WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.799 I cannot believe how hard Zets episode 13 went. 00:00:04.540 --> 00:00:06.799 Is it good for a hero to have so much power at 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:09.580 this point in the show? Isn't it too early? This 00:00:09.580 --> 00:00:15.259 guy created a black hole and defeated a monster 00:00:15.259 --> 00:00:18.320 the size of a planet, basically, or a moon. It 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:19.440 was supposed to be a meteor, but it looked like 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:23.219 a moon. It's crazy. Anyway, this was a really 00:00:23.219 --> 00:00:25.500 good episode. I really love the dramatic tone 00:00:25.500 --> 00:00:28.199 in this episode. That was really nice. Things 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:30.280 have been dramatic before, but this felt different 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:34.560 and special and even more dramatic than we've 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:37.880 seen things uh be recently and uh it just definitely 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:41.240 kicked it up to another level there's a threat 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:44.979 um a threat to all life on the planet with this 00:00:44.979 --> 00:00:48.780 meteor uh because if it i i think that if the 00:00:48.780 --> 00:00:52.329 meteor creators were, you know, they were real. 00:00:52.390 --> 00:00:53.909 They were like small meteors. They were like 00:00:53.909 --> 00:00:55.130 precursors. They were just little things that 00:00:55.130 --> 00:00:56.890 were being spit off from the big meter. Had that 00:00:56.890 --> 00:00:58.130 meter actually crashed in the earth, it would 00:00:58.130 --> 00:00:59.609 have been an extinction level event, which is 00:00:59.609 --> 00:01:01.350 what I was trying to say earlier. And you know, 00:01:01.390 --> 00:01:03.890 everybody would be dead. So Zets has already 00:01:03.890 --> 00:01:06.010 saved the entire world by episode 13, which is 00:01:06.010 --> 00:01:07.930 pretty cool because there's no like singular 00:01:07.930 --> 00:01:10.409 group that we know of trying to take over the 00:01:10.409 --> 00:01:12.689 entire world. So that's pretty impressive to 00:01:12.689 --> 00:01:17.790 see. Anyway, the great thing is too that everybody 00:01:17.790 --> 00:01:20.329 acts like it's an extinction level event. uh 00:01:20.329 --> 00:01:24.129 baku is furious that okada or so adaka i think 00:01:24.129 --> 00:01:25.950 that's nox's real name right like messed him 00:01:25.950 --> 00:01:28.849 up and got into his head and he is blaming him 00:01:28.849 --> 00:01:30.510 for making him weak and making him unable to 00:01:30.510 --> 00:01:33.549 stop whatever the nightmare or like find the 00:01:33.549 --> 00:01:35.209 mind's door and do what he needs to do to prevent 00:01:35.209 --> 00:01:37.969 this from coming to fruition and fujimi is furious 00:01:37.969 --> 00:01:41.810 at baku for rejecting culpability and blaming 00:01:41.810 --> 00:01:44.760 odaka and he said you don't know him And they're 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:46.620 both kind of saying that to each other. And it's 00:01:46.620 --> 00:01:49.819 really intense and really cool. And Naska is 00:01:49.819 --> 00:01:53.140 coming down pretty harsh on Fujimi to stop him 00:01:53.140 --> 00:01:55.480 and saying, you know, he's just a civilian. He 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:57.180 shouldn't be doing this to him. Let him be. And 00:01:57.180 --> 00:02:00.120 then there's an interesting turn where she totally 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:01.920 seems to believe in Odaka, but I'll get more 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:06.180 on that later. And she, like, gets on the same 00:02:06.180 --> 00:02:08.259 page as Fujimi. It's really impressive. Really 00:02:08.259 --> 00:02:10.680 good character work is being done there. And 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:12.319 it all fits the tone. It's very dramatic. It's 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:14.550 very grounded, you know. These people are actually 00:02:14.550 --> 00:02:16.550 acting the way I would think they would in these 00:02:16.550 --> 00:02:19.310 circumstances with these powers inside. So that's 00:02:19.310 --> 00:02:23.289 pretty cool. Very intense. Let's see the next 00:02:23.289 --> 00:02:27.169 thing for... Okay, so this