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08-28-2021, 08:43 PM | #16771 |
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I am close on finishing up Dragon Knight myself with only four episodes remaining and I think this might be my favorite among a very small amount of Kamen Rider shows I have seen so far with Kuuga as a close second at least for now. It also is making me looking forward to eventually start watching Ryuki all the more. I also hope that I don't get the severe case of Hype Backlash when I finally get to it. Same goes with Den-O and OOO.
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08-28-2021, 11:42 PM | #16772 |
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I am close on finishing up Dragon Knight myself with only four episodes remaining and I think this might be my favorite among a very small amount of Kamen Rider shows I have seen so far with Kuuga as a close second at least for now. It also is making me looking forward to eventually start watching Ryuki all the more. I also hope that I don't get the severe case of Hype Backlash when I finally get to it. Same goes with Den-O and OOO.
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08-29-2021, 12:08 AM | #16773 |
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Ha, if you think Dragon Knight is the best Kamen Rider series, Ryuki will absolutely blow your mind. Unless the second half of the series manages to be a gigantic improvement, I feel pretty confident in saying that Ryuki is an improvement in every way. Especially the acting; Though I'll admit Xaviax's actor is a bit more entertaining the the guy behind Ryuki's Rider War, who's identity I won't spoil for you.
While the show being compared to Ryuki is unfortunately unavoidable, I’m actually judging the show on its own merits which is no different than judging most seasons of Power Rangers in comparison to their original Sentai counterparts through their own strengths as seasons of the series in their own right. Who knows? There is also a distinct possibility where I ended up liking both. Last edited by GuardianAngel87; 08-29-2021 at 12:31 AM.. |
08-29-2021, 12:54 AM | #16774 |
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No prob, I get what you're saying. Ryuki is one of my favorite Rider seasons, so it's pretty hard for me to not compare the two, especially since the two have followed a near identical path so far, aside from who's behind the war and that one death, or venting as they call it. It's uses the Japanese footage pretty well, and I'm impressed that the suit actor for Not-Ouja manages to capture Asakura's body language pretty well in the American original footage. Honestly, if the acting wasn't so bad I'd probably consider Dragon Knight a legitimately good show, but no one but Xaviax's human actor seem to know how to show much emotion beyond dull surprise
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08-29-2021, 07:33 AM | #16775 |
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I'm... I'm speechless.
Edit: I'm almost done and I dunno whether to put my final thoughts or isolate it in a single thread Last edited by TheRaizin; 08-29-2021 at 07:38 AM.. |
08-29-2021, 08:01 AM | #16776 |
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Sounds like you have a lot to say for sure!
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08-31-2021, 02:51 PM | #16777 |
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Weather Arc Episode 25-26: The P's Game P stands for Puppeteer (Dopant) and Parent. Written by: Keiichi Hasegawa, Directed by: Hidenori Ishida /The Doll Has Sticky Fingers Phillip gets a package for him without return address, which would mean it's fascinating for him. Then Akiko is seen using many tissues due to crying for reading a book called The Girl and Her Doll's Home. I thought at first it's the flu topic in ep. 11-12 being brought up again, but otherwise, Akiko didn't live up to her words before for forbidding Shotaro to waste money in hard-boiled detective books, unless she meant that what she 'wastes' in that book is nowhere compared to Shotaro's. The package Phillip got is a pseudo-Memory and a guide for new Memory Gadget. Phillip suspects Shroud behind this and intends to build the gadget with Shotaro following him. Akiko gets another guest who is a little girl, introducing herself as Rika. Though Akiko thought she got lost, there's something strange within that girl, that she constantly tells Akiko to listen to the doll while acting hyperactive, even outright teleporting to different spots of the office. Though eventually Rika gives Akiko a note mentioning