[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Translation is fairly straightforward; Google can do it.

I'm not gonna lie, this statement offends me a bit.

[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreamSword

Tomorrow...

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Originally Posted by Daikaijuman54

That said, it's kind of funny how you don't really need context for these two? Since Takumi's already lost his powers, this is basically a blank slate of the character, and yet some of the tidbits of him I know just slightly shine through.

Certain characters transcend context, like with Takumi and Kusaka here. A tiny man who seems vaguely irritated to even exist! Them Eyebrows! That's pretty much all you need to know.

Also, ha ha ha, Where Are Their Powers is the least relevant Faiz question anyone could ever ask, so Zi-O's the perfect environment for them to return. Takumi could've given his Faiz Gear to a villain, forgotten it at home, lost it to a thief, or even had it swindled off of him by an especially self-confident tortoise. The possibility that the Time Jackers have stolen Faiz and Kaixa's powers is so far down the list of suspects for me.

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Originally Posted by Daikaijuman54

On another note, I always look forward to Woz's speeches.

He's really great! I keep forgetting to talk about Woz (I'm mostly waiting for him to be less of a cameo appearance, which feels like it could be soon) but he's a lot of fun in this show. There's a very cute scene in Episode 7 where Woz is like How's The Overlording Going and Sougo's like Good I'm Making Friends and Woz is just exhausted. It's the most non-hyped he's been around Sougo to date, and I really loved it.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I'm not gonna lie, this statement offends me a bit.

You translate, sure... but you also contextualize, scrutinize, theorize. There's a lot more to it!

Google could only do 75-90% of what you do!

(I kid, obviously. I'm sorry that Over-Time has gotten so good at localizing that there's no need for a Translation Cop! Maybe there'll be one last case in Reiwa or something...)

[Enchilada645]

I recall liking this arc quite a bit, though I was still in the phase of Zi-O where none of the Arc's were really grabbing me. Like they existed and they weren't horrible, so I sort of went along with the flow.

While 5 and 6 did shake up the Formula, I didn't think much of it back then because well. It was mostly them using Faiz to supplement the fact that no one from Fourze could return. Which is why I didn't feel too much of a weird leap when it came from jumping from that to Wizard.

That being said I do love the scenes at the beginning of Team Zi-O just interacting and Sougo being excited to go to a show with his friends. Even if they aren't technically his friends... but hey, potato, potaato, right?

Also after a few misses for me in terms of Another Riders (They're all still great, but some are better than others), Another Wizard really made me whistle when it came to the suit department. I love everything about it.

Anyway onto our BGM Swap and because we're still in the middle of an arc, we've still got Wizard. Which is fine.

Zero's Legend Episode Previews Corner - EP 8 Preview:

[AkibaSilver]

Woz really wants the kid to hurry up and, like, start comitting war crimes on a massive scale. Or at least pull the wings off a fly, something of any kind of evil.

And hey, Wizard arc! I'll save my thoughts for next time to talk about it as a complete bundl (which might be Monday since I'm busy this weekend, whoops), but I'll just add I love Another Wizard's design. All the Another Riders are pretty good, but very few of them are evil gem monsters.

[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

While 5 and 6 did shake up the Formula, I didn't think much of it back then because well. It was mostly them using Faiz to supplement the fact that no one from Fourze could return.

"No one from Fourze"?! Well, I guess OHSUGI and THE TWO LEAST-POPULAR MOVIE MUTANTS are just no one now! And you call yourself a Kamen Rider fan. Heartbreaking.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

That being said I do love the scenes at the beginning of Team Zi-O just interacting and Sougo being excited to go to a show with his friends. Even if they aren't technically his friends... but hey, potato, potaato, right?

My favorite part to the evolving... let's just say "relationship" of our leads is that it's like a Stockholm Syndrome (Sougo's very excited to have a date with his two potential executioners) that induces its own Stockholm Syndrome (Geiz and Tsukuyomi might have caught feelings for Kamen Rider Puppy Dog!), and that's the best.

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Originally Posted by AkibaSilver

Woz really wants the kid to hurry up and, like, start committing war crimes on a massive scale. Or at least pull the wings off a fly, something of any kind of evil.

Woz'z weekly Kamen Rider Zi-O recap thread was called When Are We Going To Get To The Genocide Factory.

[Switchblade]

I remember the Wizard episodes fairly well, but not a lot about them stand out to me aside from the fact that Minase Yashiro (The Machine Girl and W's Heat Dopant) is in them.

[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I remember the Wizard episodes fairly well, but not a lot about them stand out to me aside from the fact that Minase Yashiro (The Machine Girl and W's Heat Dopant) is in them.

Oh, yeah! The theater owner! Good catch!

[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I would take everything that Takumi and Kusaka say in this short with a GIGANTIC grain of salt. The kids are coming in with some intense skepticism about any Faiz/Fourze connections, and the Faiz Riders are kind of going overboard with their rebuttal. There's some real stuff in there, but I think they get a little goofy as their "evidence" increases.

So you're practically rejecting yourself. Takkun and Kusaka are just doing what we all do here or what the fandom does and write in some other sources of KR. Talking about the series and theorizing about it, only that if it's done on the show, it's more official. Hypocrite.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER ZI-O EPISODE 7 - ?MAGIC SHOWTIME 2018?

