[Matrixbeast]

Don't feel bad.
That series is so convoluted I thought even understanding it could be listed as a skill on a resume...

[SideswipePrime]

Kamen Rider Kiva: King of Hell's Castle

I thought it was pretty good. I really liked Wataru and Otoya's interactions. I wish that they had more backstory on Rey, there wasn't really a motive to his actions. Early on in the movie when Shimura (or however you spell it) first encounters those 2 Legendora...was it relly necessary to zoom in on his crotch and show him wetting his pants? Anyway...yeah...there were a few Den-O references. Look, I like Den-O as much as the next guy, but I feel that they were unnecessary. I think the "Nakeru de" on the chalkboard was the one that was done the best. When Arc turns Wataru into his Dragon form, I wish that they had at least recolored that model. The end fight scene was pretty cool...is Arc Kivat and artificial Kivat? Because his face blew off, the he screamed "GO TO HELL!" Also, what took Wataru so long to use Tatsulot? But yeah, aside from a few nitpicks, I thought it was pretty decent

[Den-O]

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Kamen Rider Kiva: King of Hell's Castle

I thought it was pretty good. I really liked Wataru and Otoya's interactions. I wish that they had more backstory on Rey, there wasn't really a motive to his actions. Early on in the movie when Shimura (or however you spell it) first encounters those 2 Legendora...was it relly necessary to zoom in on his crotch and show him wetting his pants? Anyway...yeah...there were a few Den-O references. Look, I like Den-O as much as the next guy, but I feel that they were unnecessary. I think the "Nakeru de" on the chalkboard was the one that was done the best. When Arc turns Wataru into his Dragon form, I wish that they had at least recolored that model. The end fight scene was pretty cool...is Arc Kivat and artificial Kivat? Because his face blew off, the he screamed "GO TO HELL!" Also, what took Wataru so long to use Tatsulot? But yeah, aside from a few nitpicks, I thought it was pretty decent

The Den-O references work better once you see the bonus videos that go along with that movie. The Imagin actually go on an adventure after watching the Kiva Movie. They steal the Go-Ongers' RV and run around the country side, Kamen Rider Arc tries to kill them, they pull off the Go-Onger rollcalls and hilarity ensues And yes Arc Kivat was manufactured based on the specs for the real Kiva.

But I'm sorry I have to completely disagree with you on the movie itself. It was absolutely awful. It had absolutely nothing to to do with Kiva the show aside from using characters from it. The plot was bad, the new characters were pretty terrible, and it deviated so hard from the show that it just killed any interest I might have otherwise had. I loved the show and really wanted to love the movie but it just didn't have alot going for it in my opinion.

[SPLIT LIP]

OOOs 44: Man Catface is obnoxious in his human form. I mean he's obnoxious all the time, but he's super obnoxious in his fancharacter-style human body. I find it offensive.

Okay, so I have some little problems cropping up that, I dunno if they'll be explained or resolved in the next four episodes or not, but I want to mention it now in case they don't. Eiji's loosing control makes no sense. Or, it does, but the "cure" doesn't. This isn't a major-major problem, since I think I might know what's going on, but anyway: how does Eiji, who's slowly becoming a Greeed, need a desire to stop the transformation? Isn't desire, you know, what makes a Greeed a Greeed? Now, I figured what he's supposed to do is have a desire greater than the cores in his body. Like fight of the core's desire to be whole with his own desire. But these cores aren't sentient, and since they're already in him, it seems like giving them more desire to feed off of is a bad thing. Greeed essentially infect a host (usually with a yummy) then use the person's desire for power. Well, these cores aren't a Greeed, instead turning Eiji into one. So he's becoming a Greeed, a monster powered by desire, and needs his own desire to stop it? And, ignoring that, doesn't Eiji already have a desire? I mean, when that Greeed tried to destroy his dream by pullign it out of his head he pulled out the entire planet. And on a smaller scale, isn't his desire to help his friends desire enough? They say he has no wants, but he's constantly fighting for things. They may be selfless, but selfless desire is still desire. You'd think it'd make for stronger desire, too.

