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09-25-2021, 04:21 AM
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DreadBringer
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Kamen Rider W(atch)
Foundation X Arc
Episode 39-40: The Likelihood of the G
G stands for Gene (Dopant) and Genre.
Written by:
Riku Sanjo,
Directed by:
Takayuki Shibasaki
/Bad Cinema Paradise
Phillip's still sulking on the revelation, though Akiko points out that his attitude won't help either with him not saying anything regarding it. A mostly cold and logical person, now is experiencing the opposite of being pushed down by emotions (not that he had never felt emotions before though, but this one should be the most severe), which proves his human side. With Akiko pointing out the flaw in his behaviors, this can potentially reaffirm Phillip's view of emotions being weakness, with him as direct proof. But emotion can be a weakness or a strength depending on how the user manages it. Emotions managed poorly is weakness, but emotions managed well is a source of strength. Would hope the lesson Phillip use is to manage emotions well instead of dropping it altogether, continuing from him accepting Shotaro's kindness as something necessary, albeit would still have weakness in his eyes just that he tolerates it. Phillip did say something that he thinks Wakana lost herself to Gaia Memory influence. Another guest comes, a girl named Ai Nijimura, who asks for a case about a movie starring her even when she's apparently not involved. Moreover, the audience can't get out of the movie until it's over, with the exit door being blocked with a wall. Shotaro and Akiko go to the theater Ai worked at to investigate, but the manager would try to kick them out for the sake of his customers. Then a man named Tooru Kawai falls while carrying heavy theater programs. A female co-worker chastises him for repeatedly not asking for help, but he stays quiet. Ai is also his co-worker, who helps him carrying the theater programs. Akiko notes Tooru's crush on Ai, and teases him for it. Tooru's quietness is not an ordinary one either, as he outright communicates only using a notebook, extreme level of social awkwardness. Meanwhile, Shotaro comes across an advertisement for Kaze no Saheji's 3D movie, and invites Akiko to watch it together. Akiko at first smacks Shotaro with a slipper for not focusing on the case...but of course she'd be tempted too, being the one to 'introduce' the jidaigeki series to Shotaro after all. It had a little advantage that the manager can't kick them out as they're now the customers (as Akiko says.. a payback to the unreasonable manager), watching the Kaze no Saheji movie. I did wonder before how would Shotaro react to Kaze no Saheji in front of others, I thought that he'd treat it as a guilty pleasure due to his disinterest to historical stuff otherwise, but actually no, he displays it openly.
As Shotaro and Akiko got pumped up for their shared interest in the movie... but it's not a 3D movie with mountain setting... and turns out that they're watching the mysterious movie, titled very long in Jessica's Entranced Wandering: Why is the Mysterious Girl Going West (Adrift Edition), and indeed the star girl looks like (or is) Ai. The movie's apparently bad too like Jessica's acting that Shotaro wants to leave, only for him to find out that the exit is blocked like before. Shotaro's not the only one who leaves, I wonder if that movie can earn the entry on Horrible page on TVTropes. How the roles have reversed, now Shotaro's the one that had attention deficit while Akiko's the 'sensible' one who tried to get him back on track, only for Shotaro's antics to unwittingly move their case forward. Not only that they get stuck, the movie also runs for a whopping 7 hours and 19 minutes, with it ending on "to be concluded". Not even the movie content, they'd have to deal with their bladder as well staying that long. A glimpse of the movie's content is told as Shotaro claims the story hasn't even progressed... though bizzarely Akiko thinks it has some good hooks. Shotaro's finally openly angry, but fortunately for him the culprit is quickly found in a Dopant, who converts the wall in the exit into a shrubbery and escapes, which Phillip thinks as fascinating (well, me too for less conventional powers), and reports (as Shotaro does to Ai) that it's Gene Dopant, who can alter genetic codes of something he touches to change it to anything he wants, including his own body, like disguising as the manager (who Shotaro notes as tired). Shotaro henshins to W, and Gene is not much of a direct fighter, but still utilizes his powers to throw weapons, and then after W heats him with HeatJoker, turning said hand into a puppet. Though it's managed by just changing forms to LunaJoker, and Gene's a frail one as some strikes from the stretched hand reverts him back to the human form, revealed to be Tooru, to Ai's surprise. As Akiko confiscates the Gene Memory, W calls him out of using his job to lure people and force them to watch his movie and trap them until it's completed, with Ai on the movie being revealed to be Tooru changing his body to hers, thus making him one-man movie producer.. though it's obviously not successful. Though Akiko calls him out to not ask others like the female co-worker before, she had an idea and insists for W to suspend his police arrest.
