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05-07-2020, 09:34 PM | #1 |
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Hi. My name’s Kamen Rider Die, and this is a thread where I watch Kamen Rider Faiz for the first time and talk about it.
I usually try and keep a bit of space between one show and another, try to take decent-sized breaks. (Oh! I’ve done a few of these before, I forgot to mention that. I’ve got threads where I watch and talk about Ghost, the Ex-Aid movies, Build, Kuuga, Agito, and Ryuki. Check ‘em out if you’re interested!) A week or so of no Kamen Rider, decompress, live a little, whatever. But boy howdy is now a time where I 100% want to be losing myself in a great big TV show, so here we are watching Faiz already. (Also, hey, how are you all doing? I know this ain’t the How Is Everyone Today thread, but if anyone needs someone to talk to right now, aside from the Kamen Rider stuff, I’m happy to help. I want to protect your smiles, which is a thing I learned on a TV show I can’t remember the name of right now!) If you’ve never read one of these Kamen Rider Die Watches threads, uh, thanks for reading this one! I’ve only got a couple few guidelines, just to make this a smooth, fun experience for everyone. First, PLEASE DON’T TALK ABOUT ANY FAIZ EPISODES BEYOND THE ONES I’VE POSTED ABOUT. This is my first viewing of Faiz, and I’d like to experience it as cleanly as possible. Please, if you can, don’t spoil anything. Even little bits of teases about where the story’s going to go, little Oh If You Liked Character X Because They Did Thing Y, Wait Until Episode Z things, please don’t. Even those tiny morsels get my head expecting things, and that makes it less fun for me. Thanks in advance! Second, PLEASE DON’T TALK ABOUT SERIES I HAVEN’T WATCHED YET. If y’all could keep mum about Blade through Decade, and Zi-O up, I’d be super grateful. Third, I’LL PROBABLY TALK ABOUT SHOWS I’VE SEEN AND MAYBE SPOIL THEM. Sort-of a dick move, I know, but… I don’t know, no “but”, I guess. Just a dick move, and I’m sorry. I’ll try not to be egregious with it, but if I see a similarity to another Kamen Rider series, I’ll point it out. For those who are trying to stay unspoiled on certain series, the following are what I consider up for grabs: Kuuga, Agito, Ryuki, and Double through Build. Fourth, EXPECT A RAMBLING, DIGRESSIVE THREAD THAT’S LARGELY ABOUT HOW I FEEL WATCHING THESE EPISODES AT THE EXPENSE OF A TIGHT RECAP OR LEGIBLE SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION. This is not a Wiki substitute. I’m not going to necessarily touch on everything in an episode. I might forget to talk about new suits or powers. I’m more concerned with the emotional impact of stories than debating plot mechanics. I’m also writing these to have fun, and I’m pretty much just going to be talking about whatever’s fun for me to talk about. I’ll make jokes, I’ll make up names, I’ll generally screw around when it’s fun to do so. I take these shows seriously, but I’m not serious about them, if that makes any sense. If it doesn’t, hey, sneak preview of what this thread is going to read like! Finally, most importantly (actually that No Spoiler thing is most important, please don’t screw me on this people), I’M ONLY DOING THIS BECAUSE I LOVE GETTING TO TALK ABOUT KAMEN RIDER WITH OTHER FANS. This is all very much a discussion to me. I’m excited to hear the thoughts, memories, theories, emotions, rants and raves of Kamen Rider fans. This TokuNation community has been unbelievably generous to me, giving me a little corner to be exceptionally weird and occasionally insightful about Kamen Rider, but the biggest gift it's given me is the chance to hear from passionate, knowledgeable fans. Anything you folks have to say about Faiz (except spoilers, please please please), I want to hear it. I don’t even give a shit if it’s just to disagree with me. I love dissenting opinions as much as I do consensus. I just like talking about this stuff, you know? The more, the merrier. Okay, that’s all of the warnings and disclaimers out of the way. It’s time to watch Kamen Rider Faiz! I’ve got 555 problems and hopefully a Kamen Rider ain’t one! EPISODE 01 EPISODE 02 EPISODE 03 EPISODE 04 EPISODE 05 EPISODE 06 EPISODE 07 EPISODE 08 EPISODE 09 EPISODE 10 EPISODE 11 EPISODE 12 EPISODE 13 EPISODE 14 EPISODE 15 EPISODE 16 EPISODE 17 EPISODE 18 EPISODE 19 EPISODE 20 EPISODE 21 EPISODE 22 EPISODE 23 EPISODE 24 EPISODE 25 EPISODE 26 EPISODE 27 EPISODE 28 EPISODE 29 EPISODE 30 EPISODE 31 HYPER BATTLE VIDEO EPISODE 32 EPISODE 33 EPISODE 34 EPISODE 35 EPISODE 36 EPISODE 37 EPISODE 38 EPISODE 39 EPISODE 40 EPISODE 41 EPISODE 42 EPISODE 43 EPISODE 44 EPISODE 45 EPISODE 46 EPISODE 47 EPISODE 48 EPISODE 49 EPISODE 50 SERIES OVERVIEW MOVIE: PARADISE LOST
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05-07-2020, 09:45 PM | #2 |
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KAMEN RIDER 555 EPISODE 01
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05-07-2020, 10:19 PM | #3 |
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Two things: 1. faiz is a show you will likely be fustrated by and confused by; but will enjoy the suit designs immensely. 2. I hope this thread gets a "recap" version where its just the episode posts as I kinda lost track of them in ryuki. WAY too many pages to dig through! Faiz has a lot of great design elements in its suits; but handed it to the washed out hack of inoue
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05-07-2020, 10:46 PM | #4 |
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Yeah Faiz speaking of thescene with Mari(the girl) and the Faiz himself the reason alot of the first and and you'll see alot in the show is shot in the afternoon and at night and that because the main actor Kento Handa was still in high school at the time so they had to wait till after school to start shooting everyday. This loosens up once the vacations start happening. Oh one more I know you like to watch the movies and specials as when they are made in production order but Faiz movie Paradise Lost has a HUGE spoiler for the show that at time was 1 month before it was revealed in the actual show. So keep that in mind when your going to watch that.
