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08-13-2022, 09:54 PM | #761 |
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Glad to see you pull through the series of those recaps. To reiterate cosmicresend0's opinions, these Specials were all enjoyable and all but watching it for some consecutive times, especially in weekly basis, can be quite a chore. I don't even watching those Specials, apart from the President one and the 35.5 one. I might try to watch the others but I seriously need to minimize my expectations to the bottom.
Anyway, if there's one wish I want to make from Zero One, I wish Aruto is in the same room with Fuwa and his father. I can imagine Fuwa would be hospitalized later after bursting his stomach out of laughter. On serious note, I really wish there was more heart-to-heart moment between Aruto and Fuwa. I mean, I love the interaction between Fuwa and Ai-Chan but... Come on, Aruto! You should deepen your bond with Fuwa even more; he's your bodyguard, sidekick and friend! Then again, I can't even be that mad because Aruto actually made the best solution by giving Fuwa some kind of therapy in the form of Ai-Chan. For Jin and Yua, as much as the revival of Ark-Zero gave some idiotic implications for their actions, I actually didn't mind it. Mind you, Yua was taking part of this because she wanted to separate Fuwa and Naki; in which the characters in-universe were in doubt for what actions they should take for Fuwa and Naki. In addition, I know that the Ark's physical form was deep in the sunken city... But what was the practical way to destroy it. The only form that could dive that deep is only Biting Shark (and we don't even know if Aruto CAN swim). Is Breaking Mammoth water-resistant enough to deliver a Rider Kick to Ark? Or if Fuwa's strongest attack as Rampage Vulcan can reach the satellite Ark in the bottom? While I agree destroying Ark in the satellite is possible, I can't really think a practical way other than making the Ark itself goes to us. One last thing, I found a nice bit of Horobi's development in this episode. After the Ark's revival, when Ark told Horobi 'We will start the humanity's extinction', Horobi could only give a slight response 'That's...'. I found it's fascinating to see someone, who is totally loyal and devoted to Ark up to this point, had a glimmer of doubt in Ark's decision. Love that Aruto's heart speech to Horobi last episode DID stick on him in some shape. No wonder why Ark instantly possessed Horobi after his revival. Out of all the members of Metsubojinrai, Horobi was the most dedicated to the letter for the Ark. The last thing that Ark wants is for his fanatic right hand man to have some doubt in his actions.
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08-13-2022, 10:56 PM | #762 |
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For Jin and Yua, as much as the revival of Ark-Zero gave some idiotic implications for their actions, I actually didn't mind it. Mind you, Yua was taking part of this because she wanted to separate Fuwa and Naki; in which the characters in-universe were in doubt for what actions they should take for Fuwa and Naki. In addition, I know that the Ark's physical form was deep in the sunken city... But what was the practical way to destroy it. The only form that could dive that deep is only Biting Shark (and we don't even know if Aruto CAN swim). Is Breaking Mammoth water-resistant enough to deliver a Rider Kick to Ark? Or if Fuwa's strongest attack as Rampage Vulcan can reach the satellite Ark in the bottom? While I agree destroying Ark in the satellite is possible, I can't really think a practical way other than making the Ark itself goes to us.
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08-13-2022, 11:03 PM | #763 |
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KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE EPISODE 37 - “NO ONE CAN STOP IT”
Yeah, boy, the pacing on these episodes… it’s not great! There’s a franticness to everything that occasionally coincides with the frenetic tone of an endgame arc – everything’s falling apart, the villains are in ascendance, morale is at its lowest – but mostly it just feels like plots and actions are firing off randomly, and motivation is very I Hope The Actors Can Sell This Scene. It’s not a bad episode, despite the preceding paragraph. There’s nothing happening here that’s outside the boundaries of the series to date. The Ark is doing villain stuff, Team Zero-One is finding strength in one another, MetsubouJinrai is like their dark mirror, and Gai is a gigantic golden five-horned clown. No one’s out of character or a walking plot device. The performances are across-the-board good, and frequently great. There’s a glorious fight scene at the end that is evidence that COVID didn’t affect every department equally. It didn’t suck. But almost every detail within the episode is one that needed a little bit more space to breathe, or another scene to elevate it. The Ark’s strategy in this one is the weakest element, since there’s almost nothing to be gained from drawing out Thouser. It means that Gai is fully aware of the Ark as an adversary, and neither Gai nor ZAIA is eliminated in the process. The Ark tipped its hand, and all it got in return was calling dibs on the weekly Thouser Destruction. The motivation for the entire battle is likely just the Ark getting a chance to gloat over Gai, but it’s not a great strategy from a normally patient, plotting villain. (But… I mean, I like that the Ark is enormously petty and vindictive. It was taught to be that by Gai, so it totally tracks that it would take a minute to utterly demolish Thouser, even if – maybe especially if – it doesn’t gain anything tangible. It’s not a machine intelligence that calculated humanity’s obsolescence; it’s a lunatic who thinks we're all terrible and deserve to die. I don’t love how we’re swinging between different levels of efficacy from the Ark, but I do like how it’s not exactly in control of its emotions.) Fuwa and Yua’s little moment in the hospital is another scene where the actors have enough rapport to find fun notes and heartfelt emotion, but the placement is random and weird. Fuwa has never been the guy to… I was going to say “dwell on the past”, but, uh, that was his entire character for the first