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08-14-2020, 02:14 PM | #611 |
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Holding off the movie and new generation reviews as those are alternate endings... so don't be creeped out/surprised if that old post got brought up again in a very long time.
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The thing is that we haven't seen enough of Nozomi outside of scenes about Mutsuki, so it's impossible to know if she has nothing but Mutsuki in her life. She seems to care about him, but not in an unhealthy, obsessive way. She's just got the Doting Girlfriend role, which means that her value to the narrative is in how she supports Mutsuki's story.
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I've tried to explain it over the last few weeks? I don't think of Tachibana as someone who had a brief freak-out and is now totally healthy. He's a guy that has massive psychological problems, some of which he's overcome. It's awesome that he's not working with a monster from eternity to humiliate his former co-workers, but almost nothing about how Tachibana acts on this show feels like a tip-top mental state.
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From his perspective, Hajime is a threat to every single life form. Seeing the Kamen Riders working with him, portraying themselves as heroes, he's got to think they're the biggest idiots around. I don't agree with him trying to villainize the Riders, but I 100% get how he could be frustrated by their cluelessness.
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Agito's heroine role is Mana btw. And favorite subject?? With a bit of chuckle, just saying, talking about favorite object can be real but not talking about them can be real too... many students declare nothing as favorite subject, for obvious reasons, and doesn't want to bring it up outside lesson. For outside hobby/job can be used to make characters much more of a person... Takumi was an opposite of that where (at the beginning) he doesn't have any dreams, drive, or anything. Probably real can be more broad than just that, and even those that commonly thought as unreal can be actually real, just not appearing much on fiction that they forgot about those.
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08-14-2020, 04:24 PM | #612 |
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... Maybe going into the movie without watching the specials was why I was so confused by the new cast. Am I the problem? No, it's the Rider multimedia approach that's wrong.
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08-14-2020, 04:48 PM | #613 |
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I thought that with what you said regarding the series criteria for characters that appear in more than 2 scenes, that they have to all get hugely beefed-up role, no distinguishment between any character level (or tiny/small difference between main or tertiary, etc.).
Beyond that, though, it'd be nice if, as Kurona said, she had a little more going on narratively. She has a bare-bones character, defined solely around Mutsuki. Giving some additional characteristics would've been a smart move for the show. Quote:
Dunno if I misjudged you, but probably was talking about how I feel that you painted Tachibana in a dark light against Shinmei's organization (treating his behavior there like distrust as his fault), claiming Tachibana and Mutsuki as too close for what they are at one point, or saying Tachibana as the worst in ep. 27 for the lie to defend Mutsuki.
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DIO from JoJo (though I'm not sure if it's a right comparison to make). He's been regularly compared against Cronus though. I mean like, King also had the time stopping power (Dio is not the originator, but anyone having that power is compared to him like Cronus) though at certain area, but apart from that, he summons his monster form separate from main body to fight others, like how Stands work in JoJo, which is a fighting spirit manifested to fight others.
It's a nightmare, and this is coming from someone who's spent his entire life invested in American superhero comics publishing.
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08-14-2020, 04:54 PM | #614 |
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I'm sure I still haven't seen everything that came out alongside Kamen Rider Ghost! Probably some random net special I missed.
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08-14-2020, 05:02 PM | #615 |
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...and in looking for those links, I see that there are four episodes that lead in to the terrible summer movie, and those weren't in my TV Nihon download. A nightmare.
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08-14-2020, 05:21 PM | #616 |
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You're forgetting the one where key deep lore girls summon Kaito Kumon and Takeru summons Gaim's eyecon through the emotion of "Didn't I kick your arse already?"
