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09-04-2021, 03:11 AM | #161 |
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Before I revive my thing from the Blade thread, it’s etymology time!
Kendate = ken = blade, date = to rouse, literally “Blade Rouser” Hishigata = “diamond shape” Syacho = play on “shachou” (company President) Kuroba = pun on “clover” And now, the Undead Information Kiosk is reopen for business with the one I deliberately left out back during the Blade thread Evolution Paradoxa The Paradoxa Undead is the King of Hearts Undead. He is able to create a blade-like wind from his forearm to kill his target. * Suit: Heart (♥) * Category: King (K) * Effect name: EVOLUTION * Card name: Evolution Paradoxa (エボリューション・パラドキサ, Eboryūshon Paradokisa) * Consumption points: EP +2800 As for the episodes, it does strike me as hilariously easy to get fired or demoted here. And as some of us discussed over discord yesterday, it opens up the question of how much knowledge the writers have of capitalism. |
09-04-2021, 03:37 AM | #162 |
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so what do you think of Tsukasa turning Kendate into a giant sword?
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09-04-2021, 05:56 AM | #163 |
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Die, where do you find these people? Someone who actually likes Doctor Who, smh.
But yeah, Blade arc! This one's strengths are all in it's main Rider - Kazuma here is no Kenzaki, but he's an interesting twist on the idea, showing the guy maybe if BOARD had better employee retention, and also needed Tsukasa to remind him he's supposed to never give up on Tachibana, no matter how many times he gets shot! (Either with bullets, or in this case, mean words). The lack of Hajime though, as much as Die would have you believe Decade is about to morph into the Joker at any time (they're both destroyers and don't properly realise how until later in the series, that's another one for you buddy), does hurt this one for me, especially with how integral that relation becomes to the show's later portions, but I get it - the Ryuki arc was just about the bond between two Rider-men, one grumpy and closed off, the other idealistic and far too headstrong, you don't want to repeat that for every mini arc. So maybe focusing on Kenzaki's rise from the bottom to fight not because it gets him his shiny plaque, but because it protects people, is the better choice. Quote:
It's odd, cause BOARD is shown as being at least semi-functional, but I can't imagine randomly bouncing up and down in rank like that would be good for anyone!
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09-04-2021, 08:03 AM | #164 |
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I forgot about the Blade Blade! Again probably one of my favorite Final Form Rides purely because of it's name alone.
That being said, and this is my hottake, CEO/Chalice/Joker is probably the smartest CEO/Businessman in Kamen Rider? Especially later down the line when we get to a, a certain business related Rider Series whose business people I can only describe as incompetent due to their mindsets. The dude basically is holding all the cards and has no one from the monster side who would betray him. He's not stupidly thinking "Oh I shouldn't concern myself with the Undead because they won't backfire and betray me" and going along his merry way. He's made an alliance with them, and is able to business bullshit his way into taking out the other Riders as a result. If Tsukasa wasn't here and he didn't get involved with Kazuma, then this story probably would have ended differently. Anyway as for Blade AR being a sample for the series and me looking into it, it was pretty alright? Again, wasn't one of the Riders I had gotten into via Decade, we've still yet to hit those. The aesthetics were alright to me at the time but there wasn't much special for me to want to delve into more if I'm being honest. |
09-04-2021, 08:12 AM | #165 |
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Contrary to what I said before, I decided to cautiously skim through the World of Blade discussion. I can't really compare this world to Blade as a show, considering the most I know about that right now is what I've seen from Zi-O, something about a bench and that the Secondary Rider has a theme song dedicated to his apparent love of kara miso soup. So this is going to be a shorter post than the others, but there is still some Decade stuff I can talk about.
Tsukasa mundanely nicknames the BOARD Riders as Kamen Rider Salaryman, but their job is kind of like Kamen Rider Mercenary, right? At least, that seems to be the CEO's intention. War profiteering and starting from zero are themes most of us should be pretty familiar with from watching a certain show that aired in the Reiwa Era, but it's interesting to see how Decade deals with those themes here. I may not have much personal experience with jobs, but I think it's a good message that having camaraderie and the Ikigai concept is more important than standing on top and having lots of money. It's also clever how the arc with the materialistic final boss ends with a cameo of the very materialistic Diend, who I will be talking/complaining about very soon.
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09-04-2021, 12:32 PM | #166 |
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I think going with two-part stories wasn't the best idea. I know it's how Rider works, but adding a third episode would have really helped expand on some of these worlds and characters. Kazuma is right on the verge of being a really likable character in his own right and not as just a Kenzaki stand-in. A little more screentime could have really pushed him over the edge. It also could have given more room for the secondary characters.
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The lack of Hajime though, as much as Die would have you believe Decade is about to morph into the Joker at any time (they're both destroyers and don't properly realise how until later in the series, that's another one for you buddy), does hurt this one for me, especially with how integral that relation becomes to the show's later portions, but I get it - the Ryuki arc was just about the bond between two Rider-men, one grumpy and closed off, the other idealistic and far too headstrong, you don't want to repeat that for every mini arc. So maybe focusing on Kenzaki's rise from the bottom to fight not because it gets him his shiny plaque, but because it protects people, is the better choice.
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That being said, and this is my hottake, CEO/Chalice/Joker is probably the smartest CEO/Businessman in Kamen Rider? Especially later down the line when we get to a, a certain business related Rider Series whose business people I can only describe as incompetent due to their mindsets. The dude basically is holding all the cards and has no one from the monster side who would betray him. He's not stupidly thinking "Oh I shouldn't concern myself with the Undead because they won't backfire and betray me" and going along his merry way. He's made an alliance with them, and is able to business bullshit his way into taking out the other Riders as a result.
