[Battlizer]

Blade 23

So...these mini-werewolf Halloween Mask things aren't Undead, but their zombie servants. Huh. That's the first time these undead have acted like stereotypical undead... And where the hell were these undead hunters in the past 22 episodes?!

Cool seeing Blade, Garren, and LEangle all fightign together, though. Even if it was for all of five seconds. Also interesting seeing what appears to be a rather docile Undead.

Even though it's sort of annoying, I kind of find amusement in the fact that Mutsuki just wants to hoard up on really powerful Undead cards. The part where Tachibana called him out on it and he just ran away was hilarious. Just goes to show you don't fake responsibility when Tachibana's around.

Black Fang does indeed look cool. Those Undead Hunter guys still haven't bothered to explain where they got their shit from, leading Tachibana to rightfully distrust them. Somewhat. Not enough to not help them out anyway. Kenzaki seems to be too excited over the prospect of cool new gadgets and potential allies to care.

Hmm. Of course the wolf(?) Undead would get his hands on Black And I really like Elphant Undead and his chill personality.

[Locke]

You know the most frustrating thing about the Fourze movie? It actually serves as a fantastic expansion of the series.

Ryusei gets the growth he needs that he never got in the show, it returns Gen back to when he was actually a good character, it gives the Kamen Rider Club a purpose like it never had in the series, gives great moments to largely forgotten characters and...none of this has any impact on the show at all, I don't even know if it counts as canon with the way none of it is ever mentioned or has any impact on the show and that is just a damn shame as it makes better use of the characters than anything featured in the second half of the series.

I'd honestly say I think people should just watch Fourze until Meteor is introduced, then just watch the movie and you'd actually probably have a better experience.

[SPLIT LIP]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I'd honestly say I think people should just watch Fourze until Meteor is introduced, then just watch the movie and you'd actually probably have a better experience.

Should I ever watch Fourze, I may just do that.

Though I don't think I will for a while.

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Locke

You know the most frustrating thing about the Fourze movie? It actually serves as a fantastic expansion of the series.

Ryusei gets the growth he needs that he never got in the show, it returns Gen back to when he was actually a good character, it gives the Kamen Rider Club a purpose like it never had in the series, gives great moments to largely forgotten characters and...none of this has any impact on the show at all, I don't even know if it counts as canon with the way none of it is ever mentioned or has any impact on the show and that is just a damn shame as it makes better use of the characters than anything featured in the second half of the series.

I'd honestly say I think people should just watch Fourze until Meteor is introduced, then just watch the movie and you'd actually probably have a better experience.

One part of the Fourze movie that I loved was that it gave the entirety of the KRC something to do. It was great to see them kick ass and have a presence beyond standing behind a pillar watching the fight (Which even Shun devolved into once Meteor showed up and made the Power Dizer pointless).

You probably could count it as canon. It's not like pre-Den-O movies, which practically told audiences that they were alternate universes (And, if any consolation, Inga shows up in Movie War Ultimatum, which make it somewhat canon).

Anyway, what were your thoughts on the Switch distribution scene? That scene seems to split a lot of opinions between "Endearing and nice" or "Dragged out and boring."

[Battlizer]

Blade 25

So the Elphant Undead plans on ruling the Earth by being pacifistic and lettign the other Riders and Undead kill eachother. Solid plan. Elephant's a cool dude. But damn it, Kotaro! Why help Miyuki? Something tells me that won't end up going too well for you...And it would've if Hajime hadn't shown up!.


In hindsight...Shinmei being the Wolf Undead should've been REALLY obvious to me last episode. As soon as I heard that Black Fang powered up Undead in this one, it all came together for me. Gotta hand it to wolf dude for going through such elaborate measures, though.

Double rider kicks are always awesome. And not sure if I've mentioned this before, but Tachibana's probably my favorite of the four now. I really like his reasoning for blowing up the Fang. They were meant to use that technology to protect humanity, a goal dear to the BOARD members hearts. But now that it's use had been perverted for an evil Undead to cause havok, it's purpose became lost and twisted and thus, had to be destroyed. Even if it did look pretty fucking cool.

[Battlizer]

Blade 26

Weird intro for this new character,Shima. He seems cool though, especially for an Undead. Tachibana gave him the most distrusting glare ever when he first saw him, but I'm starting to think that's how he greets everyone.


Damn it Mustuki, I thought you had this shit under control! Every time he starts acting like a whiny tool, the fucking Spider Undead takes over again. I see Tachibana essentially had the same reaction when he saw him.


Hmm. Elephant had an 'oh shit' reaction when fighting Hajime, right before Hajime suffered another random pain attack. Kinda foreboding. Hajime's not just the odd one out among humans, but Undead as well, it seems. Looks like it got Elephant a little too arrogant, though...

Sweet, new form for Blade! Looks pretty strong, though I'm sorry to see Elephant go because of it.

[Matrixbeast]

Yeah. Mutsuki's entire story seems to drag on way too long than it needs...Makes it tedious since it plays out the exact same way every time.

[Battlizer]

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Yeah. Mutsuki's entire story seems to drag on way too long than it needs...Makes it tedious since it plays out the exact same way every time.

Ugh. I really liked the way it was solved previously too.

[Switchblade]

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But damn it, Kotaro! Why help Miyuki? Something tells me that won't end up going too well for you...And it would've if Hajime hadn't shown up!.

It's Mika Hijii. I'd do anything for her, too.

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Yeah. Mutsuki's entire story seems to drag on way too long than it needs...Makes it tedious since it plays out the exact same way every time.

I tend to assume this was the one big casualty of the writing staff switch mid-series. Everything else just got more awesome, but Mutsuki's story totally stalled. Although at least the Tiger Undead is cool.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

One part of the Fourze movie that I loved was that it gave the entirety of the KRC something to do. It was great to see them kick ass and have a presence beyond standing behind a pillar watching the fight (Which even Shun devolved into once Meteor showed up and made the Power Dizer pointless).

You probably could count it as canon. It's not like pre-Den-O movies, which practically told audiences that they were alternate universes (And, if any consolation, Inga shows up in Movie War Ultimatum, which make it somewhat canon).

Anyway, what were your thoughts on the Switch distribution scene? That scene seems to split a lot of opinions between "Endearing and nice" or "Dragged out and boring."

The main reason I question its canon...ness...is not only does it have no impact on the series but I have no idea where the hell it fits into the series, lots of aspects kinda contradict and confuse its place in the timeline. Libra is alive, Gamou has all the switches, Ryusei is still reluctant to reveal his identity, the Rabbit Hatch is okay etc etc etc if we assume this happened like between the episode where Gamou opens the dark nebula for the first time and the episode before it, it just seems like this film went on too long (in fourze world time) to logically just slide in there.

The only scene I felt like it dragged was the Apostle scene, I know that was there to introduce Wizard (and what a cool introduction!) but the scene had no wider purpose, it was just self indulgence and it just went on and on and on and just completely overstayed its welcome.

In many senses you could say that a lot about the first half of the film as huge action sequences exploded from nowhere but Black Knight was fucking awesome so I don't care

If I was to have any criticisms of the switch distribution scene, I got fed up of the damn blubbering all the way through the film. Gen cried more over that fucking space station than he did of Kengo's "death", and Yuuki's whining and the shots of Tomoko blubbering were repeated over and over for like ten minutes. It was just sappy and annoying.