Oh nice, someone remembered that there's supposed to be a plot driving this power escalation fantasy! I was just talking about Level 10/X cards and the Dark Door last week, so while I don't claim to be clairvoyant, I don't claim to not be clairvoyant, either. But seriously, while the show hasn't exa...

>Speaking of arcs, this is about as close to a fully serialized Sentai as I expect we'll see for quite some time to come. Speaking of which, maybe it's time for a change with the year long series? Game of Thrones is a tight story of hour long episodes of 10 per season. Trying to tell one story over...

(And what kind of name is Boondorio , anyhow?) They don't say his full name in-show, so you don't get the full awfulness of it, but he's Boondorio Boonderas. Which, if you couldn't tell, is a really bad play on "Antonio Banderas" Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here *blinks* An A...

There's a lot to unpack with this series. And given how bombastic first episodes can be, I think I'm going to hold off for another episode or two before making too many judgements, since I don't have a feel for what a "normal" episode is going to be like. Still, if the rest of the series i...

At least you remember reading it?

I've been spending a lot of time mulling over what to write about these series. It's super easy (and super fun!) to write about something you hate. And writing about something you loved from star to finish is also pretty simple. But writing about something in the middle takes a lot of nuance. Overal...

Hence the naval-gazing aspect. Plot holes and Kamen Rider go together like Super Sentai and giant robots.

Now if I really wanted to be pedantic, I could ask why hasn't anyone tried to steal the Gotchard driver in the last 3 months to finally open the Dark Door.

This is just a stupid aside, but shouldn't all of Ichinose's level X cards have staged a mass jailbreak by now? The whole thing about level X Chemys is that they "can't be contained," and that they reside in their cards and help Ichinose voluntarily. So they should be able to up and leave ...

takenoko wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:29 pmToei is dumb

This is an incredibly compelling argument. You have my vote!

Unfortunately, I think we're all generally on the same page here on fidning this episode underwhelming. The only things that really worked well were the action scenes; the plot and the character beats that set up all of this fell flat. What do the different ring colors mean??? As best as I can tell,...

Going into this final episode, I was very nervous whether the writers would stick the landing or not. The past two episodes have built things up very well, but to run with this analogy the full distance, the converse of that means that you have to stick the landing from a far greater height. And tha...

I'll write up a full post here a bit later, but as a quick note, I noticed a minor typo on the Anon encode:

04:00 - "nd that makes me laugh!"

Looks like he laughed so hard, he lost an 'A'.

Sonoi's actor, I believe?

Another new form? I feel like we've been on a form train for the last 3 months now. Every second episode (if not sooner) has been a new form for someone, be it Dino Gotchard, Bad Future Gotchard, Jet-Assisted Take-Off Gotchard, Dread, Valvarad, Majade, etc. I appreciate that the forms are all visual...