[Locke]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

So basically TVN subs are impacting your ability to enjoy the show?

Sounds about right.

Yeah Hibiki's general humour and content is well... very Japanese and since TVN just do a straight transplant of the dialogue, grammar and all and just put it in English words I find Hibiki very hard to follow. Especially with the speed Hibiki moves at.

[Matrixbeast]

Yay, officially caught up on Gaim~

[KyoryuGreen]

Super-1 Episode 43: Learned more about Super-1 and his hands this episode. I like that his hot and cold hands can regulate his temperature to handle extreme temperatures. The JRS looking out for the Professor was great even if it got them in danger it still allowed Kazuya to find them, and lead to stopping Jin Dogma. Staff Officer Witch shined with her plan in the beginning and trying to threaten the Professor and captured JRS member, also she is pretty hot. The Summer must be hot in Japan especially if the villains didn't like it lol. I enjoyed that Super-1's Cold hands were able to out freeze the monster's ice blast. Very fun episode. Closing in on this series.

[guncannon109]

What time is it? IT'S SPACE TIME! Because I just watched the first episode of Kamen Rider Fourze and holy shit WHY DIDN'T I WATCH THIS SHOW SOONER!

Long story short, I am in love with Fourze! Gentarou is fun as hell, the villains look awesome, and the fight scenes? AWESOME! This is gonna be a fun ride so come on and SWITCH ON!

[Locke]

Over-Time have got Wizard in Magic Land up. I know a lot of people didn't like the movie, but I dug it, so if you haven't seen it it's worth picking up in my opinion, especially now the better group have done it. I'm gonna grab the 1080 release to watch on my big TV.

[KRFurious1]

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Originally Posted by guncannon109

What time is it? IT'S SPACE TIME! Because I just watched the first episode of Kamen Rider Fourze and holy shit WHY DIDN'T I WATCH THIS SHOW SOONER!

Long story short, I am in love with Fourze! Gentarou is fun as hell, the villains look awesome, and the fight scenes? AWESOME! This is gonna be a fun ride so come on and SWITCH ON!

I totally concur!!! I finished Fourze in about 5 days but now I wish that I hadn't done that cuz I want more of it now haha! Amazing series for sure.

[uchihabro77]

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Originally Posted by guncannon109

What time is it? IT'S SPACE TIME! Because I just watched the first episode of Kamen Rider Fourze and holy shit WHY DIDN'T I WATCH THIS SHOW SOONER!

Long story short, I am in love with Fourze! Gentarou is fun as hell, the villains look awesome, and the fight scenes? AWESOME! This is gonna be a fun ride so come on and SWITCH ON!

You like better than I did, although I think I like the first episode, but after a couple, it took until Meteor for me to like it again.

[Locke]

I think the first half is some of the best Rider stuff ever made, but I personally felt it really went downhill when Meteor was introduced and never fully picked up again. Really liked Meteor's suit and powers though.

[Locke]

Hibiki 08. That is one BADASS trumpet.

This episode was really, really strong. We learnt more about Takashi, and the most interesting aspect for me is the idea of a Rider organisation that deploys Riders for different purposes. I don't think we've had a dynamic like that explicitly stated in a Rider series before.

Still don't care for Asumu like at all, but I will admit I got some slightly embarrassed giggles around the natural awkwardness between him and Akira and that cringe worthy age when you first discover girls.

Hibiki continues to be wonderful. The scene with Hibiki speaking about his theoretical future, the conversation was light and full of smiles but he was clearly euphemistically avoiding the reality that he may not live long enough to write a book. Or do anything for that matter.

Similarly was the scene of Asumu's Mother, we don't know the story of Asumu's Dad yet and this is purely fanwanking but Asumu's mother has clearly been compensating for the missing half and now Asumu has found a father figure in Hibiki he's drifting away from his mother as Hibiki can provide things she just can't. That scene of her alone with the meal she prepared for him, that little sigh, it was profoundly sad.

This sense that what the Oni are doing is fighting a very real war, but the audience see into the world through Asumu who is innocent and perceives Hibiki in that selfish way that comes from the naivety of youth is a theme that permeates the tone and much better realises the emotions.

And overall, the real season this episode felt so strong, was tone. Toku generally likes the melodrama at eleven and will prefer to scream emotions at you than try and see what emotional response you gleam from simply what is already there. But this was the complete opposite of that, all the story was told through slumped shoulders, eye contact avoidance and awkward smiles. I loved it.

[Locke]

This posted twice for some reason, sorry.