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09-20-2020, 08:40 PM | #111 |
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Oh yeah the good stuff, this episode just shines in a lot of ways and it's just nice to see Leon right here and right now and compare him to him earlier at the very start of the series. Dude did a lot of growing, it took some happiness, pain and suffering to get to this point, but he's finally on the right track.
Oh yeah no that's accurate to the Japanese version, it's a voice quirk, Garm calls Mendosa, Menduza or rather accentuates his name in slight disgust in the Japanese audio as well, it just goes to show how little respect Garm has for Mendosa really. |
09-21-2020, 05:06 AM | #112 |
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Just wait, you'll get to mendoza' backstory soon, and while his grudge against the makai order is "somewhat" justified, he deserves everything that happened to him
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09-21-2020, 06:04 PM | #113 |
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09-21-2020, 09:16 PM | #114 |
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Episode XIX: Tempest Oh yeah, this is an episode I've been waiting for: Emma's episode. And I did like this episode... for the most part. Anyone who's read my Kikaider breakdown could probably guess what I'm alluding to. Before all that though, this episode focuses on Emma, and her search for a man named Luthiano. We get a rather nice look into her backstory. Her quest, her distrust of the Knights, and the loss of her husband. This all culminates in a really creative action sequence featuring a fighter jet Horror, umbrellas transformed into paper planes, and Emma becoming Spider-Man. And special shout out to that giant spider web in the sky she made at the start of the episode. It's another thing this show shares with Kikaider. AND SPEAKING OF THAT, the way this episode ended almost entirely killed it for me. Just like Emma's' sudden attraction to German earlier on in the show, her and Leon share a sudden, no build-up attraction now too. You might've guessed it: The episode ends in them making love, and I hate it. The two shared no chemistry at all that way, for starters. Next, the way the conversations between Emma and Leon go throughout the episode seems to imply that, with taking Emma to bed, Leon is fully a man now? Shallow, first of all. Second, Lara JUST DIED, Leon. Apparently you got over it pretty quick, huh? It's a sequence that lasts maybe one minute at the very end of the episode, but I audibly groaned when it happened. Is this just gonna be the trend now with shows covered in this thread? Overall, like a certain Kaikaider episode, it's good, but almost killed by one simple decision that's abrupt, is really out of character for those involved, and seems to a carry a really shallow meaning behind it.
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09-22-2020, 02:48 AM | #115 |
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Episode XX: Double Dealer My sinus headache won't let me sleep, so let's do another episode! This one is all about Octavia, and I most certainly liked this one alot more than Emma's' episode. So let's focus on Octavia, right? I loved how much this episode fleshed out her character. Not just in terms of her backstory, which does help, but in terms of her personality and skills too. It's revealed here that Mendosa is infact still alive(although aged by about 30 years), and with the events of this episode, it's easy to see why he values her so much. Not only is she extremely loyal to him, but every action she takes throughout the episode shows that she's a quick thinker. From keeping an eye on Alfonso keeping an eye on her to [i]having her own leg severed to trick Emma's' trap[i/], Octavia is someone you won't get the upperhand on so easily. Her backstory also helps shed some light on why she would choose to aide someone like Mendosa too. Both humanity and religion both have failed her, so she lashes out in kind. This marks the second time I've been wrong about my predictions about which way the show was headed, and I think that's for the better, really. It really goes to show that sometimes the best twist is no twist. There's alot of fun to be had and alot to appreciate about stories taking a simpler route, especially nowadays, and I feel it's something alot of people fail to appreciate. Buuutt I suppose that's me getting sidetracked, sorry. So yeah, I really liked this episode. Not one of the best episodes of the show by any means, but there's alot to appreciate in it. Oh, and it does a nice job at hooking you for the next one too:
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09-23-2020, 09:03 PM | #116 |
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Episode XXI: Knights This episode is all about what it truly means to be a Makai Knight. All the while the discussion is framed around a duel between Leon and German, and even goes into a little bit of their time together as Leon was growing up. And I'll be upfront here, while the fight itself is cool and all, it really does pale in comparison to the duel between Leon and Alfonso. Not that this fight is badly done by any means, it has some really good stuff in it, it's just that, well, they blew their load early, ya get me? I also found the revelations of the Watchdog Center's' ultimate plan to be a rather interesting twist on things in terms of the toku meta. Essentially asking "What if the Zordon of the show was just as insane as the villain was?" Infact, it's such an interesting hook that I'm telling you all right now, if later on they try to pull something like "Oh we were just testing your resolve!" or somesuch, I'm gonna be a little mad. You've already invested with setting up a sort of revolution plot, follow through with it! Or at the very least stab Garm. Either way! Anyway, the bits with Little Leon and Young German were nice to see. It helped reinforce that, while yes, Leon is constantly annoyed by his father's' antics, he does ultimate still love him and took alot of his advice to heart. Speaking of German, is his armor called "Zero" or "Zorro?" I keep hearing both, and I really hope it's not the latter because Zorro is Spanish for Fox, which would make no sense for a suit that's so obviously Wolf themed. Everything ends with German winning the duel and Mandosa's' final gambit revealed, and it promises a battle of epic proportions. Not only that, but German leaves Jiruba with Leon. I'm assuming it was so that she could be given to Alfonso, since he doesn't seem to have a Mado Artifact of his own now that he's given Garo back. In any case, we're now in the endgame, and I'm definitely interested in seeing how this will all end.
