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10-23-2019, 04:56 AM | #15601 |
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Faiz 9-13:
-Not a fan of the love sextet that they seem to be developing, and the whole "chance encounter without knowing about who they really are" thing that keeps happening -Still enjoyed the chemistry between our main trio. Keitaro's a typical goody two-shoes that may annoy me in other shows/circumstances, but he complements Takkun and Mari (who are jerks as Fish Sandwich pointed out) really well -Kaixa has a very cool design with the X on his face and the shoulder pads. I also really like the idea of a cursed Rider belt -Episode 13 in particular is very well-directed; the fake-out about Kusaka's identity, the role reversal between Mari and Kusaka by the end, and that hilarious Takkun's 'serve fail' scene were all executed very well. The latter scene is particularly noteworthy for how it's completely silent during the punchline (no wacky comedic sound effect or the likes), which reminds me again of how much I like minimalist, understated humour in general. Last edited by Magnugiga; 10-23-2019 at 04:59 AM.. |
10-23-2019, 08:26 PM | #15602 |
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Movie War 2010:
I'm not going to dwell on Decade's chunk of this movie too much, because, honestly, it's like, what do you even say about it? It's just total nonsense. Wataru was right, man, Decade doesn't have a story. So you can't think about it that way. I could try and divine some grander theme from it, or discuss why as a Kuuga fan, Decade's trivialization of Ultimate Form has never sat right with me. Maybe I could congratulate Natsumi for turning the tables and being a female Rider that kills someone instead of getting killed, or whatever else, but, far more so than usual for Decade, you just have to sit back and let it happen. Brain goes off, popcorn goes in. Between 2010 and Core, I feel really bad for Riku Sanjou, because for two years in a row, it seems an awful lot like he was the only one trying. Begins Night is excellent and also does not gel with what's to the left or the right of it at all. Suddenly the movie becomes comprehensible, starts taking some time to breathe, and tells an engaging story with discernible human emotion about Shoutarou facing his guilt over disobeying Soukichi, reflecting on how he and Philip got where they are, and ultimately rededicating himself to carrying on in his mentor's name, which he cements by disobeying Soukichi again. What a finely crafted narrative. What a delightful little slice of an great show. But then it stops abruptly, and Double ends up accidentally driving into Decade's ongoing nonsense climax, which was either just next door the whole time, or they were chasing that Dopant for a while. Either way, you'll want to turn your brain off again for a while and just enjoy Double fighting giant robots. Don't waste time wondering how we got here, and remember to turn your brain back on when Gackt starts playing. In case you can't tell from that description, I'm not entirely sure what to make of this on a rewatch. I think I probably enjoyed it less than the first time, but I also don't particularly begrudge the movie or anything. The Decade stuff is a whole can of worms I might get into some other day, but I'm here for Double, and that part was great. Although to this day it weirds me out thinking that people getting into Rider through accessible shows like W end up watching this movie with zero context for Decade, who I think is more the focus of the movie. I almost feel like the best thing to do in that position is to watch the director's cut that puts Double's part first and then just stop at the cliffhanger. You got your origin story! Go back to the show now, you don't need to stay! I feel like I'm forgetting something here, though... Oh, right! ダブルやディケイドの話ばっかじゃ寂しいので、今回もファイズ翻訳ミスコーナーです~!今日の翻訳ミスはこれだ! 「海堂さん、本当は木場さんのことが好きなんじゃないんですか?」 Look, I only said I'd complain about one translation error per post; I never said a thing about those posts having to involve me watching Faiz. This is an error from back in episode 10, which I brushed off at the time, but it's been bugging me so much I feel the need to set the record straight. Bear with me while I take a second to explain what's going on here. One of the criteria I'm looking for in these segments is for the thing I'm complaining about to be an actual, honest-to-goodness mistake in the translation. Not stylistic choices, and also no typos. This one is in a weird gray area, though, because I'm pretty sure it's a typo that got way out of hand. Yuka's line here to Kaidou is quite simply "you actually like Kiba, don't you?". The line immediately following has her suggesting that despite the front he puts up, Kaidou wants to believe in humans the same way Yuuji does. This seems to have caused some confusion. There's absolutely no way even the most amateur translator would be able to mix up liking someone and being like someone in Japanese, so what I think happened is between TV-N's original subs, the redone DVD versions they did later, and then finally Agony's scrub, this line has been "fixed" several times over, resulting in it drifting totally away from what it actually means. I figured that, much like Tsukasa, you'd still be able to "get the gist" of the scene, so it didn't matter, but considering the same episode ends with Kaidou being unable to deal a finishing blow on Yuuji when they fight, and then the next one has him expressing concern for Yuuji's well-being, in retrospect, blending this line into the next one actually is doing the narrative of the show a disservice.
