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Hey hey hey hey HEY!

That was a much better impression than Saber's post-finale. I guess it was just Uchida underselling them before. Ikki trying to punch Vice and passing it off as shadowboxing when Daiji shows up was pretty humorous. Appropriate as well, considering how Vice is basically a shadow personality of Ikki. Kinoshita can clearly do comedy right.

I'm curious about the prerequisite for using the Revice Driver. What trait is required for someone to control their devil? Hiromi even gave a pretty heroic declaration before his attempt, but that wasn't enough to henshin. Daiji's hesitation was also intriguing to me. Despite George deeming him viable, was he afraid he wouldn't be able to control his devil?

Maybe it's connected to Ikki's conscious awareness of Vice's existence, since George was quickly able to evaluate his potential. The physical form Vice initially took after Ikki stamped himself was strange as well, since he didn't assume the tyrannosaurus design from the stamp until Ikki used the Driver. Is there something special about Vice, or rather his host, Ikki?

As others have speculated, Vice trying to eat Yukimi (while wearing a mask, which makes even less sense than Magine eating sakura mochi without a mouth) seems to be a result of Ikki's suppressed grudge towards his family due to letting the onsen hold him back from his passion for soccer, which he has in common with Souma Haruto. The devil seems to be all impulse and no restraint, acting according to people's evil desires.

The debut fight was pretty standard, but I've totally been spoiled by the awesome CGI Wonder World fights early in Saber. So going back to basics is going to take a little time for me to get accustomed to that again.

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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

Well that was an interesting episode. Contracting with demons really reminded me of Wizard's contract with WizarDragon, except that in this case Vice can actually talk.

But.... WizarDragon could talk. Don't you remember that awesome moment in Episode 9? He warned Haruto he would bring him despair, to which Haruto replied like a bad*ss that Dragon would bring him hope!

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I'm not one to watch raw then repeat my watch with subs, so I'll wait until the subs come to comment here.

I thought you weren't one to watch ongoing shows?

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

From what I understand, Izu's goal is to be a midpoint between the classic kisama-tachi TV-Nihon direct translation and the full localization of pretty much everyone else. Hence the inclusion of honorifics and Japanese attack names. I didn't mind it on Saber, but episode one of Revice drops the word "combi" into a sentence and that automatically has me looking forward to an alternative. That's a really specific pet peeve of mine from old school TVN and I will not put up with it.

My annoyance with them in Saber after switching to them from Episode 36 was how they didn't translate Yuri's catchphrase the same way TV-Nihon did.

My annoyance with them in this premiere of Revice is their inconsistent translation of "akuma". They mostly translate it as demon, but change it to devil for exactly one line when Vice is offering his deal to Ikki.

But I think they get the job done better than GENM CORP ever did, so I'm grateful for that.