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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Fitting that his default undersuit is black, being a black mage and all.

Are we sure Haruto isn't more of a Red Mage? They usually have the best fashion sense.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

I guess your focus on Wizard and other hobbies is also the reason why you haven't been responding much to replies in the Gavv threads like you normally would?

Yeah. I've been consciously making it a point to generally just say my little blurb about Gavv each week and be done with it so as not to overwhelm myself too much, even before starting this thread. I've basically been treating the whole process of being back on the forum like it's physical therapy for a busted ankle or something -- you don't put all your weight back on it right away.

I think it's been a pretty successful approach so far. I was a little hesitant even to commit to writing about Gavv at first, but after month or two, it became a comfortable enough rhythm, and without that bit of regular exercise, I highly doubt I'd have been ready to make this thread at all.

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However, for an underrated show such as Wizard, this thread has potential to persuade others that it's actually a lot more awesome than they previously thought. If you're able to persuade yourself of that as well by putting those ideas in to words, then that makes the effort even more worthwhile.

Sometimes that part almost goes *too* well! I rewatch 8 and 9, thinking most of what I write will be entirely personal fun anecdotes. You know, about stuff like how, for example, I was shocked to much later find out such an important story wasn't even written by the "main" writer, and how that was what made me start paying attention to Koumura, so every time since she gets a main writer gig on some obviously amazing series that's also way up my alley, it always makes me think to back to these two episodes of Wizard, which is another reason they stick with me so much. Like, it's not just a coincidence that Gavv was the Rider show on the air when I decided to do this.

But then I get done rewatching the episodes, and I quickly realize what I'm *actually* going to be talking about the whole time is visual storytelling again, because not even someone who likes Wizard as much as I do really notices just how strong Nakazawa's direction throughout this two-parter is until sitting down to look over each individual shot and slowly becoming aware the entire thing would literally work just as well as a silent movie, and how that probably has a lot to do with why these ones left such a profound impression before I even knew how to (kind of) articulate (a bit of) it.

There's a level to which that kind of thing usually happens for me rewatching stuff, which is why I'm very fond of rewatching stuff, but in the case of these particular two episodes, it was like I kept ending up with two new thoughts I'd struggle to articulate for every one old thought I'd manage to untangle. Made it super rewarding as an experience! ...but it also kinda freaks me out that after everything I wrote, a lot of stuff just kinda didn't make it in there anyway?