Tagged "kamen-rider-ryuki"
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Kitaoka Shuichi video
[embed]https://vimeo.com/107975677\[/embed\] Always wanted to do a Kitaoka video with Queen's Who Wants To Live Forever. Finally did. Features Reiko and Gorou h…
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Episode 2 is the episode where Shinji decides to become a Kamen Rider, and it's also the true introduction of my favorite female character from Kamen Rider: Momoi Reiko.
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Thoughts on Kamen Rider Wizard episodes 14-19, particularly in regards to Nitou Kousuke, aka Kamen Rider Beast in 18-19.
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Thoughts about Shinji's character arc and the general storyline as it reflects in the first episode of Kamen Rider Ryuki.
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Okay, seriously why is it that my favorite characters always seem to die or suffer horrible fates? I mean, well, okay, not always, not every one of them, but very very often.
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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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Revolutionary Girl Utena, one of my favorite anime series, is getting remastered release. The first 12 episodes, The Student Council Saga just came out earlier this month. I got the new DVDs this weekend, started rewatching, and figured it would be interesting to blog about it as I watch episodes, hopefully with a new perspective after all these years. I love Utena because it's so different from any other anime. It's a magical girl shoujo series, but it's really a deconstruction of the genre (probably part of why I like it so much, since I was never a huge fan of straight shoujo). And there's the sheer weirdness of it all: the Shadow Girls, the duel songs, everything about it. I love it. I also love that it's a perfect mix of depth and crack.
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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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My top 5 Kamen Riders
Kitaoka, Yaguruma, Hajime, KaGAAAmi and Hikawa.
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As is probably obvious, my response to Den-O eps 7 and 8 can best be summed up thus: LOL, Smart Lady! Or Shimada Nanako, whichever you prefer! Also! Urataros comments on the unfortunate length of Momotaros' pole. And then Momotaros takes offense... when he figures out what Ura means, at any rate. 8D/ (For a kid's show, they sure get away with Urataros implying an awful of lot really horribly badwrong stuff).
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Now, if one is identifying common tropes that Kobayashi likes to revisit, wouldn't it be fair to say that Urataros is probably the closest Den-O has to one Kitaoka Shuichi? :D Probably, and this would explain why I like Urataros so much. I mean they're both full of it, they're both smooth with the ladies (well, Kitaoka supposedly is, we don't see it work in Ryuki because it's always directed at Reiko), and they're so much smoke and mirrors around their motivations that it's very hard to tell just what there is underneath it all... except for the fact that one suspects they're really not bad, underneath it all, just selfish, opportunistic and self-serving. But quite charming, really! Especifically with Urataros, there's the mystery of why exactly he's doing what he's doing, why he's possessing Ryotaro knowing the limitations of possessing a singularity point (which at this point... haven't exactly been explained).
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So, starting with the Den-O (re)watch. Personally, I didn't realize before the link between Den-O and Ryuki, but now I do, and Ryuki being my favorite it's inevitable that I'm going to be drawing conclusions, the first of which involves Ryotaro himself and the ways in which he is like Shinji, and the ways in which he's not. Obviously, they're both "Fail!Riders", but their attitudes are very different. Ryotaro is resigned to be bullied, both by other people and by the universe itself, really, while Shinji kind of... just creates his own shenanigans, but meets everything with what can only be called feistiness. But really, even in this first episode, the real similarity between them is their drive to do the right thing. Shinji gets involved in things that are not his business out of his sense of justice, and Ryotaro, even when kicked to the curve, is always all about doing the right thing... to the point protecting those that have wronged him. And there's kind of an innocence, I think, in that, in their overpowering goodness.
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Fighting Guys in Keitai Sousakan 7
I really meant to make a more in-depth post about this, but the past week has been really hectic. In any case, Keitai Sousakan 7 is a tokusatsu series by Miike …
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