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From what I've heard movies fall under a different license entirely from the shows, so it's difficult to get them and that's why Tokushoutsu has only been able to get like... what is it, 2 so far? HBVs I imagine are a similar thing; the magazine licenses are involved.
Really sucks, if they ever release 555 it's going to be so incomplete without the HBV! |
Kamen Rider Revice Episode 34-45
After Episode 33 left me feeling disappointed, I just had to take a break from watching this show. But with Geats coming soon, I wanted to catch up before the final arc, so that I could move on. Sometimes it helps to watch a show in chunks, rather than one episode a week. I think that's definitely true for a show as bumpy as Revice. Surprisingly, there have actually been some improvements, so I'll talk about those first. I loved pretty much all of Episode 42! It was like Revice Legacy Vail Part 6, except with Kinoshita writing instead of Mouri. Genta's and Vail's arc spanning 25 years finally concluded with them facing off in their new Rider forms. It's fitting that Genta got to be his own Rider as himself, not just an instrument of Vail's vengeful will like Junpei was. I'm not sure what "Destream" is supposed to be mean, but damn, that's a cool suit, with how the two horns of the beetle extend from the head and torso. Even Vail got to have some peace, as Genta forgave him and gave him a home inside him. Vail's a bad guy, but Masumi had a point that he was also a victim of NOAH's abuse, so that peace after a lifetime of suffering might be the least he deserved. I totally understand why Toei can't cast a middle-aged dude as the protagonist, but Genta's arc has been a highlight of the show for me. Yukimi's song, My Dream, set the mood as well, reminding that she's his motivation for living. I have mixed feelings about Daiji's arc, but I ultimately liked how it ended. Reminded me a lot of Tachibana's arc from Blade. It's kind of humorous how everybody was complaining about his lack of focus after becoming Holy Live, so the show accomplished that by making him an antivillain. Pretty ironic how the most angelic Rider sided with the devils. I feel like there could have been more of an attempt to explain what was going through Daiji's head when he decided that subjugation of humanity was the right thing to do. Him blaming Ikki's busybody trait was also confusing, since he previously scolded him for not being busybody enough when they found out Demons Driver was killing Hiromi. A lot of it was frustrating and only started to click when Kagerou revealed that he was trolling Daiji the whole time, which is typical Kagerou. Maybe I just really bought Hyuuga's acting. Evilytylive is okay, but I'm going to miss Holy Live's pure angelic look. Another deciding factor of Daiji's return to justice was Hiromi, giving us one last henshin as Demons. I was totally eager to see his return after hearing about it in the rumor thread, although his cheerful "I'm back" immediately after Akemi's tragic death was a serious moodkiller. It does feel like the show doesn't know what to do with him most of the time, which is fair, they brought him back for the fans and maybe that's good enough. He still has an inspirational presence as a kind of veteran Rider, like WEEKEND's equivalent of Yukimi. My favorite part about Hiromi being back is how he interacts with George, like the reference to the punch not landing and George telling him to retire his catchphrase in favor of something less self-destructive. Those two care about each other deep down and I love that! I feel like George needs Hiromi in his life more than ever, now that Masumi has finally succumbed to his injuries from the explosion and he's still trying to come to terms with the devil transplant. Revice is still an extremely flawed show though. Like, the most recent episode where Hiromi's trying to console Tamaki about being stuck on the sidelines. Their situations aren't comparable. Hiromi's basically an 80 year-old, but the only reason Tamaki can't fight is cause nobody will let him, despite having previous fighting experience as the Wolf Deadman. At the start, only Gif's descendants could safely become Riders and Hiromi could only become one at a dangerous cost. But now, it seems like anybody can be a Rider. Hikaru and Aguilera asked to become Riders and hey, now they're Riders. Tamaki asked the same thing, but nope! Hikaru is just meh to me, but I wouldn't be surprised if his haters blamed him for stealing Tamaki's focus. Aguilera is just the Garu to Sakura's Lucky, which is sadly what I expected. Tamaki's always trying his best, but the world seems determined to put him down. I was annoyed how they dragged out Akemi's fate, only for Gif to personally kill her anyway. Maybe I would've been okay with this if her plan to manifest the Giffard Rex Vistamp was actually successful, but she was killed before that could happen and even her dying wish to Daiji fell on deaf ears. I feel like her death was so abrupt and meaningless when she still had a lot more to give, like Kinoshita was just halfheartedly trying to make it edgy again after chickening out of killing Aguilera. Akemi did a brave thing by gambling her life on that plan. She really deserved better than this, guys. The villains make the Time Jackers look good. Other than Vail, there's very little that's interesting or fun about them. Akaishi has one decent scene with a mortally wounded Tasuke, but otherwise he's just screaming incredulous claims about how Gif is some misunderstood alien who wants to make friends with the humans! By threatening to kill them if they refuse! Do any civilians ever ask Gif to verify this, the one to whom they're supposed to pledge loyalty? Nope, they just take Akaishi's word for it. Haven't they ever heard about Benjamin Franklin's famous quote? There's no deeper meaning to this contrived conflict between safety and liberty, it's just people making stupid decisions for the sake of plot. Gif doesn't even speak outside of his pocket dimension and when he does reveal his true intentions to Vice, he sounds like a depressed Evolt. So what am I hoping for in the final arc? Well, Olteca lives, so I think it would nice if he could redeem himself and make up with Tamaki and Aguilera. I liked how his first comment was how foolish they look, since I've been thinking for a while that the WEEKEND uniforms look more like a 90s rock band than an organized resistance. Olteca's actor got the flowers after Episode 28, so I guess his return was improvized? I also want something to happen with Ikki and Vice, since they're supposed to be the protagonists but all they get is that memory loss contract plot, which doesn't really make any sense to me. I'll resume posting in the weekly threads until the show is over, if I have any opinions I feel like sharing. But I'm mostly just ready to see what Geats has to offer. |
