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06-06-2021, 11:33 PM | #471 |
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I haven't really gone in on any SHF Upgrade stuff, but I would buy Puppet Hands for Seihou IXA in a heartbeat.
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06-07-2021, 02:42 AM | #472 |
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Well, that’s it for the Spider Fangire. He lasted longer than a lot of other Spiders in this franchise (only the Spider Grongi and Heart last longer).
And we come to the debut of Emperor Form’s Arms Monster based “Fever” attacks. If you think there’s some similarity to Kuuga’s Rising weapons, it’s because there is. Emperor is based off both a rejected design for Kuuga Ultimate (which would’ve been golden and sleeker, with a cape) and an unused concept (wherein Ultimate would’ve had access to versions of the Rising weapons where all but the gold parts were black. Though toy versions do include the Ultimate weapons with figures of Ultimate Kuuga). Though I will say now, don’t expect to see Bassha Fever in the show. Video below for demonstration. (Disclaimer: that groaning in pain sound is totally not an indicator of later events, any more than a similar grown of pain when you scan the purple Core Medals in the CSM OOO driver. Or the skin cracking SFX in the CSM Rouse Absorber and the DX Ringo Lockseed. It’s totally a hidden sound with no significance). |
06-07-2021, 05:28 AM | #473 |
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First, I'm not sure I'd read Ryoko's admission that she knew Shinji was a Fangire as something she just learned. I definitely read it as something she's known for years, maybe since 1986. The way she quiets him as he tries to unburden himself implies that she has lived with this knowledge for a long time, but let him keep his secret as a kindness. She had spent a long time caring for Shinji, and if he needed to pretend he was a human because he couldn't bear the thought of her hating him? She's okay with that compromise.
Second, the implication is that Shinji and Ryoko spent years living off-the-radar in not-great conditions to avoid being tracked down by Maya. Unless you mean how Shinji escaped originally? Because that was from Maya laughing so hard at Otoya that Shinji was able to make a run for it. Quote:
KAMEN RIDER KIVA EPISODE 25 - “FANFARE: THE QUEEN’S AWAKENING”
Kamen Rider Kiva is a story about love. I don’t mean to say it’s a romance, although that’s part of it. It’s a series about all types of love, and about what they mean to people. The love for a parent. The love for a child. The love for a sibling. The love for a romantic partner. Why do we love other people? What does it mean to love someone? The show’s gotten at these questions in different ways since the start, and they’ve been as tentative and oblique as Wataru used to be. It got at the idea of love through art, through the act of expressing yourself through music or craft. It talked about how precious that can be, and how finite a resource it can seem to those who covet it. It’s all neatly metaphorical and clever. Quote:
Now, though, the show’s in a different phase. Much like Emperor Form heralded a Wataru who was unchained and ready to engage with the world in a more open and honest way, we’re at a point in the show where it’s just coming out and asking its big questions: Why do Fangires love humans? Why do humans love Fangires? Why does anyone love anyone else?
Instantly I’m more dialed-into this show than I was for some of the previous stories. It’s like the Shinji/Ryoko story wasn’t just some immaculately constructed one-off; it was the template for everything this show wanted to do going forward. We’re now at a stage where characters are pairing off and making commitments to one another. The stakes are higher and more personal. It’s a version of the show, that, like… it is deploying its cape and turning gold. Everything seems grander and more dazzling. Quote:
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The Mio stuff is like the other half to the equation, as her new role as Queen in 2008 is making her feel like she’s putting Wataru in danger. (Very funny inversion of the whole Otoya Protects Maya thread.) So she breaks up with him, and it doesn’t matter, because her problem is very quickly becoming a Kiva problem. They’re entwined together by fate, just like Maya and Otoya are.
At first glance this seems to be just a throwaway moment for Shizuka, but this will play much important role later, revealing dark sides of the people involved.
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06-07-2021, 06:15 AM | #474 |
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... Heart counts as a spider monster?
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06-07-2021, 08:31 AM | #475 |
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He’s a spider-type Roidmude.
