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06-18-2022, 10:02 PM | #41 |
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There he is! My favorite boy! Fuwa Isamu. My favorite Rider, character, and himbo of this season!
Yes, that's right, Vulcan is my favorite of the Zero-One Riders, easily. Zero-One's suit is great, but Vulcan just wins for me. I love the asymmetry, the colors, the design, the motif, the gun, the standby is just "Kamen Rider" over and over again, and I just adore it. That's not to say Aruto had a great moment this episode when confronting Jin, but Vulcan's debut transformation was spectacular. From forcing open the flipping Progrise Key, to that sleek transformation sequence, what more need be said? And then there's that part at the end of the fight, that's just too darn cool. I love this episode. But then again, maybe that didn't need to be said. But I'd also like to give a shoutout to ZEA for giving us some cool scenes with Zero-One's projections and summoning his bike. Zero-One really dominates in the first quarter. One could say, this series likes to JUMP! "Hai! Aru-jaaaaaaa-NAITO!" |
06-18-2022, 10:32 PM | #42 |
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06-18-2022, 10:41 PM | #43 |
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Just notes from me watching the first Ep:
Edit: Need to add spacing and bullet points Conclusion: This episode is rad as hell, and a great opening.
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06-18-2022, 10:58 PM | #44 |
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Rise Phones... man, I don't know. You're telling me that the company that developed Humagears also sells a phone that's three inches thick and made of shiny black plastic? I know Bandai's gotta sell role-play items, but, man, my disbelief can only be suspended so much. Just let these kids use iPhones! You've got enough plastic crap to sell!
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06-18-2022, 11:07 PM | #45 |
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Rise Phones... man, I don't know. You're telling me that the company that developed Humagears also sells a phone that's three inches thick and made of shiny black plastic? I know Bandai's gotta sell role-play items, but, man, my disbelief can only be suspended so much. Just let these kids use iPhones! You've got enough plastic crap to sell!
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06-18-2022, 11:11 PM | #46 |
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If any series could justify an Android phone, though, I think it's this one!
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06-18-2022, 11:20 PM | #47 |
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I think there's something to be said for the expectations of a series that's coming in after the end of an era and the beginning of a new one, especially with how dramatic a send-off Zi-O ended up being the for the Heisei era of Kamen Rider. So Zero-One being the first official Reiwa Rider show, there's quite a lot to live up to in terms of hitting the ground running.
Firstly from a suit perspective I think Zero-One really hits what you need of a Rider that really comes to define their generation...sleek, iconic, and classic. Something that you get with Ichigo, Kuuga, and even W, and bonus points for going back to grasshoppers. And to really make this feel like a fresh start we have Seiji Taikawa retiring from Main Rider duty to let Yuya Nawata take the reins, and he acclimates himself admirably to the duty that is portraying Aruto as Kamen Rider Zero-One. Also, that Rider Kick...just, that Rider Kick. Aruto probably has the most stark profession of any Rider lead. Professional Kamen Rider, journalist, cook, scientist, high school student, king-to-be...how about a failed comedian turned corporate CEO? But when you think about it, someone whose job it is to make others laugh and happy is the perfect choice for a job as a hero who protects the smiles of others, be they human or machine. And to believe in the possibilities of machines to do the same. Is (I'm going to be contrarian and call her Is) feels like the next in the line of Rider female leads who wouldn't feel out of place in an anime. I mean, that fancy outfit, that loyal and steadfast stoicism, and in general just being pretty cute...there's a lot to like. The Magia are set up in a really dark way, what with being these Humagears we've bonded with for the episode suddenly hacked and turned into rampaging killing machines based off extinct animals against their will that are protagonists have to destroy without regret...and the only saving grace is that they have backups that can restore them, more or less, so the show doesn't get too dark (and before we can really dive into the idea of a "backup" in terms of identity). Design-wise I think the Magia work as this kind of rigid, yet colorful and almost kind of frightening monstrous machines out to kill humans. Which I think is also a nice change in Rider because most kaijin are organic instead of metallic. I think robot antagonists are more