Most of my comments from last episode still apply here (except for the humor either being toned down or integrated into the story more effectively), so I don't have much to add this time. A young, naive idealist powering through a world of naysayers who scoff at friendship or coexistence can be incr...

Mostly whimsical by comparison—most of the hyperviolence was relegated to the first half hour or so, and aspects like the continually expanding implications of Prana into basically The Force and the aforementioned portable afterlife system caused what started as a mostly-grounded, gritty hard scienc...

I’m at an odd crossroads with this movie, but I guess it works best when compared with Shin Ultraman: the latter movie was, in all likelihood, a better movie than this one, but this was a better Kamen Rider movie than Shin Ultraman was an Ultraman movie. (Some spoilers follow here.) Nearly every asp...

I mentioned in the wrestling episode that Gotchard swaps for me between my concerns from the trailer and surprising excellence. This was one of the former cases. Not sure why I liked almost all of DonBrothers' humor and almost none of this episode's, but most of this one felt like it was grinding ev...

Well, Spanner now has at least one positive feature outside sort of working for the good guys: he's a really great cook! In all seriousness, though, this feels like someone was tasked with writing an episode that makes the viewers root for a jerk before he's had any character growth. And, well, it m...

We have the short version out already; can't wait for the full size one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ost0iuN4QQ8

takenoko wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 10:34 am Ah, I didn't notice that. Was it Klotho? I'm guessing she's more masculine while Lakhesis is more feminine?

It was actually Atropos, discussing why she wants the driver a little over 8 minutes in

Ooooooh. That makes way more sense

This show keeps swapping between being all my fears when I saw the first trailer and being surprisingly heartfelt. This was one of the latter times, applying the show's theme of pursuing one's dreams to a man effectively nearing retirement rather than aspiring alchemists to show its messages can app...

Japanese question: One of the three sisters refers to her trio as "bokura," which is typically masculine; what does it mean in this context? As for the episode itself, I think it (alongside the rest of the show so far) is trying a bit too hard to make Spanner the most unlikable secondary [...

I really liked this one. The story itself was interesting to compare with some of Takahashi's earlier work; one could even suggest it feels like like what would happen if Kamen Rider Ex-Aid had a couple years' more writing experience and didn't have the dual medical/video game theme + associated gim...

This was pretty good. Almost everything in the trailers I saw, from the synopsis to the show's gimmick being gimmicks, really had me concerned, but the execution was largely well done. They seem to be going for basic archetypes as far as the titular Rider's concerned; I forget if there's a name for ...

Haven't seen myself, but from what I understand,

Spoiler

Zi-O undid Decade's multiverse merge and split the Heisei worlds into ~20 universes, so I'm not sure how the crossovers (let alone something like Outsiders) can still happen

>and Neon joined the list of, uh, female Riders who didn't fall to that female Rider trope. Wait which one? If it's the one about them dying, Valkyrie didn't die either That was the only other one I know of; it’s not a very long list 😶 Credit where it’s due to Takahashi, in any case. One was workin...

Ace: "I've ascended to godhood." Everyone: "How??" Ace: "I promised my mom I'd ascend to godhood." (rides bike into the sunset and the villain) All said and done, this was perfectly alright ending. I was worried Ace would simply be resurrected with no lasting consequenc...