1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Henshin Inspection presents Writer Tears. This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Find all my work at MJMunoz.com Prepare yourself for some biting Kamen Rider analysis. 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:17,000 My grandmother said this, you have to be kind to be strong. Now, let's go Writer Chat! 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:28,000 So Kamen Rider God episode 4 sure happened and there were marshmallows and that was kind of funny. 5 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:36,000 I like the fact that they've toned down showing how explicitly the marshmallows pop out of the gov. 6 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Yeah, the gov, the red gov and like go through his boxers and out into the floor and whatever. 7 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,000 They just popped out into his hand this time, which was much better. It was a little too extreme before. 8 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,000 It was a little too much. We got a lot of backstory for Shoma and his family. 9 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:57,000 We had a lot more context for him and his mother and I know in the flashbacks his mom is shown eating stuff 10 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:04,000 that she thinks is disgusting and I don't know if that was grass on the side of the road or what. 11 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,000 I don't know if when he's a little kid and his mom is there with him, they're eating whatever they're eating 12 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:15,000 because they refuse to eat certain things from stomach ink and then they go off and like maybe they ran away 13 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:22,000 for a while and they were surviving off of grass, whatever that means, and then they got captured again by stomach. 14 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:28,000 I'm not sure. They talk about the old man's not here to protect you anymore. So like there was a lot of stuff that happened. 15 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:34,000 There was a lot of like lore that was dropped in this episode and we learned that like for instance the treats, 16 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:44,000 the dark confections aren't going to humans. They're supposed to just be going to granute granites 17 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:50,000 and there's like premium product and there's middle product and there's like the real cheap stuff 18 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:57,000 and it's just like mass produced stuff and they are these aliens from another world I guess. 19 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:06,000 And that's interesting and I think that's good. I like that it's not that humans are eating these things as well. 20 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,000 That's nice for now at least who knows maybe that will change at some point. 21 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:21,000 But what? What's my point? I mean it was nice. We kind of have been seeing the threads forming or the little, 22 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:28,000 you know, we've been seeing the breadcrumbs and getting little clues about what exactly is going on 23 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:34,000 and what the story is and we finally got the full context that like right before he escaped when he pops out, 24 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:42,000 you know, that interdimensional door or whatever and he falls out of that plane that his mother had just been killed 25 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,000 and that's when he ran away. So that was like his mother just died. 26 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,000 And again we get another clue that, you know, his mom talked about marshmallows. 27 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 So he knows about marshmallows so he has an emotional connection to marshmallows. 28 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 So when he eats them, then that's when he gets the power from them. 29 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:05,000 So it makes sense that the munchkins as one subgroup translated to the Gochibos, the Chirisos, 30 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 I don't know why I have such a hard time with that word. 31 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:13,000 They are formed by these things that he has emotional connection with. 32 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:18,000 So that was cool to see. It's really sweet that we have this story about this Japanese couple. 33 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:26,000 I felt like this is Minato from Persona 3 meeting the old book couple who they think he looks like their son. 34 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Sort of, kind of not really. They're like a sweet old couple who feeds this guy and kind of takes him in and, you know, whatever happens. 35 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:41,000 I liked that story. I liked Shoma hanging out with his aunt and uncle as he called them. 36 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:49,000 My phone decided it was too hot to run. So anyway, now I'm back. 37 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:55,000 So yeah, aunt and uncle, whatever their names were. And yeah, so I liked that. I like, you know, what's going on here. 38 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 I like that we get to see a little bit more of the castle, a little bit more of what's going on. 39 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:07,000 We at the same time get more going on with Honto. Is it or not Honto? I don't know. Let me see. 40 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Let me move this page over here and do this real quick. 41 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:22,000 OK, so we got one there. One to buckle my shoe. OK, good. That's going to be for looking at the crew. 42 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:32,000 OK, so yes. Actually, I lost one more thing. 43 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Yes, everybody deserves a price. So yeah, then we get Honto doing stuff with Kenzo Suga, 44 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,000 which is Suga supposed to sound like Suga, like Suga, you know, like Suga. 45 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Anyway, I'm kind of wondering if maybe this guy is not a Grenute researcher. 