Gozyuger Episodes 15 & 16 (Spoilers!)
This show continues to be a completely hectic ride start to finish lol. I really like how much characterization for the Bridan we've been getting and it definitely gives me the impression that at least Fire Candle and/or Bouquet will switch sides at some point. I don't think they'll necessarily become Gozyugers but they're definitely setting the groundwork for something here. (There's also the note that the Tega June toy actually has unique light responses to the other Gozyuger rings. This might just be Bandai including more play features but it definitely feels like evidence for at least Garyudo joining the team eventually.)
The Tega June AI reveal honestly wasn't that surprising to me and I have to see where they're going with it to really know what to think about it but I think it's an interesting concept. Mankind creating a machine in 'God's' image isn't really a new idea but it could be fun and I wanna see where they go with it. This is just more evidence to support my (proven) theory that everything, in the end, is just Eva again. And speaking of Evangelion, episode 15 was pretty messed up toward the end!
The presentation of the battle was really cool and Toei's really been showing off how much better their CGI work is getting. I think the tension of the scene overall was great and paid off in a really cool "the heroes lose" ending which is not something you see all the time.
And with that, we finally have our 6th Gozyuger! I think GozyuPolar is cool and I really dig his design but I'm honestly kind of iffy on his actual character so far. I know he's gotta be super duper extra cool so the kids will buy his toy but I usually don't really like characters with his kind of attitude unless they back it up with something more interesting. I like his theme and the opening change was funny, it gives me really heavy early/mid-Heisei opening vibes and I liked it.
Guys…. We are only on episode 15…. AND THE WORLD IS ALREADY OVER?
Seriously though, 1gou is right, the breakneck pace is loosing me yet again… Ahhg! And right when I had a handle on things too! 1gou covered a lot of the main points, so I’m going to focus on bits that popped out to me.
I’m sure everyone has heard at least once that the villains in media often reflect the anxieties of the time. Myths had villains that were natural disasters, post war villains represented the “other” or apocalypses, and now we have the very blatantly represented fears of AI in TegaJune and Kuon. I mean, it can’t get more blatant that a CEO of an AI company piloting a huge AI mech who mocks God (Tegasword) Himself with her own makings.
Let’s address the elephant in the room, the whole “Let’s get married Hoeru!” Thing Kuon says. Obviously it lends to the Batshit Crazy angle they are doing with his character, but also it kind of shows that his perceptions of relationships aren’t really there anymore. He has been utterly, utterly brainwashed.
I agree with 1gou’s opinion of GozyuPolar, his personality is sort of a hard sell for me right now. It’s one thing to have a character who is cocky and thinks they are super cool, and another thing for the narrative to validate that character’s annoying personality by insisting that they are actually that cool. Also, the fact that he was GozyRed kind of feels like a complete out of the blue way to make him feel more connected to the story that I kind of feel like fell flat. The fact that Tegasword had remade the world at one point does imply that there was a GozuWolf before Hoeru, but it wasn’t something I was really wondering about let alone thought about. If they had mentioned that there was a GozuWolf before Hoeru that had won the Universe war, it would have made me perk my ears a little and go “oh this might come back. Maybe I should think / watch out for this.”
I honestly feel like Kumade would work better as a character that was entirely brand new. Like he is the brand new Prince of this world, he is “incomplete” so he has a will of his own and he was literally born yesterday. In this version of him, Kumade would be cocky because of the sway he has around this new world as everything seems to bend around him to his will, but his cockiness is naive because he has yet to face a real challenge, which is what he would find in Hoeru. You can even keep his ambition on becoming a new god, wanting to “complete” himself in a way that TegaJune doesn’t intend. I feel like this direction for the character would be stronger than “I want to become a god because I deserve it for doing this grand feat (all of my hard work was off screen, it was really epic trust me.)”
Either way, Polar has been around for like, one episode, so let’s hope my cold heart will melt..!
"Did those robots just kiss?" -1gou
“Tegasword needs help with the divorce…” -2gou
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