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04-03-2021, 12:56 AM | #611 |
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04-03-2021, 02:27 AM | #612 |
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And here we are with the debut of the official Big Bad… and Kai. Here’s his VA’s other credits.
Kazuhiro Yamaji Notable Anime roles: various roles in Detctive Conan, Bel in DokiDoki Pretty Cure, the Narrator in Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V Notable Tokusatsu roles: Kei Karasuma in Kamen Rider Blade (Live role), Emperor Yodon in Mashin Sentai Kiramager. Notable video game roles: Makoto Date in Yakuza. Notable dubbing roles: Various roles played by Jason Statham, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Sean Penn, Willem Dafoe, Al Pacino, Christoph Waltz, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Nicolas Cage, Benicio del Toro and Viggo Mortenson, Ron Burgundy in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Red Skull In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Kendall Duncan in Bedtime Stories, The BFG in The BFG, Mister Tinkles in Cats and Dogs, Bane in the Dark Knight Rises, the Ninth Doctor in Doctor Who, Bard the Bowman in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street, General Thade in Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes, Ray Charles in Ray, Danger D’Amo, Tick Tock, the Timekeeper and the henchmen in Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, Darth Maul in Star Wars, King Fergus in Brave, Gill in Finding Nemo, General Monger in Monsters vs Aliens, Nico in Rio, Lord Voldemort in The Lego Batman Movie. (No seriously, Toei uses the Leo Imagin if they want Den-O representation in a group shot of Big Bads. Likely because it’s much cheaper, likely because Kai is not that popular) Last edited by Androzani84; 04-03-2021 at 08:35 AM.. |
04-03-2021, 07:41 AM | #613 |
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So what I'm hearing, Die, is that you're going to have to go back and do Showa and dig deep for those character arcs.
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04-03-2021, 10:35 AM | #614 |
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Do I really want that sort of final arc for Kamen Rider Die, though? Iffy. Definitely more of a possibility than yesterday, however.
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04-03-2021, 10:48 AM | #615 |
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Third Doctor disrespect? On this, the day of Rider's 50th? You're far too cruel
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04-03-2021, 11:37 AM | #616 |
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Jokes aside, I’ve seen a few people on TokuTwitter (as that community calls itself) call Kai the weakest part of the show. He’s basically an evil Ryotaro, but without any Rider or Monster form to make the comparison work beyond “is a Singularity Point”. Plus there’s also the fact his plans are vague as hell and I’ve seen someone wonder why the show felt it needed a big bad after functioning without one well enough for so long (I personally think Toei mandates every show has to put a big bad character in there somewhere for a final battle). |
04-03-2021, 12:32 PM | #617 |
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Weird to bring him up now! Quote:
Jokes aside, I’ve seen a few people on TokuTwitter (as that community calls itself) call Kai the weakest part of the show. He’s basically an evil Ryotaro, but without any Rider or Monster form to make the comparison work beyond “is a Singularity Point”. Plus there’s also the fact his plans are vague as hell and I’ve seen someone wonder why the show felt it needed a big bad after functioning without one well enough for so long (I personally think Toei mandates every show has to put a big bad character in there somewhere for a final battle).
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04-03-2021, 12:52 PM | #618 |
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Next you'll be telling me you don't think this is a masterpiece of science-fiction storytelling, smh.
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04-03-2021, 01:12 PM | #619 |
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my least-favorite episode of skyrider
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Maybe? It just feels like the point in the series where Ryotaro has to fend for himself more, graduating out of the Imagin fighting for him. It comes across as a little sudden to me, since so much of this story was built around Ryotaro respecting Yuuto's decision-making. It's a weird thread to tie into this one, but that's why it's there.
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KAMEN RIDER DEN-O EPISODE 37 - “I BET MY FACE GIVES IT AWAY, DOESN’T IT?”
A lot of this episode is just reminding the audience of that aspect of Ryuta. We haven’t really seen this side since his early appearances, and most of his more recent uses have been as a kid brother to the other Imagin. Quote:
And then Kai shows up.
Den-Parado! I liked him. I always like happy villains, ones who are menacing because they’re so upbeat, not in spite of it. They seem more powerful for how they don’t take the heroes/society seriously, how it’s some game they’re playing on Easy Mode. (Sorry, he just reminds me so much of Parado!) Kai has that part down cold, as he’s constantly wondering if his smiling means he’s mad or not. He feels more inhuman than any threat the show has had before, with his absurd curiosity at how to be intimidating, or in his simultaneous vague disinterest and laser-like focus in getting Ruta to complete a task for him. He feels like the best possible Den-O villain: an exterior of humanity and an interior of unknowable malevolence, portrayed by spinning out emotions he doesn’t care to understand. His interactions with Ryuta were great, especially the dance-off. It’s the perfect way to manipulate Ryuta at this point. He doesn’t feel like the DenLiner crew are taking his emotional needs seriously (Momo 100% is tired of playing along with this kid’s unrealistic obsession with Airi), and here’s Den-Parado, meeting him on his level, speaking his language, playing his game. It’s not about trying to control Ryuta, it’s about using Ryuta’s needs to manipulate him. It’s trying to craft a Win-Win that the DenLiner crew can’t seem to convince Ryuta of. Den-Parado is friendly without ever seeming like a friend, and I find that kind of villain addictive to watch. This was the start of our push into the endgame, and as such it’s only really about introducing a new major villain. With that goal, it’s a huge success. Den-Parado gets me more psyched about escalating this show’s threat level than anything else they’ve tried. (They haven’t tried a lot!) Not even close to sure of where the story might be headed, but I’m glad it’s got this much momentum. Really fun plot-via-character-driven episode. Quote:
THE BAGGAGE CAR
-When this show needs to get melancholy, it knows how to get there fast. Having a sunset training session with Ryotaro and Momo, where it’s fraught with this tension of impending dissolution (whether that’s The New Train Line or just the metatextual The Show Is Ending In A Few Months), it’s unbelievably bittersweet. It feels like a goodbye, almost. Momo’s making sure Ryotaro can keep being Den-O, even if he’s not around to see it. More than any villain intro or new setting, this scene is the announcement that we are entering our final batch of stories for Kamen Rider Den-O. Quote:
-Speaking of new settings! We don’t see a lot of the Train Stop (???), but its very existence feels compelling, simply because it’s a tactile new thing the show can have its characters interact with. There’s a frustrating amount of nebulous worldbuilding in this series, so I will absolutely applaud the series for showing a new thing and in the same episode saying Let’s Go To There. Yes! I am okay with the odd bit of immediate gratification, rather than five straight episodes of cryptic comments from Owner! It’s a pleasant change of pace!
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