1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Henshin Inspection presents Writer 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 --> 00:00:24,000 Kamen Rider God episode 7 was a really good one. 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Another good one. 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Chiyoko Komura continues to do well. 11 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,000 She gets the writing credit for this episode, released October 13th, 2024. 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Teruaki Sugihara was the director of the episode. 13 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000 The direction was fantastic. 14 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 I saw somebody the other day 15 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,000 talking about how they think Sugihara is a big fan of Hong Kong film. 16 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,000 And like this running thing was a reference to something, 17 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 a movie called Hardball that came out in 1992. 18 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 And they put up a clip of it and I could definitely see the parallels. 19 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:53,000 That was really cool. 20 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:58,000 And I don't know who to give credit to for that, unfortunately. 21 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 And I might not be able to find it quickly. 22 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,000 So, sorry about that. 23 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,000 But whoever you are out there, thank you for sharing that. 24 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,000 It's a great insight. 25 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Very cool. 26 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:12,000 I'm glad to know that and to see that that's something he was into. 27 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000 And that's something that he is bringing to Kamen Rider. 28 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:22,000 I think it's been more than just Gov that Sugihara has done this sort of thing. 29 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:27,000 But regardless, it's cool and it's good and I'm glad it's here. 30 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:33,000 And I hope we continue to get more of it because, well, like I said, it was really cool. 31 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,000 As much as I love the story of Kamen Rider and it's so important to me, 32 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,000 it is a visual medium and it's important that the stories are told in a visually interesting way, 33 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:46,000 in a beautiful way, in a dynamic way, in a way that really pulls in people. 34 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Because you can have the most wonderful story in the world, 35 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 but if there's nothing attractive there or there's something repellent to people there, 36 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,000 then kind of what's the point? 37 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Kind of what's the point? 38 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:04,000 And you're messing up as a storyteller if you refuse to make things in such a way that it draws people in 39 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,000 and gets them invested in the world, in the characters, in the story. 40 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,000 What's more important? 41 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000 World, story, characters, story, characters, world. 42 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,000 I don't really know. 43 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Depends who you ask. 44 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,000 Depends what kind of author you ask. 45 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Depends what kind of audience you're asking as well. 46 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Because everybody has different opinions on those sorts of things. 47 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 So, yeah, I don't really know how to answer that question. 48 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 So I won't be answering that question right now. 49 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Let me see. 50 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:35,000 I'm scrolling through Twitter right now to see if I can find that, oops, that reference real quick 51 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,000 so I can give credit where credit is due. 52 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 And, sorry. 53 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Oh man, people are funny. 54 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,000 The internet is like, it's an amazing, scary, wonderful thing. 55 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,000 That's part time suck and part time treasure. 56 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 So very interesting. 57 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Very, very interesting. 58 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,000 So, yes, I would say that I'm not going to find it scrolling through right now. 59 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:06,000 So I'm going to pivot and I'm going to go back to talking about the episode on my terms and the way I want to. 60 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000 So anyway, here we go. 61 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,000 What else did Suga Haru direct so far in Ga? 62 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Let's see. 63 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 One, two, seven, and eight. 64 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,000 OK, so one and two, the first and second episodes, which had amazing action. 65 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Remember, we all freaked out about the boxcar action that we were getting there. 66 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000 So very appropriate. 67 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Very cool, Suga Haru. 68 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Thank you very much. 69 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Your work is appreciated. 70 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:39,000 And, yeah, so getting back to talking about the story stuff and the character stuff that I'm so interested in. 71 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 I love this dualism that's going on. 72 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,000 I mentioned last time we've got. 73 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Yeah, I think I mentioned last time we've got two writer teams forming. 74 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,000 We've got the Kenzo Kanto team. 75 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:56,000 We've got the Dente Shoma team and. 76 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Two of them are. 77 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Granu and two of them are. 78 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Human. 79 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,000 And this Kenzo is a lost half brother and he is a stomach as well. 80 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Because Shoma seems to be able to conceal his stomach, at least his clothing does. 81 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 That might just be for the prop. 82 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:20,000 And then it appears in the preview for next episode, Kenzo specific. 83 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Well, yeah. 84 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,000 And then the Stomach Ink family, they're hiding their stomachs as well because. 85 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Was it Guta? 86 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Gringa? 87 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Greta? 88 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Is that you, Greta? 89 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Let's see. 90 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,000 What is her name? 91 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. 