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07-31-2022, 12:20 AM | #611 |
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It's Episode 31!
-I love that we immediately start off this arc with a "so uh, what's the foundational ideal that we're buliding this company on? (other than Gai stinks, Humagears are family?)" You definitely are going to lose sight of yourself and the company's goal if you not only pick one, but stick to it! -It's hard to hold back the love I have for the concept for the Hiden Manafacturing arc of 01: part of it I talked about in 30, that the whole thing about Aruto starting from stratch, the slightly revised intro monologue! It's inherently a concept that bulids off Aruto's core strengths!!! It's really just all-around everything I like about 01, yknow? -It's good for them to address firstly that not all Humagears have reached Signaluratry, or how heavily they had to rely on a connection to Zea to inform how their decision-making/learning. There'll likely be many, many Humagears like G-Pen, not knowing what the future they desire is. If you think about it....isn't it the same for us, not exactly knowing what we want of our futures? Perhaps the two groups aren't really all that different.... -I like Jin and Horobi's whole thing this episode. Jin telling Aruto not to tie up the Humagears in his own self-righteous dream....perhaps, that might've been true, for a version of Aruto far earlier in the story. But definitely not now. Horobi insisting that Humagears are far too helpless to think and survive on their own without a network (whether it be Zea, or MJBR.net)....It gives the energy of "This is how it's always been. It's far too much a risk to try anything else and fail!" But...it's ok, you know. To fail and struggle while trying to find/pursue a future of your own. And it's not like you're exactly alone either: Dreams are only realized by half the effort you put into it, and half the support you recieve from everyone, after all~ -The "turnover" bit for the other Humagear is a really fun idea, I like it alot. |
07-31-2022, 12:26 AM | #612 |
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It's good for them to address firstly that not all Humagears have reached Signaluratry, or how heavily they had to rely on a connection to Zea to inform how their decision-making/learning. There'll likely be many, many Humagears like G-Pen, not knowing what the future they desire is. If you think about it....isn't it the same for us, not exactly knowing what we want of our futures? Perhaps the two groups aren't really all that different....
And, yeah, like I mentioned a long time ago, this is frequently a series about parenthood. There's a point where you need to create an environment for your kids to discover themselves, and to surprise you with how they view the world. It's scary, but it's also miraculous, and that's where Zero-One's story is at right now.
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07-31-2022, 03:01 AM | #613 |
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Yeah, I’m also not super aboard with Thouser getting repeatedly beaten up, and I said as much during that LP (I forget which episode in particular) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...GHGAfMi3DHC9k8
Also, RampageVulcan’s pose has changed more details from the wiki. According to Okada, Isamu's different interactions with the Shotriser's energy bullet represents his different expressions of anger towards the Humagears. - When transforming into Shooting Wolf, he punches it. - When transforming into Punching Kong, he deflects the bullet with the back of his hand. Okada states that this way showcases the power of Isamu's arm strength. - When transforming into Assault Wolf, he catches it in his hand and crushes it. - In his first transformation for RampageVulcan, Okada originally thought of doing a backwards roundhouse kick but did not have the martial arts experience to properly perform it on-screen without getting ridiculed by the stunt team. Ultimately he decided to just let the bullets hit him instead, with each striking a different part of the body, forming the armor. In the form's second appearance, Okada changed it into a punch, deflect, and roundhouse kick. |
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I really like this episode, it shows that even though Aruto's almost lost everything, he still has allies, I really like Ishizumi in this episode, you expect him to be a rude person like he was in the 5th episode, but you see how he's really grown and is now putting the HumaGear's wants first, it's just a very nice sentiment.
I also like Jin and his motivations, his beliefs now are actually understandable, and you can see that he's actually trying to do good for the HumaGears which is a sentiment I can understand. Needless to say, I like this episode quite a bit, though I could say that for most of this arc. |
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07-31-2022, 05:47 AM | #615 |
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This is the last episode that's in the running for my favorite. Solely because it does a really good job at spelling out and reaffirming alot of what the show has always been about while kicking the final act into full gear.
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It's really my favorite thing about this new direction: the change of Singularity from an inevitability, or a troubling accident, into a goal. It's not just Aruto trying to rescue the few self-aware Humagears that society can't find a place for; it's Aruto working to uplift all Humagears, and create a world that appreciates them.
And, yeah, like I mentioned a long time ago, this is frequently a series about parenthood. There's a point where you need to create an environment for your kids to discover themselves, and to surprise you with how they view the world. It's scary, but it's also miraculous, and that's where Zero-One's story is at right now. |
07-31-2022, 02:56 PM | #617 |
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It's also, as Androzani's meme pointed out, sort of completely not how publicly-traded companies behave? Humagears are, from everything we've seen on the show, a core asset of Hiden Intelligence, and their most visible product line. If the president of the company can unilaterally bestoy the patents and manufacturing rights to another person, then Hiden's stock is worthless. Imagine if, in Steve Jobs's will, he left the patents to the iPhone to his widow. Apple would've never let him do that in a million years, because it means that the massive amount of money spent developing and promoting the iPhone is now someone else's property. No shareholders would ever allow valuable intellectual property to be owned by a single corporate officer. That is ridiculous.
