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So, Comedriter Gov continues to deliver. We're eight episodes in. Everything's fantastic. The
story is really good, the characters are really good, the drama is really good. The action is
amazing. It's absolutely amazing. And I don't know what there's a complaint about. Satchika
really feels like she's getting set up as either a very solid supporting character or she's getting
set up to be a writer character. She doesn't need to be a writer character. You know, somebody
doesn't need to be a writer in order to be important in the show. And that holds true for
her. But if she was a writer, that could be cool too. Being a writer doesn't make you less cool,
or less interesting, or less important to the show at all. It shouldn't. Every character should
be crucial. And I don't know, I'm just having a lot of fun with the show. I'm really pleased
with it. I mean, it looked dumb. It looked dumb. His suit looks dumb. The original suit looks dumb.
You know, Chocolate Cowboy looks dumb. It's funny, it kind of feels very American because
he's wearing a cowboy hat, right? Even though, you know, Valen has a chocolate gun as well.
Or he's got the chocolate form. It feels a little more European, a little more like a European
chocolate maybe. But the way it's represented or put forward on Goff himself, it feels very
cowboy, feels very American. And the fact that he has a gun is so hilarious. And I love the fact
that he's got like a chocolate gun. And then he's got a white chocolate gun that he gives to Valen
for them to double team this guy, give him, you know, what do they call it? Bullet hell? Bullet
rain? Chocolate rain? Chocolate bullet rain hell? I don't know. Very cool. So I don't know,
it's like the show is so visually stunning. There's so much going on. There's so much good
stuff being done with it. As far as like creative decisions that are being made. I love it. There's
just there's just so much to love. Everything about it for a moment. Maybe I do want Satchiko
to become a writer. If there's going to be a third writer, it should be her. Why? To keep the cast
as narrow and tight as possible. Because like I really think that she should go back to just a
single writer. And I think that would be great. I think a single writer with a core recruit,
no, support crew is great. I mean, going back to Wizard, thinking about that, I always wish
that Diamond Rinko had gotten silver bullets that she would use. Whether, you know, Haruto gave them
to her magically, or she like Wajima did it, or she just decided to, you know, make them. I would
love that. I thought Kazakiri, I believe from section zero was going to be a wizard or something.
I thought they were going to make like a what's called? No, Comrade G. That's the wine guy.
From Agito, the G4 system. G2. I guess that is, is it G? Anyway, Comrade G is the wine guy. But the
G4, G2, I guess it's just G4 from Agito. Anyway, I expected section zero to come up with something
like that, but they never did. And it was a little disappointing. I still like, you know, Nito was a
great guy. Beast was a cool, cool character. For the most part, I liked his involvement. But anyway,
like in Wizard, you have a cast of like a five, plus all these side characters, plus the, you know,
victim of the week kind of person, versus in like double, which is really like 90%. It's a very
well written show. There's just 10% that kills it for me. Makes me hate. Well, yeah. Anyway,
you've got the two in one writer, then Akiko, and then eventually Excel comes along. Then you've
got the victims of the week. And then you've got his whole crew, you know, Queen and Isabel and
Watchman and whoever else the informants are in the city. And they all kind of texture and everything.
