[DreadBringer]

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Episode 41: Reza's Fight in the Parallel World

And yet, it works? Like, this episode was so awesome! And Kurata is so cool in this! He's absolutely the main star and I'm here for it!

There's less suit aspect of Satria Naga than I expect, for this episode one, he mostly fought using his sword.

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Once the war sequence breaks out, all bets are off. You got Kurata taking on legions of Gladion soldiers. Azazel and Karax in a duel to the death. Kurata transforming into a giant dragon out of nowhere! Yeah, turns out that Naga was also the dragon that we saw at the start of "The Beginning" all that time ago. You know, the dragon that helped Ray become Bima-X to begin with? And he also imparts an interesting gift onto Reza as well...

Naga is the Indonesian word of dragon, so this should be expected, otherwise what is the "naga" part of someone named Satria Naga?

[DreamSword]

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Naga is the Indonesian word of dragon, so this should be expected, otherwise what is the "naga" part of someone named Satria Naga?

I did not know that. Neat detail!

[AyaToyBox]

Not sure whether discussed before, but I should make big note
"Satria naga kai"should be the next series the costume and the Pilot episodealso already shown around , but the closing of the indonesia branch basically ended partnership hence cancel the live action series .... The next satria series Bima S ended as animation

[DreamSword]

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Not sure whether discussed before, but I should make big note
"Satria naga kai"should be the next series the costume and the Pilot episodealso already shown around , but the closing of the indonesia branch basically ended partnership hence cancel the live action series .... The next satria series Bima S ended as animation

Yeah, that was noted. It's a shame that the live-action stuff had to go out like that, but it was fun while it lasted.

[AyaToyBox]

Yes as indonesian it's also very fun while it lasted, even today the most viewed post on my blog internationally are the bima figures from convenience store lol

[DreadBringer]

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Episode 42: The Suspicious Rena

Episode 43: Bringing Back Rena

The premise of these episodes is that Lady Mossa has brainwashed Rena, and is using her to both attack our heroes as well as steal the Power Stones. Funnily enough, Dimas is the only one who really puts things together as events unfold, and in kind of an odd way? He claims it's due to him sensing the emotions behind Rena, but a much easier angle, and the one I thought they were going for based on how the scene was shot, was Rena's' obvious lie about her ring. But no, that's never really brought up, weirdly enough.

It's ironic that Dimas is the one who understands common people the least, as well as not being the actual member of the Iskandar family, by blood or adopted (living with them since childhood). And here there's Rena fighting again, but as brainwashed one, but she can easily knock Randy off his feet by this.

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And if it sounds like I'm about to tear these episodes a new one, I'm really not. Sure, they have flaws, but in the end, Ishibashi had to've done something right, because the emotional climax of it all really did work for me. From Rena's' nearly fatal injuries, to Randy rushing Lady Mossa, I was super into the soap opera aspect of it all(in Mossa's' own words). It helped that the musical score was really good too.

Ironic too that you're into the soap opera aspect in this, coming from a country which is infamous about how low-quality and cringe-inducing their soap opera products are. Though I guess implementing soap opera aspects in a non-soap opera based media here isn't a red flag as it can be done as a parodic way.

[DreadBringer]

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Episode 44: Vudo's Deadly Assault

Bima-X starts to have large texts as the episodes title or when there's a commercial break, just like Kamen Rider, but dunno why I usually find those kinda corny, like how I think this episode's title is just so uninspired, VUDO's Deadly Assault... like it's all Bima is about.

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This is so cool for so many reasons. The fact that the mooks get to be a legitimate threat for once is great to see. Their danger not being in their might like most monster of week, but rather their out of nowhere attack ontop of just how frikken many of them there are. By extension of that, we get a look into something that not many other toku talk about: That the heroes can't save everyone at once, and that off screen, people are suffering and possibly dying.

I'm someone who's normally bored off when watching mook fights, where for this series, even in human forms, the Satrias can beat them up no problem, so it'd be good indeed that the mooks are used on the public where the civilians aren't safe, even if the heroes can beat them up no problem, rather than using the mooks only to show off the heroes' abilities.

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It's also great to see Rena take the lead for once. The result was not a only a highlight in Rena's' own unique way of handling things, but some rather unexpected callbacks. There's a brief callback to the crush she had in the original BIMA, and as it turns out, Cinta is actually tied directly to episode 12 and 13 of BIMA too! You know, the two-parter that featured the Gills Monster as well as Bima pulling a Batman on the CEO of a gas company? Yeah, Cinta is the sister of the kid from those episodes.

Rena seems to be was also rather a lead in the Scarlet Bintang/Rafflesia 2-parter. As usual, I don't really agree on telling one to not cry (like Kouta at Gaim's first episode). There's a merchandise about Bima in-universe too, which I wonder who'd be the maker and publisher there. Cinta is the Indonesian word of "love".

[DreamSword]

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Ironic too that you're into the soap opera aspect in this, coming from a country which is infamous about how low-quality and cringe-inducing their soap opera products are. Though I guess implementing soap opera aspects in a non-soap opera based media here isn't a red flag as it can be done as a parodic way.

I mean, all I'm doing is evaluating the show based on its own internal merits. If it works for me, it works.

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like how I think this episode's title is just so uninspired, VUDO's Deadly Assault... like it's all Bima is about

True, but I'm also not sure what else you'd title this episode other than just literally calling it "Elevator."

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Cinta is the Indonesian word of "love".

Makes sense.

[DreadBringer]

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True, but I'm also not sure what else you'd title this episode other than just literally calling it "Elevator."

My thoughts would be probably something like "Bima's Kid Fan" or "Rena's Standoff".

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Episode 45: Lady Mossa's Pride

Here's my hang up though: What makes Lady Mossa, or even her situation, at all special? All throughout this show both the audience and our heroes alike have seen how Black Lord treats his soldiers like trash and willingly experiments on them. So why should Mossa get any pity where no one else got any? I sure as heck never saw any attempts to save Zombie Draconer, for example.

Though this obviously isn't direct, I rather felt that it's strictly based on Lady Mossa being female.

[DreadBringer]

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Episode 46: The Appearance of a New World

Speaking of Shadow Crisis, it was cool to see that Iron Mask didn't just blindly go with what Rexor said. Iron Mask knew that something was obviously up and reacted according. It's refreshing, given the trends of of some other shows I've seen recently with their villains.

As shown by one of the recap episodes, Topeng Besi feels he's the one in charge of VUDO even surpassing Black Lord and he had the Death Phantoms under his command.

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So in the end, what is Vudo's' grand plan? To smash the two worlds together using the energies generated by the Power Spots, and to have their own "Vudo Power Stones" gain full power as a result. And you might think "Wow, that's probably result in a ton of casualties" and, yeah, it probably would. The Vudo Empire are the bad guys, afterall.

Would have their world gain all the Earth's resources.