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Zio Ep 39
.....What even was this episode? XD
#Kamen Rider#Kamen Rider Zi O#spoilers#I'm so glad I watched HGF yesterday or I would have been very confused#I mean I'm still kinda confused about the Imagin stuff but the Den O cast is so charming and ridiculous! XD#ALSO JUNICHIRO YES GOOD GIVE UNCLE ALL THE LOVE!#Also they made the Kiriya joke!#And they did it twice over with Uncle being SO CHILL about the Oni! XD#That said though...I think I saw someone mention that HGF is not actually canon to Zio#considering no one seemed to recognize any of the Den-O stuff (and it didn't seem like memories were erased in the movie)#...so where did the W and Kuuga watches come from then Zio staff -_-#Did 'Geiz bring them back from the future?' 'Woz went the the ruins/Fuuto and made them'?
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Translated questions from Tanaka-sensei's interview
There was an interview with Tanaka-sensei for the 10th anniversary of Servamp and sensei was asked 25 questions. Enjoy!
1) Q: Please tell us the ranking of how well the vampires can do housework, particularly cooking!
A: Among the eight Servamps, in order of their cooking ability:
Lawless > Freya > Lily > Tsubaki > Hugh > Kuro > Ildio > Jeje.
(What, Lawless is the best at cooking among the Servamps?!
That's surprising. He probably bakes sweets for Licht-tan :)
2) Q: Has Tsubaki ever been really angry at Belkia's pranks?
A: No, he hasn’t. Tsubaki never gets really angry by his friends’ jokes. Belkia is also able to read the mood, so he doesn't play pranks that go beyond the extent of a joke.
3) Q: What kind of lessons did Mikuni learn in his childhood?
A: Piano, violin, swimming, tennis, painting, horseback riding, and various foreign languages.
4) Q: Are there any certain pairings of Servamp siblings that are particularly close or unfriendly with one another?
A: The ones who get along especially well are Lily and Jeje, Lawless and Ildio.
On the other hand, the ones who don't get along are Hugh and Lawless, and Jeje and Ildio.
In terms of one-sided feelings, Lily is afraid of Freya, Freya dotes on Lawless, and Ildio has a somewhat affinity for Kuro.
5) Q: Are there any characters who dislike sweets?
A: Shuuhei, Shamrock, Touma Taishi are not particularly fond of sweets.
6) Q: Why does Kuro like cup noodles (Rame Ou)?
A: Because it's easy to make and delicious.
(note: Rame Ou [ラメ王] is the name of the brand of cup of noodles that Kuro likes. The kanji 王 means king and ラメ is short for ラーメン "ramen" )
7) Q: Is there a reason why Mahiru isn't on the cover even though he’s the main character?
A: Yes, there is.
8) Q: When Licht-san gets drunk, he becomes more aggressive towards Lawless than usual, but how does he react to other people besides Lawless? (For example, Crantz, Guil, Mahiru, Kuro, etc.)
If Lawless is there, will he be harmed no matter who is around?
A: It's not that he's getting more aggressive, it's just that he becomes more arrogant than usual, so he's more selfish with Crantz and Guil, starts giving longer angel lectures to Mahiru, and pets Kuro like mad.
9) Q: There are many characters in Servamp that wear glasses, including Shuuhei and Lawless, but who is the character with the worst eyesight of them all?
A: Although he is far-sighted, Kurumamori Junichiro has the worst eyesight.
Lawless has no problem with his eyesight because his glasses are just for fashion.
10) Q: What is inside Licht-san’s angel backpack?
A: Wallet, a handkerchief, cookies, smart phone, a good luck charm given by his family, earphones, sheet music, and so on.
11) Q: Please tell us the order of those who are skilled at Mahjong from team Melancholy!
A: In order of their skills: Otogiri > Tsubaki > Sakuya > Shamrock > Belkia > Higan.
12) Q: How long is Misono’s ahoge (cowlick) ?!
A: It changes depending on his emotions.
13) Q: What is Kuro's favorite dish from Mahiru's culinary repertoire?
A: Hamburger steak with melted cheese on top.
14) Q: I got hooked on SERVAMP because of the stage play! I thought the level of reproduction of the characters was of high quality, but I'd like to ask Tanaka-sensei what you thought about the fact that the characters you created were materialized. Please, we would like to hear your opinions about the stage play!
A: I really enjoyed the show, purely as an audience member!
It was impressive to see the characters actually exist and move. Kuro's cat-like movements, Lily's graceful swinging of his scythe, Tsubaki's ghastly sword wielding, and so on. I also like the opening dance. I would love to see it again.
15) Q: I would like to know which characters do their hair and which ones leave it as it is! Besides Lawless, do the others leave their hair as it is?
A: In addition to Lawless, Mahiru, Sakuya, Belkia, Shamrock, Lily, Mikuni, Yumikage, Junichirou, Iori, Miyako, Crantz, Sigurd and Youtaro are particular about their hairstyles.
On the other hand, Kuro, Gear, Tsurugi, Iduna, Ildio, Higan, etc. leave their hair as it is when they get out of bed.
16) Q: When I'm reading Servamp, I consider that the foreshadowing is great, but do you have a clear structure for the final story in mind, sensei?
A: The flow of the story is generally defined until the end.
17) Q: Tanaka-sensei, is there any character that has acted in a way that you didn’t expect or made you think something like “Did they really have such thoughts?”
A: Shirota Mahiru. I believe he has changed around the 11th volume, when he stepped out from his uncle’s ideology.
18) Q: What is Lily’s favorite macaron flavor?
A: Vanilla.
19) Q: Is Mikado Ichinose high-school only for boys?
A: The Mikado Ichinose institution has elementary, middle and high schools, and the middle and high schools are boys' schools. There are rumors that the school will soon become co-ed.
20) Q: Are there any characters in Servamp who are considered good at art?
A: Aside from Higan, Nicco is actually good at drawing.
On the other hand, Crantz has a unique sense of style, although he is not aware of it. Lawless and Guil call him "Master artist Crantz.”
21) Q: Please tell us which characters have driver’s licenses!
A: They are: Dodo, Mitsuki, Lawless (counterfeit), Crantz, Taishi Touma, Tooru Shirota, Tsukimitsu Iori, Tsukimitsu Miyako, Tsukimitsu Yumikage, Kurumamori Junichirou, Tsuyuki Shuuhei (paper driver), Shamrock (before his death), Niccolo, Cappuccino, Sigurd, Pisca, and Youtarou.
(note: Paper driver means inexperienced drivers who haven’t driven for years, or who never drive after they’ve got their driver’s license. )
22) Q: Is Tetsu-kun’s hair color natural?
A: No. He has been dyeing it for a while.
23) Q: I would like to know Mahiru’s mother’s name.
A: It's Shirota Akira. 城田暁 (her name means "dawn")
24) Q: Lawless doesn't seem to have said any theatrical lines since volume 8. Is there a reason for this?
Does it have something to do with the fact that he has become a crybaby?
A: For him, there was no need to act anymore.
25) Q: When is it that Tsurugi laughs earnestly?
A: He doesn't think that he isn't laughing earnestly.
(This question was difficult to translate because it used double negatives, so the meaning is that "I do laugh earnestly". I hope it makes sense.)
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☆ DAD!? BoYfRiEnD!? ☆
Kosuke was nervous, what could she say having her quite protective father meet her quite careless boyfriend... what could go wrong? She could only hope they would get along.
Osamu didn’t have nerves, worries yes but nerves he honestly thought being nervous was behind him until he realised he was meeting his partners father. He hoped whoever Mr Fukuzawa was he was nice and didn’t mind how excentric he would be. Mr Fukuzawa?
Yukichi wasn’t a stone cold man, protective yes but cold no. He would smile down at the picture of his daughter, he couldn’t call her little anymore she was only a few centimetres shy of being as tall as him but she was growing up fast.
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“Dazai stop dozing off and pay attention to the work on your desk.” Kunikida yelled as he slapped the dark haired man upside the head. Dazai fell forward and smacked his head against his desk.
“Uh Dazai?” Atsushi said worriedly.
“What is it when your chest feels on fire and your stomach fills with butterflies?” Dazai asks.
“Are you sick?” Kenji calls out- Yosano turns to him with an evil glint.
“No just... I’m meeting Ko’s father tonight.”
“Oh you are? Have you never met him before?” Naomi calls out. “Also can we meet her at some point?”
“Nope. Like I said meeting him tonight.” Dazai sighed. “Uh maybe.”
“What about her mother?” Junichiro tilts his head.
“It’s just her and her dad she doesn’t know her mother... before Kunikida opens his mouth yes I have been dating her for nearly a year and not yet met him- we are both busy but I’m meeting him tonight.... I guess I’m nervous.”
“Dazai.. nervous?” Atsushi muttered.
Suddenly the brunette stood and smiled.
“Time to go- Ko wants me home early.” Dazai smiles. “Will let you all know how it goes.”
“Please do!” Some one called out.
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“President!” Kunikida yelled as the silver haired man stepped through the door.
“I will be on my way out finish any work needed and head home.” He smiled.
“Yes sir. It’s just paperwork and everything should be done as soon as possible.” Kunikida answered.
“Good to here. Have a good evening I have a young man to go scare.” The president let out a deep chuckle.
“Pardon President?” Junichiro asked.
“Oh my daughter, I’m meeting her boyfriend- goodbye everyone.” Fukuzawa laughed again as he left.
“The president has a daughter!?” Naomi called out, Kunikida stood with his jaw dropped.
“The president has daughter and Dazai has a girlfriend.” Atsushi mused... his eyes widened. “Hey guys-“
“Yeah?” The detectives responded.
“Is there a small chance Ko is the president’s daughter and dating Dazai... Dazai is meeting her father and the president is meeting his daughters boyfriend?” Atsushi pondered. The room fell deadly quiet leaving only the sound of Ranpo eating his snacks. “Ranpo?”
“The president’s daughter is named Kosuke.” Is what he says. “She’s a mirror image of her father- I met her when the agency was forming.”
The agency fell silent again with only one question in mind- if it’s true will Dazai live to see tomorrow?
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“Kosuke.” Dazai pouted and dug his face further into the silver haired woman’s neck.
“Yes Osamu?” She hummed.
“I want attention.” He whined.
