WEBVTT 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:02.919 So I'm here with Writer Tears, bringing you my 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:06.299 full review of Case 7, Punish, of Combinator 00:00:06.299 --> 00:00:10.259 Zets. So, Zets Episode 7, we get huge revelations, 00:00:10.259 --> 00:00:14.140 we get some interesting lore things going on, 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:16.760 and we get a reference to the original Combinator, 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:18.800 which I thought was very fun, and I don't know 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:20.699 how many people picked up on it. I actually have 00:00:20.699 --> 00:00:24.379 the episode open right now on my screen here, 00:00:24.500 --> 00:00:28.559 and I haven't seen so far that anybody has referenced 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:31.059 it yet, but I'll have to drop it in there. I'll 00:00:31.059 --> 00:00:33.340 have to drop it in there. Um, anyway, so yeah, 00:00:33.420 --> 00:00:36.219 I think it's interesting. I think this is a good 00:00:36.219 --> 00:00:38.679 episode and I thought it was a lot of fun. I'm 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:41.359 very into what's going on here, uh, which is 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:44.420 that, spoilers, uh, we learned that Nem was in 00:00:44.420 --> 00:00:46.700 a car accident four years ago or a bus crash 00:00:46.700 --> 00:00:52.179 four years ago with, um, her boss, um, Masui? 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:56.869 Oh, Pejoji, whatever, Pejoji. And, um, he was 00:00:56.869 --> 00:00:59.270 fine and she was in a vip hospital and she disappeared 00:00:59.270 --> 00:01:01.549 from there and that's interesting that she would 00:01:01.549 --> 00:01:04.290 just disappear makes me wonder if she was special 00:01:04.290 --> 00:01:06.230 after the accident and after she went into the 00:01:06.230 --> 00:01:10.129 dream world or nightmare or if she was special 00:01:10.129 --> 00:01:15.290 before and then kind of like how baku keeps almost 00:01:15.290 --> 00:01:17.510 dying when he does good things for people maybe 00:01:17.510 --> 00:01:21.099 she also has been fated to be wound up in all 00:01:21.099 --> 00:01:24.000 of this. I'm now dropping my she and Knox were 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:26.760 brother and sister thing. I'm suspending it. 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:28.719 I'm suspending that speculation. If you didn't 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:29.879 hear about that, that was the last episode. I 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:32.140 figured based on her blue and pink outfit, maybe 00:01:32.140 --> 00:01:34.680 it was a code that the parents in this dream 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.620 had two kids, twins, a boy and a girl, pink and 00:01:37.620 --> 00:01:39.900 blue, and that that would have made sense. But 00:01:39.900 --> 00:01:41.859 whatever. Maybe that's not right. Maybe that's 00:01:41.859 --> 00:01:45.150 not right. It's okay if it's not. But yeah, so 00:01:45.150 --> 00:01:47.930 overall, I liked the plot of the episode. I like 00:01:47.930 --> 00:01:49.790 the story stuff going on, like the lore things 00:01:49.790 --> 00:01:51.170 that are going on. We don't know anything more 00:01:51.170 --> 00:01:53.069 about Nox. We don't know anything more about 00:01:53.069 --> 00:01:56.450 how the whole dream world aspect of it all operates, 00:01:56.489 --> 00:01:58.810 except for we know mechanically one thing is 00:01:58.810 --> 00:02:00.709 he calls the people who are dreaming dreamers, 00:02:00.709 --> 00:02:03.049 believe it or not, because they are dreamers 00:02:03.049 --> 00:02:05.349 who are dreaming and who are experiencing a nightmare. 00:02:06.569 --> 00:02:12.710 So there's that. That's really all for like. 00:02:14.219 --> 00:02:15.979 technical lore type of stuff. And then obviously 00:02:15.979 --> 00:02:19.740 I talked about everything with Nem being disappeared 00:02:19.740 --> 00:02:21.979 and he's promised to now find her, which this 00:02:21.979 --> 00:02:24.280 was a really cool moment. He is very upset. He, 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:26.400 Bajoji is saying that he doesn't want to accept 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:28.580 that Nem is dead. And that's why he pushed his 00:02:28.580 --> 00:02:30.580 wife in the dream, pushed his wife aside and 00:02:30.580 --> 00:02:33.939 took Nem into the tower, into the prison so that, 00:02:33.939 --> 00:02:36.439 you know, he would live there forever with her 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:38.340 and he would keep her alive because she's missing. 