King-Ohger 28 discussion post

[takenoko]

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Ratings: 4 out of 5 (12 votes)

Does space bug king remind anyone else of Trelane from Star Trek? A bored child god. Who wants to bet that when he's beaten, his parents show up to tell him to clean his room himself. I'm really getting a sense that Dagdedo and his subordinates are like playmates

Man Chikyuu sure looks like Asia and Africa in that shot

Himeno's impression of lord liar is pretty funny

I guess the homeless king is living in gear town now instead of the snow place. Gira and Jeremie swapping places is pretty good

It's too weird seeing Rita's face after not seeing it for so long

Wait, how much rough labor does dybowskii put his people through? Seems kind of weird to make them do the labor and then suddenly care about relieving them

I see Sebastian is still wearing the fat suit

Why is Yanma screaming so much more funnier than Rita's?

I can see why they stuck Gira and Jeremie together. Besides their few quirks, there's not much to distinguish them

I have no idea what Jeremie in Gira's body is punching space ninja with

Yeah, as expected that was a pretty fun episode. Queen Bee and Lord Mantis were the obvious best pair, you want these characters to be learning something about each other. Rita and Yanma were comic relief. I guess if I cared about Jeremie at all, hearing the people say he's not a straight up monster would have been moving. The setup and payoff just felt kind of rushed and cheap

[Yaiba]

This is hilarious.

Everyone absolutely nailed the swapped personalities. I needed to constantly remind myself that those were the actors playing the characters, they didn't actually swapped personalities. Though Himeno and Kaguragi were the MVP here, both in terms of their acting skills and the conflicts that arise between them. They definitely carried this episode, since Gira and Jeremie were pretty chill with each other to begin with, and Rita and Yanma just kept undoing the other one's doing???

By the end they all adapted to each other's fighting style, Himeno embraced her strength, Kaguragi moved more elegantly, Gira used the keys and Jeremie fought recklessly. Rita and Yanma... tanked each other's shots because they pissed off each other?? They definitely got the short end of the stick here, at least it was cute that Yanma brought Rita the Moffin stuff toy. I guess it's now an open secret that Rita is obsessed with Moffin.

I really do not like shows that end their episodes in a downer cliffhanger. Just let me savor the fun episode!

[Kurow]

4/5

Yanma's acting like Rita was the best of this episode for sure!

Rita's actress looked so happy to finally be able to act without the mask.

There is way too much attention on the retainers on this second arc...

Great episode.

[takenoko]

https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/king-ohger/story/0028/

So I checked the page. It looks like the crown lance turned into a fish stick. But... why??????

[Ruffinn Kein]

Funny episode with exaggerated acting. The body swap episodes never fail to entertain. 4/5 stars.

These space bugs playing with planets like they’re balls. Sheesh, I hope at least no one lives on those planets.

Just imagining Himeno waking up and stretching her arms like that is funny.

I might be wrong, but isn’t Kaguragi’s first person pronoun also “watashi’?

It helps Yuzuki deliver Yanma’s lines very nicely considering she has a low voice. It sounds better than it would in a high voice.

Rita in Yanma’s body is pretty cringey, but that’s probably why it’s so funny. Also, Rita does not shake her head sideways when she screams.

Gira and Jeramie switching bodies was surprisingly good. Gir’s actor pulled off such a perfect imitation of Jeramie, that at times I mistook his voice for Jeramie’s voice and vice-versa.

Rita’s new focus shot in the opening looks more masculine than ever.


Poor Jeramie, he’s the only one who doesn’t get anything concrete to sit on for his shot on his throne. It’s just a plain green screen. The rest of them at least have something concrete to sit on even if they are in front of green screens.

Ok, I have a lot to nitpick about this episode. So I’ll just quit while I’m ahead.

I’m pretty sure I’m not wrong, but Yanma doesn’t usually have a smile on his face, right? I only see him glaring at people. Yanma in Rita’s body is smiling way too much.

Hearing Yanma (Rita) say his own name is very funny, lol. Also, this is the first time Rita called Yanma by his name.

