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08-04-2020, 01:43 PM | #421 |
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Today's lesson is a fascinating look into Dadi's dietary habits, as it turns out he's extremely fond of Kotarou's terrible pasta. Or at least, Hirose and Kenzaki insist it's bad. Maybe it's fine and Tachibana is just the only one there who isn't a picky eater. And maybe this line, kore kutte mo ii ka na?, once again fails to meet the usual criteria of being slurred and difficult to understand, but that's just the magic of Tachibana. If he says something and it's endearingly funny, then it's Ondul. End of story.
I was dating this girl, and we went over to her parents' house one night for dinner. It was the first time I'd eaten with them, and they ate like Tachibana. My girlfriend, too, who'd never eaten like that at other times. Like, when we'd get dinner, just us, she'd eat at a normal speed. With her family, it was just No Brakes On A War Machine, shovelling food in as fast possible. Afterwards, I asked her what the deal was. She said that, growing up with two siblings, you had to eat quick if you wanted additional helpings. Otherwise, you eat slow, there are no extras. Even as an adult, she was eating quickly because eating at that dinner table conditioned her to eat fast. I'm saying, Tachibana maybe had an upbringing that made him a weird dinner guest. That's my theory. Quote:
I think this is a solid assessment of Mutsuki's state of mind at this point. Which, you know, teenager who found something Really Cool and has suddenly discovered that maybe it's not all amazing. He thought he'd been Cursed With Awesome and is instead discovering maybe he's been Blessed With Suck, and his epiphany tracks with that very much.
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Some people I've got to really dwell on where I've seen them before (Kanzaki, for instance), but Ozawa! Such a distinctive face! She's so great!
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08-04-2020, 01:57 PM | #422 |
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08-04-2020, 05:19 PM | #423 |
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I'm not seeing any specifics to respond to, though? I guess he talked about "taboo" things in his stories, and people got upset? Without knowing who got upset, and for what reasons, I'm not sure how to respond. I mean, it's art? People have a lot of different reactions?
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Yeah, but, conversely, having characters always be blameless in their predicament is boring storytelling? Say what you will about Tachibana's effectiveness as a hero (very limited!), but his ridiculous amount of flaws made him one of the most compelling characters on the show, if not the most compelling. And, honestly, the more a story is Good People Have Bad Shit Happen To Them For No Reason, that shit irks me. I want to see character growth. I want to see flawed characters get better. That can't happen if they don't get to be flawed.
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Ah, the But Why Heroism episode. A staple of the franchise, and the place where a creator can really put a stamp on what their Kamen Rider series is saying about heroic fiction. We get to see Mutsuki evolve from a callow teen into Kamen Rider Leangle, and… am I supposed to feel as nervous about this as I do?
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For Kotaro, it’s just that he’s still moping after being dumped/nearly killed by Meet-Cute. (More the former than the latter, judging by his mood.) There’s not much to it, but it does become the focus of a really fun Team Blade dinner, where everyone’s being totally weird. Hirose declares that Kotaro’s only redeeming quality is his cooking. Tachibana eats like a man who’s being timed. Kotaro drinks tea instead of milk, which, CODE RED. It’s a neat little domestic scene, which I’m a fan of.
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Hajime’s story is so unbelievably open-ended that I almost don’t feel like talking about it (he’s got a new job assisting Amane’s Dad’s old assistant, Meet-Cute wants him to join her in murdering humans, new Undead mystery man Business Bird says he made a promise with Chalice 10,000 years ago), but I will anyway because OZAWA.
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08-04-2020, 07:08 PM | #424 |
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Could be! I mean, Tachibana is a guy with a lot of ~interesting~ habits. It would not surprise me to find out he was actually so overly excited about that meal, he also watched Kotarou cooking the noodles from halfway behind a corner the entire time.
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08-04-2020, 09:03 PM | #425 |
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In TV shows, Inoue's better part shines there, as he's restrained; he's on a leash and not left to his own devices, albeit still controversial with his edgelord tendencies. But there's remake/adaptations on Rider series in other form of media such as novel, which I don't know if you follow, talking about that will spoil. There, Inoue is free, and his infamy really shines there, the edgy stuff is off thee charts, with him outright crossing the disturbing, taboo, inappropriate, offensive, etc. stuffs, being normalized. Like I said, was more refering to Inoue as person. Those aren't seen much on the TV shows (at least for now).
