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03-17-2022, 08:59 AM | #17041 |
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I'm not a fan of OOO and I haven't seen the OOO10YA thing, but I have been seen a summary of the new V-Cinema and many, many reactions to it. I'm pretty surprised they were gutsy enough to kill of Eiji, but part of me feels like it would have been better to let both Eiji and Ankh die so that they could finally both be at peace and be together in death. I'm sorry I want to make things worse everyone!
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03-17-2022, 09:20 AM | #17042 |
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Just finished watching OOO10th myself! It was... Hmm.
So like, just in a vacuum, all the ideas and the plot on paper, I don't inherently have a problem with. There's a bunch of cool set-ups, intriguing scenarios, and I especially think the ways the final battle references the last fight from the OOO series is actually really neat and clever. Feels like the execution leaves quite a bit to be desired though. I feel like this movie desperately wishes it had more runtime, since there's so many different things that would have benefited greatly from just an extra minute or two. You could name a whole lot of ways this movie is rushed, but for me, the part that's by far the hurt by that most is the very end. There needed to be just at least even one little epilogue scene showing the characters taking the first step to moving on with their lives. Unfortunately, the hard shift to the credits will inevitably leave people feeling unsatisfied no matter how they may feel about the events leading up to the end. There's also the larger meta issue of the fact that, well... This was hyped up as the big, 10th anniversary reunion special, right? I don't this plot is a bad idea for a story at all, but it might have been a bad idea for this particular occasion? I normally worry about judging these toku shows based on what I want, as opposed to what they choose to do, but I can't really blame anyone for thinking this movie betrayed expectations as opposed to just subverting them. I think despite all that, I liked it more than I didn't. If it had that extra little hypothetical epilogue I mentioned, I might even had been completely positive on it. As is, it's just an alright little piece. I would call OOO10th 'daring' but after 01Others and Trio Of Deep Sin, it actually might be a little too dull and ordinary in comparison! |
03-17-2022, 06:19 PM | #17043 |
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Up to episode 21 of Black. Thanks to looking up most of the information about the series beforehand, I have a much easier time getting through the series this time and even start enjoying it despite how extremely episodic Black really is. Then again, last time it might be my own fault for watching Metalder at the same time as it and finding myself really invested in that series and its own main protagonist more.
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03-18-2022, 07:31 PM | #17044 |
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Just got done watching OOO 10th with Da Boiz. Or as I like to call it "Paradise Lost but OOO." While I can see the ending being contentious, I really liked both it and the movie overall. I give it a 5/6.
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03-20-2022, 06:29 PM | #17045 |
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I'm currently watching episode 35 of Black and that means Shadow Moon finally makes his first appearance in the series.
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03-30-2022, 09:08 AM | #17046 |
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I didn't comment last night when I finished it since it was late, but Skyrider is complete! I still have to watch the 2 movies for it I have, but I just had to talk about the show. I didn't expect much from Skyrider at first, but as the show progressed it just get getting weirder and weirder and it ended up being super entertaining! Gan Gan G's existence alone was enough to fry by brain, but the show also had like... this random stretch of episodes near the end that were themed after campy horror. In the last 3 episodes the show decided Tsukuba needed a backstory about his dead parents. They tried to launch Skyrider into space at one point! It was so incredibly campy, but in the best way where episodes were just a blast to watch. I also think it was helped by having an unusual protagonist for the Showa era, Tsukuba was refreshingly angst-free for the most part, and he comes across like a little bit of an idiot everyman compared to most Showa leads, who tend to be super smart or great at motorcycles or whatever. This ended up as my second favorite Showa Rider, and I'd probably give it a C+ grade. Great fun!
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04-11-2022, 04:13 AM | #17047 |
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Kamen Rider Revice Legacy: Kamen Rider Vail
Part 1 So Genta in the past, a.k.a Junpei, or a.k.a Subject 071, did the Demon hunting on his own instead of Vail. Vail has less significance by only a partner to talk with. And Junpei's anti-hero kind of a Rider, as he didn't do anything bad (but NOAH is just bad) by killing devils, but he only fought the devils for revenge of the death of his parents to a red devil, and him losing his soul as he fought more and more unrelated devil shows that he didn't really care about protecting others. Junpei learns to use the ViStamp and Vail Driver quickly, while he at first goes to fight the devil in his human form, after Masumi tells him to use both devices he did it without struggling, or making use of Vail's tools afterwards. And while NOAH treats him as a captive, his fighting style is also really brutal, as if he's mindless. It even got him to destroy the bridge at his final fight and buried him under rubble, so he's a really destructive folk which have NOAH quite justified in their cruel methods of restraining him. As Vail in the main series is shown to be able to destroy a Giftarian without a finisher, I wonder if the devil in the past was all the stronger one compared to the ones present in the main series, the general MOTW ones (not Phase 3 or above). Unrelated but there's this oversight that can happen for shows that is meant to be set in the past as Revice prequel. As ep. 30 of Revice claims, the photo of NOAH executives (with Akaishi) are set decades ago... but one of the cars shown, the one he looked at the window as others call him devil, was 4th generation Honda Fit, which was a 2020 release. Sure the tech in KR world is far more advanced like NOAH, but this is still lacking an effort to make the past is really the past.
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04-11-2022, 04:16 PM | #17048 |
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Quote:
Kamen Rider Revice Legacy: Kamen Rider Vail
Part 1 So Genta in the past, a.k.a Junpei, or a.k.a Subject 071, did the Demon hunting on his own instead of Vail. Vail has less significance by only a partner to talk with. And Junpei's anti-hero kind of a Rider, as he didn't do anything bad (but NOAH is just bad) by killing devils, but he only fought the devils for revenge of the death of his parents to a red devil, and him losing his soul as he fought more and more unrelated devil shows that he didn't really care about protecting others. Quote:
Junpei learns to use the ViStamp and Vail Driver quickly, while he at first goes to fight the devil in his human form, after Masumi tells him to use both devices he did it without struggling, or making use of Vail's tools afterwards. And while NOAH treats him as a captive, his fighting style is also really brutal, as if he's mindless. It even got him to destroy the bridge at his final fight and buried him under rubble, so he's a really destructive folk which have NOAH quite justified in their cruel methods of restraining him.
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Unrelated but there's this oversight that can happen for shows that is meant to be set in the past as Revice prequel. As ep. 30 of Revice claims, the photo of NOAH executives (with Akaishi) are set decades ago... but one of the cars shown, the one he looked at the window as others call him devil, was 4th generation Honda Fit, which was a 2020 release. Sure the tech in KR world is far more advanced like NOAH, but this is still lacking an effort to make the past is really the past.
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04-11-2022, 08:16 PM | #17049 |
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Watched the Revice HBV and I really adore Kangeroo Genome. The classic boxing style never gets old for me and the Remix is just wonderful!
Everything else was, uh, not great. I guess they can't all be like Saber's amazing retelling of the ugly duckling... |
04-16-2022, 02:27 AM | #17050 |
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Episode 30 reveals that NOAH stands for Nest Of Anti-Human. Misanthropist much? It's like they're advertising the whole evil organization thing, instead of trying to hide it. Vail's (the devil, not the Rider) depiction here is a lot different to how he was in his show debut. He's presenting himself as a friend to Genta, presumably to build trust between them so he can use him later.
I'm a car guy so that's where it comes here. But I guess good other info of Tekken 7 appearing in 2010 for Ex-Aid.
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