WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.359 Kamen Rider Zeps Episode 9, Poison, was a fun 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:05.599 one. I enjoyed it a lot. It was written by Yuya 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:08.859 Takahashi, directed by Kazuya Kamihoriuchi, who 00:00:08.859 --> 00:00:11.679 directed the last episode as well. And I enjoyed 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:14.859 a lot of it. There were some revelations for 00:00:14.859 --> 00:00:17.620 sure. And I want to talk about the whole dream 00:00:17.620 --> 00:00:19.780 logic thing and how the dreamer works and how 00:00:19.780 --> 00:00:21.940 the nightmare works because there's interesting 00:00:21.940 --> 00:00:25.260 things going on there. And yeah, basically I 00:00:25.260 --> 00:00:26.320 thought it was cool. The action was a lot of 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:30.870 fun. His axe form is very enjoyable to watch 00:00:30.870 --> 00:00:33.789 fight. He's very fast, very agile, but he also 00:00:33.789 --> 00:00:37.030 does a lot of very heavy moves, overhead chops 00:00:37.030 --> 00:00:38.950 and things like that, which is a lot of fun to 00:00:38.950 --> 00:00:41.049 see. I don't know, I'm sure there has to have 00:00:41.049 --> 00:00:42.310 been at least one other Kamen Rider who had an 00:00:42.310 --> 00:00:45.090 axe in Ryuki. I'm going to say it was a gazelle 00:00:45.090 --> 00:00:47.409 guy or a rhino guy or something like that, but 00:00:47.409 --> 00:00:49.869 I don't quite remember and I haven't seen all 00:00:49.869 --> 00:00:51.250 of Ryuki. I've seen Dragon Knight, Kamen Rider 00:00:51.250 --> 00:00:53.950 Dragon Knight, and they use the same suits for 00:00:53.950 --> 00:00:57.270 that. I'm having a hard time remembering which 00:00:57.270 --> 00:01:00.210 one had it, but one of them was called Axe, so 00:01:00.210 --> 00:01:02.689 it was probably Kamen Rider Axe from Dragon Knight, 00:01:02.770 --> 00:01:05.129 but he's something else in Ryuki. So anyway, 00:01:05.230 --> 00:01:07.530 I thought that was a lot of fun. I thought the 00:01:07.530 --> 00:01:10.290 action was a lot of fun, and the visuals that 00:01:10.290 --> 00:01:14.269 came along with it were quite enjoyable. I gotta 00:01:14.269 --> 00:01:15.849 say, that fakeout in the beginning of the episode 00:01:15.849 --> 00:01:18.450 where we think Baku's dead, or I guess his heart 00:01:18.450 --> 00:01:20.709 or breathing did stop, and then Nem proceeds 00:01:20.709 --> 00:01:24.010 to shoot him with the recovery capsum was pretty 00:01:24.010 --> 00:01:26.859 cool. I find it interesting and I find it strange 00:01:26.859 --> 00:01:30.700 that when she... When he used it previously, 00:01:30.939 --> 00:01:37.299 it damaged him. And... In the last episode. And 00:01:37.299 --> 00:01:38.379 then when she used it at the beginning of this 00:01:38.379 --> 00:01:40.560 episode, it blew her out of the room and knocked 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:42.700 her into another area in the dream or whatever. 00:01:43.180 --> 00:01:47.480 And then, after he's revived, because she shot 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:51.260 him. That's fun. He takes the capsule and he 00:01:51.260 --> 00:01:54.099 rolls it or activates it along... the bodies 00:01:54.099 --> 00:01:56.299 of the two sous chefs who are taking over from 00:01:56.299 --> 00:01:59.680 Sano or Shano? It's got to be Sano, right? Yeah, 00:01:59.780 --> 00:02:04.200 Chef Sano. Anyway, so he rolls it along their 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:06.659 bodies, and it seems to activate just fine on 00:02:06.659 --> 00:02:09.219 them without causing them any harm. And I find 00:02:09.219 --> 00:02:10.960 that interesting because firing it from his weapon 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:14.699 and using it himself seems to cause harm and 00:02:14.699 --> 00:02:17.479 cause strain even later on when his axe is broken. 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:23.319 And he repairs it. experience his strain. And 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:25.300 I don't know if that has anything to do with 00:02:25.300 --> 00:02:27.479 what Nock said last episode, that he'll learn 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:30.580 the limits or the cost of the power. I don't 00:02:30.580 --> 00:02:35.300 know if that was the power of that specific capsum 00:02:35.300 --> 00:02:38.280 or if that's the power of dreams in general. 