WEBVTT 00:00:00.930 --> 00:00:04.089 Kamen Rider Zetsu Episode 8 is called Serve, 00:00:04.389 --> 00:00:06.950 and it has to do with serving food and also serving, 00:00:07.030 --> 00:00:09.650 you know, biological weapons like you do. Anyways, 00:00:10.070 --> 00:00:12.849 written by Yui Takahashi and director was Kazuya 00:00:12.849 --> 00:00:17.129 Kaminoriuchi. I feel like I have seen this guy 00:00:17.129 --> 00:00:18.550 a lot. I could have sworn he worked on Ultraman, 00:00:18.570 --> 00:00:22.170 but he definitely works on Super Sentai and some 00:00:22.170 --> 00:00:24.929 Kamen Rider. He worked on X -Aid, Build, Z -O, 00:00:24.969 --> 00:00:26.690 just a little bit, Zero One, three episodes, 00:00:27.010 --> 00:00:32.420 Saber, six, Revice 10. Didn't see that one. Geet's 00:00:32.420 --> 00:00:35.939 two episodes, four episodes of Gob, and so far 00:00:35.939 --> 00:00:39.859 he's done five episodes of Zets, which is, so 00:00:39.859 --> 00:00:42.359 far there's eight episodes out. Actually, nine 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:44.479 episodes because he directed the next episode, 00:00:44.579 --> 00:00:50.299 Poison, as well. So that's the deal with him. 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:53.969 I like the direction in this episode. It was 00:00:53.969 --> 00:00:56.090 very smooth and very slick in some ways. There 00:00:56.090 --> 00:00:58.630 was a lot going on both with the action and the 00:00:58.630 --> 00:01:01.429 characters. I don't know this for sure, but I 00:01:01.429 --> 00:01:03.670 assume, and I think, my understanding, is that 00:01:03.670 --> 00:01:05.709 the directors direct the regular parts of the 00:01:05.709 --> 00:01:08.370 episode as well as the action. So I think it's 00:01:08.370 --> 00:01:10.689 a good balance. The beginning of the episode 00:01:10.689 --> 00:01:16.189 really felt like a very cozy thing. There was 00:01:16.189 --> 00:01:17.750 a lot of focus on the food. The food looked very 00:01:17.750 --> 00:01:21.719 appetizing. It was shot very well. like action 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:24.459 in the kitchen was really nice. And it was interesting 00:01:24.459 --> 00:01:26.200 to me too, because it was mostly, I don't think 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:29.459 there was any dialogue up until, um, the, uh, 00:01:29.500 --> 00:01:33.079 sous chef, I assume, uh, went over to the big 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:37.540 chef, um, whose name I don't remember. Um, when 00:01:37.540 --> 00:01:41.599 he went to him, oh, that's right. Sano. Yeah. 00:01:41.700 --> 00:01:44.560 When he went to Sano and he, he tasted, uh, Sano's 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:46.120 food, like he was the first one to speak. So 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:49.900 it was, his name was, uh, Shinoi. Is that right? 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:54.859 Yeah, Shinomi. So Shinomi, the sous -chef, I 00:01:54.859 --> 00:01:57.859 assume, goes over and he has this interaction. 00:01:57.959 --> 00:01:59.400 That's the first dialogue, and it's like three 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:01.579 minutes into the episode, I think, other than 00:02:01.579 --> 00:02:03.700 the voiceover recap of what happened from last 00:02:03.700 --> 00:02:06.420 episode. And I was really impressed by that because 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:09.439 it held my attention, and I thought it was interesting 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:15.240 and good. And then when Shinomi falls over, dying 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:20.080 from this biological poison, he is very effective. 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:23.159 sorry it was a very effective turn because it 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:24.840 was very it was unexpected it was very surprising 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:29.740 um and i they waited to until then to uh cut 00:02:29.740 --> 00:02:32.199 away and say you know stop the biological weapon 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:35.060 or whatever so it's nice it was a very disarming 00:02:35.060 --> 00:02:38.580 opening and then a very dis disarming opening 00:02:38.580 --> 00:02:41.360 it was done with very little dialogue just action 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:45.379 just shots you know sequential um you know uh, 00:02:45.379 --> 00:02:47.560 visuals, uh, being shown telling it's a story 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:49.879 silently. And then you have this turn and it 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:51.379 was really impressive to me because it really 00:02:51.379 --> 00:02:53.979 like, it was a good shock. They eased you into 00:02:53.979 --> 00:02:55.419 it. They made you feel like everything was cozy 00:02:55.419 --> 00:02:57.000 and nice. And then boom, this guy's dying of 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:59.219 poison. Oh yeah. Biological weapon. That's right. 