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07-09-2022, 10:30 AM | #301 |
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I like how Aruto talks with Subaru and really validates his feelings about his brother and Raiden, showing the potential for Humagear's to be...well, human, and that to Aruto that is perfectly okay.
Oh hey, Vulcan finally does a Rider Kick! Is...did you really need to stand so close to them to confirm Horobi was down for the count? Like, do you not have super vision as a machine or something? Seemed like a less than logical choice on her part even if she was determined to see if they'd succeeded. I guess we complete Jin's character arc of flip-flopping between being an obliviously joyful collaborator in hijacking his fellow Humagears for the sake of destroying humanity...to being utterly determined to destroy humanity. And that his dad died saving him for that express purpose...feels really emotionally complex. Shining Assault Hopper! It feels like it's really become a trend lately to have "incomplete" upgrades to where you get a form but there's always an inevitable add-on to make it feel complete (depending on how you ask) and give you the form as it was meant to be. Ironically using a device that was linked to another Riders' upgrade form. Personally I like it design-wise because I feel like the blue blends in with the black and green very well and it gives this "serious business " vibe that matches Aruto's determination as Zero-One. |
07-09-2022, 11:24 AM | #302 |
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Shining Hopper is a pure HIDEN Rider in terms of design and aesthetics. But then you've got the Assault Grip adding Ark made portions from Assault Wolf onto it. So it's very much not a clean HIDEN Rider anymore, it's a mix and it doesn't really feel like Zero-One's next true evolution because of the source.
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I think Subaru isn't about refusing to gain human trait or something as a Humagear, unlike certain group here. He's just livid over Raiden's betrayal of him that he'd rather disown him. Which actually is kinda Subaru having some human traits here too, processing a terrible thing that happened to him, and react accordingly, not in favorable way, but he does. You said here to care about someone who treats you with care, but for Subaru at this moment, all the care Raiden gave him was fake due to his real identity. This seems to be about how to process a family member that is more unpleasant than you think... like having an evil dad (so many in KR) or big bro or such. This'd be quite tricky too, to talk about still acknowledging those terrible people as family which can also be interpreted as never acknowledging their crimes (as it was never addressed), and covering up their crimes due to being family.
She was weirdly excited about their victory! Or maybe she just wanted to see a dead body?
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07-09-2022, 12:12 PM | #303 |
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Don't really have much to add about the episode besides "it was really good" (I feel like I've been having this problem for a bit now?), but I'm more than happy to stick up for Shining Assault Hopper. I was never outright opposed to it to begin with, but I remember seeing some gallery of promotional shots for the Figuart when that was coming out or something, and for whatever reason, that made me really start to appreciate the design? I honestly think it looks gorgeous, and while vanilla Shining used to be my favorite on the strength of its debut story, nowadays I like the completed version at least as much.
And yes, apparently Shining Assault's design was actually finalized first, with them working backwards to make Shining, which explains how weird Shining looks. That's kinda what I like about that form, because it's a really fresh idea for a new era and all that, but Shining Assault Hopper takes a very traditional approach to being a power-up form. Zero-One with a silver jaw and bulky shoulder pads is a lot more normal looking, for sure, but all those details just make the suit pop. I love how the dark blue still lets the neon yellow stand out as the dominant color, and the way the lines of those colors wrap around each other without really combining, which helps communicate that each of them is coming from a different source. Ark and Zea are intertwined, but also fundamentally opposed, and they somehow managed to convey that just through the color layout. As usual for Zero-One, there's an impressive level of intent to the design. Plus, it brings back the antennae that went away with vanilla Shining, so just on that level, this suit feels more right. What's a grasshopper without his feelers!? Oh, and while Shining Assault Hopper's debut may not have the entire story building up to it the way its incomplete version did, I do love the detail that the sun rises right after Aruto transforms. Darkness literally faded when he Shined... just in time for the Key to drop that amazing phrase. You see now why I kinda wished they saved some of those great ideas from Shining Hopper's debut?
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Oh, and while Shining Assault Hopper's debut may not have the entire story building up to it the way its incomplete version did, I do love the detail that the sun rises right after Aruto transforms. Darkness literally faded when he Shined... just in time for the Key to drop that amazing phrase. You see now why I kinda wished they saved some of those great ideas from Shining Hopper's debut?
