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03-04-2024, 12:25 AM | #341 |
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Well yeah, regardless of her target being Museum, as Akiko pointed out, it's terrible of her to spread Yesterday brands, albeit Shotaro still assumes that she limited herself so that W can intercept all the brand and that it's merely a distraction, but Shotaro's someone who puts his complete faith and trust in any clients regardless of their nature.
That is for sure Wakana projecting, yeah. Saeko's only regret is that she can't murder him all over again.
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03-04-2024, 12:29 AM | #342 |
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KAMEN RIDER W EPISODE 36 - “BEYOND R - LEAVE ALL BEHIND”
Okay episode. I wish I liked this one more? It doesn’t really do anything wrong, but a lot of its conclusions are either things I felt like landed better before (Terui’s heroic turn in… I want to say Episode 28?) or are things I was never particularly invested in (Saeko’s feelings about her dad). It’s an episode split between the Sonozaki family and Terui, but neither of them completely held my interest. Let’s talk about Terui first, since this is his Upgrade Form story. Like I mentioned last time, I’m good with them landing this story on Terui’s protective feelings for Nagi outweighing his hatred for Isaka. While Shroud’s here to yet again get it wrong, I don’t feel like this story ever really tried to say that Terui’s motivation was anything other than saving that girl from Isaka. There’s no conflict in Terui, which makes his attempts to tame the Trial Memory come off less like a spiritual awakening and more like a fairly standard training montage. (And, look, I’m just saying: a guy who turns into a motorcycle should’ve been able to run that track on his own power.) It’s nice to see him succeed, and his victory over Isaka is pretty glorious, but this all felt like a semi-perfunctory Time To Close The Book On Isaka story, not anything that required a reexamination of Terui’s psychology. Not exactly the same as Shotaro having to reckon with the power of his weakness, you know? And then there’s Saeko choosing Isaka over her family, and it’s… shot well? I liked how it all looked, and I like the escalation of tension within the villain group just as the heroes are becoming more powerful, and I like the idea that Isaka is – like Terui – finding a motivation beyond where he started from, but I kind of don’t care a whole lot. Saeko’s scenes with Isaka have always been too one-note for me (and that note is There Are Kids Watching), and I don’t know that she’s ever been portrayed with enough nuance to care about whether she feels like she gets enough respect from her crime-boss father. Isaka, meanwhile, is clearly just counting the 9.8 scenes until he’s offed, so his threats against Ryubei are a nice nod to an overall goal that is basically never ever going to happen. So much of the middle part of this episode feels like it’s killing time until Terui is allowed to leave the track, even if it’s the best version of killing time that I can think of. It sounds like I hated this episode, but I really didn’t. It’s fine. The debut of Accel Trial is super cool, and this whole story is a gigantic win for the most appealing version of Terui. It just – it never felt like it had any fun twists on it, and so much of the Sonozaki side of things featured the inner lives of characters I was never terribly curious about. It’s a solid episode, but something this important to the character of Accel should’ve probably managed better than “solid”. — DIE-A MEMORIES -Accel Trial! -Not many Upgrade Forms are actually slimmer than the Base Form (not counting, uh, all of Kabuto and Ex-Aid?), but I really like it here. It sells Speed in such a simple way, which is very fun. The blue is also an easy flip from Accel’s red. Just a couple clean decisions that result in an attractive suit. -I love that there’s a yellow mid-form change that doesn’t actually do anything… yet.
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03-04-2024, 12:45 AM | #343 |
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Yeah this was a fairly alright two-parter, and again as I mentioned earlier, Terui alongside our guest this time, Nagi, were very much carrying the entirety of this two-parter on their shoulders. Whether it was the revelation that Terui's necklace was a gift from his sister, the fact that he utterly fails and yet his presence is enough to stall out the worst case scenario, or even Nagi's desperate hope that Terui will manage to actually beat the sicko who has made her life a living hell.
Real good stuff. I've already said my piece on Isaka, and this two-parter didn't really give me any actual nicer things to say about him as a character. Will say I forgot we got a "dream-sequence" of him using the Dopant's wings. That was a silly image I entirely forgot about. And while I don't really care much for the Sonozaki stuff this time around... there was one bit I really loved. That was where we get a clear shot of only Saeko and Isaka alone as she's shaving him, following Saeko only to pan over with her again and suddenly Ryubei is there despite no signs of him being in or entering the room seconds earlier. It's such a horror movie-esque choice to do and I honestly loved that little shot as a result. Accel Trial's debut is still as fun as I remember it being. It's a simplistic form but it's effective in how it's portrayed and I'm sure the suit actor appreciates the lighter armor on his upper body. Also Shroud continues to be amusing to watch, mostly in her consistent repetition of the word "hate", reminds me of another guy actually... Anyway, I love the little touches with her. Mostly in the scene where Akiko's excited that Terui's going to get a better time and she's flailing around. And she actually touches Shroud who simply shrugs off the touch and actively backs away like "No, stop that". |
03-04-2024, 06:12 AM | #344 |
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So like I promised last time, here’s my general thoughts.