Rita just hides her face and right eye because of her personality, regardless of whose body she’s in, lol

Why does Yanma care if Rita changes the appearance of Yanma’s body while she’s in it? He shouldn’t get to annoy her about it, and especially not enjoy teasing her about it. I mean Yanma in Rita’s body has kept Rita’s face exposed but Rita never said a thing about that.

It’s like they wanted to have Yanma (Rita) scream in every scene he’s in. They set a new record for the maximum number of times Rita has screamed in a single episode. And it’s not even held by Rita’s actress, lol.

Rita has never carried the Moffun stuffed toy in public like this, btw. So that’s totally a wrong move.

Did Yanma always mock other people like that? That just feels so weird to me for some reason.

Yuzuki is smiling too much- that’s very out of character for both Rita and Yanma.

Wow, Himeno in Kaguragi’s body just said ‘vocabulary’… That sounds strange because Kaguragi mostly speaks pure (perhaps obsolete) Japanese.

Why is Rita in Yanma’s body patting Moffun’s stuffed toy before transforming? Rita would never do that.

My wish for wanting to see more interactions between Rita and Yanma totally got monkey pawed in this episode. Sigh.

Rita does not smile in front of other people like that.

Did Yanma’s made-up slang grow on Rita that she’s using them now too?

Who is the person dragging the Nkosopa citizens to Gokkan? Or are they just going by themselves?

Why does Morfonya always stay so lovable, as well as loving towards Rita?

Timestamp 16:06 there’s redundancy in the line, I believe. It should either be “You’ll make mistakes if you judge on appearance alone, right?” or “If you Judge on appearance alone, you’ll get it wrong, right?”

When Yanma(Rita)’s phone rang, I almost thought it was a call from Rita (Yanma), since they’re supposed to learn something about and from each other. But I guess these two are just too stubborn for that.

The lesson of the day- Yanma and Rita make an awful team. Never wish for them to or make them work together.

Rita and Yanma... tanked each other's shots because they pissed off each other?? They definitely got the short end of the stick here.

Yup, definitely the short end. Is it too much to ask to want to see characters naturally bond in good old Sentai fashion? It happened for Himeno and Rita, Himeno and Yanma, and even Kaguragi and Himeno learning to respect each other for what they are. Then why not Rita and the other guys?

So I checked the page. It looks like the crown lance turned into a fish stick. But... why??????

Maybe it has to do with Jeramie’s sneaky fighting tricks? Yeah, still doesn't make any sense.

[Lunagel]

I might be wrong, but isn’t Kaguragi’s first person pronoun also “watashi’?

It's actually "watakushi", though it's written with the exact same kanji as "watashi" (way to be confusing Japan). Watakushi is probably used equally by both men and women mostly because it's considered the politest/humblest pronoun in modern vernacular Japanese. I use it pretty often when I'm on the phone.

[Ruffinn Kein]

I might be wrong, but isn’t Kaguragi’s first person pronoun also “watashi’?

It's actually "watakushi", though it's written with the exact same kanji as "watashi" (way to be confusing Japan).

Ah, right. That was my second guess.

[takenoko]

>Did Yanma’s made-up slang grow on Rita that she’s using them now too?

Remember they're trying to fake being the actual rulers of those countries to avoid causing a panic

>Timestamp 16:06 there’s redundancy in the line, I believe. It should either be “You’ll make mistakes if you judge on appearance alone, right?” or “If you Judge on appearance alone, you’ll get it wrong, right?”

oh right. sometimes it gets confusing when implementing suggestions

>Maybe it has to do with Jeramie’s sneaky fighting tricks? Yeah, still doesn't make any sense.

The odd thing is that it works and catches ninja guy by surprise. Makes no sense

[ViRGE]

Well that was a fun episode.

As everyone else has already noted, the actors did an amazingly good job in emulating their counterparts. Queen Barbie and Lord Liar arguably did the best here, especially since they had to play characters virtually the opposite of what they normally play. I don't know whether the chicken or the egg came first (if they did this episode because of their skills, or found their skills while making this episode), but it ends up being a good yellow/black focus episode. And if you had told me that Queen Barbie was being played by another actress, I'd probably believe you.

