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02-27-2024, 11:14 PM | #301 |
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(Also, yeah, Wakana's fine now! The end! HOORAY.)
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02-28-2024, 12:20 PM | #302 |
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I mostly remember this two parter for the fact that Zone is essentially a Bakugan Trap in terms of appearance, and I really like non-humanoid monster designs.
As for a general opinion… Xtreme’s pretty cool, right? (I’ve got nothing else to say. Check back next episode) |
02-28-2024, 03:59 PM | #303 |
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Nope, it?s our first (blurry) look at CycloneJoker Xtreme, a suit that?s one of my favorite Final Forms. It?s not my favorite Double suit (it?s actually maybe my least-favorite Double suit?), but as far as Final Forms go, I think it executes its concept in a legible way, while not going crazy over the top like a lot of Final Forms.
1) CycloneJoker 2) LunaJoker 3) LunaTrigger 4) CycloneJoker Xtreme 5) CycloneMetal 6) CycloneTrigger 7) FangJoker 8) HeatTrigger 9) LunaMetal 10) HeatMetal 11) HeatJoker Quote:
KAMEN RIDER W EPISODE 32 - ?THE B BROUGHT BY THE WIND - NOW, AMIDST THE RADIANCE?
It?s a nice conclusion to Shotaro?s Worst Day, because it?s not at all about him gaining power or doing a training montage or whatever. There?s no sudden jolt of power that makes Shotaro into Philip?s equal, there?s just Shotaro being the partner that Philip needs him to be, no matter what it takes. It?s a climax that?s about finding a connection, and realizing that you sometimes have to work to make things stick around, but the first step is agreeing that the partnership shouldn?t end. That takes Philip acknowledging that Double is about more than being the most effective hero (boy, is it ever not about that!), it?s about what Philip and Shotaro bring to the table as a team. Effectiveness can be learned, chemistry can?t. Even Terui gets that! He may not be a genius like Phillip, or hard-boiled like Terui, or even decisive like Akiko, but that courage is all he needs to turn weakness in to strength. That's a quality Shroud doesn't understand and Shoutarou himself doesn't fully appreciate either, but that's the reason why he's the only person who can truly be Double's left half. If Phillip's gotten stronger, it's only cause Shoutarou believed in him. Shoutarou took a gamble on the devil on Begins Night and got a true partner out of it. A leap of faith, just like how he solves cases with his hunches. Now Phillip believes in him with a hunch, so of course the solution to their power imbalance was for Shoutarou to believe in himself as well. For sure.
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02-28-2024, 06:41 PM | #304 |
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Shoutarou is the man with the courage to ride with the devil.
He may not be a genius like Phillip, or hard-boiled like Terui, or even decisive like Akiko, but that courage is all he needs to turn weakness in to strength. That's a quality Shroud doesn't understand and Shoutarou himself doesn't fully appreciate either, but that's the reason why he's the only person who can truly be Double's left half. If Phillip's gotten stronger, it's only cause Shoutarou believed in him. Shoutarou took a gamble on the devil on Begins Night and got a true partner out of it. A leap of faith, just like how he solves cases with his hunches. Now Phillip believes in him with a hunch, so of course the solution to their power imbalance was for Shoutarou to believe in himself as well.
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02-28-2024, 06:49 PM | #305 |
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KAMEN RIDER W EPISODE 31 - “THE B BROUGHT BY THE WIND - TO PURSUE THE BEAST”
And it starts off so great for him! Here’s some gritty old guy (41 isn’t that old, but this dude plays it like he’s 60) that used to know Sokichi, and he needs Shotaro’s help. Dream come true! Shotaro gets to pal around with a real wethered tough guy who knew his mentor, gets to show off his hardboiled detective skills, gets to revel in the manliness of taking a fall for the woman you love, maybe even sock a crumb-bum in the kisser… it’s what Shotaro has been building up to for 30 episodes – this is his final form. Quote:
It’s really great to see, honestly. It’s a crucible for Shotaro, to work with a guy like Bitou who completely doesn’t care for his cosplay detective nonsense. Worse, it’s a guy who doesn’t care for it because he knew the guy that Shotaro’s pretending to be; this isn’t just some dismissal of Shotaro’s demeanor, this is a guy who is outright telling Shotaro that he doesn’t measure up to Sokichi. The dynamic arguably makes Shotaro even more difficult to work with than normal, since now he’s desperate to gain the approval-by-proxy of Sokichi by solving Bitou’s case. Just when Shotaro needs to be at his most collected and effective, he’s making half-boiled observations and blundering into a decade-old noir romance that he can’t seem to treat with the proper gravity.
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We are just instantly launching into Shroud’s Terrible Prophecy, and I’m okay with it? I like that, even though we don’t know exactly what’s happening, something is happening. This isn’t weeks of Philip fretting over Shroud’s insinuations while Team Double slowly buckles under unaired recriminations and terrible secrets – we are immediately in a story where Philip and Shotaro cannot act as Double, period. While it means we’re robbed of Double kicking ass this episode, it’s a fair trade-off for Philip’s anguished looks and a completely botched Maximum Drive. (In front of Isaka and everything! They’ll never hear the end of it!) The whole team is in the deepest of shit, and Shotaro might be the cause.
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02-28-2024, 07:05 PM | #306 |
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I mostly remember this two parter for the fact that Zone is essentially a Bakugan Trap in terms of appearance, and I really like non-humanoid monster designs.
As for a general opinion? Xtreme?s pretty cool, right? (I?ve got nothing else to say. Check back next episode) Really though, Cyclone Joker Extreme is a nice design. I love how they went Kikaider 00 with it while maintaining the key design elements.
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02-28-2024, 07:06 PM | #307 |
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02-28-2024, 07:13 PM | #308 |
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Oh dear sweet Shadow Moon what have you done? MY EEEAAARRRSS.
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02-28-2024, 09:08 PM | #309 |
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02-28-2024, 10:27 PM | #310 |
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The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.
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