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So… the first draft is, in fact, the best draft. It’s the second draft that sucks.
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The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. - Terry Prachett
So… the first draft is, in fact, the best draft. It’s the second draft that sucks.
wands are like the smartphone of the wizard world, a slimmed and streamlined spellcasting apparatus of the modern era that has many slightly older wizards going "ugh kids these days don't know what it's like to have the sturdy weight of a Staff in your hands at all times. sure its not as portable but at least i can still use it to beat a motherfucker when im out of mana."
there are gen Z spellcasters trying to lead a wizard staff revival but they're all made out of cheap wood and crystals they bought on tiktok live and at least one has splintered and exploded on their user. meanwhile grandpa is in the back like "in MY day we had to memorize all our runes and draw them out of thin air backwards in the pouring rain 5 times a day"
and wizards who use scrolls and tomes to cast their spells? linux users.
following up from the image of nox in this post yesterday, i found a video of that part! eat well, nox nation.
my wife (ao3) is missing (down for maintenance)
people talk a lot about how wild shit would have gotten in the fire nation if zuko had joined the gaang at the end of season 2 but i think we’re ignoring that there’s a solid chance that in “The Runaway” zuko and toph would have ended up committing actual highway robbery
katara: can you believe the rest of them? you’re the only other person responsible enough to know not to pull these ridiculous scams–
zuko: oh, sokka said i’m not allowed to
katara: what?
zuko: i suggested a thing i used to do all the time when uncle and i were on the run. i don’t know why sokka didn’t like it, it’s the simplest scam ever
katara:
katara:
katara:
katara: do i want to know
zuko: it’s the one where i point my swords at somebody and they give me all their money. worked every time.
zuko: [is asleep]
toph, earthbending him to the top of the hill away from the rest of the group and then kicking him awake: rise and shine sokka’s asleep let’s go rob some people
zuko, pulling his dao out of his sleeping bag: sick let’s go
i LOVE this because it resolves the whole “everyone else got a fieldtrip with zuko” thing and then the Zuko Bonding Trips would just keep escalating like:
1. Straight Up Robbery w Toph
2. Breaking into Ancient Sacred Temple w Aang
3. Breaking In and Out of Prison w Sokka
4. Murder Vengence Mission w Katara
Coming off the news of Producer Yoshito Kuji being the head producer for Gavan Infinity, I’m curious who the head writer will be.
There’s those rumors for Kento Shimoyama from the sentai magic season stuff, but with Yoshito Kuji, I’m sure everyone is looking to Takano Minato and Atsuhiro Tomioka. Kuji was head producer for BoonBoomger with Tomioka and an assistant producer for KingOhger with TakaMina.
I’d love for TakaMina to do it. I love that man. (I wouldn’t co-run a KingOhger Sideblog if I didn’t.) I think the ways he changed the structure and dynamics for KingOhger would be good for keeping Gavan Infinity fresh. Specifically, I love how he approached KingOhger as not a show for children, but rather, a show that is interesting for children and to be enjoyed alongside adults.
Tomioka, imo, leans a bit too into the children’s show side of things with his work on Pokemon being a highlight. Great for sentai, but if Project R.E.D. wants to broaden the audience and reach a slightly older audience, don’t think he’s the best choice.
My wild pipe dream? Yasuko Kobayashi. Kobayashi started her work in Toku screenwriter with Metal heroes, with her first screenwriting credit being on Janperson and continued her work on Blue SWAT and the B-Fighter shows. She’s a toku writing vet who was part of revitalizing Kamen Rider with Ryuki. Not to mention, Kobayashi has darker themes in her shows both in and outside of Tokusatsu that would fit with a Metal hero-based Project R.E.D. Season. I would love the show to be written by her. Alas, I’m sure she’s busy with Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures.
Though honestly? It would be cool to get a group of writers who really share the spotlight. It's always like that to a degree, but if the idea of Project R.E.D. is that the heroes of the "team" are each their own, why not do a multiple writer project to give them each Gavan their own vision before coming together?
KAMEN RIDER X POKEMON AU !!! (KR OOO)
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ive been into kamen rider recently and ive been obssessed with the franchise as of late, recently i started watching kamen rider ooos! fun, a bit rocky with me honestly but what better way to show my love with it with pokemon? maybe i will do more of this kamen rider pokemon series thing im not sure, what do you think?
eiji could honestly fit anything else but i made him a scraggy just for the sake of his running gag and all, the idea of him carrying around his own baggy skin pants is really funny to me LOL
Road To Gokkan mods just heard the news about Super Sentai ending broadcast for the foreseeable future, as Project R.E.D. takes its place.
