#it really was a clever decision!! gotta be honest i was speculating if it you either really liked tea or if it was a pun somehow?

[morifinwes]

i am again !!! so late !!! i’m so sorry i’ve been a rather irregular anon havent i 😔

i don’t have any questions for you this time bc technically my month of asking questions is over :p i’ve been pretty ia everywhere but i just wanted to send you this one last ask with my anon off so that you know who your cc was :]

so hi! it’s me c or chai which is what i go by usually and it was so lovely to talk to you as your classified cultivator for a whole month although i really did miss a lot of days bc of my irl commitments and im sorry about that!! i hope you enjoyed answering my asks as much as i enjoyed sending them!

and happy new year btw! i hope 2021 is wonderful and brings all the good luck to you! feel free to dm me or send me an ask or anything any time. i’d love to get to know you better :D - 🍵 (i thought myself rather clever for using the tea emoji since i go by ‘chai’ here but idk u decide fjdjsj)

hey, chai!!! i just came on for the first time since last night, idk what time it is for you but for me it's around 2pm rn.

it's okay, i enjoyed talking to you and i know how stressful life can be, so don't worry about that! i liked all the asks you sent me, it always brought a smile to my face. i'd love to get to know you better too!!

i hope you has fun yesterday and a happy new year chai, i hope 2021 will be less stressful and much kinder to you than 2020 was 💞

[venus-says]

Kamen Rider Zero-One Quarantine Specials

This post was NOT presented by ZAIA.

I wasn't sure if I was going to watch these things or not since I knew they were just recaps and let's be honest, who watches recaps, am I right?

Well...

FOMO afflicts this guy here in weird ways, and this time was one of them. And you know what? I don't regret the decision of watching them because it wasn't all that boring (different from the Kiramager one I watched, but this post isn't about that), still wasn't enough to make a post about. But then I saw the first part of the Project Thouser Blu-Ray specials had been subbed already so I thought that could justify making a post and I could bundle up the thoughts I had concerning new things that were revealed in the recaps. So here we are.

Talking about the recaps first, I liked how they framed for at least the President Specials to happen, it felt like those two episodes were more though out while the Shooting and Super Job Wars was more of a silly thing with a bunch scenes glued together. In fact, I wish this plot of The Ark trying to fool Aruto in order to gain data with a fake Is of sorts was brought into the show, I think it could be a pretty interesting set of episodes, if not like this at least have the information that was given us appear in a clear way in the show. (Knowing Kamen Rider they will probably make these episodes canon and they won't do that because they will deem redundant, but WISHFUL THINKING)

I think what makes these recaps interesting and worth watching is the extra bit of input we get that was only possible for them to show us because it was being given by another perspective that wasn't the one of the protagonist. And is having these tiny pearls of extra knowledge, like knowing that Naki was implanted on Fuwa after he had already become a rider, that make these episodes more than just a "this is what happened so far" thing. I also like the clever use of reused scenes but with a new voice-over, again this is used in a much better way during the President specials, I feel like because of when this takes place the Shooting one has fewer scenes to use so they repeat way more and don't make a lot of sense, but I still like that this was added in.

But the biggest thing of these specials is really the preview of what the final villain, which I'm assuming will be The Ark in humanoid form, looks like. That was another neat thing that made this special actually feel special because it was a surprise and a reward for those who decided to watch it. Oh, we also had some gorgeous eyecatches (?) during these episodes that can be used as some pretty cool wallpapers too, I hope they released those arts somewhere on the web.

Moving on, the Project Thouser special was a very good surprise.

Judging by the name, I expected it would be more of Gai's side of the story, kinda like what they did for Alain in the Ghost DVD releases, but no! Yes, Gai is there, and yes, the background for everything that happens in the episode is to conclude the project to make Thouser possible, but this episode was more for Naki and about them than anything else, and I Like That!

This episode covers from the beginning of the story up until the moment where Horobi defeats Fuwa putting him in critical condition which allows for Gai to put Naki's data on his chip, which is a surprisingly short time in terms of episodes, I believe that's only 8 or 9 episodes, but that has a lot of things happening. One thing I think is interesting is that Gai says Naki was found with a forceriser after the Daybreak Town events so this means Horobi wasn't the only one involved and responsible for all that, this also can imply that a Kamen Rider Naki is a possibility, and I would be very happy if we could see that happening (though my expectations are low).

But even more interesting than the speculation and new background information was seeing Naki's internal turmoil. This wasn't said in-text, but I think we can all assume that after they were recovered Gai asked to reprogram them so the new Naki we see here has definitely things on their code that forces them to follow Gai's order, but even despite these conditions they achieved singularity and it wasn't an easy process. It made them confused, it made them question their own existence and role, and I'm very glad they brought in a non-binary person to portray a character like that because what Naki was going through is very similar to what a lot of people in the LGBTQIA+ community goes through and what I believe also goes in the minds of people who are discovering themselves in their gender identity in different degrees. I don't know if this was what they had in mind when they brought Satsuki Nakayama to portray the role, it's very likely that it wasn't, but I appreciate it being there and it gives an extra meaning to everything, even if it wasn't the creators' intentions.

And I believe that's all I had to say, I gotta be honest, I'm surprised this post came out this long, I wasn't expecting it. Well, I hope you folks liked it. Did you watch any of these? If you did, let me know what were your thoughts about them. Stay healthy, stay safe, never stop resisting, thank you so much for reading, and until the next time. See-ya~