Think we'll ever see Kachidoki again outside of the Kiwami transformation sequence? I'll miss that suit, it's awesome looking.
Well the show's been good when it comes to still using the presumably-weaker Arms. Especially Gaim who still goes about in his basic form even after scoring his mid-season upgrades and Kachidoki. Plus remember that Kachidoki's got more physical power then Kiwami so that can still come in handy.
The fact that Kachidoki (to use MMORPG terms) tanked a blast from a Helheim-fruit-charged Deemushu with not even a grunt from Kota shows how strong it can be. The only reasons why he lost in the previous episode while using it was due to the physical toil he took from fighting Zangetsu-Shin, Sigurd, Deemushu, Marika and the Kurokage Troopers in that order in such a short time. Any Rider with a super-mode would still drop after getting knocked around and fighting so many folks at one time.
Well the show's been good when it comes to still using the presumably-weaker Arms. Especially Gaim who still goes about in his basic form even after scoring his mid-season upgrades and Kachidoki. Plus remember that Kachidoki's got more physical power then Kiwami so that can still come in handy.
The fact that Kachidoki (to use MMORPG terms) tanked a blast from a Helheim-fruit-charged Deemushu with not even a grunt from Kota shows how strong it can be. The only reasons why he lost in the previous episode while using it was due to the physical toil he took from fighting Zangetsu-Shin, Sigurd, Deemushu, Marika and the Kurokage Troopers in that order in such a short time. Any Rider with a super-mode would still drop after getting knocked around and fighting so many folks at one time.
That's kind of where my concern comes in though. Kouta has a habit of sticking to his base form and Jinba forms, eschewing the use of Kachidoki in all but the most critical fights. Now that he has Kiwami, which might not be as beefy but is clearly immensely powerful in its own way, my concern is that Kachidoki will end up forgotten, with Kouta still relying primarily on his base and Jinba arms, and then using Kiwami when the chips are down.
I'd be willing to bet that if this DOES happen, it's because of a problem with the Kachidoki suit - either its too heavy or it keeps breaking or something. Those issues have driven these sorts of things in the past.
Some people have figured out a translation for the Overlord language though you usually have to find forum-posts about it whenever it shows up in an episode as no one's compiled it into one big list yet. On the topic of Gaim, I like how they got some of the actors to promote the merchandise based on their characters AS their characters. For example, this recently-released video has Zack and Peco from Team Baron promoting the Walnut Lockseed and the action figure for Kamen Rider Knuckle as well as a new Lockseed showing up in the upcoming movie.
Some people have figured out a translation for the Overlord language though you usually have to find forum-posts about it whenever it shows up in an episode as no one's compiled it into one big list yet. On the topic of Gaim, I like how they got some of the actors to promote the merchandise based on their characters AS their characters. For example, this recently-released video has Zack and Peco from Team Baron promoting the Walnut Lockseed and the action figure for Kamen Rider Knuckle as well as a new Lockseed showing up in the upcoming movie.
Goddamn I love Oren so much. I love his stupid proper speech and the fact that he tells people how they've been pronouncing Bravo wrong.
I'm not sure Walnut was entirely necessary as a character yet, but he sure is adorable
I finished Fourze by the way, and it is absolutely fabulous despite Yuki's general existence. I highly recommend it if you have the power of FRIENDSHIP in your HEART. It's so rare for the main character to be the most interesting guy in a Shounen series, but Gentarou is absolutely the best.
Next up for me is Double/W, since my favorite 40-year-old coworker highly recommends it.
I finished Fourze by the way, and it is absolutely fabulous despite Yuki's general existence.
I like Yuki but I get why she gets some hate. For some reason, the writers flanderized her too far to the point of Pinkie-Pie-ism.
I was absolutely able to forgive her character until that episode where she almost failed the test about space. Space was her ONE THING and apparently she doesn't actually know shit about it!?
(Which of course made Aquarius my hero, since she was a smart gal from America who hated Yuki immediately.)
But of course that's the weird thing about shows; you never know when a particular episode/plot point was written by some random writer, thus changing the whole character as a result.
I'm drunk and PASSIONATE ABOUT TOKUSATSU!
Tonkatsu is also pretty great! But not as great as TonkOtsu ramen, which is one of my favorite foods over here. If you ever get to Japan, be sure to shovel some pork bone ramen in you facehole.
But of course that's the weird thing about shows; you never know when a particular episode/plot point was written by some random writer, thus changing the whole character as a result.
