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Originally Posted by Sunred

In Japan, the cowlick, or ahoge in Japanese (pronounced ah-ho-geh,written in Japanese as アホ毛), is one of those visual elements used typically in manga and anime on characters that are considered air-headed, comic relief, quirky, or have a carefree personality. I want to emphasize the word "typically" though, because some artists may add them for characters that don't embody the traits I just mentioned, and have them for personal artistic preferences instead.

This is probably obvious, but in Baku's case, it's also a more specific joke that he's always got a bad case of bedhead going on, because, you know, it's a show about dreams and sleeping and all that.

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Originally Posted by GoldenXtreme

I exclaimed in delight during the fight when they had the battle from another angle projected onto the wall behind them. I love directors getting funky with projectors in tokusatsu.

It seems like each episode has about two or three big parlor tricks like that to bust out, and that was definitely one of my favorites so far too. I like how it emphasizes different things throughout the scene and then climaxes with the transition to the outside location.

That last bit especially is pretty much exactly the kind of more clever and creative version of Toei Geography I was hoping to see from this show. The secret is, for purely practical production reasons, most Riders tend to abruptly end up outside between shots anyway, so it's great anytime Zeztz seizes that opportunity to make it an active part of the style, rather than just something you're supposed to gloss over.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Weird how Zeztz didn't get to say his "Kiero" catchphrase

I'm just happy he finally got to say "I'm on it" again! Almost makes me wish they didn't bother giving the other three colors their own transformation poses if only Physicam uses that line.

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Both Zero and Nox act like they're super important, so I feel like the mysteriousness of them so far has been deliberate.

Oh, 100%. There's already been quite a few hints specifically pointing towards some variation on it turning out that Baku's heroics as ZEZTZ are probably going to have some unforseen consequences, maybe even outright helping advance the schemes of some antagonistic force or another, so it's obvious the show is deliberately holding back on a lot of details. But a twist that turns the exisiting context of something upside down is probably going to hit harder the more there actually *is* an existing context, so I do sorta wish the show were making it seem like we already have most of the answers we need about some of these very basic facts of the setting.

But I guess I won't really hold the show to the fire for any of that until I see where some of these things are actually going first. I kind of assume the big turning point comes at the end of the year? Although I'm also liking how frequently the bike gets screentime so far, so with this writer, I guess we'll all have to hope that whatever else goes down, nothing too bad will happen with Zero around Christmas.

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Originally Posted by StardustWhip

I, on the other hand, am just now learning that it's spelled NOX with all caps

Which definitely makes it sound that much more like a Rider name to go alongside ZEZTZ, huh? Actually, on the subject of things the show hasn't explained -- I've been playing along as a gesture of respect towards the series, but I don't even know *why* the name is in all caps? My brain kinda assumes it's like a cool spy trope arbitrary acronym, just like CODE is, but again, all I can do right now is assume, because the name doesn't even come up that often to begin with.