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04-23-2022, 07:44 PM | #791 |
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And now we get to the Agito Tribute which is another fun set of episodes because they tied in Tsukuyomi into them and really, I prefer this over what they were trying to do with her between Zi-O II and Geiz Revive.
Once again I love the short gags at 9-5-DO and just the gags in general. Sougo of all people deciding to look Agito up online and getting the restaurant is hilarious. So is him going to said restaurant and after promptly finding out Agito is not there, Geiz just casually being like "Hey we have the Time Mazine, want to go to France?" is absolutely the best. Will say though I need to rant. I know you don't care much about the auxiliary armor but man. Man was it painful to watch Futurering Quiz's form usage here and in Another Ryuga's fight. Like, the one where Hat Woz used it against Hiryu was the best use of it he had out of his debut despite getting owned. Purely because they had Hat Woz use a purposely deceptive question that had no real answer only for Hiryu to go "Mugen no Kanosei" and use Another Ghost to defeat the infinite debate question. Meanwhile with Another Ryuga it was like "I can beat you true or false" when he obviously couldn't and here we get Woz's stupid guess that isn't really a question. Like... Quiz's powers can be so much more but you the show uses them terribly. Anyway, Legend Rider Preview gets what I'm assuming is the Agito preview theme used later on in the show and Tsukuyomi's theme yet again because well, this is her set of episodes to shine in a sense. Zero's Legend Episode Previews Corner - EP 32 Preview: |
04-23-2022, 07:53 PM | #792 |
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When I heard who Zi-O was bringing back for its Agito arc I had one very specific thing that I needed to have included. It's a small but very important detail. I needed to hear Rina Akiyama say "Shouichi-kun." It was about 20% of her dialogue on the original series and it would have been an absolute failure on Zi-O as an anniversary show if it had been left out. Thankfully, the writers knew better and, while it's not the main contributing factor, it is definitely still part of why these two episodes are basically tied with the Blade arc as my favorite tributes.
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I thought this did an amazing job tying Tsukuyomi?s need for a backstory/relevance into an Agito homage. It?s more directly related to Team Zi-O than the Blade story was last time, while still managing to feel like the Agito cast has skin in the game. Another good episode in this new era!
I don't know what went on behind the scenes during this phase of Zi-O - I imagine that's a question for either Fish or Androzani - but the decision to rework how the anniversary elements function was absolutely a stroke of genius. |
04-23-2022, 07:56 PM | #793 |
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Once again I love the short gags at 9-5-DO and just the gags in general. Sougo of all people deciding to look Agito up online and getting the restaurant is hilarious. So is him going to said restaurant and after promptly finding out Agito is not there, Geiz just casually being like "Hey we have the Time Mazine, want to go to France?" is absolutely the best.
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04-23-2022, 08:02 PM | #794 |
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When I heard who Zi-O was bringing back for its Agito arc I had one very specific thing that I needed to have included. It's a small but very important detail. I needed to hear Rina Akiyama say "Shouichi-kun." It was about 20% of her dialogue on the original series and it would have been an absolute failure on Zi-O as an anniversary show if it had been left out. Thankfully, the writers knew better and, while it's not the main contributing factor, it is definitely still part of why these two episodes are basically tied with the Blade arc as my favorite tributes.
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I loved this about these episodes. As much as I generally give, at best, zero fucks about Tsukuyomi, it was really nice to see the writers recognize the parallels to Agito and use them to not only pay tribute to the original show, but to also help move this show's story forward. You really get the sense that the writers have been doing their homework on the older shows and it pays off with some really great moments (including, in the next episode, my single favorite moment in all of Zi-O).
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04-23-2022, 08:07 PM | #795 |
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Awaken, Episode 31!
