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05-05-2020, 06:25 AM | #21 |
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05-05-2020, 07:17 AM | #22 |
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05-05-2020, 08:12 AM | #23 |
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So I take it that means Fuwa has lost access to Assault Wolf now.
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05-05-2020, 11:24 AM | #24 |
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As a fan of the suit, I'm happy to see Shining Hopper back.
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05-05-2020, 08:51 PM | #25 |
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Okay, so I have absolutely no clue what's going on with Yua right now. I get the impression from the knocking Fuwa out gags we're supposed to be like, rooting for newfound agency or something, but all this episode did was make her look like even more of a jerk. The first f***ing thing she did after getting her independence back was cooperate with known terrorists! Aruto's jokes aren't this bad! I understand her desire to "make up" for using Fuwa, but the way she goes about it makes her look an awful lot like she's still just using Fuwa. She needs to atone, so the fact that Fuwa says he's completely cool with where he is in life right now? The fact that trying to dangle his memories in front of his face like a dog treat did absolutely nothing? Whatever, he doesn't know what he needs the way Yua does! Just kidnap him and strap him to some incredibly painful device so you can play around with the chip in his brain at the behest of someone who is DEFINITELY going to use the end result for something bad!
There's a lot ambiguous in this right now, like what exactly Jin told Yua to get her to agree, so I don't doubt she'll end up looking at least slightly better in the long-run, and like, obviously Fuwa's chip IS a problem that needed dealing with, but, especially with the decision to play some of those moments for comedy, I just don't really like the feeling that entire plot thread gave me here. That's about it for complaints though! Horobi is the best antagonist this show has, even if the Ark wills him to do nothing for long stretches, and the way his personal ideology clashes with Aruto's is WAY more interesting than Gai's. They go great onscreen together, and it's great having him back in the picture, especially when Takaiwa always makes him look so cool in-suit. On which note, the direction here was pretty good, per usual. Not really sure why Aruto would ever use Shining Hopper again with that extra Assault Grip lying around, though. Like, it's cool to see, but these sorts of low-effort appearances by old forms are almost as bad as never seeing them again. Rising Hopper is an exception because it's the base form, and I feel those need justification to not appear, but with older upgrades and form changes and whatnot, it's not just about seeing them. I want to see them showing off their unique abilities in ways where it's obvious why the hero would still want to use them over even their newest toy. Shining Hopper literally can't do that, because there's a version of it that does all the same things, but better (the Shine System could've fried those mooks a lot quicker!), which is why I hated that they ever introduced that second Assault Grip. I know I'm sort of reading into the action too much, but I don't know. This stuff never sits right with me lately. Oh wait, I was trying not to complain, dang it. Uh, on a much more positive note, the Horobi/Metal Cluster Hopper fight was super cool, and had very clear, well-defined stakes... except for how the fight ends with the two characters just standing around untransformed, basically in the same position they started in. Like, that buildup with Midori being destroyed gives the impression Aruto is planning to end Horobi's plans permanently, but the resolution gives the impression that if Izu hadn't interrupted, it just would've been the same "I hope you learned your lesson this time", walking-off-with-a-bruised-ego routine that's happened a million times with Gai. Is this literally just because we need to have the Riders using finishing moves? Because that's what the monsters the show keeps refusing to use are for. Okay, I'm sorry, I keep screwing up trying to be positive about this show. Like, I swear I was planning to talk about how interested I am in Horobi and Jin right now, or how neat I find just the simple scenes of Aruto exploring whatever business field of the week, but it's like every time I go to write down my thoughts about an episode of Zero-One, I realize a million things I didn't like as I'm in the process, and that ends up being what I want to talk about more. The show has been consistently better lately, for sure, but it's also still lacking a little in cohesion, in my opinion, with a jumble of competing subplots that don't always play off each other that well. I think this is probably why Fuwa feels like the main protagonist to so many people right now. Because his development hasn't been reflecting back on to Aruto in any way whatsoever. It's just off in his own world, that intersects frequently with Yua, and occasionally with MetsubouJinrai. Depending on how it plays out, I might have similar things to say about ZAIA vs. MetsubouJinrai next episode.
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