[Locke]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I think you have that backwards. Nihon hasn't released an episode of Kuuga past 24, which was like back in August. And I'm pretty sure Nihon subbed the Grongi speak. Either way, it ruins the show to know what is being said.

Nah you have it backwards, bro.

And I personally like knowing what is going on.

[ZeoRangerV]

Nah, he's right. TV-Nihon have only subbed up to episode 24 of Kuuga.

The only full set of episodes for that show if I recall rightly is MCS original non-Grongi version that used poorer encodes.

[Locke]

Wow then, I apologise.

I dunno who I watched then, all I know is for the first half of the show they were higher quality rips with Grongi translated but then they abandoned the show half way through and I had to settle for atrocious rips with half of the episode not being translated. So I just automatically assumed that with the dip in quality of both video and translation I must have moved to TVN.

[KyoryuGreen]

Agito 15-More mysteries begin with the Housekeeper who seemingly knows about Shouichi. Hojo is even more of a jackass, with him and the one from FFVII I don't think I can trust anyone called Hojo lol. I love Shouichi and Hikawa's interactions they are so much fun together, and I love how Shouichi wasn't that interested in Agito and Hikawa is. I love Ozawa and Mana too, they are some really good female characters in a Rider series. Intrigued with Ryou at the end of the episode and glad to see we get another Gills episode too. I love Agito's forms so far his weapon in Storm form is so badass. I can't wait for more Agito.

[Locke]

Blade Scrub 6 - all caught up with the Scrubs O_O Do I move over to the crappy TVN encodes or just drop this show for two months so NDA can sub more episodes?

It's nice to see the weight all of all the dead people addressed in this episode. I don't know what direction Blade is going to take, but if Hirose's fears ring true, her father is very similar to The White Wizard. Also wow Hirose kicks butt!

I loved the dramatic irony of Amane going on about how cool her Dad was, while we watch him die in the snow. Stay classy, Blade.

I love how much of the characters personalities they get through in the Rider portions. Kenzaki especially, is just awesome. It's such a shame though that the awesome that is Chalice is portrayed by such a bad actor out of suit.

Although I must say I was never a big fan of the whole "fear in their hearts, destruction on their mind" crap. I thought the concept of transforming taking a toll on their body was great, and brought the out of suit and in suit actors that much closer. I know that suggesting transforming may be a bad thing, kinda goes against these kind of shows, but that is also what made it special. But oh well, fuck that, time for some existential crisis and bad special effects, I'm turning greeeeeeeeeeen!

I also found it funny that after the Chief's elaborate magnesium escape, Tachibana doesn't question that at all when he suddenly reappears and chats to his girlfriend.

[Matrixbeast]

Tachibana's hulking moment. I wanted to count how many times they did it, but I forgot to

[Locke]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Tachibana's hulking moment. I wanted to count how many times they did it, but I forgot to

I think he's done it like three times now, and Kenzaki did it once as well. For a show with really great suits, and pretty impressive practical fighting it's amazing just how poo the CGI stuff looks.

[Kamen Rider Lucha]

Quote:

Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Been checking out Kiva. Smacked down episode two and am watching 3.

Four main things, though:

DAMN that intro is awesome.

DA-HAMN that suit is awesome.

DA-HA-HAMN that bike is awesome.

Hell yes! Could not agree more.

Baku Baku Beating Heart forever!

Quote:

HOLY SHIT they could not have found a worse kid to play Kiva. In the suit he's so violent and hard-edged and dark and regal and vicious and yet the actor looks like a baby. He's just so young and fesh-faced, and turns into a metal demon. He should have an underlying air of darkness, yet he always looks like he had a rough day at school. He's not bad at any rate, but he is just such a staggering contrast.

I find that casting Koji Seto as the innocent, introverted Wataru really highlights the duality of the character -- which makes more sense when you get deeper into the series.

I got the sense that Kiva is a part of Wataru that he actively represses -- and that repressed, savage side of his personality takes over whenever he henshins.

Say what you will about the overall quality of Kamen Rider Kiva (I'm personally a fan -- though I recognize its myriad flaws), but Wataru has one of the most effective character arcs of any KR series I've watched. He's a very different guy by the end of the series.

[Switchblade]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Locke

Although I must say I was never a big fan of the whole "fear in their hearts, destruction on their mind" crap. I thought the concept of transforming taking a toll on their body was great, and brought the out of suit and in suit actors that much closer. I know that suggesting transforming may be a bad thing, kinda goes against these kind of shows, but that is also what made it special. But oh well, fuck that, time for some existential crisis and bad special effects, I'm turning greeeeeeeeeeen!

I kind of liked that storyline for Tachibana. It helps that I came into Blade right after finishing Faiz, though, where some of the suits really did kill the wearer. It was nice to have that just be a psychosomatic problem this time.

[Battlizer]

Ryuki 36

With Eri waking up, thus invalidating Ren's reason to fight and the scientists coming up with a reasons to shut down the mirror world head scientist dude does seem to be on the up and up so far...at least as far as destroying the mirror world goes. He still acts shady as shit though.

