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03-05-2021, 04:00 AM | #291 |
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Mind if I do my regular thread? Cant hear your answer, so I’ll do it anyway.
First off is our new kid. Kenichi Suzumura. Notable Anime roles: Soular in Fresh Pretty Cure, Steven in Pokémon XY, Anti in SSSS. Gridman. Notable Toku roles: Kamen Rider W in Kamen Rider x Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen, Fushigi Beast Pitapita in Space Sheriff Shaider Next Generation, the Narrator in Tokusatsu Gagaga, Mashin Fire in Mashin Sentai Kiramager. Notable dubbing roles: Tony Rydinger in Incredibles 2, Baily in the Finding Nemo movies, And now for our weekly antagonist Takaya Kuroda Notable Anime roles: Starscream in Transformers Cybertron, Sabrac in Shakugan no Shana, Soldier Ui in The Girl Who Leapt Through Space, Oda Nobunaga in Tono to Issho, Kiyonari Ulquiga in Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere. Notable Video Game roles: Kazuma Kiryu in the Yakuza series Notable Tokusatsu roles: Yami no Yaiba in GoGo Sentai Boukenger, Roidmude 5886 in Drive Saga Kamen Rider Heart, Eriedrone in Uchu Sentai Kyuranger, Alien Magma in Ultraman Taiga, Shadon in Mashin Sentai Kiramager. Notable dubbing roles: Cranky in Thomas and Friends. |
03-05-2021, 08:53 AM | #292 |
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It's difficult for me to decide if Momotaros or Ryutaros is my favorite Imagin. I love them both for different reasons! Quote:
Can we appreciate how talented this guy is? I was surprised when I learned he was the voice of Machine Fire, since Ryutaros sounds so high-pitched and childish and Fire sounds all deep and macho. It's amazing to think they have the same VA!
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03-05-2021, 10:56 AM | #293 |
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Yeah but his real genius came to fruition when he voiced Iyami from Osomatsu-san.
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03-05-2021, 11:46 AM | #294 |
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Kenichi Suzumura is also fairly (in)famous for voicing the main character? of Gundam SEED Destiny Shinn Asuka. He outright had someone spit in his face for the hole if I remember properly. also for random trivia he's married to fellow voice actor Maaya Sakamoto who voiced various love interests for his characters including Shinn's; Lunmaria Hawke.
* I could write a whole essay about the behind the scene issues with SEED Destiny and the massive argument of who the Main character is out of THREE options |
03-05-2021, 03:54 PM | #295 |
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KAMEN RIDER DEN-O EPISODE 14 - "DANCE WITH THE DRAGON”
I'm pretty sure I've said before how much I appreciate the way this series makes more out of the monster plots. It's never just A Monster Jumps Out And People Scream. (I mean, it does, and they do, but it's never just that.) There's a plan the monster is trying to enact, and a guest star that the plan centers around. It creates a more robust story for the hero to interact with, a sense that there are legitimate stakes to what's occurring. Someone's hopes and dreams are in the balance, and the hero is making a concrete change for the better. The flipside of that expectation from a Den-O story is that when the monster plot is as thin as it in this story, when the characters are this two-dimensional and blank, it's incredibly difficult for me to invest enough in the story to care what the hero is trying to do. I mean, they sure do pull the biggest emotional lever around by hinging the hero's success on if a cute dog survives, so they're clearly aware of how little there is in the Park Grandpa and Youth storyline. I don't know if the Youth has even a single line of dialogue in the present day? For a story that, you'd assume, would be about this Park Grandpa missing hanging out with this kid and Youth becoming more closed-off and jaded in the intervening decade, there's almost no effort put into dramatizing that plotline. Park Grandpa's just like The Dog Died And You Got Sad and the Youth nods and it's like... it's like they pulled a synopsis down off of a whiteboard and never filled it in with dialogue or emotion. The relationship between Park Grandpa and Youth never really feels like anything other than a framework for a more interesting story, and it's a bummer that it got such a short-shrift. It's the most perfunctory monster plot this show has done yet, and I'm crossing my fingers that it's the most perfunctory monster plot it'll ever do. It definitely feels like all the effort was put on the Ryutaros story, and that's... like, I get why they did it, it's a brand-new main cast member with a mysterious backstory and a fun new energy, but it never really feels like it connects to the rest of the episode. There's a sort of vague connection with