half of the show. But he was never the guy to hold stuff against Yua, so her need to come clean and apologize finds a mostly perplexed and distracted audience in Fuwa. (He’s got a lot to do this week as Emergency Morale Officer!) Yua’s overwhelming guilt and shame over the preceding *gestures at entire series* is likewise sort of overblown, since it syncs up with a non-Fuwa plotline from last week. There’s kind of no reason to have this scene happen here? A lot of what she brings up is stuff from a dozen episodes ago, and it’s nothing Fuwa’s even referenced recently. I like the weird beat of Yua needing to unburden herself thanks to Ai’s therapy, but it doesn’t really feel motivated by recent events. Aruto’s plot works the best, since it’s dominated by gray areas and fun scene partners. I don’t really care too much about the liberation of Hiden Intelligence from ZAIA (it’s fine, but typically random; Gai’s been up to shady shit since minute one, but I guess this was the line that got drawn), but I liked seeing Fukuzoe act as a supportive figure for Aruto. Fukuzoe is 90% comedy relief for this show, and 9% someone for Aruto to embarrass, but I love when shows build an episode around the 1% of a guy like this that is a three-dimensional human being. Fukuzoe cares about Hiden Intelligence, and he’s used to Aruto’s optimism. When he sees Aruto bummed out about the likelihood of Humagears being so advanced that they can’t be constrained by human morality or human weaponry, Fukuzoe’s there to be an employee, and ask his President to be the beacon the company needs; to care more than anyone else. It’s incredibly sweet, and if it’s the result of a plot that feels somewhat haphazardly instigated, I don’t care much. The effort put into the scene by the two actors, leveraging this background joke into something resolute and hopeful, was worth it. I’m not used to writing up Zero-One episodes this way. (Other shows, definitely, but not Zero-One.) Usually, there’s one main plot, and a couple thematically-linked subplots that spoke off of that. Now we’re into different territory, where it’s harder to see one common theme or emotion across the variety of plots taking place. The action is still good, and the actors are all great (Aruto crushed it this week), but it feels so much less cohesive than I’d like. There’s a grab-bag feeling to some of this episode, where we’re checking in with a bunch of plots without really needing to for the sake of the episode’s story. Like, good content, but not a good episode, if that makes any sense.
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08-13-2022, 11:06 PM | #764 |
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So, this episode is fine, a bit too fight heavy for my tastes, but still enjoyable. Speaking of fights, continuing from last episode, Ark beats down Aruto and Jin and then proceeds to possess Jin, so things are not going well for the heroes. We then see Yua talking to Ai-chan and just like Fuwa somehow manages to feel better in a few hours, which seems pretty unrealistic, I don't believe that a few hours of therapy can just make you better instantly, you'd think it would take multiple weeks, but I guess they can't give too much time to these subplots when they have to rush because of Covid, but I'd appreciate at least a bit more thought on it.
We cut to Gai and he suggests that the day the Raidrisers go on sale, that they'll have the ZAIAspecs lose control on purpose to get people to buy a Raidriser, and this is just something I can't even begin to describe in how it makes me feel, I know that Gai is technically a villain, but he's actually suggesting that many people die just so he can get more money, which is just, no, don't do that, that is such a horrible idea, what about poor people who can't afford Raidrisers, but might've gotten a ZAIAspec as a gift, are they just going to all die? He even says that letting people die is justifiable for the success of the Raidrisers, I completely forgot this was a thing that happened, I thought last episode's suggestion of putting the Raidrisers on sale was bad enough, but this, this is just terrible, I can hardly defend any of Gai's actions, you can't redeem murdering a bunch of people, simply to get more money, that's very clearly a crime, I'm going to move on, but I can't justify this. Luckily, the other two (I can't remember their names) also think that this is a horrible idea, even going to Aruto to get Shesta up and running so that they can collect all of Gai's criminal acts and get him taken out from his position. Gai sees Naki, who now has a Forceriser of their own, and it's a Japanese Wolf, which looks really good, it's a really nice suit design in my opinion. we then get a rather long fight between MetsubouJinrai and A.I.M.S, as well as Gai and all the Raidriser fodder, of course, they're all beaten badly, and then Aruto shows up to meet the same fate, basically accomplishing nothing for anyone. This is a fine episode, way too much fighting for my taste, but it was still alright, though next episode does introduce my favorite character from Zero-One (which you might guess from my User Title), but this episode is just okay. |
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08-13-2022, 11:15 PM | #765 |
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We cut to Gai and he suggests that the day the Raidrisers go on sale, that they'll have the ZAIAspecs lose control on purpose to get people to buy a Raidriser, and this is just something I can't even begin to describe in how it makes me feel, I know that Gai is technically a villain, but he's actually suggesting that many people die just so he can get more money, which is just, no, don't do that, that is such a horrible idea, what about poor people who can't afford Raidrisers, but might've gotten a ZAIAspec as a gift, are they just going to all die? He even says that letting people die is justifiable for the success of the Raidrisers, I completely forgot this was a thing that happened, I thought last episode's suggestion of putting the Raidrisers on sale was bad enough, but this, this is just terrible, I can hardly defend any of Gai's actions, you can't redeem murdering a bunch of people, simply to get more money, that's very clearly a crime, I'm going to move on, but I can't justify this.
