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11-30-2016, 04:28 PM | #13911 |
「蝙蝠騎士の魔界<ブラム>」
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Hell I'll be the first to admit that Faiz is one flawed showed. But it is so entertaining I can't help but love it. Heck it's my second favorite show, contains my favorite main rider, and contains my favorite rider PERIOD.
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11-30-2016, 05:33 PM | #13912 |
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I like Faiz. The level of grimdark always felt appropriate for the story they were telling (and I get turned off by grimdark really easily), the cast is great (Inoue at his worst still does great with character dynamics), and the action is fine. Takumi has an almost thuggish quality to his fighting style with how he just sort of wails on dudes with his fists. It's not fancy to look at but it fits his character great. I also feel like there was plenty of effective comic relief. Even in just those first four episodes you hated, I love how the show plays Mari and Takkun's awkward interactions for laughs. Also, it has flaws or whatever. Who cares? Everything does. Faiz's problems are part of its charm half the time for me, even. The stuff it does do right, it does really right, too.
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11-30-2016, 06:22 PM | #13913 |
I have a problematic type
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Faiz does have some redeeming qualities. I do generally like Takumi and I think the show has some great Rider designs. There are some good memorable villains, too. The biggest issue is that it gets so incredibly bogged down in melodrama and communication problems- I generally got the sense that Inoue wanted to do a teen soap opera but Toei wouldn't let him so he did this instead.
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11-30-2016, 07:00 PM | #13914 |
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I've been marathoning Kamen Rider Amazons and up to Episode 9.
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Faiz does have some redeeming qualities. I do generally like Takumi and I think the show has some great Rider designs. There are some good memorable villains, too. The biggest issue is that it gets so incredibly bogged down in melodrama and communication problems- I generally got the sense that Inoue wanted to do a teen soap opera but Toei wouldn't let him so he did this instead.
My biggest beef with Faiz is the ending and by that, I mean it doesn't have one.
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11-30-2016, 08:45 PM | #13915 |
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Honestly Faiz probably has more going for it than Ghost does. It's ~artsy~ and stuff like that. It's also super consistent in its writing since Inoue did every single episode.
I like Faiz. The level of grimdark always felt appropriate for the story they were telling (and I get turned off by grimdark really easily), the cast is great (Inoue at his worst still does great with character dynamics), and the action is fine. Takumi has an almost thuggish quality to his fighting style with how he just sort of wails on dudes with his fists. It's not fancy to look at but it fits his character great. I also feel like there was plenty of effective comic relief. Even in just those first four episodes you hated, I love how the show plays Mari and Takkun's awkward interactions for laughs. Also, it has flaws or whatever. Who cares? Everything does. Faiz's problems are part of its charm half the time for me, even. The stuff it does do right, it does really right, too. On a different note, I always thought it was hilarious that a character as thuggish as Takumi got stuck with the cutesy nickname Takkun for the whole show.
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12-01-2016, 06:45 AM | #13916 |
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Yeah, I love Ghost's first arc, but the show rapidly starts growing out of its more explicitly "kiddy" elements after it abandons the Dragonball plot, and even just once Specter shows up. Or maybe it'd be more accurate to say it supplements them? The point is, if your complaint is that it's too simple, the stories get more complex. I personally found Ghost to be a kids' show that totally avoided the usual pitfall of being patronizing. It's explicitly a rather lighthearted series, but it gets heavy when it needs to and was FULL of nuance in my mind.
I agree with you a lot. Though we may be the few who love Ghost and actually saw it for what it truly is.
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12-01-2016, 06:57 AM | #13917 |
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Amazon Episode 23: Damn this escalated quickly. Amazon's been defeating us too much let's just use a freaking Nuclear Weapon and destroy freaking Japan. The hell! This has to be the craziest plan in all of Kamen Rider history that I've heard. The Salamander Beastman was definitely crafty with his shapeshifting technique. Though I liked that he'd rather be executed by Great Emperor Zero than get defeated by Amazon that was something else. Enjoying that this continues into the final episode this should be one hell of a finale.
Amazon Episode 24 (FINAL): That was one hell of a finale. The intensity of Amazon being captured and the Helium Bomb being set off were definitely great finale events. Great Emperor Zero didn't seem as Immortal as he thought he was. Though he was dumb bringing out the Gaga Armlet for Amazon who basically became a super asskicker more than he was before. I enjoyed Tachibana who helped out a lot more here with disguising himself and Masahiko and Ritsuko helping out too. The final fight scene was great and when do you get to see the hero decapitate the final boss? That was just brilliant. The ending felt sad seeing Amazon leave for the Amazon again and leaving them all behind. Overall this was a great ending to another great series. My Kamen Rider series I need to watch becomes even smaller.
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12-01-2016, 09:31 AM | #13918 |
I have a problematic type
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12-01-2016, 07:24 PM | #13919 |
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Regarding Faiz, it's a really awkward show all around. I feel like the story is kind of messy and a lot of the things don't really get revolved until the very end and Inoue's insane endings come back with Faiz and spirals way out of control.
But other than that, it's an awesome show. There's a fire lit under it and it retains the shock feel that Kuuga, Agito and Ryuki maintained, you didn't really know what was gonna happen or who was gonna die in the next episode, the basic story is rather interesting and how it approaches morality and looking more at the "tough" side of life was rather well done honestly. The ensemble was also pretty cool honestly, the rogue trio are some of my favorite characters in all of Kamen Rider and everyone else was very enjoyable too(even Kaixa, he was the asshole that you wanted to punch in the face but love him at the same time), inserts were catchy and upbeat, suit acting was awesome(I think I'd maintain Faiz as my all time favorite Seiji Takaiwa role) and yeah, it had a lot of little things and a huge heart that made up for it. On other things, in the past few weeks(months? How long have I not been here for) I caught up on Blade and Hibiki. In short, I didn't like Blade, I appreciate the ideas but I felt the execution was poor and the pacing was too glacial for me, making a show that I felt very bored sitting through(the King Form debutand Ending were great though) and Hibiki.............was quite delightful in it's own right, I really appreciated the show as a whole regarding the cultural elements and social commentary going through, plus the amazing Sahashi soundtrack and visuals. The second half wasn't exactly ideal with carrying Takatera's original vision and how Toei treated the show, but I even enjoyed that part(hell, I think the second half did somethings better such as focus more on Akira and Ibuki, and the wonderful conclusion of Todoroki and Zanki's storyline). Hibiki was the man and one of the best protagonists I've ever seen. Continued on with a true, coherent Kabuto watch(saw chunks of it years back) and from a show that I really loved watching back when it was under five years old, it's been rough so far.
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12-02-2016, 09:48 PM | #13920 |
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Kabuto 31-33
Okay I feel like I'm on a motorcycle going really friggin' fast and I'm hitting oil / ice patches and almost wrecking every time. It feels like they're just killin' time and doing it in a manner that just doesn't jibe at all with the tone of the first half of the series. Some episodes are brutal, the next is goofy, how the characters do what they do (substitute teachers - or Tsurugi as an adult student! - for instance) isn't qualified in the least - and then something amazing happens and we pull out of the tailspin. It's a very weird show!
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