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07-09-2022, 01:55 PM | #305 |
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KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE EPISODE 14 - ?WE?RE THE ASTRONAUT BROTHERS!?
And it?s? that?s sort of what?s interesting about the narrative?s reluctance to either judge or impede Fuwa?s self-destructive insanity. MetsubouJinrai did cause a disaster when he was a kid. They are responsible for acts of terror. Yua?s worried about him, but Gai?s willing to keep him out in the field as long as he continues to channel his rage in useful ways, which he has. People are generally worried about him (Aruto?s whole Are You Okay thing as Fuwa?s crawling on the ground, coughing up blood, sort of undersells the required dismay at Fuwa?s recent antics), but no one?s acting like he?s crossed any real lines. The universe seems to have given him the green light to get his revenge. That idea is the most interesting part of Fuwa?s continuing story, because the lack of roadblocks or judgments puts the onus on Fuwa to realize his choice: just because you?re owed vengeance, it doesn?t mean you have to take revenge. If Fuwa?s vengeance comes at the cost of his happiness, his sanity, his relationships, his career, his health, his life? what?s the point? And, if it only cost him his happiness, was even that too much to pay? Quote:
KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE SO-DO AI 04: KAMEN RIDER VULCAN - ASSAULT WOLF
This is a form that I don?t like aesthetically ? it?s not a Figuart I?m aching to get, assuming they produced it ? but I appreciate narratively. It?s not fun to look at, but, like, neither is self-destructive mania! Everything about Assault Wolf should be slightly unpleasant, bordering on scary. And it is! We already touched on my favorite element, the furious reactor where a heart should be, but the rest of it is equally gross: red lights and lines everywhere, aggressive shoulderpads, basically zero humanity. It looks like the kind of form an evil anti-human satellite would produce, and the kind of form Fuwa would not learn any lessons from. Quote:
In the muzzle! Literally the most dangerous part of a gun, they put the button there! Quote:
I always like to assume that after realizing how much of a hassle it is for Arutor to summon the bike and then have them drag it back into space (man, that's got to be a lot of work just for a bike), he decided to stop using it less. Not that he had really been using it much anyways.
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I liked Raiden's energy and bro vibe, especially with his little bro. Like an old school Humagear who really felt like a human. Which added the sense of tragedy when it turns out he was, unbeknownst to himself, a secret spy for Metsuboujinrai as Ikazuchi. Like, the dude just wanted to mentor his little brother and get him ready for the future! Don't do him like that! I feel like they didn't quite grapple with the emotional tragedy going on.
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I like Aruto?s view of Humagears as his family. In a way, it?s nothing more than the idea of a found family ? a staple of Kamen Rider shows for decades ? blown up to a societal degree. It?s Aruto taking his responsibilities as both a Kamen Rider and a CEO, combining them, and amplifying them with his own unique backstory. Sort of no surprise that this episode ends with him getting a hybrid upgrade form, is it? Quote:
KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE SO-DO AI 04: KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE - SHINING ASSAULT HOPPER
I don?t love it? My favorite things about Zero-One suits have been cleanliness, tight color schemes, and aerodynamics, so here?s a multicolor suit with spiked shoulderpads. It?s the busiest suit on this show yet, and it?s the exact opposite of what I enjoy in Zero-One suit design. No thanks!
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Oh yeah, haha, the Authorise Buster. Humorous story about that. I kind of like this weapon in the show, but Bandai's DX merchandise version has such a laughable flaw. Guess where they put the button to change between gun and axe mode?
In the muzzle! Literally the most dangerous part of a gun, they put the button there!
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07-09-2022, 08:18 PM | #307 |
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Don't really have much to add about the episode besides "it was really good" (I feel like I've been having this problem for a bit now?), but I'm more than happy to stick up for Shining Assault Hopper. I was never outright opposed to it to begin with, but I remember seeing some gallery of promotional shots for the Figuart when that was coming out or something, and for whatever reason, that made me really start to appreciate the design? I honestly think it looks gorgeous, and while vanilla Shining used to be my favorite on the strength of its debut story, nowadays I like the completed version at least as much.
