[EnerPrime]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Decade 16.




Sorry, I thought I had downloaded a subbed episode, my fault.

I got through most of this episode without actually writing anything, it jumped around so much while smashing together so much stuff it just felt like a vaguely thematically related set of skits, each of which is trying way too hard.

The individual Kabuto Riders were really the only highlight, the use of Clock Up was just wonderful. Plus Kabuto was a show with great designs, and it's nice to get to enjoy them without having to watch the actual show. Just like with Kuuga.

Ah TV-nihon. Will your refusal to translate catchphrases that have clear english meanings ever stop being a point of mockery? Notice that they even pull a strange twist of a common over-time manuver by directly contradicting the onscreen text.

And Kabuto is one of the AU Riders (Along with Kuuga) that I find to be exponentially more likeable than his original counterpart. And considering he's barely in his first episode, I think that says a lot about my opinion on Tendo Souji.

[XW1n5t0nX]

Agito Episode 11
The silent "Welcome back" from Shouichi

Well of course you're not qualified to be G3. You abandoned the fight just after taking a few hits as well as being scared shitless that the enemy force which has been had to beat is proving itself hard to beat. As Ozawa said, the suit still had battery power left. You may have been able to beat the Unknown or hurt it enough to where it would retreat. But instead you decided that getting slapped around a little means you should just run away with your tail between your legs. You may have provided the best G3 action scene in the show so far, but damn Houjou, you're just a little pussy who bitched and moaned to get the spot you wanted, and then ditched it the minute it was hard. Now that it's looking like you'll have that spot revoked, you have to (what I assume) blackmail your superiors to possibly keep it. Fuck you, you're a pussy, give G3 back to Hikawa. He's a man.

Did Mana skip school again to visit Hikawa? Or is this taking place after the school day? And why does she keep coming here? She have a crush on Hikawa or something?

So her powers don;t always work? Huh. I wonder what makes them kick in?

Are we ever going to be told what the Akatsuki Incident actually is? Something tells me that we will, but it'll be right towards the end of the show. Which if that's the case, I suppose it makes sense. But it would still be nice to know something about it now. I'd look it up, but I won't for fear of spoiling the show. So I guess I'll just have to be patient.

Well...wow. I must say that the Unknown really aren't that good at hiding the corpses. That is, unless they won't them to be seen.

Houjou's eyes look like they're fucking filled to the brim with insanity. When he's mad, crazy eyes. When he's happy, crazy eyes. This guy has to be crazy if his eyes are always like that.

Oh and by the way, stop be a lying ass. You ran away like a little bitch in the middle of a fight. You have no right to be building yourself up anymore.

Spoiler alert Konno: they would probably kill each other if locked in a room with some sort of a weapon.

Taiichi it's not polite to slurp so loudly. Also Shouichi "clean behind the ceiling?" The hell does that mean? Do you mean a ceiling fan or the actual ceiling?

I like the Professor. He's a really nice guy with a good head on his soldiers. I'd love to have him as a teacher, family member, or host. Dude is just all around pleasant and cool.

Well isn't she a ray of sunshine.

Hot damn this house is big and good looking. I want a house like that. But I doubt it will ever happen. Oh well. I can at least ogle it.

He's going to break it isn't he? Dammit Shouichi I can see you dropping it from a mile away. Please prove me wrong. Please please please prove me wrong.

I don't think I've ever brought it up, but I quite love the Agito symbol. I guess seeing it here made me realize I haven't stated that yet. Now I have. That is all.

Is that suppose to be a combination of a horse and a pig?

Houjou may be an assclown, but he has a point. Even though there is no assigned user right now, an Unknown is on the loose (how are they tracking the attacks by the way?) and they need to deal with it, Ozawa regardless of her feelings towards Houjou needs to deploy to save the woman's life, and possibly Hikawa's. I know he (Houjou) is just using this as an opportunity to just show up Hikawa and any other possible candidates for G3, but this is a situation where he's all they got and they best be using him.

Quick! Use the Evil Dead attachment!

