There's more to Daguva than that, but you are getting close to some of the big reveals.

Shame I'm consuming the series so slowly lately because I'm coupling it with SPD and looking for jobs but at least it keeps me hooked, can't wait to see what happens next!

Kiva 34 and 35:

Taiga doesn't actually seem to despise humans, which is weird. I mean, I guess you could just say that being King is his job, but seeing as that job consists of making sure humanity doesn't progress, you'd think there'd be a little more animosity.

Speaking of animosity, Kengo's seems to want to go full douchebag wearing by wearing army pants and greasing up his hair like a tool. His random beating up of Nago in 34 was almost funny...But him doing the same thing the next one when Nago was injured? Yeah, not cool...

Surprisingly, to me, I actually caught the accent change form the Kansai one to the...other one? Normally, I can't tell the difference, but when they pointed it out, I went back and checked. And yeah! He actually did sound a bit different. And now he has IXA...great.

Man, so everyone form the past plot's lives are fucked up in the future. Well...not Shima and coffee shop owner guy. They're exactly the same. But, Yuri and Otoya are dead. Maya...has lost an eye and lives in a cave?! Felt real bad for her at the end there too. And the arms monsters are stuck forever in a giant castl-No, wait. They can leave any time.

Someday, I'm going to learn to play violin really good, so I can turn into a robot phoenix-dragon too.

Episode 39 of Kuuga was an...okay episode. I don't really know why they bothered to add two UL attacking at the same time as they completely rushed the fight between Acid and Kuuga, even after all the build up. Even for Kuuga that was disappointing.

Thankfully the fight with Number 3 was slightly better mainly because Number 3 is no longer taking any of your shit and the introduction of Daguva was clearly inspired by Evil Dead, one of my all time favourite horror films. They kept Super Number Three around long enough to establish just how powerful he is, before killing him off to show just how powerful what comes next is. Awesome.

And wow so Ichijou is legit gay? I love how when you think back it's all so obvious and even when they do the reveal, they do it subtly and move on. Being gay doesn't define Ichijou and it shouldn't.

I'm just impressed a fifteen year old Japanese kids TV show can write better gay characters than all those modern shows that want to be 'hip and progressive'. This show certainly just earned a lot more points in my book and I was completely enamoured with Ichijou's character already.

He and Midnighter are the only two gay characters I know done perfectly, sadly Midnighter is slightly ahead for taking vengeance for his boyfriend by raping a man with a jackhammer.

Finishing Ryuki episode 3, Im treated to another installement of "irrational idiots caught on film" with this little gem:

"My brother created the rider decks. If my brother told you to defeat the other riders, maybe he's the one making monsters attack people."

"Or maybe he created the decks to protect people from the monsters?"

"You have no proof of that."

NEITHER DO YOU YOU DUMB IDIOT. You pull nonsense out of your ass and accuse your own brother based on vague details from someone who barely met him, and when they present you with a completely understandable and logical idea given the circumstances, and you call them out for "lack of proof."

Awefully Wizard in here...

I don't remember that happening in Kamen Rider Kiva…

:lol my fucking bad! I read the post above mine first and just...I'm an idiot, this is Ice Wipe all over again.

Ice Wipe was my favourite villain from Kiva.

Oh God I am never living this down :lol

Bwahaha...Yeah, sorry about that.

Lol not your fault man, I'm just an idiot who needs to pay more attention. :lol

I dunno, what do you think?

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c5...ps2d532843.png

Haha omg did you draw that?!

That is amazing!

Kiva 36

Wow...I was wondering if people were over-exaggerating when they said Kengo becomes more of a turd than Nago ever was, but man...At least Nago's attitude could be excused by being and over-serious moron, Kengo is just acting like a tool now. I know his dreams to play guitar are crushed and all now, but uh...he shouldn't be a complete tool about it!

Taiga's really slow isn't he. Wateru already admitted he liked Mio. Maybe...just maybe...when Mio said she liked someone else, she meant Wateru?

I'm really sort of baffled that Wateru doesn't who know any of the monsters he getsa his power-ups from are. I mean...well, it makes sense. But still...