And yes, apparently Shining Assault's design was actually finalized first, with them working backwards to make Shining, which explains how weird Shining looks. That's kinda what I like about that form, because it's a really fresh idea for a new era and all that, but Shining Assault Hopper takes a very traditional approach to being a power-up form. Zero-One with a silver jaw and bulky shoulder pads is a lot more normal looking, for sure, but all those details just make the suit pop. I love how the dark blue still lets the neon yellow stand out as the dominant color, and the way the lines of those colors wrap around each other without really combining, which helps communicate that each of them is coming from a different source. Ark and Zea are intertwined, but also fundamentally opposed, and they somehow managed to convey that just through the color layout. As usual for Zero-One, there's an impressive level of intent to the design. Plus, it brings back the antennae that went away with vanilla Shining, so just on that level, this suit feels more right. What's a grasshopper without his feelers!? Oh, and while Shining Assault Hopper's debut may not have the entire story building up to it the way its incomplete version did, I do love the detail that the sun rises right after Aruto transforms. Darkness literally faded when he Shined... just in time for the Key to drop that amazing phrase. You see now why I kinda wished they saved some of those great ideas from Shining Hopper's debut? |
07-10-2022, 12:18 AM | #308 |
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KAMEN RIDER - REIWA: THE FIRST GENERATION
ALL DADS ARE DEAD. I remember it being a thing I first started saying during the Ghost thread. It’s an insane mortality rate, being a father in Kamen Rider. Aruto loses his biological father as a baby. (I think this movie is the first time that’s actually referenced?) He loses his Humagear father in a flashback in Episode 1 of the TV series. And now here we are in the Zi-O crossover movie, which means we are one thousand percent traveling back in time to have full-grown Aruto watch his Humagear dad die again. It’s all the lowest-hanging daddy issues shit, and I can generally take or leave it. This franchise is lousy with dudes who lost one or both parents at a narratively convenient off-screen age – all the better to facilitate an endless number of kindly uncles or oblivious grandfathers or well-meaning belts. I don’t honestly know why Toei’s internal policy is that living parents are detrimental to the sales of toys to children, but I’ve never done any focus-testing in Japan. Maybe every child in Japan is actually being raised by a mysterious benefactor who found them suffering from amnesia in the rain, and is secretly training them to bring about the end of the world, and they want to see their lives reflected back at them. I don’t know! But I do know that All Dads Are Dead. Having Aruto travel back to 2007 and interact with his deceased robot dad, it’s largely an irrelevant tangent. While it’s a formative trauma, and helped Aruto crystalize his own belief in the humanity of Humagears, there was no real mystery lingering in the narrative. Headphones Dad blew up in an already-explained explosion, directly in front of Aruto. Moreover, there’s really nothing in Aruto’s first dozen episodes that feels like it’d be improved by some one-on-one time with Headphones Dad. This isn’t Sento, who needs to understand some element of his own past, or Takeru, who is explicitly following in his father’s footsteps. Aruto doesn’t seem to require any closure from his dad? So to see this movie not only go all in Aruto Requires Closure From His Dad, but then hinge the entire climax on the film with Aruto needing to physically defeat AND KILL his own father to prove that he’s capable of being his own man… I hate that? I hate almost every word of that, and it all feels antithetical to every single smart thing this show ever did. The scene of Headphones Dad tearfully telling Aruto how proud is he of Aruto, finally, because Aruto was able to murder him – for COMPLETELY FAKE REASONS – made me so angry I almost turned it off. Aruto fighting his