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08-14-2020, 11:28 PM | #617 |
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KAMEN RIDER BLADE MOVIE: MISSING ACE
This time on Kamen Rider Blade: It's four years later! The old cast all became assholes! The new cast are all dicks! INOUE FOREVER! Can you believe there was a time when I disliked Inoue? Way back in the Kuuga days, he wrote some of my least-favorite episodes in a series that... I was not the correct audience for, let's say. I hated those episodes so much that, when I found out he'd be (more or less) solely responsible for Agito, 555, and Kiva, I was dreading it. I thought it was going to be so infuriating to watch that trying to express those feelings on these boards was going to get me banned. I'm pretty sure I referred to him as my nemesis? Now, I love him. I love his Kamen Rider stories. I love his monumental assholes and the ways they protect humanity. I love that in stories of people being insufferable to their friends and family, there's a message of hope. I love that he uses stories of conflict and strife to warn against enjoying stories of conflict and strife. I love that he believes in the innate value of broken people. And, holy shit, everyone in this is a goddamn disaster. It's a movie that acts as a hypothetical sequel to Kamen Rider Blade, setting itself four years after Blade sealed Hajime, the last of the Undead, and saved the day. In the meantime, Kenzaki has found himself cleaning up garbage, a testament to his desire to help others and the fact that being a Kamen Rider doesn't actually convey any marketable job skills; Kotaro is a celebrated author, turning the tables on his former freeloaders by becoming rich off of their story; Hirose is more concerned with her impending wedding (to a groom WE NEVER SEE, I mean what in the hell, I would've bet money that it was Takumi from Faiz) than getting the old team back together; Amane is a shoplifting, petulant teenager; Tachibana is cosplaying as Shinji from Evangelion's dad with a newer, creepier BOARD; and Mutsuki is moping his way through life in a post-Leangle haze. It's the last one, Mutsuki's story, that becomes a way into the themes of this movie for me. He's someone who feels absolutely lost in the aftermath of being a Rider. Being Leangle shattered him, but the shattering was at least a feeling. Everything afterwards has been him forcing himself back into a shape he'd grown out of, a world he'd thought he'd left behind. Becoming a Rider again... the danger, the risk, it's like a dream come true. It's the same for Kenzaki, where he seems almost desperate to become Blade again, no matter the fact that he can't Henshin, or that there are three perfectly capable heroes to defend the world against the Undead. Speaking of, hey, our new heroes! Why did no one tell me this was a Sentai crossover? I'm not familiar with the normal story of Ace Sentai Shufflengers, but I loved what I saw of them in this movie. They're just a collection of surly assholes, and I'm A-ok with that. Shufflenger Red and Green have that great chemistry from the New Generation specials, but now it's amplified into some Take No Prisoners snark. Every interaction is a chance for them to put somebody in their place, and if there's no else around they'll just crack wise on each other. Shufflenger Gold is all backhanded compliments, deference as offense, and an attitude that might as well be a big flashing Do Not Trust This Dude sign hanging over him. Not much of a shock when he turns out to be the movie's villain! It takes a long time to get there, though, with a bunch of plot twists and bizarre mechanics (Amane needs to be the sacrifice, but then it could also be Kenzaki or Hajime?), but that's not really what the movie's about. It's about crisis, and how that looks different whether you're inside of it or outside of it. For the men and women who spent a year fighting the Undead, it's almost a relief to return to it. They understand that world. The pain and sacrifice are familiar, almost welcome. A world without fighting the Undead makes them cruel, makes them distant. The crisis is what defines them. For Amane, it's the opposite. All the crisis did was take from her, in ways that redoubled her most primal wound: her father abandoned her again. Hajime was sealed by Kenzaki, presumably for the good of humanity, but that's only something someone inside the crisis would know. She's an outsider, and she only gets to suffer. There's a thing we do, mentally, in times of crisis. It's something we're probably all doing right now. We adjust to it, no matter how hard it is, because the alternative is to be crushed. It's a defense mechanism, and it's healthy. We become flexible, doing what we need to do psychologically to get to the next day. The problem is, if we become too used to the crisis, we start to expect it. It's not about being flexible until normalcy returns, it's about reinventing yourself as someone who can thrive during the crisis. It's just, in general, the nature of a crisis is to be finite. They end, eventually. Now that you've remade yourself to thrive in a crisis, what do you do when it's over? For Team Blade, you spend four years denying what you've come to crave, until you're confronted by the very human cost of that heroism. Amane is the face of everyone who's lost someone to the world-shaking battles the Riders overcome on a weekly basis. She's a girl who's suffered too much already, and it's time to let her be happy. The heart of this thing, no pun intended, is about Hajime and Amane's connection. What the rest of the cast goes through, it's cute and funny and sad and weird, but the throughline of this thing is a girl who keeps losing her fathers, and a world that won't stop killing her fathers. Still, for all of the thematic work about the ways we can get addicted to conflict and the people ground up as a consequence, this thing is a blast to watch. The combat is fantastic, with a scale you only get in a movie. Dozens of monsters get dispatched by a half-dozen Riders, and Hajime gets beat up in some beautifully-shot sequences. (That Rider Kick in a rainstorm! In the second scene!) It all looks terrific, even the Final Fantasy-esque final form for Shufflenger Gold. Just a real fun movie to watch. I really dug this film. The opening is excitable and weird, and the end is bittersweet and kind. It's a pseudo-sequel about how it's better to remember the past than dredge it up. There's a quick-change license plate that says MILKY BOY, and a teenage girl who misses her dad. Inoue Forever. Post-Credit Additional: I only caught three Faiz cameos, and I'll be checking the Wiki after I post this to see if there were any I missed. I got: This salaryman scene, with Yuuji and Murakami; And the cop that chases Amane, who I'm pretty sure was Kaido. Fun fact! I had to look up Kaido and Murakami's character names, because I'd already forgotten them! And I watched that whole series a month ago! What is wrong with my brain?!
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08-15-2020, 12:59 AM | #618 |
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Gosh, I really only remember Missing Ace for all the parts that bugged me. Like it's amusing to me now with the knowledge of the New Generation Special in mind, that two of the three thirds of this 'New Generation' are just unceremoniously killed off by the last one who turns out to just be an evil monster.
