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04-25-2014, 02:12 PM | #10381 |
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Or simply spent more time in the worlds he visited, Kiva's world especially could have used a bunch more episodes to really capitalise on the concepts.
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04-25-2014, 03:11 PM | #10382 |
「蝙蝠騎士の魔界<ブラム>」
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Kabuto Episode 9
I think Tendou just saved Kagami. Why else would he let himself get hit by the Rider Sting? Tendou has a way cooler looking bike then you Yaguruma. Well it looks like he wasn't completely faking his injury. It also appears that I was correct about him saving Kagami instead of protecting himself. Good work Tendou for being a considerate helping member of society. You get a gold star and a pizza roll. Oh my God, Tendou's really... Oh my God Tendou you're killing me. They set that scene up to be so dramatic and then BAM!, more hilarity from good old Tendou. You could rip his arm off and he'd probably act like it was nothing while helping orphans learn to ride bicycles. He's that awesome. To be fair, you do need Kabuto. After all you're facing an army of Worms that seems to have unlimited soldiers, and it doesn't appear that they're running out anytime soon. The constant fighting is bound to wear both you and your troops down. So having another rider ready to go when you need a break probably wouldn't be that bad of an idea. And since at this point the only other rider is Kabuto and you just "eliminated" him, you kinda shot yourself in the foot there. What are those things anyways? Is there anything Tendou can't or won't do? So how long until Tendou whips out a brand spanking new belt? So going off of that, Tendou has had the belt since he was a kid? Was Zect even around back then? And if they were, were they making the rider system and the belts? The plot thickens even more in concerns as to how Tendou received his belt. A whole lot more. How did the belt repair itself? Does Hiyori have magical techno powers to fix electronics? This idiot is going to get him self killed. Yaguruma is acting like a dick to be honest. He's letting his obsession with Tendou get in the way of his duties as the captain of Shadow. And just look at the results of him doing that, his team is getting slaughtered because he can't focus on helping them. Dude you may not have finished off Tendou and want to finish it right now, but focus on your damn team first and make sure they survive and that the worms they're fighting are dead. Thank you Tendou for taking care of the Worms. Yaguruma sure wasn't going to do it. Wait what? I don't get it. Why did TheBee Zector disengage from the henshin and abandon Yaguruma? Man Kagami deserves a medal or something. He just went full on king kick ass on the Worms, and he's just wearing a suit and tie. He just outdid pretty much everybody in Shadow IMO. He's even giving out orders like a commander should in this situation, and he just got chosen to be the use of TheBee Zector. Kagami is just a total bad ass right now. Even the bike can cast off? That's pretty damn cool. Not a big fan of how it looks in this stage though. Well that was nine and it was fine. Okay I'm done rhyming now. But it was a very nice episode. I'm going to start with character development because good lord was this an episode filled with it. The main receiver of development was definitely Yaguruma. He went from being one of the coolest and calmest cats around to being obsessive and quite agitated/angered. He let his anger and obsession with Tendou get in the way of his commanding duties which ultimately cost him his position as TheBee. Not only that, it disrupted his perfect harmony and since he pretty much left his squad behind, I think it's safe to say it soured their opinion on him. Kagami even got some development with getting a bit more brave and stronger. His goal of wanting to protect people lit a fire under his ass big enough to where he in a suit and tie rushed the Worm Carter Grayson style. That's quite the change compared to how he has been for most of the show so far. Heck even Hiyori and Tendou's relationship got a small dose of development. So needless to say this episode was running on all cylinders when it came to character development. Moving on to the story, it once again was pretty good since it was tied straight into the development. As the characters developed, the story here moved right along to keep it all flowing well. The most interesting part to me was Hiyori's flashback since it does seem like Tendou might have saved her as a kid, or at least been at the scene (if it was Tendou, I now demand to see a little Kabuto). It obviously contributed to the main overarching of the story of the show with the whole switcheroo with TheBee Zector. Just like the story, I'd say that the story was pretty damn good this episode. Now is usually the part where I say how while everything is seemingly running perfectly that one part of the episode dropped the ball on and makes the episode only near perfect. Unfortunately with episode nine that shit ain't going to fly. The action was as great as always and offered quite a bit of variety. We had rider on Worm fighting, rider on rider fighting, military force on Worm fighting, and even civilian on Worm fighting. It hit almost all the types of fighting you could have in an episode and did it superbly in my opinion. Like everything else this episode, the action is plain great. I think it's clear what my final verdict of the episode is. It was hilariously entertaining, it nailed every single aspect of the triangle of importance and did so just amazingly well. It is for the moment the most perfect episode in Kabuto and one of the most perfect episodes of any Kamen Rider show I have ever seen (I'd even say it is the most perfect one I've ever seen). I enjoyed the hell out of it.
