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03-22-2023, 12:38 AM | #1161 |
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Oh right, Red Shadow Moon exists! Admittedly I'm surprised to see a full on suit of him since most times I think I've only seen figure/3D game models represent the form.
That being said, that suit looks hella nice. They really should use it more often in like live action productions.
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03-22-2023, 11:21 PM | #1162 |
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KAMEN RIDER SABER: FINAL STAGE
Regardless of the quality of the entire Final Stage for Saber (good, not great), the idea to take the old Kamen Rider Lupin suit from Drive and reuse it as Kamen Rider Tassel? Genius. Absolutely brilliant. I wish I could buy that suit as a figure right this second. The lack of a headsword alone would make it one of my favorite Saber suits, but the color scheme and overall flamboyance puts it in first place for me. I’d say Hat's Off To The Designer, but, I like the hat the best! Don’t take it off! Otherwise, this was a good stage show, which inched towards greatness without ever quite getting there. Like, the story of Dark World and people’s evil dreams needing a world to exist in… that’s a really clever concept? There’s a value to darkness, to letting yourself examine and analyze your darker impulses, rather than just ignoring them. That’s something inside everyone, especially during difficult times. The danger is in losing perspective to those darker impulses, and feeling like they’re all that exists, or ever will exist. Kudos for making that a villain for Saber and the gang to overcome… is what I’d be saying if this wasn’t just another apocalyptic plot that never really emotionally or intellectually challenged our heroes. It’s all just random stuff Tassel Dark says to justify an apocalypse, and random stuff Touma pushes back against in a grandiose speech about Stories. There’s the kernel of an interesting foe – how does Touma reconcile his hopes for positive storytelling with the necessary catharsis that can only come about when dark stories are allowed to be told – but the actual on-stage presence is all bland villainy and a million suits. Well, there’re also fun callbacks and new team-ups, which is about where this show got me back on its side. Saber and Storious! Blades and Zooous! Sabela and Sophia and I don’t remember who else! It’s very fun to see the resurrected(-ish) Book Club team up with their former foes to take down Asmodeus et al., and it’s exactly the sort of crowd-pleasing storytelling that makes this show work. I just want to be entertained with a thoughtful narrative; if I can’t get it via compelling metaphors, I’ll take it through character work and fan service. At the end of the day, this was another Kamen Rider stage show. They probably sold a bunch of glow sticks and made a ton of children happy, so I’m not going to say it was unsuccessful. I had an okay time, even if I found the first third a little dull. (Really perked up when that Kamen Rider Tassel suit debuted.) I just… I feel like there was a really clever idea buried in all of the combat, and it never really got a chance to be explored. I expected more from Saber’s Final Stage, I guess.
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03-22-2023, 11:29 PM | #1163 |
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I don't have too many deep thoughts on the Saber Stage Show, but it has been a wellspring of ideas when it comes to aspects of my Saber crossover.
Ultimate Bahamut is a really cool design. Basically turning Emotional Dragon all black with gold is really cool. Also him dual wielding the Xross Saber and Kaenken Rekka is cool. There's also Kamen Rider Tassel! Farewell Kamen Rider Lupin, you will be missed! But you made a pretty cool kitbash in the end so I can't feel too bad. Also I really want them to release Tassel Dark's book, those jingles are too great to just be stageshow exclusive. Not much to really say about this stageshow but I do love that the Book Club once regaining their senses are like "Yeah we're just helping the heroes". Also fun fact. There were a total of three Desast Walks that happened with this Final Stage. So excuse the next few posts but I do kind of want to keep these separate in a sense. Desast Walk EX01: "Hello, humans. I'm Desast. Long time no see! I've been through a lot, but I'm back now. But this city smells sweet and black, decadent and luscious. It's called Takoyaki? That's not bad." |
03-22-2023, 11:30 PM | #1164 |
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Desast Walk EX02:
"Hello, humans. I'm Desast. I knew ramen needed red ginger! The people in this town know better than Ren. I'd like to stay here a little longer, but next week is my last day. I don't have a choice. I'm off to Tokyo." |
03-22-2023, 11:30 PM | #1165 |
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Desast Walk EX03:
"Hi humans. I'm dessert Do you know deep-fried red pickled ginger? The world is so wide that there is such a delicious thing. My trip ends tomorrow, but thanks to you, it was fun. Good luck to the end." Note: No actual good translations for this so have a good old google translate for this last one. |
03-22-2023, 11:39 PM | #1166 |
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Thanks so much for those bonus Desast Walks! I'm glad he and Ren could have fun for the last time ever, since Desast never returned in any other series or specials. What a beautiful and final farewell!
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03-23-2023, 02:37 AM | #1167 |
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Great fun show. Cool teams, interesting use of fairy tales and we finally got the evil Tassel. Also the final fight between him and Touma when they take Xcross from each other is very good, even with the limitations of the stage production.
