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https://66.media.tumblr.com/36b20504...90d4b6f70f.png https://66.media.tumblr.com/bfdb97df...ac49a30225.png https://66.media.tumblr.com/63ccd793...1b2afad4c5.png "It's not like I'm trying to befriend and help him...b-baka!". And now Tezuka got punched. If trying to humanize Ren is this risky, I can't imagine how will you fare for humanizing other worse Riders... And damn even violating personal space by again "stalking" Ren in the hospital to know that he fights for Eri. Quote:
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https://oi1301.photobucket.com/album...ps0beq9vay.png Meaning putting himself in a tug-of-war with Shibaura of Dragreder and risking tearing the card, which would lead to his death. And for bolded one even with Ren claiming Shibaura just to burn his card, he throws his sword to the card to (make Tezuka) retrieve the card. Now you really can't deny it Ren! You are a tsundere like Tezuka claims! For "superhero menaced by a child in an ill-fitting suit" though, both Shinji and Shibaura are in their human forms means Shinji isn't a superhero (and Gai in Rider form would mean he's a supervillain, on equal grounds with Ryuki), moreover we learned that a Rider will revert into Blank Form when they lose their contract card, where you know Blank Form is very weak and impotent. Quote:
Tezuka also unlike Shinji in ep. 6 to Scissors vs Knight, did try to break out Knight and Gai's fight, but dunno why I think it's hilarious he just doing like to separate unruly kids by telling them to stop and putting himself in middle of them, which would make it even worse for him that he got "double-teamed" by Knight and Gai to put himself out of their way. Get yourself a better equipment lol like using your weapon or Advent for a basically 2v1! And Knight again utilizes his weapons well (after using his rapier to free himself of Scissors' choke, realizing he has other weapon), he dual wields them here to eventually defeat Gai. Raia (at this time) must be stunned that his prediction this time went 180 degrees, with Knight defeating Gai and seemingly about to finish him. Tezuka is low-key Kiriya's expy of Ex-Aid, being the one to retrieve main Rider's power after being stolen (Dragreder card from Gai, Mighty Action X gashat from Snipe), being the most heroic Rider after main character (at least before Poppy comes for Ex-Aid), ultimately ending up on the same page as the hero after a misunderstanding at first. Can we also talk about poor Shinji who gets backhanded by Ren when he tried to stop the fight? Quote:
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Just a heads up; using photobucket isn't a great idea as they plaster the logo all over the images now. Nt sure if its just on my end or if its a universal thing. Also I keep getting confused, who is Quarter? I don't remember anyone by that name in ryuki
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...he's also Die's pet name for Raia, based on Tezuka's coin-based fortune telling. |
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Shinji's thing... he really doesn't want people to die. It doesn't matter if they're innocent people being menaced by monsters, or people who've framed him for kidnapping and also shot a million missiles in his face. I don't think his desire to stop unnecessary conflict reaches the same Defining Trait that Tezuka's does. Shinji doesn't want to fight other Riders, and he doesn't want other Riders to fight each other, but he's not, like, shadowing Ren every minute of the day to make sure he doesn't Final Vent a person. I guess I just find Shinji/Tezuka interactions not that memorable? I think it's cool to see them cooperate, but... the flavors are too similar. They're both different shades of Earnest Empathetic Heroes. I need contrasts, you know? Them two gotta be in different pairings for me. Quote:
The shoulder driver thing is very cool! I like how weird Ryuki gets with its role-play elements. This is a show that feels very toyetic to me, especially compared to the last couple. I gotta assume the merchandise sales were through the roof. |
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MASKED RIDER RYUKI EPISODE 17
