#Kamen Rider ZI O

[c0coonhouse]

how can I forgot to post these on my blog🥹 my beloved magical girl themed KR fan art I did almost a year ago....

(plus Buffa and Na-Go I drew recently! )

[mosquitoking]

Kamen Rider Sundae's legacy from left to right : - Sundae chemy - Zi-O Sundae armor - Kamen Rider Ace (Ride Kamens) - Sundae himself - Another Sundae - Revice penguin genome

[t-u-i-t-c]

Toku Wrapped 2023 │ Top 6 Transformation Devices/Collectibles

Wonder Ride Books & Swords - Kamen Rider Saber Accel Changer & Accel Key - Gekisou Sentai Carranger Ridewatches - Kamen Rider Zi-O OhgerCalibur - Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger Degitaizer - Denji Sentai Megaranger Vistamps - Kamen Rider Revice

(Excluding Character-Specific Transformation Devices/Collectibles & In No Particular Order)

[kenshin-tokusatsu]

i had some requests so

[kn96artworks]

resident demon lord adopts a lost demon child

[hazardlevei]

the one true king 👑

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[sailorgokaidecade]

All Female Kamen Riders (Version 2.0):

Miho Kirishima (Kamen Rider Femme)

Rina Abe (Kamen Rider Delta)

Rena Kurumi (Kamen Rider Muez)

Natsumi Miwa (Kamen Rider L'arc)

Akira Amami (Kamen Rider Amaki)

Shiori Shinagawa (Kamen Rider Shuki)

Yuri Aso & Megumi Aso (Kamen Rider Ixa)

Natsumi Hikari (Kamen Rider Kivala)

Seed of Life from the Universe/"Nadeshiko Misaki" (Kamen Rider Nadeshiko)

Mayu Inamori (Kamen Rider Mage)

Yoko Minato (Kamen Rider Marika)

Touka Akatsuki (Kamen Rider Iduun)

Masako Suzuka (Kamen Rider Sylphi)

Kanon "Mion" Fukami (Kamen Rider Kanon Specter)

Alia (Kamen Rider Dark Necrom Pink)

Jaye (Kamen Rider Dark Necrom Yellow)

Poppy Pipopapo/"Asuna Karino" (Kamen Rider Poppy)

Alpina/"Tsukuyomi" (Kamen Rider Tsukuyomi)

Izu (Kamen Rider Zero-Two)

Yua Yaiba (Kamen Rider Valkyrie)

Naki (Kamen Rider Naki)

Sofia (Kamen Rider Calibur IV)

Reika Shindai (Kamen Rider Sabela)

Sakura Igarashi (Kamen Rider Jeanne)

Hana Natsuki (Kamen Rider Aguilera)

Neon Kurama (Kamen Rider Na-Go)

Sara Sakurai (Kamen Rider Hakubi)

Sae Ganaha (Kamen Rider Lopo)

Yukie Yaginuma (Kamen Rider Letter)

Beroba (Kamen Rider Beroba)

Rinne Kudo (Kamen Rider Majade)

[howlingday]

Jaune goes back to “The Con” to get upgrades for his armor. The vendor gives him a new watch

Which lets him access this armor

And gives him a new sword

What is everyone’s reaction?

Ruby: ...Jaune.

Jaune: H-Hang on, Ruby! I know you said to only buy something with you there with me, but hear me out.

Ruby: Go ahead. Tell me how you buying a watch, a body suit, and another sword WITHOUT my say is somehow better than me being there to give my opinion on the best gun you could use?

Jaune: ...Uh-

Ruby: Does the watch tell time?

Jaune: ...I think?

Ruby: Dammit, Jaune...

[luckykittenpirate]

[jounouchis]

2020 art from i think right before they did that big yt stream event of heisei generations forever

[descendant-of-truth]

The amount of unexplored concepts in Zi-o is driving me insane but I can only tackle one thing per post so let's talk about Sougo for a minute

As someone who immediately clocked Sougo as having something off about him (to the point where I wrote day-one fanfiction about it), I was really expecting there to be a few episodes where we just. sat down and unpacked all of it. We didn't get that, but the crumbs we did get only solidify my opinion that Sougo is a really compelling character when you take the time to think about him.

On a surface level, Sougo is… very normal, I think. He's a cheerful guy, he's polite, he has a definite silly streak to him. He's kinda awkward, he fumbles around with Sento's catchphrase and struggles with his schoolwork. Like any good-natured protagonist, he has a drive to protect others and has no problem inconveniencing himself a bit to help someone out. These are all true things about him.