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09-24-2020, 10:17 AM | #117 |
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Episode XXII: Dreadly Focus Today I learned that souls are shaped like Tetris blocks. Anyway, here's a question I've had for awhile that I keep forgetting to ask: Why do only the Silver and Black Knights get horses? Like, is it some epic level perk that only veteran Makai Knights get? They're clearly alchemic in nature, and considering the point of the show we're at I don't think horses for Garo and Gaia are ever going to actually show up. Just curious. Oh, and it's revealed that even though the Watchdog Center still plans to let Mandosa have his way, German does not, and tries to take the now old man out directly. As expected. This does lead to one moment where Octavia gets burned by merely touching the Armor and... is that a thing? It's never come up until now, so I guess normal people aren't allowed to touch? Okay. Anyway, we get to see that Mandosa took good precaution in setting up a ton of barriers on the way down to his lair, further showing his skills as an alchemist. Still makes me wonder why he's old now and how he survived getting eaten. But the one thing that stands in particular is a teleporter trap that sends the team to... Modern day Japan? I mean, the effect is cool and all, and I assume it's another shoutout to the live-action series, but this raises some serious questions. The main one one being: With this kind of power, how could Mandosa ever even be caught? If they were sent to another world/dimension, why not just hop to a different one, prepare all of your stuff, then come back? And if it's instead time travel, then that just raises a whole 'nother set of possibilities that I don't wanna think about. Anyway, Mandosa also lends his magic to Octavia, who uses it to not turn into a Knight despite her drawing a halo, but instead, a Horror. One with a very Toku design, I might add. Overall the episode isn't bad. It mainly exists just to explain that German isn't a lunatic and that the Witch Hunts were all a method of working towards a ritualistic sacrifice. It's just that, in the venture to do cool stuff to keep the episode going, it raises some questions that I feel they're not gonna answer. Such a shame.
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09-24-2020, 12:06 PM | #118 |
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09-24-2020, 12:10 PM | #119 |
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Ok I'll clarify a few things:
1. Mado items don't just get passed on randomly between knights- just like Zaruba will always be in the hands of the golden knight, jiruba (silva in the LA entries) will always be passed on to the silver knight zorro/zero- both are right by the way 2. The Golden knight does have a horse- called Gouten- a golden knight acquires the right to use him after passing a trial that becomes available after a golden knight slays 100 horrors (we to this day have no idea if the conditions for other knights are the same though) which for unknown reasons was never included in any of the anime entries 3. Octavia did not become a horror- she simply donned a madou armor- think of it as the prototype to makai knight armor
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09-24-2020, 03:14 PM | #120 |
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Gosei pretty much hit the nail on the head with all the answers basically. Though I do think we see Gouten and I think Gaia's steed... possibly in the movie? It's been a while since I saw it but I seem to recall more horses than the usual ones.
Also yeah Zorro/Zero, both function similarly to where you can kinda just swap their names both being Silver Knights. But are still very different from each other in regards to a few key features. Been a bit since I checked in, wow we're pretty close to the end. Can't wait to see how that goes. |
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