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:42.539 She's this surrogate daughter who was injured. 00:02:42.990 --> 00:02:45.009 who went missing who's presumed dead but he hopes 00:02:45.009 --> 00:02:47.629 she's alive and if he can even in his dream uh 00:02:47.629 --> 00:02:51.650 save her by staying trapped in this prison for 00:02:51.650 --> 00:02:53.050 the rest of his life with her but it keeps her 00:02:53.050 --> 00:02:55.009 alive then he's willing to do that and then it 00:02:55.009 --> 00:02:56.870 was really cool within the dream knox almost 00:02:56.870 --> 00:02:59.669 got him to fight the i don't know exactly how 00:02:59.669 --> 00:03:01.030 this was supposed to work but he told him go 00:03:01.030 --> 00:03:04.280 fight that nightmare the saw chainsaw guy uh 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:05.960 with your bare hands or not with your bare hands 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:09.060 he grabbed a pipe which was nice um and he attacked 00:03:09.060 --> 00:03:11.060 it but he the guy quickly threw him aside anyway 00:03:11.060 --> 00:03:13.659 now he's a monster versus a man and it led to 00:03:13.659 --> 00:03:15.979 a really cool moment with um baku using uh the 00:03:15.979 --> 00:03:19.800 impact ball capsum butter the impact ball he 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:21.639 struck it against the floor kind of like how 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:25.840 the um book injurers did like they've done it 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.520 off of a sword i believe um i've seen that clip 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:34.479 floating around and uh Anyway, he was able to 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:36.000 use that to activate it, and then he grabbed 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.860 the weapon, punched the guy, whatever. Good stuff. 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:42.599 So again, seeing the capsules being used in The 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:48.080 Dream by Baku is a lot of fun. The suit stuff 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.259 is good, but definitely out of the suit, it's 00:03:51.259 --> 00:03:56.699 even better, I think. So anyway, we got to see 00:03:56.699 --> 00:03:59.620 this confrontation between Baku and Nox, and 00:03:59.620 --> 00:04:01.409 at the end of it, Nox... At the very end of the 00:04:01.409 --> 00:04:04.069 episode, after Baku saved the day, Nox says that 00:04:04.069 --> 00:04:09.050 he, being Baku, is one day going to find out 00:04:09.050 --> 00:04:10.969 the cost of that power, which is the power that 00:04:10.969 --> 00:04:14.990 he has to use the rider system, the dream balls, 00:04:15.069 --> 00:04:18.149 whatever, in order to do stuff and upset his 00:04:18.149 --> 00:04:20.670 plans. And we still don't know what the point 00:04:20.670 --> 00:04:23.189 is, what the goal is. What will suffusing the 00:04:23.189 --> 00:04:26.069 world in nightmares do for Nox? What is it that 00:04:26.069 --> 00:04:28.889 he's going for? I don't understand. I don't know 00:04:28.889 --> 00:04:33.379 that he understands. And it's interesting. There's 00:04:33.379 --> 00:04:35.519 also this kind of like moral dilemma, maybe, 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:38.920 being presented that if Bajoji lets the world 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:43.000 know that Nem is not here anymore, that she's 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.579 missing or she's dead or whatever, that it will 00:04:45.579 --> 00:04:48.259 be this horrible truth and people need to be 00:04:48.259 --> 00:04:50.060 protected from that. The country needs to be 00:04:50.060 --> 00:04:53.160 protected from that. And Baku kind of commiserates 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:56.540 because he wants to believe the lie. But that 00:04:56.540 --> 00:04:59.220 wanting to believe the lie and having to face 00:04:59.220 --> 00:05:03.600 the truth, results in him earning the power to... 