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09-19-2021, 11:54 PM | #281 |
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That makes sense! The one thing this two-parter nails is all of the cool superhero parts of Kabuto. Cast Off, Clock Up, the best non-Hopper suits... it's all there in these Decade episodes! If there's one show to watch on aesthetics alone in Phase 1, it's Kabuto.
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09-20-2021, 03:17 AM | #282 |
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Fun fact: this episode’s worm (whose name I can neither remember, spell or pronounce) actually showed up twice before: Once in the Kamen Rider G short, celebrating 50 years of TV-Asahi (there, his human form was Jiro from Kiva) and in the music video for “Journey Through the Decade”.
I have to say, not much stuck out for these episodes beyond Diend’s choice of summons: It’s-a SHOWTAIMU! |
09-20-2021, 07:19 AM | #283 |
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Thanks for letting me be part of this project Die! I hope our lukewarm reception of this arc doesn’t deter anyone from watching Kabuto. It’s a great ride ( eeeeeyy )
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09-20-2021, 09:06 AM | #284 |
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MRWILLIAMGRAHAM: Agh this didn't really work for me
KAMEN RIDER DIE: I don't really love this story's message. I never thought of Kabuto as a show About Family, even though that's 100% what this story was about. (I thought of it more as a show about not measuring yourself against other people, and being okay with your limitations.) So this story sort of trying to say Family Will Always Be There For You in a way that also plays as Family Demands You Not Change... wasn't crazy about that! The idea that a franchise about a transforming hero would do a story where change is a bad thing... what?! Quote:
KAMEN RIDER DIE: The idea that the only powers Decade got from the Den-Liner crew were poses and catchphrases, it KILLED ME.
The villains being baffled and then furious at Decade's non-sequiturs! So they kick the shit out of him! MRWILLIAMGRAHAM: Poor Tsukasa had no idea it was going to blow up in his face One more joke other than that and the Worm Tsukasa is at the end, where Tsukasa cleverly scams Kaito with pepper by passing it off as Legendary Spice! What did you think of that? Quote:
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KAMEN RIDER DIE: The backstory for this dude's dilemma is sort of handwaved. He's stuck in Clock Up for... reasons. Part of me thought it was going to be psychological, where him losing Mayu's trust kept him from being able to go home, but then she wants him to come home at the end and he still ends up back in Clock Up? It's literally just Reasons, and that's all we get.
Also, yes, WHERE WERE JIIYA AND TSURUGI GO TO A.R. FRANCE AND GET THEM I think he was actually photobombing Tsukasa's picture at the end instead of the usual illusion that appears in his pictures. It seems like the kind of thing a man who walks the path of heaven would do. It's a very bittersweet (haha) ending, especially with the orchestral Journey Through The Decade. Quote:
KAMEN RIDER DIE: It's just so weird to me that this story latched onto the Tendou/Hiyori part of the narrative, when there's honestly not a ton of it in Kabuto The Series? The movie, sure, to my chagrin. But the series lost Hiyori for a huge chunk of time, and I never felt like that side of the story ever really recovered. Plenty of good parts besides that, but the bond between those two characters definitely diminished for me.
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Oh, you mean that line? Yeah, that definitely stands out a lot more when you know what's coming.
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This one has always been kind of a dud for me. I really like the action scenes in the first part, especially the clever uses of Pegasus and Accel forms. The Den-O gag, which I had completely forgotten about, is also fantastic.
I just feel like the episodes didn’t try to do anything creative with Kabuto. I like it when Decade swings for the fences. When it works you get something like Agito world but even when it fails you get something that’s at least still interesting. This is just a Reader’s Digest version of the Hiyori storyline with some minor twists added. It’s not different enough to really stand out from the original and a lot of the changes feel more like taking key elements away rather than added anything (Souji has no personality and Not Kagami just disappears forever halfway through the second episode). |
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It feels like there's supposed to be a moral in there somewhere, but they didn't want to repeat the moral from the World of Faiz and just say it's okay to be a Worm. There's merit to maintaining a status quo. But yeah, if a recipe can be improved, then I really don't see the harm in trying to make something better. Maybe it should be more specific, like Mayu's human heart shouldn't change. The oden was just a really bad metaphor. Adding a new ingredient to a recipe isn't necessarily the same as becoming a bad person. It depends on the ingredients.
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I just feel like the episodes didn’t try to do anything creative with Kabuto. I like it when Decade swings for the fences. When it works you get something like Agito world but even when it fails you get something that’s at least still interesting. This is just a Reader’s Digest version of the Hiyori storyline with some minor twists added. It’s not different enough to really stand out from the original and a lot of the changes feel more like taking key elements away rather than added anything (Souji has no personality and Not Kagami just disappears forever halfway through the second episode).
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Well Kaitou’s actor says that he played the character as if he was in love with Tsukasa.
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I feel like Kaitou and Tsukasa are built to be shipped? I'm not suggesting there's anything explicitly romantic in their scenes, but, man. Tsukasa goes to this theatrical extreme to make Kaitou feel valued, and Kaitou is so jazzed that Tsukasa is doing this for him. I don't even think Kaitou is excited that he got some hidden treasure or anything. I think Kaitou knows it's just some pepper, but is giddy over Tsukasa's gesture.
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Not judging, but I personally don't think it's a good idea to ship Tsukasa with a thief who stalks him across dimensions, especially when Kaito goes full yandere over him in SHW. I think it's more likely that Tsukasa was giving him the "Legendary Spice" just so he would leave faster. Besides, I prefer Tsukasa/Natsumikan!
...but that's why they are built to be shipped. (Also: Tsukaitou? Or Decand?)
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Oh, I mean, Tsukasa/Kaitou is a Titanic-level Problematic Ship, but that's arguably part of its power? They are very bad for each other! Kaitou takes no small delight in frustrating Tsukasa, and Tsukasa is mostly just lying to Kaitou to protect innocents. They are toxic.
...but that's why they are built to be shipped. (Also: Tsukaitou? Or Decand?) (Tsukaito sounds better) But no!
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