1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,280 Henshin Inspection presents Writer Tears. This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:10,520 I'm an analyzer. Find all my work at MJMunoz.com. Prepare yourself for some biting common writer 3 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:16,840 analysis. My grandmother said this, you have to be kind to be strong. Now let's go writer chat. 4 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:26,440 So, Comedriter Gov continues to deliver. We're eight episodes in. Everything's fantastic. The 5 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,080 story is really good, the characters are really good, the drama is really good. The action is 6 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:39,440 amazing. It's absolutely amazing. And I don't know what there's a complaint about. Satchika 7 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,960 really feels like she's getting set up as either a very solid supporting character or she's getting 8 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,000 set up to be a writer character. She doesn't need to be a writer character. You know, somebody 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,200 doesn't need to be a writer in order to be important in the show. And that holds true for 10 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,560 her. But if she was a writer, that could be cool too. Being a writer doesn't make you less cool, 11 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:00,480 or less interesting, or less important to the show at all. It shouldn't. Every character should 12 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:06,080 be crucial. And I don't know, I'm just having a lot of fun with the show. I'm really pleased 13 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:12,800 with it. I mean, it looked dumb. It looked dumb. His suit looks dumb. The original suit looks dumb. 14 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:19,640 You know, Chocolate Cowboy looks dumb. It's funny, it kind of feels very American because 15 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:24,600 he's wearing a cowboy hat, right? Even though, you know, Valen has a chocolate gun as well. 16 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:30,200 Or he's got the chocolate form. It feels a little more European, a little more like a European 17 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:36,840 chocolate maybe. But the way it's represented or put forward on Goff himself, it feels very 18 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:42,240 cowboy, feels very American. And the fact that he has a gun is so hilarious. And I love the fact 19 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:46,640 that he's got like a chocolate gun. And then he's got a white chocolate gun that he gives to Valen 20 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:51,360 for them to double team this guy, give him, you know, what do they call it? Bullet hell? Bullet 21 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:58,800 rain? Chocolate rain? Chocolate bullet rain hell? I don't know. Very cool. So I don't know, 22 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:03,760 it's like the show is so visually stunning. There's so much going on. There's so much good 23 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:10,920 stuff being done with it. As far as like creative decisions that are being made. I love it. There's 24 00:02:10,920 --> 00:02:16,160 just there's just so much to love. Everything about it for a moment. Maybe I do want Satchiko 25 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,440 to become a writer. If there's going to be a third writer, it should be her. Why? To keep the cast 26 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:26,640 as narrow and tight as possible. Because like I really think that she should go back to just a 27 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:31,520 single writer. And I think that would be great. I think a single writer with a core recruit, 28 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:37,440 no, support crew is great. I mean, going back to Wizard, thinking about that, I always wish 29 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:42,880 that Diamond Rinko had gotten silver bullets that she would use. Whether, you know, Haruto gave them 30 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:49,480 to her magically, or she like Wajima did it, or she just decided to, you know, make them. I would 31 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:55,000 love that. I thought Kazakiri, I believe from section zero was going to be a wizard or something. 32 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:01,160 I thought they were going to make like a what's called? No, Comrade G. That's the wine guy. 33 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:14,840 From Agito, the G4 system. G2. I guess that is, is it G? Anyway, Comrade G is the wine guy. But the 34 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:22,040 G4, G2, I guess it's just G4 from Agito. Anyway, I expected section zero to come up with something 35 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:26,280 like that, but they never did. And it was a little disappointing. I still like, you know, Nito was a 36 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:32,040 great guy. Beast was a cool, cool character. For the most part, I liked his involvement. But anyway, 37 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:37,520 like in Wizard, you have a cast of like a five, plus all these side characters, plus the, you know, 38 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:44,280 victim of the week kind of person, versus in like double, which is really like 90%. It's a very 39 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:51,280 well written show. There's just 10% that kills it for me. Makes me hate. Well, yeah. Anyway, 40 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:58,120 you've got the two in one writer, then Akiko, and then eventually Excel comes along. Then you've 41 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,840 got the victims of the week. And then you've got his whole crew, you know, Queen and Isabel and 42 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:07,520 Watchman and whoever else the informants are in the city. And they all kind of texture and everything. 43 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:12,520 But I don't like a bloated cast. A big cast is kind of hard to do. And I don't like them doing, 44 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:16,920 you know, a ton of writers. I understand the appeal of that is to do that for toys, 45 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:22,680 but then you have a ton of writers that each have multiple forms. And it just feels like a 46 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:29,480 cash grab kind of thing. And it feels like it loses the integrity of what the, you know, 47 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,160 what the characters have going for them, because all these forms, all these toys come out of nowhere, 48 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:38,040 and it's kind of silly and kind of grasping. And it's like, you can feel the cash grab. And it 49 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:43,480 really diminishes my joy, diminishes the quality, I think, too, of the overall product. And, you know, 50 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,840 I'm acknowledging that it's a product where I'm saying I want it to be a well-made, well-crafted 51 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:50,600 product that makes you love it and makes you want to spend money on it because it's so cool 52 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:56,760 and so interesting and so engaging. I bought this Combinator Kiva inspired shirt because I love 53 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:02,280 Combinator Kiva because I love Watru and Otoya and the other characters of the show and how 54 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:10,200 they impacted me emotionally. I bought this money clip because Kiva is cool and because I 55 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:15,400 love Kiva, I have an emotional connection to it. It still gets me. Anyway, and I think I feel an 56 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,520 emotional connection to these people already, and I think they have an emotional connection to each 