dad is gross. Headphones Dad faking being evil to force Aruto into a fight is disgusting. The movie deciding that Aruto executing his father is both an unavoidable and deeply noble act, that should be celebrated, is horrifying. Everything story-wise with Headphones Dad is infuriating. It’s insulting. And it’s all the more aggravating for how much else in this movie I liked. I mean, sort of. There’s an idea in here that I think is worth exploring, even if the movie never really wants to discuss it in a meaningful way. It’s in the scene where Will is talking to Aruto’s grandfather about the recent promotional push for the Humagear launch. Hiden is positioning the Humagears as a way to bring smiles to humanity. Will askes, simply, how will humanity bring smiles to Humagears? It’s a fair question, and a smart question. Hiden can say that Humagears are partners to humanity, but everything about them is sold as slave labor. What is humanity doing to uplift Humagears? Aruto’s grandfather basically goes You’re So Clever and immediately leaves the room, so we never even get to hear even a bullshit platitude to placate Will, and I’m starting to understand his genocidal rage. This is a question core to both this movie, and the series as a whole, and almost no one wants to address it. What we’re given is just Don’t Do A Genocide, and I’m not sure that gets at the fundamental imbalance in the human/Humagear relationship? I don’t… I don’t like how dumb this movie was about the things it’s usually smart about. The action was great, across the board, and the concept of Darkest Timeline With Robots is a great mid-point between Zero-One and Zi-O. The pieces were there to do something at least inoffensive, if not exceptional. But the focus on an unnecessarily shitty dad (who just wholesale participates in a genocide for a decade, I guess?) and an avoidance of difficult philosophical questions makes the whole thing seem like it doesn’t get anything about Zero-One. Zi-O does not fare that much better! Team Zi-O’s incredibly charming in this, old pros showing how it’s done, and incredibly wasted in this. The movie never quite finds a way to integrate Sougo’s worldview into the narrative, leaving him and Geiz and Tsukuyomi and Woz to hover at the edges and deal with a bland I’m Here To Talk About Generations And Riders villain. (I don’t know why there are still more Timejackers???) They feel like they’re guest-starring on someone else’s show, rather than collaborating on an exciting new adventure. They’re a plot device to get Aruto moving back and forth in time, and that’s about it. You could take out the Another Ichigou stuff entirely and it wouldn’t affect either the plot or the themes. I dislike thinking about this movie. I cannot believe they made a story that resurrected Headphones Dad, just so Aruto could heroically murder him. I can’t figure out why it was ever a story worth telling, and then telling it in this way. It made me like Kamen Rider Zero-One less as a concept, and possibly as a character. — KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE SO-DO AI 06: KAMEN RIDER ZEROZERO-ONE Here’s the twist: ZeroZero-One is maybe my favorite suit in the entire series. It’s been my favorite since before I even knew what it was. (I thought it was, like, a proto-form?) It’s everything I love about Rising Hopper, but mixed with everything I love about the MetsubouJinrai suits. It beautifully mixes the speed and COLOR of Zero-One with the tactical bad-assery of his foes. It feels like a weapon dropped onto a battlefield, but one that’s here to provide a rescue. It’s the Shining Assault Hopper I wish we’d got. The SO-DO is equally impressive. A ton of stickers, but used smartly. (Well, mostly. There are two stickers for the upper arms that are basically invisible.) The shins are three stickers each that look like one when they’re applied. It takes some time, but nothing’s aggravating or unclear. And the end result is, to my eyes, a premium-looking figure. I love this suit as much as I hate this movie’s story, which is a little annoying to me. But! I love this suit.
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It's Reiwagen Time!
