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01-27-2020, 08:23 PM | #131 |
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Can I just take a minute to state how much I love the G3-X suit? Almost a decade of watching the show later and it's still one of my all-time favorites. I have a Figuarts collection that only exists because I wanted a figure of this suit.
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01-27-2020, 10:08 PM | #132 |
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It is a great suit, and makes for a great Figuarts as well. Actually everyone from Agito made for some great figures.
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01-27-2020, 11:21 PM | #133 |
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Anywho, G3-X! It's a fun suit. I'm more a fan of streamlined suits, generally. I don't love the idea of a suit that looks like someone put it on, you know? I like designs where it feels like it can't be the same person who just henshined. So, it's because of all that that I like G3/G3-X, not in spite of it. I like how it's bulky instead of slim, how it's robotic instead of superpowered, how it looks like a goddamn chore to wear, instead of being a liberation from the weight of humanity. It's doing all the things I don't like, to remind me of why I like the things I like.
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01-30-2020, 06:02 PM | #134 |
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MASKED RIDER AGITO EPISODES 26 - 27
Ugh. Ugghh. Ugggggggghhhhh. Let me talk about three things I enjoyed from this story. First, there's a moment in the opening scene where, after throwing a tantrum when he's told that Hikawa will be operating G3-X, Houjou leaves a meeting in a huff. As he's leaving, he kicks the wheel on Ozawa's chair. That is amazing. It's so childish, so petulant, so hilarious, so perfect. It's far and away the best thing in this story, and it happens about a minute in. Second, after Shouichi splits to investigate the true Tsugami ("Truegami”), Mana and family are sitting around eating breakfast when the phone rings. At each ring, Uncle looks to a kid, waiting for them to go answer the phone. At the third ring, when they just sit there eating breakfast, he resigns himself to getting the phone. It's a small bit of business, but it makes them feel like a real family. That comedically frustrated look on Uncle's face, the No, Fine, I've Got It, You Keep Eating Breakfast passive-aggressiveness of it all, I thought it was great storytelling. Third, Agito's new Combo Form is a nice visual representation of his healed psyche, of a complete person. I don't know that I love the This Plus This basicness of its aesthetics, but it was a thing that helped lift some of the story. The rest of this thing, though, jesus. Such a slog. A pretty epic miscalculation on a lot of levels. The biggest problem for me was that the camerawork was atrocious. I don't know why the film crew decided to spend two episodes using 47 ferrets as a camera stand, but it did not make for good television. I still have a headache from trying to watch this jumbled, jittery mess. A scene of two characters talking while sitting on a couch does not need to have the camera shaking like it's on a paint mixer! I get that the director wanted to instill a sense of tension, but this mess was practically unwatchable. It made me sick. They keep shooting them like this, I'll genuinely have to quit watching Agito. The overbearing use of filters and gels certainly didn't help things. I have no idea why someone, anyone in the production thought that each of the three threads needed a monochromatic color palette. It makes no sense and adds nothing to the storytelling. It's just, green for Shouichi and Truegami, blue for Ryou and the mutants, red for the occasional flashback/climactic moment. These are not threads that needed a heavy-handed color palette to help differentiate them! It's literally the same types of threads we've had the last twenty-odd episodes. We have seen all of these characters before. Far from adding anything to the scenes, either narratively or thematically, it only detracts. Every scene is doused in one color, flattening out anything happening with lighting, with set design, with costuming, with anything. It makes an already nauseating set of visuals dull and boring. I wish I could go back in time and fire everyone who shot these episodes. Terrible, terrible ideas on a fundamental level. And the story... eh. I don't 100% get the ending yet, or at least I hope I don't. Gills seems pretty dead, despite showing up pushing his bike in the Next Episode teaser, so I've got no clue what happened there. But HOLY SHIT did Shouichi just forget all of his memories again?! After two episodes that served to fill in a couple minor blanks (Truegami and Mana's dad worked together on mutant powers, Shouichi had a sister who died under mysterious circumstances, Shouichi was on the Akatsuki-gou to visit Truegami and get answers), whatever character growth we might've gotten is now completely scrubbed?! Am I... Am I seeing that right?! Unbelievably mad at these episodes!