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:06.379 I'm trying to make a Persona 4 joke, but it didn't 00:05:06.379 --> 00:05:08.819 work. He ends up resolving that he is going to 00:05:08.819 --> 00:05:10.560 find her, that he's got a new mission for himself 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:12.339 that he's given to himself, which is to find 00:05:12.339 --> 00:05:15.759 them and... or save them. I can't remember what 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:17.500 he says. But I think that's really cool. I think 00:05:17.500 --> 00:05:22.319 that's really cool, and I'm into it. I like the 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:28.819 small steps of character growth and arc... traveling 00:05:28.819 --> 00:05:32.189 through arc. um arc trajectory that we're getting 00:05:32.189 --> 00:05:39.569 to see baku go on and i like it it's fun um i'm 00:05:39.569 --> 00:05:41.370 sorry i'm just looking at the set now the set 00:05:41.370 --> 00:05:45.170 for the uh for the code hq or whatever inside 00:05:45.170 --> 00:05:47.370 of his closet uh inside of baku's closet is a 00:05:47.370 --> 00:05:49.610 lot of fun oh my gosh i just noticed there's 00:05:49.610 --> 00:05:54.310 a panel on the floor that looks like a door and 00:05:54.310 --> 00:05:55.730 i wonder if one day that's going to open up and 00:05:55.730 --> 00:05:58.550 lead to a basement underneath uh like a secret 00:05:58.550 --> 00:06:00.509 lab or something under there or who knows what 00:06:00.509 --> 00:06:01.930 could be stored in there but that would be a 00:06:01.930 --> 00:06:03.290 lot of fun anyway it's a really fun set design 00:06:03.290 --> 00:06:07.750 um and i really like to see nasca and fujimi 00:06:07.750 --> 00:06:10.569 in there with him and i like these conversations 00:06:10.569 --> 00:06:12.370 that they're having with him and how they get 00:06:12.370 --> 00:06:14.149 to foil him in certain ways because he's kind 00:06:14.149 --> 00:06:18.970 of idealistic and um you know he's younger and 00:06:18.970 --> 00:06:22.870 knows less and while nasca is more reserved and 00:06:22.870 --> 00:06:25.439 more skeptical and fujimi is a little more wild 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:27.480 and out there and willing to just like say things 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:30.980 um they kind of represent an interesting balance 00:06:30.980 --> 00:06:32.600 for baku you know if he's in the middle they're 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:36.620 here on either side uh they kind of represent 00:06:36.620 --> 00:06:40.620 an interesting developmental like projection 00:06:40.620 --> 00:06:43.300 or uh opportunity they're giving him the choice 00:06:43.300 --> 00:06:47.040 of who he can be more like and so far he seems 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:48.680 to be being like fujimi but i think ultimately 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:50.500 he'll choose to be his own way and have an interesting 00:06:50.500 --> 00:06:53.079 balance of of these traits uh which i think is 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:56.379 fun um and it just makes for good dynamic character 00:06:56.379 --> 00:07:01.639 interactions um so that's always enjoyable so 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:04.819 overall i like the episode uh i you know we're 00:07:04.819 --> 00:07:06.339 setting up more questions that we don't know 00:07:06.339 --> 00:07:09.600 the answers to yet and i feel like you know they 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:10.899 can keep teasing them out for a little bit like 00:07:10.899 --> 00:07:18.470 this for a um nox be able to utilize his powers 00:07:18.470 --> 00:07:21.209 in different ways uh in the dream world as well 00:07:21.209 --> 00:07:23.529 it's fun in the nightmare i guess you we should 00:07:23.529 --> 00:07:27.389 just call it um so it's enjoyable and then yeah 00:07:27.389 --> 00:07:28.730 that's pretty much it i like the episode i'd 00:07:28.730 --> 00:07:29.750 like to hear your thoughts on it i don't have 00:07:29.750 --> 00:07:32.089 anything groundbreaking or revolutionary to say 00:07:32.089 --> 00:07:35.329 about it um i just think it's good um but i do 00:07:35.329 --> 00:07:39.829 want to say i did see uh when nema's in the hospital 00:07:39.829 --> 00:07:42.750 she had two readings above her head that she's 00:07:42.750 --> 00:07:46.100 laying there um and one of them was 73 and the 00:07:46.100 --> 00:07:48.459 other one was 98, which to me means it's a reference 00:07:48.459 --> 00:07:50.420 to the original Kamen Rider which ran from 1971 00:07:50.420 --> 00:07:53.399 to 1973 and had a total of 98 episodes. And I 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:55.240 think that's very fun and very cute, and it shows 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:57.259 just a little bit of care, a little bit of craft. 