00:02:59.259 --> 00:03:00.759 I remember that from the preview from last week, 00:03:00.780 --> 00:03:02.479 but I didn't really remember it until I saw this 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:05.099 just now. And the episode's called serve. It's 00:03:05.099 --> 00:03:06.419 not called poison, which I think you don't find 00:03:06.419 --> 00:03:08.819 out until. after he's been poisoned as well so 00:03:08.819 --> 00:03:11.500 it works on all levels and like none of the surprises 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:13.580 were ruined and none of the like it's a very 00:03:13.580 --> 00:03:16.879 good setup and uh and delivery and payoff uh 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:18.580 for what what was happening there so that was 00:03:18.580 --> 00:03:21.740 really good it's like great filmmaking uh at 00:03:21.740 --> 00:03:25.020 work right there um and then on the combat side 00:03:25.020 --> 00:03:27.879 of it i enjoyed the fighting i loved seeing uh 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:30.539 stream used very tactically used as like a shield 00:03:30.539 --> 00:03:36.099 um and used to help him avoid Baku, seven zets, 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:39.340 help him avoid getting hit by the poison from 00:03:39.340 --> 00:03:41.780 this weird vegetable monster, which to me, it 00:03:41.780 --> 00:03:42.979 looks like a vegetable monster, but I think I 00:03:42.979 --> 00:03:45.300 read that it's actually the virus nightmare. 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:48.620 So I'm going to do a quick search real quick 00:03:48.620 --> 00:03:51.020 and find out what, okay. So apparently it's the 00:03:51.020 --> 00:03:53.479 poison nightmare, which makes sense, but it sure 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:57.180 felt just like a vegetable guy to me, which, 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:58.680 you know, some people say vegetables are poisonous. 00:03:58.740 --> 00:04:02.259 So, I mean, I guess it works out, right? It also 00:04:02.259 --> 00:04:04.280 felt feminine, which I thought was weird. uh 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:08.680 or interesting rather and i don't know we'll 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:13.580 see the suit actor and the voice actor are two 00:04:13.580 --> 00:04:19.920 different people um we don't have an understanding 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:25.860 quite yet of who the voice actor is i believe 00:04:25.860 --> 00:04:28.519 actually it does say her name i'm assuming it's 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:32.829 her name um but there's no um We have the suit 00:04:32.829 --> 00:04:34.649 actor's name and picture, and it's a guy, for 00:04:34.649 --> 00:04:39.550 sure, and I don't know who the voice is. But 00:04:39.550 --> 00:04:43.949 it sounded feminine to me. Which, whatever. It's 00:04:43.949 --> 00:04:48.689 just interesting. Anyway, so I really like the 00:04:48.689 --> 00:04:53.470 suit design for Poison. It's very cool. Very, 00:04:53.610 --> 00:04:56.910 like, it's a great design. I mean, these designs 00:04:56.910 --> 00:05:00.769 are really fantastic, actually. This might be 00:05:00.769 --> 00:05:03.029 the best monster design so far in the show, other 00:05:03.029 --> 00:05:06.649 than the crow, of course. But yeah, I found it 00:05:06.649 --> 00:05:08.350 really impressive, and it was fun to watch it 00:05:08.350 --> 00:05:10.589 fight, and the fight was dynamic. They did more 00:05:10.589 --> 00:05:13.069 of these crazy dream cuts, and these, I guess 00:05:13.069 --> 00:05:14.550 they're like smash cuts, sort of, but they're 00:05:14.550 --> 00:05:16.670 not really, because it's the dream warping itself 00:05:16.670 --> 00:05:19.370 in, and we can see it happening as it's going 00:05:19.370 --> 00:05:23.300 on. i thought it was a lot of fun you know transporting 00:05:23.300 --> 00:05:25.480 uh that's this abandoned building to fight there 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:28.279 was great um i really like too there was something 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:32.399 else important which is that nem is now taking 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.459 a more active role in the dreams in a way uh 00:05:35.459 --> 00:05:38.720 or in order rather to support baku or seven as 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.079 she calls him knows him rather uh in his fight 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:44.160 and i thought that was a really interesting idea 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:50.670 because nem is kind of this lost figure and she 00:05:50.670 --> 00:05:53.410 gets cast in these roles in these dreams. And 00:05:53.410 --> 00:05:57.009 now that she's decided to help Baku, Seven, it 00:05:57.009 --> 00:05:59.529 almost seems like she can cast herself in different 00:05:59.529 --> 00:06:02.870 roles in the dreams, for example. After Shinomi 00:06:02.870 --> 00:06:06.089 gets poisoned, it cuts away and then we return 00:06:06.089 --> 00:06:08.009 to the restaurant, to the kitchen, and she's 00:06:08.009 --> 00:06:13.170 coming in in a ER, or rather like an EMT type 00:06:13.170 --> 00:06:16.899 of outfit, and... Baku asks how Shinomi's doing. 