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11-29-2021, 01:33 PM | #21 |
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As Sakura's debut becoming Jeanne, yeah, time for the other characters to bring up about Sakura's edgelord behavior, with Yukimi stating that she does like to act tough (and confirmed more by her noting that she's obviously anxious, but covers it up by acting mean and provocative to the family), and Ikki approaching her to tell her to drop her tough act (instead of holding her back again). As she's a teen, I guess the show doesn't pull its punches on showcasing teenage puberty in a rather negative light, culminating in her lashing out in bratty-like manner at the beginning (albeit Daiji was also too strict and harsh). The resolution would be, of course, for her to accept reality that she's not unbeatable, from her encounters with Aguilera before, that she's only human among the superpowered Riders and Deadmans, a normal fish in a tiny pond. This isn't an universe where training will turn you superhuman, unlike Build with Hazard Levels prominently shown in Banjou. A situation where someone is powerful but helpless, showing that one can't solve every problem just by being what they're an expert at, but there's lessons like how one can gain somehow by losing, or there's great value in expanding one's expertise. By accepting her human weakness she'd open to more improvements, like accepting the power of Kamen Rider in addition to her karate skills so she can properly fight, and gimmick-wise, getting in touch with her demon Lovekov (her name being Japanese syllables of "cobra" - コブラ rearranged backwards), literally showing her weakness to others with Sakura not having any problem for that, just asking others to take care of the literal punching bag. I guess Mesnick was right that demons aren't necessarily something morally lacking, like most of demons shown before including Vice and Kagerou, but it can be anything shameful within themselves.
Jeanne of course had to be made the hand-to-hand combatant to make full use of her karate skills, where in comparison previously Gaim had Yoko, a spy combatant, becoming a Rider that mainly relies on bow instead. I do admit that while I expected that, her fighting here does surprass my expectations to make a great debut like what others said, with neat variations of punches and kicks that she gave to the Giff Juniors like juggling one of them to the horde of enemies. Albeit it's not perfect where Matrixbeast notes that karate uses strong stances and hard, direct hits (gotta take his words as while I'm martial artist, I don't take karate). Jeanne turned the battle against bigger horde of Giff Juniors in heroes' favor as a karate master, but I hope they'd live up of the claim of Sakura having greater potential than her 2 older brothers in later scenes, though I'm speculating that she'd be similar to Leangle in Blade, the strongest among base Riders, but others particularly main can surprass by getting upgrades. I hope she'd be the tertiary instead of Hiromi though, complete family Riders as package. I guess Ikki still had some ways to go on putting faith on others, where as shown here, against his parents he tried to claim that Sakura is fine, but actually the parents would also know her better that she's even more despondent as usual that she didn't ask for Yukimi's guidance like she usually does. And now the english name of Igarashi's onsen Happy Spa is also fully canon with Ikki wearing a shirt with that name written. There's a lesson for Daiji as well that him being professional can make him too uptight or even patronizing, against Sakura here, and that he may need to loosen up and acknowledge that something outside of legal can work well, or even better, sometimes law can be on the way to accomplish good instead. Again for Daiji to Sakura, like Daiji and Ikki before, both parties have their share of blame instead of only one having full blame. Other than the rehabilitation Seiko gets, she had to learn here that there are various help you can go for, with she almost giving up on Ryou, like how here, Fenix would be the one to try taking care of Ryou. There's more about Hiromi shown in this episode, that it's revealed that his backstory had him being bullied and hoping for a hero to save him, but there were none, so he became his own hero. Reminds that you better not wait around hoping for something you want but work on it (of course, being successful or not is another matter..), and gotta see if they'd do more with Hiromi's backstory here, but the reveal is very abrupt though in my opinion, Hiromi suddenly talking about his backstory out of nowhere, and like, it's in the middle of fight before henshin, that can left them open to the Giff Junior's attacks. Otherwise, I guess Hiromi resembles Spider-Man as human too, not only as Rider. I guess I didn't see it coming for George's reaction to Jeanne, from his potential excitement of stating that Sakura had a demon inside her, but he's instead enraged here, shouting his way off to Daiji too, and he states that Libera Driver is something he scrapped. Probably another sign of his pettiness too like Kuroto and Ryoma, in this case, probably hating if someone can make use of something he treated as failure, meaning they know the device better than George. Amahiko lives up to his title as the "savior of Deadmans" where he rises their level by mass producing phase 2 Deadmans, but as usual, he didn't learn about how obsessed Aguilera is with Giff, thus making a joke about becoming Giff himself is a bad idea. That'd mean Amahiko's proper goal is still unknown despite being questioned here. Like usual, she'd ignore words coming from anyone beneath her, continuing from how she's bossy and hates being ordered. Aguilera making a decent point here that happiness can come in many forms, but that probably can be another temptation for Sakura that it's a relief she takes her brother's words instead. And a hint of her backstory as well that she was raised by Deadmans since toddler and apparently "thankful". She's also instead excited at Sakura's performance as Jeanne despite her wiping out one of the larger Deadman squad. Again, this gives me Parado vibe regarding how he interacts with Emu and is interested at seeing him come at the top. Quote:
Japan's got a weird thing for being stepped on by women - at least for Reiwa. Valkyrie and Sabela also pinned someone to the ground when they debuted.