92 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Shoma, both stay. 93 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Honto, that clear up. 94 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Chopicoon, Shoma. 95 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Stomach Ink back on earth. 96 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Chopicoon, Chopicoon, talk to me, Tomiki. 97 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Alright. 98 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Happy party. 99 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Masuku. 100 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 I'm trying really hard. 101 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,000 Trying so, so, so, so hard. 102 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Glotta. 103 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,000 There we go. 104 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Glotta. 105 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,000 I was close with whatever I said. 106 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Anyway, so Glotta. 107 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Is. 108 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Able to hide her belt. 109 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 She's definitely wearing clothes where you would see the stomach thing if she had it out. 110 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,000 And the other sisters, Shita and Jeeb, their belt is concealed too. 111 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,000 So anyway, the stomach thing is concealed. 112 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 And their stomachs look different too from Shoma's, don't they? 113 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 They don't have like the full monster stomachs of the part timers. 114 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:27,000 And they don't have the full monster stomachs of the actual monsters. 115 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,000 The part timers, one, they're transformed. 116 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,000 So they've got some other kind of stomach that is concealed. 117 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 So it could be possible that Kenzo is one of them. 118 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,000 And maybe he's not half-Granu. 119 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Maybe he's whole Granu. 120 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,000 But then again, maybe he's half-Granu and the stomach is concealable through certain 121 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 means and maybe he has those means. 122 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 So anyway, we've got the two parallel teams. 123 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 We've got Gov and Valon. 124 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,000 We've got Dente and Kenzo as the mad scientists behind them. 125 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 And we have the two of them confronting, not confronting each other, meeting each other 126 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 and having interactions with each other. 127 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 And I was really disappointed at the end of last episode. 128 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 It looked like they weren't going to meet anytime soon. 129 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 And the preview kind of, you know, dispelled that concern for me. 130 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,000 But I was worried about when they would meet and how they would meet and how contentious 131 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,000 things might be. 132 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,000 But what happened was they talked. 133 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:14,000 They talked and they had a reasonable conversation while keeping their distance from each other. 134 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,000 And like both fronting and both internally freaking out. 135 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,000 And we got to see that. 136 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 And that was really cute and adorable. 137 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,000 And I like that we're seeing like they're being serious, like they're handling it seriously 138 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:29,000 and they're trying to do things in a serious way that makes sense in a world of like danger 139 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,000 and threats and things like that. 140 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,000 They're not just being silly goofballs externally, but internally they are being silly goofballs 141 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000 because that's who they are. 142 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 And that's kind of a nice balance. 143 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Like they get to have that harder edge. 144 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,000 They get to be standoffish. 145 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,000 They get to interrogate each other and like find out is this guy an enemy or an ally? 146 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,000 What is he doing? 147 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Like, are you going to hurt humans? 148 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:49,000 No way. 149 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,000 I've never heard humans. 150 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,000 OK, fine. 151 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Great. 152 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Then you're good. 153 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Oh, I shouldn't tell them I'm part of Stomach Inc, though. 154 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Anyway, like it's I don't know. 155 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,000 It's interesting because like they are fronting to a degree. 156 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,000 They're putting on these characters and who they should be and how they should represent 157 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,000 themselves. 158 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,000 But they're doing it like for legitimate reasons. 159 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 And they're doing it like against character. 160 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,000 They're doing against their type of like these happy, more positive guys. 161 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 And it's nice. 162 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Again, it's nice that we have such a dark show. 163 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Then we have serious things going on. 164 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 These guys are happy. 165 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000 I've been thinking a lot about Kamen Rider, digging into the roots of Kamen Rider. 166 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,000 If you look at my website, I've been making articles about Kamen Rider, what it means, 167 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 what the original stuff is, what the spirit of it is. 168 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 How can I make my own thing like Kamen Rider? 169 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 But you know, distinct from it and with its own with its own identity and also legally distinct. 170 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:41,000 You know, I just don't want to make karate bug man or, you know, grasshopper man and call it a day. 171 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,000 That's not enough. 172 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Although. 173 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000 That's not enough. 174 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Let me say, but it was a cool curriculum. 175 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 That's a cool suit. Anyway. 176 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,000 So like, but that's not enough. 