If Tsukasa wasn't here and he didn't get involved with Kazuma, then this story probably would have ended differently. Quote:
Contrary to what I said before, I decided to cautiously skim through the World of Blade discussion. I can't really compare this world to Blade as a show, considering the most I know about that right now is what I've seen from Zi-O, something about a bench and that the Secondary Rider has a theme song dedicated to his apparent love of kara miso soup. So this is going to be a shorter post than the others, but there is still some Decade stuff I can talk about.
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Tsukasa mundanely nicknames the BOARD Riders as Kamen Rider Salaryman, but their job is kind of like Kamen Rider Mercenary, right? At least, that seems to be the CEO's intention. War profiteering and starting from zero are themes most of us should be pretty familiar with from watching a certain show that aired in the Reiwa Era, but it's interesting to see how Decade deals with those themes here. I may not have much personal experience with jobs, but I think it's a good message that having camaraderie and the Ikigai concept is more important than standing on top and having lots of money. It's also clever how the arc with the materialistic final boss ends with a cameo of the very materialistic Diend, who I will be talking/complaining about very soon.
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09-04-2021, 12:45 PM | #167 |
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so that part of AkibaSilver's (if that's even their real name) backstory is probably more unbelievable.
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09-04-2021, 01:06 PM | #168 |
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Tsukasa mundanely nicknames the BOARD Riders as Kamen Rider Salaryman, but their job is kind of like Kamen Rider Mercenary, right? At least, that seems to be the CEO's intention. War profiteering and starting from zero are themes most of us should be pretty familiar with from watching a certain show that aired in the Reiwa Era, but it's interesting to see how Decade deals with those themes here. I may not have much personal experience with jobs, but I think it's a good message that having camaraderie and the Ikigai concept is more important than standing on top and having lots of money. It's also clever how the arc with the materialistic final boss ends with a cameo of the very materialistic Diend, who I will be talking/complaining about very soon.
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It's a plan so relatively smooth that it maybe didn't make the biggest impression on me before the reveal. The reveal, the Let's Make Ourselves Invaluable To The Government With A Forever War of it, was great! But a lot of what preceded that was a fairly standard Mercurial Boss, and that was sort of not compelling to me. I wish the role of CEO had a different take to it, maybe? Something more militarized, or more flamboyant, or something. Some of the casting for this story (Tachibanot, the CEO) needed a spark that just wasn't there. Quote:
oh god, do not say "secondary rider" for blade with any certainty or authority
that is a whole thing
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09-04-2021, 04:03 PM | #169 |
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Something I forgot to mention: one of my favorite little moments from these episodes was the scene where Yusuke and Kazuma rode off together on the Try Chaser and Blue Spader. We're fully in the part of the show where Yusuke has forgotten that he's Kuuga, but it's still neat to see two untransformed Kamen Riders tooling around on their bikes together. With most subsequent team-ups taking place in the post-motorcycle era of Kamen Rider, you just don't see that very often.
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09-04-2021, 04:58 PM | #170 |
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Anyway, I love these episodes of Decade. Back before I really knew Blade, I got really into the story on its own merits, finding that oddball friendship Kazuma and Tsukasa develop especially to be really endearing. Going back to it with knowledge of its writer, I now think it also benefits from Yonemura's specific brand of intense nonsense. That opening sequence with the Riders needing to wait for approval to transform is super exaggerated, which makes it extremely effective at communicating the gimmick of Blade's world clearly right away. Plus, the strange corporate hierarchy of BOARD in general is quite memorable. (I kind of take it like promotions and demotions happen so constantly they basically mean nothing? Kazuma literally gets fired and is back the next day. Or, heck, was that the same day?) Tsukasa inserting himself into a system he actively displays contempt for and then immediately proving he's better at it than everyone else is also very, very Tendou, and as fun to watch as a lot of those plot threads in Kabuto were. Going to back to it with knowledge of Blade, I also think it does it a fantastic job getting at the concepts it chooses from that show. Kazuma is a completely normal guy in much the same way Kenzaki was, and he's always been one of my favorite of Decade's versions of the old Riders. He's capable yet bumbling, and an all-around decent human being living a life that isn't as glamorous as you'd expect from a super hero, because he isn't a super hero – he's a guy working his job. Again, great fun to watch, whether he's being demoted for prioritizing human life over defeating a monster, or just breaking dishes in the kitchen like a total dork. What can I say? He really feels like Blade! (The "cheese" thing is missing the point though; Kenzaki is supposed to mess up words because he talks so quickly, due to what an excitable person he is. Not just because he literally doesn't know how to say them.) Also! These are Decade's first episodes directed by Ishida, and while there aren't a ton of big artsy moves in them, I think they still benefit all over the place in little ways from his usual touches. (And there's real fire when Decade blows up a monster as Ryuki, because of course there's real fire in an episode group by Ishida.) Oh, and as a last note, while Kuuga's shiny red is something I barely register, you can tell in these episodes that the transparent bits on Blade and Garren's faces are starting to become discolored, making the silver underneath look wrong. (Or at least I think that's what happened? I've never been too clear on what exactly went down with those suits over the years or why it's never been fixed.) It's not literally gold yet, but it's on its way there!
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