Kazebuki-cho area, which Akiko suspects as Rika having her doll stolen and that the doll is located there. Akiko asks a returning Shotaro for Rika, but again, Rika disappears, confusing Shotaro. Akiko goes to the location mentioned which is Wind Castle, asking a Karakita Yuki there who is a weird literature critic (living like a fortune-teller) about the doll Rika owns which she points out to Akiko (while eating, apparently). Akiko finds The Girl and Her Doll's Home book there too which Karakita views the book as nothing but a parent trying to get some cash and make their kid a big deal. As a fan of the book, Akiko would defend that the book conveyed parental love well. The doll was there, but it disappeared as well.. as well as Karakita. Later Akiko finds out that the doll attacked Karakita as well, pushing her out of the window, then the doll stays dormant again in a box. Now Akiko's the one really got the bad luck, that she's accused of murdering Karakita, getting cornered by the main cop cast (Shotaro, Terui, Jinno, Makura). It'd be harder for Akiko's denial to sound sensible here (about her explaining that the doll killed Karakita and is cursed), that she's already weird from the first place. But still, this is a (albeit tech-involved) supernatural world, so other than this being a case of the weirdo being right, this should sound much more sensible compared to real world talk. Shotaro also denies her explanation as cursed doll sounding ridiculous (and too old playing with dolls... well that'd mean Shotaro sees Akiko in her actual age at least), though this can also be Shotaro rubbing it off on her for her annoying antics before. Akiko decides to head into another location on the note by tricking the cops with "look behind you" trick. Makura shows another jerk trait here, to abuse his authority here by excusing "obstruction of justice" (though resisting arrest is a misdemeanor) but also mocking Shotaro who stops him. In the 2nd address, Akiko spots a white Toyota Crown crashing into a wall, and then sees the address resident Senta Tama being attacked by previous doll. Pissed off, Akiko then picks some fight with the doll, kicking it and throwing trash bags at each other. I don't know if they're intending to make this one a pseudo-horror story, or these are intentional so this 2-parter won't be too scary, that the doll's attacks in silly manners, as well as comical sound effects around those. Terui arrives, and he with Akiko chase after the doll, ending up in a junkyard. The doll takes a wheel at a Merc A-Class as Terui henshins into Accel. Similar to ep. 11, the doll tries to weaponize the car by ramming Accel as he dodges (well, not that it will be deadly to KR, deadly to humans though), but not only that, the doll dismantled the car and throw its remains into Accel. The doll puts further fight by ordinary means.. spraying Accel with a water hose then tangling him with it. Akiko threatens the doll, which got the doll mad, but it served as a distraction for Accel to use electric variant of Engine to zap it. It reminds me of Kuuga, where someone else did a move that is ineffective at first glance, but turns out to be effective as distraction (in Kuuga's case, cops shooting Grongi with a gun). For believing her, Akiko becomes lovestruck to Terui, the first sign of the shipping, due to Terui already investigated cases similar to Akiko's before, though Terui suspects that a Dopant is behind the doll. Isaka further examines Saeko's Taboo body, and claims that her body is not perfect that day. Saeko admits that and praises Isaka for his deductive skills, and the reason is Wakana doing whatever she wants, and suggests Isaka to 'cure' Wakana into a 'true' Dopant, which he does so by making Wakana leave her Memory on him (and deducing that with ). Phillip is working on the new gadget, as Terui and Akiko asks for his help for the case, with Akiko throwing her chief status this time (as Phillip's really busy), and constantly clinging to Terui (start of the shipping) as Shotaro noted. Terui mentioned another victims of the doll as well other than Karakita, all of them having unkind words to an author, which Phillip refers to Horinouchi Horinouchi... which is the author who wrote The Girl and Her Doll's Home, as well as proving the event of Rika (full name Rikako, she's in a picture with her dad) asking Akiko for a case. They suspect Horinouchi using a Memory on Rika. Though devoted to save Rika, Akiko pulls anoher mean and aggressive move to Shotaro by pushing him down the upper level (though Shotaro tugs her hand to save Rika), due to him not playing with dolls, but also shilling Terui