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KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE EPISODE 31 - “LEAP TOWARD YOUR DREAM!”
Well, okay, one thing. This is the second episode in a row to have Thouser show up with his goons, threaten Aruto, and then get utterly and decisively demolished. The first time’s like Yay Aruto, but this one’s… it’s sort of pathetic? It definitely makes Thouser look like a chump, and I don’t know if that’s a good look for maybe the only currently-active villain on this show? Horobi’s just the devil on Jin’s shoulder (he's always an abusive parent on him), and we haven’t gotten a rampaging Humagear or vindictive Raider in a few episodes, so I don’t love the show jobbing out Thouser repeatedly. Quote:
And on the topic of expression, this whole story is about the liberating and crucial feeling of expressing yourself through art, so: instant A+ from me. The “single-episode adventure” thing is kind of a cheat, considering that this episode is mostly an epilogue to the original G-Pen two-parter, but there’s such an evolution of the previous relationship that it feels like a different story. This one’s about the G-Pen and Ishizumi’s partnership growing into a mentor/apprentice relationship, and reiterating that while Humagears offer humans labor and companionship, what humans can offer Humagears is help in realizing their potential. The human/Humagear relationship can work best when it’s using Humagear labor to let Humagears learn what drives them, where their effort is most rewarding. After that, it’s time to let them pursue their own goals, reach for their own dreams. Humagears start off like children, needing training and direction and guidelines. But eventually, you have to let them leave the nest.
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Like with Jin! As much as Horobi’s fairly convincing in his claims that a human-free world is the only world that’ll be safe for Humagears, Jin decides to officially throw his lot in with Aruto. Beyond just being a beautiful validation of Aruto’s belief that respecting Humagears will lead to them respecting humans, it’s also a very fun action climax to this episode. (I know I complained about it before, but it’s still so fun to watch multiple Riders humiliate Thouser. Maybe they were right to reuse it as a finale!) There’s an agreeable friction to Aruto and Jin’s scenes together, where Jin’s militant dismissal of humanity gets tempered against Aruto’s innate decency and guileless support, while Aruto’s naturally human-centric viewpoint gets broadened by a Humagear that has zero interest in making humanity better through partnership… despite, uh, partnering with a human and helping him improve. It’s great. Took ‘em awhile to get here, but this is a Rider pairing I can get behind.
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I'm pretty sure Zea doesn't care who's president of Hiden Intelligence specifically, as Korenosuke simply programmed it to obey any company president in possession of the Zero One Driver. Thanks to Izu starting Hiden Manufacturing, the president who meets that criteria is still Aruto.
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07-31-2022, 07:32 PM | #618 |
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According to Okada, Isamu's different interactions with the Shotriser's energy bullet represents his different expressions of anger towards the Humagears.
- When transforming into Shooting Wolf, he punches it. - When transforming into Punching Kong, he deflects the bullet with the back of his hand. Okada states that this way showcases the power of Isamu's arm strength. - When transforming into Assault Wolf, he catches it in his hand and crushes it. - In his first transformation for RampageVulcan, Okada originally thought of doing a backwards roundhouse kick but did not have the martial arts experience to properly perform it on-screen without getting ridiculed by the stunt team. Ultimately he decided to just let the bullets hit him instead, with each striking a different part of the body, forming the armor. In the form's second appearance, Okada changed it into a punch, deflect, and roundhouse kick. Quote:
I really like this episode, it shows that even though Aruto's almost lost everything, he still has allies, I really like Ishizumi in this episode, you expect him to be a rude person like he was in the 5th episode, but you see how he's really grown and is now putting the HumaGear's wants first, it's just a very nice sentiment.
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This is a topic the show's talking about a lot, though: What does it mean to "be replaced"? Ishizumi isn't "being replaced" by G-Pen; he's using his skills to teach G-Pen, and then letting G-Pen create something that only G-Pen can. Villains like Thouser want to make everything (if you'll pardon the expression) zero-sum, where one person's success inevitable comes from another person's failure. But, like, maybe there's room in the world for more points of view, more skills, more possibilities. A new form of life doesn't have to mean the end of another form of life.