suit, this wonder 00:02:27.169 --> 00:02:30.310 suit, it feels too techie. I don't like the little 00:02:30.310 --> 00:02:33.490 tech nodes on it or whatever. I love the color 00:02:33.490 --> 00:02:36.349 of the... Yes, the shade of purple that they're 00:02:36.349 --> 00:02:38.750 using is great. And I like the overall idea of 00:02:38.750 --> 00:02:42.310 it, even though the weird... fists on wonder 00:02:42.310 --> 00:02:45.870 are too big and too odd uh for me to really dig 00:02:45.870 --> 00:02:49.409 a lot um it's pretty cool and i think it's nice 00:02:49.409 --> 00:02:52.789 it's it's a nice attempt and uh seeing an action 00:02:52.789 --> 00:02:55.069 isn't as bad although it's super clunky like 00:02:55.069 --> 00:02:57.610 how he supposedly got out his scythe and everything 00:02:57.610 --> 00:03:00.530 it just it doesn't work um and it's pretty silly 00:03:00.530 --> 00:03:03.150 so uh you know it kind of takes away from the 00:03:03.150 --> 00:03:04.949 coolness of it like the colors look really good 00:03:04.949 --> 00:03:07.330 and in wide shots it looks decent but it's just 00:03:07.330 --> 00:03:10.159 just kind of odd those Big ball hands are too 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.659 freaking weird for me. It brings gravity down 00:03:13.659 --> 00:03:16.120 a ton for me. It'd be cooler if he had chains 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.020 or something. Wouldn't that be cooler? Gravity 00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:22.879 is like an invisible chain. Anyway. I love that 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:26.900 Noctis did this Doctor Strange astral punch thing 00:03:26.900 --> 00:03:33.139 on Zets and knocked all his balls off. And it's 00:03:33.139 --> 00:03:36.449 funny. We have the toy. There's a... trend, if 00:03:36.449 --> 00:03:37.830 you know Kamen Rider toys the way they work, 00:03:37.889 --> 00:03:40.270 where they have all these little widgets or these 00:03:40.270 --> 00:03:44.169 little gadgets and they have pieces of merchandise 00:03:44.169 --> 00:03:46.830 that hold them. So like Wizard had this like 00:03:46.830 --> 00:03:50.610 ring holder where it swooped like from the front 00:03:50.610 --> 00:03:51.930 of his belt to the back of his belt basically 00:03:51.930 --> 00:03:54.090 and all the rings were inserted into it. Not 00:03:54.090 --> 00:03:55.370 all of them because there were like 20 rings 00:03:55.370 --> 00:03:57.270 but he'd have like six rings on him at a time 00:03:57.270 --> 00:04:00.129 and I can't remember who else had what else but 00:04:00.129 --> 00:04:02.030 different people, different riders their toys 00:04:02.030 --> 00:04:06.020 have these carriers in them that help hold the 00:04:06.020 --> 00:04:08.780 toy, the collectible merchandise. And that's 00:04:08.780 --> 00:04:11.979 obviously in this case, these like weird tubes. 00:04:12.020 --> 00:04:13.099 So, you know, the things that when you go buy 00:04:13.099 --> 00:04:14.659 tennis balls, the things that they come in, they 00:04:14.659 --> 00:04:16.259 basically have those, but they're, you know, 00:04:16.259 --> 00:04:17.660 Zets themed or whatever. And I think they're 00:04:17.660 --> 00:04:20.980 kind of goofy, but whatever. And those things 00:04:20.980 --> 00:04:23.509 hold them. And we've seen him loading. capsums 00:04:23.509 --> 00:04:26.089 into that on a couple of occasions but then it 00:04:26.089 --> 00:04:27.449 seems like whenever he needs a capsule he just 00:04:27.449 --> 00:04:28.889 pulls it out and i guess it's like dream logic 00:04:28.889 --> 00:04:30.629 where they're kind of in a hammer space they're 00:04:30.629 --> 00:04:32.209 teleported to him or whatever they're there's 00:04:32.209 --> 00:04:34.389 somehow though we see in this by this you know 00:04:34.389 --> 00:04:37.610 uh you can call it chaos emerald punch um like 00:04:37.610 --> 00:04:39.589 from sonic was that sonic three i think that 00:04:39.589 --> 00:04:42.529 was sonic three um like something between that 00:04:42.529 --> 00:04:44.370 and the doctor strains you know astral punch 00:04:44.370 --> 00:04:47.430 thing um where the the capsums fly out of him 00:04:47.430 --> 00:04:49.589 when he gets hit and then they're destroyed or 00:04:49.589 --> 00:04:52.720 whatever uh that they're somehow contained within 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:54.199 him, which makes sense because this is the dream 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:55.980 world and he carries them with him in his mind, 