But I don't like a bloated cast. A big cast is kind of hard to do. And I don't like them doing,
you know, a ton of writers. I understand the appeal of that is to do that for toys,
but then you have a ton of writers that each have multiple forms. And it just feels like a
cash grab kind of thing. And it feels like it loses the integrity of what the, you know,
what the characters have going for them, because all these forms, all these toys come out of nowhere,
and it's kind of silly and kind of grasping. And it's like, you can feel the cash grab. And it
really diminishes my joy, diminishes the quality, I think, too, of the overall product. And, you know,
I'm acknowledging that it's a product where I'm saying I want it to be a well-made, well-crafted
product that makes you love it and makes you want to spend money on it because it's so cool
and so interesting and so engaging. I bought this Combinator Kiva inspired shirt because I love
Combinator Kiva because I love Watru and Otoya and the other characters of the show and how
they impacted me emotionally. I bought this money clip because Kiva is cool and because I
love Kiva, I have an emotional connection to it. It still gets me. Anyway, and I think I feel an
emotional connection to these people already, and I think they have an emotional connection to each
other. And like, it makes sense that Hante and, what is she calling it? Umashou, or it's like
yummy or whatever. Like, I'm not saying Sachika is the thing that like needs, I'm not saying
that Sachika needs to be the one who connects Honto and Shoma together, but she's, you know,
she's doing that. Like that is part of what she's doing in the show. And if she serves no other
purpose than that and to introduce them to the wider world or introduce them to different things
or introduce Shoma and like humanize him or get him integrated into the human world, that would be
okay because her character has been very much worthwhile and she's doing a lot of interesting
stuff. I would still love to see that kid come back who was in the first episode and he like was
in the second or third episode as well, like just a brief cameo explaining that the monster, the other
monster was saving him. That'd be really cool to see him back too somehow. I don't know if that's
going to happen or not, but anyway, for sure these three, like it's a really good solid three, and
they all offer different things and they all are performing different functions and they're all
working like kind of towards the same thematic goal, I guess, which you know, obviously they
want to defeat Semikink, but there's also this idea of like, you know, being happy and making
people happy or helping people to be happy, you know, freeing people from sadness or anger or
frustration. So like Satchika is very, I'm going to try to do this real quick, this triad, what it
means. So like Shoma knows all about Semikink, all about Semikink. He knows way more than the
other characters and he's actively fighting them. That's his mission. Honto has learned about them
and he's getting pulled into that mission of fighting them and he wants revenge on them
for himself. Maybe like Shoma wants to make sure that other people aren't by Semikink like a
Kamen Rider because they hurt him and his mother and his family. And Honto wants revenge and Satchika
wants people to be happy and she wants to help people as much as possible. And if she gets into
a situation where she sees that she can help people by being a Kamen Rider and by fighting and, you
know, killing these creatures, then I think she'd be willing to do that and that could be interesting.
Like Honto is pursuing the truth and pursuing his true self. Shoma is trying to carve out his
identity as a human and as a person as opposed to just as a monstrous granute. And Satchika is
fully human and she's not driven by revenge or hatred or anger. She's driven by love for people.
So you could see like Honto said something about how he was looking for his second kill
and this was especially, you know, powerful after his defeat. It's amazing defeat at the hands or
more the scythe in the feet of Sister Sledge. What's her real name? Galata. And I mean she
trounced him and it was amazing. She kiva'd him. She kiva'd him and it was so sad. I actually
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.
Anyway, so like Honto is kind of like a little monstrous, a little, you know, on the dark path
and, you know, not so healthy. His focus isn't so healthy. His fixation is on revenge and stuff.
And Shoma just wants to be good and help people and Satchika is positive and wants to help people
too. So like he's got kind of these two, these things like pulling him in different directions,
kind of representing different aspects of him. Maybe Honto represents his granute nature and
Satchika could represent his human nature. And especially because Honto has that granute organ
within him too and we don't know what sorts of effects it could have on him as was pointed out by
Kenzo? By Kenzo. It could very well corrupt him or do something to him which could be really
interesting to see. So anyway, we've just got like a really good setup. We've got really good
characters. They're really strong. They're really memorable, impactful. I'm invested in them as
individuals. I'm invested in their relationship dynamics with each other and I'm really interested
to see where the show goes from here. Again, the direction was amazing. There were multiple amazing
fights. The drone footage was fantastic. It's funny, it's low res but like they almost use that to
their advantage. Very clever work being done. I'm going to pause real quick or stop real quick and
amend to this because I want to just make sure I know who wrote it. I'm pretty sure Junko Kamuro
wrote it but I want to verify who the director was of this. I think it was Tairaaki Sugihara.
Okay, so I did confirm it was Sugihara who was the director and last episode we talked about how
great the action was there and he was the director for the first episode as well which had
amazing fights in it and a couple others. I don't remember all of them off top of my head right now
but yeah I mean just doing fantastic work. It's amazing. I absolutely love it and it's really,
really, really, really good so I'm really happy about that and I don't know the future is bright
for Comin' Writer I guess or at least for Comin' Writer Gov. I hope they keep up the quality and
keep doing stuff that's this good because it's amazing. I hope you enjoyed that. Please remember
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