[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER JUUGA VS KAMEN RIDER ORTECA - EPISODE 1

That feels like an insane question to ask after months of writing about Revice, and in one of the final posts for this thread, but: Seriously, it’s not “Olteca”? All of my subs have said “Olteca”, and I swear that’s what they’ve been calling that guy for episodes and episodes. Except, clear as day on the title screen for this episode, it’s “Kamen Rider Orteca”.

I honestly don’t know what to do with that. I don’t want to say it’s all I could focus on in this episode, but it pretty much was. I’m just gonna call him “Olteca”, to keep my brain from hurting quite so much. Let’s move on!

Yeah it's Orteca, so late for the official sub to be revealed. Though there's a funny sub that calls him...

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I haven’t been able to care a lot about the emotional journey of George Karizaki, and thankfully this miniseries doesn’t seem to, either. It’s very much George in his initial mode of Kamen Rider Super Fan – like, an enthusiastic fan of Kamen Riders; also, a fan of Super-1 – rather than anything too tortured or layered. He’s back to trying to make his Daddy proud via mad science, and he’s having a great time with it. It’s not… it’s not a story with any real deep insights into George’s character, so much as it’s a quick run through of his motivations and immediate goals. He wants to make Kamen Riders look cool, and a recently escaped Olteca is standing in his way.

Well I guess this is the actual combination of George's Kamen Rider fanboy self in the beginning, and also him being actually moral to help others later. With him retaining his Kamen Rider fanboy traits now, I now even question where did it came from, before I thought Chic was what made him Kamen Rider fanboy that also disregards others' lives for his own ends, cuz he had the irony of being a Kamen Rider fan, yet is an atrocious person, which I thought this inconsistency can be caused by Chic who is acting on his body.

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The Olteca side of things is as surface-level as the Juuga side: Olteca’s been sprung from prison, Neo Deadmans, Demons Driver, whatever. It’s Olteca going through the motions, and it’s a shame that after all this time, no one could quite come up with a deeper look into his psychology than Smirking Sociopath. He’s a familiar face to fight Juuga, and that’s about it.

I wonder what deeper look into his psychology that you expect. I wouldn't want for him to get a depth that depicts him in a more positive/sympathetic light, like expecting him to get redeemed and forgiven easily or such, was worried too when he was given a tragic backstory. As usual though, he can win over people due to his charisma like Rinna and some of the Neo Deadman members.

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It’s saying something about how flimsy and inessential this story felt that the best, most memorable part is Rinna from Drive talking about her dissolved relationship with the eternally embarrassing Otta. In a wacky episode where nothing feels especially tethered to reality (I love Olteca, an escaped prisoner on his way to commit crimes, just walking past George), Rinna cartoonishly destroying pictures of Otta is both an episode highlight and lowlight. It’s goofy fun, but it has nothing at all to do with George or Olteca, and it eats up time that’s maybe better spent on addressing the title characters.

I gotta watch Drive to get more correct assumption of Rinna, but I guess she gives me the impression of Enokida from Kuuga regarding her science talk here, but ofc her destroying pictures of Otta is something different. I guess regardless of her using any means to destroy it... she doesn't resort to stomping those pictures underfoot like a doormat for her shoes.