This is MJ with Writer Tears. I want to talk
about Kamen Rider Zets Episode 4, Rob, where
the mission is to protect the VIP bride. There's
some interesting things going on here. First
of all, Yui Takahashi is continuing to write
the episodes. So this is four in a row. The director
of this episode is Hiroki Kashiwagi, who I'll
come back to in a little bit. He's kind of new
as a main director, but he was assistant director
before. I guess that's really all I had to say
about him. I did enjoy the direction of this
episode, though, so I want to be clear on that.
I really did enjoy the direction. If you're coming
off my short, you'll know it's because I'm a
birdman and I love seeing guys flying around
fighting. It's super cool. It really does it
for me. But yeah, I want to get into some of
the other things, some of the other merits of
the episode. One, I really liked the interactions
between Baku and Nem. They feel really cozy.
They feel like they've been working together
for a while. There's still a little bit of awkwardness
where she's this idol that's like super famous
and everybody loves her and thinks she's so beautiful.
And he does too. So in his dream, he's going
to try to dazzle her. And I'm so glad I didn't
say that. And he tries to give her a flower and
she knocks it out of his... Nem accidentally
deflowers Baku. oh wow that's funny um and uh
and that was fun no there's a fun little cute
moment it was like it really felt awkward and
you could feel like even though she's this weird
dream avatar person who's appearing which by
the way i like that um noct or nix or whatever
his name is uh they show in the opening that
they're both they're on either side of this Oh,
white pedestal thing that has, I think statues
on it. They're on either side of the wall. They're
both wearing white. Um, the doors, the mines
doors have, uh, maybe it's an animus anima kind
of representation. They have a man and a woman
on them. The woman is on the top. Um, and she's
covering over, she's like clutching something
and it looks like it's supposed to be the key
of the, the key way of the door behind of the
mines door is looking. through like where her
heart would be so it's like she's protecting
it because she doesn't want you to see what's
in her heart and the guy down there on the bottom
side of the door is doing the same thing which
is a really cool visual design thing it's something
i noticed last episode but i didn't think to
mention until now but seeing the duality of the
mind stores having a woman and a man on them
a man and a woman on them um you know two halves
the animus the anima which is from young in psychology
it's the internal male concept idealized form
of uh males that women have in their minds and
the opposite for men. Men have an idealized woman
in their minds and women have an idealized man
in their minds. And that has to do with how they
perceive, according to Jungian theory, how they
perceive the opposite sex and how they perceive
the world and like the level that they're viewing
the opposite sex as like. you know daddy or mommy
who helps me um basically like a romantic interest
uh i don't know what else is beyond that and
then like a wise sage who i can learn from it
like represents their mentality and their maturity
so if you're a guy or a girl who is only interested
in the other the opposite sex because of you
know whatever what you can do with them like
that's all like that's a sign of immaturity but
if you're uh if you can perceive people as like
whole beings who have wisdom and who like are
worthwhile for non -physical things like that,
then you're, that's a sign of maturity. Roughly,
roughly speaking from the Jungian perspective.
And I happen to agree with you. Anyway, so. Moving
on from there, that little detail in the opening,
which I like the opening. It's a lot of fun.
I like them all being giant in the city. That's
a fun thing. Especially the flying. I think I
mentioned in my short review, but I didn't mention
it here yet. The flying was like at the quality,
the action direction of the flying combat was
near the level of peak action direction of flying
combat, which I've seen in something like Ultraman
Blazar. And I thought it was very good here too.
Like they could have done better. But the director,
who I'll get back to, I'll just jump on him real
quick right now, is Hiroki Kashiwagi. He was
an assistant director for Kamen Rider Oz, and
he was an official director, formal director,
for two episodes of Kamen Rider Saber, 36 and
37 back -to -back, and now two episodes of Kamen
Rider Zets 4 and 5. So we're getting at the beginning
of his career, and there were nice directional
flourishes, if I can say it that way, in this
episode. And I thought the flying was among one
of the better things that he did. From Sabre,
I have no idea. It's something about omnipotent
power and change the future. Those are the episode
titles. They have those in them. So I have no
idea what those are about. Probably like omnipotent
power. Probably like a penultimate form or maybe
even like the final form would have been obtained
by then, which you would think you would not
give that sort of episode to a green director,
but, you know, whatever. Mazel Tov. Congratulations
to him. I hope he... continues to do well. And
he also directed the Kamen Rider Saber spinoff
web series of Sabella and Durandal. I don't know
if these characters are on Saber. Anyway, and
I have no strong feelings about it. What do you
think about that? So, what I do have strong feelings
about is this episode, which I watch, which I've
been... I think I've been highly praising this
episode, actually. In my last review for episode
three, I was talking about some things I didn't
like, and I feel like maybe I've gotten those
things out of my system for now, and I can just
focus on more of the stuff that I do enjoy here.
So I'm very tempted to click on a picture because
I want to see better details. Oh, is that right?