00:02:38.780 --> 00:02:42.020 And we're not told that and we're not really 00:02:42.020 --> 00:02:44.099 shown that either. It's just kind of left to 00:02:44.099 --> 00:02:46.159 be this vague thing that's kind of hanging out 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:49.300 there. It's something, I guess it's a mystery 00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:51.340 going forward that we'll have to contend with 00:02:51.340 --> 00:02:53.759 or deal with. So that was kind of interesting. 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:58.939 Getting to the dream logic thing, or the dreamer 00:02:58.939 --> 00:03:01.900 and nightmare logic, I guess what happens is 00:03:01.900 --> 00:03:04.219 that people's dreams are being turned into nightmares 00:03:04.219 --> 00:03:08.419 against their will, obviously. And that's not 00:03:08.419 --> 00:03:16.120 very nice. And that's the power or the... The 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.139 method, I guess you could say, of the nightmares, 00:03:18.259 --> 00:03:20.560 it's to take someone's dream and twist it into 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:24.560 something scary and painful for them. And I don't 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:28.060 know if the nightmares feed off of that or get 00:03:28.060 --> 00:03:29.580 some sort of energy off of that specifically, 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:32.719 or if they need to, or frankly, I don't even 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:34.159 know if that needs to be explained. It just needs 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:36.800 to happen so that we can have the action happen, 00:03:36.860 --> 00:03:39.039 the action take place and, you know, entertain 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:43.080 us. But I do just find it interesting that we 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:46.469 don't really get what's happening there. and 00:03:46.469 --> 00:03:49.469 we don't know the mechanics of it yet. So yeah, 00:03:49.550 --> 00:03:52.250 like I said, that's interesting, and I like it. 00:03:53.930 --> 00:03:55.789 Let's see. That's it. That's the only two images. 00:03:55.870 --> 00:04:01.189 Great. Anyway, so I don't like that we don't 00:04:01.189 --> 00:04:03.250 get the full insight into the mechanics, but, 00:04:03.250 --> 00:04:05.370 you know, whatever. We have to take what we can 00:04:05.370 --> 00:04:12.469 get, right? So besides not knowing the mechanics 00:04:12.469 --> 00:04:14.770 of the nightmares, what interests me is that... 00:04:14.990 --> 00:04:18.470 uh i mean i i guess that sano's the dreamer and 00:04:18.470 --> 00:04:22.529 his dream is to have a successful uh time a successful 00:04:22.529 --> 00:04:25.529 mission feeding the uh this foreign dignitary 00:04:25.529 --> 00:04:28.290 and whatever japanese ambassador was there to 00:04:28.290 --> 00:04:34.050 meet with him and his dream is to do that so 00:04:34.050 --> 00:04:38.829 that he can have a successful last showing in 00:04:38.829 --> 00:04:42.149 order to help him accomplish his goal his dream 00:04:42.149 --> 00:04:46.899 of passing on the shirogane or the royal shirogane 00:04:46.899 --> 00:04:52.600 restaurant reputation and and prestige whatever 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:55.180 to his sous chefs so that they can take over 00:04:55.180 --> 00:04:58.069 because he's old and ill and dying and like that's 00:04:58.069 --> 00:04:59.689 why we got the the scene in the hospital from 00:04:59.689 --> 00:05:01.470 the end of last episode it's because he knows 00:05:01.470 --> 00:05:02.769 there's something wrong with him and he knows 00:05:02.769 --> 00:05:04.730 he's not gonna be able to do this forever so 00:05:04.730 --> 00:05:06.290 his dream is to pass it on to the next generation 00:05:06.290 --> 00:05:08.990 who can take it over for him just as he took 00:05:08.990 --> 00:05:11.050 it over from whoever was before him i know i 00:05:11.050 --> 00:05:12.250 don't know if it's a family business i don't 00:05:12.250 --> 00:05:13.970 think it is specifically i think there's just 00:05:13.970 --> 00:05:16.569 people that come along and you know take up the 00:05:16.569 --> 00:05:18.629 mantle from the predecessor which i think is 00:05:18.629 --> 00:05:22.329 a cool idea i like that um and just the nightmares 00:05:22.329 --> 00:05:26.439 messing that up