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[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by weedle013ZiO

Have you noticed my update?

Sorry! Things have been really busy the last couple days. I'll get to it today!

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I made two Riders for Fourze as well. I will explain what I have of their designs here.

One is yellow and gray with silver accents. The other is a female, pink and purple with gold accents. Neither one has the Rider eye color currently established.

https://cdn.picrew.me/shareImg/secre...7_Gj0IbOD2.png
Here’s what the female Rider looks like un-henshined. She has short brown hair that covers her right eye, with gold highlights in it. Her eyes are the same pink-looking color as Mariska and Iris. (For those who haven’t looked at the DM convo between me and Die, those are Akiko and Hina)

(She also wears purple, completing the color scheme)

[Kamen Rider Die]

KAMEN RIDER SABER EPISODE 36 - “WIDE OPEN, THE OMNISCIENT POWER”



Isaac is a nepo baby!!!

It’s the funniest, best possible Boss character for a show whose template is Workplace Dramedy. Some dude who inherited a position he never wanted, grew to resent it, and is now going to harness the power and authority it bestowed upon him to do horrible things to average people? I mean, it’s - by far - the least fantastical thing this show has ever presented, but I’ll allow it.

It’s a nice prelude to the endgame arc of this series. Isaac has utterly and irrevocably pulled the mask off, telling the entire world to TATAKAE for his insane pleasure. The Shindai siblings have exercised the Serves Master Logos Specifically loophole in their contracts to embrace the heroism that the Sword of Logos subverted. Ren’s starting to realize that he isn’t running towards a future, he’s running away from his past, so maybe this whole friend-avosion thing is not super sustainable. Even Kento’s finally getting some solid advice from similarly big-picture characters like Yuri and Sophia (eventually), instead of the emotional pleas from Touma to which he’s grown impervious. It’s an episode very much about trying to get all of these disparate swordsmen to figure out a way to coexist, and a giant floating madman telling everyone to kill each other for his enjoyment is a pretty good start.

We’re in a real fast-moving plot phase of the series, where there aren’t a ton of new revelations about our main cast (Yuri’s speech to Kento is just a longer, less-deathbed-y version of his appeal to Kento from a few episodes ago), but it’s very cool to see everything start to line up emotionally and narratively. There’s an undeniable thrill to Touma and Rintaro showing up to save Ryoga and Reika, and for the four of them to form an uneasy truce to take down Solomon. Isaac makes for a great villain, because everyone in the cast wants to kick his ass. Even Falchion seemed to have a brief moment of Eff This Dude!

The Solomon suit and sword, though… not my fave? The suit looks real kitbashed, but I’m not conversant enough in this show’s costumes to pick out where all the pieces might’ve originated. That sword, however! Dude is just swinging around a repainted King of Arthur sword, which does not exactly scream Important New Villain. There’s a real cut-rate approach to the Solomon suit and weaponry that feels a little disappointing, even if it’s (maybe?) not the final form for this goofball.

So, minor complaint about our bad guy’s new getup, but otherwise? Very entertaining and fleet episode of teamwork that constructs a hilarious criticism about inherited wealth and how unearned power creates a gnawing hunger that can’t ever be sated. Real fun times!

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WAGE WARS GET RICH DIE HANDSOME



Isaac, the floating sky man, had made his orders clear: Wage wars in his name. Fight. Now Junki just had to figure out how to actually do that.

Junki was, sadly, used to bizarre proclamations from superpowered beings upending his life. It had only been a few months since Kamen Rider Saber had demanded that people like Junki cheer for him, and now his home was filled with mountains of branded merchandise. He’d hoped it was enough to either power or placate the masked swordsman. Now, he feared he’d gotten an answer.

He wasn’t sure if Saber had abandoned him to this new deity, but he also couldn't ignore this new demand. Junki would continue to cheer on Saber, but he’d also have to find some way to battle on Isaac’s behalf.

He’d briefly considered a campaign of terror using the various Saber-worshiping products he’d procured, but disregarded that almost immediately. The plastic toys might raise a welt, or irritate, but they’d be no use in an actual fight. Maybe… maybe if he threw them at someone? No, that wouldn’t be much better; plus, then they’d lose some of their collectibility, and that wasn’t NOT a concern of Junki’s.

As he struggled to form a plan of action, Junki admitted to himself that Isaac’s demands just weren’t in his wheelhouse. He wasn’t the war-waging type, which would normally go without saying or regretting. Now, he’d need to find some solution to a problem with both moral and practical concerns.

He’d wondered if maybe Saber could save him. He’d seen how effective the superhero had been in that monster fight, where he saved the broadcaster. Maybe there was some way Junki could empower Saber, without risking Isaac’s wrath? Looking around the room of Kamen Rider merchandise, he found his answer. Perfect. This would save him, and hopefully save everyone.

He put the disc for Kamen Rider: Climax Fighters into his PS4, and prepared to wage war online in Isaac and Saber’s names.

[Enchilada645]

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Next time: Jaoh Dragon, King Durian, Kasshine, Kamen Rider Kitbash!

This quote from Androzani provides all the answers in regards to Solomon. Head is Jaou Dragon, Bravo King Durian's cape, with the rest of the body being Kasshine from Zi-O.