I do love that the Igarashi family thus far has very distinctive suit designs from one another, but the henshin sequence is basically the same. I personally prefer a uniform henshin sequence in a series rather than something like Build. Tezuka from Ryuki was also killed b̶y̶ ̶a̶ ̶C̶o̶b̶r̶a̶-̶t̶h̶e̶m̶e̶d̶ ̶R̶i̶d̶e̶r̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶S̶a̶k̶u̶r̶a̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶a̶d̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶f̶i̶x̶ ̶'̶A̶-̶'̶ (well, it's Ryuki, but he died quite early too), and Kiriya had some resemblance to him by being the one to retrieve the main Rider's power (Advent/Mighty Action X Gashat) after another Rider stole it (Gai/Snipe), and being the most heroic Rider (before Poppy for Kiriya) after the main one at that time. I guess.... doomed pattern.
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11-29-2021, 06:42 PM | #23 |
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Really, really liked the introduction of Jeanne. It feels like it's been a long time since we got a Rider who favors martial arts over weapons and/or throwing CGI effects at monsters. Jeanne's style is appreciably brutal and I'm looking forward to more of her.
Also more Lovekov. I didn't know what Sakura's demon would look like but there is literally nothing the show could have done that was better than this. |
11-29-2021, 06:47 PM | #24 |
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Really, really liked the introduction of Jeanne. It feels like it's been a long time since we got a Rider who favors martial arts over weapons and/or throwing CGI effects at monsters. Jeanne's style is appreciably brutal and I'm looking forward to more of her.
Also more Lovekov. I didn't know what Sakura's demon would look like but there is literally nothing the show could have done that was better than this. I also really like the idea that compared to Revi fighting alongside his demon and Live using his demon's power, Jeanne is essentially a brutal one-woman army... while her demon is like the most pathetic thing in the world and has to be protected. Jeanne is the physical manifestation of an escort mission
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11-30-2021, 01:28 AM | #26 |
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11-30-2021, 06:40 PM | #27 |
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Kamen Rider getting into Pokemon? Wouldn't be the first.
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12-01-2021, 11:44 AM | #28 |
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I enjoyed this one and it was nice seeing Sakura’s little arc here come to a close. Jeanne is a cool design, probably my favorite suit in the show so far, and Lovekov is unexpectedly adorable. I loved her dissing Vice. I think with this we are probably out of the prologue stretch of episodes, so hopefully the plot picks up nicely from here.
Honestly I can’t get over the weird comedy value of the scene with Hiromi and Daiji. Daiji’s baffled reaction to Hiromi trying to dump backstory on him out of nowhere made it wrap around from weird to just funny.
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I also really like the idea that compared to Revi fighting alongside his demon and Live using his demon's power, Jeanne is essentially a brutal one-woman army... while her demon is like the most pathetic thing in the world and has to be protected. Jeanne is the physical manifestation of an escort mission
Gaim's Inves Game is Pokemon.
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