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Hello there, my crowd! Welcome to my Weekly Musings: Red Edition. 

[I ❤ JAPAN] -- [I ❤ THE COLOR RED] -- [I ❤ CELESTIA]

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Honestly my crowd, I thought I'd be in the holiday season before I got to this -->  But let me tell you about the week we just finished!

 I guess the biggest thing to report was Labor Day! I had a good one, my crowd.  Honestly, this has been a very relaxing week for me.

 In other news, I saw trailers for Godzilla Minus One and Monarch. Looks like Goji's about to have more content made~ Saw the first episode of the Tiny Toons reboot, and my feelings are mixed. The show has potential, but I heard that Babs and Buster are still related and there might be other things being changed too. Still, I wish it more success than we all expected. Last of all, there is going to be another Chicken Run. Honestly, I have the worst time remembering the events of any of these claymation movies made by this studio, let alone what happened in the first Chicken Run. Still, glad it's successful, I guess. 

 MAW Superman 09 & 10: An Alien To You & Me!  So much to unpack from just two episodes! We see the origins of the General and learn he is Lois's dad. The rise of Amanda Waller. Braniac and Zod have been teased, but not as much as they tease Supe's dad. Looks like a certain villain finally has powers without needing tech. And I don't know if this was ever done in all his years of existing and comic book reboots, but making Superman look like a lost weapon of destruction and conquest works SO well! ...And I guess Jimmy is rich now? It was all just too powerful. We conclude one cliffhanger and end with another!

 King-Ohger 27: Royalty & Destroyers.  I CALLED IT!! I knew that wouldn't be the last we saw of Kamejim. The intro gave us a fake out, made it look like Jeramie/Kumonos' first follower was destroyed. I know we got a blurb about why the other kings were in prison, but I still don't fully get it. I don't like that Gira's royal outfit is the same as Racles's, would have preferred something in white. Also, could it be I spoke too soon? Could it be that Racles knew about this galactic threat and was preparing for it this whole time? For now, it looks like their weapons have no effect. I wonder how they'll solve this problem...

 Gotchard 01: Al-Chemy Begins~!  Well this is a very bland beginning, which is not necessarily a negative depending on how this show goes. They spend more time setting up a bunch of things rather than explaining the majority of it, and there is also plenty of narrative tropes that we've seen before a million times. About the only thing that took me by surprise was the teacher being involved in this alchemy craziness. Either way, classic tale of an unskilled rookie getting caught in something they are very much not ready for. BTW, you're not slick, show. Ichinose? Hopper1? I see what you're doing. In fact, there might be a LOT to what you're doing. Even the female classmate (Rinne Kudo) might be an homage to Wizard's Koyomi, but hopefully she'll have a better story here. I'll save the rest for my Supplemental thoughts.

 GOTCHARD 01 SUPPLEMENTAL: So to start, let's be clear about the main character.  His full name is Hotaro Ichinose. Get it? Ichinose, which sounds similar to Kamen Rider #1 (Ichigo)? His suit is based on #1's first suit, and one of his first cards is Hopper1. Kamen Rider #1 was based on a grasshopper, has been called Hopper, but is always regarded as the first Rider. However, Hotaro sounds similar to Haruto, as in Kamen Rider Wizard. With all the heroic alchemy users wearing rings, I doubt that's a coincidence. Did this show combine a bunch of other inspirations to make this Rider as well? Steamliner might be based on Den-O's train, his initial bug form based on ReVice's Remix forms, and maybe there's a touch of OOO in there since that show also had alchemy. And while the image of a young grade schooler is getting popular in Japan right now (thanks to stuff like Pokemon), #1 was also a student, so maybe that's also by design. Many of these elements feel random, but they might not be at all. Finally, don't stress about the first episode being bland. They could be doing that on purpose to really give to story some weight later.

 No movies this week. I was planning on it, but just couldn't find anything that really inspired me this time. Maybe this coming week instead.

That's all for now, my crowd.  Take care, and recharge.

Tonight's song is a request from @StrawberryMilk Simp! It's an old meme by this point, but it's a classic that never dies, especially if you're a He-Man fan like me. But so many people only share the short version that they don't even know there's a full version! So here it is. This is "Fabulous Secret Powers" by slackcircus.