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06-07-2021, 08:33 AM | #476 |
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I guess, but... hm. Does it really count if he stopped being one very quickly?
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06-07-2021, 08:39 AM | #477 |
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KAMEN RIDER KIVA EPISODE 26 - “METRONOME: MIRACULOUS MEMORY”
I don’t feel like there are a lot of longform romances in Kamen Rider. Like, stories about heroes falling in love and navigating a relationship are weirdly few and far between. Top of my head… well, most of the cast of Faiz, obviously. But after that? Ibuki. Todoroki. Maybe Drive. That’s pretty much it? Everything else is fully-formed on debut (Miu and Shun on Fourze), basically tacked-on at the end (Accel and Akiko from W, Gentoku and Sawa from Build) or the far more likely Fridged Girlfriend (as featured prominently in Ryuki, Blade, Ex-Aid, etc). The arc of a relationship isn’t really something Kamen Rider seems to have a lot of interest in, beyond Faiz and half of Hibiki. Wataru/Mio is like what could have been for Takumi/Saya, since both are ships with a shared trait, shyness for the former and nekojita for the latter. Too bad Saya didn't last very long. Quote:
Love triangle is one of the main aspect of Kiva as well, the most egregious one among Inoue's work. It hits all the bullseye regarding that part; there's men literally and figuratively tying up women to keep them from leaving for another man, men punching each other while the woman screams at them, two women barely avoiding a cat fight over a man, women lying to other women to keep or “steal” a man, a woman lying to a man to get him to kill his rival for her affections. Though I'd appreciate another insight regarding this, albeit I think love for relatives (parent, child, and sibling) is quite omnipresent, and one of the main ways KR series (or many pieces of media) give redeeming qualities to jerks are about those loves.
Of course!
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06-07-2021, 11:57 AM | #478 |
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I mean not only about how Grizzly Fangire escaped originally, but about how Grizzly Fangire escapes from Maya every time, if Maya's threat to those who love humans like him is continuous. I'd imagine Maya would try to hunt him again if possible. I'd also think that other Fangires that Maya killed also lived off the radar... I didn't realize that the ones Maya hunted before in the wedding are Fangires before it's revealed.
First, I imagine something happens to Maya between 1986 - where she is very active as Queen - and 2008, where Mio is the current Queen. There is probably a story yet to be told about why there wasn't a Queen tracking down Shinji and Ryoko for the entire 22 years. Second, the Bishop gave Mio a dossier on Fangires who'd transgressed, so I assume the Fangire culture has some system of ferreting out traitors. I don't think the Queen needs to be constantly hunting them (there's only one of her and a lot of human-loving Fangires), but there's no one to take them out without the Queen. Quote:
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I know Otoya touches upon about the woman he already loved when talking with Maya at one point, but this kinda feels like how Otoya will be turned up into any women that he comes across, though the one with Maya will likely be the last, and shows he's a total playboy as a womanizer. He'd try to please every women as womanizers do that, but still.
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I actually support both Otoya/Yuri and Otoya/Maya. Otoya loves Yuri, but he loves freedom as well, so it's difficult for him to be content when there are two very interesting girls in his life and I think Inoue does an excellent job at showing why they are both viable options and why Otoya is so conflicted between them.
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06-07-2021, 05:20 PM | #479 |
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Though the bulk of the track goes unused in this episode, the rather ethereal music playing when Otoya gives Yuri back that ring is a pretty natural choice here.
This is a pretty dang good episode for Otoya, by the way. I have a feeling you'll say everything I could want to way better than me over the next few weeks, Die (this IS an Inoue show we're talking about), but I'll readily agree the current '86 love triangle is preferable to the old one. Like, by far. (Also, my favorite bit of direction I caught in this one has to be Megumi dissing the Spider Fangire and then stepping out of frame to reveal Nago all Ready to transform behind her. It's framed so perfectly to make you expect a cut to a different shot when she's done speaking, which makes Nago secretly being there the whole time such a fun bit of showmanship.)
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