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Originally Posted by Magnugiga

Who are these monsters!? I mean, I can see how the transition from Ryuki's Serious Part to this group could be jarring, but these characters are such delightful weirdos that complement each other so well. Even the office space almost feels like a character in itself, with a distinct ambience (like the random English news broadcast noise in the background) that'd grow on you the more you see it.

Also, I think their humor worked very well for me because there's just enough variety and groundedness to keep it from getting stale. Like, Shimada's eccentric and the Chief's an insecure tryhard guy, but they presented varied manifestation of these traits instead of just pulling the same exact gag over and over again.

Exactly! I love Ore Journal as a whole and I hope they stay in business forever.

In other news, I just finished episode 26 of Fourze, and while I'm still having a mostly good time, the latest two-parter really highlighted what I feel is the biggest issue I take with this show. That being that there's really only three characters I actually care about.

Like, when the whole drama about Miu and Shun leaving popped up, I wasn't like "Oh no a part of the gang is leaving." I was just more like "Alright then."

The show likes to act as though everyone in the KRC has had a gigantic amount of development and are BFFs for life but, there's really not much in the way of supporting that. Heck, even in the flashback, all we see are clips of their debut episodes and nothing else, because there's really not much else to go on.

The biggest highlight to me was actually how it was made clear that Ryusei was starting to warm up to everyone, because like Tomoko, he's actually been doing so in a more organic and believable way, ontop of already being an entertaining character to watch.

Also I gotta ask, why does Fourze get called out for specifically being a W ripoff? I mean yeah, they share alot of similarities, but you know what other shows Fourze has alot in common with?

Damn near every other Kamen Rider show ever.

No, really. It seems to me like Fourze is instead taking a ton of aspects across the series history and putting them in a blender to see what sticks. Which makes sense, being the 40th Anniversary season and all. Like, yeah, it probably the takes the most from W and OOO, but I feel like calling it solely W-2 isn't exactly fair, ya know?