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:18.459 I think she says he's fine. He's stable or whatever. 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.779 And then she, so she enters the scene this way 00:06:21.779 --> 00:06:24.339 and then we cut to Baku. And as she's leaving 00:06:24.339 --> 00:06:27.240 the scene, she pops up in her EMT outfit. She 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:31.079 pops up in the next cut away in her farmer girl 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:33.399 outfit, who was bringing the vegetables to the 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:35.939 restaurant, which was really cool. It's like 00:06:35.939 --> 00:06:38.620 very slick. It's very subtle. It's very like, 00:06:38.740 --> 00:06:43.680 they're not trying too hard. And they are, how 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:45.790 do I say this? I don't know, like it's very slick 00:06:45.790 --> 00:06:48.649 and very smooth and they're not like shining 00:06:48.649 --> 00:06:49.949 a big light on it. It's just something they're 00:06:49.949 --> 00:06:52.470 consistently doing so far in these first eight 00:06:52.470 --> 00:06:55.910 episodes where they're using the dream logic 00:06:55.910 --> 00:06:57.709 and the fact that, well, they're using the dream 00:06:57.709 --> 00:06:59.370 logic in the way that things change, the way 00:06:59.370 --> 00:07:01.209 that things can cut, the way that things don't 00:07:01.209 --> 00:07:03.089 flow smoothly and don't make sense. They're using 00:07:03.089 --> 00:07:07.769 that consistently to pepper in the dream feel 00:07:07.769 --> 00:07:10.279 and to give us that. that vibe. And I'm glad 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:12.240 it's not just like a color filter that lets us 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:13.600 know it's a dream. It's that things are happening 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.240 in the dream that shouldn't be happening. And 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:19.879 that's a lot of fun. So, and I don't know, that's 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:21.699 like another subtle storytelling type thing. 00:07:21.939 --> 00:07:24.139 Um, you know, there's some kind of long tail 00:07:24.139 --> 00:07:26.959 thing going on where Knox has said that he found 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:31.160 it when, uh, there's a new, there's a new capsule 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:34.319 in play and it's recovery. And I think it's the 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:36.500 one that Nem got. Cause there's this really other 00:07:36.500 --> 00:07:38.480 really cool thing that Nem goes into his dream. 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:45.180 his code HQ, and meets Zero. And she's like, 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:46.779 oh, how quaint that you have a robot, or how 00:07:46.779 --> 00:07:48.040 avant -garde that you have a robot. Who's your 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:49.519 mentor? And he's like, oh, it's not actually 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:51.759 a robot. He's being remote -controlled. So Zero, 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:55.790 Agent Zero, is speaking through the bike. To 00:07:55.790 --> 00:07:58.069 her in English and it's funny later on she says 00:07:58.069 --> 00:08:00.230 something like I understand about half of those 00:08:00.230 --> 00:08:03.050 English words But like here this scanner tells 00:08:03.050 --> 00:08:05.050 us what this thing does and you can use it to 00:08:05.050 --> 00:08:07.610 recover, you know poison or whatever so that 00:08:07.610 --> 00:08:09.050 was kind of cute and kind of fun and then also 00:08:09.050 --> 00:08:11.829 like from a toy aspect like I remember being 00:08:11.829 --> 00:08:13.689 a kid in the 90s seeing all these like spy toys 00:08:13.689 --> 00:08:15.569 like Glasses that have little mirrors in them 00:08:15.569 --> 00:08:17.689 so you can see behind you and stuff. That's like 00:08:17.689 --> 00:08:22.189 obviously a toy But it's supposed to be like 00:08:22.189 --> 00:08:24.149 a spy toy and it's secretive and it's like this 00:08:24.149 --> 00:08:26.310 big clunky plastic thing. So he's got this badge 00:08:26.310 --> 00:08:28.949 visor thing that is a scanner that can tell if 00:08:28.949 --> 00:08:31.189 something's poisonous or not and can identify 00:08:31.189 --> 00:08:35.149 hazards. And it also can allow him to, it's like 00:08:35.149 --> 00:08:37.090 a universal key fob type thing where he can, 00:08:37.129 --> 00:08:40.470 he puts it up to at one point this door and like. 