Dunno if I've mentioend this before, but Bishop is kind of awesome. He jsut walked up to Wateru and was like: "Excuse me, can you please explain why you're Kiva? No? Well, then...*sits up to politely dust himself off before proceeding to beat the shit out of Wateru*

Also, the past King appears. Walking down the same hallway Wateru does in the opening...Huh.

Yeah...Kengo is...hm.

Oh god :lolol

Kiva 37

In which it's Taiga's turn to become a turd! Though Kengo's still got the monopoly on complete douchery. And he hasn't even used IXA yet. Speaking of IXA, I'm surprised Yuri got to use it again, even of ot was for five seconds.

The scene with Nago in this episode is probably the best Nago scene. He is cooler now that he's a complete doofus. I guess it's to counteract Kengo's all-consuming awfulness.

It was weird to see the three monsters fighting Wateru briefly, but uh...whatever. It was cool while it lasted. Speaking of weird though...ugh. That Zanbat Sword? Yeah, Wateru, I'm going to have to ask you to not swing that shit around in public. In fact, it's best if you just stop using that period...

But, whoo! Things are getting really interesting now, since Mio, Wateru, and Taiga all know eachother's identities!

That reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFR3n_NI5Ic

.......Wow, haha.

Raunchiest Spongebob moment ever?

Kiva 38 and 39

I'm not sure how you get a henshin to make you look liek even more of a piece of shit, but Kengo managed it. Also, Nago's probably just upgraded himself from my least favorite to my top three Kiva characters for his stupid antics.

And now Wateru knows he and Taiga are brothers...Though, I don't know why he's that surprised he's half-fangire. I mean...I suppose he just didn't notice the stain glass veins that appeared on him whenever he henshined.

I suppose Bishop had nothing better to do in the past other than make foreshadowy threats and play the organ menacingly. Oh and evil Kiva finally appeared. He's pretty cool. Though I like how his special move seems to just be the, "Stay the fuck down" kick.

A lot of the second episode seemed liek a noir movie. Probably due to the nighttime scenes and the jazz trumpet. But man, Mio...happily asking Wateru to kill Taiga when he JUST found out they were brothers? You've seemed to have snapped.

And speaking of snapped Shima seems to have joined the shithead brigade. I though he was being a cool dude at first when he said he wanted to help Wateru bring humans and Fangires together. But...it seems Taiga beat him up in the past so he hates all Fangires with a passion now? I dunno.

Kengo eagerly agreeing to kill Wateru, though? Really...Eh, I've spoken enough of how shitty this guy is. Though with each episode I wonder if he could go one step beyond and into a new threshold of turdery.

Yeah, I honestly didn't get why Wataru was so surprised either.

I'm kind of surprised that I'm the only one here who liked Kiva's Kengo to a degree. :lol

I liked him before he became a jerk.

So wait is the Kuuga twist a full on 'just as planned' kind of Aizen crap? Godai was meant to fail these people and become more and more world weary so he can take the form of the greatest villain? There is nothing wrong with this twist but the construction feels a tad (see: extremely) contrived. Then again I won't complain about Godai losing his shit again, watching him pound Porcupine into the floor is one of my all time favourite moments in the series.

Plus I dunno...something just feels off. When you watch shows in chunks it's hard to comment on pacing because you aren't limited by the weekly wait but that said the fact that a quarter of the episode was taken up by that drama girl this late in the game seems kinda stupid. Especially since I don't even know dramas name or purpose as she just randomly turned up half way through the show and has done nothing since except gush over Godai which is kinda useless in itself because EVERYONE gushes over Godai, then even made the main male side character gay to add someone else to the gushing pile. This is the final leg all focus should be on what actually matters.

I do however love the engrish on episode 40 because despite hearing exactly what they are saying in English, the subtitles said something else entirely...makes me wonder just how accurate MCS' translations really are.

Sometimes I wonder what goes through subbers heads. I never understood why half the shit is often left in Japanese.

That is why I'm not a big fan of TVN's subs, half their shit isn't actually translated. Maybe they should spend less time making fancy colours and more time translating their shit.

