Re: Wizard 53

[akinoame]

Weird as that special was, I think it captured the spirit of the Heisei Series Riders better than most of the anniversaries to date. All it took was one line:

"Someone once said: We don't fight for justice. We fight for human freedom."

More on it when I do my Decade reviews.

Comments

[akinoame]

Eiji is actually not that easy, when you get down to it. His personality is kind of a traumatized deconstruction of Yusuke Godai, who is an extremely difficult character. And Kobayashi is really the master of writing desire as a motivation. I'll try to go more into detail on my thoughts on OOO when I get to the Movie Wars series. And Go-Busters, to be honest.

[gourdcaptain]

Okay, point. Correction: It should be at least easy to get him more correctly than Movie Wars Core did. Which isn't saying much. Also, yeah, I'd spotted the parallels between Eiji and Yusuke Godai when I later watched Kuuga... although Kuuga itself as a show was somewhat boring for me.

[akinoame]

Kuuga had an amazing ensemble, but it made the unforgivable sin of having a better supporting cast than main character. Too much focus went into making Yusuke a role model rather than a person, and in the end, I feel like Ichijou and Enokida succeeded more on both fronts--both were really role models for adults, how to balance work and a personal life--what you have to do and what you want to be like.