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Kamioka is also actually a friend of Kurihara family, so she would contact them. And this is the showing of Amane being jealous, proof that she goes to in-love and clingy territory. Also with "superhumanly competent", did she just get smacked by Miyuki here and being locked in a room by Hajime to keep her safe?
As for Photozawa being superhumanly competent, she got heaved across a park, and she still tried to get a photo of the monster fight. There's no quit in that lady! Yeah, alternately it's Tachibana, and why should any single thing he does be normal or predictable. I suppose Team Blade felt lucky that he ate the food, rather than eating the dishes or just sobbing uncontrollably. This was the most appropriate Tachibana has ever acted around them!
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08-04-2020, 11:05 PM | #426 |
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KAMEN RIDER BLADE EPISODE 23
This time on Kamen Rider Blade: Tachibana shares his love of card-collecting with Mutsuki! Kenzaki shares his love protecting humans with Hajime! And Hirose and Kotaro share their love of basically getting a week off of working on this show! I don't really talk back to shows I'm watching, but there's a thing from this episode that brought it out of me. Business Bird kidnaps Photozawa to draw out Hajime. Blade and Chalice end up fighting Business Bird to a draw, who escapes. Photozawa yells at Hajime, who rides off. Kenzaki makes an appeal with Photozawa for understanding, and he rides off, too. Leaving Photozawa on a goddamn cliff with no way to get back to town. Like, stranded. Minutes later, Business Bird pops out to restart the fight. It relocates, coincidentally, back to the same cliff where Photozawa was left behind. Chalice, regaining his Category Ace, protects her from a Business Bird attack. He tells her that it's dangerous, and she should leave. Which made me shout at the show SHE'S ONLY THERE BECAUSE YOU DICKHEADS LEFT HER THERE! (I know that the show left her there because she'd need to be there for the second half of the fight, but it's weird that Kenzaki left her there without even a throwaway line of "I'll call Hirose to come get you" or something. He just leaves her there! Not great writing!) It's maybe the thing I'll remember most from this episode (other than that screencap up top), because this one was... y'know, fine! An okay episode. It felt a little too much in Raising Questions mode, and that's not a blast for me. We're starting to dig into Chalice's situation, the specifics of his weird cards and powers, but it's mostly just the episode explicitly stating Yes His Cards Are Weird. There are weird things about how he can Henshin into different cards' forms, and it is weird that he uses a Spirit card to turn into Hajime. There's no real new information given, just making sure that Kenzaki is aware of all of it. It's a lot of This Will Be Important Later, and... yeah, just not that fun as an episode? The stuff with him and Amane's Dad, I feel like we already knew all of that? This episode puts it all together in a straight line, but we'd already known that Hajime found the dad, the dad gave him the picture, he felt confused about why someone would value others more than themself, and he went to try and learn why that would be. Like, there's a more deliberate step-by-step process to it all here, but it's not really giving us new shading on it. The one big positive to Hajime's story this time out is how he and Kenzaki deal with protecting people. Hajime doesn't know how to process the idea of caring about people. He wants to protect Haruka and Amane, but he's more comfortable doing it without an explanation than really interrogating what he wants to get out of it, how it makes him feel. Like, he doesn't appreciate anyone questioning him, even himself. So he's capable of living with the contradiction of caring about those two, putting himself at risk for them, while still claiming to care about no one but himself. He can hold those two contradictory ideas in his brain by just refusing to think about them at the same time. So Kenzaki has to get through to a man this stubborn, this obstinate, this Chalice. He's got to find a way to show him that what he doesn't understand about humanity, he's already surrounded by it. And he does it the same way Amane did, by telling Hajime that he believes he's a good person because he wants to believe he's a good person. He's going to help him because he needs help. It's a typically grounded Kenzaki moral, more concerned with the immediate effect than a deeper philosophy. Kenzaki thinks Hajime is a good guy, and Hajime's in trouble, so he's going to help him. And that weirdly gets through to Hajime, who's maybe been overthinking all this? It feels like we've spent episodes of watching Hajime push back on his kindness, his worry for others, his desire for compassion. In this, it feels less like someone telling him something he didn't know, and more like him finally being honest with himself. We'll see if it lasts! But that's only half the episode, with the other half being a Mutsuki/Tachibana thing that... I don't know, it didn't really