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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Zero-One (and builds SO-DO)
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06-25-2022, 09:58 AM
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Regarding Zi-O, sorry, but how about my late reply in your thread there?
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Kamen Rider Die
KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE EPISODE 7 - ?I?M A HOT-BLOODED HUMAGEAR TEACHER!?
I like how they're all short stories about people, organic or inorganic. Aruto gets involved in someone's life for a few days, there's a discussion about how Humagears can be additive to the human experience, and he hopefully leaves them better off than when he found them. This episode's about a basketball coach Humagear named Kobe (
perfect
) and his players, so we get twenty-odd minutes of Aruto in a sports drama. The Humagear grows beyond its programming (literally no one told it to start coaching basketball, and the school administrator's bafflement about this development is
delightful
) and forges a connection with his players, one that's so powerful it bestows sapience upon it. We get to see a machine that believes in his players
so much
that he gambles his own existence on their abilities; players that end up repaying that belief with a second life for their coach. It's a story about how we're constantly teaching machines to mimic human behavior, so it's only right to start treating them with human respect. It's a sweet little story, and it?s something Zero-One is incredibly deft at telling.
This is probably the episode that proved Aruto's steadfast belief against Humagear. Kobe wouldn't grow beyond its programming, but becoming what Humagears are actually intended to be. For the administrator, it's probably baffling, but for Aruto, that should be the "I knew it" moment. Actually, Anna was also a case of this before. And even then, Kobe is not the highest level of the humanity display shown by Humagear, that'd be saved for later with its own in-universe term. There's also an irony here, for some humans, compared to Humagears, in how Kobe is more understanding to the kid's wishes, rather than the actual caretakers, with how the parents want the kids to focus on their studies instead, which is a display of stereotypical Asian parent that imposes their will on them, and also Satou, of which is too controlling of the school activities, though he's quite misguided to be suspicious of Kobe calling students by their number (actually reasonable assumption, and probably this episode's fault to not touch upon this again, like why?), or throwing a ball too hard at Yuta. Now due to this proving Aruto's belief, this'd really make Fuwa look bad, as him not caring about Kobe gaining sentience and the impact on his students, shows how clouded his judgment is so far, and makes him quite cold and heartless in this episode to not think about the actual humans being positively impacted by this.
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Kamen Rider Die
I never seem to enjoy the turns in the final act, because once MetsubouJinrai slaps a Zetsumeriser on the week?s Humagear, it stops being their story. Kobe isn't responsible for anything that happens afterward, and the switch from subject to victim is done by an outside force. Yeah, he's able to be made into a monster because of his sapience, but even that's just a happy accident, a lucky accrual of moments that created something miraculous. The fight at the end could be against anyone, for any reason. It?s not Kobe's story anymore, just like it stopped being Seiji and Seine's story last episode. The third act of all of these great short stories just vanishes to have a MetsubouJinrai Vs Kamen Riders fight, and that's getting a little frustrating. I like the fights! I just wish the fights felt more like they emerged out of decisions the week's characters were making, rather than in spite of them.
I guess, this'd be something that's more tragic regarding Humagears in general by their nature, at least to those who approved them, as them being turned into Magia isn't only causing an assault, but also practically invokes a loved one's death for those positively impacted. If it's the owner too, it'd be costly to buy a new one, like a property damage victim. For this part though, the MOTW fights would be now taken over by Assassin/Ansatsu-chan, someone who is actually a Magia from birth, instead of Humagears turned into 1. Magia does come from Humagear's sentience, but their personalities are still overwritten into a much more monstrous one. The difference of Magia-born like Assassin would be about them being reprogrammed, not forcibly hacked, thus their backup data is intact and the originals can be safely brought back in new bodies. There's an irony in how Assassin's animal motif is based on Dodo, a species that was wiped out by predators it couldn't adapt to in time. But Assassin is a brutal predator himself with a robust capability for adaptation and growth.
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Kamen Rider Die
KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE SO-DO AI 02: KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE - FREEZING BEAR
I like the suit a lot? It's mostly just the cold version of Flaming Tiger, as far as how it minimizes the COLOR parts for something more uniquely monochrome. The transparency of the chest piece is incredibly clever, making Zero-One appear partially frozen and adding a huge amount of dimensionality to the suit. It works really well, and it?s making me start to come around on these form changes. Not on Flying Falcon, though.
Jin can keep that Key as long as he wants!
Oh right, now this'd be a Zero-One (last) form change that I liked suit wise. Probably because for my tastes, this'd be the one that is the most consistently using its primary color scheme, blue. And as you said, actually the color mix is pleasant here in the transparent chest piece and carries more meaning like you said.
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Fish Sandwich
What also helps Zero-One is just that, again, the action is
relentlessly fun
. Even just that little throwdown between Valkyrie and Jin, for example. I know you don't quite feel like engaging with the shady stuff Yua's doing in the background just yet, but one thing I love about this episode is that, while it ends with her looking her shadiest yet, it also goes out of its way to put in a moment where she realizes there are civilians on the battlefield, and shields them from Jin with her own body. I really love the way the show builds up Yua early on a ton. The gap between her as a hero and her as someone with a hidden agenda is a lot of fun, and of course, I never get tired of that highly tactical fighting style.
Yua is established as the tertiary Rider before. But as this episode is mainly about Yua displaying more sinister side, displaying some outright ruthlessness rooted from her cold and detached demeanor, at least to Humagears especially after what's shown in Kobe, actually the part of her protecting civilians from Jin would be meant to humanize her, as in having a line she wouldn't cross, instead of being outright a hero. At this stage she'd be ambiguously bad, of course ambiguous as she'd be rather hard to categorize at this point.
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