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Though Aguilera acknowledged that Deadman's crimes are no light matter, Orteca tried to make both Aguilera and Tamaki feel small about jumping ship. Not necessarily him, but when reduced into only talking shit, some villain's tactics are making heroes feel imperfect (e.g. "deep down, everyone's as ugly as them"), and thereby justify their own significantly deeper imperfections, in this case, perhaps so that Aguilera and Tamaki feel they're only 'pretending to be heroes' or such but deep down they're always malicious to the core like before, and Orteca's just "more honest". But at least this still shows that Orteca still mistreats Aguilera and Tamaki, just in more ineffective manner, thus his last scene in ep. 28 when Giff ate him wasn't about cherishing their memories together, he lamented that he failed to conquer the world. His attempts to rule the world? Running the Deadman cult to gather sacrifices and revive Giff. That requires working together with Aguilera and Julio, that's why the flashback involved them, it's his attempts to conquer the world. It's a subversion of a reveal that seems like they have tiny human side, but turns out it's not. Like Asakura seemingly saving Mika, but turns out it's only done to use her as monster bait. Aguilera herself also later was willing to re-work with Orteca after being betrayed, doesn't mean Aguilera's still fond of him, it's because she had mutual goal. |
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Regarding his antagonism towards Tamaki and Aguilera, I actually have a headcanon about that. I think he might be a tsundere, since it's common for those types to act tough and cold as a way to hide their true feelings. This could have contributed to Olteca's sadness about being misunderstood, if he's deliberately shutting people out so he won't get hurt again like what he experienced in his childhood. |
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For Daiji's personality, I feel like, how humans worked here with their demon seems to be like on/off switch button. Kagerou leaving his body, Daiji had drastic turn (but still make sense) of going from righteous to self-righteous. Kagerou coming back to his body, it's like activating the switch that turns Daiji back into his usual tactical, actually righteous self. Though there's a symbolism in even both events, him 'killing' Kagerou, who is unhinged and doing wrong things, is a symbolism about how Daiji can't ever see himself as unhinged and in the wrong. Him accepting Kagerou back, shows now he acknowledged that he can be unhinged, self-righteous, or in the wrong. Quote:
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And to be honest, I'm kinda sick of that "tsundere" excuse (this trope is actually often used and played in toxic manner, like if it's used on females). By this, then what is the real example of someone genuinely acting malicious and to distinguish those from the "tsundere" ones? Because this type of excuse, can be used on anything, like I've found those who invoke "tsundere" stuff in murderers as in "killing everyone means giving them their own freedom" to make up something "good" ("dere") in them, and that's in someone who did bad things for fun, not the self-righteous ones. Seems like "tsundere" excuses like this abuses the "inherent goodness of human nature" (as "dere" part) to not hold someone or their actions accountable. |
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There are several things in the subtext that could explain Daiji's turn, but I personally don't feel like the symbolism is a perfect match here. Sure, angels can also be problematic, such as the evil Angel Roidmude, but going as far as siding with devils seems weirdly contrary to what an angel is supposed to represent, even if everything else about Daiji's poor decisions kind of make sense. But that's not exactly a problem with the plot, just how I feel about the convoluted implication of what Holy Live represents for the character. Quote:
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After weeks of putting it off which is entirely unplanned, I finally started watching Kamen Rider Den-O.
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Have fun!
Seriously, because Den-O isn't a show you watch for the plot :lol |
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Him not resisting arrest though, he's a normal human for now (outside of vague Vail claims), it also can be that he can't resist multiple (trained) person confronting him at once. I've talked before about how he's now reduced into only talking shit due to how he's now a normal human, he pulled all what he did before via powers like Deadman, Giff Stamp, or Demons (actually, typically villains cause huge damage via powers, their person skills like manipulating can help, but it's still powers that mainly do the job). I don't know if you brought up the breaking promise part due to it being done inherently from his personality (otherwise, it's kinda like personal negative bias to ignore bigger crimes), but overall he's just being harmless here due to having nothing (for the promise he had the Deadman at his favor). Quote:
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Early on, I don't recall being quite as big a Hiromi fan as a lot of people were right away, but I've gotta say, between this and the way he's been characterized in the later stretch of the show, he's genuinely become a pretty dang compelling hero over time. |
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