Well, at least he actually put up a fight this time and didn't run away. Still want Hikawa back as G3 though.

Liar liar pants on fire.

Why are these horse, pig things purring?

Well episode 11 has gone by. What did I think of it? Meh.

I'll start off as per usual with the story. I think the story was actually the best part of the episode to be quite honest. The whole hunt for information with both Ryou and Shouichi was a nice little storyline and I thought it handled it quite well. It is a little sad that nothing new came out about Ryou's father or Shouichi's past, but the woman appears to know something going off of how she answered the one question. Hopefully the next episode continues this little story. Nothing was really added to the main plot however from it, and nor did the Houjou fighting to keep being G3 plot do so. So while nothing really got added to the main story, the story within the episode wasn't all that bad.

As far as character development goes, I'd say Houjou got some. Most of it though just showed what a spineless little fuck he is, but it still developed him. He's a man who knows what he wants and will do anything it takes to achieve it/keep it. I know at the end he just wanted to be G3 again and said what he said to Ozawa to let him do so, but I think there was a bit of genuinely there of him wanting to go out and help people. He was doing it for the wrong reason, but deep down I think he knew he had to go out to save that person. He's really the only one that I saw develop though, except maybe for Kanno in the idea that we saw a bit of him more, and on his own for that matter. There wasn't a whole lot of development in the episode, but what was provided wasn't all that bad.

Action, action, action. You continue to leave me unimpressed. You have a good setup with the fight being at night. I really love night fights, they look cool a good chunk of the time. But they are not cool when there's so much fog that it's a little hard to see what's going on at times. That aside the action was it's usually thing. Nothing really spectacular. It holds your interest and entertains you, but not a whole lot (to me at least). So yeah, as per usual the action wasn't that great in my opinion.

Episode 11 is just another average episode to me. It had a good story which I hope gets continued, the character development present wasn't too bad though nothing special, and the action was it's usual self. Was it entertaining? It was, especially with the opening bit at Mana's house. But that's the only real entertaining scene to me. Everything else was just there. It's execution ranged from good to decent, but it didn't grab me and make me enthralled with what was happening. Another meh episode, I'm not really surprised.

[FormerTitanium]

Ok so for Hibiki... Is it just best to watch up to episode 30? And call it quits right after then? I just ready some info up on the Wiki about Hibiki, and it really does look like Hibiki took a huge slap in the face with the different production staff.

[SPLIT LIP]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Locke

Decade 16.




Sorry, I thought I had downloaded a subbed episode, my fault.

I got through most of this episode without actually writing anything, it jumped around so much while smashing together so much stuff it just felt like a vaguely thematically related set of skits, each of which is trying way too hard.

The individual Kabuto Riders were really the only highlight, the use of Clock Up was just wonderful. Plus Kabuto was a show with great designs, and it's nice to get to enjoy them without having to watch the actual show. Just like with Kuuga.

Fucking TV-Nihon.

Which is a shame, because that scene was hilarious.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by FormerTitanium

Ok so for Hibiki... Is it just best to watch up to episode 30? And call it quits right after then? I just ready some info up on the Wiki about Hibiki, and it really does look like Hibiki took a huge slap in the face with the different production staff.

Up to 29, 30 is where the changes kick in. You can always judge from there whether you want to continue or not when you get there yourself, although I would recommend stopping.

[Aoi Kurenai]

It's worth finishing it if only because there are some pretty good episodes in the second half, the Shuki stuff and a cool arc with Todoroki and Zanki. The ending though, if you pay attention, is a huge let down because it's basically a rehash of a speech two characters had earlier on in the show.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by EnerPrime

Ah TV-nihon. Will your refusal to translate catchphrases that have clear english meanings ever stop being a point of mockery? Notice that they even pull a strange twist of a common over-time manuver by directly contradicting the onscreen text.

And Kabuto is one of the AU Riders (Along with Kuuga) that I find to be exponentially more likeable than his original counterpart. And considering he's barely in his first episode, I think that says a lot about my opinion on Tendo Souji.