Unfortunate time for Sentai fans, but we still have 50 years of history to celebrate and talk about! As a King-Ohger blog, we’ll keep talking about the world crafted by TakaMina and the KingOh production team (we have so many analyses and fanfic ideas in the making!), and hope others will do the same for their favourite seasons!
Even if there is no new Sentai series, there could still be TTFC and anniversary specials for existing seasons. If not, and Toei is the only reason why we don't (since the KingOh cast have repeatedly mentioned wanting to do a 10th anniversary special), Toei will be hearing from us in 2033.
About halfway through my first watch of Abaranger. Really enjoying it! Asuka and Mikoto acting like the glue that really gets plot and lore moving is really neat, with our core trio then providing really good support and grounding everything.
It’s the last Arakawa season I haven’t seen yet and it doesn’t disappoint. Arakawa really has range with how different his series are while still having his heart and understanding of Sentai as a franchise. Just one more season after this (Gaoranger) and I’ll be finished with all 2000s Sentai!
PGSM — Why Zoisite Plays 'Moonlight Sonata'
I recently talked about this elsewhere, but I wanted to do a bigger deep down into just how clever and meaningful it is for Zoisite to play Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14, "the Moonlight Sonata." The piece is a great representation of Zoisite, Endymion, Serenity, and their motivations and feelings throughout the Dark Kingdom Arc.
The Importance Of The Moon
The clearest piece of symbolism with this piece is in the name: the moon and moonlight are important parts of the Sailor Moon mythos, especially pertaining to Endymion and Serenity's forbidden love.
Importance for Endymion & Serenity - Forbidden Love
It's useful to note that the name "Moonlight Sonata" was not Beethoven's name for the piece, it was named by a poet years after Beethoven's passing. Partially due to this name, many people play the piece in a dreamy manner that evokes the beautiful moonlight. This is just like Endymion himself, enamored by Serenity. However, the music also has a somber undertone and takes on heavier militaristic-like sound and a rhythm reminiscent of funeral marches. In fact, one modern Beethoven scholar, Daniel Barenboim, compares it to a Mozart piece played during an opera where a character is stabbed:
Much like Beethoven's 'Moonlight', Endymion and Serenity's love takes on a darker tone as we see their love is forbidden and will lead to destruction. This piece ultimately takes on the key aspects of Prince Endymion.
It's also worth highlighting that some interpretations of the piece have described 'Moonlight' through even more explicit forms of love. A popular one is "unrequited love", an interpretation coming from Beethoven having written the piece for a girl he loved, who married another man. While I wouldn't call Endymion and Serenity's love unrequited, it is forbidden and something they unconsciously yearn for as literal star-crossed lovers.
Importance for Zoisite - Yearning
The piece's connotation with a yearning love also correlates with Zoisite. Zoisite breathes in the past life and wants to do all he can to serve the best interests of his Master Endymion. This means trying to convince Mamoru to understand him and the past life, and taking drastic measures to stop Endymion and Serenity's love like in act 35.
These actions actually align with another known interpretation of Moonlight Sonata by Pierre Beaudry, author of the article, "The Truth About Beethoven's So-Called 'Moonlight Sonata'" - Moonlight being about someone who understands their life's mission and will do whatever it takes to fulfill it, regardless of the consequences. If that isn't Zoisite's character, I don't know what is.
The Importance of Change
One last major interpretation of 'Moonlight' that I find relevant to pgsm is the theme of change. Many believe the piece is about Beethoven's anguish as he falls into deafness, and the fear of humanity's limitations as a species. In this perspective, many think the enthusiastic end of this piece symbolizes the ability for humanity to conquer its fears, and to gain a passion leading to change. A change that will show how we are no longer limited by our fears.
This is exactly how pgsm and the Dark Kingdom Arc ends. After many close calls and a series worth of development, Usagi and Mamoru find another way that nobody believed possible. They find a way to end the past life as the inner senshi call out to Usagi and they change fate to surpass their previous lives.
So, yes. Moonlight Sonata is a foreboding sounding and famous piece of music, fitting for Zoisite making a dramatic entrance. But beyond that it’s so much more: It's Sailor Moon's forbidden love, with its simultaneous dream-like feelings of the moon and its funeral-like somberness. It's Zoisite's desperation to serve his master, and Endymion and Serenity's yearning for each other. And it's ultimately the inner senshi's ability to change fate beyond what they believed possible.
Heck, from the looks of it, Beethoven himself would have loved PGSM’s take on Sailor Moon:
PGSM — Why Zoisite Plays 'Moonlight Sonata'
I recently talked about this elsewhere, but I wanted to do a bigger deep down into just how clever and meaningful it is for Zoisite to play Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14, "the Moonlight Sonata." The piece is a great representation of Zoisite, Endymion, Serenity, and their motivations and feelings throughout the Dark Kingdom Arc.