I’ve mentioned elsewhere that in the “Foundation X” trilogy, as I’ve seen it be called, that compared to others, the Second Riders tend to be stuck in their own subplots that have little to no impact on the main Rider’s war against he resident evil (at least compared to the likes of Cross-Z, who has jsut as much of an enmity with Evol as Build, if not a greater one, and Kusaka, who drives the plot with his one-sided enmity with Takumi pushing quite a few aspects of the plot forward). But out of the three, I like Accel’s storyline the best, mostly because it actually comes to the organic conclusion of Terui defeating his nemesis without giving into his worst aspects (compared with Meteor, whose enmity with Aries was aborted in favour of debuting Cosmic States), and there is some impact on the main plot, as Isaka’s romance with Saeko (which a few watchers either ignored or treated is disingenuous, despite the lack of evidence it’s anything other than a mutual romance) and their subsequent failed attempt at mutiny forces Saeko onto the streets, which will massively change the villains’ dynamic throughout the remaining episodes. |
03-04-2024, 12:05 PM | #345 |
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Yeah this was a fairly alright two-parter, and again as I mentioned earlier, Terui alongside our guest this time, Nagi, were very much carrying the entirety of this two-parter on their shoulders. Whether it was the revelation that Terui's necklace was a gift from his sister, the fact that he utterly fails and yet his presence is enough to stall out the worst case scenario, or even Nagi's desperate hope that Terui will manage to actually beat the sicko who has made her life a living hell.
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I?ve mentioned elsewhere that in the ?Foundation X? trilogy, as I?ve seen it be called, that compared to others, the Second Riders tend to be stuck in their own subplots that have little to no impact on the main Rider?s war against he resident evil (at least compared to the likes of Cross-Z, who has jsut as much of an enmity with Evol as Build, if not a greater one, and Kusaka, who drives the plot with his one-sided enmity with Takumi pushing quite a few aspects of the plot forward). But out of the three, I like Accel?s storyline the best, mostly because it actually comes to the organic conclusion of Terui defeating his nemesis without giving into his worst aspects (compared with Meteor, whose enmity with Aries was aborted in favour of debuting Cosmic States), and there is some impact on the main plot, as Isaka?s romance with Saeko (which a few watchers either ignored or treated is disingenuous, despite the lack of evidence it?s anything other than a mutual romance) and their subsequent failed attempt at mutiny forces Saeko onto the streets, which will massively change the villains? dynamic throughout the remaining episodes.
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03-04-2024, 12:58 PM | #346 |
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Trial is blue and has an orange eye. The inetween yellow form has a purple eye. This is even more proof that base Accel should have a green eye.
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That color theory is only a theory though, based on the small amount of the EM spectrum that we can actually perceive. So you can't call that proof.
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03-04-2024, 06:41 PM | #349 |
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KAMEN RIDER W EPISODE 35 - “BEYOND R - A MONSTROUS RAIN APPROACHES”
Like, this has got to be a living nightmare for Terui, right? A young woman who reminds him of his dead sister, terrorized by Isaka, and Terui is powerless to protect her. Short of anyone asking him questions or the Fuuto P.D. banning detectives from wearing leather, this is as bad as it could possibly get for Terui. He wants revenge on Isaka to assuage the survivor’s guilt he feels, and now he has to watch a young woman get terrorized so bad she becomes an Aztec snake bird god, all while Isaka becomes more powerful in the process. Quote:
I mean, we’ll see where it goes in the second part, but I honestly don’t mind if this thing just lands on Shotaro’s aphorism about men finding strength within themselves as long as they have someone to protect. It’s good because it’s a more admirable trait of Terui’s, different from his introductory bloodlust. This one’s about Terui wanting to keep someone else from having to suffer, and stopping Isaka for good is just a way of achieving that goal. It turns Terui into a hero, instead of a vigilante, and hopefully that’s okay with Shroud.
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While we don’t get more of Shroud’s backstory (beyond hanging out in forests and renting dirtbike courses, totally good clues to provide), we do get Isaka’s, and it’s okay. He’s been a guy hyper-obsessed with gaining power and admiring Dopants, so his backstory is… that he saw a Dopant and admired it so much that he became hyper-obsessed with gaining its power. As revelations go, it’s, y’know, not one, but as we’re clearly in a climactic story for the Weather Dopant, we might as well cross our I’s and dot our T’s. Still, even if it doesn’t fundamentally change the way we look at Isaka or Saeko, at least they’re finally making a move on a definable goal – namely, getting the Terror Memory from Ryubei, somehow at some point.
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Best gag in the episode is Nagi calling Terui a pervert as a scheme to get out of his grasp. It’d probably work on almost any dude, but it is incredibly effective against a stern dude wearing a full-body red leather outfit. Bonus points for Shotaro and Akiko trying to wriggle out of the angry crowd’s accusations that a cosplay detective and shoe-wielding middle schooler are also perverts!
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03-04-2024, 11:46 PM | #350 |
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