Kaigan KR Ghost 01

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Drive last episode average 4.65 / 5 (17 votes)

I didn't really care for it, but it's just the first episode. Sometimes Rider shows do this thing where it's like "Everything's got to be silly and quirky". It works in Agito and Ryuki because we've got monsters that are seriously terrorizing people and the quirk works as a balm for the harshness of that world. Here, the protagonist wears loud clothing and the head priest's name means "fart" in Japanese. And his female friend is his big sister and annoying. A Sculley she is not. To get back to my point, in a world where death has no consequence, I'm struggling to find my grounding for why I should care or feel like anything is at stake.

Tl:dr: If it's jokes all the time, how do you know when to laugh?

98 days to find 14 more Eyecons? Even if he doesn't just find one immediately like he did today, that still leaves him an average of a week between findings to do it. 15 isn't a large number.

Sennin may not be God, but he does seem powerful. Why doesn't he just help out and do stuff instead of giving Ghost advice? And where did Yurusen come from?

That's what Ghost's belt looks like? Why's it have to be so big? It's ugly and looks like a a transparent plastic box.

I guess the ghosts that become Ghost's hoodie are cool. But Musashi has a sword hilt come out of his head.

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Okay, color me intrigued. It was a bit heavy-handed with the foreshadowing, but overall a solid first episode. The characters are amusing and it's got a great style. My only nitpick was with the waterfall scene, it was really hard to hear because it was badly equalized (due to waterfall). What I really like is that they all have such very different speaking styles, which is really fun for translations. It means I get to break out the big words for Onari and be a little more relaxed when it comes to Sennin and Yurusen.

I thought they would be going a little more towards Yokai Watch with the theme, but it's actually more similar to the Cosmo Capsules in Sazer X. This'll be an interesting year.


A translation note:
The Japanese uses the words 偉人 (ijin) and 英雄 (eiyuu) fairly interchangeably in the first episode. Both of them can be translated as "great man" or "hero", but I've decided to take a bit of a different tack. 偉人 is more strictly "great man" but since there's likely to be women, it's a little off. Therefore, I went with "icon" (a person or thing that is revered or idolized), partially because it fits very well, but mostly because then we get a nice icon/eyecon parallel there hohoho I am so clever.

英雄 is "hero", but a lot of these Eyecons aren't technically heroes (hell, Edison is a bad guy if you believe the Oatmeal). To get around that implication, it will be translated as "luminary" (a person who has attained eminence in his or her field or is an inspiration to others).

Hope you enjoy the episode!
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I'm surprised that they wasted no time in busting out a second form for Ghost despite it only being the first episode.

When the Ganma ordered the generic baddies to attack Ghost in his new form, their grunting almost seemed like reluctance at being sent to their doom.
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It was extremely lively, a huge change of pace from the relatively subdued Drive. I'm hoping Onari settles down a bit, the shouting is a bit much, but otherwise I'm a big fan of the characters so far. Yurusen snarking at Takeru from the sidelines is great.

My hopes is that the show will let Takeru delve into and explore his (and perhaps others') mortality. He seemed to be close to angsting, at the very end when he tried to hide in his occultish basement, but then Sennin showed up to dump the Plot Goal.
Akari's goal is obviously to expand her world into the supernatural, but Takeru's seems a bit vague as of now. Sure he's trying to come back to life by collecting the Eyecons, but that's a selfish reason for fighting so there's got to be another. I'm hoping they don't fall back on the usual "I need to protect people!" as so far the only connections we've seen is between Takeru and Akari, and Takeru and Onari. That's not enough to justify defending others in my opinion.

Will be interested to see where this goes... There were lots of bits from Takeru that I could expand into a character assessment but Toei does so love to completely override their character's natural development with what the plot calls for, so I'm going to withhold my analysis...
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Arigomi wrote:I'm surprised that they wasted no time in busting out a second form for Ghost despite it only being the first episode.
W and Wizard had the same deal as well.

I thought it was alright for the most part. Ganma grunts remind of the Shocker grunts so bad. I think Ghost looks better without the hoodie.
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Very interesting beginning. Let's hope next week is good too.

What would happen if somebody stole Takeru's Eyecon?
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/me buys Slowking's Eyecon for a pack of smelly dinosaur sponges
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Only thing i can say is this episode felt kind of dull, but I think that's because we just finished Drive, and it got pretty intense at the end.
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Re: KR Ghost 01 released

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I can understand the feelings by some of the signifcant change in pace. Things seem more laid back than in Drive. However I just consider this just an average first episode. Definitely not the same as W, Gaim or Drive. Still, Im intrigued enough to keep watching for now. My only thought is how they're gonna handle the 15 eyecons in 99 days thing when this is a show that airs over a year. Hopefully they break the story up into arcs like Gaim. Im still on the fence with our hero. He is way more personable than Haruto but still not as cool as Shinnosuke or as fun as Kouta or Eiji. Still my initial impressions are "Time will tell.".

Oh btw, Is anybody else getting a Garo vibe by the 99 day time limit. Feels like some arbitrary Makai rule.
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A solid pilot. Not the best but still it got me interested. So 1/3 of the show will be focused on gathering Eyecons and bringing Ghost to life. I wonder if he'll use all 15 of them as tier 1 transformations... Kamen Riders usually have 3 or 4 tiers so after those 15 Eyecons he can get his first(or second) power up maybe... Giving up on life to save someone he loves? How will they use 99 day plot really makes me wonder...
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I thought this was a really interesting first ep. Bringing out a new form in the same episode as the base form is something not seen very often. The priest needs to calm the hell down. Though i will say the driver could be better designed. I think im going to like Yurusen though.
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its a nice episode. I'm looking forward to how Kamen Rider Ghost's story develops. Gather 15 eyecons and your wish will be granted sounds like Dragon Ball Z to me lol I like the design for Ghost its really good.
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You know....That makes me think...They really kind of arent making "death" too big of a deal. Its like, "Oh they killed you? Here's a belt, an eyeball with your soul in it, and Henshin!" YAY!!!!!

I feel the plot is as weak as sauce. Yurusen has no origin. I have the weirdest feeling we are walking into Haruto/Wizard 2.0

Honestly the only really positive thing is Ghosts design. Its really freaking fracking awesomeness.
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Honestly im still on the fence with this episode. Aside from laying out the basic foundation of the show there didnt seem much in the way of substance. Almost everything that happened was purely exposition and the barest of introductions with no real reason why we should care aside from the ghosts attacking and Takeru's "i dont wanna be dead" hopefully the next few episodes will give the characters some good background and substance. Plus i think the "you're a ghost so you cant die" kind of robs the intensity and danger from the fights

The one good thing with this series i do like is the semblance of a timeline (at least for the 15 eyecons) we know that it will be smallish time gaps between episodes.
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Re: KR Ghost 01 released

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I think the problem with this episode was the pacing. An awful lot happened and we got the debut of two forms in quick succession. Also, the transition from the cafe to the beach was probably the worst I can think of in Toku.

I mean, with Drive, the first episode had a lot crammed into it, but at the same time managed to do everything and have a neat fight and still come off working well.
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