The Importance Of The Moon
The clearest piece of symbolism with this piece is in the name: the moon and moonlight are important parts of the Sailor Moon mythos, especially pertaining to Endymion and Serenity's forbidden love.
Importance for Endymion & Serenity - Forbidden Love
It's useful to note that the name "Moonlight Sonata" was not Beethoven's name for the piece, it was named by a poet years after Beethoven's passing. Partially due to this name, many people play the piece in a dreamy manner that evokes the beautiful moonlight. This is just like Endymion himself, enamored by Serenity. However, the music also has a somber undertone and takes on heavier militaristic-like sound and a rhythm reminiscent of funeral marches. In fact, one modern Beethoven scholar, Daniel Barenboim, compares it to a Mozart piece played during an opera where a character is stabbed:
Much like Beethoven's 'Moonlight', Endymion and Serenity's love takes on a darker tone as we see their love is forbidden and will lead to destruction. This piece ultimately takes on the key aspects of Prince Endymion.
It's also worth highlighting that some interpretations of the piece have described 'Moonlight' through even more explicit forms of love. A popular one is "unrequited love", an interpretation coming from Beethoven having written the piece for a girl he loved, who married another man. While I wouldn't call Endymion and Serenity's love unrequited, it is forbidden and something they unconsciously yearn for as literal star-crossed lovers.
Importance for Zoisite - Yearning
The piece's connotation with a yearning love also correlates with Zoisite. Zoisite breathes in the past life and wants to do all he can to serve the best interests of his Master Endymion. This means trying to convince Mamoru to understand him and the past life, and taking drastic measures to stop Endymion and Serenity's love like in act 35.
These actions actually align with another known interpretation of Moonlight Sonata by Pierre Beaudry, author of the article, "The Truth About Beethoven's So-Called 'Moonlight Sonata'" - Moonlight being about someone who understands their life's mission and will do whatever it takes to fulfill it, regardless of the consequences. If that isn't Zoisite's character, I don't know what is.
The Importance of Change
One last major interpretation of 'Moonlight' that I find relevant to pgsm is the theme of change. Many believe the piece is about Beethoven's anguish as he falls into deafness, and the fear of humanity's limitations as a species. In this perspective, many think the enthusiastic end of this piece symbolizes the ability for humanity to conquer its fears, and to gain a passion leading to change. A change that will show how we are no longer limited by our fears.
This is exactly how pgsm and the Dark Kingdom Arc ends. After many close calls and a series worth of development, Usagi and Mamoru find another way that nobody believed possible. They find a way to end the past life as the inner senshi call out to Usagi and they change fate to surpass their previous lives.
So, yes. Moonlight Sonata is a foreboding sounding and famous piece of music, fitting for Zoisite making a dramatic entrance. But beyond that it’s so much more: It's Sailor Moon's forbidden love, with its simultaneous dream-like feelings of the moon and its funeral-like somberness. It's Zoisite's desperation to serve his master, and Endymion and Serenity's yearning for each other. And it's ultimately the inner senshi's ability to change fate beyond what they believed possible.
Heck, from the looks of it, Beethoven himself would have loved PGSM’s take on Sailor Moon:
Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Another Ending Trilogy: Rewrite Ideas
While I did like the Another Ending Trilogy, I think there was potential to do it in a different way.
To me, it felt like Yuya Takahashi had said all he wanted to about his characters as the trilogy focused more on Kuroto’s plan than exploring the characters. Which is fine, but I think there was a chance to explore fresher dynamics than Brave & Snipe and Genm & Lazer.
Para-DX With Poppy is nice, but Brave & Snipe and Genm & Lazer dynamics have been explored so much by that point.
Truthfully, I think it would have been more interesting to pair Lazer with Brave and Snipe with Genm. This way we can look at unexplored dynamics.
In Brave & Snipe, the backbone is Hiiro and Taiga fighting over how to save Saki while creating tension between Taiga and Nico. It’s not bad, but I think Kiriya could have worked better than Taiga as he also lost someone in his friend Jungo. But, unlike Saki, Jungo died to a traffic accident before the Bugster Virus could get him. This could create tension where Hiiro is uncertain about reviving Saki where Kiriya would take that chance. This is an unexplored idea whereas we’ve spent a lot of time with Hiiro and Taiga already.
This would then create a hypothetical “Genm Vs. Snipe.” This would be full circle because aside from Emu as Patient Zero, everything began with Kuroto unleashing the Bugster Virus and Taiga trying to stop it.
