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11-05-2020, 04:24 PM | #551 |
Kamen Ride Or Die
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Someday I should actually watch Hibiki and Kabuto, because they're both two shows (along with Agito and W, to an extent) where I have no idea of the plot. Like, I've not seen Kuuga, Faiz, or Fourze, but I could at least tell you what they're about, and people enjoy talking about them. The others, I got nothing.
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11-05-2020, 04:30 PM | #552 |
Showa Girl
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Agito is about one man's quest to plant the best vegetables
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11-05-2020, 04:40 PM | #553 |
take me to space
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I've watched Faiz and I still couldn't sum up what it's about in a sentence.
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11-05-2020, 04:42 PM | #554 |
Some guy. I'm alright.
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The plot of W is two boyfriend's' quest to find out who keeps giving everyone magic drugs.
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11-05-2020, 04:42 PM | #555 |
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Honestly, Faiz is about Assimilation Vs Independence, and the ways people excluded from society navigate that spectrum.
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11-05-2020, 04:59 PM | #556 |
Showa Girl
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Faiz is about Fish Sandwich staring holes into your skull until you like it. Ghost, too!
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11-05-2020, 05:32 PM | #557 |
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Faiz is about Delta's quest to retire from being awesome.
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11-05-2020, 05:44 PM | #558 |
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Wow, uh, I think I'm legitimately upset that this is in Hibiki? Yonemura isn't exactly a writer I have it out for or anything (if you thought the 999/1000th episode two-parter from OOO was funny, that was him too), but just... oh man. This moment reeks of a writer who couldn't quite fully understand the show he was making a script for.
Takatera made this show in part as a sort of reaction to the trend Kamen Rider had fallen into of being about attractive young men in a battle royale – a trend he was not particularly fond of. This is pretty evident by how Hibiki pulls things in such an opposite direction. There's no infighting among the Oni during the first stretch of the show, and the Oni themselves are a bit older and a lot more mature and composed than Riders had been the previous few years. Heck, even to the retool's credit, they didn't immediately start forcing wedges in-between the main Riders or anything. So to throw this moment in there like this... I mean, I'm sure the basis was that Zanki is the gruff, cool old guy of the show who would "logically" be all about tough love, but it's reducing this show's cast to the behavior of those emotionally volatile younger characters from a show like Faiz, which is probably not a series that should be popping into your head while watching Hibiki. It's completely valid melodramatic writing (I adore Ryuki, Faiz, and Blade!), but it simply does not belong here. There's still a back half to this for him to redeem himself (you know, hypothetically), but right now it's looking like Yonemura's Hibiki is to Inoue's as Inoue's Kuuga is to Arakawa's. And Inoue's Hibiki is already arguably an inferior copy of other writers' work! Great, the characterization in this episode is so wildly off-base, it's affecting Die's ability to remember his own catchphrases. Oh no! "Faiz" is a really funny way to spell Wizard.
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11-05-2020, 05:51 PM | #559 |
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("Oh no!" is only when it's a spoiler. Production team credits aren't really something I consider a spoiler!)
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11-05-2020, 06:20 PM | #560 |
I have a problematic type
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Also, my thoughts about Akira's arc in real time as I was watching were kinda entirely cynical! I really didn't like even the possibility of her breaking away from the Oni path being brought up, because I spending all my time feeling dread at how that was how it was going to end. Or possibly with her dying, if Shuki was meant to be a very-on-the-nose foreshadowing. I think it was when I was around episode 38, I got so impatient and antsy about it that I just looked up online what happens later in the show ahead of time so I could get either my relief or disappointment out of the way. (I also did this when I wanted to know ahead of time when did Wizard's all-dragon form shows up and spoiled to myself like five episodes in advance that it would Phoenix's last appearance on the show and he'd get kicked to the sun. Hey, you think he's still up there?)
Not that you can't write a compelling story with all that, but it didn't sit right with me how the new staff looked at the one and only female character who is physically involved in the fighting, and decided what they wanted to write is to question whether she should even be there and raise the possibility of her quitting altogether. Yeah, maybe that's a really uncharitable reading on my part, but I was getting reminded of Poppy and Nico. Sure, there might 'story' justifications for these characters to get side-lined in all the action compared to the guys, but it's still not a good look! |
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