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08-10-2020, 11:59 PM | #531 |
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There's a scene where Shima adviced Hirose to not let her face wrinkled, and Kotaro/Kenzaki missing the point that the beautiful woman refers to her right there, looking for others and Hirose taking a mirror. Also what they do here is trying to keep Shima alive by preventing him going sacrificing himself... though not really thinking how to deal with Mutsuki (Kenzaki said he doesn't want to lose him too).
And, oh man, do not love that the show had several men telling the smart, competent team leader that she'd be prettier if she smiled more!
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08-11-2020, 04:52 AM | #532 |
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There's also a fun bit of trivia going on with the character names here I might as well point out, since Inoue likes to do that kind of thing. Rarely does the symbolism get more blunt than here though, where we have Hajime (始), a man whose name literally means "beginning", and his identical counterpart, yet the opposite of him in every way, whose name is Ryou (了), which literally means "ending".
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08-11-2020, 06:13 AM | #533 |
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And We’re back with the Rouse card Information Kiosk. This time, we have a pair of diamonds.
Absorb Serpent A medusa-like monster that is hunting for the Joker, having the Tortoise Undead to aid her. Her hair changes to snakes and can be used as whips * Suit: Diamond (♦) * Category: Queen (Q) * Effect name: ABSORB * Card name: Absorb Orchid (アブソーブ・サーペント Abusōbu Sāpento) * Consumption points: EP +2000 Rock Tortoise An Undead who aided the Serpent Undead as her bodyguard, attacking Blade and Garren to keep them from meddling in her affairs. * Suit: Diamond (♦) * Category: Seven (7) * Effect name: ROCK * Card name: Rock Tortoise (ロック・トータス Rokku Tōtasu) * Consumption points: FP 1400 And since it was already mentioned, snake lady is the second inadvertent link this series has with Hurricaneger, despite the fact that, as far as I can gather (I haven’t seen Hurricaneger past episode 7 and it’s VS movies. The subs I have for later eps are just awful.), the two don’t have much in common. |
08-11-2020, 08:03 AM | #534 |
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The Takoyaki episode is such a bizarre trip, it's beautiful. The comedy, the symbolism, the Takoyaki, it's peak weird.
What's not to love?
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08-11-2020, 09:48 AM | #535 |
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There's also a fun bit of trivia going on with the character names here I might as well point out, since Inoue likes to do that kind of thing. Rarely does the symbolism get more blunt than here though, where we have Hajime (始), a man whose name literally means "beginning", and his identical counterpart, yet the opposite of him in every way, whose name is Ryou (了), which literally means "ending".
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(Some of the reason I think he's a Joker is from sort-of dimly recalling the Ex-Aid video series he was in, and some of the plot points I didn't get from that before, and some of the stuff Medusa Undead Or Whatever said to Chalice, and it all combining to make me think Kenzaki is a Joker.) ...Y'know, nothing. I sat here for a minute and tried to come up with something I didn't care for, and, nope! All killer, no filler.
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08-11-2020, 09:55 AM | #536 |
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Now how can there be a 'Double' Joker if there's not even a single Batman?! Though I guess we have a Spider-Man thanks to Leangle...
I went and rewatched these episodes really quick (and then binged on a few random other Blade scenes afterwards) and yeah, still can't believe I didn't remember any of this! Funny thing is that superhero hijinks mixed with running a food stall doesn't sound like it'd be too out of place as a premise for a Kamen Rider season of today either. |
08-11-2020, 10:03 AM | #537 |
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Now how can there be a 'Double' Joker if there's not even a single Batman?! Though I guess we have a Spider-Man thanks to Leangle...
I went and rewatched these episodes really quick (and then binged on a few random other Blade scenes afterwards) and yeah, still can't believe I didn't remember any of this! Funny thing is that superhero hijinks mixed with running a food stall doesn't sound like it'd be too out of place as a premise for a Kamen Rider season of today either. For the food stall Kamen Rider premise, that is definitely what they should've done with the Specter movie. They'd already set up that Alain opened up a takoyaki stand, right? Missed opportunity! Also, hey friends, today's my one-year anniversary on these boards. It's been a year of talking about a variety of Japanese superhero TV shows (the names escape me) and tiny plastic action mans. This community has been outstanding, welcoming me in and letting me be consistently weird about the Kamen Rider franchise. Thank you all so much for a fantastic year. (Only in the sense of participating in discussions on TokuNation; the rest of it has been an unmitigated shitshow.) Thank you for being people I now consider friends. I'm very much looking forward to another few years of talking about these shows with you. Looking back, though, there's one thing I'm maybe proudest of, one post that still cracks me up when I think about it. Self-indulgently, here's my favorite post from the past year:
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08-11-2020, 12:28 PM | #538 |
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Is this a good point to mention that I think Kenzaki is an/the other Joker? From Karasuma's old "DOUBLEJOKER" password? Just putting that here. Please don't tell me if I'm right or wrong, I just wanted to mention it for future discussion.
