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Faiz Episode 2
So since we have one this episode, I figure I'll get my discussion about the opening done right away. I like the song. The opening part though is a misleading to me as it sounds like this kinda happy poppy like anime theme. But once the verse starts, the song gets really kick ass in my opinion. Like I commented in my episode 1 watch, the music sounds a lot like the stuff in Ryuki, and the OP theme is no exception. It has quite a bit of similarities to Alive A Life both instrumentally and to a degree vocally. The accompanying video is pretty nice as well. I guess Yuji is a main character since he's in a good chunk of the video, so it turns out his focus in episode 1 was at least somewhat justified. Though I still think episode 1 is rather dull and lacking in overall story focus. But I digress. With the theme and video out of the way, onto the episode.

I find it kinda funny how Takumi becomes a rider. He simply got mixed up in the situation while looking for his bag. I don't know but it's pretty humorous to me that our protagonist becomes the protagonist by purely random circumstances. Sort of a wrong place at the wrong time kind of deal.

Mari seems like a nice girl. It's weird seeing her so open now when last episode she was playing the hard ass role of being quiet, unfriendly, and not very talkative. Now the roles are switched. She seems like a nice person whose simply confused about what is going on. Takumi's reaction is understandable. Japanese people (and people all over the world as a whole) tend to not get involved with things that they don't know about and could care less about. So it makes sense that he wouldn't want to be dragged into Mari's situation with the belt and being a Kamen Rider. He simply wants to move on from it.

I'm curious as well to how Yuji became what he is. I do see that Faiz is uh, not very subtle with some stuff as I just saw with Yuji and what not. The people's reactions were odd as well, it was delayed which I guess is reasonable since it just happened out of the blue. But I think somebody would have started screaming and panicking immediately. Oh and from that height he fell from, how is Yuji's head not in fucking pieces?

Mari is pretty annoying and Takumi (at the moment) comes off as a bit of a jerk with his whole "Don't drag me into it" and "Don't bind me" attitude. Hopefully they don't stay this way for the whole series. Well, hopefully Takumi doesn't.

Okay Yuji's mansion is freaking cool looking from the inside. I see that we finally have a term for our evil doers: Orphenoch. So they are beings that surpass humans. Okay but how do you become one? Are you just born into being an Orphenoch or do you become one later on? Who the heck is this girl anyways? I get that she works for the corporation, but still who exactly is she?

So he travels because he has no dreams? How did he come to that decision?

XD The all powerful belt that turns the user into a super powered being ended up in a pawn shop. Oh lordy is that hilarious. Oh and I love how Mari is like "It was stolen from me so please give it back." Like the guy is really going to just give it up.

So they're going to raise the money by giving out haircuts on the street? Makes sense. I guess.

Chie is an utter bitch I see. She was probably bullshitting Yuji before the cops showed up, and now she's accusing him of being the killer. Okay we as the audience know he did do it, but she doesn't know. And the cops would have no reason to suspect him even if they became informed about this weird relationship between Yuji and Chie. So Chie you my dear are a complete lying bitch.

Honestly though, I feel bad for Yuji. He had his whole life ahead of him. Great parents, a good looking future, and a girl who at the time was great. But then his accident happened and everything changed. His parents died, he lost everything, and Chie got with somebody else and accused him of murder. Yuji has lost everything near and dear to him. And on top of it all, he now has powers he doesn't really understand. He could have been a Crow avatar if this was taking place within the universe of that franchise with all that has happened to him. He's truly an example of coming back from the dead to a world that has seemingly forgot about him and moved on. It's really tragic.

It's the elephant man!

Thank you for smoking this bitch Yuji. The horse/centaur effect still looks really good. I still think the slowed down rain effect in episode is the best in the show so far, but the effects all around look to be pretty darn good. Pretty shocking that they hold up form being from 2003.

And damn did they get awesome! That thing is freaking huge! It looks good too. Though it does look a little shabby. But that could just be how I think it looks.

Mari you are a dumb ass for hiding in the van. Like the giant elephant was really just going to run pass it and not notice you climbing into it. Seriously, that may be one of the dumbest things I have ever seen in Kamen Rider. It's as silly as Indiana Jones going into a fridge.

That is one kick ass Rider Kick.

Well it seems as if Yuji has gone to the dark side.

I know I said I love the narrator's voice in my episode 1 review, but can I just say that the tagline is plain awesome. "Open your eyez for the next Faiz." Genius.

So episode 2 was much better then episode 1. It was quite the exciting and gripping episode. I never felt bored while watching it, which is a good thing right off the back. The story was driven more here then in the first episode, as this one pretty much revealed the plot. Takumi is a reluctant hero who has to fight Orphenoch's. All episode 1 did was set up Yuji's fall into becoming a villain. Now while devoting an episode to do that isn't a bad thing, it's a bad thing to do for your first episode. The first episode should focus on setting EVERYTHING up, not just one part.

The fighting here was pretty good, and the end to the fight was much better then the one kick to the mid section that we got in the last episode. The effects were still good, the story moved along nicely, the acting was pretty good. All around, episode 2 was much better then episode 1. I actually look forward to episode 3 now with what I'll call glee for lack of a better word, whereas episode 1 left me rather bored and not very excited to see the story continue.

So far, somewhat good. Bit of a boring start but hopefully things start picking up now.