people bonding over animals, I guess, but the Park Grandpa/Youth relationship never really seems to mirror what's going on with Ryu and the rest of the DenLiner team. He's a fun character, with his dancy movements and inability to understand everyone's anger, but his story just floats in an episode that lacks much connective tissue. And that's the big problem with these two episodes: I don't know what they're about. I know what happens in them, and the plot has some clever beats (no pun intended), but... like, take the Airi plot, for example. She wanders off in Episode 13, and we don't catch up with her until the second to last scene in 14. What did she remember? Why did she go to that observation deck? What's the significance of that watch? No answers to any of those questions whatsoever, which means there's really nothing to tie it in with the rest of the episode. The scene literally starts with Ryotaro standing up and racing off because he forgot to finish looking for Airi! It's just one more thing that happens in this story without ever feeling like it's there for a narrative reason. It's just a bunch of things happening, most of which are entertaining in the moment, without having a reason to happen. Even Ryutaros appearing after being inside Ryotaro for weeks is chalked up to He Just Felt Like It! So, yeah. Not a fan of how lazy the writing was for this story. Too many shrugs of plotlines, too many scenes that felt like the director had to keep adding non-dialogue shots to fill up the runtime, too many times my mind wandered while I watched it because I couldn't invest enough in what was happening. Not a great couple episodes for me. THE BAGGAGE CAR -Not to keep shitting on this episode, but having Airi remember something huge, and then having her forget it by the end of the story so the audience is kept in the dark is such a dick move. Such a bait and switch. Just lazy, lazy writing. -Best scene in the entire story was probably Momo giving a Team Imagin pep-talk that devolved into insults and recriminations. It's that mix of teamwork and simmering resentments that is maybe why I love watching these characters hang out. For all the flaws in this story, the stuff with Momo, Ura, and Kin always worked.
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03-05-2021, 04:14 PM | #296 |
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The most I can say in defence of this episode is that I liked that we went to a time period BEFORE the turn of the millennium. It’s just a shame it’s still incredibly recent relative to the show’s present.
And we debit the 4th and final DenLiner car, known as Ikazuchi (which is a common word in certain circles of the fan base). Whereas the previous three together make Lightning, Ikazuchi simply means “thunder”. |
03-05-2021, 05:09 PM | #297 |
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Fun fact, Normally Ikazuchi is the singular character 雷 but to fit the denkousekka anagram Androzani84 pointed out a while back, as an exception Ikazuchi seems to be written as 雷電(commonly read in its onyomi form raiden) to accomodate said anagram in this case. And to complete it the order goes from Ikazuchi to Gouka, so:
Ikazuchi 雷電 Rekkou 列光 Isurugi 石動 Gouka 業火 Notice that only Ura is different in that the first character of his train's name is used while others use the latter character. Also Ryutaros's color scheme: Body: Violet Eyes: Clear Orange Metallic parts: Gunmetal Whiskers: Gold Last edited by Sunred; 03-05-2021 at 05:12 PM.. |
03-05-2021, 07:11 PM | #298 |
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Still, I liked 'em a whole lot, because of course I do. In fact, I even called these episodes... Quote:
One thing I know it's down to, however, is how much I love Ryutaros. Easily my favorite of Ryoutarou's Imagin, and much of what I feel is legitimately strong about this two-parter naturally springs out of his character. Like, even just having Gun Form show up in the first part, I've always thought was a brilliant touch for the hyperactive kid of the group. These memories are so vague at this point I'm not even sure how much of this I've still got correct, but I recall not being super into Den-O for a while originally, to the point I took a pretty long break ~somewhere~ around these episodes, so when I eventually came back to it and found myself way more excited about it, I very strongly associated that feeling with Ryutaros. Everything about him is so intensely fun to me, and it really felt like he completed the group's dynamic. I've always found it weirdly endearing that the way the show chose to go about making him feel like a child was to make him disconcertingly amoral and sociopathic on top of simply being flighty, especially. It's a very specific set of traits that makes him fit right in among the rest of this insanely dysfunctional cast. Gun Form itself left a similarly huge impression on me, and is my