[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by chasesinister

Just finished Hibiki and the 7 Oni. Well its was ok, wasn't that bad but didn't blow me away either. I was interested to see it because I read that it was supposed to be KR version of 7 Samurai and yeah I can see the similarities between the two. A village was being threatened by a Makamou/Bandits, the village hire Oni/Samurai to protect them. The Oni/Samurai gather more Onis/Samurais to help, the village doesn't trust them. So yeah pretty much the whole thing was quite like 7 Samurai.

I wondered in the beginning why there were 8 Onis doing the Taiko drums when there's supposed to be just 7 of them. Didn't see the betrayal coming but it made sense why for the first half of the movie Kabuki was the main Oni.

I also thought that Ibuki and Todoroki's suit look out of place. I wasn't a big fan of the movie exclusive suits too except the flying one. And poor Akira was just there to be a sacrificial lamb.

Another thing, in the end of the movie they showed an In Memory of Kanbe Miyuki, but the film was shown 2005 and she died 2008 so I'm not sure how that happened. Maybe what I saw was from a DVD released after her death I guess.

Does the movie actually explain how the Makamou came into existence? Or the people creating the Makamou? Or the people who create the people who create the Makamou? Or... oh **** it, I give up. I hope you know what I mean.

As for the discussion of filler, I definitely agree with this. I really think Rider/Sentai series were 40 episodes long instead of 50. In fact, most anime series that are planned to be 50 episodes have this problem to (especially Gundam), because it is like the writers don't really have any way to develop the characters for that length of time, and due to a rushed schedule, don't have time to even figure more out, so they just write random nonsense. I get that some writers want to let the characters dictate the way the story goes, but unlike things such as One Piece (as Oda does), these series are already set to have around 50 episodes. With that, you need to have a planned beginning, middle, and end from the get go.

I don't expect every episode to develop the plot. In fact, there are a lot of amazing episodes when you have individual stories. However, I don't like it when series will introduce the main character(s) in the first episode and have the next few episodes to develop those characters, and then they just go into a standard formula with nothing happening at all for another 10-20 episodes outside of a maybe a new character showing up or something. If you know how to write, you can easily pace yourself and have plot building up in some form every few episodes so your audience does not get bored.

This is the problem with Black. It is one of my top favorite series because the stories it does tell are interesting and Kotaro is such a bad ass. However, you could pretty much cut the series down to 18 episodes. I mean, you need the first two episodes, the intro to Road Sector, then the first couple with Birugenia. From there, you can just skip right to the last episodes with Birugenia with the introduction of the Satan Saber and Shadow Moon's birth, and even skip another 7 episodes after that little mini arc for the last episodes. That kind of sucks for a series that has such a deep and intricate story to tell. Of course, they could have also spent some time developing Nobuhiko after he became Shadow Moon, having him turn into his human form and stuff, but nope, they would rather introduce two pieces of ass that do nothing but stand there. They don't even fight at all.

And this is the main problem with Wizard, but also why I cannot hate Wizard. If I hated Wizard, it means I would have to hate Black, and even the original KR series. But then, even Shinkenger suffered from this issue to. They did a lot in the beginning, a lot at the end, but dragged the middle of the show out.

Anyway, I really do wish they would either cut the series down to 40 episodes or just get better writers who can plan out a series to make it paced