00:07:57.480 --> 00:07:59.040 They didn't have to do it, but they did, and 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:04.079 I like that kind of thing. Yeah, I didn't sing 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:06.600 the praises of this episode. I like the projection 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:10.560 form or tool or whatever, but it does muddy the 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:13.769 waters even more because it's called... It's 00:08:13.769 --> 00:08:16.129 not saying it's a form. It's saying technolum 00:08:16.129 --> 00:08:18.870 projection. And it automatically switches from 00:08:18.870 --> 00:08:22.589 the standard impact undersuit with the green 00:08:22.589 --> 00:08:25.370 abs and muscles to the blue wavy one of stream, 00:08:25.569 --> 00:08:28.470 whatever. And it's just kind of odd that there's 00:08:28.470 --> 00:08:31.449 these four subtypes. But I noticed that in the 00:08:31.449 --> 00:08:34.080 book, there's the red, blue, green, purple. and 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:37.740 we've seen red and uh blue with him so far so 00:08:37.740 --> 00:08:39.500 it's easy to expect that purple and green are 00:08:39.500 --> 00:08:41.820 coming but i just don't really know what it means 00:08:41.820 --> 00:08:43.240 and like i don't understand why you can't have 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:46.220 those colored attachments or accessories without 00:08:46.220 --> 00:08:48.519 changing the base suit i think he could keep 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:51.059 them without changing the base suit or just graying 00:08:51.059 --> 00:08:52.720 out the base suit even would be fine, because 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:54.899 it looks, I took a lot of screenshots, it looks 00:08:54.899 --> 00:08:57.340 really good to have these grayed out parts of 00:08:57.340 --> 00:08:59.679 the suit, these charcoal accents that are popping 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:03.360 against the black that he has, and also contrasting 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:07.659 with the colors that he has as well on him, you 00:09:07.659 --> 00:09:11.240 know, be it blue or whatever. So, yeah, I don't 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:13.360 quite understand the design choices being made 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:16.529 with some of these things. but i'm still enjoying 00:09:16.529 --> 00:09:18.950 the show overall and i think it's very enjoyable 00:09:18.950 --> 00:09:21.129 and i loved seeing like i said i love seeing 00:09:21.129 --> 00:09:22.789 his resolve that's that's my big takeaway is 00:09:22.789 --> 00:09:27.330 like nem is dead or missing and baku has the 00:09:27.330 --> 00:09:30.590 resolve to find her and that's going to be part 00:09:30.590 --> 00:09:33.409 of his mission going forward and i i like that 00:09:33.409 --> 00:09:35.090 i think it's very cool i think it's very nice 00:09:35.090 --> 00:09:37.730 it's very good to have that ongoing thing you 00:09:37.730 --> 00:09:39.649 know where's nobiko uh it's good to have that 00:09:39.649 --> 00:09:42.440 long thread running through the show while we're 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:44.899 getting the day -to -day action as well and the 00:09:44.899 --> 00:09:46.440 you know monster of the week or monster of the 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:48.639 you know two -part episode kind of deal as well 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:52.980 anyway let me know your thoughts um yeah i'm 00:09:52.980 --> 00:09:55.620 still enjoying this a lot it's just kind of i 00:09:55.620 --> 00:09:57.659 i it's weird because i got very emotional at 00:09:57.659 --> 00:10:01.820 