46 00:04:52,000 --> 00:05:00,000 If he instead, well, if he's a Grenute researcher, but he's a bad Grenute researcher, is it possible that he wants to make his own Kamen Rider power? 47 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:07,000 He wants his own Dark Confections power that he can use on his own for his own purposes, independent from Stomach Ink. 48 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Is it possible he's one of these agents? I guess I was suspecting that he was one of the agents that showed up, but there were a couple of agents. 49 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:22,000 There was an agent in orange. There was a male agent with orange stripe thingies, straps coming off of him. 50 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:27,000 There was an agent with white straps coming off of him who I think got killed here. 51 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:35,000 And then the female agent, I don't remember what her stripes looked like, but I find it interesting that there's male and female agents. 52 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:42,000 And this, the twins agents were like a power couple. 53 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:50,000 I think one of the twins is played by a guy and I noticed, you know, one agent was male and one agent was female. 54 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:56,000 And before people jump all over me and attack me, I'm not following all the stuff behind the show. 55 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:05,000 So I don't know if like in show he's a girl or if in show he's a guy because there's a long tradition, fruits basket. 56 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:11,000 One of the characters is a girl, but he's not a girl. He just likes dressing a girl, but he's totally a boy. 57 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Things are a little weird in fruits basket. It's been like over 15 years since I've read the manga or watched the show at all. 58 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:22,000 But I'm pretty sure the little boy, he's like super cute looking little girl, but he's a little boy. 59 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Like he dresses as a girl, but he knows he's not a girl. 60 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:37,000 So like it could be that this is a brother and sister twin pair who's like so close that one of them is like, look, we got to either both be boys or both be girls. 61 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,000 And I'm fine being a girl, so I'll join you sister. 62 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:46,000 That very well could be like a twist that happens later in the show or you just be straight up that it's a guy playing the girl and it's supposed to be played straight like that. 63 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:59,000 But if that's the case, I do find it sort of interesting that there's the male agent here, unless it's to make a red herring or orange and white herring for the other agent, because I'm pretty sure there's a third agent. 64 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Like I said, I think it's an orange agent, an agent orange, if you will, who might actually be Suga. 65 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:14,000 So that's interesting. I don't really know what's going on with that, but Suga seems a little suspicious. 66 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:18,000 I got to say he feels like a wild card. He could be anything. 67 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:26,000 And I like that Honto's boss is suspicious of him. That really makes me happy. 68 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:31,000 That really makes me happy because he's a smart guy. 69 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Anyway, yeah, so like we have a little bit of a setup that, you know, Suga has a couple of the gochisos and he wants to use them to make somebody powerful enough to fight the Granute, either him or Honto, if Honto was interested in that sort of thing, you know. 70 00:07:53,000 --> 00:08:01,000 So it kind of feels like maybe he's like baiting him, like he knows more than he's letting Honto know that he knows. Does that make sense? Yeah. 71 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:08,000 He knows more than he's letting on to Honto. That's the point. Maybe that's what's going on. I'm not 100% sure. 72 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:14,000 But if it is what's going on, well, regardless, he's an interesting character so far and his role seems to be very interesting. 73 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:23,000 And I'll be very curious to see how that operates. 74 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Be very curious to see how that operates. 75 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Anyway, so yeah, I like this episode overall. The fights were really cool. The Marshmallow form was pretty cool. 76 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:41,000 It was really goofy and funny that he's like floating on the sound effects, which I think we got something going on with like the chipped, you know, crunch sound effects previously. 77 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:48,000 So like it's this show's just going to lean into the weird. But like we had a really cool moment in the forest where he's doing the civilian fighting at first. 78 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:56,000 Shilma is and then he transforms and he gets like thrown by the agents and he lands on a tree and he's almost like got a Spider-Man moment going on where he's like hanging on the tree. 79 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:04,000 And then he jumps off of it and like his sword comes out of his belt and then he starts swinging at them and attacking them like they're really fighting him. 80 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:15,000 And then he like tactically juices the guy in the face because apparently these helmet things that these guys, the agents are wearing our faces of some sort and their actual eyes can be and have juice squirted into them. 81 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,000 I had to I honestly had to go back and look at it like three or four times. 82 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:29,000 And it wasn't until the very last time when I was going through this episode looking for screenshots that I realized, oh, he's grabbing his gummy chess piece and. 83 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:36,000 It's so weird and sick and strange. He squeezes it and it shoots juice out and it gets in the guy's eyes and he's like, oh, I can't see. 84 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:45,000 And then that is able to make his big move and break through and get the marshmallow thing and stick it into the belt and. 85 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Do his thing. And that's when he turns the tide of the battle and kills these two agents and the sisters, the twins or whatever. 