Very much a patchwork form that uh... kinda works? I do find it funny that the Kingexcalibur repaint is named Caladbolg. Since I believe Caladbolg has some connections to the Excalibur mythos.

Anyway, Solomon... not the best but not the worst I'd say. I do find it funny that Bravo King Durian Arms' cape is just the Vezon's cape of Kamen Rider. If anyone gets that reference, kudos.

That being said, our episode is fairly fun. We basically have the full roster of Riders again with mostly everyone trying to find some way to pick apart our new big bad. I love the Shindai Siblings utilizing loophole abuse in order to stage their coup while remaining loyal. Some nice stuff with Yuri and Kento. Overall a nice episode that very much is the start of the "How the hell do we beat Solomon?" Arc.

... also I love the story this time by the way.

There's something so absurd about Isaac just saying "Yo, wage war for me you peasants" and expecting everyone to actually do it. Because if I recall, there's never any cutaways to anyone actually doing it. Which implies everyone is like "Whoa, weird talking head dude" and just went about their days. Or they went about it more creatively... like Junki here!

[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER SABER EPISODE 36 - ?WIDE OPEN, THE OMNISCIENT POWER?

Debut of Kamen Rider Solomon. Yes, it's very funny how everyone wants to end Solomon. It was previously mentioned that the Shindai do not follow the spirit of the Sword of Logos, but its charter. But Isaac managed to break it too, losing his last allies. Of course, it is foolish to expect the Sword of Logos to immediately unite again, leaving the past (although Touma does not mind), but Isaac is doing his best to make it happen as soon as possible.
The fanfiction is very funny and would be a good advertisement for the game.

[Androzani84]

Ah yes, Isaac basically transmits a message demanding the world listen to him. I imagine the response from people who don’t speak Japanese on the YouTube uploads of his message was “And you are?”

And since we learn his name is Isaac, I think I’ll reveal that one of the writers expanded upon his story on Twitter, stating that his surname is “Kanda” (which contains the archaic kanji for god), he’s the grandson of the og Logos and that he’s 1028 years old.

And sadly, since all videos of Omni Force include another book that’s very spoiler-y, I’ll just mention some things about its sounds.

At least two people that the subs saying “Open the Omnibus” was a mistranslation for “Open the Omniverse”. Despite this show being book-themed and Omniverse not even being a word. (It’s the name of a Ben 10 show. A terrible Ben 10 show).

One thing the subs did get wrong though was the name of his second finisher. Toy scans revealed it was actually “Solomon Stlash” (your guess is as good as mine as to what the heck that means). Though to be fair, I’m sure even someone Toei hired to subtitle this for a TTFC upload would use Strash.

And yes, I did pretty much sum up the parts for Solomon’s suit last time. The way I did it was specifically a parody of the jingles for Revice’s movie Riders (King Crab, Crocodile, Kamen Rider Chimera (Chimera)!/Octopus, Kurosai, Oomukade, Kamen Rider Daimon, Daimon, DAIMON!)

And in lieu of all the jokes about how Master Logos already had his own sword prior to being a Rider (type in “Sakanamaru” into YouTube sometime), I’ll share this.

[Fish Sandwich]

Fish Sandwich also watched Kamen Rider Saber Episode 36

There are a lot of different things I like about this episode that I think my post from the time already covers pretty thoroughly, so right here, I'll say something I couldn't have been quite sure of back then, which is that I'm actually quite fond of Kamen Rider Solomon.

I have sort of a paranoid disdain for psychotic main villains who are arbitrarily also Riders, or "Gold Drives", as I always think of them. (Even though Gold Drive isn't actually called Kamen Rider.) Despite enjoying a lot of later half antagonists who broadly fit that mold, I always kind of worry when one shows up that fight scenes in the show will become repetitive, with a focus on the same one opponent for the heroes, and part of me is eternally sort of hung up on the idea that the name "Kamen Rider" loses weight any time you slap it on a bad guy for more merch appeal.

But again, plenty of these guys end up being really enjoyable for me anyway, and I did already like Master Logos to begin with. The kitbashy nature of his suit actually created a bit of headcanon (or like, head-thematics) for me I kinda doubt was intentional, which is how it emphasizes that he's just a straight up pretender. Dude doesn't even have a proper holy sword, so for all the amazing powers he's flaunting, there's always this vibe that he's some cheap knockoff who doesn't even remotely understand what it means to be a swordsman in this series. (And by extension, what it generally means to be a Kamen Rider.) Frankly, I think the suit just plain looks good to begin with, but ever since I starting thinking of it that way, I started outright loving it.

[Switchblade]

I think that one of the causes of Solomon is that when you get to this part of a Rider series, Toei is already starting to shift development budget into the next show. Full new suits are expensive and it’s too late in the product cycle to wheel out brand new roleplay toys, which means that it’s time to start recycling. This is how we end up with Necrom getting a repaint of Specter’s shitty plastic stick or {Insert Multiple Revice Spoilers Here}. I don’t mind it when it’s done well, especially if it involves costumes or props that didn’t get much use in the first place.

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