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Post by Sh Ranger on Aug 28, 2019 9:17:49 GMT -5
I'm also a fan of Wizard but I agree that Mayu could have done more and she should have been allowed to get her revenge on Medusa instead of White Wizard stealing it from her.
Ghost is in my top 5 Heisei Rider seasons. However, although I generally liked Ghost, I cannot deny that the movie was terrible and only a little better than Agito's summer movie. I'm not sure how anyone, especially people like Xman and Crossranger who didn't even like the show very much, can overlook all of the movie's flaws.
Takeru was a ghost, he was dead, destroying his carnal body shouldn't have mattered. Ghosts don't need bodies to be ghosts. It's like they wanted him to "die" again for drama but they ran out of ways to make it happen believably. The Great Eye gave him a new body in the finale. How did Argos even get his corpse anyway?
Argos needing Darwin's power to become Extremer was dumb. Compared to undisputed laws like gravity and thermodynamics, evolution is a theory. It shouldn't have any kind of power that could be used to "evolve" Takeru's body in to a vessel for Extremer.
Argos is nothing more than a lame rip-off of Eternal. Turning everybody in to ghosts is hardly different from turning everybody in to NEVERs. The only difference is that Daido was likable and sympathetic. Occhan/Edith will always be the better Dark Ghost, even if he only appeared in 1 scene. The bar was that low.
Canonically, the show occurs throughout 198 days, from October 2015 to April 2016. Emu doesn't became EX-Aid until fall so how is he active in the movie and why is he on a planet full of dead people? This is a complaint for the finale as well, none of EX-Aid's early cameos make sense.
At least the show is consistent even if some of its subplots are only resolved in the V-Cinema and novel. The V-Cinema explains the origins of Specter, Kanon, Chloe and the Specter doppelgangers. The novel explains the connection between the Tenkuuji, Fukami and Ganma families, where Ayumu came from and the final permanent death of Takeru.
The summer movie adds nothing to the plot and just confuses everything.
It's true that Fukuda and Shimoyama weren't great head writers for Ghost and Zi-O. I don't think it's Okuno's fault for the way Sougo was portrayed, it's how he was written. When Mouri took over for the OOO arc, Sougo was a lot more natural and I think Okuno was able to understand the role more. Shimoyama was holding him back. Honestly, I think if Mouri was head writer for Ghost and Zi-O, they would be way more coherent, especially Zi-O which has a lot of confusing time travel subplots.
Specter was kind of boring and generic edgy as a secondary rider and had less focus than Takeru and Alain. I liked his story arc, but it would have been nice if he was more complex.
Decade is the first season I ever watched so I don't think I could ever see it as a bad show except for the fact that the finale was just a cliffhanger and the real ending was the Movie War. Other than that, it was useful as an introduction to Heisei Phase 1 Kamen Riders.
Despite Zi-O's flaws, I have enjoyed it so far and I'm excited to see the last 2 episodes. It's still better than Agito, Hibiki's second half and definitely 1000000x better than Gaim.
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Post by xman on Aug 29, 2019 13:11:30 GMT -5
I'm also a fan of Wizard but I agree that Mayu could have done more and she should have been allowed to get her revenge on Medusa instead of White Wizard stealing it from her. Ghost is in my top 5 Heisei Rider seasons. However, although I generally liked Ghost, I cannot deny that the movie was terrible and only a little better than Agito's summer movie. I'm not sure how anyone, especially people like Xman and Crossranger who didn't even like the show very much, can overlook all of the movie's flaws. Takeru was a ghost, he was dead, destroying his carnal body shouldn't have mattered. Ghosts don't need bodies to be ghosts. It's like they wanted him to "die" again for drama but they ran out of ways to make it happen believably. The Great Eye gave him a new body in the finale. How did Argos even get his corpse anyway? Argos needing Darwin's power to become Extremer was dumb. Compared to undisputed laws like gravity and thermodynamics, evolution is a theory. It shouldn't have any kind of power that could be used to "evolve" Takeru's body in to a vessel for Extremer. Argos is nothing more than a lame rip-off of Eternal. Turning everybody in to ghosts is hardly different from turning everybody in to NEVERs. The only difference is that Daido was likable and sympathetic. Occhan/Edith will always be the better Dark Ghost, even if he only appeared in 1 scene. The bar was that low. Canonically, the show occurs throughout 198 days, from October 2015 to April 2016. Emu doesn't became EX-Aid until fall so how is he active in the movie and why is he on a planet full of dead people? This is