Double is also pretty good about continuity. The storyline stays consistent through the show, movies and crossover movies. I believe one main writer/director was in charge of everything. OOOs was the exact opposite, with all the movies contradicting each other, because the head person that year said it was 'just for kids' and they wouldn't notice the changes or care.
Let's not even get started on the mess that Decade wound up in, especially when you add in Den-O.
OOO's summer movie was ok continuity-wise though there are a couple of plot-holes. I heard OOO's part in the second Movie Wars though had serious continuity issues.
Well in this case, its called Yggdrasil Tower because a corporation called Yggdrasil owns it. Sort of like how Stark Tower is named after the guy who owns the joint.
Yeah, but this isn't like naming a building after yourself, it's like building a city and then calling it Gomorrah, or building a ship and naming it Titanic 2. The ambiguously evil (at this point) corporation knew what it was doing.
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or ANY of the villain organizations from the 70s. I mean, Stronger fought a group called BLACK SATAN. Only metal bands can get away with that kind of thing.
I like how Yggdrasil is portrayed. I mean, the worst thing it does is bulldoze an old town to make Zawame, leaving some of the residents like Kaito upset over the loss of their town for some shiny new city.
Then ooops, it turns out they purposefully let immature teens get their hands on monster-summoning devices and then super-suit-granting belts just so they can hide the fact that the end of the world is coming and that they'll have to kill off 6/7ths of the world's population since they only have enough resources to save the 1/7th. And even then they don't come off as mustache-twirling evil but just desperate to save as much of humanity as they can. It's just they have some freaking psychos as part of the higher-tier management that throws a wrench into the whole plan.
Probably one of the nastiest deaths in a Kamen Rider series even if they did pan up before the walls closed up on him.
I think it was more brutal just because you didn't expect it
up to that point, no one really died, so Sid getting straight up killed was more of a shock, but not really nasty
I think it was Agito where some dude's body is found smashed into a tree, and you see like a couple legs sticking out, that's always stuck in my mind
and there was another monster that would drop people out of the sky
and then in Faiz, watching people's hearts burst into flames and then their body crumbling to dust was always pretty brutal
I just recently started watching Ryuki and it's pretty rad, Zolda best character in the game
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Probably one of the nastiest deaths in a Kamen Rider series even if they did pan up before the walls closed up on him.
I think it was more brutal just because you didn't expect it
up to that point, no one really died, so Sid getting straight up killed was more of a shock, but not really nasty
I think it was Agito where some dude's body is found smashed into a tree, and you see like a couple legs sticking out, that's always stuck in my mind
and there was another monster that would drop people out of the sky
and then in Faiz, watching people's hearts burst into flames and then their body crumbling to dust was always pretty brutal
I just recently started watching Ryuki and it's pretty rad, Zolda best character in the game
About Gaim:
Actually, he's not the first death or Rider death in the series for that matter. In fact, he was the one that killed said Rider so it's karmic that he's not only the next one but he dies to a Inves as that's what the Rider he killed had become.
As for Ryuki, it's cool you like it so far but...
...hope you don't mind reset buttons.
EDIT: Well this is interesting. Gen Urobuchi's making an appearance here in America for an anime expo in Los Angeles next month. Anyone here capable of going?
Haha I've been talking with my kids about the last few Gaim eps, and when I mention
Sid's fate
we just nod knowingly. What a way to go. I'll miss his jackass face.
EDIT: Well this is interesting. Gen Urobuchi's making an appearance here in America for an anime expo in Los Angeles next month. Anyone here capable of going?
Man as soon as I leave the states they make a dang PAX in my home state and Gen Urobuchi comes to visit? THIS IS CRAP I SAY.
Also I started watching ToQger, and while it's clearly for children, it's so ridiculous that I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
I've been thinking a lot about the kind of creativity it takes to actually make a good show that's accessible to children. I have a lot more respect for it than I used to. There's some actual really clever ideas in there!
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Well the show's been good when it comes to still using the presumably-weaker Arms. Especially Gaim who still goes about in his basic form even after scoring his mid-season upgrades and Kachidoki. Plus remember that Kachidoki's got more physical power then Kiwami so that can still come in handy.