Para-DX With Poppy sets up this idea of Kuroto being a mistake and so to follow this idea of atonement, people will try to make up for it in “Genm Vs. Snipe.” — Taiga wants to save as many people as possible before making a final stand against Kuroto and Kuroto will see that his genius is beyond and that it’s a “mistake” in his own weird and twisted way. Plus, we have Bang Bang Tank as a weapon purposely designed to fight against Zombie Chronicle and it makes a bit more sense than using Kiriya’s Driver and would set up the present day events of episode 4 of Snipe Episode ZERO.
By no means is this hate towards Takahashi, but I feel there was more potential with these other dynamics and he had already developed and shown everything with Genm & Lazer and Brave & Snipe. I’d actually be interested to see the trilogy written by Takano Minato, then the writer for Snipe Episode ZERO and later the head writer for King-Ohger, to give new perspective as he did really well with Episode Zero at exploring Taiga’s character and his character work in King-Ohger becomes one of my favorite parts of the show.
Shinkenger — How Genta Improved Mojikara
The way Mojikara works in Shinkenger has always fascinated me, especially the core five’s written Mojikara compared to Genta’s Denshi no Mojikara. Without Genta, the Samurai wouldn’t get the latter half of their arsenal. And I rarely see people discuss why Genta was able to take them to new heights. It’s hugely impacted by how he improved the information system in a way that’s more effective.
Traditional Mojikara — A Limited System
Mojikara is a really powerful tool that can create anything the user imagines. But this also comes with disadvantages. Because the effect of Mojikara is impacted by user interpretation, multiple people writing the same kanji could create completely different things.
And I think that can be a weakness of the traditional Shodou-based Mojikara used by the samurai. If a time comes where they need to really combine their Mojikara, if their ideas aren’t aligned perfectly, they won’t achieve good results. We even see this in Shinkenger a couple times:
In order to use their mecha, the samurai need Mojikara. And the team once created an oden-like form of Shinken-Oh without the shishi origami because they weren’t all on the same page. They similarly combined with Daigoyou under the same conditions. This time, Daigoyou is another intelligence that factors in aligning ideas — The more brains needed to align ideas, the more risk there is for error.
I bring this all up because these limitations are probably part of why the Inroumaru wasn’t completed until Genta took a crack at it.
Electronic Mojikara — A Modern System
Genta’s new Electronic Mojikara (電子のモヂカラ, Denshi no Mojikara) overcomes these limitations. Without calligraphy training, Genta texts characters through his Sushi Changer cellphone to create Mojikara. As Genta describes, it’s like programming. And just like how code can be stored, the characters Genta wants to use are on his phone and can be copied whenever he needs to use that exact character again.
This is probably part of why he was able to complete the Inroumaru.
In the past, the samurai would have had to write each kanji out by hand, requiring multiple “spell casts” from multiple people, each with a chance of being slightly different due to human error.
In order to get enough power, multiple samurai need to work together. But each time they work together, they have a chance of making mistakes synchronizing due to human error.
Instead of having to spend energy re-writing kanji and aligning ideas with other samurai, Genta has it copied exactly in his sushi changer. He gets to save it on a computer like saving code. So, he can just keep sending power to the Inroumaru. It still drains him, of course, but not as much as it would for a traditional Mojikara user. This means he can work more. So he doesn’t need to work with others as he has the power to keep working, eliminating the synchronizing problem too.
The efficiency Genta can achieve with his Electronic Mojikara is so much better than traditional Mojikara for creating the Inroumaru.
It’s like comparing a modern bookkeeper with spreadsheet software to an accountant with a physical ledger from the ‘70s — We can achieve much more, much quicker with Microsoft Excel. And we see that in Genta’s improved Inroumaru.
A Complete and Improved Inroumaru
The Inroumaru Genta creates is actually more powerful than what was originally conceived by the past Shinkengers. The original records for the Iroumaru just showed the Shishi, Ryu, Kame, Kuma, Saru, Tora, Kajiki, Kabuto, and Ika origami.
However, we know that Genta created the Ebi Origami and it becomes a vital part of the Inroumaru’s power for the Shin Samurai Gattai, DaiKai Shinken-Oh.
Additional, the concept of the Inroumaru is similar to what Genta already did with his electronic Mojikara. Like how the past Shinkengers planned to store power in an Inrou, the commonly carried pocket box, Genta stored kanji in his commonly carried cell phone, the Sushi Changer.
Before Genta showed up, all transformations were done directly by writing mojikara each time. But with the Inroumaru, it’s like they have saved code for preferred mecha combos because it stores “data” of all their Origami.
This is why it was intuitive to him despite not understanding the records. He effectively did the same concept before when he created his Mojikara, his Sushi Changer, and the Ebi Origami.
So all in all, the Inroumaru was finished and improved by Genta through an intuitive and more modern understanding of Mojikara and the Inroumaru!