Kamen Rider Ghost Episode 4- "Astonishing Castle In The Sky!" Discussion
 

Takeru and the Strange Phenomenon Laboratory investigate mysterious events at a corporate headquarters, hoping to find another Ganma.

But it soon turns out Takeru is not the only one interested in this case...

Dammit. I was hoping they'd actually incorporate the Newton Eyecon better than: "OH HEY. REMEMBER THAT DRIVE EPISODE? HERE'S NEWTON."

Better add "how the hell was the Newton Eyecon created?" to the growing list of unanswered questions. Oh well, aside from that the episode was pretty great.

This episode got kinda weird.

I know the Kamen Rider fandom has developed a phobia for two-parters, but this got crazy enough to warrant one I think. Just...felt very rushed. With everything going on it was all just sort of a mess.

I also hope the hugs aren't going to be like, A Thing from now on, because come on man. It bothered me last week and it bothered me now: that shit is cheesy beyond a level even I can tolerate. (and I can tolerate plenty)

Stuff with Newton made no sense. Acknowledged the Drive stuff but...didn't actually explain anything at all. Just...what even? Takeru forgetting he's a ghost was pretty funny though. Robin got more time to shine in this one compared to last week, so that's good too.

Nobunaga looks GREAT. That is a very cool ghost. And Specter's theme is also pretty great; seems that if nothing else Ghost is staying strong in its designs and its music.

And, the most interesting thing in this ep, looks like Makoto and Aran are connected in some way. Seeing as we know nothing about either of them, this is good info to have. Aran also did Stuff for the first time, so...good on that front.

Preview looks solid. I didn't spot Tutankhamen, oddly, but apparently Nobunaga is in episode 5 so...still weird. We're finally seeing Makoto proper and Aran also seems to be more involved then, so, yeah. Looks like a pretty interesting episode. Shame we have to wait two weeks for it.

I just hope they don't cram it full of stuff, it is getting kind of old and the pacing is really suffering for it.

I still don't think this at all. I'm not tired of the one weekly arcs just yet; in fact I'm probably enjoying the packed episodes more than I would two-parters. Also, to me the pacing for the overarching story info doesn't feel any less developed at this point than usual. >shrug<

Overarching plot stuff seems fine thus far, but I still think each episode tries to do too much. Like, stuff with Onari and Akari in this episode didn't lead anywhere and could have easily been cut. I feel like time is spread out too thinly between too much stuff and it hurts the supposed main plot.

And with too much other stuff in the episode, we end up with unexplained crap like with Newton. Because that is some real bull. (seriously, the drive plot took place over a month but takeru has only been ghost for 11 days, how do they even figure)

I mean, I'm not saying they have to be two parters. They just need to cut stuff down so that it gives us a good, focused one-off episode.

edit: specter stuff better served for main ghost discussion i guess

Specter's a dick.
Just sayin'.
Not Masato dick.
But still a giant dick.

So he'll be Gaim Kaito then?

What? How exactly can you tell from the 30 seconds of meaningful screen time he had in the whole episode? He jumped in, the Nobunaga ghost basically chose him over Takeru, and he ran away with the Eyecon. That's really not enough to conclude anything about what kind of character he'll end up being.

I hope he's not another Kaito. And not another Kusaka! I hate Kusaka!

Please may Ghost be like Blade!

I'm getting major Ren vibes from the scans we've seen. I'd be fine with that.