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05-07-2020, 10:56 PM | #5 |
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Two things: 1. faiz is a show you will likely be fustrated by and confused by; but will enjoy the suit designs immensely. 2. I hope this thread gets a "recap" version where its just the episode posts as I kinda lost track of them in ryuki. WAY too many pages to dig through! Faiz has a lot of great design elements in its suits; but handed it to the washed out hack of inoue
What do you mean by "recap"? If these are tough to navigate/comprehend, I can definitely try and address it. Also, man, I'm not that against Inoue these days. I don't know, that'll probably come back to bite me in the ass, but I thought this was a super solid first episode. Quote:
Yeah Faiz speaking of thescene with Mari(the girl) and the Faiz himself the reason alot of the first and and you'll see alot in the show is shot in the afternoon and at night and that because the main actor Kento Handa was still in high school at the time so they had to wait till after school to start shooting everyday. This loosens up once the vacations start happening. Oh one more I know you like to watch the movies and specials as when they are made in production order but Faiz movie Paradise Lost has a HUGE spoiler for the show that at time was 1 month before it was revealed in the actual show. So keep that in mind when your going to watch that.
Yeah, I think I've got the movie slotted for after episode 28. I guess I'm just going to have see how mad I'd've been if I was a Faiz fan from sixteen years ago!
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05-07-2020, 11:19 PM | #6 |
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Justifaiz or however you spell it miiiiight be my favourite Rider opening song ever? It's opening sequence is pretty great too. I just wanna put it out there because it came blasting back to me as I read your post.
Hope you enjoy Faiz! I also selfishly hope Fish Sandwich will be around to clear up any oddities the subs might bring because I remember them being plain not-competent in quite a few places. Open your eyes for the next- I'm sorry, that line is permanently etched into my mind and I feel compelled to say it whenever I reach the end of Faiz-related thoughts. |
05-07-2020, 11:24 PM | #7 |
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Justifaiz or however you spell it miiiiight be my favourite Rider opening song ever? It's opening sequence is pretty great too. I just wanna put it out there because it came blasting back to me as I read your post.
Hope you enjoy Faiz! I also selfishly hope Fish Sandwich will be around to clear up any oddities the subs might bring because I remember them being plain not-competent in quite a few places. Open your eyes for the next- I'm sorry, that line is permanently etched into my mind and I feel compelled to say it whenever I reach the end of Faiz-related thoughts. The subs on at least the first episode (I've got the TV-Nihon ones) seemed decent? I can't ever speak to accuracy, but they seemed to have a good flow to them. The things people were saying to each other seemed like things people would normally say to each other, which a) is not a given in a Kamen Rider sub, and b) is not a given in an Inoue episode, so I'm calling this one a tentative success.
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05-07-2020, 11:36 PM | #8 |
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Not even the theme song?! The premiere was more avant-garde than I remembered. Also I totally get not wanting to watch the previews. If anything, I might be the weird one because some of my fondest memories of watching tokusatsu was how excited I got over certain previews.
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05-07-2020, 11:41 PM | #9 |
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Not even the theme song?! The premiere was more avant-garde than I remembered. Also I totally get not wanting to watch the previews. If anything, I might be the weird one because some of my fondest memories of watching tokusatsu was how excited I got over certain previews.
It's going to be super weird to eventually be watching these shows brand-new, week to week. Now it's all No Spoilers, in a couple years it's going to be front page articles showing off upcoming suits, upcoming cast members, whatever. It's going to be an adjustment!
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05-07-2020, 11:44 PM | #10 |
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Whoohoo, super glad your first impression was great, this first ep is very much an either-you-love-it-or-you-hate-it thing as I discovered. While I finished this series relatively recently, I actually watched the first episode as a teen and my thought process at that time was basically “sweet, our main rider seems very likable, Shinji-esque, dude… uh he some sort of undead I guess…. that’s also interesting suit design, but maybe it’s just alternate form… uh we murder people now… okay, I guess he’s not the guy.” It hit me way harder upon rewatch, for some reason. That has to be the most depressing first Kamen Rider episode, right. Not just in terms of what happened, but also the way they’re framing it—although I haven’t seen Amazons, is it the similar brand of ‘dark’? I personally loved it; it established a certain mood, an undercurrent of sorrow and longing that’s really the furthest thing I’d normally seek from a toku show, but somehow appealed to me. And yeah, I also liked Mari immediately, just something very endearing and authentic with her ‘no-time-for-the-stupids’ vibe and overall demeanor as you noted. In general, they really did a good job in making the core characters likable and worth the emotional investment, at least to me. About the sub, IIRC Fish Sandwich pointed out several lines that may seem okay at first glance, but either actually meant something rather different or over-simplified what the characters actually wanted to convey. But yeah, I hope he chimes in here too from time to time, I was looking for that explanation but couldn't remember where I saw it (it kinda makes me wish the forum has show-specific threads). Quote:
(Also, hey, how are you all doing? I know this ain’t the How Is Everyone Today thread, but if anyone needs someone to talk to right now, aside from the Kamen Rider stuff, I’m happy to help. I want to protect your smiles, which is a thing I learned on a TV show I can’t remember the name of right now!)
On a brighter note, viewing-wise I'm about to wrap up Blade and Hibiki this weekend, then move on to some Netflix shows and a Ryuki re-watch, which I'm very much looking forward to after the recent discussion! |
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