again as the reliable one to help. Akiko and Terui tracks down Horinouchi at a book signing event, with Terui just straightforwardly confronting Horinouchi accusing him of various things, due to them having no proof. Though Horinouchi considers those as constructive criticism and will reward those 2 books. As Akiko tries to take Rika into police station for safety (with her disappearing again), Terui explains that he purposely did it to bait Horinouchi, earning him another praise from Akiko (admittedly it's a 'smart' reckless trick). Meanwhile Shotaro complains to Jinno about Akiko clinging to Terui, despite that he still keeps his unpleasant behavior. Jinno dismisses Shotaro as being jealous however. I mean, what is Shotaro thinking? Jinno shills Terui as well. Makura carries the doll box to the office as Shotaro warns him that it's a Dopant. Makura however dismisses that due to the doll being tiny, but he's the one to learn the hard way, that the doll attacks him. Akiko and Terui arrive as Akiko trying to capture the doll under a cardboard box while Terui henshins into Accel (as well as Shotaro into W, after being agitated by Phillip stalling due to the gadget). Though Terui did bait the doll, he still caused some damage by doing it at the police station... The doll managed to even steal W's Trigger Magnum (as CycloneTrigger), but W got it back as Akiko distracts the doll again. Accel suggests W to use Spider Shock to capture the escaping doll which he succeeds, and Accel finishes the doll with Accel Glanzer (somehow the doll didn't dodge this one which has more start-up than W's basic attacks, moreover after the doll freed itself from Spider Shock's binding). But there's no Memory ejected from the doll, which meant the doll wasn't the Dopant (Makura's technically right then) but controlled by a Dopant (who W tracks with LunaTrigger), who's really Horinouchi, as the Puppeteer Dopant. Still somehow the doll is able to withstand multiple KR attacks unscathed. /Akiko on the Run After Horinouchi's identity is revealed, Akiko lashes out at him (no slapping him with slipper though..), calling him out that he didn't love his child thus doesn't understand what she wants. He won't even believe that what Rika wants is only for Akiko to get her doll back. I guess never meet your heroes then. Horinouchi lashes out in return, attacking her as Puppeteer again, but countered by W LunaTrigger. As usual Akiko is fearless in the face of a Dopant, like what's established at ep. 3, that the Riders will intervene. Suddenly a Weather Memory is used, creating fog around everyone, and Puppeteer disappeared through them. Akiko dtrives to save Rika by hugging the doll. Horinouchi is taken to Isaka's clinic to observe Puppeteer's effects, offering Wakana as a replacement for his puppet. Shotaro teases Akiko for staring to the doll as if it's gonna talk... which promptly happened. But it's actually the new Memory Gadget that Phillip had finished, Frog Pod, which can record and replay voices after modulating them to sound like someone else. Suddenly Akiko remembers more about Rika that she had met her along with the doll while leaving Osaka. Rika was crying when Akiko approached her as a stranger, helping her by picking up the dropped doll. The origin of Rika insisting Akiko to listen to the doll is shown here as Akiko 'talks' with the doll before returning it to her, convincing Rika that dolls can talk, before giving Rika her introduction card so she can come to her for help (this moments is a genuinely selfless gestures as that was a non-client work, but has advantage of raising the Agency as well), which Rika did in last episode. Akiko (bringing the doll along) leaves to visit the place where she met Rika, and apparently did meet her. Akiko spontanteously tells her that her dad becomes Dopant. The doll she brought disappears again, but she attempts to take Rika to a police station to keep her safe. Wow, a contrast to Shotaro about how they deal with kids where he maintains the lie against Asuka while Akiko tells the truth right away here.... or not, as Rika turns "listen to the doll" thing broken record, Akiko finally confesses that she'd care more about a living being like her rather than the doll... and that she's only pretending to talk to the doll to make her smile. More like it's exactly the same as how Shotaro dealt with a kid before instead, lying for the same reason too to make them smile. Said Shotaro arrives as Rika runs away, but the doll appears again at the bench. Akiko's finally sick over the plea to listen to the doll and.. shoves the doll away. Terui calls Akiko where she and Shotaro