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01-30-2020, 07:10 PM | #135 |
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Yeah believe me I was mad at these episodes too. Though luckily I believe this is the only time the directers did the color filter and camera tricks so at the very least you won't be sick from watching it. Oh the new form Trinity that you just praised because Shouichi lost his memories again your never going to see that again for the rest of the show. Actually it took 13 years before that thing makes a reappearence in a crossover movie so yeah this wasn't Inoue best work.
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01-30-2020, 07:38 PM | #136 |
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Yeah believe me I was mad at these episodes too. Though luckily I believe this is the only time the directers did the color filter and camera tricks so at the very least you won't be sick from watching it. Oh the new form Trinity that you just praised because Shouichi lost his memories again your never going to see that again for the rest of the show. Actually it took 13 years before that thing makes a reappearence in a crossover movie so yeah this wasn't Inoue best work.
Thirteen years until Agito Trinity comes back? God, I must've seen it at some point, then. Which movie was it? I'd check the Wiki, but that'd undoubtedly ruin other stuff for me.
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01-30-2020, 07:53 PM | #137 |
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Agito Trinity made a really quick cameo in Heisei Vs Showa.(5 seconds in total Yes I counted) And I wouldn't blame you if you forgot.
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01-30-2020, 08:07 PM | #138 |
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I honestly have no memory of Trinity form even being a thing. Which shows you how important it is to the show.
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01-30-2020, 09:50 PM | #139 |
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01-30-2020, 09:54 PM | #140 |
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MASKED RIDER AGITO EPISODE 28
Oh my God, I needed this episode so bad. What a relief. I mean, I could actually watch it, so, like, huge plus. It's weirdly in a 4:3 aspect ratio, not counting letterboxed flashbacks, but it doesn't detract from the story. (Any amateur historians who want to explain why this one's 4:3 for a reason other than "so you can tell it's something that occurred earlier", I'm all ears.) It's shot cleanly, with an emphasis on clarity and light. The whole thing takes place in an afternoon, so it's got a great summer road trip feel, all clear skies and freedom. Just, visually, a very pleasant episode. And, story-wise, a real charmer. It's nicely built around not just Ryou's "life is pain, you can only survive it, it won't ever let up, but one day you'll die" attitude, but it also makes room for a quick Shouichi scene where he can reframe things as "life has pain in it, but it's not just pain, and that pain can even lead to something better one day." It's an episode that feels shaped around established character traits, something where we can see how characters like Ryou and Shouichi live their ethos, how they try to help people within their orbit. Which, maybe it's just me, I really like Kamen Rider stories where they try to help kids. It keeps the stakes personal and rarely too violent, grounding everything in emotional journeys that can have a full arc in one to two parts. (Kids are not that emotionally complex!) This one's a great example, where, despite his mom and dad being killed earlier by an Unknown (ALL DADS ARE DEAD), there's kind-of no body count. Agito fights the Unknown, and eventually Gills kills it (by MENTALLY SUMMONING HIS BIKE!!!), but it's not really a huge action story. It's got maybe three action beats, the two Rider fights and a chase sequence, and they're great, but the story's pretty much just this kid who's going through a tough time and Ryou trying to help him out. It's sweet, and it's maybe my favorite use of Ryou in a bit. This was really good! I'm glad I watched this one today, to wash that previous two-parter out of my mouth. It nailed all of the basics, telling a story rooted in character, while adding a new context to develop that character. We know what kind of man Ryou is, but seeing him have to protect a kid both physically and emotionally was a fresh way to experience his outlook. Too bad I guess he's still dead or something!
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