Okay. So I noticed last episode that there's
a lot more gray on the suit when... Zets transforms
into a sub form, I guess you could say. So last
time he transformed with, well, he used the transform
caps. And, um, I know I said, I was just going
to call them power balls, but I don't think I'm
going to consistently do that. Unfortunately,
something happened, lost my train of thought,
trying to get it back. Uh, the director also
worked on like maybe 10 episodes of Rio soldier,
which. became dino fury i think and my the void
knight design is really cool and my kids uh one
of my boys really likes that show i don't know
what the other one he likes i don't know what
he likes but anyway regardless doesn't matter
um getting back on point on task on target um
the undersuit changes so it's like desaturated
the stuff that's like the i guess what are they
colored red usually yeah they're usually colored
red uh they're now gray like a They are like
a satiny. So they have a little bit of reflectivity
to them. He's got like base suit is like that.
I don't like Spider -Man. I can't remember which
Spider -Man that was. Oh, amazing Spider -Man
with the British guy. Anyway, sorry. The other
British guy, the older Andrew Garfield. It's
got like that texture to it. Right. But so that
stays that that texture of the suit remains.
But what goes away is the. the saturated lines
that go from being colorful to being gray. And
then also the like buffed up armor pieces on
his top, his chest and his abs, they're gone.
And now they're replaced with these flat panel
color, these flat color panels that are in the
same shape. And I'm sure they're in the same
position location, but they're just flat to his
chest. And then it allows him to not, I'm assuming
it's for the suit. I didn't have to worry about
it, but it's like a very nice, very cool shift
in design. for me personally, like as somebody
who likes to draw, to present your characters
and design suits and things like that, like,
uh, see if I can grab them real quick. Hold on.
I'll show you in a minute. I'm not a digital
artist. I only do pencils right now, basically,
which is my thing. That's, that's where I'm at
anyway. Um, but like it streamlines the suit.
I think it helps visually to make it less cluttered
and it probably helps the suit. actor perform
better in it uh it's like flush and then you've
got the you know wing attachments that he has
to worry about now instead of you know stuff
up here and i just think it looks kind of nice
and i noticed it subtly like i noticed on a subconscious
level while i was watching it and then i pulled
up an image from wiki and it's obvious like i
it looked at i think it's i clicked on it it's
big now on my screen and i can see clearly yeah
it's definitely what it is um so that's really
cool so yeah overall i like the episode uh the
bird guy the crow Monster dude is super cool.
I even liked honestly, I don't like the capsules
I like the power balls But him you Baca using
in civilian form and dressed up as the priests
using the power one and like you saw his muscles
buff up i don't like it on the suit but like
on him it's cool and it's funny and it was fun
and it was a cute moment and like he grabs the
knife and lifts the guy all the way up and because
it's a dream dream logic the guy lifts all the
way up in there and then he crushes the knife
and turns it to dust and says not a speck of
dust why are you to the bride like it's just
it's so cool it can't be in fun and over the
top and it's like he's flirting with her because
he's a secret agent um even though you know he
shouldn't be but you know she's a bride whatever
anyway but like it's fun it's just Good, clean
fun? I guess. I don't know. But I really enjoyed
the episode. That was good. I thought it did
a lot to move the show forward. Also, the moment
where they showed Mulder and Scully, Fujimi and
Asuka? Anyway, I don't know. At the crime scene,
at this wedding place. So, like, this wedding's
going to take place in real life. It's not just
a dream, right? Anyway, the black crow feathers
appearing on the floor there, like, crossing
the sphere. you know crossing from the dream
plane into the real plane super cool idea super
fun like mechanic to explain why the uh black
cases are happening and like a manifestation
for them to like emanate and show themselves
in the world very cool and i didn't like that
the chief was like i'm unofficially putting you
back on the black files or on the black cases
it's x files anyway um that i didn't like so
much but whatever there's gonna be an arc there
and we'll move through it so I'm looking forward
to that and seeing how that all progresses. And
then there was one, at least I want to show you
my drawing, but there was one other thing I wanted
to mention from the episode and I'm not remembering
what it was this time. So about the guy and his
sister, um, I mean, there was kind of the thing
with the sister where she's like, no, don't help
that old lady because you're going to get hurt.
Like that thread came back up. So like, this
is something else now. Um, is that thread going
to get closed? Is it going to be that he's like
some destined dream warrior or whatever? And
something, um, out there is trying to stop him.
I don't know. That could be Yuta Akashi, like
I've said before, has done things like that.
Long tail type of storytelling, which is great.
I love that. But I'm just curious how they're
going to handle that in this one. And yeah, I
really like this episode. I'd love to hear your
thoughts on it. I'd love to hear what you thought
about it overall. One of my kids drew on this.
So this is my Go Ranger Tokusatsu Spider -Man.
I think it's very cool. I was looking at it earlier
and I was thinking, should he just have a cape?
She gave a tip too, with the threads on it. He's
got, instead of a baton, like the go Rangers
had, that could be a rope and stuff. He's got
a gun that has like a web cannon thingy on it
too, for him to shoot webs from. I thought that
would be cool. And look, he's got like the go
Ranger eyepieces, whatever, eight eyes, a lot
of fun anyway. So seeing the design stuff, I'm
into that, especially because I enjoy designing
characters myself so much. So yeah, anyway, I'm
something of a character designer myself. so
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