1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Henshin Inspection presents Rider Tears. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000 This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Find all my work at MJMunoz.com 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Prepare yourself for some biting Kamen Rider analysis. 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,000 My grandmother said this, 6 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,000 You have to be kind to be strong. 7 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Now, let's go Writer Chat! 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,000 It's time to talk about Kamen Rider GOV episode 6. 9 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,000 I can't believe we're here. 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:26,000 I can't believe this is happening. 11 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000 I can't believe it's not butter. 12 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,000 So, I gotta say, I really like this episode. 13 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 I think it was a great debut for Kamen Rider Valin. 14 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,000 I liked Honto from the beginning. 15 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Excuse me. 16 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:46,000 I definitely felt that Soji was throwing up a death flag for himself when he said stuff to him. 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Be careful over and over again. 18 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,000 And when he said, You're like a son to me. 19 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Uh oh, here it comes. Here it comes. 20 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 First he's lost his mother, now he's going to lose his surrogate father. 21 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 And he wonders why. 22 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Honto wonders why all this happens to him. 23 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 And Nivli, Nelvi, whatever. 24 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Navel? I think it's Navel. 25 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Aren't they all words for tongue? 26 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 They're all words for tongue in different languages. 27 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Anyway, whatever. 28 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Whatever. 29 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000 The brother of the sisters, and I guess all of them. 30 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,000 The brother with the glasses and the whatever. 31 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 He's like the research guy. 32 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 He has known about GOV this whole time. 33 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:29,000 And he allegedly, by the end of the episode, says that he, or implies that he pushed them into a certain direction. 34 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:41,000 He nudged Valen and, um, I guess Kenzo into making Valen, making the writer system for him. 35 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,000 And it's really interesting. 36 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Excuse me. 37 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 I'm sick. I'm getting over a cough. Please God, I heal up and... 38 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Anyway, we'll see. 39 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Anyway, yeah, anyway. 40 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,000 We get the implication that he wanted this to happen. 41 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:11,000 And he likes the science and the technology that exists around the Grand Newts, I would say, generally. 42 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:17,000 He has notes on Great Uncle Dente's writer system that he put on Shoma the Red Gov. 43 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:24,000 And he remarks that the interesting thing about biological experiments is you never quite know how they're going to function. 44 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 And I think that's pretty interesting. 45 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,000 I think it's an interesting thing to point out. 46 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:37,000 We have a biological experiment happening here with Valen getting that granute organ put into him. 47 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Or I should say, with Honto getting that granute organ put into him. 48 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,000 And I gotta say, so, I mean, I like this episode. 49 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,000 I like the debut. I like the fight. 50 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:53,000 I like the fact that Shoma was not able to beat the mushroom guy because his slime was too slippery. 51 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 But then it's sticky. So is it slippery or is it sticky? 52 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Can it be both? I don't really know. 53 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Anyway, and you know, that causes a problem for him. 54 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Excuse me. 55 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 And he's unable to win the fight. 56 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:13,000 So he skedaddles out of there and he only finds them once Honto has found him and once they're fighting and really once Honto has defeated him. 57 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:23,000 And I gotta say, the thing probably I love most about Honto's fight is that we get set up for it a little bit with a memory with him. 58 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 And Soji, where he learned that he's not a great fighter. 59 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:31,000 And Soji says, maybe you should pick up another hobby if you're not going to be good at fighting because he's patching them up and helping him and such. 60 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 And that was a really cute moment. 61 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 And it's obvious that he isn't good at fighting. 62 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:46,000 And it's obvious that the writer system does not or at least the Valin Buster does not give one who has it, wears it, wields it, whatever, you know, instant kung fu. 63 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:54,000 He did not download kung fu into his mind in order to be a Granu Buster. 64 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 And I think it's good. It's fun. 65 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,000 It's a neat little twist that he's not good at fighting. 66 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:08,000 And I think it's kind of cute and he's just, you know, we've had competent combatants before as secondary writers and we have one who's not so great. 67 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,000 So it's kind of a fun term. 68 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Anyway, so Kenzo is interesting. 69 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:23,000 I feel like I've consistently expressed concerns for him or suspicion about him. 70 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:31,000 And I got to say this episode made me feel like I'm very correct in suspecting him and being suspicious of him. 71 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:37,000 He swiped a couple more of the Gochisos, which I know their name because they talked about it in the show. 72 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 It's settling in my mind better. 73 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:45,000 And I think they were the chocolate on ones, the chocolate ones. 74 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:57,000 And I would think he's doing that because I'm sure Valon will consume them and he'll only be able to use one per fight or one for X amount of fights, which we don't know yet. 75 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:06,000 And that's interesting. It also seems to see if like the more power he uses, the more a Gochisos is drained, the more quickly it's drained. 