then visits Horinouchi's house, a messy one as Shotaro notes. Terui narrates Horinouchi's story that Rikako died in a car accident, and to Akiko's protest, she learns that the doll, named Riko by Rikako as a present from her dad, is the doll assuming Rikako's appearance. Akiko feels guilty over the previous doll, and goes back into the bench, but it's too late as it's taken away by a garbage truck (I mean why garbage men? The doll isn't beat up.. even after taking Rider's attacks). Akiko comes across Watcherman with a new bike which he won from an auction. Akiko is forced to "borrow" his bike to chase after the garbage truck. Meanwhile Terui is baffled about Akiko's treatment of the doll, but though perhaps not fully understanding the situation, Shotaro explains about how Akiko's that way; she'd not let dolls cry too. This 2-parter is really Akiko-centric, giving her focus and fleshing her out more, and involves a good amount of moral, albeit to me her pushing Shotaro roughly sours it a bit. Isaka has completed Wakana's Driver, as Puppeteer takes control of Wakana's body, which later, Claydoll Dopant attacks Phillip's secret base, tracking Akiko down, but Phillip got saved by Accel's Gunner A. Not only Puppeteer that is vengeful towards Akiko, but the subject under his control as well, Wakana swore revenge against those who puts her through this, confronting Isaka, but though Saeko as Taboo tries to stop her, Claydoll dispatches Taboo easily, which later explained by Isaka as him modifying her Driver so that it affects her like inserting Memory directly, as opposed to usual Drivers which limits true potential as Dopant. However the Sonozakis use extra-powerful gold Memories to circumvent that. After being freed, Phillip reports to Akiko that Puppeteer targets her. Akiko catches up with the garbage truck, makes a mess out of the trash bags to retrieve Riko, with Riko now requesting her to not make her dad cry. Now as Akiko goes after Horinouchi, he rants that he made the book so a part of Rika lives forever, but got criticized and they claim he didn't love his daughter (technically, making his kid seem to be a big deal is true, but not loving her part is false), accusing Akiko as one of them, refering to the early episode confrontation, though he didn't realize that Akiko was a fan of the book. Still Akiko's criticism of him that time is right about committing crimes in the name of his daughter, it's his problem of not being able to take criticism (Akiko one), the familial love may be true, but he takes too much pride in that he's the type to insists that non-families mind their business. Though I don't know what about Akiko's claim of the book winning awards or such, or Horinouchi only takes the negative side. Akiko brings up the doll which enrages Puppeteer further, binding her up to have her fall from heights. W arrives to catch her, but to Shotaro, she's being mean again of complaining of being late, something that even Accel tells her to not be upset to Shotaro, as he understands her best. Puppeteer uses his another ability to control Accel. This is similar right away after Liar Dopant just in previous 2-parter, controlling Accel to fight against W. W tries to use CycloneMetal against an armed opponent to defend himself, but it failed as Accel gains upper hand. Phillip however, makes use of Frog Pod, using Akiko's recorded voice to distract Puppeteer so that W can hurl Metal Shaft to Puppeteer, freeing Accel and Akiko. W finishes the fight with CycloneMetal's Maximum Drive Metal Twister, which is multiple swings with wind aura. Like Metal Branding, looks like standard form ability. Horinouchi rants again about losing everything he had, of which Akiko convinces him as Riko being the one he had left, and Riko thanking Akiko at last. In his report Shotaro wonders about the deal with Riko, but decides that some things better be kept mysterious, while Akiko plays with the Frog Pod to her love for Terui.
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09-01-2021, 08:10 PM | #16778 |
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hey guys no one tell fish sandwich but i started watching ghost
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09-01-2021, 08:58 PM | #16779 |
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In all seriousness though, I hope you have fun with it. And hopefully I haven't like, hyped it up too much or anything!
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09-01-2021, 09:05 PM | #16780 |
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What can I say? It's a good show!
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