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Kamen Rider Die watches Masked Rider Ryuki
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MASKED RIDER RYUKI EPISODE 20
Wow, a really strong Shinji episode! That's dressed up like a really strong Ren episode!
Neat!
If there's a thing I might always remember about Shinji, about why Ryuki is the star of this show, it's how
mad
he gets at Ouja (they just toss that out like he was wearing a nametag) for killing Gai (same, no idea who told them his name). Like, this is the flipside of the scene where Shinji is so glad Goro isn't dead that he forgets to be mad at being tricked. Gai was an asshole, who arguably got what he deserved. Live by the Forcing Riders To Kill Each Other, die by the Forcing Riders To Kill Each Other, you know? But Shinji is
furious
that Ouja took a life. It doesn't matter if that life was someone who literally no other Rider is crying tears over. It's that core Rider thing of all lives being worth saving, and it's an attribute that only Shinji seems to have so far. (Tezuka's a good guy, but he still ain't immediately fighting Asakura over Shibaura getting killed.) There's your regular heroism, and then there's Star Of The Show heroism. Between Shinji holding a little girl's hand even when they're both knocked out from last episode, to his untethered rage at Ouja in this one, it's a nice window into why Shinji's the lead. It's fun to stan for Shibaura or get obsessed with Tezuka's off-hours, but, for real, I'm watching this show for Shinji's story.
The rest of it this time, though, not bad! Throwing Ren and Asakura together is genius, and it's so intriguing that I don't mind that it's mostly padding. (Like, they don't really talk, and most of the middle of this one they're absent from.) The idea of why Ren is helping Asakura hangs over nearly every scene, and, again, it's super-smart to not really get anything out of Ren. Tezuka's got a theory, that Ren basically needs a different Ridder Buddy if he's going to be the killer Eri "needs” him to be. I... I wouldn't be mad if Tezuka guessed it 100% right, but I'm hoping there's more to it. As is, though, it's super fun to see Shinji furious and confused at Ren's actions, and Ren's disinterested Oh Are You Still Here look on his face in every scene with Shinji. Just some great, great character stuff with where those two are at right now.
The plot, too, it's nicely done. The gimmick of Asakura crashing the car but escaping through the mirror, tricking the cops into thinking he's dead, real clever. The cops don't exactly win any awards for competence in this one, but that trick from Ren and Asakura is a pretty believable reason for the police to call off the search. Plus, just a damn cool stunt. That car
immediately
explodes.
If there's a weakness in this one, it's down to some of the edits. I'm not sure anything in the show would be worth cutting away from a Kamen Rider Beach Battle,
the most iconic of Kamen Rider fight scenes
, but it sure as shit wasn't worth it for a crumb of a nugget of a wisp of Yui's childhood backstory. I'm sure it's information that'll be valuable eventually, but I did a full ARE YOU KIDDING ME when they cut from Ouja and Ryuki squaring off to Yui walking out of a photo lab. Like, who in the world is not going to be frustrated with that editing?! It's Riders fighting on a beach. You don't cut away from that unless it's to different Riders fighting on a different beach.
Read the room!
But, yeah, still a really good episode, and a great exhibition of why Shinji's the heroic lead in a show full of Riders.
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