't any break in the airing schedule or anything, I consider it the sort of "season finale" for Den-O, like a lot of Rider shows from Double onwards do around this point in the episode count. I like how it drives the overarching plot forward enough to actually start resembling an overarching plot, and it keeps it all grounded in great character development for both Ryoutarou and Momotaros.
(Or, I don't know, there have been some fun stories in the nine they've done so far? I feel like I've conveyed that? I am definitely feeling less into DEn-O over the last week, more of a disconnect than I'd've foreseen, but I hope I'm not totally misconstruing whatever I'm getting out of these episodes?) The Ryotaro/Momotaros stuff from the last story was great, though. Having Momo freaking out in 17 and then being like You Had Me Worrying For Nothing And You Need To Be A Better Partner was a great button on that arc. The evolution of their partnership is really special.
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03-11-2021, 08:55 PM | #357 |
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KAMEN RIDER DEN-O EPISODE 19 - "THAT MAN, ZERONOSTART”
So, Zeronos. I was really curious what Yuuto (never know which name a show is going to land on for a character, and this time it's not his family name) was going to be like, how/if he'd be different from what the actor did as Kyosuke on Hibiki. I didn't get a sense of him as having huge range on Hibiki (a little wooden), but it'd have been a year since then. Maybe he was capable of way more than he was given? Maybe Kyosuke wasn't quite in his wheelhouse? Maybe he's got some crazy range? (Slightly off-topic, but my first exposure to Peter Capaldi as an actor was as Sid's dad on Skins, where he played a meek father; and in Torchwood: Children of Earth, where he played a meek government official. That's just what I thought of as Peter Capaldi Parts, so I was pretty surprised when I saw him in In The Loop, reprising his acclaimed turn as a vulgar, mean-spirited government official; and on Doctor Who, where he played a quick-witted, closed-off hero. That was eye-opening!) But, no, not really for Yuuto. He's basically What If Kyosuke From Hibiki Became Sasword From Kabuto. It's all of Kyosuke's weird friend-negging from Hibiki, where it's clear that he wants to make a connection but he's dead-set on being a full-time asshole. And it's also all of the Tsurugi/Jiiya stuff from Kabuto, where there's an attempt by a guardian to protect and improve their charge, but with so many insane touches (Deneb candy!) (!!!!!!!!!!!) (?) (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) that it's unclear if either one of them is capable of surviving this partnership. The character of Yuuto in the moment, in the scene, it's pretty much just Kyosuke. He's immediately standoffish and insulting to Ryotaro, and he even shows up later specifically to piss him off! He's just a weird, pushy jerk from start to finish, with almost no attempt to create a sympathetic character outside of hints that he's doing all this because he's lonely and too weird to be nice. So, yeah, loved it. I was really into Kyosuke on Hibiki (if memory serves) (could be wrong!), so him showing up to do the same shtick on Den-O with Jiiya But An Imagination Monster From The End Of Time in tow, hell yes. That is a mash-up that is Hall of Fame caliber. It's a fun addition to Den-O because, for a human, he's a more present character than we've seen before, no pun intended. Yuuto's someone who is instantly irritating, adding friction to every Ryotaro scene. He's aggressively secretive, and smirking in his opaqueness. He clearly wants to make friends, but seems to consider Emotionally Dominating Them as the key to success. Yuuto's forceful, and that makes him fun to see in a scene with Ryotaro (quiet), Hana (skeptical), and Airi (consistently pleasant). He's... he's all sharp edges, and that's a new development for a show that's mostly been about wacky fun and sitcom disagreements. If there's a part I dislike to Yuuto, it's how wrapped up his story is in Airi and Sakurai. The show clearly is going someplace with the three of them, where there's some time-loop weirdness to how that relationship plays out, but it's a story that feels destined to be portioned out at a rate I'll be unhappy with. Having not loved the Airi revelations from last time, the weird mix of Yuuto taunting Ryotaro with traumatizing Airi (?) and Ryotaro's shouting at Airi to keep her from discovering Yuuto's identity... not into that part! I'm okay with Yuuto having secrets at this point, but I'm not thrilled with scenes that are just the show being evasive to fill time. It's stuff that could be resolved with a conversation, and I don't love that conversation being avoided for dumb reasons. (I will always respect Build as a show for taking a big Banjou development and having Sento just blurt it out. The longer you drag out a plot artificially, the more I'm convinced it's not a smart plot!) But Yuuto's debut episode, I was a fan. I love his weird master/servant relationship with Deneb. I enjoyed him trying to look stoic and then immediately laughing at Ryotaro when the coast was clear. He's just a weird jerk who is desperate to make friends while being terrible at making friends, and I'm looking forward to his inevitable comeuppance -slash- rehabilitation. Either or, I'm not choosy. THE BAGGAGE CAR -This episode was pretty much wall-to-wall Yuuto, but there was a little bit of time for other things. Namely, this story's monster! Not much to him, but I love that in an episode that let the Yuuto parts sprawl comedically, the Jellyfish Imagin was in some huge rush to finish his contract. Great counterpoint to how unhurried the rest of the story was, narratively. -Amongst his whole Being An Uninterrupted Prick agenda, there were some intriguing looks at how Den-O and Zeronos's missions might differ. Or, maybe it's more how Ryotaro and Yuuto's missions differ? Yuuto tries to make it clear that it's sometimes more important to protect time than it is to protect individual people, which is an outlook that Ryotaro fundamentally doesn't share. Ryotaro's doing all of this as Den-O to make a positive change in individual lives. The idea of only focusing on the broader goal of protecting time itself, that's almost abhorrent to Ryotaro. It makes for an interesting dynamic to explore, where both Riders are being heroic in parallel ways. Like train tracks! Metaphor!
