[Fish Sandwich]

Oh geez this popped out of nowhere! Uh, let my try to catch up real quick:

- So, obviously, because it's come up a few times, I'm extremely fond of Faiz, for starters. It's another show I've rewatched fairly recently and even wrote all about it, so I should be in a good place to discuss whatever about it.

- When I was doing that, the subs were driving me so completely insane, I did indeed make correcting them a regular feature of my posts about it. Faiz's subs are bad. I know you don't like spoilers, but since you're using TV-N, I'll just say, get ready to find out who carries magazines around while intentionally going soon enough. I may be on standby to defend this show, but I'm also just on standby to play translation cop for a series that relies heavily on dialogue to carry its story.

- I've also been so absorbed with Kuuga lately for obvious reasons that I may have pushed a lot of this stuff out of my head, but I don't actually remember that much wrong about the premiere.

- I also really love this first episode, of course. Faiz was one of the earlier Rider shows I watched, and it was mindblowing to see how downplayed the actual Rider stuff is here. Really strong characterization, too, even for characters that aren't truly in the spotlight yet. It was worlds away from something like OOO tonally, and I think the way Faiz highlights the variety of this franchise is one of the things I love most about it to this day. I kind of see Faiz like, after Ryuki kicked the door open for what "Kamen Rider" could mean, it was the show that got to really enjoy that newfound freedom.