do it for me. Some of it is Tachibana going into the specifics on the cards that, as much as I love Androzani84 laying it all out on the boards, is not what I want Blade The TV Show to focus on. The minutiae of the magic monster cards that give superpowers to heroic mans... y'know, maybe better left to the imagination? Not that dramatically compelling to me. The rest of their story is already evaporating from my brain. (In fairness, I probably started watching and writing this way too late to dig deep into a fairly basic episode. Please don't take my snark as a heavy criticism! I'm just punchy from tiredness!) Meet-Cute's ruse to swipe cards from Mutsuki is laughably simple, and does not say great things about Mutsuki's ability to retain his secret identity around a cute girl. It's not a particularly deep storyline, and I was honestly hoping for more from when we teased with Meet-Cute stalking Mutsuki. The argument that follows her exit, where Mutsuki thinks he knows more than Tachibana, it's both totally in keeping with Mutsuki's arc (he is absolutely going to take his minor success and turn it into terrifying overconfidence) and also a little rushed. Or, I don't know, not rushed maybe, but... too much of an escalation? It felt like an overreaction, even for where Mutsuki's head is at right now. I didn't buy into it that much. It felt less character-based, more plot-driven. It maybe needed a little more space between I Want Tachibana To Be Proud Of Me and Screw You Dad(i). They're too close together in this episode for my tastes. Yeah, I don't know if it was the episode, or me approaching it not in the right mindset, but it was basically okay? A couple things that didn't work great for me, but otherwise a basic enough Kamen Rider episode. Not one I'll remember, maybe, but not one I'm disappointed I watched. Still had Photozawa, still had that dog up top. Next time on Kamen Rider Blade: Motorcycle races! Undead Hunters! And maybe, if we've all been very good, something for Hirose and/or Kotaro to do!
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08-05-2020, 01:32 AM | #427 |
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It felt a little too much in Raising Questions mode, and that’s not a blast for me. We’re starting to dig into Chalice’s situation, the specifics of his weird cards and powers, but it’s mostly just the episode explicitly stating Yes His Cards Are Weird. There are weird things about how he can Henshin into different cards’ forms, and it is weird that he uses a Spirit card to turn into Hajime. There’s no real new information given, just making sure that Kenzaki is aware of all of it. It’s a lot of This Will Be Important Later, and… yeah, just not that fun as an episode?
Don't think that you've seen the last of Mutsuki's new "gotta catch 'em all" approach to Undead cards, either. No way he's going to settle for a deck with no Blue Eyes Shiny Charizard. |
08-05-2020, 03:06 AM | #428 |
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Today’s episode marks (as far as I know. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong) the end of the Ondul saga. And strangely enough, it’s not a line in the episode, but more something from a song that debuts here.
There is a running joke among Japanese fans where he*is associated with a type of food known as*Kara Miso (辛味噌), due to the last line of his insert song, Rebirth, has the chorus (Gotta be strong) sounding similar to the name of said food. https://youtu.be/qdPJd8DBWrQ If I’m honest, I see where they’re coming from with this one, since I misheard the lyric as “kagami soul”, which makes even less sense. Still, the song is my personal favourite from Blade’s soundtrack. |
08-05-2020, 04:11 AM | #429 |
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Learning Ondul the Easy WEEEEEEI! (#13) Yeah, no screenshot for this one, because we're talking music lyrics in today's lesson. The show's second insert theme, Rebirth (normally stylized in all lowercase letters, but come on), debuts in episode 23, and yet another legendary meme was born as a result. The interesting thing about the song is that it's actually sung in-character by Tachibana's actor, Kousei Amano, making it the first instance of an insert theme doubling as an image song, something that would become more and more common in Kamen Rider from this point on. The really interesting thing about it is that the last two lines of the chorus, a repeated English "got to be strong!" is basically impossible not to hear as "kara miso!" instead, making this the second instance of a Blade meme revolving around Dadi's bizarre enthusiasm for food. What relevance spicy seasoning has to a song otherwise about Tachibana bouncing back from Sayoko's death is unclear, but one thing's for sure: you'll never convince Blade fans he's singing about anything else there.
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Well now I can never listen to that song seriously anymore.
If you want to be technical, he's not any less Chalice than Kenzaki is Blade, etc! All the riders rely on the power of Undead to assume a more powerful form, even if Hajime goes about it in a different way. |
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