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10-24-2019, 05:54 AM | #15603 |
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Finished Kamen Rider Kuuga on Saturday and while I liked it did find it a bit too slow. Loved how Godai actually had to learn how to figure out his Kuuga forms rather than knowing them from the get go.
Also thought the Gurongi’s rules for their “games” was rather clever and liked how mysterious they were( watched with their speech not translated).Some of which what they did managed to actually creep me out with maybe the film work also helping. Particularly loved the bike fighting in Kuuga that was great. In terms of Characters while not my favourite cast were good in how either their contributed to the story or how they were effected by the Gurongi.It was great in time how in the police got more and more useful as it got towards the end. Overall on the bottom of the 5 riders I’ve seen so far while enjoyable was still a bit sluggish and a little bland at times just barely gets an 8/10 from me. Also watched episode “50” of Kuuga that was hilarious ,could tell that the cast were having fun with this. After Kuuga I decided to watch Den-O as I wanted something lighter to watch. So far so good finding it very enjoyable and loving the characters. Ryotaro like how different he is from the other Riders I have seen so far very shy and sweet. Find it hilarious with the situations he gets into either to his bad luck or the Imagin possessing him. Love the Imagin and how their individual styles look especially when they possessing Ryotaro(The break dancing with Ryutaros doing the possessing is fantastic!)also with how they fight as Den-O. Liking Yuuto and Deneb too a brilliant pair. Recent batch of episodes of Den-O seen episodes 27-32: Seeing how episodes 25,26 and 27 were leading to a movie also decided to watch Den-O The movie I’m born! before episode 28. Liked the movie and how it gave insight to Ryotaro’s character background. After watching episodes 31 and 32 of Den-O, poor Yuuto. |
10-24-2019, 07:38 PM | #15604 |
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Faiz 15-16:
This is probably the first truly notable ~misunderstanding~ in Faiz, and I'm a little unsure of how to tackle this. I'm watching this show again in part so I can reevaluate it, and as such I've been trying to avoid making any sweeping judgments of its quality or running my mouth off about how everybody else just doesn't "get" it. But I've gotta speak my mind on how much I'm still loving this show, and while I still can't speak for what comes later, I find this stretch of the show fascinating. First of all, the way Faiz structures itself is always a delight, and simple things like Takumi and Yuuji sort of "crossing over" into each other's cast in 15 after they both got defeated in the last episode, and then also swapping back right at the same time, is super neat, and I wanted to give a quick shout out to it. Moving on to the actual meat here, I adore Takumi's character development in these episodes. This is where it starts becoming apparent just how big a heart Takkun has, and while I'm sure plenty would be eager to call him out for not explaining what's going through his head here to Mari and Keitarou, this is all completely in-character for him. He's a closed-off person to begin with, is currently processing a lot, and is also being screwed over by Kusaka deliberately manipulating the situation to make himself look like the good guy. Which works great on Mari, who hasn't seen Kusaka's dark side and still thinks of him as that defenseless little kid, and slightly less so on Keitarou, who likes Kusaka too, but is also more active about trying to get Takumi to communicate properly. I'm still not discounting the possibility that I'll be eating my words later down the line, but, at least right now, I can't see this as anything other than developed characters behaving in ways that line up perfectly with their very human faults. It's driving the story forward, and it's resulting in further growth for the cast, so I'm happy. もちろん、嬉しくない時にはファイズ翻訳ミスコーナーです~!今日の翻訳ミスはこれだ! 「木場さんなら、見捨てたりしないと思うから。」 Yeah, Yuka's dialogue gets messed up a lot. Just for context, this is from when Yuka and Kaidou are looking for Yuuji and find Takumi instead. Kaidou recognizes him from when they fought earlier in the show, and tells Yuka they don't have time to bother helping him, and Yuka's counterargument here is actually more along the lines of "if Kiba were here, he wouldn't abandon him". Pointing out that Kaidou would've been happy to grab Yuuji out of a river is a complete non-observation when they both know that already and came here planning to do so. What this is actually about, which is critical to the plot of the episode, is how much Yuka looks up to Yuuji's unwavering sense of morality. Throughout these episodes Yuka is trying to shake off her inner demons and become a better person, and it should really go without saying that the pervy snake dude is not the one acting as a role-model for her. W 15-16: I don't think this is going to be as controversial as me defending Faiz, but, uh, this arc is a masterpiece. This is the first time Double pulls out all the stops and ups the stakes. It starts with a simple enough sounding plot about protecting the good name of Kamen Rider, which would already be amazing, because the only Heisei Rider up to this point to treat that title with any gravitas was Blade, which just goes to show how serious Double was about going back to basics. But then you get "tricked", and things go completely to crap at the halfway point, moving into a second half where Philip has to act on his own, letting him grow as a character by showing him in a position where he has to call all the shots himself, leading up to FangJoker's (televised) debut, a form that on top of looking sick legitimizes Philip as the co-protagonist by using his body instead of Shoutarou's. There are not enough good words to say. This two-parter is so slick, it effortlessly slipped in a compelling explanation for why Double announces his finishing moves during the climax like it was nothing at all. I'd be here all day trying to point out everything in it that works, so let me just mention what a delightful example of Seiji Takaiwa's suit acting prowess it is seeing Philip's side of Double try to keep Shoutarou's side from punching out Jinno at the end. Two characters in one body is nothing after playing four, I'm sure, but still, it's always fun to see him do this stuff.