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03-12-2021, 03:09 AM | #358 |
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So I thought I’d start with a brief discussion of Deneb. He’s based off a Tengu (a Japanese creature who’s name translates to “heavenly dog”, despite often being depicted as a humanoid crow) and he’s named after a star that I assume is part of a trinity with Altair and Vega (mostly because of how much I see the three used together in fiction).
And no, for the requisite VAs list. Hōchu Ōtsuka (stage name for Yoshitada Ōtsuka) Notable Anime roles: Jiraiya in Naruto, Yazan Gable in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Alfred in Batman Ninja Notable Tokusatsu roles: Signalman in Gekisou Sentai Carranger and Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, Callas in Kamen Rider Battride War, the Narrator in Kamen Rider Gaim, Maja in Kamen Rider Gaim Final Stage. Notable Dubbing roles: Ultra Magnus in The Transformers, Dr. Ian Malcolm in the Jurassic Park series, Grandmaster in Thor: Ragnarok, Data in the Star Trek franchise, Doggett in The X-Files, Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, Jim Gordon in Batman Begins, Hades in Clash of the Titans, Joke in The Dark Knight, Piccolo in Dragonball Evolution, General Xaviax in Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, James Bond in License to Kill, Morgan Spurlock in Super Size Me, Leonardo in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, Steven in Arthur Christmas, Warp Darkmatter in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Carlos and Phil in Hop, Kent Mansley in The Iron Giant, Dick Dastardly in Scoob, Alpha in Up. And for our bad guy of the week Ryūsei Nakao Notable Anime roles: Mayuri Kurotsuchi in Bleach, Frieza in Dragon Ball Z, Caesar Clown in One Piece, Noise in Suite Pretty Cure, King in Garo: Vanishing Line. Notable Tokusatsu roles: Gou Koyuki in Denshi Sentai Denziman (live role), Rain Alien Agent Abrella in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, Masakage Tsugomori in Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, Alien Nackle in Ultraman Mebius and the Ultraman Brothers. Notable dubbing roles: Speckles in G-Force, Solomon Lane in the Mission Impossible series, Tramp in the Andy and the Tramp series, Ling in Mulan, Snowball in The Secret Life of Pets, Ziro the Hutt in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, |
03-12-2021, 05:47 AM | #359 |
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So off topic fun fact, I learned this a while back but Nakao and his Dragon Ball castmate Masako Nozawa who voices Goku were both also cast in Golion, the source material for Voltron. Nakao was the Japanese voice for Sven and Nozawa was Pidge. Additionally, Gorisaki from Go-Busters was Hunk, Aigaron from Kyoryuger was Lance, and Genis from Zyuohger was Keith.
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03-12-2021, 09:40 AM | #360 |
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The core difference between Yuuto and Kiriya (aside from the fact that Yuuto is on a real show and Kiriya is from the purely fictitious post-cancellation “episodes” of Hibiki) is in the motivations behind their behavior. Kiriya (pretending he exists, for the sake of argument) was a selfish dick who was motivated primarily by his own entitlement. Yuuto, on the other hand, is a nice and caring person; we see that in the glimpses of his future self. He acts like a dick, though, because of his situation and how he chooses to handle it.
Yuuto is a teenager - I’m not sure how old exactly he’s supposed to be, but he’s probably about the same age as Ryotaro. He’s been caught up in the events of the show for reasons we’ll find out later, though, so he’s doing what a lot of teenagers would do in this kind of situation: trying to act like he’s super cool and in complete control of what’s happening. He’s a jerk to Ryotaro because he wants Ryotaro to think that he’s this awesome badass who totally knows what’s going on and who’s way cooler than that Den-O loser. But, as we see with him buying the vest and getting coffee, he’s absolutely still just an immature teenager. One of the many, many great things about Deneb is that he not only completely ignores all of Yuuto’s bluster, but simultaneously calls him out on it while apologizing for it. I hadn’t made the Jiiya/Tsurugi connection before (probably because, like I’ve said before, Kabuto did not stick in my long term memory), but it’s very much that kind of dynamic. The core difference is that Deneb tries to compensate for Yuuto’s worst impulses instead of enabling them. |
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