"Tame" is a good way to describe this plot, yeah. It's not nearly as weird as I'd hope/expect.

The charm may or may not last through the end of the Saber ones, for me. It's cute, but so inconsequential that... like, two more exactly this one are going to have me very dismissive by the end of them.

But, yeah, I would 100% be into them if I were able to get my video cheering into one of the skits. That's a very fun idea from Toei.

On that topic: it's very nice to see that the studio buildings were rebuilt so well after being burned down in Zero-One the year before, and being exploded by the cast of Zi-O the year before.

This is by far the element of the storyline I'm most interested in. Rintaro's got kind of no good options here? He's not really equipped to be the peacemaker, so he's going to have a pretty rough time over the next few episodes.

It's pretty great, I'm not gonna lie. I've definitely been spoiled, coming to shows years after they're over, when everything's been translated and shared. I'm on a break from Geats, but it would feel so weird to know that there's a movie out there I can't watch yet. I am going to miss having an entire Kamen Rider show I can devour front-to-back at my own speed in its entirety!

I don't recommend having my brain, especially when it comes to comic book trivia. And I hope you enjoy what's next for Saber! Welcome back!

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I love the Legion, but this annual... I can't imagine what Al Gordon and/or the Bierbaums were thinking. It is as Greetings Fellow Kids as I can imagine.

And this, this right here, is the moment someone at DC said "you know, maybe we should just burn this all down and start from scratch."

The thing I'm such a stickler about is that even though he's just saying saikou in the normal sense of "the best", the whole joke is that Saikou means "the brightest", so I'd kind of prefer a translation that reflects both meanings, which is pretty easily possible. You generally wouldn't describe a bright light as "splendid", which makes it a bit less obvious than my choice, but the root of the word still directly means "shining", so it's really a pretty smart choice in my book. I never really used Flame Subs for Saber, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that screencap.

Not having any traumatic memories of lousy dark age superhero comics though, I do agree that "prodigious" works solidly as a catchphrase for a character like Yuri, but like, saikou *is* a word used in casual speech, so it's a much looser translation.

Man, I love the Five Year Gap era of the Legion; that's where I came in! I think this was more of a "Bloodlines is stupid and the book that takes place a thousand years in the future probably shouldn't be forced to participate" sort of situation, rather than any inherent flaws in the 5YG Legion premise.

It's nice to see that, in their retirement, Translation Cop is willing to let phrases off with a warning. Very community-minded!

True, but they've been here for a full 1/3 of the series, and their motivations are still nebulous and backgrounded, but in a way that's struggling to connect with the SOL betrayal arc which is pushing them even further away? I'm struggling to explain, but it's much like Jin's revival in 01 ended up being - a question that, sure, might be answered some day, but the longer it goes, the more I feel I'm just not supposed to be asking. (Being nebulous here to both avoid spoilers and to reflect my own feelings at this point in the show, I don't want Die to find out the Book Gangsters are just trying to void their library fines from Tassel.)

The Drug Money is a Dopants joke, seemed like the weirdest MOTW thing removed from context. Could've said "existential breakdowns" too tbf.

Meanwhile oh god we're doing American comic books

Hey so this is obviously quite a ways off, but I just noticed this bit from the schedule in the first post of the thread. There are six episodes of the anime, right? Is this bit just a mistake, Die, or could you not track down the last two?

Looking at that schedule myself, I'm curious why you're keeping the Sabela/Durandal special and Trio of Sin till after you watch Revice? I promise there's no Revice or crossover movie lore in them!

All I could track down, sadly. Also, I had no idea there were more than four episodes, because I couldn't find a listing for the anime on the wiki's Saber page. If anyone's got subbed versions of the last two anime episodes, please let me know!

I want to say the wiki had the continuity as happening after the crossover movie (years later?), so I figured I'd just get to it later. I can maybe move it around, depending on how deep into March this show takes me.

Trio of Deep Sin is a distant epilogue kind-of deal, while Durendal/Sabela is presumably set when it came out. Neither mention any of the Revice crossovers.