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This is MJ. I'm an author, an artist, and an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com

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Welcome to my review of Common Writer Gob, episode 3. And I gotta say, this is an interesting

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one. I liked it a lot, and the longer the show is going, the more I like it and the

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more kind of interesting and different things I'm seeing in it. I'm getting, even though

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it's modern Kamen Rider, and it's very silly in a lot of ways, and it's got the goofy gummy

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stuff going on, it has a very serious vibe to it, which I like because I'm an adult.

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And my children's, my Japanese children's television shows are also adult in nature.

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And yeah, no. The thing is, I admit freely that this is programming for children. I just

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think the differences in culture makes it more enjoyable, more palatable for somebody

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of my tastes, despite the fact that I'm not a little kid anymore. And I think there's

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some mature storytelling going on here. Definitely the subject matter is, I don't know if you

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say it's mature, but it's more adult, it's more deadly. There's people being hurt in

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major serious ways that you don't get in Power Rangers or, I mean, Pudgy Pig swallowed people

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in MMPR, but they didn't get turned into confections and darker otherwise and actually get eaten

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by people. There was a monster and the Rangers came out of there, right? So there's a big

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difference. There's a big difference between what we got then and what we're getting now.

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And what would be acceptable on kids TV today in America, for example. So I don't think

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this is easy to a dent. If they were hitting them with the tongue and sending them to the

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shadow realm or the, you know, the kitchen realm or something like that, they're sending

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to the pantry zone. That would be one thing, but you know, they're literally eating these

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people or turning them into materials to be used to be eaten by other monsters or by humans,

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I guess. It's a little confusing. The Part-Domers, I don't quite understand the nature of them.

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I'm pretty sure I'm not meant to yet understand the nature of them because that's part of

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the overall mystery of the show going forward. And I kind of like that. I think it's interesting

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what we're seeing in the little bits that we're learning about the world as we continue

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to go through it. There's lots of little seeds being sown. Hanta and Sanchika having a relationship

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and her friend as well who works for her having a relationship, a preexisting relationship,

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because he needs to hire them for their labor to do stuff like, you know, scan social media

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or whatever. It's interesting. The fact that he has like this almost father son relationship

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with his boss at the newspaper kind of makes me nervous. Oh man, I met Guyver on the brand

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again. You know, show's blaming himself for everything, even that which is my fault, even

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Takasato. You know, Takasato in the Guyver in the OVA. I don't know about the manga in

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the OVA from 99 or whatever. The one that Tom Fawn and the granddaddy of voice actors.

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Hey there space cowboy. Steve Loom. Steve Loom and Tom Fawn and Melissa Fawn, yeah,

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who are brother and sister were in that together. And Mr. Oatmeal does not look like she was.

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So they were not that adaptation of Guyver. And the main character, Sho Fukamachi, who

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becomes the Guyver and his friend who are high school students, they get this alien

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armor, this alien thing. And then there's a group of monsters that are part of the Kronos

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Corporation who go after them. And they go against Sho's instinct to this newspaper,

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to Takasato, who's this newspaper man. And he doesn't want to run with the story until

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Sho transforms and the guy right in front of him causes some damage because when he

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has like a offensive transformation, there's like a bubble of destruction that goes around

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him, which is pretty dope. Anyway, Tetsuo rather blames himself for the fact that that

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office gets blown up, which, you know, he's kind of to blame for it. But more importantly,

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I'm thinking this, I get kind of these Newspaper Man vibes, this like media company vibes,

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going on with this. And it's very possible that we could see Stomach Ink attack Hunter's

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boss because he's involved with getting them exposed. Potentially, we'll see what happens

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because Hunter's, you know, going to be a secondary writer. So he's got main character

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plot armor, but people around him aren't necessarily. And they said they have a father-son relationship.

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And that definitely puts up a flag for this guy to be killed somehow or turned into one

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of the press, then he rescued later throughout the season or whatever. And he gives him good

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advice. And they have this established relationship and it feels very cozy, it feels very warm.