“My love when don’t you want attention?” She giggled. Dazai’s arms tightened around her waist pulling her back flush against his chest. She giggled again and gave his arm a pat as she continued to finish setting up dinner.
“Yeah but you are so focused on your dinner and stuff that I haven’t even gotten a kiss yet.” She placed the last of the cutlery on the table and spun in her lovers arms, her own wrapping around his neck as they nuzzled noses.
“Still want a kiss from me?”
“Always.” He breathed pressing his lips against hers, leading her towards a wall. Their lips fit together perfectly, his hands fit perfectly with her own it was like her body was half of his to create a perfect whole- he loved her he truely did.
“That’s enough love.” He pouted as he rested his forehead against hers. “Go get cleaned up dad should be here soon.”
“But Ko..”
“If you do well with dad I’ll give you a special present later.” She winked and off he went excited and merry. She laughed and shook her head.
A knock sounded at the door- her father was here. The door swung open to show a silver haired man, his metallic eyes glimmering in the harsh light of her apartment- she really was a mirror image of her father.
“Dad!” She exclaimed wrapping her arms around his shoulders.
“Sunflower how are you?” He grinned.
“I’m great.”
“Where is the boyfriend?”
“Osamu dad is here!” She called out. “Sorry he was just in the bathroom washing up.” Kosuke let her father inside and ducked behind him to shut and lock the door.
Osamu? The president raised a brow at the name, now wouldn’t that be funny if~
“President!” A familiar voice started Yukichi from his thoughts and at first he was shocked- why was Dazai in his daughters apartment... oh... OH.
“Dazai?”
Dazai on the other hand his mind was racing Fukuzawa that name should have clicked much... much earlier in the relationship than it did. Yukichi’s eyes widened at Dazai’s appearance, he had on his usual outfit without his trench coat and most importantly without his bandages for his eyes to notice many many marks... he was comfortable in this apartment.
Kosuke turned to see her father and boyfriend in a confused-frightened-worried-nervous stare down. Then it clicked.
“Oh shit Osamu why didn’t you tell me you worked for my dad?”
“Why didn’t you tell me your dad was my boss?”
“Why did neither of you tell me you were dating specifically.” Yukichi pinched the bridge of his nose.
“How about we sit down and eat before the food gets cold okay?” Kosuke’s voice raised in pitch as she asked. They all sat at the table and slowly began to dig in.... shit it was awkward.
“So dad.” He hummed. “How was your day?”
“My day was good. Not much to do though mostly drank tea, looked over new assignments and signed paper work though I did see a fluffy cat outside the apartment.” Yukichi said fondly.
“Oh that’s Mrs Nakamoto’s cat Whisky... yah I made the same face dad.” Kosuke laughed trying to ease the tension. “I’m going to be adopting that cat we were talking about Osamu. I finally got the paperwork through.”
“We can officially get Bella.” Dazai’s eyes widened- Yukichi watched Kosuke fondly whilst offering tiny glares towards Dazai but more or less he was happy for them.
“You should get a second one later and name it Donna.” Yukichi said seriously. Kosuke snorted and began laughing so hard her stomach hurt. Osamu laughed quietly. “Now... May I say something serious~ I have to say something fatherly now don’t I?” He smiled.
Osamu gulped. He just had big flashing lights in his mind screaming ‘He will kill you! You are dead! RIP Osamu Dazai didn’t even get to make Kosuke, Kosuke Dazai’ - not that that was going to happen for at least another year.
“I don’t expect you to drop formalities with me at work Dazai but since Kosuke is clearly happy with you I cannot refute or disagree even if I did disapprove.” Kosuke’s eyes widen, “Don’t worry I don’t. He’s careless yes but you both clearly care for each other. I’m still your boss but I’m also your partners father so I give you permission to drop formalities you may call me Yukichi instead of President or Mr Fukuzawa.”
“Thank-you pres- Yukichi. I think it’s safe to say Osamu is fine for you to address me as. I won’t hurt her ever never intentionally and hopefully never unintentionally either. I love her.. I love you Ko.” Dazai held his hand out across the table for the older man to shake. “This is a little awkward I will say that no offence is to be made but Ko you are near identical to your father.”
Kosuke started laughing again and nodded.
“Yeah we get that a lot.” Yukichi’s eyes were drawn towards his daughters neck- he hadn’t noticed earlier but she didn’t have her bandage on around her neck- she truely trusts and loves Osamu Dazai and that’s good enough for him.... but if dead Uncle Mori found out, hmm.
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The next day Dazai had stumbled into work tired, disheveled and kind of dopey. His shirt was messy and the bags under his eyes indicated a strong strong lack of sleep.
“Is Dazai okay?” Haruno asked after watching the man stumble around for a few hours now.
“Hmm? Yes I’m fine.”
“Damn was her old man that scary?” Kunikida laughed.
“Oh no we got along quite well after a few minutes of awkwardness.” Dazai perked up and fixed his shirt, leaving his hair a tangled mess. “I just got a present for being good is all.” He winked.
“What is her dad like?”
“Uh well-“
“Osamu.” Yukichi smiled as he entered the angency office. The agents looked to the pair in question- is Dazai in trouble why did the president use his first name? Where they right about him and the president?
“Oh more Yukichi- President sorry.”
“It’s fine. Ranpo my daughter will be dropping off those sweets you asked for.” The president said.
“Yay Kosuke!”
“Speak of the devil and I shall appear.” The woman who walked in- Ranpo wasn’t kidding when he said she looked like the president.
“Hey Koko.” The Great Detective calked our as she handed him his box of sweets.
“I thought I was going to be late but I arrived as the shop opened so I just zoomed over. Hi everyone I’m Kosuke Fukuzawa.” The woman had a nice rich voice and a pleasant smile.
“Ko.” Dazai grinned and jumped towards her. “You were gone when I woke up.”
“You pout like a small child love.”
Beat
“EH! Love!” The agents yelled.
“Yeah this is my girlfriend.” Dazai’s shit eating grin was evident and sent the other agents into a spin. Ranpo, Yukichi, Kosuke and Osamu began to laugh.
“Your coworkers are strange.”
“Wouldn’t have it any other way.” Yukichi gave Kosuke a pat on the head before walking to his office. “Goodbye.”
#bsd#Bungou Stray Dogs#bungou stray dogs oc#kosuke fukuzawa#Osamu Dazai#Dazai x oc#yukichi fukuzawa#bsd oc
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Natsumi and/or (Onodera) Yuusuke meet the Zi-O kids with E, if that isn’t too much to ask?
E is for equal
“Yes, my secretary brought my watch to be repaired a couple of days ago, he said you called to say it was ready?”
“You’re Ms. Hikari?” Junichiro nods, reaching under the counter for the watch box with her name on it, and then stops. “I’m sorry, did you say that Mr. Kadoya is your secretary?”
Natsumi grins at him. “Well, he mostly can’t cook, I have to make him do something around the house.”
Junichiro gives her a startled look and then, after a moment, starts to laugh. “That seems fair enough. It’s good to know who’s best at what in a household. Here, good as new.” He pulls out the box and passes it to her. “That’s a beautiful piece, by the way, it was a pleasure to work on.”
“Thank you, it was a gift from my grandfather. What do I owe you?”
“Nothing at all, my dear, Mr. Kadoya already paid for everything. Excuse me, sir, can I help you with something?“
“Oh, no, he’s with me, we walked here together.” Natsumi glances over her shoulder at Yuusuke, who waves cheerfully.
“Ah, I see.” Junichiro pauses. “Mr. Kadoya’s been a great friend to my nephew recently, I’m not sure how to thank him for persuading Sougo to actually take entrance exams. If you’re not in a hurry, would you like to sit down for some tea?”
Natsumi beams at him. “We’d love to, thank you.”
“Wonderful! Woz?”
Woz leans out of the workroom, sees Natsumi and Yuusuke, and blinks hard before saying, “Yes, Tokiwa-shishou?”
“Would you make some tea for our guests, please?”
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Half an hour later, Sougo and Geiz return to the house with groceries and stop at the sight of Woz sitting on the kitchen floor with his book in his lap, passing tools to someone whose upper half is disappearing into the cabinets under the kitchen sink. He doesn’t look up until they’ve been staring for a moment, and then does look up, see them, and jump. “Good, good afternoon.”
Sougo nods slowly. “Hi, Woz. Uh...did Uncle finally remember to call a plumber?”
“Mr. Onodera is very kindly fixing the sink for us.”
“You can call me Yuusuke, that’s fine.” The voice from under the sink is understandably muffled, but after a moment the man in question pulls himself out and sits up, smiling cheerfully at them. “It’s all fixed. Thanks for helping!” He claps Woz on the shoulder in a friendly way, which Woz looks sort of puzzled by. “And you two must be Sougo and Geiz.”
Geiz says, “Um. Yes?”
“I’m Onodera Yuusuke, I’m a friend of Tsukasa and Daiki’s.”
“Oh. Oh, all right.” He pauses, and then shifts his bag of groceries to one arm and holds out a hand, pulling Yuusuke to his feet. “Is something going on?”
“Daiki said you’d ask that! No, we were just picking up Natsumi’s watch and Sougo’s uncle asked if we wanted to stay for tea, and then I noticed Woz was having trouble with the sink, so I offered to fix it. So I guess something was going on, but it was just that there was a leak in the pipes.”
“Are you also...?”
“A Rider? Only when there aren’t other options. Here, you want help with the groceries?”
Yuusuke takes Sougo’s bag of groceries, and they shake hands, and then Sougo wanders into the dining room, puzzled.
At the table, Tsukuyomi is deep in conversation with a small woman in a knit cap, who, as Sougo enters, reaches across the table, puts a hand over Tsukuyomi’s, and says, very firmly, “There aren’t a lot of us. We need to stick together. You can call me whenever you need to talk.”
Tsukuyomi nods. She’s got a sort of startled, delighted look on her face; it reminds Sougo of seeing her talk to her favorite science teacher when they were all in high school. “I will. Thank you so much, Ms...Natsumi. Daiki said...he said a lot of the others died.”
“Yeah. It happens too much. It sucks.” Natsumi looks up, sees Sougo, and nods. “You must be Sougo. I have some advice for you, since Tsukasa apparently keeps forgetting to tell you.”
Sougo blinks. “Yes, ma’am?”
