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Aoi Kurenai
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Update: I watched episode 30 today, and it was heartbreaking. Partly, it was unexpected, since I'd mistakenly thought the production change didn't happen until episode 34.
It wasn't so much the loss of the natural setting that jarred me as it was the loss of what a lot of the character relationships meant. Asumu and Hibiki have a fairly honest, straightforward conversation at the beginning of episode, and that's just not something they
do
. Characterizations all around seemed more broad to me.
The actor who later played Den-O's Yuuto shows up and more or less dominates the episode. (I found this annoying, but also puzzling because I'm predisposed to like that actor.) The mystery inherent in the villains' scheming is just ripped away: "Yep, we're in a lab, makin' a makamou." Which just happens to be a standard-issue Rider kaijin to be fought in a city. I appreciated that they tried to make it marginally more interesting with the flaming hoop gimmick.
I read a bit about the production changes, so apparently, the show just outright drops two Riders at this point? One of the things I'd enjoyed about the show is how it casually introduced cameos of oni Riders many episodes before we'd learn anything substantial about them. We'd JUST learned about Eiki, and I seem to recall another oni a few episodes ago, and they were just... dropped?
No Riders get dropped, they continue the same formula they always used: Oni Riders show up every now and then and don't really get a lot of focus. They're just there to show the size of the Takeshi organization. You'll see some more of them later. Eiki's voice actor is an anime guy so he was never meant to be more than another one off Rider. In fact, you actually get a new cameo Rider when Hibiki gets his power up.
The Hibiki staff change is a bit of a struggle but I think people sometimes exaggerate it. Like, it doesn't instantly become this terrible show (IMO) and it has a fairly solid consistency with what the new guys are setting up, it just doesn't always gel with what we've seen. I think the worst of it is in those first few episodes after the staff change, the new writer and producer clearly do not have a firm idea of who these characters are. It starts to become more of a solid watch after a while, probably by the time Shuki's arc is finished.
Also, it's a huge shame we lost all of those beautiful forest fights. I can see why Toei cut them though - they were expensive. This is the reason you don't see them a lot in most shows and why battles have to take place in cities or parks more often than not. It's easier to film in a city at like 5 AM before it gets crowded than it is to take your cast and crew out to to a forest and film there. I've read this is one of the key reasons the change happened - the producer was so set against changing the filming locations because he saw them as vital to the show. The idea was that the Oni stopped the Makamou from interacting with areas that have large human populations as often as they could and that's something he didn't want to change.
Also things were just running behind schedule a lot, he never gave in to Toei demands, and was supposedly hard to work with because he knew what he wanted to do and nothing could sway him from there. It's a HUGE loss to Toei - this is the guy that created gems like Carranger and Kamen Rider Kuuga, to fire him so unceremoniously and sever that working relationship with a very creative mind set back Kamen Rider and Super Sentai quite a bit.
(also, remember, most of these monster suits are made months in advance, whether or not the staff changed, they were always going to be there)
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RIP, the Hibiki ending that could have been. I'll watch the rest to see whether there's anything I'll enjoy, and so if I'm given reason to gripe, I can do it from an informed perspective.
If it makes you feel any better, the writer himself had no idea where the series was going. He didn't actually plan out an ending for the show.
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