76 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:12,000 And therefore in a fight where things are really intense and he's going really hard, he might have to swap out multiple Gochisos and then, oh, he can't transform. 77 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:20,000 That's kind of an interesting concept. And I wonder if they'll eventually play with that or if Shion is just going to have to keep eating chocolate to help his butt out right there. 78 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:31,000 But if they were to become enemies, he could just stop eating that chocolate and ostensibly he wouldn't be able to transform unless he can transform with anything. 79 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,000 And he'll always get the chocolate on form, which doesn't make sense. 80 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:39,000 It should be dependent on the Gochisos in there. But whatever, I'm talking about mechanics now as opposed to the story here. 81 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:48,000 And I'm not supposed to be directly talking about the story because I was talking about the fight and then I switched over to talking about Genzo, who's super suspicious. 82 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:55,000 And I know it's like it's a very convenient. It's I'm not going to say it's contrived. 83 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:04,000 It makes sense for a fictional story like this. But Kenzo points out to him, I have this Valin Buster that I want to use to destroy Granu. 84 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:11,000 You have Granu that you want to destroy and you have nothing to lose now. Your mother's gone, your grandmother's gone, your surrogate father's gone. 85 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:17,000 You have nobody and you have nothing. So let's come together and I'm going to use you to my ends. 86 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:30,000 And I feel like I feel like Honto was very much suspicious of Genzo, but he's at such a point where he doesn't really care what happens with him. 87 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:44,000 And he explicitly states that in the episode when he goes to get his surgery and his mid surgery. Yeah, I went there anyway. 88 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:53,000 So it's just really interesting how Kenzo is portrayed and how he's coming across. 89 00:06:53,000 --> 00:07:02,000 He really seems like maybe he's somebody who doesn't care about human life or maybe he cares more about science and technology and technological advances. 90 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:08,000 And he cares less about the consequences that it has. We don't know that for sure. He may not be human. He may be human. 91 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:16,000 We again don't know that for sure. And that's something that I hope will be explored throughout the show because there's definitely room for it to be explored. 92 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:25,000 And I wouldn't mind him being kind of like an evil mad scientist who is redeemed and corrected and pulled away from that. 93 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:31,000 But like, I don't know, it's kind of interesting, suspicious. Like, where did he get the where's he getting these physiological samples of the granite stuff? 94 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Like, where did he get that heart or liver or whatever organ that secretes stuff? 95 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Where did that come from? I don't know. It's pretty suspicious. And yet, because of where he is, Honto is just going to accept it and roll with it. 96 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:58,000 And if he gets to get revenge, that's wonderful for him. And I guess he'll keep taking out the granite and he can see Kenzo as a as an ally because, hey, he wants these things dead. 97 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:06,000 I'm the one who can kill them, aside from God. And I trust me at least to do what I need to do. And I think it's really interesting. 98 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:16,000 I also think it's interesting that on the flip side, we have Shoma going to Uncle Dente and kind of talking to him about doing the same thing and having him be his support guy. 99 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,000 And that's really interesting to me that we kind of have like two parallel writer teams or whatever you want to call them. 100 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:26,000 And I just I find that curious. I don't quite know why they're doing that, but I do like that they are doing that. 101 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:34,000 And I think it's interesting and fun. And I'm excited to see how that all develops going forward. 102 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:43,000 It's an interesting story. Oh, I wanted to say there's kind of something going on online about our own Twitter, at least in some of the Twitter I'm 103 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:52,000 adjacently in. And people are saying like, oh, common writers and surgery and common writers about suffering and common writers and about pain. 104 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:58,000 And that's not what's making God so great. God is great because it is great character writing and great story writing. 105 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:04,000 And it's planned out well and everything builds upon each other. I agree with that assessment that is great because of those things. 106 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:15,000 But I also think that fundamental to common writer is being a victim who wants to help other people not become victims or tries to save other victims of the same evil that victimized you. 107 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,000 It's like it's very much there. It's very much a part of common writer. 108 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:29,000 And we have Shoma having like the psychological and physical abuse from his family, his dad and the others. And also his mom was kidnapped or whatever to couldn't leave. 109 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:36,000 She was kidnapped in that legal sense. And then we have Honto with Soji. 110 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Like, you know, he then works with Kenzo to get himself transformed like a common writer V3, V3, who volunteers basically to become a demon if that's what it takes to save his family or whatever. 111 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:58,000 And that's something about parting with humanity or like coping with the pain and for the sake of not allowing that to happen to other people is really good and strong. 112 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 And like that's a core thing in common. I think it's really important that we don't lose sight of that. 113 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:06,000 And I think it's kind of silly that people want to ignore that and say like, that's not common writers. 114 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,000 It clearly is common writer. Common writer can be other things. 115 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,000 But going back to that stuff along with good writing and stuff makes it really cool. 116 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:18,000 And of course, if you went back to that and the writing wasn't good and the story wasn't good, the acting wasn't good, it would all fall apart. 117 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,000 But that's if it's not done well, it's not done well. So that's all my thoughts for now. 118 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:32,000 What do you think? Tell me. I want to know. I want to know. I hope you enjoyed that. Please remember to like, share and subscribe. 119 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:37,000 I invite you to comment, ask questions and share your thoughts with me. 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