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10-25-2019, 09:48 AM | #15605 |
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Finished OOO last night, and I gotta say, my personal distaste for Date aside, the last batch of episodes was pretty much the perfect way to end it.
Overall, as a show, I felt like W was the better of the two Neo-Heisei KRs I've seen so far. But on a purely character basis, I really loved the main four of Eiji, Ankh, Goto, and Hina. So on that level alone, I'd put this as my 2nd favorite Rider show overall(with Kuuga still being my absolute favorite). Next up is Fourze, but that won't be for awhile since Christmas season is coming up and as such I won't have any spare time for shows in general, sadly. Gotta love(hate) mandatory overtime. |
10-25-2019, 03:53 PM | #15606 |
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OOO is one of my best of the 2010s!
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10-25-2019, 10:02 PM | #15607 |
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Faiz 17-18:
Episode 17 of Faiz is an all-time classic. Everything about it comes together so smoothly. First of all, the direction in this and the last episode feels a lot more dynamic than was standard for Rider at the time. It's still that same rough, early Heisei style, but some of the shot compositions and everything are fairly inspired. All in support of a very climactic story that, by paying off what's been going on with Takumi the past few episodes, touches on a lot of the series' broader themes, and shows where the main characters are at right now. The way Takumi struggles with the morality of his actions here is something you just can't get anywhere but Faiz. Not even in the episodes of Kiva where Inoue used the same basic idea. The kind of personality Takkun has makes it that much more devastating to see him in this state. There are layers to what you can take from it. It's shocking to see him beaten down like this, but the fact that he's getting so upset about it in the first place is also the biggest proof so far of what a good person he is underneath. This dilemma is positively eating him up, and yet because he's spent his life pushing people away, he has absolutely no idea how to express any of this to his friends, putting him in this self-destructive spiral where they start to get frustrated with his inability to open up, leading to Takumi hating himself that much more. It's compelling character drama, and a perfect time for Takumi and Yuuji to have their first major interaction, venting to each other about problems they can't actually talk about, since they're each under the impression the other is just an innocent bystander in all the Orphenoch business going on. Dramatic irony at its finest. Eventually Yuuji's problem becomes Takumi's when an Orphenoch the former was dealing with starts tearing up a university. The dominoes start falling into place as a combination of Yuuji's remarks, and seeing the Orphenoch's casualties up close and personal, pushes Takumi to his inevitable rebound, getting him to push aside his own doubts and focus on the lives he knows need to be saved. The resulting fight scene is by far one of the show's most memorably awesome moments. The theme song powerup. The light when Takumi transforms being emphasized, kind of mirroring the first episode. Faiz's confident, almost cocky body language. Two finishers for two monsters, including a good old Rider Kick. It's great. I love it. Episode 18 is... I mean, you know, it's mostly Keitarou getting taken advantage of by a little girl. Whatever. Look, the show just wanted to relax for a bit after like a month straight of heavy-duty angst, okay? It's fine. Kusaka's even on vacation after almost completely ruining Takumi's life, the jerk. So you don't have to see him, either. では、今回非常に苦労したファイズ翻訳ミスコーナーです~!今日の翻訳ミスはこれだけど・・・ 「普通こんなもん持ってわざわざ来るか?」 I may have went slightly insane trying to pick an error for these two episodes. See, the routine I've settled into for Faiz is to just watch Agony's version, and then when I notice something off, go and check TV-Nihon's version afterwards to see if the mistake originated there. Both of them being wrong is another one of the criteria I'm shooting for, since it means there's no avoiding it. In this case I ended up watching 17 in its entirety twice over, which I told myself was because it was just that awesome, but it quickly became both a revelation and a nightmare. Feel free to glaze over this part if niche discussion of fansubbing isn't your thing, but I seriously need to vent about this. Judging just by that episode, Agony actually is doing considerable work to fix TV-N's subs, with a ton of genuine errors corrected on top of simply making the lines sound more natural. Much more than I had them pegged for. Although 31 onwards are apparently barely retouched because they wanted the batch out in time for Zi-O? We'll see when I get there. Anyway, that's the revelation. Agony did good work, and despite what I'm about to say next, I'd definitely recommend their version of the show for people looking to watch Faiz for the first time. The nightmare is that in spite of this, they've also introduced a ton of new errors in the vein of what I complained about with episode 5. Which means even though between the both of them, there were loads of mistakes, it was really hard to find one in common. I've settled on this line, which I've decided is "close enough" because despite being translated in vastly different ways, both are wrong. Agony's