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02-18-2023, 10:17 AM | #751 |
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Yeah, Rintarou's arc here, about dciding to join Touma's little renegade gang, but really he embodies the best of the guild and literally becomes the representation of their memory instead of the guy who actually leads it, it's good. Helps that Tategami McNorthernbase looks really, really good, trading in the black and muted blues of his past two upgrades for white and icy blue and having a very ''cool'' debut fight.
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02-18-2023, 12:37 PM | #752 |
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Here's a fun article about Hiroki Uchida & him joining the Saber writing team
https://tokusatsunetwork.com/2021/05...-writing-team/ Quote:
Tategami is a the first Rider thing that I bought after moving house around this time (the first thing in general was the Zenkaiger belt with the Gears for Gaon, Magine and Vroon). So, instead of the videos by people who forget how the gimmick works after 3 videos, you get two videos from me.
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As Mei correctly points out, it's so fluffy and shiny! Very enjoyable suit to watch.
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02-18-2023, 12:40 PM | #753 |
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Fish Sandwich also watched Kamen Rider Saber Episode 32
I feel like suprisingly little is coming to mind to say about this one, but it's a really great coda to the development Rintarou has had up to this point. Contrary to the image Saber created for itself early on, they really took their time building this whole arc for the guy, to the point we just did a two-parter where you could've easily imagined that being the big endpoint final form debut for Blades if they felt like it. Instead we get this fantastic extra step, with tons of gloriously kinetic Sugihara direction, and a script from a new writer that somehow manages to slip right in -- at the *end* of a storyline no less -- without feeling like it doesn't fit with what's happened before. Hiroki Uchida made a pretty darn great first impression for his work on Rider here. Despite not being directly written by someone who worked on Ghost, this episode also does one of the most Ghost things imaginable by cementing Rintarou's growth with a new catchphrase, like all the Riders back in that show. I remember seeing the "I'll protect the balance of the world" thing before the show started, and not being able to gauge Rintarou's personality from it at all, because it immediately sounded weirdly, like, culty, I guess? It's a line I imagined would fit a typically aggressive secondary who would think the protagonist is disrupting the order of things or whatever. It makes perfect sense for Rintarou in context, of course, but seeing that change here to reflect what Rintarou now realizes is truly what he wants to protect, it felt like a very natural change. I love Tategami Hyoujuu Senki by the way. The long white hair combined with the fact it's literally the collective power of generations of swordsmen makes me imagine it as like, this is what Blades will look like if Rintarou is doing this gig like a hundred years from now as this insanely respected veteran who everyone looks up to. He's the king of beasts, and now pretty much the king of swordsmen to boot. It's an appropriately different angle from Touma writing his own Wonder Ride Book, and every bit as fitting for the character. Plus, you know, I just like the white and blue color scheme a ton. The suits in this show, man! They don't miss!
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02-18-2023, 12:52 PM | #754 |
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I feel like suprisingly little is coming to mind to say about this one, but it's a really great coda to the development Rintarou has had up to this point. Contrary to the image Saber created for itself early on, they really took their time building this whole arc for the guy, to the point we just did a two-parter where you could've easily imagined that being the big endpoint final form debut for Blades if they felt like it. Instead we get this fantastic extra step, with tons of gloriously kinetic Sugihara direction, and a script from a new writer that somehow manages to slip right in -- at the *end* of a storyline no less -- without feeling like it doesn't fit with what's happened before. Hiroki Uchida made a pretty darn great first impression for his work on Rider here.
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02-18-2023, 03:10 PM | #755 |
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I think past me already nailed my thoughts, so I'm going to borrow from Fish here.
Sh Ranger also also watched Kamen Rider Saber Episode 32 Having finished the show, I can now confirm that this is actually my overall favorite episode of Saber. I'm a big Rintarou fan and I think this is a Fantastic (Lion) conclusion to his arc, both emotionally and visually, while also giving some cool moments to the other characters. Sophia shows off her force fields, to compensate for the time she was imprisoned. Ogami's so resilient that Zooous has to knock him out twice. Mei gets to hold Ikazuchi, feeding the MeiEspada theory some more. Touma figures out Durandal's trick. It's just awesome! I'd totally recommend everybody reading through that whole thread anyway. It's humorous as hell. Quote:
So. Fun fact(?). Up until now, Saber has had 3 writers, who rotated just about every two episodes. (Takuro Fukuda, Keiichi Hasegawa, and Nobuhiro Mouri). I probably got a little too into assessing Who Had The Reins Each Week as Saber was airing but... well, there were definitely times it felt illuminating to Saber's sometimes weird swerves.