-Gotta get this outta the way, it's nice that they're trying to make Tsuku relavant again after the show's been sliding towards "The Sougo, Geiz, and Woz Show", but revealing Tsukuyomi has amnesia and time powers in the same episode.......It's Not Good. I think I might hate it, actually! Personally I would've thrown the amnesia tidbit in a way earlier episode and let the time-powers debut in this episode. -......Almost forgot Heure and Ora was still in the show, feels like it's been forever since they've done anything other than stand around. -But who cares about all that because it's the Agito arc!!!! Agito is one of my favorites, and this arc is my favorite in terms of Legend Rider content! For this first part, it's as good as I remember! -I really like how raw Another Agito's fighting style. The sight of that one G3 slamming into the glass, it reminds me of the viciousness of the Lords (Monsters in early Heisei in general, i guess) Importing that kind of tone 1:1 would feel odd, so I'm glad they found a way to evoke it without feeling out of place in Zi-O. -Speaking of G3, isn't it hilarious? That a system that was outdated/ill-equipped for the monsters running around currently when it debuted is now even more ill-equipped now? -I love how they've twisted the "Seeds of Agito" plotline from the original show into this fun little zombie schtick, it's good! -Hey it's Omuro, glad we could get at least one member of the G3 team back! Very happy to see Mana again! (As an additional note, if you go Jun Kaname's (Hikawa) Youtube channel, he uploaded a 2-part special where the G3 Unit + Hojo's actors got together in 2020, answered questions, and had a good time! However....it's totally untranslated, so I won't be posting it unfortunately!) -I'm going to save the Shouichi talk for next time but man! Love that guy! Such a good pick for a story like this! |
04-23-2022, 09:37 PM | #796 |
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Okay, so last episode saw the debut of Zi-O Trinity, which had a hilarious debut (thank you, Woz), but here lies my problem with Zi-O II. See, Trinity feels more like a gimmick form more than a power-up form, it's not a bad form, but compared to Zi-O II, it feels weaker? Maybe that's just how I remember it, but that's how it feels, which again, not a bad form, just not much of an upgrade, despite the clever numbering scheme (the numbers theory still stands here).
Overall, not too big of an episode for me there, aside the new form, so moving on... Agito! I think the Another Rider was obvious here, but the fact that you get enough Another Agitos to fill an all Riders (and maybe Sentai) deathmatch, or just one for every Another Agito fan, is still kind of funny. Not much to say here, but I guess I'm not much of a fan of amnesiac characters, though there are some done good, I don't dislike Tsukuyomi's (or at least not at this point), but I wasn't exactly thrilled either, but who am I to complain when this is Agito we're talking about which is all about an amnesiac protagonist! |
04-23-2022, 10:24 PM | #797 |
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Gotta get this outta the way, it's nice that they're trying to make Tsuku relavant again after the show's been sliding towards "The Sougo, Geiz, and Woz Show", but revealing Tsukuyomi has amnesia and time powers in the same episode.......It's Not Good. I think I might hate it, actually! Personally I would've thrown the amnesia tidbit in a way earlier episode and let the time-powers debut in this episode.
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Okay, so last episode saw the debut of Zi-O Trinity, which had a hilarious debut (thank you, Woz), but here lies my problem with Zi-O II. See, Trinity feels more like a gimmick form more than a power-up form, it's not a bad form, but compared to Zi-O II, it feels weaker? Maybe that's just how I remember it, but that's how it feels, which again, not a bad form, just not much of an upgrade, despite the clever numbering scheme (the numbers theory still stands here).
Also, super funny to see Geiz Revive make a mid-episode comeback against a bunch of what're basically mooks, since I'm pretty sure we were told that using it was killing Geiz? Is that not a thing anymore? Also also, with this being an Agito story, I'm a little miffed that Zi-O Trinity didn't debut here, and then never get used again. What a blunder!
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04-23-2022, 10:55 PM | #798 |
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Agito episodes were one of the best.
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04-23-2022, 10:57 PM | #799 |
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The first one was very good!
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04-24-2022, 02:41 AM | #800 |
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As I mentioned a while ago, Tsukuyomi’s plot line is one they planned from the start (her having amnesia was hinted at back in the OOO episode, where she fails tor cognise a historical fact that GEIZ recognises. GEIZ). The reason it took so long to begin was that they had a clear end in sight (namely, her becoming a Kamen Rider. Is that really a spoiler at this point?), but couldn’t act on it until they had a design finalised. Though at one point, they were planning to have her turn into a monster at the end of it (which was during a period where they were planning to have the Time Jackers turn into monsters and serve as regular opponents, a concept that Shirakura vetoed as “Too Sentai”), but Shirakura suggested the Rider ending.
Anyway, since the show has begun inverting the usual titles (going from relevant statement:year to year:relevant statement), I’m doing the same and moving all my regular features to the second part. Though I will say, because making that many Another Agito heads for the extras would be time and resource-consuming (at one point, they put the original Another Agito head on Patient Zero, so the newly created one can get the main one), they made do with other similar looking monsters, such as the assistant to Gaim’s movie villain in his TV appearances, two of Uva’s Yummies and one of Amazons’s Mooks. Last edited by Androzani84; 04-24-2022 at 04:39 AM.. |
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