some points and like um whatever but joji like 00:10:01.820 --> 00:10:03.879 wanting to sacrifice himself to save his daughter 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:08.799 like really got to me and the fact that he's 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.389 like even willing to sacrifice himself in his 00:10:11.389 --> 00:10:14.070 like be away from his wife and die whatever like 00:10:14.070 --> 00:10:15.590 i don't know it's like all very interesting and 00:10:15.590 --> 00:10:19.110 muddled and kind of complex uh but i like it 00:10:19.110 --> 00:10:22.889 overall and i'm just very satisfied with what's 00:10:22.889 --> 00:10:26.029 happening so far in the show and that's it um 00:10:26.029 --> 00:10:28.570 that's it for now i'm getting out of here this 00:10:28.570 --> 00:10:30.110 is mj signing out with writer tears intention 00:10:30.110 --> 00:10:31.970 inspection check out my book trailer coming up 00:10:31.970 --> 00:10:33.990 and uh let me know what you thought let's have 00:10:33.990 --> 00:10:35.970 a conversation um you can leave me a comment 00:10:35.970 --> 00:10:38.629 here or on the blog, or wherever you're finding 00:10:38.629 --> 00:10:40.090 this, and we can talk about it. You can also 00:10:40.090 --> 00:10:42.529 talk about me. Talk about me. You can talk about 00:10:42.529 --> 00:10:48.009 me if you want, or talk to me on Twitter. I once 00:10:48.009 --> 00:10:50.110 again neglected to talk about Kyohei Yamaguchi. 00:10:51.070 --> 00:10:53.610 I downplayed my enjoyment of the form, but I 00:10:53.610 --> 00:10:56.070 said there was good action, and I meant to say 00:10:56.070 --> 00:10:59.909 I did enjoy what they did with the suit action, 00:11:00.070 --> 00:11:02.190 with the fighting. It was all very enjoyable. 00:11:02.190 --> 00:11:04.169 It was very good, very... Cool, very fun action 00:11:04.169 --> 00:11:06.309 done by Kyohei Yamaguchi, who I have a special 00:11:06.309 --> 00:11:08.690 connection to, a special fondness for because 00:11:08.690 --> 00:11:10.909 of his episodes 23 and 24 of Kamen Rider Forze 00:11:10.909 --> 00:11:14.429 from 2012, which were The Swan Alliance and Hero's 00:11:14.429 --> 00:11:16.250 Desire, where we get to see the Cygnus Zodiart 00:11:16.250 --> 00:11:19.429 be a heroic character, sort of, but not really. 00:11:19.610 --> 00:11:26.909 It's a great suit. It's amazing. And, yeah, it's 00:11:26.909 --> 00:11:31.289 a fantastic suit, and I like it a lot. And, yeah, 00:11:31.429 --> 00:11:33.850 I think Yohei Yamaguchi is a good director. He 00:11:33.850 --> 00:11:36.149 did four episodes of Forze, two episodes of Gang, 00:11:36.389 --> 00:11:38.990 whatever, ten episodes of Drive, also whatever, 00:11:39.169 --> 00:11:40.570 fourteen episodes of Ghost, which is fantastic, 00:11:40.870 --> 00:11:42.629 fourteen episodes of Ex -Aid, ten episodes of 00:11:42.629 --> 00:11:46.330 Build, ten episodes of ZL, three episodes of 00:11:46.330 --> 00:11:48.549 Zero -One only, which is another Yu -Gi -Oh! 00:11:48.610 --> 00:11:51.350 Takahashi show, and Geets, he did twenty and 00:11:51.350 --> 00:11:53.570 twenty -one, so two episodes, and he did ten 00:11:53.570 --> 00:11:56.279 episodes of Gotchard. and now he's done two of 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:58.299 zets so far he hasn't done anything past episode 00:11:58.299 --> 00:12:00.899 seven so we'll see if he comes back for this 00:12:00.899 --> 00:12:03.559 one um there was nothing wrong with the action 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:05.840 i think it was very good in fact so i'd like 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:09.159 to see more of him um doing action especially 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:10.840 because there was just like some interesting 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:16.019 fun movement and uh great acrobatics and stuff 00:12:16.019 --> 00:12:17.759 like that going on here so anyway i meant to 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:19.639 talk about him last episode i didn't i actually 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:22.320 forgot to do it this episode and before i closed 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:25.840 out everything and uh You moved on to producing 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.220 the episode to release it. 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