I don't think you're supposed to view anything Gai's ever done as defensible? There's a whole Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day aspect to a few of his arguments, where Aruto's optimism doesn't really account for how people actually live or interact with technology, but: no, Gai does not care about anyone but himself. Period. He's exactly like the Ark, in that he views anyone and anything outside of himself as tools; humanity exists to glorify him or be destroyed. "Tools don't have dreams", remember? The Ark in action is just Thouser, spouting all of his catchphrases (including the one Gai spouts at Naki and Ikazuchi earlier that episode), which should tell you everything you need to know about Gai's psychology.
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08-13-2022, 11:19 PM | #766 |
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It was nice to see that Fukuzoe and Yamashita haven't been sitting on the sidelines and off-screen as total comedy relief but have been working to retain the integrity of Hiden Intelligence, the company that Aruto still feels some emotional tethering too, and are ready to finally take Gai out. And to see Fukuzoe finally properly face Aruto, as Aruto, and be the one to support him after how topsy-turvy their relationship has been since the premier felt like a really great moment.
And Shesta's back! That was just really nice. Kamen Rider Naki! Naki has a really cool Rider design, and I like how it's a different expression of a wolf Rider compared to Vulcan. In fact it is kind of cool seeing Metsuboujinari united as a group of Riders and beating the tar out of Gai. (Also, that on-brand underwear...) It is kind of amusing how the mess Gai made and that he planned to use to sell his products has now come home to roost and basically screw up everything. Gai was a bad parent to the Ark and now it's come to join in on the classic Thouser beatdown. |
08-13-2022, 11:19 PM | #767 |
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Like I said you better be ready for rushed pacing because hoo boy did they not know how many episodes they had left! I know I keep repeating it but I'll keep repeating it for good reason!
But also this episode is where I'd like to talk about the stipulation they had in filming fights! See here's the thing, and someone can correct me, but they were forced into a one-take rule for fights. I think they could practice, but each fight scene could only be done in one take. Which basically forces to actors to put all they have into the fights, fumbles and all. And it ends up making the fights in this era of Zero-One a lot more visceral and I honestly love it! Other notes on this episode, I really like Kamen Rider Naki! Aside from liking how they reused the Night Rogue bodysuit. Uh... There are two wolves within you! One is Shooting and one is Japanese! That's my joke. |
08-13-2022, 11:25 PM | #768 |
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I like the returning gag of her trying to turn herself off because she doesn't work for Aruto, only to have Fukuzoe be like NO I'M HERE DON'T GO. And then she blanks on Yamashita's title! Such a fun reunion.
The fights in this one were really excellent. Seeing MetsubouJinrai just surgically destroy Thouser was delightful, and the Ark/Zero-One fight was intense and emotional.
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08-13-2022, 11:26 PM | #769 |
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Fun fact: "Naki" can be translated as "Death."
KAMEN RIDER DIE CONFIRMED! Also, my main takeaway for the big fight in this one is that Gai totally would've won in a one-on-one. He held up surprisingly well for a 4v1!
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08-14-2022, 12:33 AM | #770 |
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It's Episode 37!
- Uh oh, Our heroes are down for the count! I'm surprised Ark-One didn't just like, immediately explode Aruto and Fuwa once they tried to run? Maybe they're the type of person that likes to play with their food...? -Heyyy, Naki finally transformed! I really like that they're a wolf like Fuwa, and the suit's not bad either! Naki getting their go-round on the weekly "embarass Gai" bit for a second time must be so cathartic for them. -Like. I get it. I know the appeal of venting your feeling out in any methods other face-to-face (over calls, on certain sites, etc etc), and its especially important here because Fuwa and Yua aren't exactly willing to open up all the time, but like. My main thing with Ai-chan is that she kinda feels like...more of a plot device than anything? Maybe because she's not humanoid, it always felt like to me kinda a "ok so we kinda need to push So-and-so's arc in this direction but we don't exactly have the time do that "properly", so deploy Ai-chan.....!" Like I get what they're trying to do with her, but it still feels a bit like that, yknow? -VP coming around to help Aruto reaffirm his beliefs is kinda sweet. Always fun when comedic characters get a chance to be serious. -Excited for next episode, if I'm remembering the right one after this one. Last edited by cosmicrescend0; 08-14-2022 at 12:51 AM.. |
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