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What are you watching? (Kamen Rider Edition)
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07-27-2021, 03:27 PM
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DreadBringer
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The airing of W in my TV isn't that smooth compared to Gaim before, with occassional delays for several episodes, and the schedule change to air from Monday to Friday, to fill in Ex-Aid (something I already completed) for weekends. But I guess, I can try to catch up for my W(riting) here then, I'll do it in 2 parter.
Kamen Rider W(atch)
Nazca Arc
Episode 1-2: The W Search
"W" stands for "Double/W" and "Word"; living up to the title to give the letter in each title double word meaning
Written by:
Riku Sanjo,
Directed by:
Ryuta Tasaki
/Two Detectives in One
The opening, set 1 year before the series, had the Chief who along with Shotaro Hidari, someone with appropriate surname for something that soon happens, being shot by lackeys. The Chief appoints Shotaro as his successor by giving him his hat, while the man they save, Phillip, invites Shotaro to "ride with the devil" by showing a briefcase with Gaia Memory (USB-like device) as Taboo Dopant emerges, all while they're gunned down by nearby helicopter. turning into Kamen Rider W (Double), CycloneJoker form, using his wind powers to send the helicopter crashing to escape. This scene which highlights Double's origin, really quickly jumps into the action and the stakes the series had, with someone being apparently killed already, particularly that Shotaro and Phillip wasn't able to bid proper farewell to the Chief making the scene sadder, as his body was buried with Taboo Dopant's appearence.
The opening series. It contains currently my favorite opening song W-Boiled Extreme. Otherwise, the opening highlights the main theme of the series being coding, the Futo city along with windmill, and the detective theme, enhanced by scenes like Phillip showcasing Gaia Library, animated sequence of Shotaro strolling across the city and W posing ahead of windmills in his main forms, and photos with typings respectively. There's a shot of Akiko Narumi emerging from shadow to give a slap with her green slipper as well, with appearence of W's motorcycle HardBoiler, based on Honda CBR1000RR, and RevolGarry as well.
There's a meeting between Akiko and Shotaro in Kamome Billiards, which doesn't go too well for either of them. Shotaro strives to become a hardboiled detective, hence the name of W's motorcycle, but Shotaro can instead become too tryhard instead for that, as Akiko noted, where she's apparently his boss, and seemingly (ab)uses her authority to get Shotaro to comply for her needs like evicting him. However this behavior of Akiko also led for Shotaro to mistake her for middle schooler, which riles up Akiko further, and revealing that she's the daughter of the Chief that was killed a year ago. Further character reveal for them is that, Shotaro seems to not giving out hard truth by claiming the Chief won't be coming back, while Akiko is obnoxiously curious by shrieking something at something she doesn't know. Despite her bratty traits against Shotaro, Akiko doesn't seem to be all bad here though by her scene greeting some passerby before. The scene also establishes both of them as comedic, over the top expressive characters with Akiko's antics and Shotaro spitting water at revelations.
Then they got a client in form of Marina Tsumura, Shotaro's childhood friend, asking to solve her missing boyfriend Yosuke Togawa. As Shotaro boss however he also got unwanted supervision from Akiko. Shotaro got a clue about Windscale (on a hat) being the place Togawa used to work, but Shotaro is confronted by a cop named Shun Makura for interfering. Wanting to be hardboiled, Shotaro snarks back to him even refering to Makura as 3rd rate cop, escalating a fight. However it only makes them seem like cat and dog in front of Mikio Jinno, a senior detective. Shotaro got photos as more clues, while suspecting that it's related to Dopant, to Akiko's dismay of not knowing about it, even choking Shotaro with her slipper to force him to explain. To make it better for Shotaro there, so far it seems that Akiko doesn't actually wear her slippers, she wears sneakers. Shotaro calls Phillip for further investigation but the Magma Dopant actually appears, with Shotaro escaping and insisting Akiko to stay home for safety. Shows that Shotaro is equipped with detective gadgets like grappling hook.
The Sonozaki family are introduced, after the appearence of their limo on Shotaro and Akiko's way before, portrayed as the elites with luxurious lifestyle and the likely source of the Dopants with their talk about Gaia Memory sales and Magma type. also revealing the Taboo Dopant to be one of the Sonozakis, Saeko. As Akiko tries to evict Shotaro, she comes across Phillip in a secret room, who is scribbling across the board. Phillip is someone focused on explaining and gaining knowledge, asking for Akiko to not interfere while he's focused, and he's interested in learning new topics, but the ones he'd view as interesting, but not for those he already knows. He can get distracted to learn about takoyaki from Akiko's talk however, to Shotaro's dismay. Other than comedic moment there, so far Akiko holds back the case solving in 2 occassions in Shotaro and Phillip's (here) scenes and I get the division of her opinion comes from of her being hindrance. Shotaro finally explains about Dopants to Akiko, while confirming that there are sales about Gaia Memory. After very lengthy octopus explanation, it's revealed how the detectives work, Shotaro gives the keywords to Phillip, while Phillip searches for further information with Gaia Library, possessing seemingly endless information dump.