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That's kind of where my concern comes in though. Kouta has a habit of sticking to his base form and Jinba forms, eschewing the use of Kachidoki in all but the most critical fights. Now that he has Kiwami, which might not be as beefy but is clearly immensely powerful in its own way, my concern is that Kachidoki will end up forgotten, with Kouta still relying primarily on his base and Jinba arms, and then using Kiwami when the chips are down.
I'd be willing to bet that if this DOES happen, it's because of a problem with the Kachidoki suit - either its too heavy or it keeps breaking or something. Those issues have driven these sorts of things in the past.
Sure, thanks.
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So many great moments.
Yggdrasil troops patrolling the city
Yggdrasil base getting messed up, Ryouma going "I'm out!"
All those Inves following Micchy and his new buddy
Sagara Kyubey'ing it up with Kouta
Durian and Acorn! (Acorn's still a shit)
FRUITS BASKET
Is there a translation yet for all the Overlord speak?
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And then you have this earlier one with Oren promoting Kamen Rider Bravo merchandise as well as another Rider's Lockseed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v6RFHXjMq0w
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I would have given Kaito that title if it wasn't for his continued insistence on being both a tsundere and chuniibyou.
(been playing a lot of Steins;Gate)
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Goddamn I love Oren so much. I love his stupid proper speech and the fact that he tells people how they've been pronouncing Bravo wrong.
I'm not sure Walnut was entirely necessary as a character yet, but he sure is adorable
I finished Fourze by the way, and it is absolutely fabulous despite Yuki's general existence. I highly recommend it if you have the power of FRIENDSHIP in your HEART. It's so rare for the main character to be the most interesting guy in a Shounen series, but Gentarou is absolutely the best.
Next up for me is Double/W, since my favorite 40-year-old coworker highly recommends it.
I like Yuki but I get why she gets some hate. For some reason, the writers flanderized her too far to the point of Pinkie-Pie-ism.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
I could go for some
Yeah I know where I am going for dinner tomorrow now
I was absolutely able to forgive her character until that episode where she almost failed the test about space. Space was her ONE THING and apparently she doesn't actually know shit about it!?
(Which of course made Aquarius my hero, since she was a smart gal from America who hated Yuki immediately.)
But of course that's the weird thing about shows; you never know when a particular episode/plot point was written by some random writer, thus changing the whole character as a result.
I'm drunk and PASSIONATE ABOUT TOKUSATSU!
Tonkatsu is also pretty great! But not as great as TonkOtsu ramen, which is one of my favorite foods over here. If you ever get to Japan, be sure to shovel some pork bone ramen in you facehole.
Which is probably what contributes to Gaim's quality as it has the exact same writer for pretty much every episode, with other writers only coming on as an assist now and then.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Let's not even get started on the mess that Decade wound up in, especially when you add in Den-O.
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Really, you guys?
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Japan loooooves its foreign religious symbolism.
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Corporations pick tacky names sometimes.
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or ANY of the villain organizations from the 70s. I mean, Stronger fought a group called BLACK SATAN. Only metal bands can get away with that kind of thing.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
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I think it was more brutal just because you didn't expect it
I think it was Agito where some dude's body is found smashed into a tree, and you see like a couple legs sticking out, that's always stuck in my mind
and there was another monster that would drop people out of the sky
and then in Faiz, watching people's hearts burst into flames and then their body crumbling to dust was always pretty brutal
I just recently started watching Ryuki and it's pretty rad, Zolda best character in the game
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About Gaim:
As for Ryuki, it's cool you like it so far but...
EDIT: Well this is interesting. Gen Urobuchi's making an appearance here in America for an anime expo in Los Angeles next month. Anyone here capable of going?
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
still enjoying Ryuki, but one thing I just realized that's a bit baffling is each Rider has their own spirit animal, and not a single one is a bug
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Also I started watching ToQger, and while it's clearly for children, it's so ridiculous that I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
I've been thinking a lot about the kind of creativity it takes to actually make a good show that's accessible to children. I have a lot more respect for it than I used to. There's some actual really clever ideas in there!
But if someone tells me that it's wrong to hope, then I'll tell them they're wrong every time.
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Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment!
Also, I've downloaded all the Gaim eps; I'm at episode 21 right now.
Think you'll love the next two episodes.
And Cube, have you seen the Gaim/ToQger crossover special yet? Curious if you or your kids knew who the special guest-star from the first half was.
EDIT: Saw the preview for the next episode of Gaim. Best shot from it?
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I love that song, and series but for I had never seen the band perform it. It took me a minute to realize that the lead singer was not this guy.