-I actually missed out on this movie bc I hadn't watched Zi-O when I first watched 01, and like, forgot the movie existed after finishing it up Zi-O. Let's give it a proper first watch! -I think this is the first and only time we see where Aruto lives? It's a cozy apartment, its kinda cute? As soon as we got to the Hikarigomi segment, I got the biggest grin on my face. -You really don't know what you have until you go a long while without it, and man! I missed the Zi-O kids and Woz? It's kinda weird seeing Sougo as the "senior"(Aruto is still older than him, so it feels a bit weird calling him that, huh) Rider when his show was more or less about him being the new kid on the Rider block,, Since this is largely a 01 story, they're just here for the ride/extra hands to fight, but its nice to see them! (Also hey! I really like Sougo moving through all of his major upgrades in the movie, saving Grand Zi-O for last.) -As with any Zi-O-related plot, we've got a bunch of timeline-messing shenagians! It's a strange AU where Humagears have nearly completely taken over the planet? Ik we only have so much time, but I do wonder about all the changes to Humagears made to themselves in order to maintain an all Humagear soicety. (Like, the mere concept of child/teenage Humagears brings up a lot of questions imo! Do they purely exist to fufill regular Humagears's desire to have families? Can they "age", or are they permamently adolscent? Do they partly exist to continue to provide roles for Humagears bulit for childcare/educational purposes?) -Hey, it's 001! The 01 suit, now MJBR flavored! Don't really have any strong feelings about it, but cool that it exists! I amittedly haven't watched alot of the Rider movies, but surely this suit is notable for being the primary suit in the movie in comparsion to the "save it for the big moment" usages of movie-exculsive suits ive seen. -Ichigata's a real neat suit, direct inspiration from Ichigou rather than lightly referencing it like 01! Enjoyed all the cute refrences. Finis definitely has the best wardrobe out of all the Time Jackers, right? Straight up goregous. What isn't goregous, is that Another Ichigou. Sufficenly freaky, I love the whole centaur look, honestly? -Depsite this being a Hiden family story, it kinda.....throws Koronosuke under the damn bus? Going "well *Soreo* was the one who created the KR system and was cruical in making sure Ark's plans were thwarted", and all Koronsosuke gets to do is realize Will's plans before it's too late, it's a little......At the very least, I wanted to know why the guy thought giving his orphaned grandson a Humagear dad was better than raising Aruto himself? If you asked me my thoughts on this movie: It sure does exist? I honestly feel very little about this movie's narrative? Like, Finis's whole deal in this movie is to essentially just give Sougo something to do while Aruto is Going Through It, their motives personally made less sense than whatver Tid was up to in Heigen Forever? The Soreo and Aruto part.....no. Really disappointing on all fronts. I fail to see how re-traumatizing your own son will help him take his own path, or whatever this movie is trying to say. If you *really* wanted to dig into Soreo's deeds in the past, make a TTFC special or something. The other part of the special, in that Heigen way of exnaming Kamen Riders, is trying to re-affirm Aruto's core ideals and how his actions as a Kamen Rider will shape the new era....the problem is, I feel like the show already does a fine job of doing that? Granted, there's only so much you can with a movie's runtime, but by the time this movie came out, the show has done a good job, establishing, pushing back, and reinforcing his ideals? The movie largely feels a mishmash of undercooked ideas slathered up in 01-standard action on steroids, it kinda left an odd taste in my mouth. (........Since Die occasionally like to mention those wacky train kids on occasion, I will mention the Humagear teacher is played by Shin Nagahama, who played Nijino Akira/ToQ 6 in Toqger!) Last edited by cosmicrescend0; 07-10-2022 at 02:50 AM.. |
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So to start off with, you probably recognise the guy playing Will as Jin, Taro’s “not-dad” from Donbrothers.
And onto the production info. Which is somehow more detailed on the actual plot that the movie itself is. The Time Jacker who started all of this is called Finis (Swedish for “the end”), though what her motive is differs between sources. The official synopsis states that she was trying to prevent the destruction of Daybreak Town (which doesn’t jibe with what we see of her in the movie), while Shirakura says that she’s a minion of Schwartz who’s trying to avenge his death by destroying everything Sougo helped create. (I only hope that when Sougo reset everything this time, he gave her a position as, the school secretary, or something). And now for the return of an old favourite. The “compare and contrast” between the Another Riders and their originals. Aruto is is a human who inherited Hiden Intelligence from his grandfather after his death from natural causes and believes in a future where humans and AI can smile together. Will on the other hand is Humagear who stole the company by murdering said grandfather and believes the only happy future is one where AI has eliminated humanity. And for the second one, Takeshi Hongo is a young man who was kidnapped and forcibly turned into a monster, setting off the lineage of heroic Kamen Riders. Finis is a Time Jacker who willingly turned herself into a monster to create a lineage of villainous Kamen Riders and is the last of the Time Jackers. Design wise, Another Zero-One continues the trend of extinction motifs, by being based on the Rocky Mountain Locust (as is Ichigata). As for Another Ichigou, aside from regular Ichigou being a Shocker monster, the second form’s spider legs evoke his first monster, the Spider Man. And just as Another Kuuga has no thumbs, Another Ichigou has no feet, which you should realise the significance of. Overall, I wasn’t that keen on this movie. The plot isn’t that great, the visuals are very uninteresting and whoever edited the sound for it should be fired, since the mixing is atrocious. |
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