[Den-O]

Joker
The one who waits

Trial
The unsealable ones

King
One who must be sealed

Let's Watch Blade 31-33!

[uchihabro77]

Oh crap its that time again! Glad I got caught up Sunday! Now to wait until tomorrow for these thanks to work.

[Dr Kain]

Gotta love snow days. :

And we being a new saga in the world of Blade with a brand new opening song (good, but no where near as good as the first one), a King Undead, and a whole lot of Joker hate. With the way everyone acts, you would think Joker molested these dudes when they were younger. Oh yeah, and we also got KyoryuGreen's father after he went crazy for some Undead loving. :-p BTW, why must every computer program in Japan that is supposed to reveal something unexpected to the characters so complicated on the computer screen? What happened to just having a file explaining what would happen instead of some encryptic video?

Seriously though, these episodes have really started to raise the stakes as there really aren't many non-high rank Undeads left, so now the big boys are coming out to play. On top of that, I just love the Artificial Undead's reveal and I am not sure why, but I always get a Psycho Mantis feel from these dudes. I really liked the time powers this Undead had, but I have to say that watching the little shields appear over the King whenever Kenzaki went to hit him was pretty damn awesome. Makes me think of a video game boss.

It is nice to learn the truth being Hajime and that the Human Undead has a huge influence on him in the same manner as Leangle does on Mutsuki. Speaking of Mutsuki, he looks freaking bad ass dressed like a gangster. Plus, just moving those cards around like he did was pretty bad ass. Speaking of bad ass, how about that fight between Garren and Blade? WOW!! Although, you would think Garren would have cracked a bone or something falling from that high up. My only complaint is how Kenzaki just let three guys that wanted to rape Nozomi get away to rape another day so he could fully focus on the King. Other than that and another freaking cliff hanger, these episodes rocked!! I cannot wait for next week.

[Young Optimus14]

Good episodes. Can;t wait for next week!

[MidoGreen]

Oh man this was a doozy of a LWW. We have all of Hajime cards(pun intended) laid out of the table. He's the Joker Undead, and the reason why he keeps the using the Spirit Card is that he doesn't want to return to that state. Then we have this Category King trying to push Hajime so that he will return being Joker just for shits and giggles. And to top things off on the Hajime/Joker front, we learn that if the Joker Undead is the last one standing all life gets wiped out. This sets up some interestings intereactions at Kenzaki wants to defend Hajime, Tachibana wants to seal him to save humanity, and Mutsuki wants him out of the was to preserve order. The really ratcheted up things with this stuff alone.

I'll cover my thoughts on the other non-Hajime/Joker events a bit later.

[Deus]

Just curious, where are you guys watching the Kamen Rider episodes? I always see the "Let's Watch" threads, but there's never a link to the shows. I know there's a Sentai page on Facebook with tons of stuff from GoRanger through Kyoryuger, but I've never seen one for Kamen Rider.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Deus

Just curious, where are you guys watching the Kamen Rider episodes? I always see the "Let's Watch" threads, but there's never a link to the shows. I know there's a Sentai page on Facebook with tons of stuff from GoRanger through Kyoryuger, but I've never seen one for Kamen Rider.

It depends, but I am watching my REgion 2 DVDs for this show.

[losondro]

I love how these three focused on Joker and a little on Kenzaki. That Trial... thing is kind of creepy though seeing how it can absorb the card after being beaten then getting back up. Kind of stupid that Kenzaki tried to seal it A SECOND TIME EVEN AFTER IT FAILED THE FIRST TIME!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to see King-form next episode! So shiny.

[MidoGreen]

So, now my thoughts on the other events in these episodes. We have the return of Hirose's dad(did we know he was missing/presumsed dead? I forget) and he pretty much hands Tachibana all of BOARD's data on a silver platter. Between that, telling him to get Kenzaki away from the Rider system, and Trial D/cracking the code on Undead immorality makes me wonder what he is up to. I really like Mutsuki's return to action after a brief hiatus. Even though it looks like Shima lost the power struggle to the Ace, I like Mutsuki better now that he isn't just being pulled around on strings by Leangle and has embraced the darkness. And then we have the appearance of a new King Undead. I have to say I liked the appearing shields to block and physical assualts made on him, and he used the time stopping Undead pretty well while it was with him. The new opening is pretty cool. Not as good as Round Zero, but has some better variety in footage. Finally, the Missing Ace stuff at the end of 32 gives us sneak peaks of suits that appear in the future like Blade King Form and Joker Undead. I always find it amusing how Tokusatsu never tries to hide spoilers like that.

Speaking Blade King Form, it's going to debut next week and I'm pumped for it.

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Originally Posted by Deus

Just curious, where are you guys watching the Kamen Rider episodes? I always see the "Let's Watch" threads, but there's never a link to the shows. I know there's a Sentai page on Facebook with tons of stuff from GoRanger through Kyoryuger, but I've never seen one for Kamen Rider.

I use http://krdl.info/ to get stuff for LWW.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by MidoGreen

I always find it amusing how Tokusatsu never tries to hide spoilers like that.

It's not just Toku though, it is everything Japanese. They named the DBZ episodes "Freeza Halved by a Single Stroke!! Another Super Saiyan" and "My Dad is Vegeta... Admissions of the Mysterious Youth," telling you exactly what was going to happen in them.

They do this all of the time. Japan does not believe in no spoilers.

I think Macross is the only show that had its opening withheld from the first episode when it originally premiered to keep the Valkyrie's hidden from the public, but that was back in 82.