a complaint for the finale as well, none of EX-Aid's early cameos make sense. At least the show is consistent even if some of its subplots are only resolved in the V-Cinema and novel. The V-Cinema explains the origins of Specter, Kanon, Chloe and the Specter doppelgangers. The novel explains the connection between the Tenkuuji, Fukami and Ganma families, where Ayumu came from and the final permanent death of Takeru. The summer movie adds nothing to the plot and just confuses everything. It's true that Fukuda and Shimoyama weren't great head writers for Ghost and Zi-O. I don't think it's Okuno's fault for the way Sougo was portrayed, it's how he was written. When Mouri took over for the OOO arc, Sougo was a lot more natural and I think Okuno was able to understand the role more. Shimoyama was holding him back. Honestly, I think if Mouri was head writer for Ghost and Zi-O, they would be way more coherent, especially Zi-O which has a lot of confusing time travel subplots. Specter was kind of boring and generic edgy as a secondary rider and had less focus than Takeru and Alain. I liked his story arc, but it would have been nice if he was more complex. Decade is the first season I ever watched so I don't think I could ever see it as a bad show except for the fact that the finale was just a cliffhanger and the real ending was the Movie War. Other than that, it was useful as an introduction to Heisei Phase 1 Kamen Riders. Despite Zi-O's flaws, I have enjoyed it so far and I'm excited to see the last 2 episodes. It's still better than Agito, Hibiki's second half and definitely 1000000x better than Gaim. Well, my friend. If you're expecting to see something spectacular about Tsukuyomi becoming a female Kamen Rider in the final installment of the Heisei-era of Kamen Riders, prepare to have your expectations destroyed in the final episodes of Zi-O. Oh and by the way, to answer your question about how I can look pass the flaws of Ghost's summer movie...well, I didn't really have that much high hopes on the movie being that terrible or that good. I just came in with so many lowered expectations and well, I just focused more on the actually story and less on the fact that Argos is like a blatant knock-off of Katsumi Daido/Kamen Rider Eternal, or Ex-Aid's confusing earlier bird cameo in the movie, because I consider that to be non-cannon. So yeah, I am just lucky to not have so many high expectations on a lot of things nowadays, and much like the plot of Zi-O, I just stop thinking so much about it because I knew that the writers would find some way to fuck up the story. And yeah, they did fuck it up. Especially how they tried to write a story exploring time-travelling in a Kamen Rider series. I mean, Kamen Rider Den-O can do better than that, and that show was meant to be a comedy. But yeah, despite all the problems, I didn't think that Ghost's summer movie was all that bad. It's not great either, but hey. I have seen the Super Hero Taisen movies and Let's Go!! Kamen Rider and the Twilight movies and the live-action Jem and the Holograms movie and Dragonball Evolution and Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad (2016), and M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, twice and the Joel Schumacher Batman movies (Batman Forever and Batman and Robin), etc. So, this is nothing compared to how bad or just straight-up god-awful those movies are. Oh and of course, the animated Titanic movie. The one with the dog-faced talking octopus. Yeah, THAT MOVIE EXISTS!!!! Thanks for reviewing that movie, Doug Walker (the Nostalgia Critic). |
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Post by xman on Aug 31, 2019 7:46:12 GMT -5
As part of a tradition after a show has ended, our fellow Tokusatsu youtuber, Japanime has released two videos that talk about the good and the bad things about Kamen Rider Zi-O. Now these are just his opinions on the show and you are free to agree or disagree with what he has to say.
Oh and SPOILERS ALERT!!!
The Good:
The Bad:
Enjoy!!!
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Post by Sh Ranger on Sept 7, 2019 14:24:47 GMT -5
I finally watched the last 2 episodes yesterday so here are my thoughts on the finale of Zi-O as the mantle of Kamen Rider is passed to the new era.
Tsukuyomi is the latest victim of the female rider curse. How unfortunate. She didn't even get a fight scene. Even a useless rider like Pink Necrom got that much. Hopefully, she will be more important in the Geiz V-Cinema.
It feels like the resolution of the plot is too similar to Build with Sougo rewriting the timeline. I totally expected that something like this would happen so it's not that disappointing and it's still better than Ryuki's TV finale since stuff has changed like the future guys being high school students in 2018. It also seems to be connected to the world of Heisei Generations Forever which acknowledged that "Tsukuyomi" isn't Tsukuyomi's real name. The major difference is that Sougo still wants to be a king.