translation is right up there to see like usual, and TV-N's version is the immortal "Who carries magazines around while intentionally going?". So you can tell why I think Agony is an improvement. But the thing is, they basically just made up a line of a dialogue that sounded right instead of translating what was being said. Mari came here in the middle of an Orphenoch rampage to show Takumi a magazine article she found about curing nekoji- er, people with sensitive tongues. He's making a surly remark here, which Agony got down perfectly, but the part they either missed, or ignored, is that Takumi is expressing surprise she came all this way at a time like this for his sake. One of the big threads in this arc is the friendship the main trio has built up being tested, and, just in time for the big scene where Takkun gets his groove back, this is meant to be a reminder of how much these people actually do care about each other. So once again, some of the story's subtext is being obscured. Hopefully next time it won't take me three giant paragraphs to explain that, but man, this was not a fun one for me. W 17-18: These freakin' episodes, I tell ya'. Keiichi Hasegawa doesn't mess around. Did you see some of the crap that happened in Ultraman Nexus? Because it might actually be less intense than this arc, which somehow involves both making the audience sympathize with a drug dealer, and showing how drugs ruin the lives of innocent youth. AT THE SAME TIME. I recall this being the first W arc that really deeply resonated with me when I first watched it, and it's no wonder why I was so impressed. These episodes hit hard with everything they do, and it's hard for it not to leave an impact. On the drugs corrupting the youth front, it goes all out on the metaphor, with a Victim/Monster of the Week who picked up a Gaia Memory because she was depressed and wanted to be better at sports, who also ends up passing the thing around with disatrous results in a manner disturbingly reminiscent of needle sharing. Not to mention the withdrawal symptoms that come later. Really, the whole thing is disturbing. It doesn't even go all after-school special on you, either. It knows it did its job portraying all of this well enough you'll get the message without it having to say a thing. As for the dealer bit, I have to admit I don't think W and Nazca's rivalry had the best build up, between their fight scenes being slightly underwhelming for varying reasons, and the simple fact that, even though it was to the benefit of those stories, Kirihiko wasn't given a ton of screentime when an arc didn't call for it. Still, it was totally serviceable, and the way it all comes together here is crazy memorable. Seriously, as good as FangJoker's debut was, this arc blew my mind then, and it still does now. It also has my favorite episode titles in the series, on a side note. I love a good naming scheme, and while Double's double titles with double-meaning letters give you maybe a bit too much information to take in at once, to the point where I used to be a bit more iffy on them, it's one of those things I've come to appreciate over the years.
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10-26-2019, 09:22 AM | #15608 |
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Well I wanted to watch Dragon Knight but it's, uh, blocked in my country. Guess I'll have to do something else then.
... BLLLAAAAAAADE BRRRAAAAAAAAAVE Episode 1 was just fantastic! It reminds me of OOO's first episode in some of the best ways; it manages to throw just SO much in there but still tell a coherent episode and story and give me a good idea of the basic setting and characters. I was fully expecting Episode 1 to be a slow thing of Kenzaki joining BOARD and becoming Blade at the end to set up a status quo, but no; not only is that ancient history, BOARD GETS COMPLETELY DESTROYED!! It's shocking just how quickly it gets on with things and how much it starts in the middle. About the only thing I didn't like was the whole fight-in-the-dark thing; this is something I never like in media and it feels especially frustrating coming off of Shinkenger which did have multiple night battles but were all very brightly lit and it was clear what was going on. Still, from the next time it looks like this isn't going to be a trend. Also happily surprised to see a Café as the base once again, since something about that setting is one of my favourites! ... but maybe I shouldn't be surprised as I'm slowly realising just how many series that's a thing in. Kuuga, Ryuki, Den-O, OOO, Build; and they definitely feature prominently in Kiva, Wizard and Gaim as well. Decade and Zi-O kind of have a similar set-up too despite using a photo studio and clock shop... The kid is adorable and I love this family already but all I can think of when I look at her is how she's fated to become Another Blade |
10-26-2019, 10:39 AM | #15609 |
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Trust me, you're not missing much. And this is coming from someone who's second ever KR was Dragon Knight(the first being Saban's Masked Rider, yikes).
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10-26-2019, 10:43 AM | #15610 |
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The cafe being such a common recurring element in these shows makes me wonder why we haven't had a main character who is runs a cafe, and fights with like, powers and forms based on different flavours and types of beverages. |
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