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02-03-2023, 10:49 AM | #501 |
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I always liked Daishinji enough, but something about him never exactly clicked with me, so I'm glad you lot are exploring him, because it's bringing him a lot more into focus. Someone so commit to his craft of swordsmanship, to the point it's where he communicates and reads others, but is still a calm hero (a dork, but a hero) and not some kind of blood knight... yeah, I get why people would be really into that!
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02-03-2023, 01:28 PM | #502 |
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I won?t talk much about the plot yet, due to the fact that this is again a two-part story. I will only note that a small plot with a fan of Touma, who also appreciated the amazing miniature in his bookstore, seems to me very appropriate. But your story is very interesting. It's great that you took on the lore of X-Swordsman, because this is a very vast field for fantasy.
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02-03-2023, 01:32 PM | #503 |
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It really amazes me that Touma is a children's writer, because, judging by the rare passages in the show, his most successful book is about reflection due to amnesia. That is, it does not seem to me that this is a topic that is close or interesting to most preschoolers who come to his store. Although, given that Kamen Rider is a children's show, it must be admitted that Japanese children have strange tastes.
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02-03-2023, 01:34 PM | #504 |
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Thanks! I'm interested in Sword Man -slash- X-Swordsman -slash- Sword X Man for how it's another culture taking American superhero tropes and sort of... analyzing them? Recontextualizing them? Regurgitating them? I think it's fun to see how one culture's tropes and art get processed with a completely different cultural background. That's fun. I'm excited to see where this show goes with that exploration.
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02-03-2023, 01:50 PM | #505 |
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Aaaaaaaaa, Desast's walk. It's both in a way my favorite storytelling from Saber and... kinda the most unforgivable? Because I really do think following along with Desast's twitter adventures improves the Saber experience by leaps and bounds with it's interesting insight into it's corner of the world and my favorite wolf beetle skull monster man, but... how are you supposed to do that if you weren't watching the show in real time?
It's the same problem of the Swordsman Chronicles providing great characterization in missable side content... but worse since at least those were, yknow, actual webisodes you can just add to your watch order. Twitter is like, the most ephemeral way this side of the story could have been communicated, without someone already in the know helping share the tweets at the appropriate points anyone watching the show after the fact would likely not even know Desast's Walk existed.
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02-03-2023, 04:33 PM | #506 |
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It really amazes me that Touma is a children's writer, because, judging by the rare passages in the show, his most successful book is about reflection due to amnesia. That is, it does not seem to me that this is a topic that is close or interesting to most preschoolers who come to his store. Although, given that Kamen Rider is a children's show, it must be admitted that Japanese children have strange tastes.
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02-03-2023, 04:39 PM | #507 |
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I definitely took it as him doing both. The novel seems aimed at children -- the cover is a group of children looking at a Wonder World-esque vista; it's got prominent placement in a kids' bookshop; and I think Touma's specifically said it was about his childhood, or at least what he remembers of it -- while the magazine writing he's doing is aimed at adults. It wouldn't surprise me if a pre-SoL Touma reoriented his gaps in memory as a thrilling adventure for children, and it also wouldn't surprise me if a slightly older, no-longer-a-prodigy Touma was more interested in crafting stories for adults.
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02-03-2023, 06:46 PM | #508 |
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KAMEN RIDER SABER EPISODE 19 - “FIRE AND LIGHT, SWORDS INTERTWINED”
It’s a solid, if unexceptional episode. Entertaining, if unmemorable. We’re still circling our major plot points – Book Club’s like More Monsters Never Hurt, Sword of Logos is confused over how best to deal with Touma, and Yuri is still feeling his way around a world that he’s about 60% clear on while doing some light theft of personal property. Nothing is bad, but everything’s just… more of the same? Quote:
Like, the stuff with Shingo. He gets almost exactly as much characterization as Yuki got last time, which is barely enough to qualify as a sentient human being. He’s got a name, and an interest, and then he’s some victim for Touma to save. Shingo isn’t an active participant in this story, beyond being someone that Touma can feel guilty about not saving yet. There’s no story there, you know? Touma might as well be saving his own miniature castle from a Book Club scheme, for all that the specificity of Shingo’s character matters to the proceedings. There’s some fun fights, and it’s all miles better than the random Megid attacks of the first dozen episodes, but it’s still just Touma trying to save a random victim before the Book Club or the Sword of Logos interfere.
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The best part of the episode, though, comes off of that interference. Daishinji (what, did you think I meant Storious?!) is still trying to understand what Touma’s up to, and if he’s already lost to the same lust for power that the SoL assumes corrupted Kamijo. But Daishinji isn’t the type to get the truth by having a discussion, because words are just another way for someone to obfuscate their intentions. The best way for Daishinji to see if Touma’s still to be trusted is, of course, having a duel with him.
I guess I brought it up cuz I often see quote-unquoted "heroic" when describing characters who actually genuinely well-intentioned, but the quoted-unquoted "heroic" is given due to using extreme and evil means to achieve it (but the goal is still genuine and they do live up to it, but shows that good intentions doesn't necessarily make one good person). So I thought it'd be different for Gai's case where his claim of human supremacy is just a front for his dirty work in the company, that he'd not have "heroic" goal following how audience usually use that 2 term for (though it's used as they don't know the term anti-villain).
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02-03-2023, 06:59 PM | #509 |
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It does make me wonder exactly what kind of stories Touma produces for adults, though -- as unfortunately there just doesn't exist much of a market for light fantasy stories (as opposed to 'grimmer' takes) in adult novels. Or maybe he lives in the beautiful alternate universe where it's much more mainstream...
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I definitely took it as him doing both. The novel seems aimed at children -- the cover is a group of children looking at a Wonder World-esque vista; it's got prominent placement in a kids' bookshop; and I think Touma's specifically said it was about his childhood, or at least what he remembers of it -- while the magazine writing he's doing is aimed at adults. It wouldn't surprise me if a pre-SoL Touma reoriented his gaps in memory as a thrilling adventure for children, and it also wouldn't surprise me if a slightly older, no-longer-a-prodigy Touma was more interested in crafting stories for adults.
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