Gaim Episode 2: "Deadly! Pine Kick!" Discussion
 

Pre-Emptively voting Excellent.

Watched the raw and really enjoyed it. The scenes with Kota trying out henshin poses and attempting to find practical, everyday uses for the armor were fantastic. I've never seen that done in one of these shows before and it was great.

We got a lot of Baron in this one, too, and he looks like he's going to be an interesting character. He seems like he's probably a decent guy at the core, but he also comes off as really arrogant and abrasive. I suspect we'll be seeing him learn to be less of a douchebag as the series wears on, especially since it looks like he and Gaim are (for now, at least) the only two "Armored Riders" who aren't part of Yggdrasil (we see some snippets of Zangetsu this week - including a short bit of him in the suit.

If there was one thing that didn't work for me, though, it was the fight scene. The suits themselves have grown on me a lot, but some of the stuff they do with the fruit still just doesn't work for me. The Pineapple Arms' weapon and finisher, in particular, just look completely ridiculous. And not in a good way. I'm hoping I can get past this, because so far it's the one of the few parts of the show that isn't really working for me (the others are the dancing and the DJ sticking his face right the hell into the camera lens).

The RAW on youtube yet?

No clue, I just torrented it.

Dailymotion has the raw up.I loved this episode.I don't mind the finishers because over the years,there have been some crazy rider finishers.That and I think they'll slowly calm down to just kicks,slashes,or hits.

Baron's character is great.Typical tough guy but nice deep down inside and very honest. Used 3 lock seeds,but made sure to show the opponent,and hated when his teamates used the slingshot behind his back Also very hilarious to see Gaim trying different henshin poses,and being very public with the suit.

Just caught the raw from Over-Time.

Agreed with what Switchblade said - HILARIOUS opening bits, and the Pineapple finisher is odd. The pineapple Flail appears to grow to a cartoonish size, gets thrown onto the bad guy's head, stunning him, and then Gaim follows up with a Rider Kick that punches through him. Thats odd, and the setup is odd, since Gaim is effectively tethered to the bag guy.

-sigh- I wish Over-time would sub. My Aesir sub has crashed twice. =/

You do know that it's all the same people aside from the lead translator, right?

And I just watched the HD subs and had no technical issues.

Still a good episode with subs. Still liking Baron - or Kaito, I suppose. His "might makes right" and code of honor definitely fit the knight-styled Rider.

:lol my god the brilliance of transforming just to look cool. Using your powers for literally nothing other than thinking you look awesome. This is so the show I've been waiting for. Interested to see how often they use the term Armored Rider, it's always fun to see what alternatives for Kamen Rider they can come up with.

Looking forward to Baron next week. I need a J/Baron meeting to occur in something!

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