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Does it even matter?
Does it even matter?
Tbf that's not really a common thing to do. Toku writers often write from 1/3 to around half of the show, leaving rest to sub-writers (Arakawa wrote less than half of Kiramager, for example). Exceptions are usually shows where one writer does the entire show basically.and if he isn't writing at least 2/3rds of the show, then he ain't doing his fucking job
Is that what's going on? I was unironically enjoying the hell out of it at first, but shortly after Kamen Rider Saikyo showed up the series went from "adventures traveling through books in fantastical settings" to "political conspiracy with back stabbing and everyone being melancholy" and I'm just thinking to myself if this was like what happened with Hibiki. I'm only at episode 34 so maybe it changes, but at this point half the series tries way too hard to act serious when it was never meant to. It's like Ex-Aid except they remembered to keep the damn opening theme. And what about the villains? We went from "monsters want to acquire a book with all knowledge" to "some corrupt guy and two lackeys (three if you count the phoenix wild card, why is the ground not corrupting around him like in the special?)" wanting the same thing. And then there's the monsters of the week, we had variety before, now it's just cat people. It made sense when the third Garo series did it because Mado Horrors were meant to be autonomous, here it's just whatever. What a let down, but predictable since having three good Kamen Rider series in a row is asking too much despite how badly Build, the worst tokusatsu ever made, really needs to be punished with quality.despite series having obvious production problems
Fukuda took his Ghost team of Mouri and Hasegawa on Saber and show's vision appears to be coherent between these three (despite series having obvious production problems). It is still a pretty weird situation, but Saber's behind the scenes stuff is probably very interesting in general.
There are rumors what Fukuda had to rewrite stuff early on because show had to deal with covid issues being at its peak there (Zero-One was supposed to end at episode 41 at one point, so they had to rush the production of the first two episodes early on and only after that changed so they had 4 more weeks, while Zero-One was busy character-assassinating its cast for the finale). In the very first trailer you can see Wonderland looking a bit more different. Show’s initial advertisement made a big deal about using Unreal Engine to create CGI landscapes, but it’s barely used in the show outside special attacks. Show does seem to have a stronger grasp at its story than Ghost did right from the start, since most of lore and backstories show explain later were posted on some sites initially around, so “drama” was intended to be there in the first place likely.Is that what's going on? I was unironically enjoying the hell out of it at first, but shortly after Kamen Rider Saikyo showed up the series went from "adventures traveling through books in fantastical settings" to "political conspiracy with back stabbing and everyone being melancholy" and I'm just thinking to myself if this was like what happened with Hibiki. I'm only at episode 34 so maybe it changes, but at this point half the series tries way too hard to act serious when it was never meant to. It's like Ex-Aid except they remembered to keep the damn opening theme. And what about the villains? We went from "monsters want to acquire a book with all knowledge" to "some corrupt guy and two lackeys (three if you count the phoenix wild card, why is the ground not corrupting around him like in the special?)" wanting the same thing. And then there's the monsters of the week, we had variety before, now it's just cat people. It made sense when the third Garo series did it because Mado Horrors were meant to be autonomous, here it's just whatever. What a let down, but predictable since having three good Kamen Rider series in a row is asking too much despite how badly Build, the worst tokusatsu ever made, really needs to be punished with quality.
He may have intended to do it, but we don’t know the extent of problems Saber team had to face. Saber wants to be this big fantasy epic with about five sides competing with complex lore and interconnected conspiracies all while having to minimalize its cast and having to do with as few sets as possible (most of them being CGI). Plus, at this point we can just say that Takahashi isn’t a good manager period. Add to that most people wanting to hate Saber off the gate because it’s Ghost team making the show and Saber having such a mess of Q1, proving them right with a lot of people not even making past it (there was that article around show’s eighth episode https://lovetokusatsu.com/2020/11/0...with-kamen-rider-saber-after-only-8-episodes/). Show had everything working against it. I’m willing to go easy on it here, because, while part of it was mishandled decisions, another part was having to deal with a lot of unfortunate situation with stuff they couldn’t control. If anything I can appreciate that they at least attempted to make an effort and improve and even succeeded somewhat. That’s more than Go-Busters achieved.Another thing that doesn't make sense about this though is that Fukuda stated Saber would have his full attention and by only doing 14 episodes, that was clearly a lie.
Eitherway, that's interesting about Arakawa considering the series never felt like it. Plus, he did at least half of Aba, Deka, and Gokai, so he still did his share of the work. Hell, Uehara usually wrote nearly every episode to every Metal Heroes series he did.