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.779 you could say, and in his dream, dream power, 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:00.620 I don't know, somehow they're contained within 00:05:00.620 --> 00:05:03.379 him. But that's a pretty cool move. I think it's 00:05:03.379 --> 00:05:05.600 a pretty cool way to do it and a way to just 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:07.899 kind of hand wave away what would otherwise be 00:05:07.899 --> 00:05:09.860 a clunky explanation. And I really enjoyed seeing 00:05:09.860 --> 00:05:12.420 that. And it gave us this great visual and it's 00:05:12.420 --> 00:05:14.220 cool because the visual tells the story and the 00:05:14.220 --> 00:05:16.779 story can only be told or in the visual can only 00:05:16.779 --> 00:05:19.540 play off like that because. the story allows 00:05:19.540 --> 00:05:22.379 for it. And it all works together very synergistically. 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:25.560 The gravity control stuff is really sweet. I 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:30.100 love gravity control characters. I made a character 00:05:30.100 --> 00:05:31.540 called Dark Star, which I didn't realize that 00:05:31.540 --> 00:05:34.220 was an existing superhero when I made that character 00:05:34.220 --> 00:05:36.939 up a long time ago. But she has gravity type 00:05:36.939 --> 00:05:39.000 powers and she can not make black holes, but 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:40.660 she can fly with her gravity powers like he does 00:05:40.660 --> 00:05:43.939 here. And she can also crush things with her 00:05:43.939 --> 00:05:46.029 gravity powers, which is pretty cool. I don't 00:05:46.029 --> 00:05:47.009 know that he was actually crushing anything, 00:05:47.089 --> 00:05:48.990 but he could. I know he could. And that's really 00:05:48.990 --> 00:05:51.389 cool. So I really enjoyed that. And then that 00:05:51.389 --> 00:05:53.689 meteor nightmare, the visuals of it were insane. 00:05:54.129 --> 00:05:56.410 It reminds me very much of the moon in Majora's 00:05:56.410 --> 00:05:58.769 Mask in some ways. I love that it's got these 00:05:58.769 --> 00:06:02.990 giant stabby things on it, like kunai or whatever. 00:06:03.310 --> 00:06:05.649 And from the front, they just like blades that 00:06:05.649 --> 00:06:07.490 have like a kind of serration around them or 00:06:07.490 --> 00:06:09.569 like these grooves on them. But when you turn 00:06:09.569 --> 00:06:11.290 them to the side, they're five -pointed stars, 00:06:11.350 --> 00:06:14.120 which is a... phenomenal little design detail 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:17.939 uh at least to me um i thought it was weird and 00:06:17.939 --> 00:06:21.399 creepy and really cool and i very much enjoyed 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:23.839 that design so that was super cool great great 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:28.000 nightmare never thought i'd say that uh and then 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:33.540 let's see so there's a lot going on with the 00:06:33.540 --> 00:06:36.939 story logic with the characters uh like zero 00:06:36.939 --> 00:06:38.519 is definitely hiding stuff he's hiding more stuff 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:41.509 he i believe he threatens monami that if he lets 00:06:41.509 --> 00:06:44.689 her in on this big secret um because of what 00:06:44.689 --> 00:06:46.589 happens at the end of the episode and she reveals 00:06:46.589 --> 00:06:48.550 it he'll have to kill her eliminate her deal 00:06:48.550 --> 00:06:50.649 with her camera exactly how he frames it but 00:06:50.649 --> 00:06:53.290 like super shady um and then he shows up and 00:06:53.290 --> 00:06:55.110 he confronts nox and he calls him agent number 00:06:55.110 --> 00:06:57.550 four which is a cool revelation unfortunately 00:06:57.550 --> 00:07:01.069 well uh yeah cool revelation and nox challenges 00:07:01.069 --> 00:07:02.310 him and says like oh you're still willing to 00:07:02.310 --> 00:07:03.970 throw the way throw away the lives of your agents 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:06.180 which is interesting because that implies that 00:07:06.180 --> 00:07:07.639 there's other agents and they've died before. 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:09.600 So maybe Knox is dead. Maybe he's a dream ghost. 