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07-31-2022, 11:50 PM | #621 |
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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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07-31-2022, 11:50 PM | #622 |
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Yeah, Zero-One definitely got its money's worth out of the tattered Gai costume during this period. I know it was meant to be cathartic, but law of diminishing returns, man.
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07-31-2022, 11:51 PM | #623 |
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I will say this for him: zero scars or blemishes after multiple detonations! Seriously good genetics on that dude.
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07-31-2022, 11:53 PM | #624 |
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Well he is supposed to be 45 (Somehow), so yeah he has god-like genetics.
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08-01-2022, 12:15 AM | #625 |
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It's Episode 32!
-Delmo is straight up one of my favorite Humagears ever? She's super fun, and I think her pride in her Humagear idenity is just a cool idea? -If I'm remember correctly, this episode was actually part of a collaboration with the 2020 Tokyo Girls Collection, an actual fashion show! Aruto and Izu's actors happened to model in the show for real, and they looked real good! -Hey, it's Naki! They and Delmo make for a really fun contrast, someone who is completely defined by the role they were given by someone else, and someone's who's totally in tune within their own self-worth? Not having a dream but assisting with others' dreams to find their own someday, its very sweet. (and happens to vaguely remind me of a certain other wolf in Rider....) -Yeah at this point Thouser and his goons showing up against the Humagear of the Week is getting a little...? Like it's kinda funny how downright petty and thoughtless his schemes have become, he's become so obsessed with Aruto's downfall even after he's technically "won", but it's also getting kinda grating seeing Gai getting blown up and going "grrrr I'll make you all regret this, 1000%!" every week for a while......Since Raidraisers are apparently for the common citizen to use to defend themselves, couldn't we have thrown in a few civilian Raiders into the mix to shake things up? |
08-01-2022, 12:22 AM | #626 |
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Yeah at this point Thouser and his goons showing up against the Humagear of the Week is getting a little...? Like it's kinda funny how downright petty and thoughtless his schemes have become, he's become so obsessed with Aruto's downfall even after he's technically "won", but it's also getting kinda grating seeing Gai getting blown up and going "grrrr I'll make you all regret this, 1000%!" every week for a while......Since Raidraisers are apparently for the common citizen to use to defend themselves, couldn't we have thrown in a few civilian Raiders into the mix to shake things up?
-Is there a disgruntled Hiden employee who resents Aruto for ZAIA taking over? -Is there a roving gang of vigilantes warring against a grassroots pro-Humagear youth group? -Is there a human who lost their Humagear, and is now taking their rage out on the world? Like, I get that this story is more about Humagear self-actualization, and that Humagears shouldn't have to prove themselves to humanity in order to be treated with respect. We're not doing A Bigot Learns A Lesson stories anymore; the show's outgrown that. But with Horobi a more background figure, and the Ark plotting in a lake, that just leaves Gai's increasingly cartoonish bits of spite to carry the motivation for superhero fights, and it ain't going great!
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08-01-2022, 06:41 AM | #627 |
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One of my favourite episodes. Naki alongside Fuwa is one of my all-time favourite Rider characters and their arc together here is exactly why
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08-01-2022, 11:29 AM | #628 |
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Delmo's singularity is so obvious that I'm glad it didn't take Aruto long to figure out. Like, she's practically human to the point where if she had Jin's upgrade you'd probably never realize she was a Humagear. And she played off Fuwa surprisingly well given how different they are in every way possible.
Fuwa feels like he has come full circle in a way to where he started out hating Aruto's guts and wanting to destroy Humagears because he was basically reprogrammed that way, but now he's working for Aruto to protect Humagears as a life choice he has made on his own. We also get more with Naki who is going through their own self-actualization and character development alongside Fuwa and developing the idea of what it means to be a Humagear and to dream. It was nice to see Assault Wolf again, I guess...? Gai is basically a Saturday morning cartoon villain at this point...which I guess checks out, but still. Yua's not that much better. Aruto and Is got drop both on and off the screen. |
08-01-2022, 11:32 AM | #629 |
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I totally agree! We've seen HumaGears like Kobe take pride in their job before, but it's inspiring to see Delmo take pride in her HumaGear appearance and want to show the world that HumaGears can be beautiful as well. Just fashion and makeup is enough, no need for pretentious photoshopping.
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08-01-2022, 12:50 PM | #630 |
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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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KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE EPISODE 32 - “MY PRIDE! RUNWAY OF DREAMS”
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. Quote:
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.
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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.
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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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