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04-25-2014, 07:46 PM | #10383 |
Man with a plan
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Wizard in Magic land.
Its sad when the movie has better world building then the show. I love how interesting the world is, as not only does the world have magical mayonnaise fish, but it has gone completely to magic and Socialism. I liked this movie. It did bring up a lot issues with this whole magic world and how people live in it as nonmages, and the outcasts in society. A complete reversal of Wizard's outcast Gates yet keeps Haruto and Koyomi's distance from society intact and keeps a lot of the great elements from the series in there. Shiima was the least annoying kid in Rider I've ever seen and I liked his arc. The action was amazing, as usual for Wizard. There's a lot of great fight scenes in here. Even the completely CGI Ouroboros Phantom fight was still pretty good. My one complaint with the action is that there's barely any Wizard Infinity in the final fight and it takes place in a boring set. The plot itself sucks ass, but the discussion the characters have about "Should we change the world," and "Being an outcast," makes up for it enough. So Orma recreates the world with this ring just to exploit a system in the world he's created to get phantoms to rule the world? Why not just create a world of Phantoms then? The movie never really explains whether this ring makes one specific kind of world or gives Sorcerer the ability to remake the world however he wishes, but its still a big plothole. While I don't love it like Episode Final or Paradise lost, it ranks a fair bit better then some of the other Rider movies I've seen. |
04-25-2014, 08:32 PM | #10384 |
Stronger Than You
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Concerning Tendou and his belt, it's explained in the movie.
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04-25-2014, 11:28 PM | #10385 |
Victorious Knight
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The movie isn't in continuity with the series. The series offers a different explanation as to how Tendou gets himself the belt.
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04-25-2014, 11:50 PM | #10386 |
「蝙蝠騎士の魔界<ブラム>」
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Agito Episode 6
I defy anybody to tell me that after listening to this music and seeing the way they shoot this kid that this in no way shape or form comes off as something straight out of The Omen. Also bitch ass pussy of a monster running away. Man up and take on your enemy like a...woman. I do believe that monster was a woman. Dammit Agito, must you create so many feels with your scenes involving Ryou? Between this and the Yuka/Keitaro scenes I'm going to end up crying like I did at the end of W. All because of silly SFX shows. Well of course you know Shouchi. You were there when it all went down. These Unknown have gotten quite bold haven't they. I mean they were killing people out in the open, but killing somebody as people are walking around on the crowded street? Takes some real guts to do that. Almost like they want to get caught. APPLES! Okay yeah, I'm like 100% sure now that Shouchi is an Aspy. He doesn't seem that great at reading social cues, he functions a bit oddly, he seems to get fixated on things easily. All classic signs of being an Aspy. Welcome to the club Shouchi. OH! That is one nasty way to go. Really sorry about that man. The Akatsuki are in this too? Damn first ninja monsters and now the Aktsuki. Am I going to be seeing giant animals next or something? Boat...storm...let me take a wild guess, the ship Hikawa was on is the ship that Shouchi was on? It seems quite likely since our other cop is saying that a passenger disappeared. So yeah, I'd like to place all my money on betting that Shouchi became lost after being on this ship. So we're bringing a government coverup into our story about a magical man who turns into a hero clad in leather, armor, and a bug mask who fights monsters? Seems logical enough. The cops will never learn will they? Only bullets from the weapon of a rider can harm the monsters here. G3 is obviously a rider so he does in fact count. Though his weapons are a bit more homemade but nonetheless they were built for use against these creatures. The ones are other policeman friends are using were not. It's like sending the military after Godzilla. It just isn't going to work. Now would be a good time