[Fish Sandwich]

Fish Sandwich also watched Kamen Rider Saber Episode 11

Judging by how short my post from the time is, apparently I actually did not have many notes on this one. And like, I don't here either? Still a great episode, still really love Kento, agree with pretty much everything Die said, except that Saber obviously "got good" right from episode 1. (The point Die is referring to is more like When Saber Gets REAL Good from my perspective.)

So uh, in lieu of anything to say about the story, I'm going to go ahead and talk a bit more suit design, because I'm skimping over that in this thread way too much.

Calibur is a pretty cool dude. Jaaku Dragon is such a perfect Evil Saber, with pretty much the same armor layout, with the head on the shoulder on all that. The reveal that Calibur literally IS Saber, but a bad guy now just kinda makes it fit that much more. But then you've got Jaou Dragon, which I've always gathered is the more popular of his suits? I could go either way myself, but it's not hard to see why someone would think that, with how cool it looks. It also has one of my absolute favorite tricks of any suit in the series, where his entire torso armor literally IS the book, opening up from the center with all five dragons popping up out of it. The whole pop-up book design means the Wonder Ride Book doesn't technically have the usual picture of the Rider on the inside, and yet, it still kinda does? Just a really impressive suit.

And while that's definitely the bigger talking point for most people, I actually want to take a second to shout out Dragon Bremen's appearance too. I honestly have a huge soft spot for all of Saber's sort of W style two book forms, for a lot of reasons. I like how they fill out Brave Dragon's plain left side without getting rid of the aysmetry, I like how creative the fight scenes tend to get when Touma gets to play with these stories, and I'm also extremely fond of how nearly all of those books truly "belong" to other Riders. It's this really efficient way to distribute everything where I don't have to be bemoaning it when Saber doesn't use his basic form changes more than once or twice, because he isn't carrying that entire collection around the way most main Riders are.