Anyways! Welcome to Saber's 4th (not counting side content) writer, Hiroki Uchida! He's joining the rotation with the rest, so there'll be longer gaps between every writer's turn now :P. (I did think Uchida did a good job joining the show in progress though, I did actually mostly like his episodes. Not bad, since he's a younger writer and this was his first work for Toei.) Haha, so we're doing this again.
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02-18-2023, 05:45 PM | #756 |
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Yeah love this ep! There's something about the way the powers of Rintaro's new form manifest that just works for me. The icey air, the composure, the general beauty of the design, it's great!
Thank you for doing a Daishinji story btw, love that guy.
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02-18-2023, 09:15 PM | #757 |
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KAMEN RIDER SABER EPISODE 32 - “MY HEART AND SOUL, CRYSTALIZED IN ICE”
And it’s, really, a Rintaro episode. We get some slight movement on plot stuff – Sophia’s key finally gets used, Reika’s suspicious of the Megid involvement – but this is definitely the climax of Rintaro’s character arc. We’ve seen him deal with his inferiority complex alongside his friends; now it’s time to see him deal with it alongside his dad's memory. Quote:
Which: this is completely a story about Rintaro trying to come out from under the shadow of his dad. In the incredibly weird way Rintaro has reshaped a family dynamic around the workplace he was adopted/indoctrinated into, he had just finished seeing his value to an organization when his coworkers are better at their jobs than he is, through being a great team-player. Now, he has to find a way to make his boss proud, and honor the hard work of the people who built the company.
It’s a fun conclusion, where Rintaro literally embodies the institutional history of the Northern Base and uses it to defend his home and family. It’s as perfect a Gets A New Power-Up finale to this type of story as I can think of for Rintaro. He acknowledges that his mission is to protect his family – not just a guild or a code – and has the entire history of the sword of Logos go You Finally Figured It Out, through the bestowal of a slick new Wonder Ride Book that allows him to obliterate Zooous, the Megid who killed his boss/dad. It’s Rintaro’s whole story, wrapped up with a bow. Quote:
It’s so focused on Rintaro that it kind of doesn’t leave much else to discuss! The Saber/Durendal fight was fun, with Touma’s, like, sonar being able to track Durendal’s time-dilation and negate his advantage. (I love the little PINGs on the soundtrack!) There’s also the requisite fun moments of characterization, like Ogami geeking out over his new pin, and every weird thing Daishinji does in the background. It’s just, none of that even comes to the level of a B-plot in this one. It’s Rintaro’s story this time out, from front to back.
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02-18-2023, 09:42 PM | #758 |
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Daishinji's a lot of fun to think about, especially at this point in the narrative. Glad you dug it! Quote:
In this episode Rintaro gets some deliveries who'd seem "generic" (and I do think that here he acts similar to Touma), with him vowing to fulfill his promise that is about protecting Northern Base together as well as him vowing to protect his friends with his power (as the answer to Sophia's question to his reason), with him using the flashbacks of previous Blades as motivation to fight Zooous.
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02-18-2023, 09:57 PM | #759 |
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KAMEN RIDER SABER EPISODE 33 - “EVEN SO, THE FUTURE CAN BE CHANGED”
If you ever want me to do an instant 180 on a character, the easiest way to do it is having part of their arc remind me of either KickHopper or PunchHopper. So, Ren: new favorite character? As soon as I saw him grumpily eating convenience store ramen under a bridge, those old Kabuto neurons started firing again. And then here’s Desast to make that compelling Come Be A Scumbag With Me pitch, and I’m over the moon. It’s an incredibly fun space for this show to play in, that chaotic dirtbag zone. We’ve got determined heroes, and apocalyptic villains (two sets!), and a tortured antihero, but Ren and Desast fill this intriguing role for the show as guys outside the Optimism/Pessimism divide. Their story is about feeling unfulfilled in a workplace, but unmotivated to determine what would actually make them happy. They don’t lack skill, they lack drive. They love the work, but they don’t know how to turn that into a career. They’re waiting to find something worth believing in, and they’re going to be a giant pain in the ass until they do. There’s a bunch of other stuff in this episode, but, boy, none of it really hit me like the Ren/Desast stuff. That story was exactly what I was waiting for. The other main plot is… not my favorite kind of Saber storytelling. It’s half emotionally-resonant Touma/Kento friendship stuff, and half weirdly-deployed exposition about things that aren’t super relevant right this second, but clearly will be over the next dozen episodes. It’s a little sad to see that, amongst so many huge improvements from the first batch of episodes (Ren!!!), this show still randomly drops huge details in a relative void, like it’s all some big stew of plot details. There’s no slick puzzling out of key information, it’s just maddeningly abrupt declarations like Sophia Is A Hologram Clone Created To Mimic Luna. It’d be an absurd yet tantalizing detail if