Shinkenger 44-45

[gekidasa]

☆ So I don't really like Kaoru. She's a brat that bit off more than she could chew, end of story.

☆ I may not like her, but I HATE her little sycophant. Please DIAF.

☆ I think these episode were really exceptionally well written. Everyone is just spot on. But the ones I love most are Chiaki and Genta. Chiaki in particular, with his tears of rage and all.

☆ And most of all in regards to Takeru and what he goes through during this, it was all amazingly good. The guilt that he's been carrying around, how he knows it was necessary but still hates the whole, hates having to pretend, and I think maybe hates himself a little for going along with it. And then how once all that is gone, he can't help but feel empty... until Juuzo shows up. It's interesting how Genta and Juuzo were both saying the same thing, how it doesn't matter what he ISN'T, it's all the same to them, the best friend and the enemy, and it's the enemy that he hears. Probably because Juuzo knows him on that very primal, savage level, while Genta doesn't.

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[tofubeast.livejournal.com]

You need to see episode 46, it's gut wreeeenching D :

Chiaki bursting into tears honestly surprised me. I was amazed at how everyone was trying to hold themselves back from breaking down, but Chiaki went and let it out completely. Poor guy.

These episodes are interesting to me, since samurai are supposed to serve their lord and house. Normally, vassals would know if their master was a kagemusha, especially ones as close to Takeru as the Shinkengers, but since they didn't know, this is a real shock to them.

Awww, but I like Kaoru. D : She might seem like a cold, indifferent interloper, but it's how she's decided to handle this particular situation. Kaoru's been summoned to the front now that she's old enough to fight, and while her displacing Takeru so abruptly seems incredibly cruel, she most likely believes that the most important thing is fulfilling her duty and getting the job done.

It's awkward on both sides--the Shinkengers can't accept Kaoru as a replacement, because she's not their tono, while Kaoru knows that they don't consider her their compatriot in arms. Strangely enough, Kaoru in these particular episodes remind me of when the Shinkengers first met Takeru.

Kaoru's retainer does need to put a sock in it, however. He's so annoying. > C

[gekidasa.livejournal.com]

It's not because she displaced Takeru. It's because, I said above, she's a brat that took it upon herself to change plans that had been in place before she was born simply because she decided that hiding was cowardly. Yeah, she perfected the character, but she did that because her pride stung too much from having to live in hiding. At least that's how I see it, and to me that's a brat.

I mean, I get that a lot of people are all over her because "female Red" and whatnot. Still don't like her. :D

[tofubeast.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I see. I actually wasn't able to understand that part, because I had watched it raw and my Japanese is horrible. Now that I do know that's why she's back, it does change a few things. It does seem pretty abrupt and petty of her, but right now I don't exactly hate her. It's kind of too bad that we won't see if she grows/develops as a person/learns to work with a team (perhaps she'd get her own squad, since it's clear that the Shinkengers' Red can only be Takeru, IDK), since the series is going to be ending in a few short episodes. Eh well.

Yeah, I think a good majority of the Kaoru fans like her because of the "Female Red" thing. I hope that someday they'll start with a female Red from the beginning, and that this won't be just a one-time thing, though. It would be kinda cool. : >

[gekidasa.livejournal.com]

I don't HATE her, I just don't LIKE her. :D

Perhaps I'm beinga bit harsh, obviously things are alays kind of subjective, but yeah.

[tofubeast.livejournal.com]

It's cool, man, I get what y'mean.

Either way, the fight between Takeru and Juuzo is going to be a hell of a doozy. There's just so much that each one wants to prove to the other, and there's so much on the line, and guh.

[gekidasa.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, yes, that's shaping up to be all sorts of epic and awesome. *_*