of a Sentai thing. One of the most important aspects for a Rider show to get right (in my opinion) is the 2nd Rider and their dynamic with the Main Rider. Now 2nd Riders who are immediately antagonistic and disproving of the Main Rider is pretty typical at this point, but with Fuwa you really feel his personal passion and understand why he's so cynical even if we, as the audience, know that Aruto is different from what he expects. But Fuwa still has his own sense of justice even if that makes Aruto, and also Zero-One, a target. And then at the end we see him start to possibly, and slowly, come around to the idea that Aruto might be different. And we also get one major commonality between Aruto and Fuwa...Fuwa's the only one who thinks he's funny. Also you gotta love how Kamen Rider Vulcan is a literal lone wolf 2nd Rider down to the entire form, and how cool and utilitarian it looks compared to Zero-One. We get our traditional second-episode bike debut and it's actually a pretty solid bike sequence in my opinion. The Rise Hopper really fits Zero-One's aesthetic as a sleek, cool, bike that matches it's Rider design-wise. Now how often will the bike actually show up from here on in? |
06-18-2022, 11:29 PM | #48 |
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One of the most important aspects for a Rider show to get right (in my opinion) is the 2nd Rider and their dynamic with the Main Rider. Now 2nd Riders who are immediately antagonistic and disproving of the Main Rider is pretty typical at this point, but with Fuwa you really feel his personal passion and understand why he's so cynical even if we, as the audience, know that Aruto is different from what he expects. But Fuwa still has his own sense of justice even if that makes Aruto, and also Zero-One, a target. And then at the end we see him start to possibly, and slowly, come around to the idea that Aruto might be different. And we also get one major commonality between Aruto and Fuwa...Fuwa's the only one who thinks he's funny.
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We get our traditional second-episode bike debut and it's actually a pretty solid bike sequence in my opinion. The Rise Hopper really fits Zero-One's aesthetic as a sleek, cool, bike that matches it's Rider design-wise. Now how often will the bike actually show up from here on in?
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06-19-2022, 01:49 AM | #49 |
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I've never actually seen Zero-One something I HATE about Modern Sentai shows is the comedic leaning leads and seeing that this show would have a comedic based lead made me steer the hell away
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06-19-2022, 03:04 AM | #50 |
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So by this point, I think I should clarify that the Magia are based on extinct creatures. The one from last episode was the Kujiberotha teruyuki (an extinct mantidfly from the Cretaceous age), and the ones from this episode are a kuehnesuchus (a gliding lizard from the same period) and an Ekaltadelta, a carnivorous fanged reptile. And their henchmen are based on trilobites.
Onto this episode, some more interesting facts. Fan sub group RiderTime went through seven different translations for the shine/worker (shain) pun https://ridertimefansubs.home.blog/2...r-zero-one-02/ Fuwa beleiving that he needs Yaiba to give him permission to unlock the key (which most of the fandom believe too) is actually his own stupidity showing. In actuality, the key can only be unlocked by placing it in the belt (basically, it can only be opened when made to say ‘authorise’), meaning that him pulling it open makes authorising it pointless. And now, time for my regular feature, wherein I talk about the Progrisekeys themselves. Alongside showing some concept art of Aruto using ones he never does in the show. First up is Shooting Wolf. Progrise! Uchi Makakuri Stay! Shooting Wolf! The elevation increases as the bullet is fired. Unfortunately, due to my habit of only collecting secondary Rider belts in Reiwa, I can’t show you what that sounds like. I can show you this brief video involving the ShotRiser and the memorial Shooting Wolf key I made though And borrowing a time saving trick from Gaim and Ex-Aid, the legend items in his toyline remix their jingles from the base toys. Though unlike Gaim grouping Legends to each of the 5 main Riders (Kouta gets milestone Riders, Kaito gets Riders that turned into monsters, Micchy gets Riders with a connection to the number 2, Taketora gets Riders from both the darkest series and the lightest, while Oren gets the ‘weird’ ones) and Ex-Aid, which had some stealth jokes in the choices (Kuuga - Mighty Action X, Ryuki - Drago Knight Hunter Z, Hibiki - DoReFiMa Beat and so on), Zero’One’s are entirely random. Fullbottle, shake shake, BestMatching Build! A genius physicist whose mind surpasses all And finally, a look at what if Fuwa used Rising Hopper ShotRise! Rising Hopper! A jump to the sky turns to a rider kick. |
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