Tagged "kamen-rider-ooo"
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Thoughts on Kamen Rider OOO 32, and on the similarities between Hino Eiji and Kamen Rider Wizard's Souma Haruto.
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Work happened. Then vacation happened. The stuff I've gotten into in the past 3 months, and that I've been playing catch up with: Community, Mad Men, The Good Wife, Downtown Abbey, The Hour.
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Reverse/Re:birth PV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5gp7-2UX8M I'm kind of really really behind on OOO (read that as in: I have no idea about Date's general state of well-being, i…
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As far as I'm concerned, the important thing about these episodes is... Date backstory!! I mean, yes, there was all the stuff about Date's former colleague, and how she wanted to be pretty like her sister, and how the lesson is that about real beauty and being yourself, yada yada yada... I think it's fair to say that I have a lot more to say when the underlying theme is about how justice is subjective or the like than this, because... well, there's not much to say, right? Anyway, apparently Date was in some kind of Doctors Without Borders, and he was called The Fighting Doctor (so, not exactly Doctors Without Borders, probably). So, yes, I got it wrong, did not expect this, and I found it pretty interesting actually, that he used to dedicate his life to helping others while now his motives appear to be more selfish. Of course, by now the real reason he wants that money has probably been revealed, but at this point it hasn't, so there you go. Also interesting is how at the end Gotou asks him if it's okay to just let go of his former colleague like that, since she appeared to be into him, and he says rather matter of factly that has his hands full right now.
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Right. Been busy again, yada yada. But it doesn't feel right to just skip through, so I'll go off my notes for the episodes I watched (yes, I take notes while watching Kamen Rider, and yes, I realize what this says about me) but didn't get around to blogging about. Episodes 21-22 explore whether the desire to fight for justice can become twisted. The Yummy is born from a man who never passed the exam to become a lawyer, and was frustrated because he felt like a failure, and so he left his family. The Yummy initially targets criminals, and so the man accepts the Yummy as a way to punish those he perceives as wicked. From there, the show obviously moves to questioning whether this is really justice, and how self-righteousness twists a person's sense of justice so they become cruel themselves.
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Still playing catchup. These obviously deal with a whole more than just Date, but I'm really interested in him, so that's what this post will be about mostly. E…
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In which Date and Gotou's epic bromance begins, and Satonaka is total badass.
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If Kamen Rider OOO's episode 15 was about advancing the plot, episode 16 is about both that and also about advancing the mythology and the ideas behind the story.
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Catching up on blogging about OOO. About damn time! (I've actually watched beyond this point, but hadn't goten around to blogging). So episode 15 was basically set up for the events of 16. Notable (to me, anyway) things from this episode:
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Date Akira, huh?
Now THAT's what I like to see in my Kamen Rider. And I need to watch OOO faster. :D; (Via Silverwind)
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The Yummy from these episodes was spawned by a gifted surgeon who wasn't being allowed to do surgeries. Her pride led to Cazali using her to create a Yummy, and really, the point of these two episodes is about pride... or excess pride, rather.
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"I'm just trying to do what needs to be done." —Hino Eiji Firstly, yes, that is what Eiji does, and that's why he's effective, he just does what he ne…
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1. Ankh is being pwned by both Hina and Chiyoko, in very different ways. And by Satonaka, actually. So basically by any woman he meets. 2. Like I already posted, Eiji and Hina are adorable together. Him being instinctively protective of her is cute, obviously, but there's also the way she's coming to understand him, in particular how she realizes that Eiji is the man he is because of what happened in the village. And because of it, there's understanding and support growing there... it reminds me a little of Natsumi and Tsukasa before Hibiki world, before Yonemura made her more damsel in distress than supportive friend and partner.