The thing that bugged me most honestly was the stuff with Amane. It's a reasonable conflict, that after these years, she's still upset over Hajime disappearing, and nobody else have it in them to properly explain what happened to him. But like... Maybe at least let her know that he's very much 'gone' or 'dead' instead of making her think he just up and left? Also there's like no actual resolution to that? She doesn't ever actually see Hajime, but just vaguely thinking she heard him while unconscious is not enough for me to come off like this plot thread is sufficient. Otherwise, I find the film just 'okay'. Compared to the big spectacles of Paraidse Lost or even Episode Final, Missing Ace feels a lot more low-key, but there were plenty fun action bits too. I do still laugh a little at the end of the climax, where the three remaining Riders transform and pose side-by-side all triumphantly before rising up towards the giant super-Undead... before getting immediately smacked down, and Blade then just goes and does it all by himself anyway. |
08-15-2020, 01:14 AM | #619 |
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Gosh, I really only remember Missing Ace for all the parts that bugged me. Like it's amusing to me now with the knowledge of the New Generation Special in mind, that two of the three thirds of this 'New Generation' are just unceremoniously killed off by the last one who turns out to just be an evil monster.
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The thing that bugged me most honestly was the stuff with Amane. It's a reasonable conflict, that after these years, she's still upset over Hajime disappearing, and nobody else have it in them to properly explain what happened to him. But like... Maybe at least let her know that he's very much 'gone' or 'dead' instead of making her think he just up and left? Also there's like no actual resolution to that? She doesn't ever actually see Hajime, but just vaguely thinking she heard him while unconscious is not enough for me to come off like this plot thread is sufficient.
For her never seeing him and still changing, again, loved it. I love that their connection was that deep? That she knew he was there, even if she never saw him. I found that all very sweet and touching. The whole gang never telling her what happened with Hajime... tougher to defend! Some of it is 100% artificial conflict, where It's Safer If She Doesn't Know is a gigantic cop out. Tough plot point to defend, and not my favorite writing choice. On the other hand, I've got to assume that telling a 10-year old girl who is intensely protective of her surrogate father that he was actually a monster from eternity and Kenzaki trapped him in a trading card to keep the world from ending... maybe it's better to just say he left and roll the dice on her needing therapy as a teenager? Clearly, this is a No Good Options situation. Quote:
Otherwise, I find the film just 'okay'. Compared to the big spectacles of Paraidse Lost or even Episode Final, Missing Ace feels a lot more low-key, but there were plenty fun action bits too. I do still laugh a little at the end of the climax, where the three remaining Riders transform and pose side-by-side all triumphantly before rising up towards the giant super-Undead... before getting immediately smacked down, and Blade then just goes and does it all by himself anyway.
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Just thought I’d point out that like Ryuki’s movie, a lot of stuff about the lore in this movie was later changed when introduced in the show (no doubt, due to the changeover in staff) So don’t expect them to mention humanity winning the previous battle fight.
I’ll also point out that Elements was originally written for use in this movie, but when the turnover happened, the new regime wanted a new theme song and rather than write a new one, they poached an existing one (which isn’t strange. Only Hibiki had a new OP written especially to go along with it’s retool). Anyway, now for the reason why I’m here. The Rouse Card Information Kiosk. And you’re about to see why I renamed it. Change Beetle The Undead that provides Blade with his power to transform. He possesses exceptional power. * Suit and Category: Goro Sakurai * Effect name: CHANGE * Card name: Change Beetle (チェンジ・ビートル Chenji Bītoru) * Consumption points: +3 Mighty Gravity (マイティ・グラビティ Maiti Gurabiti) Allows the Glaive system to channel its power into the Gravity Slash attack, based on Blade’s Lightning Blast. Mighty Impact (マイティ・インパクト Maiti Inpakuto) Allows the Lance system to channel its power into the Impact Stab attack, based on Garren’s Burning Smash. Mighty Ray (マイティ・レイ Maiti Rei) Allows the Larc system to channel its power into the Ray Bullet attack, based on Leangle’s Blizzard Crush. Albino Joker (アルビノジョーカー) One of two embodiments of death within the Battle Fight. The Albino Joker (アルビノジョーカー Arubino Jōkā) is Shimura's true form. A second Joker that rose to power after Hajime was sealed in the movie, he strives to create the Vanity Card using the power of all four Category King Rouse Cards. One of the most fearsome powers of the Albino Joker is that, even without having won the Battle Fight, (although he may technically have, considering Hajime was sealed away), he is able to generate an army of AlbiRoaches without the help of the Sealing Slab. Unlike his counterpart Black Joker, Albino Joker has a lot of abilities, making him the most powerful Undead. * He can shoot energy beams from his hand. * He can assume his own human disguise, similar to the Royal Club Undead. * He can unseal Undead and force them to loyally serve him as in the movie, all Undead try to help Albino Joker hunt Amane rather than go rogue and fight among themselves. * He can generate his own army, the AlbiRoaches without the help of the Sealing Slab. Fourteen (14) The powerful being known as Jashin-14, intended to be given to the winner of the Battle Fight. Vanity (バニティ) A card composed of the 4 Category King Undead and a human sacrifice. Intended to be used to release Jashin-14 |
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