[Kurona]

So as my last extra Faiz and Shinkenger thing before moving onto my next series, I ended up rewatching Heisei vs. Showa tonight.

To focus purely on the Faiz stuff: it's good. It's actually really good. I'm actually not too sure why people get annoyed so much at the flashback; obviously it doesn't depict what actually happened... but in a thematic sense it does. Kusaka dies to Kiba, Takumi is busy with the Orphenoch King, Takumi feels deeply responsible for Kusaka's death and the responsibilities of that linger on. These obviously all didn't take place in the same place nor the same order as the flashback implies, but it still effectively gets across what you need to know and leads to a lot of interpretations of Takumi's mental state and his perspective on the whole thing. I find it super interesting if I've gotta be honest.

Kusaka when he re-appears is just as awful and terrible as always; and I've thought this since I first watched the movie way back when, but the Faiz and X "teamup" is the strongest part of this film and I would have loved so, so much if it was just a Faiz and X movie. Bit random, sure; but there's so much uniquely grounded and genuine stuff here that gets me every time. As someone who hasn't watched X and who really didn't like Faiz, I seriously want more of this!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Man, I'll try my best, but between defending Ghost, Wizard, and Faiz, I'm getting stretched real thin here.

Yeah, but Ghost and Wizard are actually decent

In all seriousness I just feel you're really really good at explaining how you feel about things and I find it interesting to read, even - or especially - when I don't agree, so I'm interested how you'll make sense of this for me