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04-09-2020, 05:41 PM | #331 |
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Geez, Die. I don't even think Kiwami roasts me that hard when I start talking about Ghost.
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04-09-2020, 05:50 PM | #332 |
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04-09-2020, 06:34 PM | #333 |
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"Mad Love for Mad Rogue: Build's Secret Best Rider" and "Super Hero Taisen: An Underrated Masterpiece?" or even "Why G3 Mild Needs His Own V-Cinema Spin-Off" You know, the opinions I REALLY want to get out there.
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04-09-2020, 06:38 PM | #334 |
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Look, I know you're joking, but if you need someone to proof that essay, HMU.
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04-09-2020, 06:41 PM | #335 |
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Utsumi Deserved Better squad!
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04-09-2020, 07:07 PM | #336 |
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Yeah! You might say fans like us need to Namba Stick together.
I'M NOT SORRY AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME.
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04-09-2020, 07:14 PM | #337 |
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MASKED RIDER RYUKI EPISODE 29
Uh, wow. Wow. This is my favorite Ryuki episode so far. Exceptionally funny, great character-based storytelling, and an evolution of the show's dynamic. It's basically the perfect episode. That said, if I have to find a flaw (and, uh, apparently I do), it's the monumental tonal whiplash from the precredit stuff about the Rider Battles, and Kamen Rider Boss, and Yui's reaction to the devastating news that man who lives in mirrors and doles out mystical objects might be dead, to everything after the credits, which is both a hilarious lark and deep examination of the way bonds can develop between adversaries. Like, it took a minute to get into this story because it's a total 180 from how this episode starts. Also, it's so untethered from how things were left. Kamen Rider Boss is all Keep Fighting and the next scene after the credits is everyone having gone their separate ways. Did.. did they not keep fighting? Were they just, like, Screw you, Boss? I assume that's what happened, that the command to keep fighting is in more of a There Needs To Be A Winner Someday sense, not that they needed to kill each other right then and there, but it's weird how it's totally unremarked upon. Just, the whole story moved on into another tone and no one mentions the previous cliffhanger. Which, man, I'm more than okay with. This episode was across-the-board great, and (currently) the episode I'd recommend to anyone who wants to enjoy Ryuki. Just everything good about this show is in this episode, and every scene after the credits delivers. No bum notes. All killer, no filler. Which is ironic, because this is pretty much a filler episode, from an arc or plot perspective. There are no revelations, no new Riders, and the whole story is a quick done-in-one that's entirely about Ore Journal. It's maybe not what a lot of folks would call out for a definitive Ryuki episode, you know? But it is. It is definitive. The play between the characters is the entire story, the ways Shimada and Reiko and Yui and Shinji and Ren and Kitaoka (and Goro!) all bounce off of each other, how all of their various disagreements and rivalries coalesce into teamwork and friendship. There's a lot of time spent on the friction between characters, their hilarious grudges and resentments, specifically so they can overcome those things and work together for the greater good. It's an episode that gains strength from letting its heroes be jerks to each other just long enough, so that their ability to cooperate feels hard-fought and earned. It's a new level of storytelling for the heroes of Ryuki. It's also relentlessly funny. I could spend a ton more time just calling out great gag after great gag, but I'll have to put the MVP nod towards Yui, of all people, for getting some of the episode's biggest laughs. (I also really liked her anger at all of Shinji's notes from the end of 28, so GIVE YUI MORE JOKES, SHOW.) Her tearing apart the Red Herring's apartment, looking for Shimada and Reiko, it was outstanding physical comedy. Looking behind curtains, knocking over bookshelves ("Wasn't me!"), screaming into blankets, trying to be coy with the neighbor?€? it's all great. It's all great. My favorite gag, though, in a great scene from an episode full of great scenes, is the bit where she opens the bathroom door, shouts "Reiko?", sees the bathroom is empty, closes the door, comes back, reopens the door, and goes inside the bathroom to use the toilet. It is a perfectly constructed visual gag. A thing of beauty. This whole thing was great. Really really good, at a time where a) Ryuki was bumming me out more than I'd like, and b) *gestures at the world*. This was an antidote to both of those things, and it probably made my day. I'm not trying to tell anyone how to self-care, but you could do worse than fire up this episode if things are getting to be too much.
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04-09-2020, 07:43 PM | #338 |
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Episodes 29 and 30 are one of the best rider filler eps just for the comedy. I love how Kitaoka says to Shinji,"What are you, her Dad?".
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"Mad Love for Mad Rogue: Build's Secret Best Rider" and "Super Hero Taisen: An Underrated Masterpiece?" or even "Why G3 Mild Needs His Own V-Cinema Spin-Off" You know, the opinions I REALLY want to get out there.
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04-09-2020, 08:54 PM | #339 |
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Your- your... your favorite- your favorite episode of Ryuki so far was one written by Toshiki Inoue? Are you just trying to torment me at this point? That's it! I need to go cool off by doing something fun... like watching this episode!
Because it IS really funny, which is something I insist Inoue is great at being when he wants to be. Like, it's kind of a shame Kino didn't ride into the room for his double surgery on a skateboard back in Agito, because Inoue probably could've made that work. Episode 30 is by him too, and both episodes are directed by Ishida again, which explains things like the heavy use of uneasy tilted camera angles while Yui is going completely insane tearing up that apartment. The thing is... I'm pretty sure I could totally write 6000 words about why Hiiro's dad is a fun character if I really wanted to. It honestly seems weird to me how much of a beef Die seems to have going with the poor guy.
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04-09-2020, 10:29 PM | #340 |
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(I legit hate that character, by the way. This is not a gag.) Before I started watching Ex-Aid, I had this conception of tokusatsu that was built mostly off of flashes of Power Rangers that I'd seen. That conception was of costumed superhero action... and cringe comedy, childish gags that were insultingly dumb. Pratfalls, mugging, clown-show garbage. (I never watched Power Rangers, so this was all what I thought it would be. I'm sure I was wrong!) When I started watching Ex-Aid, I was thrilled to find out that it was exciting, dangerous, insightful storytelling.. and then Hiiro's dad shows up, mugging and swooning over his son and acting like a buffoon. It was everything I feared tokusatsu would be, but distilled into one character. Now, I've watched a bunch of Rider shows since then, and there've been worse comedy characters than Hiiro's dad. (I'm not going to name names because Fish will probably lose it again, they might be his favorite characters.) But back then, Hiiro's dad was like a warning sign of everything I was afraid Kamen Rider would be. I've never really forgiven him for that, I guess. It's not fair, but Hiiro's dad is, like, an original sin. Other than that, though, I just think he's a worthless character. If you needed a goofy character to lighten the mood in CR, you've already got Poppy, and she's a) a way better actor, b) Asuna, so she's got other stuff to do besides be cute and goofy, and c) integral to the storyline of the show and the main characters in it. I hate Hiiro's dad because he's infuriatingly unfunny, but I don't like him because he's superfluous to the show. It's that combination of irritating character who doesn't need to be there that earns him the majority of my ire. That's why he's my punching bag.
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