00:07:09.980 --> 00:07:12.660 Maybe when you die in the dream, you die in real 00:07:12.660 --> 00:07:15.160 life, but then you become like a dreamwalker, 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:17.180 haunter person. Maybe that's what happened to 00:07:17.180 --> 00:07:21.600 them. Could it be? It's she. So that was super 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:25.399 interesting. I love Minami supporting Baku without 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:26.939 letting him know that she knows what he's doing. 00:07:27.139 --> 00:07:30.339 And then her finding out or like. seeing that 00:07:30.339 --> 00:07:31.420 something's wrong with him and then going to 00:07:31.420 --> 00:07:33.579 to zero was really satisfying she didn't just 00:07:33.579 --> 00:07:35.600 wait and like sit by the wayside so that was 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.459 a lot of fun um and then baku like having this 00:07:38.459 --> 00:07:41.279 whole arc where he's um kind of pathetic and 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:43.920 he's given up and then he uh has the spider -man 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.620 2 uh hang out with the kid session where he gets 00:07:46.620 --> 00:07:48.759 his morale boosted was really a lot of fun and 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:50.839 i really this actor i need to look up his name 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:53.160 um maybe i'll pause for a few seconds look up 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:56.980 his name and then insert it here he's doing a 00:07:56.980 --> 00:07:59.480 phenomenal job And I really like what he's doing. 00:07:59.540 --> 00:08:01.399 He's pouring so much into these performances. 00:08:01.459 --> 00:08:03.620 He's being so intense and being so serious and 00:08:03.620 --> 00:08:05.120 brings such gravitas to it. And I really like 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:07.939 it. He makes this impossible, you know, crazy 00:08:07.939 --> 00:08:10.759 Henshin hero Tokusatsu stuff believable with 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:12.980 his conviction. And it's just, it's, it's beautiful. 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.220 It's beautiful. Like I seriously feel like he's 00:08:16.220 --> 00:08:18.600 like a Hiroshi Fujioka level of Kamen Rider actor. 00:08:20.379 --> 00:08:23.040 Oh, let's see. And then also the whole thing 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:26.800 with the detectives and Odaka with They have 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:30.899 conflict, but ultimately Naska is coming around 00:08:30.899 --> 00:08:32.919 and she is believing in everything that's going 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:38.600 on. And she wants to help find Odaka and try 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:43.539 to free him and either clear his name or somehow 00:08:43.539 --> 00:08:45.700 free him from whatever has got him trapped so 00:08:45.700 --> 00:08:47.620 that he can stop being a bad guy and he can be 00:08:47.620 --> 00:08:50.240 the guy that Fujimi believes in. And she's doing 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:52.100 it out of a tenderness and a care for Fujimi 00:08:52.100 --> 00:08:54.820 as well as probably just being a cop who wants 00:08:54.820 --> 00:08:58.059 to get justice done and help this victim of this 00:08:58.059 --> 00:08:59.799 crime, whatever this crime is and whoever is 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:03.279 doing it. Probably Foundation X. But anyway, 00:09:03.500 --> 00:09:07.700 so yeah, that's pretty cool. So jumping back 00:09:07.700 --> 00:09:10.379 on theory stuff as I round out the episode and 00:09:10.379 --> 00:09:13.649 finish up, Knox is not an agent. Oh, well, I 00:09:13.649 --> 00:09:14.990 really thought he was going to be, or I'm sorry, 00:09:15.049 --> 00:09:16.830 he is an agent, but he's agent number four. He's 00:09:16.830 --> 00:09:20.450 not agent number X, number 10. That was a theory 00:09:20.450 --> 00:09:22.529 that somebody shared with me on a short, and 00:09:22.529 --> 00:09:24.110 I thought it was a great theory. I still think 00:09:24.110 --> 00:09:25.470 it's a great theory. It totally makes sense. 