57 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:28,760 other. And like, it makes sense that Hante and, what is she calling it? Umashou, or it's like 58 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:34,360 yummy or whatever. Like, I'm not saying Sachika is the thing that like needs, I'm not saying 59 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:40,120 that Sachika needs to be the one who connects Honto and Shoma together, but she's, you know, 60 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:45,080 she's doing that. Like that is part of what she's doing in the show. And if she serves no other 61 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:52,120 purpose than that and to introduce them to the wider world or introduce them to different things 62 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:56,360 or introduce Shoma and like humanize him or get him integrated into the human world, that would be 63 00:05:56,360 --> 00:06:01,480 okay because her character has been very much worthwhile and she's doing a lot of interesting 64 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:06,040 stuff. I would still love to see that kid come back who was in the first episode and he like was 65 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:10,280 in the second or third episode as well, like just a brief cameo explaining that the monster, the other 66 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:15,960 monster was saving him. That'd be really cool to see him back too somehow. I don't know if that's 67 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:22,280 going to happen or not, but anyway, for sure these three, like it's a really good solid three, and 68 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:28,840 they all offer different things and they all are performing different functions and they're all 69 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:34,600 working like kind of towards the same thematic goal, I guess, which you know, obviously they 70 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:39,960 want to defeat Semikink, but there's also this idea of like, you know, being happy and making 71 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:44,280 people happy or helping people to be happy, you know, freeing people from sadness or anger or 72 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:49,720 frustration. So like Satchika is very, I'm going to try to do this real quick, this triad, what it 73 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:54,920 means. So like Shoma knows all about Semikink, all about Semikink. He knows way more than the 74 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:59,560 other characters and he's actively fighting them. That's his mission. Honto has learned about them 75 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,520 and he's getting pulled into that mission of fighting them and he wants revenge on them 76 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:10,840 for himself. Maybe like Shoma wants to make sure that other people aren't by Semikink like a 77 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:19,000 Kamen Rider because they hurt him and his mother and his family. And Honto wants revenge and Satchika 78 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,560 wants people to be happy and she wants to help people as much as possible. And if she gets into 79 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:28,920 a situation where she sees that she can help people by being a Kamen Rider and by fighting and, you 80 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:34,040 know, killing these creatures, then I think she'd be willing to do that and that could be interesting. 81 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:43,080 Like Honto is pursuing the truth and pursuing his true self. Shoma is trying to carve out his 82 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:51,320 identity as a human and as a person as opposed to just as a monstrous granute. And Satchika is 83 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:56,760 fully human and she's not driven by revenge or hatred or anger. She's driven by love for people. 84 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:04,520 So you could see like Honto said something about how he was looking for his second kill 85 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:10,280 and this was especially, you know, powerful after his defeat. It's amazing defeat at the hands or 86 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:18,920 more the scythe in the feet of Sister Sledge. What's her real name? Galata. And I mean she 87 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:25,320 trounced him and it was amazing. She kiva'd him. She kiva'd him and it was so sad. I actually 88 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,480 shouted out while I was watching it. I was like, oh he just got kiva'd! And I laughed and I had a good time. 89 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:37,880 Anyway, so like Honto is kind of like a little monstrous, a little, you know, on the dark path 90 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:42,360 and, you know, not so healthy. His focus isn't so healthy. His fixation is on revenge and stuff. 91 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:48,040 And Shoma just wants to be good and help people and Satchika is positive and wants to help people 92 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:52,120 too. So like he's got kind of these two, these things like pulling him in different directions, 93 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:56,680 kind of representing different aspects of him. Maybe Honto represents his granute nature and 94 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:01,800 Satchika could represent his human nature. And especially because Honto has that granute organ 95 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:06,120 within him too and we don't know what sorts of effects it could have on him as was pointed out by 96 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:12,360 Kenzo? By Kenzo. It could very well corrupt him or do something to him which could be really 97 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:17,000 interesting to see. So anyway, we've just got like a really good setup. We've got really good 98 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:23,560 characters. They're really strong. They're really memorable, impactful. I'm invested in them as 99 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:28,280 individuals. I'm invested in their relationship dynamics with each other and I'm really interested 100 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:33,160 to see where the show goes from here. Again, the direction was amazing. There were multiple amazing 101 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:40,920 fights. The drone footage was fantastic. It's funny, it's low res but like they almost use that to 102 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:48,600 their advantage. Very clever work being done. I'm going to pause real quick or stop real quick and 103 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,200 amend to this because I want to just make sure I know who wrote it. I'm pretty sure Junko Kamuro 104 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:57,160 wrote it but I want to verify who the director was of this. I think it was Tairaaki Sugihara. 105 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:04,040 Okay, so I did confirm it was Sugihara who was the director and last episode we talked about how 106 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,320 great the action was there and he was the director for the first episode as well which had 107 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,160 amazing fights in it and a couple others. I don't remember all of them off top of my head right now 108 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:16,600 but yeah I mean just doing fantastic work. It's amazing. I absolutely love it and it's really, 109 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:21,240 really, really, really good so I'm really happy about that and I don't know the future is bright 110 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,680 for Comin' Writer I guess or at least for Comin' Writer Gov. I hope they keep up the quality and 111 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:31,800 keep doing stuff that's this good because it's amazing. I hope you enjoyed that. 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