However, Sougo only made this new timeline since he refused to reign over a world without his friends.... who he could have revived at any time using his OP time manipulation powers.
Good thing Another Decade only summoned Evol in his weakest form. Black Hole could have destroyed the world easily.
Grand Zi-O's henshin was cool as well since Sougo got the Drive Ride Watch and Uncle Tokiwa the greatest clock repairman in history fixed all 19 Legend Rider watches. Too bad Grand never seems to be as effective in combat as it should be. But it was totally overshadowed by that bad*ss moment seeing Sougo accept his destiny as Oma Zi-O and then 1-hit all those major villains like Evol, Unidentified Lifeform #0 and Dragblacker! I think this clearly shows that Zi-O is the strongest rider of all time and you can imagine how the Day of Oma happened originally.
Not sure if Geiz V-Cinema will be a good epilogue like Another Ending Trilogy or just make everything way worse like Cross-Z New World. Based on Zi-O's MO, I expect the latter is most likely.
With the exception of Blade, here's my ranking:
Faiz > Build > Fourze > Kabuto > Ghost > Wizard > Double > Decade > Den-O > Ryuki > Kiva > Drive > OOO > Zi-O > EX-Aid > Kuuga > Agito > Hibiki > Gaim
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Post by xman on Sept 12, 2019 23:16:11 GMT -5
Wait, I thought Build's story ended with Sentou and Banjou being in a parallel earth that is similar but different from their earth. Because last I check, Sentou saw what appears to be a bunch of dopplergangers of his friends and allies upon waking up in the new alternate Earth. And, I didn't even bothered watching the Cross-Z V-Cinemas because I DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT GOES ON IN THOSE V-CINEMA EPILOGUE!!! I only care about what goes on in the main core TV storyline. And as far the final episode tells me, Sentou and Banjou have arrived on a parallel earth. Not in an alternate timeline because Kamen Rider Build did not revolved around time-travelling or multiple timelines with retcons or alternate futures like Kamen Rider Zi-O and DC's "Flashpoint", X-Men Days of Future Past, the Star Trek franchise and the Back to the Future trilogy did. Build occasionally wrote stories about alternate universes and parallel earths. As seen in Heisei Generations Final.
There is a difference between telling a story about time-travelling and telling a story about multiple earths and parallel universes. I mean, look at Kamen Rider Decade or Justice League: Crisis of Two Earths or Crisis on Infinite Earths or the Flash (season two) as better examples of multiple earths.
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Post by Sh Ranger on Oct 1, 2019 8:50:10 GMT -5
In case, like me, you guys are looking for an incentive to watch Geiz Majesty, now we have three: www.jefusion.com/2019/10/kamen-rider-zi-o-next-time-geiz-majesty.htmlIn addition to Kaito, other returning secondary riders include Terui, Date and Kusaka. Terui last appeared in Drive Saga: Chaser. For Date, it's his first time as Birth since he was replaced by Gotou in OOO. For Kusaka, it's his first henshin since Faiz. As V-Cinemas are generally darker than the series, we can expect him to be more of the ***hole we're accustomed to. He's also not dead which means Sougo didn't fix the timeline. Not sure what this means for Takumi or what will become of Takeru. |
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Post by sixthrangerfan on Oct 1, 2019 13:43:38 GMT -5
I really just want to hear the cadence for the Majesty Watch.
First the henshin cadence:
Not sure for G-3, Advent, Complete, Turn Up, Ibuki Whistle, Change: Stag Beetle, Altair Form, Ready, Kamen Ride, Accel, Birth Pachinko Sounds, Meteor Ready, L-I-O-N, Come On, Ma-HA, Kaigan, Level Up, Wake Up, Majesty Time
Second the rider cadence: (only including geiz since his spot in the watch is the same as Kuuga)
Geiz, G3, Knight, Kaixa, Garren
Ibuki, Gatack, Zeronos, Ixa, Diend
Accel, Birth, Meteor,
Beast, Baron, Mach,
Spectre, Brave, Cross-Z,
Geiz Majesty!
Good luck to anyone who can speed run that.
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Post by sixthrangerfan on Oct 12, 2019 1:23:55 GMT -5
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Post by xman on Oct 14, 2019 10:13:58 GMT -5
I am not sure about the Another DiEnd design, since 90% of the suit design is just reusing the Gedou Rider DiEnd suit from the god-awful four-part Shinkenger/Kamen Rider Decade crossover special.
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