Her eyes narrow. “Don’t call me ma’am, I’m only thirty. Anyway, advice. If you ever meet a guy named Narutaki, tell him to go fuck himself.”
Tsukuyomi chokes on her tea. Sougo just nods. “Thank you, I’ll keep that in mind.“
“Good, it’ll hopefully save you some trouble.” Natsumi peers at him for a moment, and then looks back to Tsukuyomi and says, “Before I leave I need to make sure I teach you a pressure point technique. Technically it’s a family secret, but it’ll be years before I can teach it to Yuzuki, and I feel like you might need it.”
#hikari natsumi#onodera yuusuke#tokiwa junichiro#tokiwa sougo#myoukouin geiz#woz#tsukuyomi#fanfiction#anonamouse
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screamin bout zi-o 36
i had fun doing this last week, so let’s make another screencap post! of course, i said that, and then it took several days to upload all the pictures because tumblr just stops fucking working sometimes. anyhoo! it’s yuko kitajima roast hour. image-heavy and spoiler-heavy, naturally.
so ginga blew everyone up and they ran away to a sewer it seems.
honestly that theory makes as much sense as anything else on this booty ass fuckin’ kamen rider show
i was just like...he isn’t
but then he was
swartz: she could step on me in those red pumps and i’d say Thank You
hora: i regret so much right now
uhr: *shonen anime character walking down the street pose*
then over quartzer plays and im starting to feel a little lost because i don’t get to hear about the episode according to woz’s book? hello??
yuko’s still out gettin her spa treatments and shit, god only knows how she got the money for all that, and somehow she never crosses paths with the cops or anyone who recognizes her from the news?? uh
honestly yeah?? a queen deserves to look GOOD. her theme music is eerily sexy, i need an mp3 of it right now
don’t get me wrong, im well aware that swartz is being a suck-up to try and get yuko to help with his plan to seize ginga’s power, but damn im kinda shipping swartz with yuko now too...i mean, he WAS looking at her while doing the sexy ice cream thing last week. what flavor ice cream would yuko be? black cherry chip maybe?
(headcanon: woz tries apple pie ice cream and declares it a crime against both apple pie and ice cream alike--but he still eats the whole coneful)
hora and uhr get ZA WARUDO’D down the stairs by swartz
we were all uhr right here
yeaaaaaah she just doesn’t want to fight ginga
tsukuyomi’s a mood. someone put a band-aid on geiz’s forehead pls
ok woz i get that if you’re looking for a despotic ruler to follow that yuko is likely a better bet than sougo, but you’re missing an important detail: if yuko actually had a shot at becoming queen of everything, she’d already have one of you in tow, and you would most likely hate each other.
...majou means “demon queen” in this case, not “witch”, right?
aaaaaand this...is the moment when yuko started making me very uncomfortable. the way she responds: “yes...i do remember. it’s you.”
and sougo’s face just lights up--my guy, she could so easily be lying. she didn’t say one thing about the band-aid or the playground or anything that’d indicate she’s actually sougo’s crush.
like...if not for the fact that sougo had such a crush on the seifuku girl, it wouldn’t be all that major a memory. it likely wasn’t for the girl in question--just a happy sunny day cheering up a lonely little boy. a beautiful memory, yes...but memories fade.
can someone please explain to me why woz’s characterization is all over the place in kiva arc? are you pro-yuko or anti-yuko, woz? i don’t understand what’s going through his pretty head at all honestly. he gets pretty taciturn in the scenes he’s not inhaling pie, but then at times he seems to think yuko’s cool aaaaaagh i don’t know
junichiro: meowing, just wanted an excuse to cook lots of food
sougo: “yay, uncle’s cooking!”
woz: [deadpan monotone] “yaaaaaaay uncle’s cooking...”
ive had enough of this evil bitch honestly but when she points it’s still Good Shit
ridiculous move name, but also an awesome move name
and turning to stone to heal up while the sun’s clouded over? very cool
denied
i noped so hard at this part. like...i really do feel protective of sougo. yuko doesn’t give a damn about him, she just doesn’t want him to get in her way.
nope. no. nuh uh. you two step away from each other right now.
YOU CANNOT MAKE BABIES WITH AN IDIOT FETUS
ok but in all seriousness, do you want time jackers? because, im calling it now, letting oma zi-o go in raw is how you get time jackers.
yeah im pretty sure miho would’ve kept at it if she’d lived, and yuko...shes not gonna listen to sougo
thank you for the much needed reality check furry man
so she’s a...fu-joshi? 👀
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yuko wears such fabulous shoes
was anyone surprised at this point that yuko was the real killer? i sure wasn’t. not after all the obvious lies.
i love her leitmotif. i need it. where do i download
SHE DIDN’T PROMISE SHIT
hey kids! it’s time for *mashes play button* la-la-la lies! yeah, tell me that you love me! la-la-la-lies! look deep into my eyes! la-la-la-lies! say there’s no one else above me! i’m the king of fools, cuz baby, you’re the queen of actually very hurtful and manipulative lies!
that’s such bullshit
now im the last person to be like “don’t play the dead mommy card”--i practically keep that card in the hello kitty wallet my dead mommy gave me. but i bet you yuko’s mom is just fine (aside from living with the trauma of knowing her daughter’s a murderer and pathological liar).
sougo,,,,,pls
thank you tsukuyomi. god sougo really needs a chaperone with yuko around, he’s way too dumb and thirsty.
GUESS WHO’S BACK. BACK AGAIN. fortunately, it seems swartz and woz have been just standing there watching him for the duration of the rain shower.
lest we forget (because i didn’t screencap it), when zi-o took the brunt of ginga’s attack earlier, it sent him flying. now, that’s a human body, which has some ability to absorb force because it’s mostly pretty soft and fluid. yuko’s manhole cover almost completely absorbed this blast--she barely shifted her weight on impact. is it just that she’s THAT ripped?
then The Boys rider kick ginga to oblivion. rip ginga, you didn’t have a personality or a character arc, we never even saw you un-transformed--you were just a cool looking plot device with pretty attacks. but for that much, we appreciate you!
swartz looks so pleased with himself. he must not have watched the preview for this episode.
YOINK! gotta love how swartz doesn’t look surprised so much as puzzled.
sure am glad kurowoz took his other self’s advice and kept an eye on swartz
i love it so much how woz just has these magic scarf powers and it needs no explanation? hell, he can fly and time travel and make people fall asleep and he’s super strong too, with no explanation? and he’s the comic relief? ALSO HE’S REALLY HOT? woz is a being to behold honestly
speaking of super strong and really hot, yuko is KILLING IT in that gown. i mean...i guess that’s the intention. killing it. cuz she’s a homicidal maniac. haha.
she’s so good at pointing. yuko could be a prosecutor in shuichi kitaoka: ace attorney. (FUND IT)
yuko throws her manhole cover at the boys (rude!) and next we see geiz holding it. a shame we don’t get to see him snatch it out of midair. or did woz catch it and just hand it to him? we may never know.
zi-o. listen to geiz, zi-o. use the fucking watch. just use the watch, zi-o. you seriously plan on just letting another kiva go on a killing spree? do you not get by now what she’s capable of?
thank goodness zi-o has his retainers to make wise decisions so he doesn’t have to.
please note the placement of mars on ginga woz’s suit. very important.
I Love You
lmao
WHERE IS YOUR MANHOLE COVER NOW
my favorite character gets a beautiful rainbow final attack. i feel so blessed.
i mean...protecting all mankind would probably include protecting them from people like yuko. just sayin.
is it bad of me that my immediate thought right then was “at least woz’s attack wasn’t what did her in.”
this shot, especially in the context of the church, definitely gave me pieta vibes--albeit reversed somewhat.
weirdly enough, woz does an outro instead of an intro this episode.
at this point while watching, i said to shylax “you know what this calls for? pie!” but before i could finish--
--PIE! cmon sougo, it’s time to gobble up your feelings!
fucking woz, i swear, you have pie in your mouth and pie in your right hand and pie on your FACE and when your overlord expresses how miserable he is you just go for his uneaten pie with your empty hand.
...is it normal to eat pie like this in japan? because the only times i’ve seen americans make this much of a mess eating pie is when they’re toddlers.
oh hey, what do you know? looks like sougo’s first love wasn’t a violent crazy person after all. she also wasn’t yuko.
sougo’s just an idiot who will mistake any older woman who rubs him on the chin and calls him cute for his sailor girl.
previews!
i blame joshua kiryu
how eloquently this one line sums up not only kamen rider zi-o but kamen rider decade as well. that’s it, that’s the show. that’s the clusterfuck we will inevitably get whenever toei decides to make a kamen rider crossover.
LOOK AT THIS! TSUKUYOMI REMEMBERED SOMETHING! who is she smiling at? is it her dad? is that swartz behind her?! omg baby tsukuyomi is so CUTE!
“a team”. uh huh. is that what the youth are calling it these days? cuz when i was a wee lass, i believe they called it “fucking”.
so what have we learned this week?
very little about ginga
sougo does not remember faces all that well
before sougo dates ANYONE that person should be fully vetted by junichiro, geiz, tsukuyomi, and woz because CLEARLY HE CANNOT SAFELY CHOOSE A PARTNER FOR HIMSELF
i still really like yuko as a character, if not as a person. same as i enjoy junji ito manga, but would be very upset if most of it happened in real life.
swartz loves a woman who can kick his ass
what the fuck are manhole covers in this world
i can’t wait for baby tsukuyomi flashbacks! that, and more tsukasa.
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Zi-O 38: The sun is a powerful thing
Here we go! Time to watch a show~!
Last time: Timeline snarls, the bad sort of Meteor, and worms. So many worms.
This time: … Hell bro’s if I know.
Spoilers for Zi-O 38 and Kabuto below the cut. Rest in piece, horizontal line - sections are divided by tildes now. ~
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When last we saw our hero, he was Rocket Drilling a meteor into non-existence. And then the bigger one showed up. On the plus side, at least Sougo knows that “OH GOD THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HIT THE EARTH.”
Also, apparently the Faiz Phone X works in space! Good to know!
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Junichiro. That. Is not how you make emergency ration onigiri. You. You don’t need to include all the extras with them. Also, evacuate to where, exactly? It’s A METEOR.
Kudos for taking Woz’s comment about Sougo being in space in stride, though. (How much do you know, old man?!)
…Wait a minute. Does Junichiro not know Woz’s name? He didn’t use it when asking when Sougo was coming back.