Huh thought for a second that the guy who pushed Yui in front of that car was just some member of the press trying to push people out of his way, but judging from that mysterious shot of his sneakers, it seems like he may be important...

So wait did Asakura just barf out one of his cards? More importantly, he can summon his contract monsters with just a card? I'm...gonna call bullshit on that one. And hey, they catch up to Ren finally. Someone should tell Yui that there are quicker ways of informing him that Eri is conscious that involve just telling him and not shouting his name eighteen times and slapping him.

So the one who pushed Yui in front of the moving car was one of the Tiger people. so like I thought, not as noble as Shinji would think, but I can see why they'd do it since Yui seems to be a key part of this. Anyway, Shinji faces down Asakura in a fight, thought Shinji seems to be more defending himself. When Tiger suddenly shows up outta nowhere ad kicks Asakura's ass! He then does that mysterious loner bit, when he walks away without bothering to explain anything to Shinji.

And Eri seems to be alright! I thought for a second there might be some twist that that wasn't the case! But hey now Ren's reasons for fighting are over, maybe he'll be less of a prick! Yui's situation...just got a whole lot worse it seems...

Also, was that a Maziger clip that played when Shinji was flicking through Kitaoka's t.v? Also, Tiger has the coolest Rider design in Ryuki.

Ryuki 37

It seems another Rider is the one who attacked Yui! and...he has a weird belt. Huh...Also he appears to be insect themed. That's a new one. It appears the one who was Tiger last episode was the youngest one of the three scientist people. Also I've realized another reason for why I don't trust the leader of these scientists. He was this really creepy Fangire on Kiva, I think! And I think it's safe to say one of the scientists is the bug rider too.

Shinji remembers Tezuka's warning to watch after Yui. Starting to realize she may be very important to these battles, maybe? Eri's condition and her waking up have no known causes. Some mysterious shit is apparently going on with her. She seems to recognize it too as she asks what's happened during the year she was comatose. but Ren covers it up.

Ren does make somewhat of a good point to Shinji. He can't stop fighting. Darkwing would eat him! Even if he doesn't have a reason anymore, Kanzaki would probably just show up and make Eri comatose again. Still maybe no longer having a reason to gain a wish mean he'll be less of a pr-nah...

Editor-in-Chief seems to suspect something weird's goign on with Shinji, but he let's it go for now. Reiko's suspects Kitaoka of knowing more about these mirror disappearances and he tries to steer her away for..safety, I guess? And she still wants to see Asakura much to Kitaoka's chagrin, aha.

The scientists seem to be very "sacrifice one for the many" hero types, while Shinji's more of a do what I ca to save them all". And seeing as the scientists are clearly after Eri, I don't think Shinji's going to be going along with their plans in the near future.

Eri...why would you leave in your condition? Is that really the brightest thing? And...she's going to go back to her coma? Then what was the point of the twist? I mean Ren was still gonna fight anyway, but that wold set him back to the madness he had before. Also, I think there is confirmation that Darkwing is the douchiest contract monster seeing as it had o reason to go and bother Eri at all. Or maybe it's

Eri knows Ren's Knight now. And she passes out again, but maybe it's just from exhaustion. Weird how Ren's started to fade in the mirror world when he hadn't been fighting that long at all. Then again, mirror world rules are incredibly pointless some of the time, so.

And the young scientist takes the part time job position at yui's grandma's place. Judging from his demeanor....it's probably likely that he's Tiger, I doubt it's the old guy. And the other scientist who was pushing Shinji around is most likely the big guy, maybe.

Ryuki 38

Ah ,Eri's still alright. That's good hat they didn't just write her off back to sleep so soon after she woke up. Okay, so this Kagawa guy's influence really shines in his pupils, since Satoru is echoing his hero philosophy. Also Satoru's kinda creepy. Of course it take Shinji an hour to figure out the scientists are the ones after Yui when he saw Satoru give Yui and evil glare for five minutes!

The bug rider is definitely different than the others. When he uses his cards, the voice on his vent was different. He also started to fade out pretty quickly too after using that card. Satoru informs Shinji that Yui's death would stop the rider. Might've been more convincing if he wasn't smiling like a lunatic the entire time. Shinji's obviously pretty torn up.

Which...Satoru notes to his comrades, when explaining to them why he told Shinji. He seems more normal here and even looks like he understands why Shinji is all torn up about it, but he goes right back to weirdo as his comrade figures any future failures would be his fault. The other student scientist just seems more concerned with revenge. I'd say he might be the worst of the three, but I dunno if I would ever side with those other two either....

Looks like Eri's going comatose again either...Thought if Re knew the whole time, I guess...it's not as bad. I'm not as angry as I would've been if she just went back to sleep at the beginning of the episode. Anyway, it was nice of Ren to take her back to the beach one more time. And the Alternative guy was the prickish scientist....who's killed by Tiger?! Who is Satoru, who...decided it was wrong to kill Yui, so he killed his comrade. Though I'm sure the guy insulting Satoru played a part in it.

But why the hell is he crying? This dude might have a couple screws loose. And hey, Kanzaki's still around, he hasn't shown up in a while. The final boss rider is still with him, too! clearly Ren sneak attacking him wasn't enough to completely wipe him out.