Touma discovered it through episodes of hard work; here, it’s that Saber standby of characters revealing insane elements of the series arc like they’re recapping the previous episode, and I still dislike it intensely. There’s barely any reason for Kento or Master Logos to talk about it right this second, beyond giving context for viewers, and it’s that sort of expository clunkiness that would always take me out of generally-excellent emotional scenes from earlier in the run. It’s no different here, and that’s a bummer. Because, otherwise, good scene! I like that Touma – just like with Rintaro – cannot ever close the deal on reuniting friendships because he always rushes the resolution. Kento’s coming around after a picnic reconciliation, but then Touma’s like STOP BEING LONELY AND BROODING AND FIGHT WITH ME and Kento remembers why he’s keeping this guy at arm’s length. It’s incredibly funny to me that Touma still doesn’t know how to separate work and friendship. Maybe Rintaro’s been a bad influence on him? The Master Logos stuff was also really good. I dig the way he’s all about psychologically torturing his foes to keep them off-balance. He’s not only having a blast telling Kento and Touma how fun it was to destroy their childhoods, he’s using that information tactically. He’s making it personal for them (even This Isn’t Personal Kento completely loses his shit), and while it’s great as a little team-up moment for fans, it also renders both Saber and Calibur less effective in battle. Pretty much a win/win for Master Logos! Despite some dull integration of plot details, this was still a terrific episode of Saber. The Ren/Desast stuff makes up for a lot of deficiency, but the B-plot with Kento and Touma wasn’t a complete loss. The characters continue to be strong enough to overcome some artless plot developments, and nearly all of them get a chance to shine this time out. And I didn’t even mention the fun runner with Yuri and Mei! (Oh! I watched that Desast Walk Vs Kenzan Walk thing, but it’s only a minute long and didn’t have subs. Cute fight scene, though!) — SUNDAY MORNING Yuri looked around the cottage, searching for any clues to Victor’s disappearance. He’d never known Victor to leave his post, except for rare (and recent) occasions. He’d guarded the Wonder World for a thousand years, and never once wavered in his dedication. He had a strange sense of humor, but he was steadfast in his duty. Yuri respected that. As he looked around the room, a wall clock began to chime. It struck nine times, despite hours and minutes being foreign concepts to the Wonder World. He approached the clock, as a tiny bird came out from a door at the top. The bird had a card in its beak, and it hovered in front of Yuri. The card said READ ME. Yuri took the card and thanked the bird, which promptly vanished. He read the back of the card, which contained several paragraphs that confused Yuri. It was all information he knew, and even experienced. What was this for? Why did Victor want him to read this? To his left, meters from the room’s sole chair, a portal opened. The portal was perplexing, even for Yuri’s vast knowledge. It was maybe a foot in diameter, and its contents were conflicting. It was as though he could see a face, or maybe millions of faces. They were waiting, patiently, for something. They were looking at him to– Oh. Of course. Yuri sat down in the chair at the center of the room, facing the portal. He looked at the card, and began to read from it. “Bonne Lecture, my friends,” he said with his most precise and serious enunciation. “My name is Yuri.”
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02-18-2023, 10:06 PM | #760 |
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So this episode is basically a bit of a decompressing one even if we are still moving forward. Honestly after a month of Kamen Rider Blades, the first episode outside of that arc would have a lot to stand up to.
This is basically the point where Ren clicked for me, when he and Desast basically started becoming a duo. It's a fun dynamic, it was great when we saw glimpses of it during the Kenzan Special, and even more so during our brief Ren and Desast meeting during the King Megid arc. And it was just fun to see them here. While the Master Logos bit alongside the Touma and Kento stuff is fine enough. My favorite fight this episode was probably the Ren and Desast vs. Sabela transitioning into Blades vs. Sabela. Blades is at the point where he's easily a match for the Southern Base Riders, and we see it here. Also a cute moment of Rintaro being absolutely cold after finishing the fight, to where he gets a bowl of (Soba I think it was?) to warm up via its natural warmth thanks to Yuri. Speaking of Yuri! That was a fun short story. Yeah, with Tassel currently MIA for now thanks to Master Logos, we've ended up discarding the usual opening segments. So it was cute to have you have Yuri do that. ===Zero Presents: Desast Walk=== Note: We are now skipping Desast Walks because they are technically tied to certain things that Die won't get to for a bit yet. So we'll be skipping around slightly. Expect at least two to happen at the same time as a result of this change. Note 2: So thankfully there's just a full video I can share of this still on Youtube that has the sound the original twitter video was lacking. Desast Walk #13: "Hello, humans. I'm Dessert. I'm a demon born from a book. I was created by mixing three books together, so I don't have a story to tell. This moment, this battle itself is my story, the meaning of my existence. That's why I'm going to get serious, okay? #Desast'sWalk vs #Kenzan'sWalk" |
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