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Film. ZO was one of three Kamen Rider films between the two major eras of shows.
Not that he's sore about being a one-shot Rider.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Zoh?
Zee-oh?
Zed-oh?
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The middle one's already taken up by Kamen Rider Zi-O here, himself an anniversary Rider.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Its fine, he's still the best one.
Now there's a hero that always knows the most dramatic time to show up to the rescue.
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You should see his potential evil future-self, Ohma Zi-O.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Zet-oh.
that seems to be true for most hero shows, and magical girl shows too
Gotta make more toys to sell more toys. Though Toei hasn't exactly been promoting them right in recent after-show films. Case in point, what happened in the second 01thers movie...
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
I gotta get caught up on Donbrothers though, I was enjoying that for the first few episodes. There's apparently a live action MAL equivalent, but it looks just as bad...
I do think it's hilarious that one of the first bikes I ever bought, a Honda CRF250L dual-sport, is one of the most common bikes they *do* use these days
The book is gigantic.
Goddamn so good
Still very ambivalent about the movie itself though
Although I still have a massive love on for then mechanical design in these movies and the people who designed and animated it were face deep in the good drugs
Yep (though, to be fair, series have always been about selling toys, check Sailor Moon commercials). Part of it is more advanced electronics, so can put more complex noises on the toys. But, in particular, I blame Super Sentai, in specific the transition from Go-Busters, a series with more subdued toys and low sales:
To Kyoryuger, a series with very loud toys and high sales:
The latter sold A LOT more toys, so loud it is. And I like Kyoryuger.
The thing about 3.33 is that the real back third of the film is in 4.0+1.0
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Yeah, absolutley
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It is a whole genre.
The villainess is a marionette
The grand duchess of the North was secretly a villainess
The villainess's days are numbered
The enchanting villainess
The villainess behind the mask
Villainess in love
I'm a martial arts villainess
The scorned villainess survives in the wilderness
Angel or villainess
The villainess lives again
The villainess's maker
The villainess turns the hourglass
Princess villainess
The villainess flips the script
What it takes to be a villainess
Today the villainess has fun again
Beware the villainess
A villainess for the tyrant
When the villainess loves
This villainess wants a divorce
A villainess no more
Those are just the ones with it in the title that I've read. I'm sure there are almost as many that have one that don't have it in the title.
Did not disappoint.
I died.
Part of it is also i believe a safety thing - The shows are being more directly marketed to kids/young teens, so while the bike has stuck around because it's kinda tradtional, they really do not seem to wnat to encourage kids doing the rider part of things.
Only the slaying monsters bit.
This is why i do sometimes wish we got more high budget/aimed at adults Kamen Rider stuff that wasnt relying on To Sell Toys - it can be a lot of fun, but often the best concepts kinda get drowned out by the need to sell toys and hit specific beats. At this point there's even been a repeating forumla of "The rider gets an upgrade that makes them beserk and evil in this episode" (usally early 20s), and then gets an upgrade that Purifies/Fixes that so they can use it properly X episdoes later.
Upgrade forms are still dope as hell though. Mostly. Save for the really silly ones
Anyway, bring on Shin Kamen Rider, i'm hoping it's good
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Well if you want adult there's way, way more actually...
Of course Isekais are part of this video.
Anyway, I'd just finished going through Black Lagoon again before watching this, and I had a strange thought: is Black Lagoon basically an Isekai? Because Rock's character arc certainly is the arc of an Isekai main character.
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* Except for the subgenre of isekai where you're just transported into the very familiar world of the media you like, but those also tend to trade in entirely different tropes that are more related to what you see in historical time travel fiction and whatnot. In some ways, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom has more in common with Star Trek's The City on the Edge of Forever than it has with That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime.
Like it's usually never even mentioned again by about episode three.
In which sense I guess Black Lagoon does make a better Isekai than most.
Isekai are dissapointing because a lot of them are "what if Sword Art Online had less likeable protagonists, more T&A and the more recent and disturbing trend of adding slavery". Which, gross.
Also I tend to get very bored every time that a show or a manga spend a lot of time on magic technobabble or even worse, gamer magic technobabble.
If you ever pause a story to have the main character grind levels and show them grinding levels, oh boy. And no, I don't need to see a nigh-identical charsheet at the end of every chapter.
Is almost always padding. Movies and TV shows can cheat and show nice visuals or the music they are paying for, but manga/LN/text can't do that. Change perspective, show some character development, something. And I specially despise technobabble since most of the time is only there to show how special the protagonist is since he's able to ignore a good chunk of it anyways. If the author really doesn't care about sticking to the rules of his system, why should readers care about it?
Remember the anime second season of sword art where Asuka became a helpless damsel kept in a cage to be menaced by a sexual predator? Are you sure sword art had none of the slavery angle?
Or the T&A stuff.
Or the technobabble.
I said more on most of that, but on the slavery thing, I (and this is my opinion is fine that you don't share it) give leeway to shows doing bad stuff if is the villain doing it, it doesn't lean too much on it and is made clear that is a bad thing. So is a whole different game than, let's say, Shield Hero or GATE, that have protagonists doing the bad stuff and going "is not that bad and is ok if the "good" guys do it".
Don't forget the villain's evil plan was develop VR tools into brainwashing tools and make her into his ideal waifu. Or that he was engaged to her in real life for some reason and her parents were willing to sign the marriage certificate in the place of their comatose daughter.
The character designs and conflicts in the game (Arknights) have always been very good, it's just the way the writing is delivered and translated is often quite rough. Very hopeful this could be good, though.
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One of the best parts of Irregular was just the five minutes they'd spend to tell you why a thing someone did happened. Just put that directly into my veins.
Also Isekai continues to be good, actually. Always nice to see the people who don't get popular things be mad about it tho. Next let's rail against Roblox or something. Rah rah those people playing things that just aren't good and I know so much better!
Anywho .. Watched that Couple of Cuckoos episode that just randomly popped up and boy they sure put every romcom trope on their checklist first episode. I'm impressed.