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Episode #052 - License To Creep
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Hosts: GomessQ, Grimmhelm, IllustratorClaire, Mewzard and Pez
So… Malika doesn’t really enter this episode so much as we get a lot of focus on Mitchy. GomessQ says that writers don’t always come up with titles and that makes sense, but Urobuchi does write the episodes considering where the breaks in the episodes appear it would seem, so why not the titles too? The point is this is the second, at least, absurdly titled episode. That doesn’t stop it from being good or presenting some interesting things.
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I hope I dont sound pretentious, given the discussion on Malika on this episode, by saying that I wasn’t all that impressed honestly after seeing so many other female characters not just in something like PreCure but in other Toku doing way more than Rider has.
Though my opinion is a little improved, I still feel very hollow by the prospect that the first “legitimate” female Rider is not a hero but a essentially a hired thug, on top of being garish neon pink. Not that she isn’t a valid character, but it still feels really disappointing we couldn’t even get a first true female hero called a Kamen Rider before jumping right ahead and making evil or amoral ones.
It’s like when back in the day the only represantation women had in certain media were either the villains or the tacked on love-interest.
I don’t think you sound pretentious. I don’t know how you would!
I’m not that impressed either; like I think I said, it’s really the bare minimum and will only count as “progression” if she’s followed up with, you know, actual confident steps towards some sort of basic understanding of gender beyond MAN BIG HERO. NOT MAN NO MAIN HERO. There are better-written, better-included woman characters in Kamen Rider, absolutely, there are surely (I hope??) better and more woman henshin heroes in other series, and definitely great girls and women transforming and saving the day in animation. But for Kamen Rider, it’s cathartic as all heck FINALLY seeing that tiny, minute step beyond “girl break belt/belt break girl”.
Honestly I can’t bring myself to mind that she’s pink. I mind that it was stupid of the creative team to settle on one woman Rider at time of introduction, because they’ve shot themselves in the foot regarding credit for representation. If she’s pink it’s because she’s a girl vs if she isn’t it’s because girls are weakened by girlishness–they don’t have three or more, so they can’t even out the feminine coding. They are, if not personally, sexist idiots ~as a company~. I like pink. I resent pink as The Girl Colour. They, or fans, may think this is “unfair”, that people shouldn’t “complain”; that we’re “only saying that because…”. But they can shut up! Because there IS a “because”. I can have both, but they can’t, because they’ve only given us one lady to work with. Short sighted! HA HA HA
I am still a bit optimistic that there is something akin to steps towards the right direction.
In Wizard there was another female Rider, Mage, who despite the show not really delivering her story well had all the right Kamen Rider set pieces and had an actual significance in the story that didn’t last for about three minutes like Kivaala or resulted in her death or depowerement like sadly everyone else (Hibiki’s post-executive meddling second half being the most abominable example).
And here we have a good actress for the role and the character isn’t just there for fodder.
These are of course still bread crumbs level of represantation which Ultraman have spread around decades earlier, and Ultraman has even less female Ultras than female Riders (although Ultraman has lot more respect and puts way more story significance on their female heroes than Rider does).
So yeah, better buy all thsoe Malika toys, and hope to god that whoever is running the Rider divisions in Toei decides that hey maybe a heroic female Rider is actually a pretty good idea. Even Ishinomori figured that shit out years ago with Tackle.
I watched a couple of episodes with Mage. She stood still while Beast and Wizard fought baddies.
*general flailing*
I think in the entire show she only got maybe like three action scenes.
Its like the director forgot she even was there half the time
She only did that once. Other times when she was there she was fighting.