At Windscale however, Togawa is revealed to be the exact Magma Dopant, injecting the Gaia Memory in a spot of his body to change. Shotaro henshins into W CycloneJoker, using the pronoun "we", as he invites Phillip to get into battle. With the Riders being 2 person in 1, it employs both methods of using the Rider Belt the franchise is known; Shotaro wearing it manually (like Faiz), and the belt materializing around Phillip (original KR), and Phillip falls unconscious when they henshin, with confused Akiko taking care of his body. I also like about how the form's logo appears when they henshin/change forms, with W using CycloneJoker and then changing into LunaJoker (which can stretch right limbs like rubber) as Magma Dopant gains upper hand over his range. Shotaro supplies W's weapons, while Phillip supplies W's powers, and the weapon side is the left part of W, accurately referenced in Shotaro's surname Hidari, which means left. W ends the fight with Maximum Drive attack Joker Extreme, though not that flashy, still a neat idea of literally splitting W's body into both halves for.. doubled finishing kicks, double the damage. Dopants fight wouldn't kill the humans using it, it'll revert them back to human while wrecking their Gaia Memory. However, Togawa is then taken by a T-Rex Dopant, and RevolGarry from the secret room emerges, taking Akiko and Philip along.
/Those Who Make the City Cry
T-Rex Dopant's burrowing power gave W hard time, as it escapes with Togawa despite W trying to hold it using RevolGarry. As Akiko learns about W too with Shotaro trying to deny her suspicion about it being half and half monster, Togawa is reported dead by a radio airing. Marina apparently mourns for his death, which reveals Shotaro's motivation that he doesn't want for anyone to cry and tries to prevent it happening and lamenting about his failure to Marina, while reminiscing their childhood. This also seems to be the reason why Shotaro's attempt to be hardboiled fails miserably, as discussed by his informant "Watcherman", due to his emotional true self, but it's a sign of his altruism. He then comes across T-Rex Dopant, but he shows off his skills outside Rider by using Bat Shot camera and Stag Phone to electroute the Dopant, but it escapes again, however Shotaro found the other clue, the Windscale clothing line.
Watcherman then describes to Shotaro about the Gaia Memory salesman that Togawa bought himself one into, Kirihiko, continued by Wakana, the younger sister of Sonozaki, expressing admiration to him for surviving while courting with Saeko, and Saeko not taking it well of being seen as monster. Their father, plans to expand their influence by questioning if Kirihiko is suitable as one of them. Giving Phillip new keywords, Phillip suspects Marina as the killer, with Shotaro noting that she also had grudge against Windscale with her boyfriend, but manipulates Shotaro into killing him as Marina attacks weakened Togawa as T-Rex after he's beaten. The clash between Philip and Shotaro is also shown here with Phillip urging Shotaro to finish off Marina, as the emotional Shotaro believes in her and wants to reason, deeming Shotaro as halfboiled for not doing what's necessary, earning him a punch, and Akiko siding with him. At this point, Phillip is all about the knowledge, he exhibits thinking preference against feelings, relying on hard logic due to rationalize their environment, but it turns him cold and pragmatic by resorting to do what's "necessary". Despite Shotaro's inherent empathy, he still attempts to be hardboiled at this point, being enraged by those who call him hardboiled by punching Phillip.
Shotaro confronts Marina, cutting her bag with Stag Beetle to reveal a Gaia Memory, with Marina trying to get his sympathy by telling her sob story about the Windscale manager taking credit of her work and disposing her. True to Shotaro's goal, he's mad by Marina making the whole city cry with her crimes here (also destroying buildings) and had contacted the authorities, but still tries to be lenient by just urging for Marina to turn herself in, but as someone with superpowers, Marina would make use for it to try to prevent herself being captured by the cops (only having human level equipment), and her deterioriating sanity to resort to eat Shotaro due to her love. In dire situations though, Akiko does care, jumping into Shotaro as she's worried, but they're both struggling with the debris. Phillip arrives with RevolGarry, and due to his reliance on thinking, he can't understand why Shotaro hit him, likely a sign of him learning about emotions more. Shotaro reconciles with him and henshin into W, but didn't give proper answer other than asking for his help, while tasks Akiko to look after Phillip's unconscious body (done by her carrying him in her back). T-Rex's rampage corners Akiko and Phillip into a police car, which also got pulled around by T-Rex, as it's hopeless in tug of war situation against it as Akiko tries to move the car, with W trying HeatJoker to fight T-Rex who had assumed its big form. W also uses HardBoiler to combat the now big T-Rex, using RevolGarry to switch the bike with Heat. W then changes into HeatMetal, and defeats big T-Rex using Metal Branding... which tbh, I would say a really bland attack, just smacking the opponent with burning Metal Shaft (that I think should be standard attack of the form). Kirihiko joins Sonozaki family, being given a special Gaia Memory while Shotaro reports about the situation regarding Marina's arrest with manual typewriter. Akiko comes to establish Narumi Detective Agency's new sign, to Shotaro's dismay and Phillip's intrigue.
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