Uncle, ffs. You’ve lost your name privileges again.
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In the recap vault… Woz has what are presumably replicas of the three remaining watches – Drive, Kabuto, and Den-O.
(Why is Drive the last arc? Wouldn’t. Wouldn’t Den-O be more appropriate for the last Legend Rider? I mean, we’ve already gotten Yu Inaba back for the Brain special, so they could have filmed his section then, if he’s the guest appearance. But Den-O would just. Make more sense for the final watch, wouldn’t it?)
(wouldn’t it?)
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We’ve got the Kabuto OP reference again! I really wish they had started using old musical cues sooner, as opposed to not doing so until Agito, because that would have helped make the earlier Legend arcs just a little better.
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WOZ DID YOU DRAW THIS PLAN UP? This doodle is CUTE.
“Okay, so, you have a rocket, so get me into position, and I’ll use my Super Mode to blow up the asteroid.”
Sougo just. Goes with it. Doesn’t even ask if Woz’ll be okay. Can’t tell if that’s because he’s being dumb, if it’s because he’s preoccupied, or if it’s because he trusts that it’ll work out.
(Also, Woz having clearly made and eaten the ramen that the Hell brothers left behind with their ransom note is all sorts of hilarious.)
Sougo: “Wait, where’s Kagami?”
Woz: (shrug) “He might’ve been captured. Also, here’s this note we got from the edgelords.”
Note: (is a ransom letter)
Kagami: (IS VERY MUCH CAPTURED)
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Geiz, no samehatting with the murdermen. Yaguruma’s “If it comes to it, I’ll be the one to take him down” is very different from your “If it comes to it, I’ll be the one to take him down.”
Also, good use of archival footage there.
Hey, does anyone know what Geiz’s ringtone is? It’s familiar, and I feel like it’s one of the belt jingles, but I can’t place it.
But anyway, Geiz hears that Kageyama’s done… something, and Yaguruma takes this opportunity to knock him down and zoom the heck out of there.
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Cut to… oh. That’s. Fine. Kageyama has Arata chained to a post, with some suspicious piles of rocks placed nearby.
(That feel when Toei doesn’t quite hide the mortars for the explosions)
So… you guys are really just going to toss your space powers to the Worm, huh? That’s what we’re doin-
AHAHA YES
IT’S THE SUIKA SPRITE! I love that little guy’s machine gun. And then using the Search Hawk to cut the chains around Arata!
I like seeing the older gadgets and tech used again.
Also, RiderTime has decided that the jingle they’re going with for the Search Hawk is “This hawk can gawk,” which… Well, they’re not wrong!
Arata is loose, and goes straight into the cast-off version fo Gatack. Looks like he was going to go grab the watches using Clock Up, but Another Kabuto has other ideas.
He does not fair well at all, and is very quickly knocked out of this transformation.
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At 9-to-5, we’ve got an after-fight debrief and patch-up session. Arata blames himself for not being good enough to stop the edgelord murdermen, but nobody else holds him to that.
I agree with Geiz, what are the Time Jackers thinking in contracting with this guy? I mean, not that Heure and Hora are usually thinking that far ahead in their choices, but I’d expect this one to be Swartz –
OH RIGHT. I just remembered that theory Miyuko and I came up with last week that the meteor – which is very, very red – is why 2068 is so messed up in the Oma Timeline. And since Swartz pretty clearly intends for Sougo to become Oma Zi-O…
Oh, and there’s a mention of Arata’s timeline and ‘our’ timeline getting ‘mixed up’, with a flashback to Tsukasa mentioning time and space getting distorted.
Keep in mind, Arata remembers Shibuya not exactly existing anymore, but it’s very much intact right now.
…Onore Time Travel.
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AND IT TURNS OUT THAT HEURE IS JUST AS DISPLEASED WITH THE WHOLE METEOR THING AS THE GOOD GUYS!
“Making Hell on Earth is one thing, but we need to actually have an Earth, dude.”
Also, I love this? Heure pausing time in the rain – with a nice matching umbrella, too – is a good callback to not just the fact that TIME FREEZING IS OP, but also to Kabuto, what with the disrupting the raindrops as he moves. Which – oh man, it’s really cool to see that!
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Heure is pissed to have to give the Fourze and Ginga watches back, but. Y’know. He’d rather not die to a giant meteor.
The thing is.
I don’t think that’s where Swartz is going with them.
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Over to 2058, with Tsukuyomi and Tsukasa! Hooray! Lore time!
The very red 2058.
Seriously, that ‘worm meteor is what hecked up the lighting’ idea is looking more and more likely.
Looks like Tsukasa landed them outside where Tsukuyomi might have grown up. Aaaand has been cast as the chef.
Tsukasa: “Eh. I’ve had weirder. I should tell you about the time I wound up being a salaryman the time I went to the world my husband came from. That sure was a day. And there was that time I was a head chef for BOARD. And the time I was a lawyer. And – okay, look, I have seen and done some things, kiddo.”
(My Decade watch is going well! The Kabuto arc was! Absolutely devastating! And so was Daiki’s!)
((I wonder what the odds are of the Den-O watch being as useless as the Den-O cards?))
So, once they reach the second story – a small girl in white starts questioning them.
A small girl in white, who looks an awful lot like Tsukuyomi.
And is calling them ‘interveners’. I kind of think ‘meddler’ might be a better term here, but. Idk. She can tell they’ve traveled through time. And has an incredibly powerful Time Stop ability.
And calls a teenager in a black outfit her brother.
An outfit that looks awfully familiar. Almost as if we’ve seen it before, in, say, 2009?
When they leave, and incidentally resume time, guess who’s coming up the stairs? Nah, not gonna make you guess, it’s our current Swartz. This is fine.
NOPE NEVER MIND THIS IS NOT FINE IN THE SLIGHTEST.
Swartz knocks Tsukasa into the yard – and that looked painful, Decade’s a veteran rider and he didn’t take that hit well – and…
Swartz… tosses the two stolen watches to Tsukuyomi, saying that without her power, they can’t stop the meteorite.
And that when hers and the god of times powers resonate, ‘a new era will arise’.
RiderTime, I’m pretty sure he was just saying ‘king of time’, not ‘god’. But still. NOT GREAT STUFF GOING ON HERE.
Swartz what are you planning?
…
Well, at least he does not, in fact, want the meteorite to hit. Taking the watches to Tsukuyomi, as opposed to the boys, makes sure that they won’t try stopping it without her.
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Tsukasa warps the two of them back to 2019, and OH RIGHT. They left WELL before the HUGE meteorite showed it’s ‘face’.
RUN TSUKUYOMI, RUN!
…
And. Oh.
HUH.
Tsukasa think’s he’s got what’s going on with her.
And Swartz isn’t quite certain that she’s his little sister.
Implying that his little sister disappeared, and he only suspects that she’s Tsukuyomi.
oh no.
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And here we have Arata getting incredibly down on himself, for not having been Kabuto, for having never beaten Souji. Sougo, sweet boy that he is, asks him to protect people for him when he becomes King.
Of course, the intent was to reassure Arata, but, well. Even Souji never went the ‘king’ route, so laughter is what ensues.
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Now, to a random rooftop, where Geiz and Woz are fighting against Another Kabuto and Punchhopper. …in their base forms.
Come on, guys. Really?
Well, at least the matched attacks knocked everyone out of their transformations, not just the good guys.
And here, some more exposition from Worm!Kageyama. Because he is a Worm, don’t forget that – and there’s a whole bunch more of them on the meteorite.
The others show up with the watches, and Sougo asks Arata if he can entrust the fight on the ground to him.
Arata: “Of course! My king!”
LIKE HE LITERALLY SAYS “OU-SAMA.”
THIS IS WHERE DEALING WITH SOUJI TENDO GETS YOU.
HE’S FINE WITH GOING WITH SOUGO’S ECCENTRICITIES.
Arata, no…
gasp.
GROUP TRANSFORMATION IS A GO!
And it’s not just a team transformation! It’s everyone, circling around the 6 combatants.
A call of ‘Henshin’ as we cycle by each in turn…
Arata starting his transformation, starting the Gatack Zecter.
Yaguruma starting his transformation, starting the Kickhopper Zecter.
Kageyama with the Punchhopper one.
Geiz going into Revive Fury.
Woz going into Ginga Finaly.
Sougo going into Fourze.
Then it keeps circling…
The Gatack armor forming, then Kickhopper, then Punchhopper. Geiz’s mask ‘label’ attaching itself. Woz. Zi-O Fourze.
Cast Off.
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UCHUU IKUUUUU!
Ahahaha, Woz got in on the second half of that, too! Nice.
So, they’re in space now, right? And they have to drill into the meteor to get Woz in there, so he can destroy it.
So Sougo goes into Build armor.
Now, you might be thinking, “Mr. Mouri, but now he’s not in a space armor! Rider or not, that shouldn’t work!”
Except you’d be forgetting something.
We saw that Build – proper Build – can be used in Space.
Remember, Evolt warped him to another planet one time, proceeded to ‘absorb’ said planet, and Sento was breathing just fine in his armor.
So we’re actually still keeping true to the abilities of the Legend Rider’s technology.
Besides, he needs a drill.
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YO, INSIDE THE METEOR, IS THAT THE KABUTO OP? OR AN INSERT FROM KABUTO?
I MEAN, IT’S GOTTA BE FROM KABUTO, RIGHT?
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Okay, Rider Wiki says that Geiz’s ringtone is the standby music for Geiz Revive, but doesn’t say what the song used when Woz is switching into Sun Form is. It’s definitely not Next Level, though … did Woz just get an insert theme? Because it does sound a little like Keisuke Watanbe, now that I think about it.
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Alright, alright, back to the episode.
FFS WE GET IT, KAGEYAMA. YOU’RE EDGY AND HATE YOURSELF.
“This is all I am...” Calm your studded tits, my dude. You got Rider Kicked once. It didn’t even knock you out of your normal transformation, you went into Another Kabuto on your own.
Oh-hohohoho niiiiiice.
Souji called himself the ‘man who walked the path of heaven’, and often, the heavens are represented by the sun.
The meteor moves past the sun, letting its rays shine down, as Arata proclaims that he’ll still fight, even though he’s just been kncked out of his transformation, and the Gatack Zecter has flown off to where ever it is they go when they’re not in use.