86 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:01,000 They'd be his cousins, right? Like the whole stomach family is it's like his uncle and his cousins. 87 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Is that correct? I think that's correct. Anyway. 88 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:10,000 Anyway. So I don't know. I'm intrigued. I like what's going on. 89 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:15,000 I like that we have like a clear statement of what the background is. And there's still questions that are there. 90 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Apparently, he couldn't use the. Any of the good you. Go cheese those at all or munchkins as they call them in this in this sub with a subgroup. 91 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Geo, I believe it is. Anyway, he couldn't use them with his red gov, which implies that there are gobs of other colors. 92 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,000 But we see that the stomach people have the stomach. 93 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:48,000 People have these like triangular medallions as their belt and they shove the little thing in there and it transforms them from their face, the human face to their monster face. 94 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:54,000 And then when they all transform, like you can still see their necks and their hands and stuff that like tall, dark, scary lady. 95 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,000 You know, I'm talking about she's tall and has like real black like, you know, very dark black hair. 96 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:06,000 And it's long. She looks a little older, maybe in the mid thirties or forties or whatever, as opposed to like the twins who look like they're in their 20s. 97 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:12,000 And she's like carrying a baseball bat or something or like some sort of club. 98 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:19,000 She's really scary. But like you can see, like her hands very plainly, but she's got the monster head and like that's kind of what all the stomaching people have. 99 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:26,000 But is it only when they transform with those belts? But if they're actually monsters or aliens, like, shouldn't that be the natural function they have to transform into being the human form? 100 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,000 You would think I don't know. It's kind of strange. 101 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Also, other than budget and comfort for the actors, if they're aliens and they're in their alien world, then why should they all have human faces on? 102 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Because it's like company policy that they have human faces on when they're not when they're in certain areas like where the employees can see them. 103 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Whenever I was a little confused with that from a couple of episodes ago, but the brother of the twins, he says that and like they try to trick him. 104 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,000 But he knows about Shoma or he guesses that Shoma's alive and they're surprised that he shows them. 105 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 It's like there's a lot of stuff going on here and I'm not going to go into all that. 106 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 I wanted to talk real quick about the people who worked on the show. 107 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:12,000 So I have two for him. We go back to the beginning. 108 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 So this real quick, I want it. So the action was fantastic. 109 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:22,000 So I just want to highlight that the director of this episode is. 110 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Sorry, my Internet is having a ton of problems. Shibasaki Takayuki, who has done a bunch of stuff. 111 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Let me see. So it shows Kamen Rider stuff for him. 112 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Does it show Super Sentai as well? Because I feel like he did. 113 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:42,000 There's also Chiroraki Sugihara, who does a bunch of directing for both series, I believe. 114 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:56,000 But let me see. So for Shibasaki Takayuki, Shibasaki, really, he's been working on 40 on the on recent stuff. 115 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Recent kind of goes back well. So he did a couple of like two episodes of Kabuto, two episodes of Den-O, six episodes of Decade, six of Double, 10 of O's, only four episodes of Fourzei. 116 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:17,000 I wonder why he was limited to that. Oh, wait. 117 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:22,000 He did one of the best episodes, only had best pairs of episodes from Fourzei, the Christmas pair of episodes with Perseus. 118 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:28,000 That is an excellent Zodiac design and that is a cool episode with a bunch of fights and it's got a really cool story to it as well. 119 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:33,000 So anyway, hats off to him for doing that. And yeah, my Internet dropped out crap. 120 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:41,000 So after that, he only did two episodes of Wizard. 121 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:51,000 He did nine episodes of Gaim, seven of Drive, two episodes of Ghost. What happened? Eight episodes of Build. 122 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Maybe did Ghost have a lot of wire work like Wizard did? 123 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Well, maybe and Fourzei was directed by the King of Wires himself, Kouki Sakamoto, so maybe he doesn't do so much on the wire stuff as other directors do. 124 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:10,000 And for Wizard for his kicks, they actually hired a special suit actor who just did the kicks. 125 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:17,000 And for Ghost, he was flying around on wires and stuff. So that's part of that connection there. 126 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:21,000 He did the Billy the Kid episode. That's funny. 