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09-01-2019, 09:35 PM | #41 |
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It's a soild first episode.
The world building is done appropriately We have our first henshin neatly explained, even comes with tutorial. Hopefully it means something more in the future. The fight itself is just okay, IMHO. The camera works start getting good when it was interrupted with jarring CGI works when he enters some vehicles being thrown around. The final kick is satisfactory, and the ankle sprain is nice touch. Horobi and Jin's personalities are introduced sufficiently. The special unit guy and gal needs more screen time after this. Right now they feel like generic hot headed maverick and weak sauce team leader female. Will be watching for three or five episodes before I decide to continue or not. |
09-02-2019, 02:12 AM | #42 |
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Some more thoughts:
I love everything about this. The first episode didn't feel as rushed as previous debuts in recent memory. Hopefully they pace things well. They didn't even feel the need to show off a form change right off of the bat. Mainly we were focused on Aruto Hiden and how he ended up becoming CEO of Hiden Technologies. I think he will be a likeable protagonist. He initially didn't want to take the role since his dream was to be a comedian. Unfortunately, he's awful. But by the end of the episode, he realizes he can make people smile by inheriting his grandfather's will to become a hero and save others. It's a great character motivation and we get to see it materialize in a believable way in just the first episode. But this is just the beginning. The story is going to presumably follow a lot of company drama (especially with the jealous Vice-President) and I'm excited to see how its handled. As for other characters, I really like Izu and I can already see how her dryly explaining Aruto's crappy jokes will be a fun running gag. Not much shown of the AIM's squad but we get a few details - Fuwa doesn't care much for orders and is hell-bent on destroying the Humagears, and Yua doesn't have much power despite her rank. Will be interesting to see how that dynamic plays into their character arcs when they become Vulkan and Valkyrie respectively. The MetsubouJinrai.net faction seems interesting. Horobi seems to be more serious while Jin has child-like curiosity. The scene where he executed the Magear while laughing was chilling. Interesting that their base of operations in "Daybreak Town" seems to be a flooded megapolis walled off from the rest of the city. Based on what they say, it appears that A.I had reached a "singularity" in the past before too. The first episode had great world-building and I can already see the potential for mystery. What happened in the past at Daybreak Town? Is Fuwa's hate for A.I related to it? What about Aruto? Why did he call that Humagear during the flashback his father? And what was that explosion that killed him? I am really intrigued. Action-wise, this episode did not disappoint. You can tell Zero-One is portrayed by a new actor because he's so agile. I love Takaiwa, but he was definitely starting to show his age coming up to the end of Heisei. Nawata is proving to be a worthy successor. I love the emphasis on jumps and speed. And it was really neat that they explained how Aruto being connected to Zea gave him A.I-like processing speed in order to read an instruction manual to learn how to use the Zero-One Driver. Kind of subverts the trope where the Rider magically knows how to fight from the first henshin. Attache-Slasher is a little ridiculous but looked pretty cool in action. Also loved the special effects. The Magear transformation looked pretty menacing and disturbing with a lot of skeleton imagery, and Zero-One's transformation looked hella extra too, with the satellite beams and giant robotic grasshopper. Plus, CGI was pretty sparingly used and when they used it, it was pretty creative (Zero-One jumping through the bus). Plus that Rider Kick is awesome. A little brutal to see the innards of the Magear though, blue blood and all. Definitely felt sorry for that guy. He just wanted to make people laugh. I really expect the show to make us feel for these Humagears throughout its run. I see the potential in it getting really tragic. Music is great, as expected from the composer behind Ghost. Plus, we have a baller insert theme and opening song. Based on this first episode alone, I think we are in for a stellar first entry into the Reiwa era. Sure, it's not exactly a huge stylistic or tonal change from Heisei phase 2, but they are only airing a week apart. I just expect more of what Kamen Rider is best at and that's watching suited bugmen turning jumps in the sky into Rider Kick's, so Zero-One has my attention. I guess I probably won't go too much in-depth with my posts going forward, but I was definitely highly impressed with this debut and will continue watching the series with enthusiasm. |
09-02-2019, 02:56 AM | #43 |
Hmm....
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I have feeling Aruto finally will have two professions (comedian and CEO) in final episode....
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09-02-2019, 03:02 AM | #44 |
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With the subs. The final joke at the end of the episode is pretty funny. Nothing worse for a comedian then someone explaining the joke.
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09-02-2019, 06:44 AM | #45 |
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It was a pretty good episode in my opinion. We get a good feel of the characters. I was surprised though that the AIMS duo doesn't seem to have a good partnership going on as of the moment. I thought they would be a solid duo from the get go.
Jin shooting that magear in the head point blank with a real looking gun and not a toy gun was quite chilling. I think the potential of this show to be darker in tone seems big. There's just so many things that could take a very serious turn. And another thing, the humagears must be regulated to some degree right? Otherwise what jobs would humans have if the humagears are doing everything. Job unemployment must be high if you could be replaced by a humagear.
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09-02-2019, 09:56 AM | #46 |
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Haven't seen the subs yet (waiting on Over-Time so... probably won't see them until next week!) but from the raw this does look pretty solid and a return to form for Rider. None of this complicated Time Travel or tributes, just a straight forward storyline that focuses only on it's universe and has time to flesh out the characters.
And yeah, after previous rider seasons where someone shows up to throw the rider a belt/item/weapon that they need and the fact that they always catch it perfectly, the fact that the briefcase sword hit him right in the face was my favourite part of the entire episode. Just seeing that raw twice got me laughing both times it happened! Interested to see where the series goes. I think comparisons to Ex-Aid are going to be inevitable so I await to see what this show's version of Dan Kuruto will be...
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09-02-2019, 10:06 AM | #47 |
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It's very standard for the first episode to be completely suck me up in the hype and excitement of everything being new, and it's happened here. I'm just as thrilled as I was after Build's first episode and I am ready to fall in love all over again.
Just like with Ex-Aid with Build, I expect my head to churn out dozens of impossible speculations, hopes, and dreams for how this show will turn out, only to be inevitably disappointed or happily surprised every single week. Biggest hopes which are depressingly slim considering this franchise's history: Let Izu grow to be an actual main character (Not even Poppy got that...), and please let Vulcan and especially Valkyrie stay relevant through the whole show. |
09-02-2019, 03:43 PM | #48 |
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I haven’t watched yet but does anyone have any opinions on Gemn Corp vs Rider Time for the subs?
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09-02-2019, 04:07 PM | #49 |
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Try both and form your own opinion, but really they both are very good, I honestly just go with who was first, and that was Rider Time, and when I woke up they both had subs out, so next week if that's the case I'll go with Genmcorp, but yeah, both are very good groups and beats the long wait for Over Time.
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09-02-2019, 04:41 PM | #50 |
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I haven't seen the Genm corp subs but RT had some typos which made me pause to figure out what the sentence was supposed to be
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