I really enjoyed Kamen Rider Zetsu Episode 5,
which was called Crash, where... Well, there's
a little theme of secrets going on here, and
I wanted to talk about that because I liked it
overall. You can check out my quick reactions
on my reaction video, which may or may not be
linked here. I don't know. It's probably off
to the side. But anyway, yeah, there's secrets
going on. So we've got a few secrets. We have
Baku hiding the secret of his... existence as
Zets from his sister. We have the detectives
who are working off the books, basically, who
have broken into his place, and they are aligning
themselves with him by, they snuck into his window,
and they, you know, just went into a secret room.
Somehow they found it. I don't know how. It's
not really explained. Whatever. While he was
sleeping, I guess they must have looked in his
closet, which is kind of silly. And then the
bride here has secrets. The secrets are not what
we think they are. I believe her name is Miku.
Is that right? Miku? Anyway, something like that.
But she has secrets here. Really, the secret
and the, not the impetus, but the thing that
is fueling the nightmare is the fact that she's
afraid of heights and she's going to get married
and then fly on a plane to go to her honeymoon
to go to America so that she can honeymoon in
America. And it's not a good idea because...
she's afraid of flying. She's afraid of heights
and she doesn't want to get on the plane. So
subconsciously she wants the wedding to be ruined.
She wants to be kidnapped and taken away so that
she can avoid this terror, avoid this horror,
avoid this thing that she's scared of. And I'm
honestly a little bit worried about, I'll get
back to the secrets thing, but I'm honestly a
little bit worried about the message that's being
said here because I think it's unclear and it's
incorrect, which is really the problem. But,
I don't know. We'll discuss it in a little bit.
I'm worried that the show is saying run away
from the things that you're afraid of and don't
deal with them and don't deal with your fears.
I don't know that it's actually saying that.
It's too early to say that's the case. I'll wait
for two more cases that end in a similar way
where somebody's just able to avoid the thing
that's causing them trouble as opposed to Baku
helping them or Zets helping them to work through
it. I think that's a really good angle. And I've
been working on tokusatsu stuff of my own, or
tension hero stories, I should say. And the longer
I work on it, the more I think, okay, well, how
do I slow this down? And how do I not just go
to straight up, this guy's fixing everything
for everybody. And he instantly knows how to
do this. And he's this wise, wise person who
has all this experience. Baku's 18, 20 at the
most, I think. And he doesn't necessarily, he's
not equipped. to handle all these things. He's
not equipped to help people overcome their fears
and work through their bad dreams and their nightmares,
work through the skeletons in their closets,
the things that are in their subconscious. He's
not equipped for that. So it's kind of bad for
me to assume that he should be or to expect that
of him. And therefore, I'm not. I'm pulling back
on that criticism and I'm not disliking it. I'm
accepting it for where it is right now. However,
like I said, if there does emerge a pattern where
it's just... he solves people's problems for
them, or rather, he obfuscates their issues and
lets them hide and run away from their problems,
that's not good. And we'll have to see if that's
how it turns out. I doubt it. I don't think Yutakashi
is going to be that careless. But anyway, I have
my ability to look at all these beautiful pictures,
so I will talk about more stuff. Wing suit is
very cool. So this is a henshin hero show tokusatsu.
Let's talk about the effects Let's talk about
the story stuff because overall the story stuff
was good and I want to get to some lore Tidbits
at the end, but first let's talk suits. So I
absolutely love the the wing suit again this
this little 8 -bit thing inside the capsums really
bothers me My only hope, my only justification
for it, or my only hope is that they redeem it
by saying that the capsules were developed in
the 1980s or 1990s by a video game company, by
Dan Kuroch's father. That's it. That's the connection.
We've got it. Yuya Takahashi, universe confirmed.
Anyway, yeah, but like, that's dumb, but whatever.
I'm going to let it slide because look how cool
this suit is. No, that's more lore stuff to talk
about later. But yeah, it's... Anyway, the visuals
in this are really nice. It's really lovely to
look at. Even like they did something with this
toy here, this toy camera. It's a little ridiculous,
but like the way they posed it in the shot is
really good. So it's interesting because the
show, it's definitely a kid's show. It's definitely
made to sell toys, but it's also being done with
like a polish and with like seriousness that's
really nice. And I really enjoy it, which is,
you know, why I can enjoy Kamen Rider as an adult.