Gira/Jeremie was surprisingly on-point as well, though those characters don't differ by nearly as much. Instead, what threw me off is that the actors damn near perfectly nailed their counterpart's voice cadence, to the point where I had assumed they were dubbing at one point. Gira's actor sounds entirely different when he's not acting like a hyperactive manchild, and Jeremie's actor can do crazy eyes when it's called for.

Even though nothing in this episode advances any of the plots, it's fun to see the actors get to break out and do something different, as was the case here.

Strangely, this is the second episode in a row without any mecha action. And there's no mecha shot in the preview for the next episode, either. I won't make any assumptions only two episodes in, but something may be brewing...

Unfortunately, it looks like Anon will need to v3 this. I noticed a sub error at 08:28: "Ishabaana will be destroyed with a ruler with such a brutish ruler."

Finally, I have a real love-hate relationship with the use of green screens in this show, which I'd like to illustrate today. On the one hand, the use of green screens for the space bugs' playroom is fantastic. They're trying to create something otherworldly that defies the laws of physics, and they're pulling it off well. The bug barn looks like an M. C. Escher painting, with the unreal nature of the location helping to hide the green screen artifacts.

And then you have the fights in front of the green screen.

https://i.imgur.com/XC4bY5a.jpg

The feet around Yanma perfectly illustrate the problem with staging fast motion fights in front of a green screen, unless you're willing to put in the post production work. Since there isn't a real background behind the blur that is his feet, we instead get this amorpheous grey blob. It looks terrible.

Does space bug king remind anyone else of Trelane from Star Trek? A bored child god. Who wants to bet that when he's beaten, his parents show up to tell him to clean his room himself. I'm really getting a sense that Dagdedo and his subordinates are like playmates

That was my first thought as well. Though the bored god is a common sci-fi trope in general. Either way, given toku's sci-fi origins, I'm always happy to see sci-fi tropes being embraced.

Man Chikyuu sure looks like Asia and Africa in that shot

All of the planetary shots have been morphs of Earth. Sometimes they do better than others. Though I'm not sure why they don't just have some good stock footage prepared at this point.

Why is Yanma screaming so much more funnier than Rita's?

Rita's is painfully grating, like nails on a chalkboard. Yanma's is funny because it's a dude doing an over-exaggerated voice.

I have no idea what Jeremie in Gira's body is punching space ninja with

Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that. That entire bit was very confusing.

I guess if I cared about Jeremie at all, hearing the people say he's not a straight up monster would have been moving. The setup and payoff just felt kind of rushed and cheap

That whole exchange went over my head, to some degree. If the peasant woman knew the attackers were not the Bugnaraku, then what was she even asking? "is it..." what?

I really do not like shows that end their episodes in a downer cliffhanger. Just let me savor the fun episode!

I'm right there with you. That part severely irked me, and I knocked off a point from this episode just for that. There would have been no problem just letting this episode be episodic and end once the bug of the week was driven off. Tacking on the start of the next episode doesn't improve this episode at all.

[Ruffinn Kein]

>Did Yanma’s made-up slang grow on Rita that she’s using them now too?

Remember they're trying to fake being the actual rulers of those countries to avoid causing a panic

Oh, that makes sense.

[takenoko]

>Unfortunately, it looks like Anon will need to v3 this. I noticed a sub error at 08:28: "Ishabaana will be destroyed with a ruler with such a brutish ruler."

d'oh

>And then you have the fights in front of the green screen.
https://i.imgur.com/XC4bY5a.jpg

heh

[Phoenix512]

The Space Bug King reminds me of the King of the Cosmos from Katamari Damacy where he has his children to "clean" up the mess he has.

The body swaps were great.

[Yaiba]

About that lady who spoke to Gira and Jeremie, I initially was extremely confused on what was she worried about. Was she worried that Gira was injured in the fight, or that the monsters will return? But she and those people behind her was looking at !Jeremie when she said it.

After thinking about it some more, I think what she was trying to say was, she knew Bugnaraku were good people now but feared the status quo had somehow changed, that they will be enemies again, and was relieved to learn that was not the case. I don't know how they made that scene so confusing.

[takenoko]

I think they just needed some excuse to give her a reason to say "We're cool with J eremie and Buggynarcos now". It may seem confusing because it's not terribly well written or thought out beyond getting it to Jeremie's emotional payoff