A buzzing can be heard coming from the sky.
A mechanical red beetle zooms down out of the sun, flying around Arata’s head before landing in his hand.
The Kabuto Zecter.
He’s not being transformation-blocked by Souji anymore.
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Geiz is still calling Kageyama out on his unwillingness to take Yaguruma down. The guy says ‘we will wander this earth together’… so Geiz takes matters into his own hands, and knocks Punchhopper out of his armor himself.
It takes a single Rider Kick from Arata – now finally allowed to be Kabuto – and the Another Kabuto Watch is destroyed.
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Woz still hasn’t been able to burn through the meteor. It’s just TOO BIG. And they’re out of time.
Except that Time isn’t exactly a one way street in this season.
Time can be meddled with.
It can be stopped.
And Tsukuyomi’s already been shown to be able to stop just one thing… be it an Another Rider… or, potentially, a meteor.
With a gorgeous shower of lights, that’s exactly what she does.
And with the combination of her powers and the power of Zi-O Trinity, the meteor is shattered.
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Yaguruma’s a mess. ‘Kageyama’ was never Kageyama, despite everyone using his name, and everyone was well aware of it. He doesn’t give Yaguruma the closure he wants.
“Please… call me aniki one more time…”
“I’m not Kageyama. I’m not your brother.”
And he goes out in green flames – having turned back to his true appearance. Having reverted to being a Worm.
…He sounded a little sad about not being Kageyama, actually, not just about his fellow Worms having all died. He sounded… resigned, almost.
Yaguruma wants them to laugh at him, for being so foolish to cling to the imitation of a dead man.
Geiz just apologizes.
He knows what it’s like to lose people. He knows that he can’t fulfill his promise of ‘if it comes down to it’, either.
This is not a person you want to be relating to, but… well, Geiz can’t really help it right now.
The Kabuto Zecter transforms into the Kabuto Ridewatch.
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The triumphant instrumental version of Toki no Ouja plays as Arata entrusts Sougo with the ridewatch…
And as Geiz asks what Tsukuyomi and Tsukasa found out.
She doesn’t answer – says that they didn’t find anything.
That’s fair.
Of course, the music cuts out as we find out that Uncle got a little carried away with his onigiri. To the point of making 16 each.
Sir. Sir, please.
A train whistle sounds.
Sougo recognizes it.
Sounds like HeiGen Forever’s canon, after all.
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The preview… has arrived!
As has Momo!Geiz!
Man, Momotaros doesn’t even have to change anything about Geiz’s appearance other than the hair, does he?
RYUUTAROS GET OUT OF UNCLE. YOU ARE A CHILD. HE IS AN OLD MAN.
…The Another Den-O suit is back.
Which, well, it makes sense – we usually need to have the Another Rider present to make the ridewatch, and we already knew that different people can be turned into pre-existing Another Riders. (Thanks, Another Zi-O. Whatever happened to that watch that refused to break?) But it’s still unsettling.
We’ve got both the Core Four Imajin and the Yuuto and Deneb team!
Nice.
They’re here to stop the Worst Future.
Sougo’s not letting someone stop something.
AND GRAND IS THE MOST GAUDY FUCKING THING. THAT WATCH IS APPALLING.
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GRAND IS A MESS. MAYBE I’LL LIKE IT BETTER IN MOTION. MAYBE I WON’T.
(I probably won’t.)
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Okay...
Finally sitting down to watch Zi-O ep 4...
Let’s game?
Well, no, actually no, we won’t, but I was trying to be thematic.
And in no particular order:
Okay, that explains it. When I saw the preview images it looked like they were talking to Emu, and then Geiz and Sougo both henshined and took a knee for some reason. It’s actually the other way round.
Geez, Emu. Since when were you this uncommunicative and unhelpful? That’s Taiga’s job!
Like seriously, you know these two are Kamen Riders. Just explain yourself to them instead of making weird vague statements.
Geiz at it again w/ the grump. Have I mentioned--you know where that’s going.
Tsukuyomi w/ the intercede again. I’m liking this trio.
Okay, I wanna know who Goggles is. The guy whose hand Geiz was holding in that future-flashback? A friend? Brother? This being Toei it’s unlikely to be a boyfriend, but it’s still possible. He looks like he mighta been a nice fellow, I’m sorry he died.
I guess this is a lot to take in, and Sougo is generally pretty slow on the uptake, it appears, so... But looks like he’s getting it now.
Tsukuyomi, I really hope you’re aware just how much of a problem child you just decided to adopt.
I actually agree w/ someone else I saw, I think. I kinda wish they would give her a better reason than ‘I don’t know’ for this. Like, I’m liking the idea that she doesn’t want her childhood friend to technically become a murderer by killing someone who is, at that point, still innocent, but this ‘I don’t know’ thing is kinda... meh to me. It doesn’t feel touching or sweet, and is even kinda out of character... But that’s just me. She’s super great, but she otherwise seems so decisive and confident that it’s a little odd.
OH MY GOD IT’S THAT CHURCH! I mean--it’s that wizard Bugster!
Fun fact, that Church is not just a Toei set. I have seen it in about FIVE other shows I think (don’t ask me to name them all, I can’t--but Kaname Jun was in one I think)
AH! Brave is here! But it’s back in 2016, episode... 2? Or maybe 3, but it would be when Hiiro literally just got there, so he’s still an ass. I mean, I still love him. But he was an ass.
Geiz, mister straight forward, just fucking informs them he’s from the future, I love him.
Maybe this has something to do w/ Hiiro’s sense that he should help them before... Aside from grumpy secondary solidarity, ofc.
‘From your perspective,’ Geiz, you are literally from 2068. I’m pretty sure, excepting folks from 2069 onward, that that’s the future from everyone’s perspective.
Also, to get this out of the way: AAAAAAH! SETO IS SO PRETTY! OH MY GOD I LOVE HIM SO MUCH EVEN WHEN HE’S A DICK! AND ESPECIALLY WHEN HE’S NOT!
Note: I don’t love him because he’s a dick, but what I love is grumpy, pretty much jerky characters who come out of that bc they start caring about someone or something (again, in Hiiro’s case). Did that make sense?
Also, I’m actually giggling bc of how much of a pompous ass my grumpy surgeon son was. The fact that this is literally like, right after he first showed up, means that he’s at peak dickishness and it’s really funny to look back.
Kids pulling on Geiz. God, honey, what were you expecting when you put that thing on? Well, at least they’re aware of how goofy it is.
On that note, ARE WE EVER GONNA SEE YOU WITHOUT IT?
Also, dear god, someone get this boy some fashion advice. I’ve SEEN that preview image sweetie. You canNOT dress yourself.
Oh my god, it’s the hospital helipad. Now I’m nostalgic.
Okay. Emu can teleport to game worlds now? Al... Alright then. You know what, whatever.
And Emu’s getting thrown around again. Some things never change. What’s still funny about this is still that Ijima Hiroki is (still) not a short man. He’s 5′ 10″. This, to me, makes how much Emu get’s thrown around utterly hilarious.
See, Emu. This is what happens when you don’t pull a Taiga, and discuss things w/ people. You’re the one who forced Hiiro to learn that, why are you doing it?
Aw, Sougo appreciates that Tsukuyomi is trying to save the future w/out killing him. Good kids.
Where’s that B99 ‘cool motive still murder’ picture? I mean, I know it’s a kid. But dude... You don’t have the right to other people’s lives (or body parts) just bc your son is dying.
Hm... I know people are thinking it’s named after Hiiro, but... What if it’s named after his dad? I mean, Kagami Haima was the director of the hospital, he had to start somewhere. To me that feels more logical? Bc it’s only been two years since Ex-Aid, that’s awfully fast to name a medical procedure... But it’s just a thought.
You know what, I bet Hiiro feels bad for brushing Geiz off in the past, so now he’s like ‘I must do everything I can to help these kids out bc when I met them before I was a jerk.’ Part of his ‘stop being an anti-social grump’ attempt. And he’s worried about Emu.
Does the Time Majin have an AI? How did it know to fly up to the roof right then? Is it telepathically connected to Sougo now?
So Uhr is helping Ora/Hora out? Maybe there is hope for a villain-family dynamic after all...
Also apparently that’s Takeru’s mech? Takeru has a mech? I really need to finish Ghost... But it’s either just for the sake of cameo, or it’s related to how Geiz got the Ghost Ride Watch. Now I’m wondering if he maybe stole the Drive and Ghost Watches from the Time Jackers? But if that’s the case, why did they have them? They usually use the Another Rider Watches...? Are Takeru and Shinnosuke okay? Oh my god, did Takeru die again? Actually, I guess Shinnoksuke also died a lot in that one movie so... Oh dear.
Is Sougo transforming in tiny spaces gonna be a thing now?
Come to think... Since the opening, we haven’t seen Woz. What’s prophet boy up to?
This tiny gremlin child who I adore and want to pinch the cheeks of just giggling to himself in his busted mech like a five year old.
Sorry, Geiz, you can’t beat the bounce.
Sougo just fucking slams this thing w/ the Time Majin.
And so, the path toward very reluctant and at first very awkward friendship begins. Let’s a-go kids!
But also god that boy is skinny. Honey, do you even HAVE hips? Are you okay?
Geiz is having feelings but is very confused right now. Punching things is generally a good venting method.
And the boys are still very bad at not being good at teamwork. Like, they’re already synchronising in pretty much every fight they’ve been in--not just in henshins but in attacks and so on.
Emu that looks NOTHING LIKE YOU, WHY would you call it a doppelgänger.
Since this is after Hiiro first showed up, it means that the two of them still don’t like each other (bc it took them a while to get there), so I’m not surprised that he wouldn’t call Hiiro immediately if something came up. Plus this may not show up bc CR relied on reports by witnesses and were in an abandoned warehouse. But then why is Emu...? Oh, I don’t know.
Was his henshin really always that deep?
Oh! There he is! Woz! I was wondering where you were! So, uh... Where were you?
Geiz: ‘Oh no, not again!’
Wow, he did the hoppity hop thing!
HE HAS GIANT BUMPS ON HIS ARMS! I LOVE THE GIANT BUMPERS ON HIS ARMS!
(I think they’re meant to be buttons?)
Aaaaand, right on cue, there Woz goes again.
