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02-09-2023, 02:38 AM | #581 |
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Time for some Desast's Walk margin notes. Fun fact! The manga Desast is reading here is Skull Man, a predecessor to Kamen Rider by Ishinomori. According to comments by Desast's designer Skull Man was used as a partial motif in designing him! Plus, one of Desast's three chimera stories is "The Singing Bone", so it fits from that angle too.
...Seeing Desast get to enjoy his time in such a normal and chill way is one of the things I really appreciate about Desast's Walk as a project... aw : ) |
02-09-2023, 07:19 AM | #582 |
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I like the implication the SOL is so devoted to its own infighting that none of them bar Mei have noticed Dezast becoming a niche Twitter influencer. What a guy.
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02-09-2023, 07:22 AM | #583 |
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Question to Die. (Long time no see )
Which lore or lores from the wonder ride books so far intrigues you?
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02-09-2023, 07:34 AM | #584 |
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Truly a tactical genius ahead of our time.
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02-09-2023, 09:57 AM | #585 |
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Thanks to Fish digging up those magazine pics, looks like it was officially confirmed after all, just never used in the show. So yeah, we may as well keep using it. Quote:
It's nice that, in the absence of Kento and Rintaro, the show has really re-emphasized the natural teamwork of Mei and Touma. They genuinely complement each other well, and Mei's capabilities give Touma such an underappreciated series of advantages. Hell, this whole break-in scheme was her idea! Which, y'know, didn't work out great for Touma, but still!
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KAMEN RIDER SABER EPISODE 24 - ?A FATHER?S BACK, AND THE FUTURE IT CARRIES?
The TWISTS part first: Calibur?s back! From a dark portal! To stop Primitive Dragon from killing X-Swordman and maybe Mei! It?s probably Kento, but that?s almost irrelevant right now. It?s a mystery that?ll probably percolate for a little while (it was, like, a dozen episodes before we found out who Calibur was last time), and I?m sure I?ll have plenty of opportunities to react to it. Time to play Who's Calibur? Part 2. There are two main suspects here. First is Kento, who was last seen being absorbed by Kurayami's curse upon his death. Second is returning suspect Tassel, who was surprisingly absent from his house at the end of this episode and must have been in a hurry as he neglected not only to do his usual outro but also to close his door. Quote:
It?s a continuation of Ogami?s talk with Sora from a little while back, with Ogami needing to leave a broken home to better provide emotional support and a good example for his sword kids. It?s hard to serve as an ideal of chivalry and stability while knuckling under to the shadiest lady in the shadiest room, after all. Like, sometimes one family needs to be two families to keep from being no family, you know? Ogami?s making the hard choice today to make good choices from now on.
To Be Continued?! Damn, is Mei going to challenge Desast for popularity?!
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02-09-2023, 11:22 AM | #586 |
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It's not even the lack of subtlety, it's her staggering inability to understand how to keep people from defecting. Like, Ogami has very few recognizable traits in this show, but his MAIN ONE is being The Dad. (His other traits are Dated Popped Collars On Polos and Still Being The Dad.) So for her to look at his wavering commitment and decide that this is the best point to put forward an ultimatum where he has to choose between his only beloved son and a dimly-lit coven of sword cultists who are an anxiety attack away from being a Workplace Incident... like, she could not have miscalculated worse than if she told Ren he wasn't allowed to be powerful anymore. It's mind-bendingly bad management!
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02-09-2023, 12:03 PM | #587 |
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Wonder Ride Books... I mean, is it too obvious to say Primitive Dragon? There're really only a few books that the show has bothered to imbue with something other than a cursory backstory, and they're basically all Touma's power-ups: Dragonic Knight, Primitive Dragon, King of Arthur. I think those are the only ones that got actual stories devoted to them? Even Rintaro's power-up was just a last-minute save that didn't really get a bunch of background. (Oh! I guess X-Swordman got a little runner through a few episodes, as well.) Primitive Dragon's danger and mystery makes the most compelling power so far, at least to me. I'd love to hear anyone else's answer to this question! Quote:
Time to play Who's Calibur? Part 2. There are two main suspects here. First is Kento, who was last seen being absorbed by Kurayami's curse upon his death. Second is returning suspect Tassel, who was surprisingly absent from his house at the end of this episode and must have been in a hurry as he neglected not only to do his usual outro but also to close his door.
Reika is very much the Dwight (or Gareth) from The Office character-type of this workplace dramedy: she's a fanatically devoted employee who fancies herself a vital cog in the machine that's destined for greater responsibility, but that same fanaticism makes her ill-suited for anything other than following orders. She can't manage others because a) she lacks basic people-skills, and b) she can't conceive of a goal or motivation beyond Eternal Service. She's an incredibly bad pick for getting the Northern Base soldiers to toe the line!
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02-09-2023, 12:07 PM | #588 |
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The story is very nice. But by the way, I harassed the Desast tweet as soon as Twitter was mentioned. Last edited by Mesnick; 02-09-2023 at 12:10 PM.. |
02-09-2023, 12:13 PM | #589 |
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I just can't take Tassel Is Calibur seriously as a theory, I'm sorry. I'm not saying it can't be him, but it would make Calibur irrevocably weird, and sort of worthless as a villain/anti-hero/threat. It would be funny, but it's also mostly an HBV punchline reveal. Maybe! But, boy, you gotta make some huge changes to Tassel -- now and forever -- in order to keep Calibur as a boogeyman for our group of workplace swordsmen.
Don't underestimate the creepiness of Tassel. Just imagine if at midnight, in a house without light, the doors of your closet will open and from there you will hear: "Bonna Lecture!" |
02-09-2023, 12:22 PM | #590 |
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Also, as always with this show: not sure why this needs to be a mystery? Feels like you could just go This Guy's Calibur, and then spend all your storytelling energy on the characters reacting to it, rather than being all speculative about it for weeks.
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