00:09:25.529 --> 00:09:28.649 But yeah, apparently he's number four. I do have 00:09:28.649 --> 00:09:30.129 another theory, though, sparked by this, which 00:09:30.129 --> 00:09:32.070 is that I think Baku was saved from death multiple 00:09:32.070 --> 00:09:35.350 times by previous agents, maybe even Knox or 00:09:35.350 --> 00:09:38.070 agent number four. They each died saving him 00:09:38.070 --> 00:09:41.070 from... uh something for some greater purpose 00:09:41.070 --> 00:09:44.970 that zero and code knew of maybe and uh i wonder 00:09:44.970 --> 00:09:47.169 if maybe even that's uh what we're gonna the 00:09:47.169 --> 00:09:48.970 preview for next episode looks like it was diving 00:09:48.970 --> 00:09:50.990 debacle's past and i wonder if that could be 00:09:50.990 --> 00:09:52.570 it and i wonder if that's how nox died and i'm 00:09:52.570 --> 00:09:57.750 wondering if maybe when you die in the uh story 00:09:57.750 --> 00:10:00.769 or in the story of course when you die in the 00:10:00.769 --> 00:10:03.370 dream or in the nightmare uh maybe you end up 00:10:03.370 --> 00:10:06.350 a ghost trapped in dreams and that's what is 00:10:06.350 --> 00:10:08.990 going on with nox that would be fascinating That'd 00:10:08.990 --> 00:10:10.309 be super fascinating. Like your connection to 00:10:10.309 --> 00:10:12.350 your body is terminated. Your body dies and then 00:10:12.350 --> 00:10:13.909 maybe you live on as a ghost inside the dreams. 00:10:14.070 --> 00:10:15.850 I don't know, but I find that to be a fascinating 00:10:15.850 --> 00:10:18.149 concept. That's my theory and I'm sticking with 00:10:18.149 --> 00:10:21.389 it until it's disproven. Episode 13 of Zets was 00:10:21.389 --> 00:10:23.389 excellent. Everything was delivered really well. 00:10:23.509 --> 00:10:25.429 The emotions were high. The tension was high. 00:10:25.750 --> 00:10:28.610 The crazy stuff was happening with all the powers 00:10:28.610 --> 00:10:31.179 and everything. And I'm really interested in 00:10:31.179 --> 00:10:33.000 the character story that's going on, but also 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:34.659 I'm worried that it's setting the bar too high 00:10:34.659 --> 00:10:36.960 for itself. Like, will episode 14 be as good? 00:10:37.019 --> 00:10:40.320 Can it be as good? Will the show feel like it 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:41.919 needs to keep topping it and making him more 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:43.700 and more and more powerful, Baku that is, in 00:10:43.700 --> 00:10:45.279 order for the show to continue to be good? I 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:47.580 hope not, because it's not the power that he 00:10:47.580 --> 00:10:49.740 expresses that makes the show good. It's the 00:10:49.740 --> 00:10:53.480 guts and the feeling and the emotion, the conviction 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:55.879 behind the power that makes it matter, at least 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:59.179 to me. And I'm worried that the show won't know 00:10:59.179 --> 00:11:01.039 where to go from here and it'll get messed up. 00:11:01.100 --> 00:11:05.039 But I think Takashi might be setting up this 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:09.759 idea of dealing with power and what is the cost 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:11.240 of power. Nox keeps talking about the cost of 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:14.480 using the power of the capsums and the horror 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.460 of the capsums. And maybe that's what's being 00:11:17.460 --> 00:11:19.580 set up here. But where's that going to go? What 00:11:19.580 --> 00:11:21.620 does that mean? And how are they going to stick 00:11:21.620 --> 00:11:23.240 the landing? Because if they don't, it'll just 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:27.659 kind of peter out and stink. Anyway, that's it 00:11:27.659 --> 00:11:30.899 for this episode. Go ahead and check out my playlist 00:11:30.899 --> 00:11:34.299 linked in the first, or pinned in the first comment, 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:37.299 where you can see all the rest of my Zets coverage. 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:39.960 And you can also, of course, in the comments, 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.179 answer my questions about what you think is going 00:11:42.179 --> 00:11:43.620 to happen in the show and what you thought about 00:11:43.620 --> 00:11:45.080 it in general, because I'd love to hear what 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:46.639 you had to say. Let's have a conversation about 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:48.539 it. Until next time, this is MJ with Henshin 00:11:48.539 --> 00:11:50.419 Inspection and Writer Tears, signing out.