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:44.379 tricks it uh with his spy craft his spy tech 00:08:44.379 --> 00:08:47.139 thing to in order to enable him his agent secret 00:08:47.139 --> 00:08:49.779 agent tech uh in order to uh open this door and 00:08:49.779 --> 00:08:51.360 then it's funny because nam just comes through 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:53.919 the door and she scares him uh which is a lot 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:55.620 of fun because like he's obviously scared and 00:08:55.620 --> 00:08:57.720 then he plays it off and then he tells her he 00:08:57.720 --> 00:08:59.019 plays it off trying to be cool and then he tells 00:08:59.019 --> 00:09:01.259 her that he's scared um or that she scared him 00:09:01.259 --> 00:09:02.659 and i think she apologized and she's like oh 00:09:02.659 --> 00:09:04.080 here look i have this for you and she gives him 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:06.059 the recovery at that point so like there's a 00:09:06.059 --> 00:09:09.240 lot of I don't know. I'm just, I'm really enjoying 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:11.580 the storytelling and the way I'm enjoying the 00:09:11.580 --> 00:09:13.100 story that's being told. And I'm enjoying the 00:09:13.100 --> 00:09:15.460 way that the story is being told and it's really 00:09:15.460 --> 00:09:18.120 fun. It's really nice. Uh, I really dig it and 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.120 I'm excited to see the next episode, you know, 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:21.460 big dramatic thing at the end of the episode, 00:09:21.460 --> 00:09:23.419 he dies from the poison of the poison nightmare. 00:09:23.620 --> 00:09:25.559 And I mean, obviously he's going to come back. 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:28.860 We'll see what happens with that. Um, I don't 00:09:28.860 --> 00:09:30.360 know. I don't think he's getting a power up. 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:31.419 I think he's just going to come back because 00:09:31.419 --> 00:09:34.789 the suit, the recovery capsule, whatever, activates 00:09:34.789 --> 00:09:38.889 slowly, and I don't quite know why. But anyway, 00:09:38.950 --> 00:09:40.389 I really liked, too, there was another moment 00:09:40.389 --> 00:09:42.970 with Wing. He used Wing to fly over to Nem because 00:09:42.970 --> 00:09:44.429 she was about to get hit by the poison, and he 00:09:44.429 --> 00:09:45.750 shields her with his wings, and it just looks 00:09:45.750 --> 00:09:47.769 cool. Obviously, it's a bird thing. If you've 00:09:47.769 --> 00:09:50.429 been following my Zets reviews, you know I'm 00:09:50.429 --> 00:09:53.269 into birds, so I won't say anything more. You 00:09:53.269 --> 00:09:54.830 can have that little war nugget, too. I encourage 00:09:54.830 --> 00:09:57.490 you to go back and check it out. But also, apparently 00:09:57.490 --> 00:10:03.399 there was some venison and kraut. It's the signature 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:05.379 dish that has the sauce on it. The meat looks 00:10:05.379 --> 00:10:08.179 super red. It looks delicious. I love rare steak, 00:10:08.340 --> 00:10:11.740 whatever. It looks fantastic. Anyway, and it 00:10:11.740 --> 00:10:13.600 was wrapped in bread, too. It looked like soft 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:15.240 puff pastry kind of bread. It looks delicious. 00:10:15.419 --> 00:10:18.840 Anyway, so, yeah, that's all I have to say about 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.399 the episode. It made me hungry. Uh -oh, I have 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:22.600 something on the stove. I've got to go. Anyway, 00:10:22.659 --> 00:10:25.259 until next time, folks, take care. Be well. Check 00:10:25.259 --> 00:10:27.860 out my book trailer here and come back for more 00:10:27.860 --> 00:10:30.419 reviews of Kamen Rider Zets. I'm going to keep 00:10:30.419 --> 00:10:34.799 up with it. And I'm working on my own couple 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:36.620 side projects. I have a couple side projects 00:10:36.620 --> 00:10:40.519 I think you'll be interested in. And, yeah, if 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:42.340 you like Kamen Rider, if you like Ultraman, if 00:10:42.340 --> 00:10:44.019 you like Super Sentai, I have a couple side projects 00:10:44.019 --> 00:10:47.259 I'm working on. And you'll learn more about them 00:10:47.259 --> 00:10:49.539 later, but just stay tuned. By the way. I didn't 00:10:49.539 --> 00:10:50.980 forget my lunch, but I do need to go. It's right 00:10:50.980 --> 00:10:53.700 here. So we're all good. Until next time, folks, 00:10:53.779 --> 00:10:55.980 take care. This is MJ with Rider Cheers and Henshin 00:10:55.980 --> 00:11:00.840 Inspection, signing out. Magical bugs battle 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:02.799 monsters in this exciting fantasy adventure. 00:11:03.419 --> 00:11:06.220 Grimlings prey upon children. 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