The only thing I can think of is if this is some plot by Birthday Man to make him a Greeed on purpose. Afterall the guy is just all over the place. Nothing about him makes sense, he's got this weird shrine to OOOs and what looks like the plate things the medals were forged in.

Second, and kind of minor but indicitave of OOO's general just not-jiving-well-with-it's-own-rules-iness, is Uva. The guy is reduced to a single core, yet this single core somehow manages to retain his conciousness. Now with Ankh, when he was split up, he became two different entities. Uva was split pretty one-sidedly, and yet he had no personality issues and stayed, mentally, intact in his one core. Why didn't his conciousness manifest in Catface? I mean, wouldn't that be just the best? Catface eats all the cores and finds all his dead friend's popping up on his body with him since all their cores are there? And it's not like Catface had the cores in him all the time. Also, if cores contain conciousness, how come OOO's never had any problems when he had, like, all of one colour? (I guess that's what the driver is for. Sort of like how Drivers in W filtered out the maddening effects of Gaia Memories) What decides where the conciousness stays in the cores? I thought it was cell medals, but Uva was literally just a core and survived.

Well, Catface is dead now anyway (the cat dies first? Offensive) and Maki has his cores. And Maki is a sadfaced dinosaur man. Again, this show is still good, but I feel needlessly convoluted and some stuff doesn't sit right. It's just at first I felt like there as an arc misisng that should've gone into detail about how cores and the mind of Greeed work. Well, there was when Lost Ankh was farting around. But now we're kind of going against that with Uva.

My SIC Tajador should be here tomorrow, so I'm gonna wait to finish the show until then. In the meantime I've tried going back to Agito but... it's good, really, but it's slow as syrup drippig down a backwards conveyor belt. In space. With a fan blowing up at it. (it's a space fan) I'm on episode 11 and have forgotten just about everything in that show, and it's not... grabbing me. The intro's so peepy and awesome and the show is just waking up from two hours of sleep following a twelve hour night shift.

[SideswipePrime]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

The Den-O references work better once you see the bonus videos that go along with that movie. The Imagin actually go on an adventure after watching the Kiva Movie. They steal the Go-Ongers' RV and run around the country side, Kamen Rider Arc tries to kill them, they pull off the Go-Onger rollcalls and hilarity ensues And yes Arc Kivat was manufactured based on the specs for the real Kiva.

But I'm sorry I have to completely disagree with you on the movie itself. It was absolutely awful. It had absolutely nothing to to do with Kiva the show aside from using characters from it. The plot was bad, the new characters were pretty terrible, and it deviated so hard from the show that it just killed any interest I might have otherwise had. I loved the show and really wanted to love the movie but it just didn't have alot going for it in my opinion.

Yeah...him going to high school was kind of..species, and I agree with you that the new characters weren't good, since as I said they should've done more with Rey.

Wait...so...is Kivat-Bat III a robot? I thought the Kivats were one of the demon species (though, it has been a while since I've read the wiki).

[SPLIT LIP]

So I pressed on with Agito and basically forced myself up to 14. Again, it's not that the show is bad, it's quite good, just slow. But I am still enjoying it. I'm especially intrigued now that Agito himself seems to have been injured.

Also, "Mana" or whatever her name is can't act to save her life. She's so bad it hurts.

[Blade Raider]

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Also, "Mana" or whatever her name is can't act to save her life. She's so bad it hurts.

But her butt apparently awesome or so says her title as "Best Butt in Japan"...why do I know that?


PS The actress is better known as Naomi in Den-O

[SPLIT LIP]

See, you're saying things that I don't know what they are. Making me paranoid.

[Blade Raider]

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See, you're saying things that I don't know what they are. Making me paranoid.

If you've seen any Den-O (including crossovers), you've seen her. She the waitress on the time traveling train.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

See, you're saying things that I don't know what they are. Making me paranoid.

Rina Akiyama, the actress who played Mana, came back on Kamen Rider Den-O as Naomi, one of the supporting characters. She never really did much, but she still shows up any time the Den-O characters appear in one of the team-up movies.