and I mean, Knox refers to himself 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:30.160 as a wanderer of dreams like Nem, and by the 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.939 end of the episode, spoilers, but you've already 00:05:32.939 --> 00:05:34.500 seen the episode, right? So, you know, why would 00:05:34.500 --> 00:05:36.939 you be here if you hadn't? We find out that Knox 00:05:36.939 --> 00:05:46.019 is Fujimi's old partner, and he was like a junior 00:05:46.019 --> 00:05:48.660 partner, and he ends up disappearing. We don't 00:05:48.660 --> 00:05:51.019 know why he disappeared, but that's what Fujimi's, 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:52.920 you know, part of... his disappearance is what's 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:55.180 motivating fujimi to solve these black cases 00:05:55.180 --> 00:05:57.100 partly so he can find his partner and also just 00:05:57.100 --> 00:05:59.100 because you know if he can help people then he 00:05:59.100 --> 00:06:00.699 wants to it's his dream to be a police officer 00:06:00.699 --> 00:06:05.259 to help people and it makes me wonder what does 00:06:05.259 --> 00:06:09.120 knox mean that he is a wanderer of dreams just 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:15.720 like nem is and how is it like mechanically what's 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:18.779 going on was nem an ordinary girl and when she 00:06:19.540 --> 00:06:21.819 was hit by that car something happened to her 00:06:21.819 --> 00:06:23.860 and something interacted with her and turned 00:06:23.860 --> 00:06:30.639 her into a Equivalent actor to Knox and he's 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:35.399 Knox and she's Nim or Maybe the name doesn't 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:37.519 matter so much. Maybe there's something deeper 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:39.519 Maybe there's some secret name that she has that 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:42.220 makes them the counterparts of this dream interaction 00:06:42.220 --> 00:06:46.629 thing inter acting and intersecting with the 00:06:46.629 --> 00:06:48.430 nightmares i don't know what i'm saying is i 00:06:48.430 --> 00:06:51.050 don't know but i'm intrigued by the mystery that 00:06:51.050 --> 00:06:52.389 it's setting up and they did this thing where 00:06:52.389 --> 00:06:54.470 they zoomed in on her earlobe and she has like 00:06:54.470 --> 00:06:57.410 a butterfly earring on and i don't know that 00:06:57.410 --> 00:06:59.829 i've noticed her earrings before this episode 00:06:59.829 --> 00:07:02.189 it's possible she was always wearing butterfly 00:07:02.189 --> 00:07:04.910 earrings or she wasn't always wearing butterfly 00:07:04.910 --> 00:07:07.790 earrings but if she was that's it feels significant 00:07:07.790 --> 00:07:09.850 because they put emphasis on them in this episode 00:07:09.850 --> 00:07:12.050 and it would give us a clue of how they're linked 00:07:12.050 --> 00:07:13.889 especially because the dreams The nightmares 00:07:13.889 --> 00:07:18.889 and the dreams appear as a butterfly. So the 00:07:18.889 --> 00:07:22.310 butterfly connection I want to talk about. Butterfly... 00:07:22.310 --> 00:07:26.970 Hold on, why is it Psyche? Something about Psyche, 00:07:27.029 --> 00:07:30.189 which means soul in Greek, is associated with 00:07:30.189 --> 00:07:33.110 butterflies. Not just from Persona, but just 00:07:33.110 --> 00:07:37.689 in general. And there's this old saying from... 00:07:37.689 --> 00:07:46.189 Zhuangzi? Let's see. What does it say? And I 00:07:46.189 --> 00:07:48.250 do know this from Persona. So, only after the 00:07:48.250 --> 00:07:50.750 Great Awakening will we realize that this is 00:07:50.750 --> 00:07:53.310 the Great Dream, and yet fools think they are 00:07:53.310 --> 00:07:55.629 awake, presuming to know that they are rulers 00:07:55.629 --> 00:07:59.029 or herdsmen. How dense. Now I do not know whether 00:07:59.029 --> 00:08:01.009 I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, 00:08:01.189 --> 00:08:03.810 or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am 00:08:03.810 --> 00:08:08.810 a man. That's an interesting thing. This does 00:08:08.810 --> 00:08:10.649 not have the whole excerpt, but you can see there's 00:08:10.649 --> 00:08:14.259 definitely an old... An old connection between 00:08:14.259 --> 00:08:16.220 butterflies and dreaming, and it makes sense 00:08:16.220 --> 00:08:20.519 that the nightmares spread out on the night that 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.800 the bomb nightmare escaped and manifested in 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:26.680 the world. They went out as these butterflies, 00:08:26.819 --> 00:08:30.720 and then when Baku has saved people, the dream 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:32.639 flies away from them as a butterfly. And even 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:33.860 in the opening, there's this really cool shot 00:08:33.860 --> 00:08:36.220 where he walks up to the camera as Zets, and 00:08:36.220 --> 00:08:38.379 then he transforms or whatever, changes back 00:08:38.379 --> 00:08:40.320 into Baku, and then he lifts his gun and shoots, 00:08:40.500 --> 00:08:42.960 and this bullet goes through a butterfly. destroying 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:45.080 it, kind of representing that his mission is 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:47.039 to destroy these butterflies that represent the 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:49.419 nightmares. But nightmares only exist because 00:08:49.419 --> 00:08:53.259 dreams exist. So I'm wondering what's like the 00:08:53.259 --> 00:08:55.480 big stakes world building cosmology of it all 00:08:55.480 --> 00:09:00.740 being stated with Nem and Nox being these wanderers 00:09:00.740 --> 00:09:04.100 of dreams, especially when he went missing as 00:09:04.100 --> 00:09:06.720 one guy and then came back as Nox, who has this 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:09.899 power over dreams. And Nem is kind of similar 00:09:09.899 --> 00:09:12.870 in a way. She had this accident and... she actually 00:09:12.870 --> 00:09:14.730 she vanished in a black case type thing and now 00:09:14.730 --> 00:09:17.169 she's somebody who appears in people's dreams 00:09:17.169 --> 00:09:19.149 at different times and anyway there's a lot of 00:09:19.149 --> 00:09:21.029 fun a lot of fun a lot of exciting stuff going 00:09:21.029 --> 00:09:25.570 on here and i like it um it's really cool because 00:09:25.570 --> 00:09:27.809 we get the the moment between him and them and 00:09:27.809 --> 00:09:31.429 i noticed that he has you know these triangle 00:09:31.429 --> 00:09:38.129 circle square circle and she has let me see ah 00:09:38.129 --> 00:09:42.860 i don't have it here unfortunately hold on this 00:09:42.860 --> 00:09:44.559 might be a stretch, but she kind of has these 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:48.179 similar, she's got a triangle, she's got a square, 00:09:48.259 --> 00:09:50.659 she's got circles in these appliques here on 00:09:50.659 --> 00:09:52.740 her outfit. And that's kind of interesting. I 00:09:52.740 --> 00:09:53.980 wonder if that's supposed to mean anything or 00:09:53.980 --> 00:09:55.779 if that's just supposed to make us wonder if 00:09:55.779 --> 00:09:57.059 it means something and maybe it really doesn't. 00:09:57.899 --> 00:09:59.360 Anyway, I just think it's interesting. There's 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:01.100 interesting, you know, storytelling writing stuff 00:10:01.100 --> 00:10:03.399 going on here. I'm very curious to see how this 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:05.360 all pans out. And let me know what you thought 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:07.139 about the episode itself, what you think about 00:10:07.139 --> 00:10:08.320 these things that are going on with the lore, 00:10:08.500 --> 00:10:10.500 what you think about the fact that Space Sheriff 00:10:10.500 --> 00:10:13.600 Govan is replacing Super Sentai in TVRC's 930 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:16.620 slot, according to official sources that I saw 00:10:16.620 --> 00:10:22.340 from August Ragone and this affiliate of TVRC. 00:10:24.779 --> 00:10:28.679 Anyway, I think it's pretty cool. that we're 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:30.700 getting some firm knowledge on that. And if you 00:10:30.700 --> 00:10:32.120 want to talk about that, we can talk about that 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:34.600 as well as the content of this episode. And I 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:36.960 guess of my review. Anyway, let me know what 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:38.960 you thought in the comments. 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