The only thing TVN is worth being praised on, is how they do sub a LOT of stuff, and a lot of stuff no one else has touched. Some of my favourite shows, I probably would have never got a chance to watch, if it wasn't for them. It's just a shame that their refusal to translate grammar and a large majority of Japanese words means their subs are only one step above HK subs.

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Fucking TV-Nihon.

Which is a shame, because that scene was hilarious.

Yeah I absolutely love how the attack rides...do nothing

[Powerman293]

I don't mind TV nihon subs. I think a lot of the clunky dialogue and untranslated stuff from their earlier subs. I haven't run into a lot of these problems that people are pissed about. I don't mind Overtime/aeser either.

[Locke]

Decade 17. Wow Ixa sure is on the nose, huh?

Overall this was another arc that really suffered for being so damn short, way too much was happening for a two episode arc, telegraphed with twists you could see for about ten miles away. As a result I didn't care for any of it by the end.

The worst part is though, I don't understand the message of this arc at all. When your Little Sister is replaced by a monster who usually mindlessly simply kill and destroy...that is okay? Not only is that stupid, it makes even less sense in the context of the arc.

Which is a shame, as lots of the individual parts are great. Tsukasa has really shined in the last couple of arcs, and as much as he's very shounen protagonist he is so badass that it almost feels okay. Kabuto is basically a sports car in Rider form, complete with a beautiful red finish. And The Bee has that ridiculous eyepatch, boxing style fighting in Rider form and some GLORIOUS scenery chewing.

Kabuto world was overly sentimental in the worst possible way, rushed to the point of incoherent and completely unengaging emotionally. Like a lot of worlds, it has heaps of wasted potential but unlike most worlds it wasn't ever really about anything. Overall Kabuto's arc was one of the worst, not quite Faiz bad, but it's pretty hard to pick what worse worse between this and Agito. I guess this had some great fights, and Tsukasa moments, Agito didn't even have that...

Since we're about to go to the final world, here are the worlds for me in order from worst to best.

Faiz.
Agito.
Kabuto.
Blade.
Kuuga.
Den-O.
Kiva.
Ryuki.

[EnerPrime]

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Originally Posted by Locke

Decade 17. Wow Ixa sure is on the nose, huh?

Overall this was another arc that really suffered for being so damn short, way too much was happening for a two episode arc, telegraphed with twists you could see for about ten miles away. As a result I didn't care for any of it by the end.

The worst part is though, I don't understand the message of this arc at all. When your Little Sister is replaced by a monster who usually mindlessly simply kill and destroy...that is okay? Not only is that stupid, it makes even less sense in the context of the arc.

Which is a shame, as lots of the individual parts are great. Tsukasa has really shined in the last couple of arcs, and as much as he's very shounen protagonist he is so badass that it almost feels okay. Kabuto is basically a sports car in Rider form, complete with a beautiful red finish. And The Bee has that ridiculous eyepatch, boxing style fighting in Rider form and some GLORIOUS scenery chewing.

Kabuto world was overly sentimental in the worst possible way, rushed to the point of incoherent and completely unengaging emotionally. Like a lot of worlds, it has heaps of wasted potential but unlike most worlds it wasn't ever really about anything. Overall Kabuto's arc was one of the worst, not quite Faiz bad, but it's pretty hard to pick what worse worse between this and Agito. I guess this had some great fights, and Tsukasa moments, Agito didn't even have that...

Since we're about to go to the final world, here are the worlds for me in order from worst to best.

Faiz.
Agito.
Kabuto.
Blade.
Kuuga.
Den-O.
Kiva.
Ryuki.

I thought that the implication was that his sister was a native worm, and was always a worm rather than a worm who killed and replaced Souji's sister. That's why she was so surprised when she first transformed. it's a big plot point in Kabuto proper. Hiyori is a native worm who was born to the pair of worms that killed and replaced Tendou's parents, and so he considers her to be his sister. The Decade version of her is a mix of Hiyori and Tendou's little sister that isn't actually related to him.

I think the message wa supposed to be that family is important and can give you the strength to endure things you otherwise couldn't, such as being stuck in permanent clock-up.