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Also the relationship that Hase has with Sajika and her helper feels very close and it feels

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very warm, even though he barely knows them. He's only used their services three times,

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which I guess this would be the fourth. But then even I don't, I didn't catch his name,

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but the guy who fed your boy Shoma, he is this, you know, blue collar, you know, yuck

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is a feeling kind of guy. The way he talks is like that. He uses those Japanese speech

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patterns and he feels very cozy as well. He feels like, you know, he's a laborer. Maybe

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he'll go work for, for what is it? Kiki's Delivery Service. It's Sajika's, you know,

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Sunshine Laborer or Sunshine Helpers or whatever it is. Anyway, Sunshine Handyman. He might

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go work for them. You never know. He's got the background for it, but like he feels very

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cozy. And like that relationship between them feels really, I don't know, lovely and nice.

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And Shoma believes in him so much that he says, he's like putting, he's putting on

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a front saying like, oh, I just did this to help my boss or, you know, the guy I owe,

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you know, help to, and Shoma turns that around on him and says, well, you know, did you help

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me just so I could help you? Kind of implying. And then we see a payoff later at the end

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of the episode. And did your boss help you just so that you would help him or did he

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help you because he genuinely wanted to and he's a good person and so are you. And anyway,

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it's like interesting we get these really warm relationships. We've got this dark, dark

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background of humans are being turned into food essentially for monsters and probably

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other humans too. And which is kind of like what was going on in Come Hit a Black Sun.

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I never finished that. I planned to for my birthday this year, but we'll see. We'll see

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because I like Come Hit a Black so much, but it's a long, long episode. It's kind of bleak.

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I don't feel like Come Hit a Black is bleak. So I feel like it kind of goes against the

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spirit of Come Hit a Black, but we'll see. I really want to watch it. Anyway, but yeah,

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this concept of, you know, eating people literally, can they do the same thing in Amazon? What's

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with the eating people? Anyway, but like that's all very dark, but it's also on the other

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hand, on the good side, it's all very warm and cozy. And I really like that. And Shoma

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is just like such a positive person, even though he grew up in negative circumstances,

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simply because his mother gave him a lot of love and a lot of attention and affection

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and care. And like maybe she instilled in him like very strong morals of not hurting

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people and not taking their stuff, which I fully support, fully believe in. And that's

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the thing. And it like carries through for him. Like he doesn't hurt, you know, Blue

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Collar Yakuza. Yakuza? Yakuza guy. When he could, you know, to take the money away from

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him or anything like that. And he saves him. He just tells him to stand the straight and

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narrow is the subs that I got said that. And he just wants people to be good and he wants

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to help them. And he wants to, I don't know, just wants to be a good guy. And it's really

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nice. And he even gives the villains a chance to save their lives, which I think I brought

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up earlier. And if I didn't, other people said it, I said it in short before, I believe,

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or in a short video before. And it's really compelling stuff. It's really good. It's really

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beautiful and hopeful and positive and optimistic. And I really liked that about the series,

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which that definitely fits in with the snack food, junk food vibe. But even, you know,

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Mr. Blue Collar, he buys him food details and he has to eat real, you know, good solid

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food and save snacks for special occasions. Like even that's good. And that's wholesome.

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It's odd that like, it's got such a dark setup, but it's also a very wholesome show. And I

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really like that so far. And I hope that continues because I think it's a really good thing.

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And I think having that, you know, the hero be wholesome and having the people around

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him be wholesome and loving and good and facing this really deep darkness, this really like

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grim enemy. I like that better. I don't think the hero needs to be as grim as his foes in

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order to defeat them. The city is nice. We don't need Gov crying in the rain on top of

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a gargoyle licking over the city. We don't need that. Anyway, that's all I have to say

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channel. So anyway, until next time, folks, take care, be well. Don't eat people!

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