Emu just like ‘okay then, let’s roll w/ this then, I guess!’
Wait, but the Brave and Snipe (and Genm, and then there’s Para-DX, and Poppy, and Cronus... Though I guess those last ones may not end up existing since they’re post-this?) Watches don’t seem to be in-show, so... Does that mean that Hiiro and Taiga keep their powers? Bc there was a Crozz-Z Ride Watch, so I now understand Ryuuga losing his, but there were so many Riders in Ex-Aid... Though maybe there’s a whole butterfly thing that simply by removing the primary everything is effected. Bc if you had to account for each individual Rider... Imagine how complex and difficult shows like Ryuki and Gaim would be to explain/sort through.
Hiroki has such a nice smile. Actually, pretty much everyone is Ex-Aid had a nice smile when they smiled.
Oh, god, yes. I really hope that the Rider trying to teach Sougo how to do the finisher in some way (miming for Emu, explaining for Sento) is a thing every time... Though I guess since they couldn’t get Gentaro we won’t get to see him do it... But maybe Takumi will? (I’ve never actually watched Faiz, so I have no idea what the finisher looks like)
Oh, hey. When Sougo hits him it says it in... Kanji, I think? But in Japanese characters of some kind instead of English.
ATTACK OF THE SUBTITLES!
Geiz standing of to the side trying to act cool while these two dorks help this man up.
... He’s wearing socks and... You know what, this is Japan. They’re probably his shoes for inside, and because he was running out to the ambulance with his dying son, he didn’t bother to change.
I love how Emu is like ‘who could we possibly... OH! That asshole!’ (again bc this is the very early season, back hen we didn’t like each other)
HE SAID IT! I guess they cut away so Seto didn’t actually have to eat the cake. Apparent he doesn’t actually like sweets? Maybe bc he’s such a sweetie. ^^
I really love it when the ones playing the ‘serious grumps’ are really adorably dorky and super nice. Like apparently, Seto was the funny and fun one, which I find so cute and hilarious.
Sougo here, getting into the groove of things during his second rodeo.
Emu’s like ‘are you two together?’ and Geiz is like ‘someone shoot me.’
Awwww. Of course Hiiro saved him. Though they haven’t shown us anything yet... So, maybe, even in the altered timeline, he and Emu still ends dup becoming close somehow? Can I pretend that’s the case? Seriously, Hiiro needs that kid. Otherwise he’s just gonna continue forgetting how to be human.
Why do you need another plate? But I think it’s cute how Junichiro is making so much food. I wonder if it’ll be like Mario in Zyuohger, where when he find out (if he doesn’t already know) he decides to just make life at the shop as homey as possible.
Geiz, maybe you should start using his name? Just to, you know, keep Uncle from getting suspicious?
ALSO WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WEARING WHY... I just can’t anymore. I love my dorky fashion disaster assassin son.
Here we are w/ the intense staring again. Wouldn’t be KR w/out it.
Geiz and Tsukuyomi be like ‘wow no pressure.’ Seriously, Geiz looks like he’s having a small panic attack back there.
He looks very pretty, though.
Aw, they’re keeping their Ride Watches together!
Well, there’s clearly a friendship theme, so I’m hoping there’s a level of deepening the bonds that just started forming in this episode. Unfortunately, I know nothing about Faiz other than apparently Kaixa is a horrible person (given that the preview images imply he’s strangling some poor girl, I am inclined to agree), so I can’t make any guesses there.
All I ask for Christmas is ONE episode where Geiz doesn’t wear that damn collar thing. I know it’s only been four eps but just ONE.
And, in final news, looks like they’re switching the Watches around.
Okay! Well, that's that for now. Now, my head hurts and I still want pizza, so... Not much else to say. Imaginary pizza for anyone who read all of this, you really didn’t need to do that.
I’m gonna pretend Hiiro and Emu are still friends somehow. Having a good time here, looks like we’re looking at another solid trio and I love it. Also, w/ OOO and Ghost apparently coming up... Good times.
#Kamen Rider Zi-O#just some thoughts#just some immediate thoughts#how many different ways can i say that?#have I mentioned I love Geiz?#that's it that's his tag now#looking forward to reluctant friendship#this three are seeming like a good trio and I might smell an OT3 on the horizon#to the degree that i end up shipping anything#not really a huge shipper and even when I do I'm not as into it as some other people#not as an insult simply as a fact#i have a couple of specific ships that i legit 'ship' but otherwise i'm more invested in family and friendship relations#whether it be blood or found family or otherwise#though i guess found family falls under friendship#head still hurts#still want pizza#so long and thanks for all the fish#Timey Wimey Rider
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Zi-O Ep 36: Let’s mix it up a little!
So, I did things a little differently this week. Me and @miyukomatsuda were watching Marcosatsu’s History of Kabuto vid, and she suggested we watch Zi-O 36 together., too, since watching this alone my first time through would have been AWFUL. So, my notes might be a little. Weird this time around. I’m going to try to transcribe my chat with her in here.
*Fair warning, it gets a little... swear-y in here this time. Also, sorry for the length. Chats do that, and this is condensed down.*
(M is Miyuko, S is me.)
M: wanna try suffering through zi o
S: sure, just give me a couple minutes to get something
M: (thumbsup emoji)
S: how do we want to do this?
M: this should work. and if in doubt we both have the ep downloaded
- (insert cut here) -
M: Ginga. What is you
S: SPACE MAN
M: -suddenly here
S: WAIT NO THATS GEN
S: ahahaha “his power is worlds beyond us”
M: 13 THIS IS ON YOU
S: DECADE THIS IS ON YOU
M: Woz: “fuck if I know guys”
M: 13 AND DECADE THIS ON YOU
[there’s a whole group chat thing about a Doctor Who / Kamen Rider crossover universe, so the whole ‘Ginga’s from some other far off region of space-time’ thing brought it back up]
S: Swartz: FUCKING SWEET - whoops no Swartz is pissed never mind
M: *sweet new toy*
M: Woz: >:(
S: “world is /mine/ to destroy”
M: hahahaha
M: Woz: >:|
M: (dancing emoji, because we hit the OP)
M: I still think the statues are gonna unstatue in show
S: over quartzer is a JAM (don’t mind me, singing along)
M: that’s a MATH BREAKS THE WALLS level weird
M: (same hat) Rider music is top tier.
[title card, “2019: First Love, Finaly!”]
S: first kokoros
M: okay yuko.
M: LAYING IT ON A WEEE BIT THICK THERE MY DUDE
[swartz was sucking up to Yuko for her assistance w/ Ginga]
S: hora’s so tired of this
M: if he is a servant to oma zi o-explains a lot
M: TIME FOR BOWING
M: ofc woz is second
S: ahaha he just yoinks hora and heure
S: everyone drags geiz
M: YANK HIM DOWN
M: FORCES HIS KIDS DOWN
M: AND THEY JUST SLAM GEIZ DOWN
S: hve to shove him and hora download
M: JUST FUCKING LEAVES
S: woz and swartz are first to drop to their knees
S: WOW SCREW THIS LADY
M: of course woz does this
M: AND NOW FOR: INOUE IS SEXIST
M: heure laughing at swartz tho
S: HEURE GET OUT OF THERE
M: RUN KID
S: YOU CAN DO SO MUCH BETTER
M: Woz: MajoOu
S: WOZ NO
M: me: :) (I KNEW IT!)
S: horny on main for evil
S: sougo’s kingdom to know why he betrayed the rebellion
M: SOUGO: GET YOUR HEART OUT OF YOUR PANTS YOU DUMB KITTY
S: SOUGO NO
S: YOU KNOW LIKE NYA
M: AND THEN SHE LIES TO HIM. LIAR
S: BLATANTLY NOT HER
M: Sougo you DUMB KITTY -SOUGO I AM FUCKING KINK SHAMING YOU
S: sougo ffs
M: INOUEEEEEE
M: Geiz is gonna kill him for real
S: uncle’s so confused
M: poor uncle
[miyuko had to go get food at this point]
M: IWAE I RETURN
S: IAWAE
M: Also Uncle: IT’S A MIRACLE
S: “screw this ginga guy, I don’t give a f. i’mma queen now”
S: the fact swartz actually thought this would work when she already hated him
M: that’s hilarious
M: Woz in the straightest he’s acted all season
S: sougo is a stupid stupid cat. surprised he’s never gotten his head stuck in a box
M: incredibly dumb kitty
M: SOUGO PUT DOWN THAT MILK. IT’S STUPID JUICE
S: ...i wonder if someone’s drawn that now actually after this arc
M: i’ve seen sougo with kitty ears-
M: UNCLE
S: NYA
M: GEIZ TRIES TO FLEE THIS BAD EP
M: Sougo you DUMB Kitty
S: sougo why do you know she had a bf in ‘08? you met her a long time before that.
[I was wrong, he met her in ‘08, she did the violence in ‘15]
M: Those poor extras on the stairs
S: GINGA RETURNS. KILLIN ERRYONE
M: TO TORMENT A STRIP MALL
S: ahahahah that’s hilarious
[I was talking about the fact that it’s just a freaking strip mall, not the fact that Ginga was destroying EVERYTHING]
M: also: something I noticed
S: that’s a fucking showa era attack name if I every heard one [Dynamite Sunshine]
M: thanks to a youtube comp of woz’s speech... Woz does the energy blast that our main three time jackers do
S: fourze and faiz pt 1
M: yeah!
S: one does not interupt his overlord’s transformation
M: I think woz is a time jacker.
S: also he kicked geiz’s ass in wizard pt 1
M: And of course bastard man is fine while his cohorts get blown back
S: b/c he’s too OP
M: SOUGO NO. SOUGO YOU DUMB KITTY
S: also evidence for woz being a time jacker: Hat!Woz called Swartz ‘Sir Swartz’
S: FFS SOUGO [when he took the hit for Yuko]
M: (yeah!)
