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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I have most certainly played an RPG or two in my life! That's actually another one of those little personal things that made this show appealing to me right away. I generally find in those sorts of games that magic-focused characters are the most fun to play, so it sounds about right I'd end up thinking the magic-focused Rider was one of the most fun to watch too.

Fitting that his default undersuit is black, being a black mage and all.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Two -- Stuff going on outside the thread that demanded my attention. Maybe the endpoint of my journey with Kamen Rider will one day turn out to be life as a sagely hermit in some remote temple where I spend all my time meditating on the meaning of tokusatsu shows and passing down my wisdom to those devout few pupils who seek my teachings, but until such a time, I unfortunately can't actually crank these things out 24/7.

A worthy ambition!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Three -- Stuff outside the thread I just wanted to avoid putting on the back-burner, because despite the arrogant fantasy I just described, I'm hardly out here trying to purge myself of worldly desires or anything. Sure, one of the things I've been putting above writing about Wizard right now is writing about Gavv each week, but because I don't want to burn myself out on this, I've been making it a point not to totally put all my other hobbies on hold while I'm doing this.

I guess your focus on Wizard and other hobbies is also the reason why you haven't been responding much to replies in the Gavv threads like you normally would?

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

One of the things that most motivates me to do big projects like this is that they always end up being a huge learning experience for me, and just in these nine episodes, I've already learned a lot. When I wrote about the first episode, I learned I can in fact still do this if I put my mind to it. When I wrote about the second episode, I learned "oh... they're all going to be at least this long, aren't they?" Writing about the eighth and ninth episodes, I learned to identify with Haruto's first great challenge in a new way, as the process itself became a challenge for me. Writing about the tenth and eleventh episodes, it's my hope to learn how to not repeatedly spend entire half hours on single sentences.

I think just trying to talk or write about anything is a good way to understand our opinions beyond the surface level. Ideas are a soup, like you say, so words are a spoon to interact with it. Seems like it's easier to criticize than commend and yet, criticism, no matter how coherent and constructive, can't really improve a show, since it's too late, it already happened. However, for an underrated show such as Wizard, this thread has potential to persuade others that it's actually a lot more awesome than they previously thought. If you're able to persuade yourself of that as well by putting those ideas in to words, then that makes the effort even more worthwhile.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Though maybe for the fanbase, while this can be right, no villains come close to be as depraved as the Stomachs in Gavv.

Personally, I'd say the most depraved is still Kureshima Mitsuzane.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I don't know if I'd be a killjoy for this, though I guess I'd think the MOTW stuff in Wizard is neither better or worse than the other shows like W or OOO. As I said in Die's OOO thread, I feel any MOTW stuff (and I guess, Haruto's characterization is also related to MOTW stuff) is just overlooked by the fanbase, be it positive or negative. It can seem that, though maybe understandable but that it can be unfair, shows only need to be entertaining to be watched; you would defend those, but I see that often in shows that aren't as well-regarded, people find several characters/their acting in said show annoying, which turns them off from the show, while Den-O is an example where its fans consistently acknowledge its obvious flaws, but the character's acting makes up for it.

Bad acting can break suspension of disbelief, so yeah, even if the plot and characters sound good in concept, I can totally understand that some people will dislike them if the execution is too poor. Of course, what counts as bad acting is subjective. A lot of people hated on Gotchard due to Motojima and Matsumoto, but I enjoyed their performance since the start and thought they constantly improved, especially seeing Matsumoto portray various personalities in the Hyper Battle and Class 3-G special.