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05-31-2021, 08:17 PM | #411 |
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05-31-2021, 09:48 PM | #412 |
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That too but I cannot help but think they were cashing in on the Den-O hype as well considering both forms have sentient beings as parts of the armor.
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05-31-2021, 10:28 PM | #413 |
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While I'm here! No episode post tonight after all. Just a tad too beat after the last couple days. You've got a couple more days to really sit with Otoya and Jirou largely forgetting that Yuri is a woman with hopes and dreams outside of them. Enjoy! See you on Wednesday for Episode 22!
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06-02-2021, 05:35 AM | #414 |
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Something I observed when I found the music video for Otoya’s image song on YouTube. Note the way the woman in the video is dressed. Look familiar?
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06-02-2021, 12:09 PM | #415 |
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Who says every other Inoue thing is bad? I put "no matter how successful the author is or how much you like the works of those authors" which means I'm refering to authors that has success of course (I even gave Lovecraft as the other example). I also said "While Inoue does get the memorable and comedic parts right, like when he's appointed to write slice-of-life episodes, and he can deliver when the TV production team kept him on the leash", which obviously is the opposite of "every other Inoue thing is bad". This seems like a strawman response, no offense.
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06-02-2021, 09:13 PM | #416 |
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KAMEN RIDER KIVA EPISODE 22 - "OVERTURE: AN INTERSECTION OF FATES”
God, I just found this story exhausting. The second part saved it from being a complete disaster, but it managed that by also being about 80% less fun? Like, this episode drills in on the Wataru/Mio and Otoya/Yuri plots from last episode, to the exclusion of nearly every other entertaining element. Nago bugs out almost immediately, rightly horrified at the thought of being in another episode for this story. Kengo is an incredibly gracious friend, cheerfully stepping aside when his date with Mio goes terribly, but then he's done in this episode. Megumi is a pseudo-matchmaker, but it's a part that could've been played by Shizuka or even Kivat. All of the crazy 2008 personalities that supported last episode in some incredibly delightful ways, they are way underutilized in the conclusion. And, sadly, the show doesn't do a whole lot with the Wataru/Mio pairing. They're cute, and it's a nice little moral about letting people engage with the world at their own pace, but it's pretty dull in practice. There's no real spark to their scenes. It's two sweet kids having a sweet afternoon, and I'm not mad at that, but there's not really any tension. Mio feels confident, but she's still too clumsy to keep her job as a waitress, so she sort of gives up on herself (I guess it's not a nice little moral?) and sort of breaks up with Wataru. It's mostly about her coming out of her shell and regretting it, which makes Wataru more of a coach than a boyfriend. He's totally supportive, but it doesn't work out, and I'm just... okay? I guess? It's barely asking anything of either character, and it's too weightless to get emotionally invested in. I love that actor who played Mio, but I honestly couldn't care less if she didn't come back to the show after this. The 1986 stuff is mostly in the same boat, sort of weightless and pointless, but that's actually an improvement over the previous episode's bleak outlook on Yuri's sense of self-worth. Here, she makes up her mind to put her career ahead of two men she sort of tolerates and maybe finds attractive. It's... I mean, my problem with the last episode's turn was that the best case scenario was that this thing would conclude in a way that negated itself, and that's pretty much what happened. No one's really better off than they were at the end of 20, and all we got was a creepy take on courtship. This episode wasn't nearly as funny as the previous one (the whole Otoya Is Being Fleeced plot was basic and obvious, and the two men's rivalry was mostly cordial instead of hilarious), but it also wasn't as dispiriting. Largely and hopefully forgettable, that's where we're at. And that... god, worst two episodes of this show so far? The 1986 thread is all about possessive men, and the 2008 thread wraps up with a clumsy girl blaming Wataru for making her happy (?), none of which I'm aching to see the show follow up on. Nothing ends up permanently tainting the show, which is both the nicest thing I can say, as well as the meanest. These two episodes were either horrifying and fun, or unexceptional and dull. Not anything for anyone involved to feel proud of!
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06-02-2021, 10:28 PM | #417 |
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This was definitely an episode that felt longer than it was. I actually paused the episode one point and was surprised that it had barely been ten minutes. It's not bad to see our main Rider have a romance storyline - that's a rare beast - but this one was just kind of bland. Mio's vomit-inducing date with Kengo was far more entertaining. I'm definitely glad to have Yuria Haga back, but I'm with you on this arc not being the strongest.
The '86 stuff... well, the main thing I have to say now is that I forgot which villain we were on and thought that the episode was going full Sentai with a fake wedding monster trap. There's more I want to say about it, but it will tie in to some later events so I'll come back to it. Something I noticed about this one, though, and I'm afraid it will become common but hope it won't: this arc stopped doing the stained glass and whistle effect when switching time periods. There were definitely a couple times when I wasn't entirely sure which era we were in. |
06-02-2021, 10:36 PM | #418 |
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To celebrate Dogga Form's second appearance, here's its insert theme, Silent Shout, which uh, doesn't actually get used in the episode!
I'm sharing it now though because this is also Dogga Form's last appearance in the show, as it turns out. And they wouldn't even play the poor guy's song for it! Ah well, naturally, Silent Shout is a total jam as usual, and I think I'm realizing the trick to the Arms Monster songs' lyrics is that they're simultaneously about the forms AND the characters? Like, it wasn't obvious to me at first because I only remember the basics of the ones that aren't Jirou, but I mean, even just from the title here, Riki's whole thing is being a monster of few words, right? Makes enough sense to me, anyway. Pretty unfortunate the episode Dogga Form went out on was apparently such a bummer for you, too. Dogga really can't catch a break, it seems! All I can really say that is I found Wataru and Mio hitting it off in these episodes cute enough that I can't imagine being bothered by a lack of tension. It's like I said when Kengo showed up: sometimes it's just nice when things go nice for Wataru.
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This was definitely an episode that felt longer than it was. I actually paused the episode one point and was surprised that it had barely been ten minutes. It's not bad to see our main Rider have a romance storyline - that's a rare beast - but this one was just kind of bland. Mio's vomit-inducing date with Kengo was far more entertaining. I'm definitely glad to have Yuria Haga back, but I'm with you on this arc not being the strongest.
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Something I noticed about this one, though, and I'm afraid it will become common but hope it won't: this arc stopped doing the stained glass and whistle effect when switching time periods. There were definitely a couple times when I wasn't entirely sure which era we were in.
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I guess Wataru doesn't have any non-hero folks to look after going forward, maybe?
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