Alrighty! BD just arrived and I've just finished watching it. Initial impressions and stuff I noticed below!
Gaim Gaiden Duke
[hide]- Backstory for all the Genesis Riders. Sid was a drug dealer, Minato was an industrial spy. Shows the first meeting between Takatora and Ryouma.
- Villain was Ryouma's first test subject with the Apple Taboo Lockseed and is given ghost powers (suck between dimensions or something). He controls people by spreading (fake) Zakuro Lockseeds around and making them self-destruct. Wow, the death count in this is pretty absurd.
- No explanation for how he obtained the Driver, Genesis Core, Blood Orange Lockseed, Zakuro Lockseed and why it uses the Sonic Arrow as a weapon. It's acknowledged by Ryouma but never addressed.
- In certain scenes, the Blood Orange Arms shoulder pad looked literally taped on.
- They messed up Zangetsu's Henshin! They used the sound the Melon Lockseed makes in the Genesis Core instead of "Tenka Gomen"! Unforgivable.[/hide]
Gaim Gaiden Knuckle
[hide]- Jounouchi won a sweets making contest, Micchi and Takatora are planning to go overseas.
- Backstory of Baron's founding.
- Zack randomly going to New York.
- Villain is a former member of the team that Kaito took over to form Baron. He used a sneak attack and was considered weak by Kaito. He now uses a warped version of Kaito's ideals (only the strong survive) and formed Neo Baron.
- Micchi randomly appearing to save Zack and Jounouchi as Ryugen and randomly gives Zack the Maron Energy Lockseed, Kurumi Lockseed and Driver.
- Genesis Core taken from Kaito's busted Genesis Driver.
- The Marron Arms actually had a CG model, too bad we won't be able to see what it is. Looking forward to the toy's sounds.[/hide]
Overall, very contrived writing in parts due to the absurdly short length of each special, which is unfortunate. However, I actually enjoyed this far more than the previous one.