Sometimes there just isn't a legitimately comparable term in English to translate the word too. And rather than make up a new phrase or fudge what the character says some groups tend to leave it there, usually with a note as to why. I can't say I love the practice but I vastly prefer it to making something up to fill the translation gap.

The problem is that TVN relies on the viewer knowing Japanese for some things (Like greetings and goodbyes, thanking a server for food, or whatever doesn't have a direct English translation for the specific word or phrase).

Except that's an unacceptable practice. Approximations have to be made just because one language doesn't have a direct word-for-word translation for the other.
It ruins the point of a translation when you don't actually translate. It's not "Making up a new phrase", it's using the closest approximation of the original phrase's meaning.

I just think it makes so much more sense to insert a translation note rather than dialogue that isn't actually there for the truly impossible to translate and correspond terms. It doesn't ruin anything when you're trying to keep the point or meaning of the dialogue intact. It's like when OT tries to localize euphemisms so that we understand them. They come off even weirder than if you just left them as is like TVN does. And I'm not in this argument to take one group over the other right now, just trying to illustrate a point.

And while subs don't teach you another language or anything like that, I can't help but pick up a couple simple phrases over a period time. However I will say that it kills me to see words that have clear translations in place like "sayonara" "itadakimasu" or "aniki" left untranslated. And it irks me to see terms like "aniki" "tou-san" "ka-san" etc be substituted with the actual proper names of the characters. Just say brother, father, mother.

I'll still always take OT and their practice to try and translate everything best they can rather than TVN who go 'oh well there isn't a direct translation we'll just leave it then and add some cute animations to it instead'.

My primary argument isn't OT vs TVN. I'm just stating my thoughts on the matter. I feel that it's better to give the viewer an approximate translation, rather than leave the Japanese terms and present a one off translation note.

While it is inevitable to pick up basic terms like "Nii-san", it just feels like some subbers assume I know more than they think (This is more prevalent in anime subs, which leave an abundance of Japanese terms in), especially since translation notes aren't always present (For example, one anime gave me a translation note for "Aniki" right off the bat, but didn't for "Aibou", which I only learned later thanks to TVN's Kabuto sub (And subsequently forgot, meaning that, should a show leave "Aibou" untranslated, I'll be left shrugging and hoping context will help me remember :lol).

My bro.

Also, if they're worried about translating it into something that wouldn't make sense... why then leave it as something we cannot understand?

Also, why then do they do, well, what they did in Ryuki when that girl is talking about her "Onee-chan", which obviously means brother. I know this because when other people say "Onee-chan" they actually translate it as "brother." It's inconsistent and lazy.

Why are you such a Westboro Baptist, Locke?

:rolleyes

Yeah Locke, why can't you instantly pick up on Japanese words and meanings without any explanation or consistent context?

Kiva 40 and 41

Speaking of translation issues, the sub on Kiva is refusing to translate mother or brother anymore when they did so a few episodes prior. It doesn't bother me too much, but it's noticeable in the subs. Well, whatever...

I think douchery is like some sort of hate plague in Kiva. Kengo, being humbled, lost it and now the full strain has passed onto Shima. Thankfully, Nago has IXA back though.

Nice to see the three monsters (I've gotta think of a better name for them) all think of Otoya as their friend now and are willing to die for that. Or get turned into weapons, whatever. Even though, I know they'll be sorta alright (and suffer twenty years of boredom playing cards), it was still sad to see 'em get taken down by King.

I think Sagarc is like a UFO thing though. A snake themed one, seeing as Taiga just summoned a bunch of giant sagarc snake flying saucer things.

I think those 3 are called the Arms Monsters.

Are they? Alright, that works.

That is the irony!

"Oh if we try and translate this it might be inaccurate and make no sense...so we'll just leave in a word that has no meaning to the English speaking audience at all...I mean they could decipher the meaning from the translation even if isn't 100 percent accurate but fuck that cute animations yay!"

Yeah Locke, why can't you?

Episode 6 of Amazon, where our Rider has already started befriending banished monsters.

I love how Amazon's so badass he doesn't kill the monsters half the time, he just rips them to shreds and then sends them back to Gedon who finishes the job in a blind rage.