I don't think I'd be watching Blippi or... bluey
and buying stuff from it. Fujimi and Nasuka are
great and I really enjoy them. Their banter,
their back and forth, their weird relationship
is great. Him being so excited to be on these
black cases unofficially and helping this secret
agent in the person of Baku is really cool, really
fun. They're really strange characters and they
are almost comedic characters, but they're also
very relevant to the plot and they're doing things
that matter as well. So it's an interesting role
of being like very comedic and very funny, but
also being serious. And like, they're also allowing
the like world building to ask questions of itself
and texture itself. Like they're in here drinking
this tea, but hey, isn't that tea supposed to
be fuel that looks like tea? And she's yet to
drink it. Not because she has to drink it, but
Fujimi has already drank some and he like throws
up or whatever. And then you have this bit where
we get a flashback of them breaking into the
room and they just crawl into his window. And
then when they leave, even though the sister's
already gone, they decided to just jump out the
window and fall who knows how far. And I wasn't
sure they were jumping at first. I thought maybe
it was like a walk or like a step down or something
like that. But this woman has taken off her shoes
so that she can jump. I know enough women to
know that's exactly like she has to do that so
she doesn't break her shoes. And that's hilarious.
I love it. It's great. And then Baku's reaction
to them jumping out the window is great. Also,
there's this little detail in the dream world
that he seems to always wake up lying down, or
he's starting to. And this is the second time
in the episode he wakes up on a pew in the church.
And I just love the visual of that. Honestly,
I'm getting Kiva vibes from the opening where
Watru gets up from the pile of roses that he's
buried under. And I just love it. I love Kiva,
so we won't discuss that anymore. Also, The first
dream, he failed to stop the bomber really in
the ideal way. He did it after the fact, but
he should have done it in the ideal way. And
he failed to. So we got to see the three doors
opening. We got to see the monster itself opening
and Fujimi, the dreamer, going into it. So we
have a good understanding just from the visuals
of what we've seen, the mechanics of how these
things work. Also, we learned that when those
butterflies spread out, that was seeding new
nightmares to awaken within people. So that's
really interesting. and um i'll have to analyze
the opening at some other point um when i'm caught
up on everything else uh we don't know really
why this um tree uh in this park showed up for
him in the dream while he was talking to the
bride but it did and he goes there when he does
I mean, it's an important place to her because
it's a link to her unconscious mind or her subconscious
mind. And he uses that in this doorway to go
into her subconscious and see different things.
And I love the design here. So we have this nice
tree. Or no, I guess it's still deciduous. It's
like the leaves are falling. And then it's here,
but it's given spooky lighting. It's given chains.
It's given dark clouds. It's given all this stuff.
And then there's these other two doors here,
which there's only two here for some reason.
There's not a third door. I don't know why the
third door isn't there or where it should be.
We didn't know that where the third door is we
know that we're gonna find out where the third
door is We're probably not at this point. That's
okay But yeah, anyway, so we have a lot of high
-flying action going on in this episode We get
my favorite so far probably the greatest of all
time this mr. Bird and bird nightmare crow nightmare
and he's just uh, he's just great leave this
guy look at this guy anyway, so Mr. Crow gets
to be really cool and they have a lot of fun
flying combat. The swords were in the beginning,
but it's really cool. He holds these wings like
swords. You can see, you know, very much it's
being held in his hand and they're connected
in a certain way. I guess it's fabric and there's
hard stuff in there. I don't know how it's made,
but it looks very cool. And again, you get the
great contrast of the graying out of the normal
lines of the suit to emphasize the thing that's
being... emphasized the thing it's being utilized
and it's flat there and then i'll show you uh
i did not like this thing if it's a dream just
have the gun show up anywhere he needs it but
here's his new form after he's shot the crow
and it looks fantastic it looks really slick
i really like it um i don't know if whenever
i don't know if the color of it always matches
him or whatever When he's in different forms,
but it doesn't really matter to me. It's a small
detail We'll see how it plays out What I'm really
interested in going forward is this bit of lore
that we have dropped where there's a the tide
The connections between them and Knox. I think
it's his name are even tighter now because he
looks at her and he's saying that Like everything
breaks down except for them and he says he's
referring to himself and then nem And I think
he calls her Nemchon, but that doesn't really
matter. And I'm wondering what that's about.
And then, like, look at this. We have some cool
lore stuff going on here. We have this red, blue,
purple, and green, these figures drawn in this
book. And that's pretty neat. I wonder exactly
what they mean, what they refer to. I think those
are definitely going to be the colors that our
boy Baku gets to use as Zets. I know. We'll see
how it goes from there. I'm really curious to
hear your thoughts on this episode. I liked it
overall. The series, the show seems to be getting
better and better. And I'm enjoying it more as
it goes on. And I'm really enjoying all the character
dynamics. And it feels really good to me so far.
I'd love to hear your thoughts. And, yeah, I'm
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