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Eiji and Hina in ep 9
Aww, that's cute. And really really blatant ship-bait. :D; Have I mentioned how happy it makes me that Eiji is an attractive young dude as opposed to a waify pr…
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Wanting things isn't bad in and of itself. What's important is what you do with those feelings. 1. I like Eiji more and more. I like how he doesn't judge anyone…
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So I'm thinking I've reached the point in OOO in which it hits its stride and characters and dynamics start to get interesting. I still don't really OOO's various suit designs, I'm not really into the whole props during battle aspect of the action (particularly the mantis appendages/weapons), but the underlying Buddhist theme makes it very interesting, Hino Eiji is quite likable, Ankh is fascinating, and at this point characters I knew I'd like are starting to get more screentime... and characters I didn't expect to care much about one way or the other have snuck up on me.
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Hello there, Gotou's BFG
This makes me think perhaps I should be catching up on OOO.
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And so, Kamen Rider OOO catch-up begins! I'd actually already watched episode 4, but never posted about it/kind of forgot, so I rewatched. Very quick thoughts t…
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No computer, can't watch stuff as often as I'd like, much less blog, yada yada yada. But I did catch up on last week's Os! The episode starts off where ep 2 left off, with Ankh encountering Hina, who is the younger sister of the cop whose body he's taken over. The little encounter serves to drive home, again, just how inhuman Ankh is. He basically coldly considers the situation, accessing the cop's memories of his sister to figure out why she's run to hug him, and once he understands their relationship, determines that because she cares for his brother, she will be in the way and the easiest thing will be to kill her and be rid of her. Eiji tries to stop him, and the point is made that without the belt, Eiji doesn't stand a chance, and would be unable to stop Ankh from doing anything he pleases. So he uses his only leverage, which is to threaten to throw the belt in the river, which effectively stops Ankh from killing Hina. So once again, the pull and push between Eiji and Ankh is brought to the spotlight, and this conflict is clearly going to be the central focus of the series... at least until Ankh starts developing more of a conscience. Which I am assuming will happen at some point. And again, I really like this dynamic.
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First of all, I am really liking Miura Ryosuke as Ankh. Awesome job. :D For some reason I didn't expect Ankh to openly show his true colors to Eiji this quickly, and yet it makes perfect sense. Eiji is perfectly aware, having heard it from his mouth, that Ankh doesn't care at all for human life, it's all a game to him, all about collecting medals, and Eiji himself is just a tool to that end. A tool that Ankh can choose to use how he pleases, when he pleases, or so Ankh believes.
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Watched Os 1 with subs. Still don't like the OP. :D In general terms, there's not that much I actually missed when I watched the raw. One thing was that Eiji sl…
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And so it begins. Watched episode 1 raw, so obviously I will have missed things. :D The first episode kind of already confirms the impression I got from the press releases and character descriptions: that many elements of Os are very obvious nods in the direction of past Riders. To be fair, Kamen Rider is a franchise that relies on a specific, limited set of tropes; but what I'm talking about isn't that exactly. A trope is an archtype basically, something honed down to its basic elements; what I'm talking about is the specific ways in which those archtypes are explored. That's not necessarily a bad thing, particularly if one liked what is referenced, and it's all revisited in a way that revamps the ideas.
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Kamen Rider Os promo
Totally forgot that by now there'd be Os promos after Double. :D; Anyway, posted on YouTube a week ago, although I imagine everyone's seen this already: Miura R…
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So they've done the press conference announcing the next Kamen Rider series, in this case OOO or Ozu (yes, like Faiz). I kind of bailed early on in Double due to lack of interest and just not really getting into the story at the time, and I never did get caught up, but now I'm... let's say cautiously excited for the new installment. The main reason is that the main writer is Kobayashi Yasuko, who is responsible for Ryuki (my favorite Rider series), Den-O, Shinkenger (which I love), and Timeranger (which I haven't seen but have heard great things about). I'm not crazy about the suit design, but it looks better than the initial magazine scans led us to believe, so we'll see. And obviously, the cast was announced, the characters introduced, etc, and here I'm intrigued by a couple of things.
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