[PikaMaster11]

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I'm releasing Hibiki every Friday from now on, and I'm thinking about maybe doing Drive. I'll wait until more info about it comes up though.

[MaskedRiderAsakura]

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Originally Posted by PikaMaster11

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Up to 06 at the moment, 07 will be up tomorrow.

Much appreciated! Thank you!

[Dr Kain]

Watched episodes 5 and 6 of Hibiki today. They were really good. Pika, your subtitles have gotten so much better since the first two episodes that it is fantastic.

[PikaMaster11]

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Originally Posted by MaskedRiderAsakura

Much appreciated! Thank you!

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Watched episodes 5 and 6 of Hibiki today. They were really good. Pika, your subtitles have gotten so much better since the first two episodes that it is fantastic.

Thanks.

07 will be up 8/01/14 (tomorrow) at 3:00 PM Central Time, if you want specifics.

[KyoryuGreen]

Black Episode 48: Also known as the Recap Episode which makes sense this close to the end. Especially when it originally aired was probably great. Though the best part was Whale Mutant saving Black. Well you know Recap episode and Kyoko and Katsumi leaving Japan, and Black coming back to life. Not much to say.

[ZeoRangerV]

Hibiki 40: Hmm, I think Akira becoming an Oni would have been a lot cooler if they hadn't started phasing her out/ruining her.

I'm not downright hating these episodes like a lot of people do, more I just have absolutely zero interest in them. Like, getting distracted 6 or 7 times an episode lack of interest. Nothing is grabbing me anymore. They've tried to make things more like a normal Rider show, and they've just succeeded in making it a bad Rider show.

(I don't know how much of a spoiler the above is, but I thought I'd tag it anyway since its a pretty big moment)

[ZeoRangerV]

Finished up Hibiki. Well, the series anyway - I still have the movie, HBV and New Year Special to watch.

First off - that last episode was the biggest cop out I've ever seen from a television show. It's an absolute joke, which isn't surprising they decided to change it on the damn day of filming. Its a pity we'll probably never find out what that original ending was.

So all in all Hibiki has been a VERY mixed bag for me. I started out not quite getting it but being oddly drawn to it nonetheless, then I couldn't put it down, and then finally hated pretty much everything about it. I don't think I've ever felt so conflicted about a series as a whole.

So let's talk about the good half to start. While it doesn't have that much in the way of an ongoing plot, what it does have is both simple enough to grasp/follow and has enough mysteries to keep it interesting. The characters are superb, with even the bit players feeling integral to things. Asumu never struck out as anything more than an obsessive fanboy to me, but I liked how his personal growth worked alongside the main story. Most of all I loved how the show portrayed all of the Oni - Hibiki was the title character, but there'd be whole episodes where he didn't transform. There were proper focus episodes on Ibuki and Todoroki and both shined just as much as Hibiki did.

Then the change happened, and all of that went down the drain. Character development was forgotten, as Ibuki and Todoroki just became incompetent so the show could start going "DURR HIBIKI IS THE BEST BUY HIS TOYS". Asumu only became likeable by adding an even more annoying fanboy stalker, and it pains me that nobody ever properly called Kiriya out for his bullshit and just told him to get lost. The villains became stale and uninteresting, and all that beautiful location filming was lost. And don't me started on Akira slowly getting written out, because it was blatantly obvious the real reason for it was the writers didn't like the idea of main female character becoming an Oni/Rider The ONLY episodes I enjoyed out of the whole latter run were the Zanki ones, and that was because Zanki is an utter badass.

So yeah, Hibiki is simultaneously a fantastic series and a terrible one. Be prepared to be won over by wonderful characters, an simple-yet-engaging plot seeped in mythology and beautiful filming. And then be prepared to have it all taken away from you.

Ahem.

That said, I cannot wait for that Hibiki Figuart now. And then they seriously need to make Ibuki, Todoroki and Zanki. I needs them.

[Dr Kain]

That is why you might as well just stop watching with episode 29. It has as much of an ending as the final episode.

[sekitar555]

Im up to kabuto ep 18... I really hate everyone whos transformed into theBee except kagami!

Hiyori is vary mopy, the sister is hilarious and kabutos a bad-ass, drake is... Unique

[Azure]

I'm currently on episode 29 of Den-o, enjoying it so far.