Normally, we start things off with a screencap that's either relevant, or funny, or both. (Or neither! I don't want to assume!) They're up there, I don't really comment on them. But then there's this episode, and what it's about, and how it executes its story, and I just need to talk about this shot: https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/ryuki/ryuki17a.png Look at that. Look at it. In the aftermath of There Was No Way Ren Was Going To Kill Shibaura, we've got this beautiful shot. Look at how happy Shinji is, that he was right about his friend, that Ren's not really a killer, that they can work together to destroy monsters without fighting other Riders. Look at how devastated Ren is, how certain he is that his weakness has doomed both himself and Eri, that his rage isn't quite enough to suffocate his shame. Look at how two characters view the start of this episode in diametrically opposed ways. It's an awesome idea for an episode to explore, and a gorgeous shot to sell it to an audience. So great. So smart. A lot of really smart choices in this episode, actually. It's not a total winner, unfortunately. We're in the middle chapters of an arc here, so there's nothing really approaching a resolution of any plotlines. Ren's still a mess at the end, and nothing definitively changes for anyone else. (Yui's investigations into Shiro's Secret Science Society, formerly a Club but there's just too much Secrecy, that's still happening. I really wish the show could find a way to loop Reiko in on this one. It seems way more in her wheelhouse than Yui, considering Yui's thing is just badgering some traumatized dude until he gives her info so she'll shut up. Yui and Reiko, Secret Science Society investigators! It needs to happen!) But, you know, even if it's a linking segment, there's some very smart writing in this one. It's mostly Shinji/Tezuka stuff, and it works better than I'd thought it would. Shinji's bafflement that Ren's decision to not murder someone would cause an existential crisis gets him to bounce off of Tezuka organically, exploring their differences in clever ways. There's some great points about how Shinji's tendency to charge in, to not consider consequences, that's the antithesis of how Tezuka views the world. Tezuka believes in fate, and he's sometimes haunted by his decision-making. He's not choosing to do something, he's choosing to not do every other option. It's paralyzing for him, the weight of those choices. Shinji is... not haunted by his decision-making. Shinji throws himself in and hopes for the best. It's brave and generous and heroic and honestly pretty stupid. (Tezuka even brings up the fact that Shinji sacrificing his life to a Mirror Dragon was maybe something he could've mulled over!) Shinji can't understand why Tezuka has to make an easy decision difficult, and Tezuka can't understand why Shinji doesn't need to think things through. It's that friction I was looking for between them, the thing where Shinji's dismissal of the power of fate makes Tezuka start to lose his shit. It's that shot of Ren and Shinji transposed over Shinji and Tezuka, one event with two reactions. I love it. I love how Ren's crisis starts to ripple out through the whole episode, infecting other people, other relationships. Just some super smart writing. God, what else was in this one? I was mostly concentrating on the Shinji/Tezuka stuff. I talked about that Yui scene. Hmm. Shibaura's in lockup, pending Kitaoka (!) swinging by after he visits another prisoner in jail, presumably next episode. Hmm. Oh! One other minor thing I remember liking from this episode. I like that Quarter's got a Copy Vent, that his abilities are intrinsically tied to other Riders, to their powers. He's an assist for them, a boost. (also a mirror because motifffffffs) I think that's perfect for Tezuka. Just a little way of leveraging the character work for a fun superpower in the action scenes. Clever! A pretty tightly written episode. Very transitional, but still super satisfying to watch. I like the cage the show has built around Ren, how colossally screwed he is. I'm really really hoping the conclusion to this plot is as smart as the writing was to trap him. https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/ryuki/ryuki17b.png |
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And like you said Agito had the highest ratings but Ryuki was actually in 3rd place with only Kuuga and Agito beating it. https://www.reddit.com/r/KamenRider/...atings_of_the/ So I don't know where the saying of Ryuki almost killing the franchise comes from. But I have heard that Ryuki was considered somewhat unpopoular with older viewers so maybe that had to do with it? I also heard the movie was made in case of the show getting cancelled hence the name of the movie and the summary of it. |
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And now Tezuka also, lives in Atori, all 3 Riders (can't) sleeping together (wow). Yui wasn't aggravated again by this (especially after witnessing that Shinji and Tezuka are screwed-up in their own ways after Ren)? It seems that he merely sleeps there but he goes to his usual place at noon, I wonder what's his house like normally before? Shinji was kicked out in his apartment. Tezuka can't be broke despite his fortune-telling job, he wears a tuxedo and his bike is a damn Honda CB400 SF. Quote:
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