Sean Akizuki's East Asian Drama and Movie Blog

This week's episode is a continuation of the cliffhanger that happened last week  where Isamu gets hospitalized. It's going to create some conflict especially when HumaGears are already doing some jobs to help human doctors. This would create a conflict especially when you think that Gigas (a weapon by AIMS) is already leading an army of HumaGears gone rogue. It's been some time since we saw Jun or "Dr. Evil" who once again makes me think, "Just where's Mike Myers when you need him?" I really get conflicted with the emotions here. There's the decision to shut down the HumaGears or not. This creates some scenario because the shares of Hiden Intelligence go down AND you can imagine the public eye right now. News reports feature the assault of rogue HumaGears and their eyes turning red. "Dr. Evil" then says the best thing to do is to shut them down. I guess "Dr. Evil" is still unable to accept that his superior is a mere ...

Yesterday's episode was already an intense one involving smuggling people literally from Morocco to South Korea. Chief Min himself is still unaware of his hated rival Director Kang to be still very much alive. At this point, the government is, in default, under the control of John & Mark as a result of the actions of Chief Min and Secretary of Affairs Shadow. Speaking of Shadow, I really think he looks like Nariaki Utsumi (a henchman from Namba Enterprises) from Kamen Rider Build. This really makes it intense when you've got the good guys who seem to be Kamen Rider Agito' s Hojo Toru (Tae Woong), Akibaranger's  Hiroyo Hakase (Hae Ri), and  Solbrain's  Jun Masuda (Dal Gun) all the while they're facing their own version of Super Science Network (a villain faction in Janperson ) under the control of Reiko Ayanokouji (Jessica). The situation looks pretty dire for the heroes. Both the president and his prime minister at the Blue House still don't know wh...

Last week's episodes really have a focus from Morocco and back to South Korea. Both Hae Ri and Dal Gun are on the boat. Dal Gun starts to troll everyone over and over again and this time so does Hae Ri. It's really easy to see how corruption has taken over the National Intelligence Serve. This reminds me of a scene in While You Were Sleeping where a high school student attempts to poison her own father because of dumb prosecutors. At this point, I wish that Lee Sang Yeob reunited with Suzy Bae as a villain here because of how well he carried out the villain part.  What really is amazing here is that Chief Min is now getting suspicious of what's going on. Tae Woong is supposedly on the side of Chief Min but it doesn't work that way. It also turns out that Director Kang faked his own death. Did they get the wrong corpse cremated in order to do it? Somehow, I do find these fake deaths in spy series to be rather boggling. The risk of Director Kang's faked death c...

There's the saying that science without a heart or conscience is meaningless. Apparently, Kamen Rider Zero-One seems to be exploring that direction. If you happen to watch older Super Sentai (and not everyone can click with that) -- that kind of concept was explored heavily in Bioman , Flashman , Liveman , and Megaranger . The opposing views between Aruto and Isamu are now explored in what would be a two-parter. Side note, I may consider slowing down the summaries by combining several arcs into one review. This looks like it'd be a two-parter with how it ended. A hospital ran by HumaGears does sound both promising and deadly. Personally, I tend to side with Isamu a lot due to his childhood trauma. He does have valid concerns about HumaGears developing human-like thinking. Granted, we know how deadly humanity can get with the trope Humans Are Bastards. Robots developing their own free will can lead to a crisis that heavily defines the Megaman(Rockman) X series. The HumaGear...

A time bomb is ticking if you know what I mean. The reality is Vagabond is just three weeks away before it concludes. That means I might consider either taking a break from K-Drama or watch Yong Pal (which I haven't). The time bomb is ticking as explosive revelations are about to begin to enter into the fray. There's a lot of interesting gun action too as two sides of the coin are really about to clash. Just remember three more weeks (six more episodes) to go and the TV drama is about to conclude.  The Friday episode has some high stakes there. I wonder who put the bomb there. There's the call to dial this number, get to Bullet Chicken, and the codename is "Vagabond" which is the title of the show. I really found it weird (at first) as to why Dal Gun is ordered to set his timer on his smartphone. As it turns out, there's a bomb in the embassy. I guess Chief Min isn't competent enough to realize that there is some hidden information. The whole gunni...

This Friday's episode with Vagabond has to be rather pretty intense. Last week's Friday episode had Kim Woo Gi the co-pilot finally getting arrested. But the orders from Super Science Network John & Mark is to make sure that he's finally gotten rid of. Side note, I really have to think Kim Woo Gi's actor Jang Hyuk Jin resembles Takeshi Ishikawa who played as Dr. Shiina in Janperson and Garoa in Fiveman . Dr. Shinji happens to be a guest villain in Janperson working with the Super Science Network. Okay, is this getting really freaky we've got some coincidental Toku references? Not really. this episode is pretty intense. Woo Gi must be kept alive at all costs to testify against John & Mark. Dal Gun even offered his blood for that reason but he's too disgusted to do so. Chief Min, Shadow, the Sleazy Attorney Hong, and Jessica all discuss their next move. It so happens Shadow is working with the government. Jessica has had a habit of murdering her own ...

Is it me or are we getting more Megaman X (or Rockman X in Japan) vibes once more? The reason has to be that HumaGears are developing sentience like humans. Last week's episode has a HumaGear voice actress who'd take over the bad Tagalog dubbers if she were real. Now, this week as a basketball coach who is developing more human feelings. There's the quest to reset the basketball coach HumaGear known as Kobe Sakamoto. Is it a play on the name Kobe Bryant? Granted, I'm not a fan of basketball and I only play it for fun. The problem has to be that Kobe himself has been too focused on basketball. A parent complains that her child is spending too much time with basketball. Kobe seems to also show the problem if humans could accurately estimate things like a computer can. A computer is meant to help simplify complex things. Kobe seems to be doing the opposite as a computer with human emotions! The conflicts in this episode are somewhat there. I don't want to stop com...