M: also. JIRO
M: JIRO WHY
S: Woof. awoo
M: [don’t awoo, $350 penalty sign]
S: :sad wolf:
M: HE’S SOLAR POWERED [re: Ginga]
M: oh hey otoya violin
S: EVIL KIKAI
M: SOUGO GET YOUR HEART AND YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR PANTS
S: Sougo you stupid, stupid cat, she’s just got a ruler complex
M: YOU DUMB KITTY WHO I AM KINK SHAMING
[re: sougo calling her Miss Sailor, because that’s what he’s always called his crush]
S: it’s just your nickname for her anyway, she wouldn’t have known it even if it IS her
S: She’d be in charge sougo. you’d be the consort
M: HIS FACE
S: “WHOOPS”
M: Canon sougo: “OH SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT CHILDREN”
S: “FORGOT ABOUT THE HEIR PART”
[lost some more of the chat. Couldn’t quite screencap it because Rabbit disagreed with keeping the chat where I scrolled to]
S: GOODBYE
M: YEET. TIME FOR A FIGHT
S: AWOOOO
S: so like where did she GET these three? And why does this only this one seem to be aware
M: I think it’s SUPPOESD to be the real vers and they just serve Kiva
S: It’s *probably* him.
S: True, Kiva’s a title, isn’t it? Like hibiki.
S: also PRIME time to pause that wow [Jiro saying “Men become more refined through pain.”]
M: OF COURSE. INOUEEEEE
M: BYE JIRO YOU WERE POINTLESS
S: INOUE NO
S: FAREWELL PUPPER
M: oh hey the bf
M: “scary”
S: understatement of the era
M: OF COURSE
M: Geiz now has to see a murder
M: MANHOLE. Which note she can barely lift. JFC
S: YUKO NO
S: SHE TRAINED LATER
M: WAHT THE FUCK LADY
S: AND LEARNS TO KICK THEM UP. IN HEELS
M: Poor Tetsuya
S: SHE DID A MURDER
M: WHY WOULD YOU HANG OUT TOGETHER JFC
S: you idiots you made it easier for her
M: YEET. RIP ALL THREE OF THESE DUDES.
S: yooooo.
M: SORRY YOU WON’T GET PAID FOR WATCH REPAIR JUNICHIRO
M: SOUGO YOU ABSOLUTE DUMB KITTY
S: I like how the Another Kiva transformation includes the bats instead of just the usual Another Rider special effects
[on to the last fight against Ginga]
M: Ey! TOKI NO OUJA
S: YES [it’s actually the instrumental used as a fight music, but it’s still always nice to hear. I like noting the piano versions more, though. The ones that are used for atmosphere]
M: YEET! THIS MAKES EVEN LESS SENSE THAN NORMAL
S: WHEN IN DOUBT, THROW THE SWORD. THROWING YOUR SWORD ALWAYS WORKS.
M: SURE WHY NOT
[seriously, Sougo, Geiz, and Woz all threw their weapons at Ginga, then rider kicked said weapons into his chest as the finisher. wtf]
S: beams the hell out of there
[Woz nabs the Ginga watch with his scarf]
M: YOINK
M: “I CAN’T TRINITY ANYMORE”
S: Swartz: YOINK GOT YOUR- HOLD UP
S: Woz: “I CAN’T KEEP DOING THAT”
M: the real reason Woz did this is clearly: “FUCK YOU I AM NOT BODYSHARING AGAIN”
S: “Waga Maou I adore you but. No. I can’t do this again.
M: also lbr SWARTZ WOULD BE TERRIFYING WITH GINGA’S POWER
M: JFC LADY, HE **DUMPED** YOU
S: Swartz is terrifying with his OWN power
M: SOUGO PLS STOP WITH THE STUPID JUICE
S: SOUGO
M: SOUGO AND JON BOTH DRANK STUPID JUICE THIS WEEK
S: at least he’s *kind of* willing to fight her.
M: AT LEAST JON MANNED UP AND KILLED DANY
S: okay only kind of
M: Woz: “FUCK THIS, MY TURN”
S: he pulled out the watch at least
S: UCHUU KITAA
M: :D HE ABRIDGED
S: WOZ
M: I hope he makes the full speech next time :D
S: GOTTA CUT IT SHORT
M: (I love woz’s speeches)
S: waga maou is being a moron
M: OKAY
S: don’t have time for this
M: Woz: **FUCK THIS I ROLL TO USE GINGA**
M: everyone: **THANK YOU**
[for ref, Miyuko has an AU where the Heisei Rider seasons are D&D campaigns]
M: -SO MANY QUESTIONS
S: and they just turn back into their weapon forms
M: yeah
S: not even disappear, just the weapons again
M: they uh kind of got sealed in their-
M: STOP
M: INOUE
S: INOUE, Another Riders don’t DIE
M: **THANK FUCK** BUT ALSO INOUE
S: OH WAIT IT’S HORA
S: BANG
M: GOOD RIDDENCE
S: I MEAN SHE HAD IT COMING BUT
M: :(
M: INOUEEEEEE
M: first heartbreak, WOZ PLS
M: toki no ouja
S: HEY WE NEVER HAD THE RECAP EARLIER
M: INOUEEEE
M: SHE RUINED PIE FOR HIM
S: om nom pie
M: WOZ JUST INHALING PIE
S: YOINKING YOUR PIE (respect the pie)
M: GEIZ NEARLY CHOKING THIS TIME (Woz choked on pie TWICE last time)
M: SOUGO’S REAL FIRST LOVE AS PLAYED BY YURI FROM KIVA
M: -oh my fucking god he’s a cat jfc
S: sougo. no. sweetie.
M: Tsukuyomi are you the only women who didn’t know this would work
M: NEXT TIME
M: OKAY
S: Decade: STOP THAT
S: Decade: I am the multiverses janitor
M: well if tendou can’t come back might as well get his successor to arrogance
S: ahahahah
M: DO YOU SEE WY I WARNED YOU ABOUT THE CRINGE JFC
S: YEAH
M: INOUE WHAT THE FUCK
S: WOW. NOT GREAT
M: THAT IS NOT AN EP TO WATCH ALONE
S: MY NOTES WOULD HAVE JUST BEEN “uuuggghghh”
M: that was me watching
M: I GIFFED parts because of how bad it was and I need people to KNOW in chat
S: this was. Bad. So bad. neither villain did well
M: nope
S: just yeet ginga back off into space
M: rider wikia says we learn ginga lore next time too so HERE’S FUCKING HOPING
S: Thats something
M: and yuko just got TRASHED
S: RIGHT BECAUSE METEORITE AND SPACE
M: SHE DIDN’T NEED TO BE INSANE INOUE
S: AND HE’S FROM SPACE
M: Ginga also means Galaxy
S: ye, I know
M: ye. Themeing. -also
S: SPACE MAN
M: has sougo not used fourze armor before now because I thought he did
M: WHY IS SOUGO UCHU KITA-ING
S: he’s used it in it’s debut
M: **SOUGO WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO GENTARO**
S: and then in the mass fight against the Another Riders in the Another ZiO arc. but that’s it
M: yeah! Ty
M: SOUGO WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO GENTARO NOW WHY IS THAT IN THE PREVIEW-
M: oh my god
S: much like gatakiriba, it would probably murder the CG budget
M: he’s going to fucking space.
M: THEY’RE GOING TO FUCKING SPCAE ARNE’T THEY
S: the zi-o Fourze finisher is him just. Armoring up and BEING the rocket. It was ridiculous.
M: YEP. I love it!
S: goes all Snipe Level One on the monster, spinning like a bullet
M: YUP. Remember him fucking up build’s catch phrase AND math
S: even Ryuuga knew he was getting it wrong. that takes “skill”
M: WHEN EVEN THE BF KNOWS
S: we should have seen babby reality warper coming when he used Ex-Aid and took the speciall effects and threw them at the Another Rider
M: yep
S: ~casual reminder that zi o can be read as ‘character king’~
M: (eyes emoji)
S: ~as in written character~
So, over all… NOT A GOOD EPISODE. I basically went from assorted variants of “Eh” to “ugh why this” throughout. This was definitely a low point on the ‘tribute episodes’ scale, and that’s taking the character assassination from the Build arc into account.
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Zi-O 35: *chuckles* I’m in danger
(Using the RiderTimeFansubs version today)
Now... it’s show Rider Zi-O Inoue time.
(I’m out of opening jokes guys.)
-
Now that is a Black Widow if I ever saw one. Seriously, lady, you’re creeping me out. I am literally 33 seconds in.
Lady, er, sorry, Yuko, I don’t know what you were convicted of, but. Um. You’re not really giving off the impression of someone who is exactly going to be… okay if you go outside.
I will give Hora kudos for not shoving the watch into her chest, though. Good call. And apparently Another Kiva gets to summon the Real Kiva’s… support? I don’t actually know what those three Fangire are to Kiva, but. Yeah. I’mma go with either ‘support’ or ‘retainers’ for now.
Flip-cut to 2008, with… Woz… creeping on 2008 Yuko. This Is Fine.
Woz. I know you somehow make it into the Gaia Library in FOREVER. I know you don’t get much to do in FOREVER. I have not seen FOREVER yet, that’s next on the agenda.
BUT YOU DON’T GET TO SAY KEYWORD. YOU JUST DON’T.
(But still, kudos for the possible nod to the film having just gotten it’s home release, that’s clever.)
A quick note on the opening. Nothings changed in a few episodes, not since we got Trinity. But I can’t help but be uncomfortable with the fact that they still have the last scene with characters be the section with Zi-O and Geiz back to back, and then turning around and clashing.
It’s right up there with Cross-Z Charge staying in the OP for Build through the entire season, but Cross-Z Magma never making it in.
Keeping something that was relevant, but became quickly outdated. I’d say they should have swapped this segment somehow by at least the end of the Another Zi-O Arc, if not before. … Nah, end of Another Zi-O would be the best place. I was thinking that after Geiz gave Sougo his belt, and that whole shindig, but there was still an amount of animosity after that for a while.
OH NOOO MY HEART! THEY’RE ALL GETTING ALONG AND FAWNING OVER JUNICHIRO’S APPLE PIE! It’s too cute, help!
But really, all four are immediately smiling, and it’s adorable. Woz kind of seems like he’s lost all of his stoic traits from even two arcs ago, though.
…oh no, Sougo’s Space Case tendencies transferred to Woz when they started using Trinity.
That’s the only answer. Sougo’s been increasingly competent, and both him and Geiz are getting better at talking to people… and Woz has become comic relief. Oh no personality blending nooooo…
But that is exactly the right set of reactions to Sougo saying he’s been in love. A+ to Tsukuyomi pointing out that he’s ‘like a kid.’
