[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Finally got back to OOO after a break to rewatch Double with a friend, and I'm up to 31. Bugeyes' little get-rich-slow-as-fuck scheme is pretty amusing. Also it's interesting, he won't absorb Fishfro and Hosenose's medals, but still carts them around. Sentimental?

I'm really, really interested in these purple medals. I know they make the dinosaur form, but I don't know anything about it. And why'd they enter his body and make him lose one of his TaJaDor medals?

Looking forward to answers.

EDIT: Sort of an addendum so I don't double post: Now that I'm knee-deep in OOOs I can't help but compare it to W. I don't want to, but there's things with OOOs that bug me that were better in W. Like the female lead. She's so boring and such a non-character. She has NO personality. Akiko may have started out annoying, but her antics became pretty hilarious and she DID stuff and seemed like a character. Eiji, as much as I like him, is only just now getting some good developement after being almost irrelevant to the story for the last while. I also find the plot a bit lacking. There's no mounting or impending endgame for any of the villains and the Greeed are just boring, single-minded jerks motivated by, well, greed. I also miss how the adventures of the week are a lot less fleshed out. In W you really felt like Shotaro and Philip were a superhero helping people and saving lives. They were ''elected'' as the city's hero and took it on as a responsibility to be that person. OOOs just sort of seems to fight monsters and dive in front of pedestrians. Ironic since his whole character is supposed to be about helping whoever he can and putting lives above medals. It's just a shame we don't see that more often.

Probably my biggest issue with this show is how gred and desire are used almost interchangably. Greed isn't desire, it's a selfish act to obtain more of what you already have. More money, more power, whatever. Desire is a want for something you DON'T have. I thought at first the idea was that the Greeed create greed FROM desire, but the entire reason the Greeed exist is because of the desire to be whole, which ISN'T greedy at all. I dunno, it just isn't completely flush. Especially when they're using people like a guy who wants to repay his debts to friends. How is that greedy? And then it makes a monster that robs a bank and throws money everywhere. wat

I like this show a lot, but it does lack in a few areas W didn't. BUT it also has some improvements, like a more instantly engaging secondary rider verses Accel who took me a while to like.

I kind of thought that was the point. The Greeed would create Yummies from people who had just the mildest of desires, and it would grow out of proportion. Like the example you gave. The person wanted to repay his friends, so it was blown out of proportion in having the Yummy stealing and giving away all the money.

Anyway, I'm glad you're still liking OOO.