mmanalysis:queerspeculativefiction:I really wish that Kamen Rider Wizard was a better realized show,
mmanalysis:queerspeculativefiction:I really wish that Kamen Rider Wizard was a better realized show, because Haruto is still swag as fuck, and I am deeply invested in the theme they had going with magic/phantoms and the way it touched on ptsd, and the fashion is marvelous but…Yeah. Too many problems and most of all, missed opportunities.It’s funny because with Gaim it seems like it has too much going on in contrast to critiques I hear about Wizard (haven’t watched it in full yet). Do you think comparisons should be made between the two? Are any actually valid?I haven’t read about any comparisons, but my take is that both shows have deep issues, some similar, but they seem to stem from different sources.Wizard and Gaim both has a side cast that it is mostly neglecting, and character arcs that goes nowhere. This for me is a big issue with both shows. However:Wizards trouble seemed to stem from a few things (according to rumor and articles I read)- Koyomi’s actress was more interested in her idol career, to the point of showing up less and less. Since a lot of the emotion in the story hinged on her situation and her interactions with Haruto, this left the whole thing feeling thin and fake.- Beast was never meant to be in the show at all, he was added because the producers wanted a secondary rider. Thus his story never connects with either the mythos, or the main plot. I like him, but it’s like gluing two shows together. - There are two writers approximately writing half the show each, and it seems they are both dodging the things they don’t want to write. This leads to a lot of missed plots and opportunities, the whole thing feels very much monster of the week and not much else.Gaims trouble on the other hand are different. - It is written as an anime. Or rather, like the type of anime that made me fall out of love with the genre. We only get surface and flash, and not much else when it comes to the characters. It also suffers from MTV cuts, every time we start on an interesting tangent, they switch scenes. The latest episode was the perfect example of that.- It is trying to be like Ryuki or Kabuto and balance a large cast, yet they never do the most basic thing you need to do with a large cast: Give EVERY important character at least one episode of their own to ground them, and then you can build from there.- It feels like the writer has been told ‘don’t make it too dark’, because the humor is sloppy, doesn’t fit, and feels written very much like an afterthought. In conclusion:They are very similar in that they fail very hard at the very thing they are setting out to do. And this is on the shoulders of the writers of the shows, and above all, on the producers who weren’t able to get the best out of the talent they had. -- source link