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(And, boy, SO-DO backlogs! Occupational hazard! I feel like "Unopened SO-DO Boxes" should be a stat available on our ID squares...) |
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https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...43420/arut.jpg But I think you're understating Aruto's main motivation here, if you talk about how he mainly wants to make people happy by defending humanity from robots. Like, fighting Magia is the last resort for Aruto. Aruto wants for humans to also appreciate Humagears (there'd be something relatable by this personally but I'd save it for later) and actually wants for them to co-exist together. MetsubouJinrai.NET also consists of.... Humagears. Quote:
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Yay, it's Zero-One time! This is a show that I have pretty ambivalent feelings towards. There are some aspects of it that I absolutely love and some elements that frustrate me deeply. Looking forward to seeing this thread play out.
Some initial thoughts: - I. Freaking. Love. The Zero-One suit. I love almost all the suits in this, honestly. I do not know off hand who did the suit designs for Zero-One but they absolutely knocked it out of the park. I don't like it when Rider suits get too bulky; that was a big problem I had with both Ex-Aid and Zi-O's approach to power-up armor. Zero-One really nails its more streamlined aesthetic, though. It's not a very complex suit, but it looks so good with just the basic black body and a few pieces of brightly colored armor that visually pop right off of it. Easily one of my favorite default suit designs of all-time. - Aruto, specifically his stand-up comedian aspect, always felt like he was someone that should annoy me, especially given my longstanding and vocal animosity towards loud comic relief characters. I really give the show and the actor credit that I pretty much loved him right out of the gate. One of the things, in particular, that endeared me to him is that the big joke about Aruto as a comedian is that he's not funny and the show doesn't try to pretend that he is. I do not know much about Japanese stand-up; most of what I know about it comes from watching tokusatsu and I imagine that's about as accurate as the American TV version of what the NCIS does. That said, I read a good description of exactly what the deal is with Aruto's comedy and why other characters react to it the way that they do. Basically, it boils down to the fact that Aruto's jokes are based primarily around wordplay and puns (something that made this show very fun for translators). This is a form of stand-up comedy in Japan, but it's a style that's very pass?. The best American equivalent I can think of is it's like if he went up on stage and started doing Henny Youngman-style "Take my wife, please" shtick. - When the show first came out, Toei really played it up as the start of a new era for Kamen Rider. I'll be really curious to see what you think about how well this did or didn't work by the end of the series. Quote:
Kamen Rider fandom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxQEf1JXq-Y |
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I am actually deeply touched by being mentioned as one of the people who got you into SO-DO. That means a lot, thank you Die!
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Gutbuster Taro's abs were a Premium Bandai exclusive. :lolol
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A certain other character's name is certainly going to have an extra letter attached... Quote:
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KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE EPISODE 2 - “ARE A.I.S ENEMIES? ALLIES?”
https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/.../zeroone2a.png Ha ha ha, Fuwa. A lot of other things happen in this episode – MetsubouJinrai.Net is exposed to the public as the perpetrators of the recent Humagear rampages, Aruto struggles with everyone looking to him for answers, his dad was maybe a Humagear (?) – but the big news this episode is the time we spent with the AIMS crew, and Fuwa in particular. Fuwa’s great. He’s great. He’s all rage, and nothing else. He had a formative trauma, and he let it envelope him in unquenchable fury. The rules are irrelevant, if they stand in the way of his mission. The entire world exists to bear witness to his vengeance. He’s an investigator that asks no questions, and shoots every suspect. His Henshin sequence is him breaking open a collectible and shooting himself with a violence that protects him from the world. He reminds me a bit of Nago from Kiva, in how hilariously psychotic he is. The actor plays it entirely straight, which (if anything) makes it even funnier to me. He’s the latest in a line of absolutely bonkers secondaries, the newest lunatic with a grudge that Isn’t Here To Make Friends and considers the title character to be a potential Finisher recipient, and nothing more. And those are all good things! The second and third Riders from Ex-Aid were cut from that cloth, bound up in the ways they’d be wronged by the universe and desperate to pay it back. I like that arc, the guy who slowly finds something to live for other than revenge and regret. Nago, again, got to be one of my favorite characters in Kiva, and had maybe my favorite arc in the final few episodes. (A lot of that was the show leaning into Nago’s continuous failures and unceasing self-regard as a source of comedy relief, but still!) As funny as these one-note psychopaths can be, I do usually end up connecting with their inability to overcome trauma, and the ways recovery and catharsis can seem impossible when you live too long inside your grief. It’s gloriously melodramatic, but occasionally devastating. Along for the ride this episode is Fuwa’s (presumably) long-suffering co-worker Yaiba, and she’s already my favorite character on the show. I’m a sucker for competent women surrounded by abject failures of masculinity, so it follows that I found Yaiba to be a very entertaining foil to Fuwa’s ridiculousness. She’s a cop whose partner thinks he’s a soldier, and you can see on her face that way too much of her job is keeping this dude from trying to eat the face of every robot he sees. As a mismatched buddy cop team for a toku show, they’re amazing. Great episode, across the board. I liked how the story tried (maybe a little too bluntly) to contrast Aruto’s sense of protection with Fuwa’s sense of righteous fury, especially through the by now standard eye-catching fight sequence. The fight through the shipyard used so many cool techniques – some POV shots, some multi-level moves, some slo-mo, and a beautifully staged finisher from Vulcan. This show’s proficiency with fight choreography… I feel like it’s going to be this thread’s I Forgot To Mention The Suits? It’s so good, and I barely feel like I did it justice. Still! Just one more element of a really fun second installment. — KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE SO-DO AI 01: KAMEN RIDER VULCAN - SHOOTING WOLF https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/.../zeroone2b.jpg Speaking of second things! Kamen Rider Vulcan! I like the two Shotriser suits a whole lot. (I also like how the show works the word Rise into so many things? Good branding, and I like the emphasis on things becoming more than what they began as.) Unlike the clean symmetry of the Zero-One suit, Vulcan has a more unfinished asymmetry. It looks less agile, more destructive. Little spikes come off the blue parts, and even the torso looks angry. It’s a great color scheme. I’m not gonna be like All Secondaries Should Be Blue, but I think it’s generally a smart move. It’s got the same red piping, to tie in with Zero-One’s suit, but we’ve got blue over a white undersuit, rather than COLOR over a black undersuit. It nicely casts Vulcan as cool, imposing. Something about that blue and white just says that this dude is not going to save anyone. Another winner of a suit! |
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