There?s definitely some Wizard themes at play, but they?re a lot more subtle than I?d like. Hopelessness is the main emotion of the Another Wizard host, Hayase. He?s desperate to cling to some sense of stability, rather than try and reinvent himself. His world is moving on without him, and his need to keep everything the same has him spinning out of control.

Hayase actually shows a misfortune of someone being too good, and too famous/successful, that Nagayama wanted to shut down the stage anyway as he deserved bigger stage. It's another unknown stuff that Kaori (Heat Dopant) is already engaged too. So Hayase's about futility of his efforts due to some unknown information regarding what's surrounding his life.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

That tension between Geiz and Sougo is the main thing this episode has to offer. There?s nothing in the way of Legend appearances, and the Time Mission is sort of bland. (The show?s really having a tough time sketching out its one-story characters in a compelling way? They don?t really pop, you know? Adequate at moving the story along, but pretty two-dimensional.) While it?s fun to see how differently Sougo and Geiz approach an investigation ? Sougo and Tsukuyomi talk to people and put together clues, Geiz runs around Tokyo until he just runs into a monster, which is actually SUPER Wizard ? we?re not really in a tricky storyline or anything. It?s a bit wide-open, probably so we can start to resolve/progress the relationship of Geiz and Sougo.

Now here there's the usual primary and secondary Rider clash, and it shows that Geiz doesn't have the executioner approach only to Sougo, but to anyone that he deems as evil and a threat like Hayase, any Another Rider. This shows more about Geiz being an anti-hero like many other secondary Riders and him being similar to someone like Gou who also had prejudice towards the 'bad' species. This shows that the cutthroat approach Geiz holds also isn't entirely benefical, as he had a case of self-fulfilling prophecy here of actually kickstarting Hayase's villainy by provoking him. E̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶T̶e̶r̶u̶i̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶W̶ ̶d̶i̶d̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶v̶o̶k̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶m̶a̶g̶i̶c̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶M̶O̶T̶W̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶L̶i̶l̶y̶.̶ Though this episode had a good balance on showing how Sougo's more empathetic approach to diplomatically deal with Hayase can slow down things when Hayase started harming people, though while it's partly Geiz' fault, it had happened. Geiz would've made the situation even worse with him attempting to create an infighting to Sougo before Tsukuyomi stopped them though.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I think it works for Sougo?s character to not understand why he and Geiz can?t be friends, though. There?s an obliviousness to Sougo?s character that vacillates between Troubling and Adorable, and it?s way more on the Adorable end of the spectrum this episode. Like, Sougo and Geiz are teammates, and they can be friends. Geiz?z insistence on making things easy for himself by being intractable and stubborn is a defense mechanism, and Sougo?s right to keep pushing back against it. Much like Hayase's frustrating need to cling onto a theater no one else wants anymore, Geiz would rather vilify Sougo forever than open himself up to the possibility that Sougo is redeemable. It?s hard to risk that certainty, even if it makes you sadder and angrier to keep it.

I guess I mostly consider friendships/relationships with less conflict/tension between them as a closer one, (though obviously there's specific exceptions for banters that clearly showed they're friends like Sento and Banjou), and Tsukuyomi against Sougo here is that with them complementing their worldview as you said. Though Sougo does value Geiz as closely, Geiz' hostility against Sougo are actual hatred (even when there's likely some tsundere traits) for plausible reasons. For Sougo asking the executioner to talk, Geiz should've learned with the Hayase incident, but Geiz' quite self-righteous to have the mentality of destroying any evil if they aren't seen to do the 'right thing', so it'd be harder to get this through Geiz' head. Geiz is weirded out for him never feeling as in he's in the wrong, but that should be something for Geiz to learn (for both Sougo and Hayase). Though Geiz' trait here would later lead into another one of Sougo's capabilities.

Other than that, Woz also teases Sougo and Geiz' potential friends for Woz' agenda of him grooming up Sougo, and there's a set up of their history with Geiz never beating Woz. But Woz is also opposing Geiz and Tsukuyomi again as Sougo grows closer and his goal can be foiled. And Woz saved Geiz before from Schwartz, the main antagonist, and he actually shows how to use the time stop the proper way by actually almost killing Geiz. Schwartz is the one that's actually not fucking around.

[catwhowalks]

FYI, I will not be posting an English cover of "Magic is Showtime." I could only find 3 of them. 1 was very not good, 1 was less not good, and the other one was Remy and I don't want to just take one because I have no choice. Besides, I'm not sold on his singing for this one, although as usually his lyric writing is very good.

EDIT: Have the next 2 covered though. Guess I need to figure out how I'm going to handle the movie.

[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

So you're practically rejecting yourself.

Pretty much! I would take everything I say with an even bigger grain of salt than what Takumi and Kusaka are saying. Art is rarely, if ever, objective. We all process it differently.

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Originally Posted by catwhowalks

FYI, I will not be posting an English cover of "Magic is Showtime." I could only find 3 of them. 1 was very not good, 1 was less not good, and the other one was Remy and I don't want to just take one because I have no choice. Besides, I'm not sold on his singing for this one, although as usually his lyric writing is very good.

EDIT: Have the next 2 covered though. Guess I need to figure out how I'm going to handle the movie.

Understood! Thanks for keeping us informed!