(Some of the reason I think he's a Joker is from sort-of dimly recalling the Ex-Aid video series he was in, and some of the plot points I didn't get from that before, and some of the stuff Medusa Undead Or Whatever said to Chalice, and it all combining to make me think Kenzaki is a Joker.). |
08-11-2020, 03:48 PM | #539 |
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Not actually related to this thread, but Shout came out with official English DVDs now and they also have the whole series up for streaming on their website.
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08-11-2020, 04:13 PM | #540 |
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It’s a really fun episode, obviously. It’s very light-hearted, giving almost everyone in the cast a chance to either play straight man or comedian. Hajime even gets to play both! It’s also doing a thing I don’t think Inoue gets enough (any?) credit for, which is trying to foreground what it’s doing thematically.
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Opening scene with Medusa Undead Or Whatever. I love this angle on her, shot from below. The filter makes everything feel uneasy, unsafe, and the big metal railing shooting diagonally through the frame is a nice touch. She’s not a powerful looking woman, but this framing sells her as a terrifying opponent.
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This is a little one, but I like the tracking a lot. It starts on the sign outside Mutsuki’s house, while Nozomi gets turned away by his parents. It’s only after she finishes talking that the camera pans left to catch her walking away from the front door. (All of that was almost definitely because no one felt like paying Mutsuki’s mom or dad for one nighttime scene with Nozomi.) Also, man, the vertical break of that sign and hedge are a great visual bookend to Mutsuki’s scene, which is next!
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It’s not my favorite shot. It’s a little on the nose, with the spider web of mirror pieces reflecting… whatever is going with Mutsuki. (Spoiler, this is the last we see of him in this episode!) But it’s still a gorgeous shot, and there’s that vertical break of the wall on his left as he walks out of the shot, into a headlight, fading into nothingness. Great composition.
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The whole first Team Blade scene is shot outside on the farm, with Kotaro looking for Natural and criticizing Hajime for being either someone who trusts in the people around him to make the best decisions for themselves, or a complete asshole, depending on who you ask.
But the scene keeps playing and we pull back through a window, over Hirose’s head, and we’re in a scene where she’s talking to Kenzaki and Tachibana about what happened to Shima and Mutsuki. Just a great camera move to get us from one tone to another. Quote:
What will you say to those not abiding by that? ̶A̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶m̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶"̶r̶e̶s̶t̶r̶a̶i̶n̶e̶d̶ ̶I̶n̶o̶u̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶e̶v̶e̶r̶"̶ And again, informing more, those that had problems with Inoue I talked with, like you do (where you pointed out in Faiz where his sense of humor is definitely his strength), they also admit that he works better with parts like more comedic stuff like Changerion and Gouraigan (what they mentioned, this episode would qualify too perhaps), or at writing slice of life special (like this episode, so don't take this as me dissing this episode, I and others can appreciate this episode while not being blind) or being restrained (including that person I talked who had problems, they started with saying he did some really good work before talking about stuffs that makes him uncomfortable). Just that they won't be blind on him with his actual worse stuff which outweigh those good like the gross part in another that is being normalized. He's polarizing that he had both those 2 within him. So for saying he doesn't get enough credit of, they do give him that, but acknowledge his infamy. This also applies to akinoame, the reviewer I put at my signature, they give some defense to Inoue and stand by it (like writing Jetman and Agito), but they had limits on that and won't be blinded, for their case the problem being the... Quote:
He's a big swing type of writer, where it's got to be either insanely goofy or heartbreakingly sad. Anytime he tries to write a Normal Kamen Rider... it's like, why would you ask him to do that? Why ask the Cirque du Soleil to do a card trick? I want spectacle from my Inoue episodes, goddamnit! Weird psychopaths dying heroic deaths, or grim monsters from eternity getting married so a takoyaki crime boss can believe again! YOU CAN'T SHACKLE ART!
No, these episodes aren't him at his wildest, because for TV series, Inoue's on a leash, where it's agreed that he works better when restrained. But when not, his wildest is something seen at the Rider novel adaptations, where it's insanely edgelord-y, bordering on gross and disturbing things.
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