to hen...nevermind. Ryou...poor Ryou. Can't this guy get a break? I swear every scene I see him in is just depressing. He's shunned by his coach and friends, he's turning into something resembling a monster, and the person who he is closest to pretty much doesn't want to be around him anymore. Can we get a happy face at some point? I mean I can sort of understand Mayumi's feelings to a degree, but she should at least let Ryou explain and try to be around him and not just toss him aside. Ryou I do so hope you get some happy scenes and moments. Hey look it's the professor lady. She's not even going to question why he has to go all of a sudden? Eh whatever. Gills is in the hizz house. I quite fancy the Gills suit. It has a nice blend of the organic suit that Shin had while also featuring elements of the typical suits we usually see in rider, especially in this era of the series (Kuuga and Agito). The color scheme is very nice and has a bit of a pop to it. I'd say that this is my favorite suit so far next to G3. His mouth opens up. Already knew about that, but I'll say it anyways. Coolio. Did he just bite the Unknown? That is freaking hilarious. Keep in mind while I do know that Amazon bites people, I've only seen it in toy form and not in the show. So seeing a Kamen Rider bite somebody in the show is fucking hilarious to me. Why is he growling by the way? I know this aired alongside Gaoranger so like, is this just a funny little coincidence? Is it because he's a more more monstrous rider? Am I just rambling and coming up with shit? That is one flexible rider and one nice rider kick. Not my favorite but it is always cool to see different kick styles instead of the typical dropkick most riders do. Uhhhhh...ummmm....uhhhh.... This kid is creeping me the fuck out. So that finishes up the sixth episode. My thoughts? Like the last episode this one had a bit more a story than the others. It's a direct continuation of the previous episode's story and it does so quite well. It concluded itself in a nice fashion, though it was quite a sad one. As for adding anything to the overarching plot, of course it did. How? We have a new rider. 'Nuff said. We also got some nice character development. It mostly went to Ryou, but that's perfectly fine with me since he was the center of the story. The obvious developments being him becoming Gills as well as his relationship with Mayumi. As I said earlier, it's quite depressing how their relationship developed and it makes me hope he has some happy moments. It also does appear that he's ready to fight the Unknown off, but how frequently he does so is yet to be determined. Outside of Ryou, there pretty much wasn't any character development that I saw. As for the action it was once again good. The Agito/G3 VS the Unknown fight was decent, but let's get to the true fight of the episode: Gills VS Egyptian Unknown. That fight was probably the second best of the series so far (the best being the fight from episode 5). It did a great job of showing Ryou as an inexperienced fighter who just happens to have super powers. Powers that he does tap into after being thrown around quite a bit. Now this is usually when the rider would just squash the enemy, but the fight remained pretty even for a few more minutes with Ryou eventually taking total control of the squrmish. So for that fight alone I would say episode 6's action was great and definitely better then everything up to 4 which is when the action began picking up a bit. So overall I'd say this episode did pretty well and continued the trend of the episodes starting to get better. I enjoyed it, it was pretty good, enough said.
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04-26-2014, 12:00 AM | #10387 |
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Den O episode 20.
This whole Yuuko thing with ZeroLiner is confusing me already.
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04-26-2014, 12:46 AM | #10388 |
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04-26-2014, 12:49 AM | #10389 |
AMAZON!!!!!!
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Well Kabuto 14 was good, and the episode was over like that, it was just great.
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04-26-2014, 12:51 AM | #10390 |
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Well in the end he kind of does, still it shows how strong he is that he has a positive outlook by the end.
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