[SPLIT LIP]

EDIT: Eeech.

[Powerman293]

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Originally Posted by MidoGreen

The basic gist of Ryuki: A bunch of douches(and two nice guys who are wild cards) are stuck in a time loop untill the asshole controlling the time loop gets the outcome he desires. That's the really over-simplified synopsis of the series .

LOL if you view it that way.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Raia was also really cool. I always forget him because of how brief his time in-show was, but he was another interesting character. He was a prophet, and his predictions were supposedly always right, but he still fought against predictions he didn't like. It was interesting, like he wasn't mindless or complacent with his prophecies.

Also, he wasn't actually meant to be Raia. His boyfriend was killed by a mirror monster before he could use the deck.

Ryuki isn't really confusing, but none of the movies are in-canon and are based on nothing in particular. Not the show or other movies.

It's basically the same suits and characters with a different plot each movie.

It's more complex, but that doesn't really mean it's "good."

Ryuki had a habit of doing too much.

Wow Raia sounds very different to Sting, and it sounds like a very different kind of story with prophets and time loops. Sting was a guy who let his family down (well he didn't really, but he felt he did and that was the most important thing), as he couldn't become a marine due to asthma. Xaviax uses Chris' desire to please his father to rope him into the War, but his asthma still basically cripples him in fights which is exactly why the Doctor didn't let him become a marine in the first place.

Honestly I'm not getting any more convinced by Ryuki, but it is just fun to find out just how different the shows are despite using the same footage. All this crazy stuff is going on in Ryuki while Dragon Knight seems to be much more down to Earth.

[SPLIT LIP]

Raia was the only rider besides Ryuki who wanted to stop the fighting. He foresaw the Rider battle's conclusion, and didn't like it.

He ate shit at the hands of Ouja, though. Just when he got the ability to an upgrade, but never got the chance to use it. Knight used it instead.

Ryuki is mostly nothing special, aside from Zolda, who is more complex a character than is typically seen in any kind of show. He and his boy-toy butler Gorou (who's actor is also Bandou from Gaim playing a TOTALLY different character) are the best part to watch. Raia was very different and neat, and Ryuki himself was true hero, but overall Ryuki was melodramatic and ill-paced, and Ouja's one of the worst characters ever.

EDIT: Also, the "time loop" only happens once. And it's basically just so a single event is stopped. (and it's one of Ryuki's best moments as a character) the show itself is on a time limit, but the entire point of the show is nonsensical.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

EDIT: Also, the "time loop" only happens once. And it's basically just so a single event is stopped. (and it's one of Ryuki's best moments as a character) the show itself is on a time limit, but the entire point of the show is nonsensical.

A lot of fans retcon the 13 Riders special and Episode Final movie into continuity by saying they were other versions of the loop. I don't know if there's any official confirmation of that one way or the other.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by SideswipePrime

I thought TV-Nihon subbed it. They usually have good video quality.

You have to think about this though. Nihon has only done Blade and Hibiki once, and that was when they were first airing on TV. As such, they are using TV rips and because they are from 2004 and 2005, the video quality is quite atrocious along with their codecs being extremely old (my TV doesn't even recognize the files they are so old). Oh, and if I recall, for Blade, episode 41 was from a different source, so the video quality looks like it was ripped off a VHS.

[KyoryuGreen]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

You have to think about this though. Nihon has only done Blade and Hibiki once, and that was when they were first airing on TV. As such, they are using TV rips and because they are from 2004 and 2005, the video quality is quite atrocious along with their codecs being extremely old (my TV doesn't even recognize the files they are so old). Oh, and if I recall, for Blade, episode 41 was from a different source, so the video quality looks like it was ripped off a VHS.

Ah Blade didn't look that bad to me. Most of them look pretty good honestly.

Also I've seen the worst video quality of all so Anything is better lol.

[KyoryuGreen]

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Originally Posted by ShockerCon

For the record, I also rather liked Drake. I don't really see why people hate him.

I don't know how people can hate Drake, he is one of the best characters of Kabuto.

[Locke]

DK 10. WHAT A TWIST.

Anyway, this is a weird episode, as Brad gets much heavier focus than the likes of pretty much everyone else but Len so it makes it seem like he's gonna become a major character. Lol nope. At least he's not Camo.

In terms of him as an actual Rider, his Final Vent looks pretty impressive visually, it's cool he gets to summon his Advent Beast to fight with him and it's a whole lot better than wrapping yourself in a cape and falling but after the awesomeness of Lansing's general power set, and Kit's amazing Final Vent he is a little underwhelming. At least he's not Camo.

Xaviax confirmed for best toku villain ever? I love how he uses manipulation, over muscle, it just feels refreshing and borderline original to have a villain who doesn't just send down monsters one at a time until they realise there is five episodes left so they actually have to start doing something. Not to mention that William O'Leary appears to be having the time of his LIFE portraying him. He's just the best kind of blend for a villain, fun and effective. Anything that slides out of his hands is pretty much not his fault, as he has to work with what he's got, due to the Decks being DNA locked.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by KyoryuGreen

Ah Blade didn't look that bad to me. Most of them look pretty good honestly.

Also I've seen the worst video quality of all so Anything is better lol.

Oh, I've seen worse. I used to own DVD-Rs of fansubs from DBZ that were of the video quality from back in 2000 when it was best to watch the files with the smallest screen possible so you could actually see what was going on. That is how I initially watched the Majin Buu saga.