Let's Watch Wednesdays Week 4 Kamen Rider Blade 10-12
 

these three episodes weren't that bad But that Category Ace Undead is crazy powerful. No wonder they're used for a Rider System. On a side note I'm surprised how much milk Kotaro can drink, any normal human would have been sick of it already. Unless... Kotoro IS an Undead :lol All joking aside these were some good episodes with some good focus on Tachibana and Chalice.

I thought the Hajime & Jin stuff was fairly pointless. I'm a musician with a boat save me! But everything with Garren was pretty interesting. I assume that Isaka is mentally controlling Garren, because even despite the cure I doubt he'd willingly work with the Undead like that.

So we see the results of Isaka's treatment on Tachibana. He can fight fine, but now he has a voice in his head that won't leave him alone. Also the treatment is derived from an extinct plant that apparently will have some negatve side effect eventually going by the voice mail Sayoko was making before Isaka stopped her. I'm surprised that it took two times for Jin to figure out Hajime was Chalice. Granted he ducked his head down the first time and didn't see if firsthand, but it Chalice is standing there one minute and Hajime the next you should be able to add it up. Though all the Aniki stuff is wrecked once he learns that Hajime is an Undead. Also interesting to see that Hajime has to scan a card to return to his human form. And lastly we have an Ace Undead running around that Isaka wants sealed. And Jin's boat had a clover painted on it before it got burned down...hmmmm.

Some interesting episodes. So Garren is being controlled by Isaka, well makes sense I guess as I seem to remember him saying that he could control humans in an earlier episode, so the plant was what cured Garren's fear and it increases his primal instincts, interesting...

Glad they're not trying to shroud the fourth rider in mystery, as it's been pretty clear from the start what with the series motif and everything that there's going to be a fourth rider. So, club/clover and I guess his insect is a spider.

This is exactly what was going through my head as soon as we saw the boat...

Am I the only one who still finds it funny how short and silly everyone looks because of the weird video size? Does anyone whose seen it before know when that's sorted out?

Unfortunately TVN encoded them wrong making them look like that. If you go to a site called Good Drama you can stream the episodes which suffer from this. They dont have any compression issues at all there. The Nihon releases are normal again after 15 or 16 as I recall.

Ah, thanks!

At long last, Garren is cured so no more annoying destruction vision sequences, yay!!!!!! Although that appeared to be one hell of a hang over. :-p

These episodes just keep getting better and better. I loved the plot going on with Hajime where just when you think someone is ready to accept him for who he is, it goes south just from the dude seeing him bleed. I'm not sure what to think about Jin, as he started out likable but in the end turned into a total dbag. BTW, why does his father look familiar? I know I've seen him in a different series but I cannot think what. Haruka, however, is a terrible mother. It seems like her daughter is running off on her own every time she turns her back.

On the other hand, it is nice to see Blade get the final of his main three cards. Still find it weird that it is a Jaguar though instead of a Cheetah, but whatever. The designs for the Undead continue to rock but my god, these episodes seemed to have such a good sized body count. I kind of feel sorry for the chef that is just hanging on the pole dead. It is nice to watch a Kamen Rider series again that does not hide away from actually killing the mass populace, as that is one thing the recent series have been sorely lacking. Sure, story and character development is a must, but it feels more believable (at least as believable as people in bug designed spandex fighting monsters can be) when there are casualties in the process.

Finally, another thing I love about this show is how we are getting locations that are not seen that often at all in KR series. Thank the gods they haven't gone to the standard gravel pit yet. Nevertheless, I still swear that Japan is only about a 10 block radius due to how quickly Kenzaki can get from one area to the battlefield even though it seems to be in a full city and he is sitting down in a rural house.

I look forward to the next batch of episodes as we are getting closer to Tachibana's defining moments along with the birth of Leangle.

What video player are you using? I know on Windows Media Player Nihon's files play without any ratio issues. On Media Player Classic though, the first 16 episodes are really jacked up.

Damn. You weren't supposed to figure that out until episode 30. :(

If Amane was my kid I'd let her wander off on her own, too. Probably hope that she starts playing in traffic.

I was thinking that as well. And I think I'm recognizing Isaka and Hirose from some other series as well, but I could be imagining things.