Kamen Rider OOO - Talk Up!

[Black Fang]

When she sees her brother again, she just ignores the radical change in his appearance (assuming she does indeed live with him). I realize that she's relieved to see him safe, but it just doesn't make any sense for her not to notice these rather obvious things. Maybe it gets brought up in the next episode, but as it is, I don't like the whole execution.

They should at least have tried to confirm that a day has passed between the two episodes. Heck, even in the first episode we see the Greed's revival take place in the daytime. Unless that was meant to be early morning?

 

[sa1amandra]

OOO has a scott pilgrim vs the world feel to it

 

[Hell Kaiser Andy]

When she sees her brother again, she just ignores the radical change in his appearance (assuming she does indeed live with him). I realize that she's relieved to see him safe, but it just doesn't make any sense for her not to notice these rather obvious things. Maybe it gets brought up in the next episode, but as it is, I don't like the whole execution.

Well Eiji did take a off-screen picture of him and sent it, so I guess she didn't bother thinking about it.

 

[Black Fang]

I was referring to the picture, and then to the meeting. Maybe there was something said in the letter that I missed.

 

[Lynxara]

It may be along the same lines as the hair changes in Den-O--something that's only there so that we as the audience can distinguish the characters.

Yeah, this is what I meant when I said the script might not want to lampshade something that is fundamentally silly. Den-O would've been completely unbearable if they'd had other characters always react to the changes of hair and costume that the Imagin caused realistically. Lampshading the impossibility of the quick transformations would've gotten annoying very quickly.

A lot of things people would realistically do in a given situation are also repetitive and, frankly, kind of boring. Den-O would not be a better show if Ryotaro's friends had constantly gone "Hey! His hair and voice and clothes changed again, that's weird!" or passers-by went "Oh my God, what happened to that guy!" all the time.

Instead the script just left the changes of hair and costume to be what they were-- visual flourishes used to make it very clear to the audience, at a glance, when Ryotaro was possessed and by whom. Focusing on the transformation's mechanic any more than that would've just slowed down the action to no real benefit.

So I suspect we didn't see a big scene where Hina was all "Brother! What happened to you, why do you look so strange?" because honestly-- is that interesting? Yes, it's what most people would do, but what is the point of depicting it if it's not intrinsically interesting or entertaining or relevant? There isn't one.

 

[nerefir]

I agree, it really wouldn't add anything to the story or what we know about the characters.

 

[DECADE453145]

I just realized something...hair is made of of dead cells, right? So basically, growth or a sudden unnatural change in your hair means that dead cells are increasing in your body. Which means, every time Ankh possesses Shingo...

his cells die!? :sly:

 

[Black Fang]

Yeah, this is what I meant when I said the script might not want to lampshade something that is fundamentally silly. Den-O would've been completely unbearable if they'd had other characters always react to the changes of hair and costume that the Imagin caused realistically. Lampshading the impossibility of the quick transformations would've gotten annoying very quickly.

A lot of things people would realistically do in a given situation are also repetitive and, frankly, kind of boring. Den-O would not be a better show if Ryotaro's friends had constantly gone "Hey! His hair and voice and clothes changed again, that's weird!" or passers-by went "Oh my God, what happened to that guy!" all the time.

Instead the script just left the changes of hair and costume to be what they were-- visual flourishes used to make it very clear to the audience, at a glance, when Ryotaro was possessed and by whom. Focusing on the transformation's mechanic any more than that would've just slowed down the action to no real benefit.

So I suspect we didn't see a big scene where Hina was all "Brother! What happened to you, why do you look so strange?" because honestly-- is that interesting? Yes, it's what most people would do, but what is the point of depicting it if it's not intrinsically interesting or entertaining or relevant? There isn't one.

But Ankh's possession is in a different context from Den-O, at least that's how it appears so far. Most of the Imajin possessions were used to be comedic. Ankh is keeping an otherwise dead guy alive.

I can get your argument with regards to Den-O (even though there were cases where people were wondering about Ryo's strange behavior), but is OOO trying to do the same thing with Ankh? I don't think so.

 

[Skiks]

I think from my concept on this meeting is a bit different. Many people can tell someone changed but if they're looking for someone they lost they may just ignore the changes at first because they can tell it's the same person. However knowing who's writing this the hair and arm thing will never actually be brought up by Hina. It's just a little nitpick that I don't really mind.

 

[ClimaxHeroDen-O]

I just realized something...hair is made of of dead cells, right? So basically, growth or a sudden unnatural change in your hair means that dead cells are increasing in your body. Which means, every time Ankh possesses Shingo...

his cells die!? :sly:

not likely, it's probably some as of yet unexplained Greeed phenomena