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07-31-2022, 10:41 PM | #619 |
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KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE EPISODE 32 - “MY PRIDE! RUNWAY OF DREAMS”
Not as strong as last time, but still a really solid one-off story, with only a couple quibbles. The main thing I enjoyed was the way the overlapping desires of Fuwa and Naki were used to talk about the universality of the Humageaar experience. Naki’s arc in this episode is just a sped-up version of Fuwa’s, really: they follow orders, then they start to wonder if there’s more to life than just following orders, and then they fight to free themself from the grip of others just enough to find a little space to figure themself out. It’s all mixed in with the childlike stages of Humagear development, where basic concepts of autonomy and desire are slowly discovered and increasingly valued, but otherwise, it’s Fuwa’s whole thing. But that’s perfect, because Fuwa’s need to figure himself out isn't a real unique phenomenon; literally everyone goes through it. So to give Fuwa a mental partner who wants the exact same thing he does, despite Fuwa giving them absolutely zero help in self-actualizing, that’s going to give viewers a resolution worth celebrating. We get a story about how humans are treated like tools, and Humagears want to dream of a better future, and it’s all just one story about people. Literally no difference in their struggles, up and down the episode. Like, Delmo barely reads as a Humagear, she’s so vibrant and sassy. (I wish she didn’t have a distractingly-testicular face massager or whatever, and I wish her and Izu didn’t gesture with it quite so much, but I still liked her character.) She’s a Humagear that’s confident in her abilities, happy in her career, and unashamed of her origins. Last episode gave us G-Pen as a robot that was learning to dream, and this episode gave us Delmo, and her willingness to fight to retain her dream. Across the two stories, there’s a neat progression of Humagear independence, and a road map of what everyone’s fighting for. Pretty fantastic to get such a quick delineation of the stakes for this section of the show, and in such beautifully dramatized ways. (And, yes: Del-mo the mo-del. Gotta have Hiden Intelligence!) It’s not all intricate character work and nuanced symmetry, though. There’s also some sloppy plotting? If you’ve hired a bodyguard for Humagears, and that bodyguard gets hacked by basically the only group who’d want to harm Humagears, why in the world would you continue to have them guarding Humagears?! When Delmo opens her door to see Fuwa standing there, I was genuinely shocked. Put someone else on guard duty! Put Aruto on guard duty, because he’s doing absolutely nothing onscreen until Delmo needs to be saved because Fuwa isn’t around! This is incredibly bad strategy, and I honestly can’t believe the script didn’t spend a line or two to try and shore up the logic. And then there’s Thouser, once again underestimating how much shit he can make someone eat and paying the price. We’re three in a row on Thouser Shows Up To Be A Big Meany And Then Gets Detonated, and I’ve basically forgotten the time when he wasn’t a clown. (Last time he was like No One Gets To Have Dreams, and now he’s like I Make Humagears Cry. Remember when he had some slight nuance in his methodology?) His schemes are pointlessly vindictive – he mostly just shows up to try and blow Aruto’s house down – and frustratingly dull. I wanted him to have some big scheme when he took over Hiden Intelligence, but it sort of doesn’t matter at all? It’s the same old shit as always, but now with the added feeling that this rivalry is 1000% beneath Gai. (Also, I don’t want to harp on the verisimilitude of the superhero show designed to sell toys to children, but I’d at least expect a Bandai project to understand how manufacturer-initiated recalls work. Just because ZAIA discontinues Humagear manufacturing and initiates a recall, it doesn’t mean a consumer is morally obligated or legally required to comply. If you don’t comply, all that happens is you can’t sue the manufacturer if something goes wrong, like your Humagear screams so loud that wires shoot out of its body and it tries to murder you. If you’re fully paid up on your Humagear, you are legally entitled to keep it as long as you like. It’d be like Apple initiating a recall on an iPhone, and then kicking down your door because you didn’t send yours back. Never gonna happen! Moreover, I’m not sure ZAIA can do anything about Humagears? If Hiden Manufacturing owns the patents and associated technology, Gai can’t do a single thing to Hiden, legally. It’s all very dumb, is what I’m saying about Gai’s legal standing re: Humagear executions.) But! This was still a thought-provoking and emotionally resonant episode of Zero-One. We’re into the point of the show where distinctions like “human” and “Humagear” are becoming less relevant all the time, and that’s a fascinating concept to explore.
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07-31-2022, 10:51 PM | #620 |
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One moment I thought was really cute was Izu and Aruto modeling on the runway in front of that huge crowd. Honestly Aruto and Izu have a lot of cute moments in this arc from the episodes we just got done with and also the ones going forward.
If I could describe this arc as one thing, it's very much Aruto and Izu are at a cafe with a different humagear each week. Meanwhile muffled yelling is heard outside as Fuwa suplexes his next victim. Anyway as someone who despised how Gai was introduced in his Arc and how he basically won or tied 85% of his victories in 13 Episodes, I'm absolutely fine with him continually losing and being a clown. It's clear the writers and producers are course correcting, and good. Because they clearly overestimated how hateable they could make Gai in an Arc that while having good moments, was generally not as interesting as what comes before or after. Like, there is no way no one will ever try and argue and turn me around on this sticking point I have. Keep the Gai losses coming, he deserves them. |
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