Sougo is also very good at manipulating people. And he does it by using his usual mannerisms to his advantage.

Take the episodes with Kuroto for instance. Sougo gets on Kuroto's side effortlessly by looking bright-eyed and enthusiastic about working with him, and this is completely believable to us as viewers because Sougo is always this enthusiastic. It's even relevant to his goal to become king - of course he would want to study under an actual king to get experience!

What makes this interesting is that it's only half true. Sougo isn't faking his enthusiasm, but he is faking his motivation. He doesn't want to work with Kuroto because he thinks he's cool, he wants to work with him because he wants to confirm if he's terrible first, and then take notes on how to not be terrible in the future.

And this is what makes him so good at manipulation: he knows how to channel his behaviors in such a way that he always seems genuine. Of course, it probably helps that he's often only half-faking anyway, which makes it even more convincing.

He's also usually using this skill for a good cause, but when armed with the knowledge that he became evil in the original timeline, it suddenly puts him in a different light; one where you can go "oh, so that's where he's keeping all his supervillain potential."

He displays this cunning side to him in a lot of smaller instances - using Woz's dedication to him as a means to summon him at any time, getting Geiz and Tsukuyomi to hang out with him under the pretense of their mission to keep him from turning evil, so on and so forth.

They sneak this part of him into the script all the time, and the only person to really bring it up is, interestingly enough, his mirror world self.

This scene makes me go nuts because it perfectly displays Sougo's inner conflict that he's usually really good at keeping under wraps. Though admittedly, they also make it a little unclear as to whether he was actually trying to manipulate anyone or just feels like he did anyway... but I think I've got it mostly figured out.

What's happening here, as I understand it, is that Sougo does genuinely want to save Geiz, but there is a small part of him that wants the power that comes with the Ryuga watch, too. And he does not like that part.

He knows that he's manipulated people before, and so when he notices having a second motivation here beyond his more idealistic one, he feels like he's manipulating people again. Making Tsukuyomi think that he's actually a good person when he just prompted Geiz to go sacrifice himself - he harbors a surprising amount of guilt.

And that's another key thing about Sougo that I haven't talked about yet: he hides things constantly.

Like, for example, why he wants to become king in the first place.

This is a lie. Sougo wants to become king because of a recurring dream depicting the most traumatic event of his life, where his only solace is someone telling him that he can save the world if he becomes a king.

But he insists in multiple episodes that it's just "something he's always known." He treats it very casually, despite it dramatically affecting his life plans.

Sougo treats most things with the same smiley nonchalance, honestly, in a way that can make him feel sort of detached from reality at times. But he takes things more seriously than it seems, and it's clear that he harbors a very deep sense of loneliness in him as well. Geiz and Tsukuyomi being his first real friends is one of the driving forces of the narrative, after all.

He also just drops lines like this sometimes that make me go crazy like hey has anyone checked on this guy emotionally during the entire show, I am Concerned

Like!! he says this about the possibility of him being the only person to not survive the final battle, and I know this isn't the first time he's expressed a similar sentiment and it's kind of a tradition for the protagonists of these shows to be like this but. god. and he says it while smiling

(You might be noticing a theme with Sougo and smiling through pain and you would be absolutely correct to do so)

I guess what I'm getting at with this whole post is that the appeal of Sougo's character, to me, is that he's just as much a silly, awkward guy with loads of enthusiasm as he is a cunning, clever person who knows how to lie to get the outcome he wants. He's both very cheerful and very sad on the inside, and none of these things are treated like they're in conflict with each other.

Sougo himself said it best:

And I dunno, I just think that's a really cool way to write your main hero who's working against his destiny to become evil. Or just any character in general. I both completely believe him as a hero and also never quite got rid of that "off" feeling that made me compelled to write about him when the show first started.

Zi-o as a show missed a lot of opportunities to explore things deeper, and Sougo is definitely included in that, but it never failed to keep me interested in him as a character because something about his specific combination of personality traits makes him very compelling to watch.

(He also makes the other writing flaws that much more frustrating because he's way too good of a character for these scripts)

[stingyslegslookweird]

idk if i already posted this or not but i made a meme

[t-u-i-t-c]

Giftober 2023 │ Day 30: Goodbye

Tragic Duos + Goodbyes

[tealfruit]

there is a few right answers and one very wrong answer. vote honestly

[kvasskingg-sez-booyah]

The universe allowing me an editing software was a mistake