Sougo: Of course I’ve been in love! :)
Geiz: Oh god you’re telling us about it. End me now…
...HUH. Just realized. Junichiro wouldn’t know about this, would he? Kiva – and thus our past segments – were in 2008, but Sougo came to live with his uncle in 2009. So Sougo’s parents were still alive at this point.
2008 Sougo didn’t have friends, either.
Tsukuyomi and Geiz looking on in confusion, Junichiro messing with his nephew (while also confused) and Woz… continues eating pie. I’m worried about you, dude. Character Decay’s not a good thing.
And we have a customer, interrupting story time!
OH WOW! He’s here to get a watch fixed! That’s a first from a non-Time Traveler! The only people bringing in actual time pieces have been Woz and Mondo – you know, Quiz, remember him?
(Customer thinks the shop may have become a cafe – fair, given the scene he’s just walked in on – and Uncle’s stuck in cat-pun mode. Whoops.)
(I’ve started Decade, and the apparently recurring ‘I thought this was a cafe’ joke from there with regards to the Photo Studio just popped into my head. Nice.)
Yuko is. Scary. She wants to take over the world to change the laws.
:casts a nervous glance over at the Kiva and Ryuki arcs of Decade:
Hora’s got a point – the only female Another Rider was Amane, as Another Blade, and she was selected by Hat!Woz. But… looks like Hora’s still in the ‘looking for a new King’ state. Even Heure seems to have moved past that. Last arc, he was trying to find Hibiki, not a candidate. Interesting.
Customer is a lawyer, and knows that he can’t always be the ‘gallant hero’ that Sougo seems to think lawyers are. After all, he couldn’t help ‘that pretty lady.’ But he’s forgotten something at the counter, and Sougo – good boy that he is – rushes off to follow and return it.
YUKO. STOPPED A CAR. WITH HER FOOT. IN HEELS. AND A TINY SKIRT.
:siiiiiigh: Did we really need that pan shot along her leg? Did we?
No. No we didn’t.
And we didn’t need Yuko being a CREEPER to her former lawyer – aka Customer. She’s got a… really sensitive nose. That’s really creepy, especially since she’s using it to unnerve literally everyone around her. It’s not even an Another Kiva thing – she was doing this to identify the exact wine her former boyfriend had in the cold open.
Yuko Kitajima, okay, so that’s her last name. And her doing this ‘ah, yes, it’s that aroma’ trick is what lets her lawyer know it’s her. So she’s done this for a long time.
Another Kiva has some nice touches – roses at the lapels of her cape, where the chain attaches, the stained glass aesthetic.
HOWEVER. I’m NOT here for the eyes. That bright piercing blue is both unnerving AND doesn’t go with the rest of the look! Not to mention the eyes on her shoulders! NO NO NOPE NOT HERE FOR THAT.
...When did Zi-O drop the ‘dial’ eyes, anyway? Definitely by Another Zi-O, I know that… but the Future Another Riders had them, too. Then again, the years have all been ‘2019’ for the last few arcs. Blade, Hibiki, and now Kiva definitely have said 2019. Huh. Wonder if it’s something to do with that.
Another Kiva: I’m going to be queen, and this world will be ~mine~.
Sougo: Queen? :o
SOUGO! THIS IS NOT THE TIME! DO NOT APPRECIATE THE COLORS! YOU ARE UNDER ATTACK!
Ooh, hey, she’s even got a version of Kivat-Bat on there! Nice!
Sougo, please at least put on one of your armors. Like. Any of them would do, right now. Build would be good! You can tank hits really well in that one! Decade’d be better! But just something to give you defense! This is four on one you fool you are outnumbered
AND NOW you are also outgunned, because she can turn her Summoned Fangire Replicas into their weapon forms. Delightful.
And after getting hit by the hammer, sword, and gun, Sougo’s knocked right the hell out of his transformation. Whoops.
Yuko. Yuko don’t – don’t stand over him like that, what are you doing? No, no, don’t do the chin thing, Sougo’s already a wreck, we don’t need him losing sensibility already! Don’t leave the braincell to Geiz! Nooooo-
Hora: So, a queen, huh?
Yuko: How dare a servant talk to me.
OH MY GOODNESS WOW
Hora’s not having this. Just. Teleports out of the way of Yuko trying to slap her. Good call.
YUKO. FRICKING. Kicks up a manhole cover. THROWS IT LIKE A FRISBEE at Hora.
Hora just TURNS HER HEAD to dodge. All she gets is a cut on the cheek – HORA YOU’RE LUCKY TO BE ALIVE OH MY GOD.
Hora’s gonna do a violence.
(Hey, Heure, back when we met Swartz, you told him not to treat you like a child. So… what’s with you two getting ice cream? That’s. Weird. And creepy.)
HEURE. HORA. GET OUT OF THERE. BOTH OF YOU. YOU CAN DO SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS.
Cut to evening in the shop.
I can believe this lady did a murder. She certain plans to do some murders now.
The day of the crime she’s ‘falsely’ accused of was April 10, 2015. Just felt like noting that.
(And noting that that fits right in with when a Roidmude could have taken someone’s identity. And noting that we haven’t seen Drive yet.)
(I know there’s like, zero chance it’s connected. Why would they link two different arcs like that? That is, aside from Fourze and Faiz, but that was different.)
(But, you know. Just saying.)
She’s almost definitely going after people who got her imprisoned, there’s no maybe about it. And, er, I can actually understand why Sougo would relate to that, what with. You know. The whole ‘demon king’ thing.
Except that he thinks she couldn’t have done it, because she was his First Love. Woz is all “suggestive raised eyebrows” while Geiz and Tsukuyomi just. They just want the inanity to end.
I fucking LOVE how everyone keeps making cat puns / noises with regards to this story. I mean. Really. She scratched you under the chin, dude. That’s weird.
(Nya.)
Weirdo guy in a coffee bar, insulting the coffee but still coming here, because the waitress is pretty. “Yay.”
Also, he’s got this fancy ring on. That’s probably significant, since P-Bandai’s releasing a ring for one of the Kiva characters. They had Amane wearing the Chalice themed necklace, too, so-
OH LOOK Weirdo’s eyes lit up gold when he was talking about ‘seeing a vision of the end of the world’! And his reflection is a blue wolf! You know! The one from Kiva! That the ring is modeled on! Okay!
Right! Legacy Characters! I somehow forgot that they’d try to bring someone from Kiva back!
Cut to Yuko being creepy at a pier, going after the Chief Prosecutor in her case, right up until Sougo and Geiz arrive.
Sougo’s got one question for you. (Just one? Sounds fake, but okay.)
Sougo: “Why do you want to be a queen?”
Yuko: “To correct the laws of this world, to enforce those correct laws.” (all said with an angry face)
Sougo: “So… it is to help people, then?” (confused)
Geiz: “Oh, for f- That’s not how you should go about it! This is just revenge!”
Geiz has the Trinity brain cell today, and he’s making good use of it!
Oh-ho-hohoho- Hora’s PISSED. She chose poorly. She’s gonna get some revenge of her own.
And now Yuko’s gonna do a violence, because all of them are ‘guilty.’
Geiz transforms, but Sougo doesn’t get that far.
No, he’s just gotten into some weird flashback to 2008.
So, a woman – possibly Yuko, I’m not sure, and ‘Tetsuya’ in one of those swan boats. And then it jumps to 2015. With a (presumably) dead female body… and Tetsuya standing over her.
Right. Sougo’s got time powers independent of the belt. He’s only ever looked into the future before now.
SOUGO! I don’t really care what sort of crisis of faith you’re having, you need to go help Geiz! He’s in a four on one, in an even less ideal location than you were! GO HELP HIM!
What’s this? Something’s going weird up in the sky. First to notice is Swartz, who looks up at the ripples of light. Then Tsukuyomi. (“The two of us aren’t so different after all.”)
And then Garulu. The one on the dock. Who I’d thought was a copy. But, um, maybe not. Maybe that’s the actual one? The real one was talking about a ‘vision of the future’ earlier, after all. But what about the other two Fangire? Are they the real ones? How is Another Kiva summoning them, anyway?
Geiz is knocked out of his transformation – and Sougo didn’t even get to activate his own. He never finished turning the belt before noticing a meteor streaking down the sky. The same one that Garulu was seeing in the coffee bar.
I don’t know WHAT that is that just hit that cliff face, but I don’t like the looks of it.
It – it’s alive? Is it an egg?
No no no NOPE it’s a space egg. It’s got a dude inside. It’s got a kitbash Rider inside. And he’s just blasted everyone down.
Everyone except the very noticeably absent Swartz.
Another Kiva tells him to stop – she is the law here.
But Ginga is from deep space. He doesn’t care about your Earth Laws. He’s going to blast you off of your cliff, too.
(I’m sorry, but I’m having a little trouble taking Ginga seriously with that UFO on his helmet.)
“Alright, let’s go!”
“WAIT NO! WAGA MAOU, STOP!”
“ASK US BEFORE YOU USE TRINITY, DAMNIT!”
Turning into a watch is not fun times.
“There is only one law. Everything dies.”
Yoooo I can take Ginga a little more seriously with those barriers. Yoooooo this guy is WAY overpowered.
Seiji Takaiwa is a god of suit acting~! Making just the little adjustments to show which loser is in control of Trinity moment to moment takes timing.
Also, the only person who can talk is the one in control? That’s. Unfortunate. For them. It’s HILARIOUS for us.
(Tsukyomi, I’m sorry, you don’t deserve to have to deal with these three.)
Nothing they throw at Ginga is working. He’s kicking everyone’s ass. Ass, singular, because bodysharing.
HOO BOY. We have our second female Another Rider… and she doesn’t get to be the main threat in her arc, either. Come on, Toei. … Let’s blame Inoue for this one. He’s here, after all.
Looks like Woz gets a Super mode in Ginga.
Well. At least he didn’t get completely shafted in the power-up regard, once his Character Decay set in.
Justice for Alain. (He! Deserved! Better! Yuujo Burst should have been IN SHOW damnit! Not relegated to the STUPID GOD AWFUL SPECTER V-CINEMA!)
(IT’S NOT EVEN HIS OWN SPECIAL! IT’S MAKOTO’S! IT COULD AT LEAST HAVE BEEN IN THE ‘LEGEND OF HERO ALAIN’ SPECIALS!)
(Yes I will always be salty about how Alain got treated.)
Well! Until next time!
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