127 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:30,000 And for Build, he did eight. Zeo, he did nine. Zero One, he did eight. Saber, he did six. 128 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,000 He did 11 episodes of Revice, nine episodes of Geats, eight episodes of Gatchard. 129 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:39,000 And so far he's got two of these episodes of Gob. He did the last one as well. 130 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:45,000 So that's cool to know what his legacy is on this. And he said the fighting was excellent. 131 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:51,000 The fight scenes were really great to watch, a lot of fun, very creative, very action oriented. 132 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:56,000 It was really visceral when Gob's being choked out by the agent. He could really feel that. 133 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:00,000 And there was some cool POV shots on the guns where they're shooting with them and stuff. 134 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:06,000 And that was really cool. And I liked that the guy was more hand-to-hand combat and the girl was using her range weapon, her gun. 135 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:14,000 That was pretty cool to see. And I thought that was neat. Let me see if I can pull up the writer real quick. 136 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Okay, I got it back for a short amount of time. Junko Komura has written all five of these first episodes. 137 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:25,000 Well, the first four and then she's also credited for the fifth episode, which I guess they must have it up on the official website. 138 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:39,000 So that's pretty cool. I do want to check out her Super Sentai credits real quick because for Kamen Rider specifically, she wrote most of Wizard. 139 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:51,000 It doesn't tell how many episodes there. One, two, three, four episodes of Drive. And then like I said, these five episodes here. 140 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:59,000 So, okay. So in the notes it says this, besides Kamen Rider, she was also the head writer for Akiba Ranger. 141 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:05,000 Like, wait, the unofficial Sentai Akiba Ranger? Wow. Okay. Interesting. And people love that. 142 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Oh, Jyuojer, Dobutsu Sentai Jyuojer, Lupo versus Potranger. I didn't realize that was her. 143 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,000 I guess I must have remembered that or known it at the time. Zenkaiger. 144 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:23,000 And she was a guest writer on Gohanjer, GoSager, GoKaiger, which makes sense. They pulled in a lot of people. 145 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Oh, she was also the head writer for Satira or Satria, Garuda Bima X, which is that. 146 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Well, click on it now and see what it is. It's from another country. 147 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Indonesian Tokusatsu produced by Indonesian MNC and Japan's Ishimori Productions, a company behind the Kamen Rider series. 148 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:51,000 That is crazy. That's crazy. Huh. I wonder if she had to have that translated. 149 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Interesting. Super interesting. That's a show I've never checked out, but I'm not against it. Just I haven't done it. 150 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:04,000 So I want to look at her Ranger Wiki entry as well. Oh, no, that's not the one I wanted to look at. 151 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:11,000 That's the one I want to look at. Yeah. So she wrote two episodes of. Oh, no. 152 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:19,000 She wrote, um, wow, one episode of Gohanjer and then the I guess the Gohanjer versus Gaggy Ranger movie. 153 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:30,000 And then two episodes of Go Sager. Then one, two, three, 16 episodes of Go Kajin. That is a lot. 154 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:36,000 That's almost a third. Yeah. Then she wrote most of the episodes of Akihime Ranger. 155 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:45,000 And yeah, for Jyuojer, she wrote a lot of them, like 30 probably, which is cool. 156 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Lupinranger, she wrote even more. And for Zenkaiger, which I didn't watch at all, she wrote everything except for episode 20 and 25, which is interesting. 157 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,000 So, yeah, pretty interesting. 158 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:06,000 I just want to give credit because I think that Gob is really well written so far, and it's really holding my interest. 159 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:15,000 It's really neat what they're doing with it. And I'm impressed that this is her. 160 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:21,000 This is her second Kamen Rider series where she's the full the writer and everything, right? I think that's right. I hope so. 161 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Anyway, sorry I messed that up. But anyway, I'm entertained. I'm liking what I'm seeing so far from Gob. 162 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:30,000 And I'm really excited to see where they go from here. Honto is pretty sure his mom's dead. 163 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:40,000 He seems like he's driven to become a Kamen Rider. We know now for sure, 100%, even though I think we knew before that Shouma's mother is dead. 164 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:48,000 And we know that his family killed her. We don't know why she was married to his father or whatever. 165 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:54,000 And don't know how that happened. And we don't know what the resolution is for this. 166 00:18:54,000 --> 00:19:00,000 And that's what we got to watch the rest of the show to find out, right? 167 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,000 I hope you enjoyed that. Please remember to like, share, and subscribe. 168 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,000 I invite you to comment, ask questions, and share your thoughts with me. 169 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:12,000 It's always more fun when you're part of the conversation. Until next time, be well and do good things. 170 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Visit MJMUNOZ.COM for more of my work and help me build up the fortress fiction.