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Kamen Rider Die rewatches Kamen Rider W (and watches Fuuto P.I.)
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03-11-2024, 07:17 PM
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KAMEN RIDER W EPISODE 39 - “THE LIKELIHOOD OF G - BAD CINEMA PARADISE”
Basically, I have officially stopped caring about Wakana, and I now zone out whenever the plot focuses on her, or tries to redeem her. She has pretty much ceased feeling like a person, and exists solely as a character that behaves in whatever way is required by the current scene. There’s an attempt in this one to say that Wakana’s
completely new character
is down to her mind being warped by excessive Memory usage, but it’s a hard explanation to accept. For one, Wakana barely used the Clay Doll Memory recently, so it’s difficult to say that she’s suddenly deranged or malevolent. For another, she was fine in one scene in 38, and then immediately ready to kill Philip. It’s not… I don’t think it’s ever been like a switch got flipped, right? It’s been more of a
process
to be corrupted by a Memory. (You could maybe point at Isaka’s experimentation on her Driver, but again: she never really used it, and she was fine for multiple episodes.) With Wakana, the show clearly didn’t feel like it needed to do the work to flip her, and I don’t enjoy their attempts to do so now.
Wakana is later shown as an abusive boss, berating and yelling at her employees. One of the employees, the janitor who she berated turns out to be Saeko, looking for the Nazca Memory. That'd be more like Wakana reverting back to her personality pre ep. 13-14. of being a mean girl, where her father seems to be the exception of this. but I don't know if that'd help her being intimidating as a head villain, she'd be more like a brat throwing tantrums, without class, despite how Kazu notes that the Museum has grown with her. Ryubee presents her the Gaia Progressor as present, with the same glow that Wakana witnessed in W Xtreme debut, to make Wakana perfect, and they track down Gene Dopant to accomplish that. Wakana explains the reason of fighting Raito to make a break from her previous habit, which Ryubee approves, and both family members are happy with each other and Philip claims there's Gaia Memory influence in her, that feels turning her into plot device as perfect enemy (Claydoll Xtreme who can take on CycloneJokerXtreme) though.
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The Dopant story is a good one, though. I like how it’s using this weird couple to talk about the necessity of communication in any relationship, and how you’re allowed to be critical of people you care about. Philip’s in this weird place where he’s written off Wakana in much the same way I have, but he’s clearly feeling betrayed by her in a more personal way, while also not that ready to cut her out of his life. Akiko’s here to remind him that you need to be honest with yourself when you’ve been hurt, but you also need to help the people who’ve hurt you try to improve. It’s a sweet little lesson for Philip, wrapped up in a pleasingly absurd adventure.
Phillip's still sulking on the revelation, though Akiko points out that his attitude won't help either with him not saying anything regarding it. A mostly cold and logical person, now is experiencing the opposite of being pushed down by emotions (not that he had never felt emotions before though, but this one should be the most severe), which proves his human side. With Akiko pointing out the flaw in his behaviors, this can potentially reaffirm Phillip's view of emotions being weakness, with him as direct proof. But emotion can be a weakness or a strength depending on how the user manages it. Emotions managed poorly is weakness, but emotions managed well is a source of strength.
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Everything with the cinema, the Gene Dopant, the cow-puppet hand, and the filmmaking… so good. Such a great low-stakes conflict after the last few bigger, more epic scenarios. This one’s full of terrific details (Toru’s movie is over seven hours long and no one knows why, including him) and cute performances (the Gene Dopant 100% does not know what to do in a fight) that are a perfect distraction from a Museum/Foundation X plot that does not really do it for me.
The Gene Dopant can alter genetic codes of something he touches to change it to anything he wants, including his own body, like disguising as the manager. It's frail though as some strikes from LunaJoker's stretched hand reverts him back to the human form. Ai on the movie being revealed to be Tooru changing his body to hers, thus making him one-man movie producer, and the one forcing people to watch his movie and trap them there. Aki-P's change is shortening the duration to 90 minutes, the title to Holy Warrior Jessica, adding some action, comedy, and fanservice cliches, and Shotaro remarks that the movie did improve from the changes, which makes the 7 hours length unnecessary. Akiko got the wrong idea though to think Tooru and Ai together where Tooru disagrees with Ai's portrayal as energetic heroine but can't express it, and Tooru said he still didn't like the movie. Tooru's quietness is not an ordinary one, as he outright communicates only using a notebook, extreme level of social awkwardness, something Sabi from Gotchard reminds me of.
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Except for Saeko, that is. Her desperate mission to regain some small amount of control over her fortunes is, once again, the Sonozaki story I’m most invested in. Her need to show everyone that she’s better than them, no matter what risky thing she has to do (sneaking into Digal by dressing up like a custodian!), is exactly the sort of character-based plotting that Wakana now lacks. The Saeko stuff feels like an effect from a previous cause, instead of a bizarre plot-dictated reality we all have to live with. Saeko’s still fun to watch! Because she’s a red Nazca now!
Kazu and Saeko has a dinner, with Kazu explaining that he helped her as he apparently liked her. For those who views Kazu like how Shotaro views Jessica, Kazu's expressionless demeanor is noted in-universe too, as Saeko notes that for a confession it's so unenthusiastic. Kazu also reports that the Museum's operations have accelerated in Wakana's control, thus Saeko can't strike back anymore, with Saeko losing his cool as she vows to prove herself. Meanwhile, with no Driver, Saeko injects a Living Connector for Nazca, becoming another one to possess multiple one like Isaka (and that was his demise..). The evolved version is named R Nazca Dopant (R has "Double" meaning too; Red and Revenge), the lv. 3 power of the Memory, giving her greater speed than previously.
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DIE-A MEMORIES
-I love the callback of Shotaro and Akiko’s samurai TV show obsession from 29/30. Can you imagine, getting to see a version of your favorite action-adventure show on the big screen?
What a lovely summer dream!
Though it feels common with toku, there'd be the movie version of TV shows (and for KR now, it's yearly). I did wonder before how would Shotaro react to Kaze no Saheji in front of others, I thought that he'd treat it as a guilty pleasure due to his disinterest to historical stuff otherwise, but actually no, he displays it openly, as he invites Akiko to watch it together. Akiko at first smacks Shotaro with a slipper for not focusing on the case...but of course she'd be tempted too, being the one to 'introduce' the jidaigeki series to Shotaro after all. It also had a little advantage for the case that the manager can't kick them out as they're now the customers (as Akiko says.. a payback to the unreasonable manager). The roles have reversed here, now Shotaro's the one that had attention deficit while Akiko's the 'sensible' one who tried to get him back on track, only for Shotaro's antics to unwittingly move their case forward.
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