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| 36: You kids ruined rock and roll. ... is what continuously rang through my head during this episode. I'm guessing they'll just be rolling out the horoscopes in batches from now on. |
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| I hope so, CC. |
m4rc0 said: I hope so, CC. Considering that Fourze seems to be more popular than OOO, and Koichi Sakamoto loves doing spin-offs (and Meteor lends himself to a spin-off much more than Birth did), it's possible. |
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| That will depend on 4z's ending. W's ending left space for more adventures. I don't know if there'll still be switches after 4z ends. Also, the KR Club stuff makes it hard for him to show up alone, like Accel did. But I'd really like it. Meteor is a very cool rider, even if his super form is lame. |
m4rc0 said: That will depend on 4z's ending. W's ending left space for more adventures. I don't know if there'll still be switches after 4z ends. Also, the KR Club stuff makes it hard for him to show up alone, like Accel did. But I'd really like it. Meteor is a very cool rider, even if his super form is lame. Since I doubt the series will end with the KR club graduating, there's certainly room for more adventures. |
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| CC, she's playing the daughter pf an americna that has trouble with japanese. That's why her pronunciation is off. |
m4rc0 said: CC, she's playing the daughter pf an americna that has trouble with japanese. That's why her pronunciation is off. My problem isn't the pronunciation. It's how she yells out her lines when she's angry. She sounds like she's going hysterical. |
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| KR actors are limited. The girl has to act angry and foreign at the same time... |
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| Anyone know who directed this week's episode? I liked the techniques that were employed on it, I think it's the first time a Kamen Rider episode uses split screen like that, it almost felt like I was watching 24. And who wrote it too? That was a really tense episode, at least for a morning kids show. And some good news, Nao Nagasawa (Utsugi Haruka, also Hurricane Blue from Hurricanger/Gokaiger and Lily from W) is returning for the Fourze movie this summer. |
| Every time you make a typo, somebody in Zeta gets slapped. |
| Episode 42: Movie: Well, this looks like a lot of fun. Next Episode: |
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| This series has been my fave so far because of unexpected turn of events. I even like it more when i found out that Yukii is Gemini Zodiart! I almost fell off my chair when i saw the preview! |
mikikamoteJul 12, 2012 2:37 PM
| mikikamote, we use spoiler tags when commenting the recent episodes and their previews. |
| ow sorry..anyways i already deleted the spoiler..thanks for reminding me :) |
| didn't need to. I had put it under the spoiler tag. I was just telling you how we do things here. I guess we should have a rules thread. |
| ow ok..sorry i got confused..lol! still a newbi..haha! |
| W, Fourze, and Movie War segments of MEGAMAX: |
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| Gentaro was completely lovestruck by Nadesico and has far has we know it was his first time in love, so it's not implausible that he felt sad about her leaving. |
| Every time you make a typo, somebody in Zeta gets slapped. |
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| They can't help being fast, CC, it's a movie. It's not like they can take their time. 43 |
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| It's getting harder and harder to watch this show knowing we only have 4 more eps but at least Pisces is next and from the preview I liked what I saw of him. |
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| Episode 48: I'll post my final thoughts later when I can get them all sorted out. |
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| 48 Gen was an awesome rider. He had the personality I expect from a hero. He wasn't an emo or a weakling. Nor he was a jerk. Sure, he was a bit dumb and naive but it's a show about friendship. After Decade, we got 3 good main characters in a row. 2nd rider was VERY cool. He starts as an anti-hero, but eventually becomes a friend. His fights were awesome and he was smart. He even got a commander rival. I didn't like Kengo at the beginning, but that was the idea. He grew a lot during the series. And he wasn't useless, like most 2nd guys of the main trio. Yuki was an awesome heroine. He wasn't one of the mopey ones, but she wasn't annoying like most heroines that don't mope around. She was so dorky that she became cute. I like what they did with the villains. They introduced them early, so we could relate to them. And they also used several different commanders during the show. That prevented the lucky clover syndrome in the final commanders, though in the last episode they were nerfed down so friendship could win. The zodiart's desing was pretty awesome. 2nd's was a bit strange. 4z's wasn't good. His belt and weapons looked like toys. It was how they could make 4z have tons of skills he wouldn't really use without making him a rider with two or 3 parts like the W and OOO. The rider club members were cool characters and some of them grew up a lot too. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough screentime. I mean, Yuki had 3 arcs, but she was the heroine. Tomoko had only one and Shun and Miu had one + the graduation. 2nd had more episodes, but he was a rider. It would've been better if they made more episodes focusing on the members of the club instead of random students. Sure, they would need the random students, but they could've made stories that made the club members relate to the randoms or stories that used their unique skills. And since it was set in a school, I wanted to see more teenage drama. The action was average. 4z's sloppy fighting and strange switches didn't really give us good fights. But 2nd's kung fu was totally awesome. 4z also managed to escape the mid-series blues. By presenting lots of club members, they managed to have the 1st 20 or something episodes as introduction. With the last + or - 5 being the finale and the super form episodes, they managed to have only + or - 18 episodes of random cases. With some of those being character episodes, there weren't normal episodes enough to give us the feeling that some episodes were there just to fill the 48 they had to do. The writers should learn from that and try to adapt this into the other series. Plot was average for a rider series. Some plot twists, some good arcs, but nothing that makes it superior to recent riders. 4z was fun. I guess that's what matters most. It was an action shounen anime in the form of a KR series. Let's just hope Wizard is good. |
m4rc0Aug 28, 2012 8:56 AM
| Final Thoughts: Okay, the characters made this show. Putting a major emphasis on a group of leads instead of one or two characters instantly set this Rider series apart from every other installment. The show could have done more to give JK, Miu, Tomoko, and Shun more screen time but overall I found the treatment of the club very satisfactory. Gentaro carries this show very well. His brash attitude and obsession with friendship made him his own character that could easily be set apart from other Riders. He doesn't feel like a copy of a vastly superior character, he's his own unique being. Yuuki is one of the best female leads a Rider series has ever had. She's full of positive energy, although she occasionally skirts the fine line between endearing and annoying. Her two-parter when we find out how she truly ticks deep underneath added a whole layer to the character that made her so much more interesting than the one-note damsels in distress we've seen so often. Meteor came off as a rather uninteresting second Rider at times, for me. His story is far too similar to Accel's, but Ryu had charisma going for him and a far more believable character arc. Ryuusei doesn't, in fact he loses the one thing that made his character unique (his inner asides criticizing the club). The character who by far gets the most believable turn to befriending Gentaro and, ultimately, the KR Club is Kengo of course. He starts off as a cold character but becomes warm and friendly over a reasonable amount of time. His true identity came off as a tad bit of a stretch to me (especially since several important details seemed rather rushed) but overall I enjoyed his character and found him to be a good foil for Gen. I actually really enjoyed the sloppy fighting in this series. It gave a sense of realism to things. Gentaro is not an expert fighter, he's very head-first and needed someone like Kengo to tell him what switches would be most appropriate. If not, Gentaro would just experiment and try out any of the 40 Switches at his disposal. This was an interesting trial-and-error process that I liked out of the show and gave the gimmick some validity. I agree about the lack of a mid-series blues. The show still had a bit of trouble wrapping itself up in the last 10 episodes since suddenly Apostle after Apostle was thrown at us and numerous important plot details were explained briskly. But I think that's a problem with the show being too short, the opposite of shows like W or OOO. This show did not need to be 48 episodes, 50-52 would have been far more ideal. I say this because the show did a great job taking its time to build characters and needed those first 20 or so episodes of introduction. So in all honesty, despite my issues with Meteor and the finale, Fourze is the first Kamen Rider I've had an absolute blast watching since Den-O (W was fun, but it's on record many times in this club all of the big problems I had with that show). The characters were well-written and had great interaction, the action was fun, the slapstick was for once well-executed, and the story was easily digestible and used the KR tropes in such a fresh way that helps it stick out from several recent installments of the franchise. I eagerly anticipate all of the after-series content we'll be getting for Fourze over the next year (this year's Movie War, whatever cameos he makes in upcoming toku films, hopefully some Fourze Returns specials...). |
CCZillaAug 29, 2012 11:45 PM
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| Movie It was a lot of fun. The action was great, the plot was ok and didn't have loose ends, Mikie Hara was awesome and there was enough comedy. |
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