177 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,000 That's just for fun. 178 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 And maybe. 179 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Anyway, that's not enough for me. 180 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,000 And I want to do something more than that. 181 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 But, you know, how do you do that? 182 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,000 You got to think about what the original was like and what it meant to Keishihongo. 183 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 I mean, Nami Kouchiro. These guys had joy. 184 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 They had happiness, even though there was always this sadness. 185 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 There was always this loneliness. 186 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,000 There was always this distance that they had between them and the world around them, the humans around them, 187 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:32,000 because they were no longer ordinary men. And these guys show more so than Honto has that kind of thing where they're withdrawn and they have to be a little bit distant. 188 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:39,000 And yet these guys, their personalities are so peppy and so happy that it still feels a lot like a lot of fun. 189 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,000 That's not saying black wasn't fun and the original cover writer wasn't fun. 190 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:49,000 I would say the original cover writer, the cast around Hongo and Ichimonji makes it more fun than they do necessarily. 191 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:54,000 But like black is pretty fun, like Nami Kouchiro is a fun guy. 192 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Probably owed to Tsurukura to be so charming. 193 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,000 But yeah, this was really fantastic. I love the balancing of the tone. 194 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:09,000 I like that Honto is learning more about the world of the Granutes, that he's investigating, 195 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:18,000 that he runs into Glata and that he sees that she doesn't have a stomach thing on her, but he learns that she's not a Roamute. 196 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:23,000 A Granute and that she confronts him and the lady's tall. 197 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:28,000 The lady's really tall, unless, no, I didn't look at everybody's character profiles, but that's a tall lady. 198 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,000 It was funny how she like lorded it over Jeeve and Shita and like threatened them and stuff. 199 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 She's super intimidating. And I was learning what her thing, I thought it was like a wrench. 200 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:42,000 But it turns out it's this collapsible sight thing that she has, a Granute sight, which is super cool. 201 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Kind of reminds me of Marluxia, I think, from Dude Looks Like a Lady from Kingdom Hearts, Organization XIII, 202 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,000 anyway, with his pink sight and his flowers and stuff. Anyway, kind of fun. 203 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Also, Kamatari the Lord Scythe, I think, from Ruruna Kenshin. That was a transvestite. 204 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:05,000 I think this lady's all woman, but still they have that sort of thing going on in the show. 205 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:14,000 I don't want to talk more about that, but it's just an interesting, interesting connection, interesting visual connection, I think, sort of maybe. 206 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:24,000 She's a big lady, kind of like, you know, she's like Japanese Sigourney Weaver, I think, when I see this lady. 207 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:34,000 Anyway. So, yeah, I really like this episode. I like where it's going. I like the tone. I like the direction. 208 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:39,000 I like all the stuff that's going on with the story. There's something going on with Sachika. 209 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Oh, I like that this is a two-parter, but it didn't feel like a two-parter because the B story, the A story got like three quarters of the way to its climax, 210 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,000 and then the B story really started to ratchet up and got to like the middle point. 211 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:58,000 So I would think between, I would think resolving those two in the next episode will be enough for this, for that episode to kind of stand on its own, 212 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:03,000 even though it was led into by this one. But this one also, to me, even though it has like a cliffhanger type ending, 213 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,000 it still felt like it stood on its own. It wasn't like a Forze type, and I love Forze. 214 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:13,000 It wasn't like a Forze type cliffhanger where it ends in the next 30 seconds, new 30 or 45 seconds of the next episode. 215 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:23,000 And then it's kind of like a cheat. Although there's no reason for Glata to run away, but she could do that. We'll see. We'll see. 216 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:29,000 But yeah, like I said, I like that this episode stood on its own. I like that it's connecting to the other episode. 217 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:40,000 I like that all this paralleling that we're seeing and these two teams that we're seeing and like, you know, Satchika is it's natural to suspect that she might become a Kamen Rider as well. 218 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Because kind of why not? We were like Lady Riders were coming more of a thing. I haven't watched the last two shows, but they both featured like I didn't watch. 219 00:11:51,000 --> 00:12:02,000 The T-Rex pink guys, that one. I didn't watch the sword one, the book sword one. I didn't watch the the chemi card one. 220 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:13,000 I think all of those had like featured like prominently in the cast, a female writer or two who's like very tied in with the main guys, the main cast. 221 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:22,000 That's interesting. And we'll see what happens with her. We'll see what happens with her because there's definitely potential. 222 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,000 But, you know, in order for that to happen, something tragic would have to happen to her. 223 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:33,000 We did just introduce this great aunt character to her, this, you know, wealthy old lady who she's trying to make happy. 224 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:38,000 And like that's her job. And she ended up being very sad. Oh, it was a really interesting moment with her and the painter guy. 225 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:45,000 She was like being peppy and trying to encourage him and stuff. And he through painted her and it felt like a really like a vile moment. 226 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:54,000 And it felt really like, I don't know, like almost violating. And the actress performance from being so peppy and up here all the time to being down and like shocked and upset was like really interesting. 227 00:12:54,000 --> 00:13:01,000 It was really good to see. It was really moving to some extent. And I thought that was really cool. 228 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:09,000 And I like seeing the range out of her and makes me think, yeah, she could definitely pull off the whole writer thing and we could see that aspect of her as well, which could be really cool. 229 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:14,000 So that's all for now. Let me know what you thought of the episode. And yeah. 230 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:24,000 I hope you enjoyed that. Please remember to like, share and subscribe. 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