Utsumin for the ask meme?
my boy... my fav... expect this answer to be VERY rambly
First impression
ngl it was “who’s this guy”. before episode 12 i didnt remember his name and called him glasshole exclusively. boy. how times have changed.
Impression now
god, how do i put my feelings about utsumi into words? i could write an essay about him, how much i love him, how tragic his character arc is, and how APPROPRIATE madrogue being a kitbash is for him, but i’d be here all day. so let me try and condense it
Utsumi is definitely my favourite character in build, which is Notable considering how much i love basically everyone in it. while he doesn’t do much early on, and prior to becoming madrogue he’s still often not the most proactive in the plot, his backstory, characterization, and especially the whole nanba children thing specifically are all tied to my FAVOURITE part about build, which is its refusal to just excuse human evil through the pandora’s box. nanba was not even effected by the box, his evil is entirely his own, and utsumi, while given more than enough backstory to explain his actions, is NOT defined by it entirely. which we know, because of Sawa’s arc. i know a lot of people wish utsumi could’ve had a redemption arc in the show, and i kind of agree on that, but i do think-wait this can go in the unpopular opinion
Favorite moment
EPISODE 23. Need I elaborate? Though a close second is definitely in the stage show, basically every time he gets to interact in a non-antagonistic manner with the other riders during the stage show is... so good. Utsumin real...
Idea for a story
Cyborg Utsumi waking up in the non-vcinema new world and needing to figure out how he can live as a regular person after everything he’s been trhough and done... slowburn redemption story... hell yeah
Unpopular opinion
Well, liking Utsumi seems to be a pretty unpopular opinion in and of itself, but my view of his lack of a redemption arc probably is as well. While I already said i would’ve LOVED one, i don’t think a lack of one is necessarily a flaw in the story. at the end of the day, utsumi’s arc was as much about clinging to the evil you know because you’re too afraid of the alternative, and i think the way he went out was fine.
sure, he could’ve been given more screentime to focus on this but, its fine.
Favorite relationship
now, do i talk about my favourite Exceedingly Unhealthy Ship For Both Sides, gentoku/utsumi? do i talk about utsumi and sawa, and how they should’ve been given more time to interact on-screen? do i talk about utsumi/sento, the little ship that could? or, hell, do i talk about utsumi/kazumi, where I get to fully embrace utsumi being a stupid tsundere? and, of course, there’s the weird half-sexual half-hate tension between utsumi and evolt in the latter half of the show
god, it’s hard to choose. I honestly can’t pick, there’s a lot of really fun dynamics.
Favorite headcanon
that utsumi designed kr rogue and put the fragile sticker on the back of his head to fuck with gentoku. its simple but so so good.
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Watched Build Final Live during a slow day of work...
So no screenshots, but thoughts, emotions and feeeeels:
• Seriously why the eff is Evolt so effing hard to kill
• I hate him so much guys. Like. So much
• Lost Bottle quest again... though this time it’s just defeating the resurrected Lost Smash without the emotional trauma of the one in the show
• Most morbid audience participation ever... thanks Toei for making all of us dead
• Most morbid (again) Rider comeback ever: They’re There Because They’re Dead!
• Kazumin heard Misora call him Kazumin... and he was so happy... it would’ve sweet if he wasn’t so creepy about it
• Kazumin’s entire monologue I cannot... thank you Kouhei Takeda for somehow managing to record that without completely ruining it
• Misora’s still tsun tsun for Kazumin even after all that though which is even more hilarious
• YES CROSS Z CHARGE IS BACK!! (I like ok #dontjudge)
• Robo Utsumi... Pfffft
• UTSUMIN... OH MY GOD HE IS ADORKABLE.... RYUUGA DON’T LEAVE THE DORK BEHIND~
• Oh they subbed the lyrics to the insert songs too... Nice nice. It’s already rare to get subs for live shows but they went the extra mile for this too
• The banter between the Riders loool
• Utsumin still being ok with dying for Nanba is disturbing but he’s kinda still kinda crazy at this point I guess so ok
• The theory that Sento will cease to exist when the new world is created... everyone is just accepting it numbly except Ryuuga who is sulking and clearly refusing to even think of it
• Sento saying “us Riders” and including Utsumi... so pure...
• FINAL FORMS GALORE. MadRogue+ Prime Rogue+ Grease Blizzard+ Cross-Z Magma+ Build Genius
• HOW DARE YOU. HOW DARE YOU MOCK THE BEAUTY OF BUILD GENIUS. FUCK YOU TO HELL EVOLT
• (I was almost screaming at the screen while watching at work, no joke... my boss who sits across from me is 🤨❓)
• The obligatory audience cheer of “Ganbare!!” lead by Sawa and Misora...
• Cross-ZBuild! Be the One! Yeeeeeeah! Aka the “wedding” that this time everyone gets to attend
• Be the One’s second verse is being played?! Le gasp!!
• “Sento and I are the Best Match!” PARASOLS... THE PARASOLS... “LOVE AND PEACE FINISH!!”
• THE RYUSEN IS SO STRONG IN THIS ONE...
• Everyone’s goodbyes to Sento as they leave for the new world...
• Utsumin saying his new humanity is one of Sento’s miracles and promising to invent something just as great as Sento’s inventions
• Gentoku managing to somehow be sincere with a goofy T-shirt print... (“39” ➡️ “san-kyu” ➡️ “thank you”) d’aaaaaaaw
• Sawa’s “Thank you for giving me a family”... damnit watching this at the office was not a good idea
• Kazumin... saying he became a true Kamen Rider because of Sento... KAZUMI!!!! Also I truly wonder if that side poke was an adlib on Kouhei’s part to mess with Acchan
• Misora’s “I will never forget about Kiryuu Sento...” Then remember the finale where she says “Have we met before?” DAMN YOU SHOGO MUTO
• (I mean she does remember by Build New World and HeiGen Forever BUT STILL)
• Sento being an awkward bun with the girls... so adorable, yet so sad... (also Acchan seriously needs to eat more, his arms are so thin)
• Be the One instrumental playing over the farewells... growing quieter and quieter as they leave... until it’s just Sento and Ryuuga left on stage with complete silence
• Ryuuga’s whole speech to Sento. Calling him out on his BS. Screw destiny. “I will find you again, no matter what.” Whoever says Banjou Ryuuga is not a romantic needs to have this scene played over and over to them till their eyes bleed
• Let me emphasize: The stuff of legends. A love story for the centuries. The Once Upon A Time reference/parasol killed me, resurrected me, and ascended me into OTP heaven. HEATED DRAMA BETWEEN MEN...
• “To me, the law of victory was to have met everyone.” Why does it feel like it was Acchan saying that to us all?
• ACCHAN!!!! I LOVE YOU NOW AND FOREVER
• Then Ryuuga’s door doesn’t open looool.
• A “recreation” of the final scene... honestly I don’t think it was an impactful as then because we already saw it and was expecting it... though the end bit is pretty funny
• Ryuuga. Don’t talk about peeing while on stage.
• Wait... if Ryuuga co-created the universe with Sento... should we call him Dragon Jesus now?
• Does this mean he and Sento are consorts like many creation gods (Izanami and Izanagi, Gaia and Ouranous, Kouta and Mai, etc)?
• Btw I hope GemnCorp also subs the talk show. I think we’ll get a lot of gems out of that one (see what I did there)
• I kinda wish we got the cast saying goodbye to each other and not just to Sento....
• Like... Kazumin admitting that it was because of them he regretted dying... or Utsumi and Sawa saying goodbye as “siblings”...
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