It's also funny that since the position of the secondary rider in Saber was very tight and was claimed by Rintaro, Kento and Yuri, this show decided to confuse everything even more and let Storius play this role. And seeing them with Touma on the same side was really cool. And as the main defender of the position "Shindai is not incest!" I have to comment on Reiki's desire to marry her brother.Despite the obviousness of this statement, I still note that it rather speaks of the immaturity of the character, because this can often be heard from children. Plus, she was in the role of Cinderella. But most of all I liked Ultimate Bahamut. A stunningly beautiful costume, while not looking too catchy or ridiculous, as is often the case with similar forms. Not when I didn?t particularly dwell on the riders? armor, but I would gladly see this armor again. Trio of the Deep Sin ahead, if I'm not mistaken? |
03-23-2023, 04:37 PM | #1168 |
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I'd have to go watch it again to better elaborate on it, but naturally, I enjoyed this show a lot. I think it was like... maybe, well-rounded, or something, but uh, honestly, my memories of it are currently dominated by a year of Three Musketeers comparisons paying off with a pun only Aruto (or me) could think was funny. The image of Saber, Blades, and Espada wearing those costumes over their costumes is insanely endearing to me. It looks like the three of them are chilling at a ren fair or something, which seems pretty on-brand for these characters. You just know the version of Saber that had time for wacky episodic plots would've used that premise at some point. Or I don't know, maybe I'm just pitching some fan-fiction of my own right now.
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03-23-2023, 07:29 PM | #1169 |
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But most of all I liked Ultimate Bahamut. A stunningly beautiful costume, while not looking too catchy or ridiculous, as is often the case with similar forms. Not when I didn?t particularly dwell on the riders? armor, but I would gladly see this armor again.
Trio of the Deep Sin ahead, if I'm not mistaken? As for Ultimate Bahamut, I'm a fan. It's solid stage-show suit! Quote:
I think it was like... maybe, well-rounded, or something, but uh, honestly, my memories of it are currently dominated by a year of Three Musketeers comparisons paying off with a pun only Aruto (or me) could think was funny. The image of Saber, Blades, and Espada wearing those costumes over their costumes is insanely endearing to me.
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03-23-2023, 10:09 PM | #1170 |
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KAMEN RIDER SABER: TRIO OF DEEP SIN
“And I miss Tara and Melissa, Allen and John And you'll never have friends like you did when you were young But our bodies were pulled away and swept out to the sea And I'd call and say hi if I thought you'd remember me ‘cause some things are worth leaving old memories for” -The Elected, “Greetings in Braille” All memories are loss. It’s the nature of memory as a past tense. It’s something that happened, but is now over; a feeling tied to a moment that can’t be touched. It’s weightless but ever-present. We say “haunted by memory” because memories are like ghosts: the aftermath of decisions and actions, loves and their lacking. We go through life accumulating memories, and eventually, the weight of them becomes another obstacle to overcome, a foe to be bested. What happened to the people we were, and the people we knew? What would we have done differently? What do we regret? What do we miss? Your early 30s is when you inevitably feel it. Your life has started, hopefully. Education and apprenticeship is over, and you’re free to make your own choices. The tight-knit friendships of your youth are exposed as proximity, and steadily peeled away through inattention or circumstance. Best friends become friends become acquaintances become social media reminders of birthdays. It’s no one’s fault. Everyone’s stories are separating, and becoming more complex; the cast of characters getting their own spin-offs, and new supporting casts to go along with them. You get focused on your goals and accompanying milestones: romance, children, career, etc. The parts of your life that were occupied by one group get occupied by another, and the earlier memories start to change shape. What was an in-joke now becomes a solitary secret; a code no one you know now can interpret. There’s a sorrow to that, the growing up of it all. Time slips away; eight years pass in the blink of an eye. You turn around, and you realize that the people you once talked to every day are the people you haven’t heard from in years. The happier times come up as a marker of distance, of disconnection. Depression kicks in at weird times. There’s a place you want to go, but it’s unreachable. There’s a feeling you remember like yesterday, but so long ago it’s like a story someone told you. It’s hard to have perspective. The memories… it’s all bittersweet. It’s all what isn’t, and the way it’ll never be again. The absence becomes all you can see. But memories are about things you can’t ever lose. The time you don’t have with someone doesn’t change the time you did have with them. The loss is only a reminder of what you had, and the value of it. A memory is proof of a thing, not the lack of it. To lash out at the world for what you can only hold in memory is to miss the joy that the memory can bring you. The friendships that change and fade are still friendships you had, friends you made. Resenting the present for not being the past is just a way of denying yourself a future. It’s not always easy to see those memories as a source of strength. It’s easier, perhaps, to see them as a source of pain, or of sadness. But the hard work of being an adult means finding a way to push forward from a growing lifetime of memories, and find strength in both the good and the bad. Our memories are a story we tell ourselves, and we get to decide how that story makes us feel, and the part it plays in the people we are today. We get to decide how that story ends.
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