[Fish Sandwich]

Watched the Kamen Rider Brave special. It was really kind of lame and underwhelming. It didn't bore me or anything, but it seems a little half-baked all around, though I'm not sure what I was expecting.

Ohja isn't really firing on all cylinders, although I can't describe why very well. He does plenty of classicly messed up Ohja stuff, but it doesn't really feel right. It's still cool to see Ryuki get some love though, given how much I like that show.

Second, and tying into the whole problem with Ohja, the upped level of violence mostly amounts to an offscreen beating or two and a whole lot of glorified ketchup. Again, there's nothing really wrong with that, but... maybe it's a problem with the atmosphere? If this literally were Ryuki or one of the shows from around that time, this would probably work, but given that the whole thing is distinctly Ex-Aid in style and tone, it just sort of doesn't really fit together quite right.

Finally, Hiiro, despite being the focus, isn't in a lot of it and is characterized as he was in the first quarter of the show. This means he's sort of boring. The whole 22 minutes basically adds up to "Hiiro may seem distant and cold, but actually really values the lives of the people around him". Which isn't news at this point. I did like seeing his nurse babes get fleshed out a bit, though.

So yeah, it was a pretty okay thing. If you just can't possibly get enough of Hiiro (or Asakura), and I mean if you really just NEED more of him, than it's probably not something you'll regret watching, but you're not really missing out on anything too great if you don't.

Oh, and remember how back after Lazer's whole backstory got revealed everyone was all like "oh boo hoo, Kiriya-san is such a woobie and stuff"? Can we please throw some of that love Emu's way?



I think the poor guy could really use it.