favorite of Den-O's main four, thanks in large part to its extremely distinctive and active body language. I think all the dancing actually impresses me less than simply how Takaiwa carries himself in the moments when he's not moving too much. The huge level of collateral damage the gun causes helps further sell the idea that Ryutaros is basically just one big living hazard rather nicely, too. He's basically the absolute last person who should be using that thing! I mean, I could just go on about Ryutaros forever, pretty much? How Kenichi Suzumura became my favorite Japanese voice actor because of him? How mind-blowing it was to go back to Den-O after picking up enough Japanese to realize his catchphrase is in future tense when he doesn't actually wait for a response? And like, how cool is that finishing move with the dragon hands on Gun Form's shoulders generating that big ball of energy or whatever? Okay, I'll stop for a bit, but I will ask a real question to leave off on – how nice is it that the belt announces the form names now? I don't think you've outright mentioned it yet, but judging by how you're actually able to use them right away, I'm guessing that's one more familiar trope you're happy to have worked your way back up to?
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03-05-2021, 09:06 PM | #299 |
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One thing I know it's down to, however, is how much I love Ryutaros. Easily my favorite of Ryoutarou's Imagin, and much of what I feel is legitimately strong about this two-parter naturally springs out of his character. Like, even just having Gun Form show up in the first part, I've always thought was a brilliant touch for the hyperactive kid of the group. These memories are so vague at this point I'm not even sure how much of this I've still got correct, but I recall not being super into Den-O for a while originally, to the point I took a pretty long break ~somewhere~ around these episodes, so when I eventually came back to it and found myself way more excited about it, I very strongly associated that feeling with Ryutaros.
Everything about him is so intensely fun to me, and it really felt like he completed the group's dynamic. I've always found it weirdly endearing that the way the show chose to go about making him feel like a child was to make him disconcertingly amoral and sociopathic on top of simply being flighty, especially. It's a very specific set of traits that makes him fit right in among the rest of this insanely dysfunctional cast. Gun Form itself left a similarly huge impression on me, and is my favorite of Den-O's main four, thanks in large part to its extremely distinctive and active body language. I think all the dancing actually impresses me less than simply how Takaiwa carries himself in the moments when he's not moving too much. The huge level of collateral damage the gun causes helps further sell the idea that Ryutaros is basically just one big living hazard rather nicely, too. He's basically the absolute last person who should be using that thing! The innocent selfishness of the character is really interesting to me, for how it feels like a different level of troublemaker from the other three Imagin. Ryutaros is someone who is both way more upfront about how he is only trying to do what he enjoys, and sort of charming for the way he assumes everyone else is happy about that. It's like Wacky Sociopathy, and the energy of that is unique amongst the cast. He's definitely a compelling character! Quote:
Okay, I'll stop for a bit, but I will ask a real question to leave off on – how nice is it that the belt announces the form names now? I don't think you've outright mentioned it yet, but judging by how you're actually able to use them right away, I'm guessing that's one more familiar trope you're happy to have worked your way back up to?
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03-06-2021, 02:25 AM | #300 |
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My biggest takeaway from this one is just another reminder of how much I like Naomi. She's not the most prominent character, but I love how she's always so excited for any chaos that breaks out in the dining car. It's like she just thrives on the chaos.
My biggest issue, though? So I'm all for the cute puppy living, but if the entire premise was that it died because they couldn't get to the vet in time, how did throwing a massive Kamen Rider battle with two-monster train fight into the mix mean they got to the vet faster? That's always bugged me about this one. Anyway, this two-parter may have underwhelmed, but the next one is one of my favorites from this part of the show. Oh you haven't seen the last of this. I think the shot of Airi cuddling up to the mystery guy is probably the single most recycled shot in the entire series that isn't Denliner CGI. |
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