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What are you watching? (Kamen Rider Edition)
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06-11-2022, 10:01 AM
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DreamSword
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I just finished reading the
Kamen Rider Faiz
light novel.
It was the only
Kamen Rider
novel outside of
Kuuga
's' that I was actually interesting in reading, primarily due to the negative reception it got.
And yes, a certain major event in it that many people bring up whenever discussing this thing did infact get spoiled for me, and yes, it is terrible, but not exactly in the way many people online seem to present it as?
Without going into too much detail(not sure if it'd be violating board rules or not); Yes, the event in question is bad, but what makes it awful in context of the story itself is more how the entire thing is treated in the aftermath. Kusaka doing what he does was, to me, entirely in character. How everyone else reacts to it, not at all.
But in the end, that was a drop in the ocean compared to alot of the other things that go on in the novel and what exactly it tries to say about them. I've often times seen Inoue's' works getting accused of being disrespectful towards women, and while yeah, there are certainly problems worth discussing, when it comes to this novel specifically? It's kinda disrespectful towards
everybody
. Man, woman, whatever, this novel is a nihilistic cesspit.
The absolute worst part, atleast to me, was that the novel came across as incredibly pretentious: Being written as if it was making some sort of grandiose statement when it really isn't saying much of anything at all or is just being outright stupid and edgy for the sake of it. Plus, if you're a fan of
Faiz
unlike me, then alot of the key changes made to most of the cast(Mari and Yuka especially) will probably only amount to pouring salt into the wound. I get that the novels are aimed at an older audience but this so isn't how to go about it.
Not gonna lie, if Inoue one day came forward and said "I was 100% trolling when I wrote that light novel" I wouldn't really doubt it. Yeah, I have my own hangups when it comes to his writing, for sure, but this was by far the weakest of his works I've experienced at the time of this post.
So no, I don't really recommend it even if you're morbidly curious. Unless maybe you just really love wanton cruelty and brutality for the sake of it? I guess? Not really my thing most of the time though. I rate this novel a
1/6
. Would not recommend.
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