Wakana explains the reason of fighting Raito to make a break from her previous habit, which Ryubee approves, and both family members are happy with each other. Kazu and Saeko has a dinner, with Kazu explaining that he helped her as he apparently liked her. For those who views Kazu like how Shotaro views Jessica, Kazu's expresionless demeanor is noted in-universe too, as Saeko notes that for a confession it's so unenthusiastic. Kazu also reports that the Museum's operations have accelerated in Wakana's control, thus Saeko can't strike back anymore, with Saeko losing his cool as she vows to prove herself. Wakana is later shown as an abusive boss, berating and yelling at her employees. One of the employees, the janitor who she berated turns out to be Saeko, looking for the Nazca Memory. That'd be more like Wakana reverting back to her personality pre ep. 13-14. of being a mean girl, where her father seems to be the exception of this. but I don't know if that'd help her being intimidating as a head villain, she'd be more like a brat throwing tantrums, without class, despite how Kazu notes that the Museum has grown with her. Ryubee presents her the Gaia Progressor as present, with the same glow that Wakana witnessed in W Xtreme debut, to make Wakana perfect, and they track down Gene Dopant to accomplish that. Meanwhile, with no Driver, Saeko injects a Living Connector for Nazca, becoming another one to possess multiple one like Isaka (and that was his demise..).
Akiko's plan turn out to be directing a new version of Tooru's movie with her as the producer (and Aki-P alias), getting Phillip, Terui (as a scarecrow), Makura (as a fairy), Watcherman, and Ai (as Jessica) involved. Ai portrays Jessica as bubbly, and Akiko had to force Tooru, as the director, to speak up when the shot is cut. As Makura and Watcherman complains about being dragged to this, Akiko explains (while smacking Shotaro and Watcherman with slipper) that her plan is to rehabilitate Tooru via film, by finishing his movie, intending to develop Tooru's spirit to overcome Gaia Memory's influence. The movie is planned to be shortened, like the duration to 90 minutes, or even the title to Holy Warrior Jessica, which Tooru doesn't mind, still conveyed via writing in a notebook. So another 2-parter where Akiko had a big role, and her attention to the movie was actually used here (still, keeping track of 7 hour+ one...). After adding some action, comedy, and fanservice cliches, Akiko's real plan, coming from her teasing before, is actually to hook up Tooru and Ai together, so Tooru can express themselves. Shotaro remarks that the movie did improve from the changes, which makes the 7 hours length unnecessary. Later Ai continues her portrayal as energetic heroine, where though the cast approves that and thinks that's how a heroine should be, Tooru disagrees (I'd disagree too to force character archetype to possess certain traits) and claim the scene's totally wrong, but he still can't explain (the wrong thing is to let wrong stuff unexplained), or that's also because Wakana arriving there, which got Ai excited. But of course, not many would know the reality that she's part of the Museum and a Dopant, as she would reveal to them (other than Shotaro and Phillip) by changing into Claydoll right there. After failing to reason with her, Shotaro and Phillip henshin to W, shortly as Xtreme, even analyzing Claydoll that the Prism Sword can disable its regenerative ability. As Claydoll lies on the ground, Saeko also arrives, mocking Wakana as all bark no bite in her "I am the Museum" claim. Saeko changes into Nazca Dopant.. and it emerges as an evolve version, R (
Double
meaning too; Red and Revenge) Nazca Dopant, the lv. 3 power of the Memory, giving her greater speed than previously. So Saeko's really the superior being compared to ex-husband Kirihiko from how she's dominant against him and can back it up... It managed to surprise W Xtreme, but there's Accel too, using Trial to hold R Nazca in place. However R Nazca frees herself too, using her power to create energy wings that turned into blasts. As the camera is on the middle of the fight, Akiko tries to retrieve it, but Tooru stopped her as (via notebook) she doesn't need to risk for her life and that he didn't like the movie. He only asks to give him Gene Memory back to finish the movie by himself again... dunno if he'd learn from what happened here like cutting the unnecessary parts.
/I Can't Forgive You
As Saeko feels the sensation of inserting Memories directly (I wonder if that's another factor that lets lv. 3 Nazca keep up with final forms, instead of going through FangJoker level first), Phillip tries to stop R Nazca from fighting too, that she does simply to re-affirm her existence, as she's his older sister too. But Saeko would de-humanize Phillip, treating him as only a 'thing' instead of family. Well, not like Saeko is good to her own family either. She leaves. Terui too would see Saeko as the worse one between the sisters, but still Wakana right now is nasty in her own ways too. Akiko tries to convince Tooru to work together and express his feelings, like to Ai. Though Tooru would claim in the notebook that he doesn't have romantic interest to Ai. For how she uses Nazca, Kazu proposes to her... to become his business partner. Though there's danger in the movie making, Akiko didn't give up, even rewatching the old version of Tooru's movie that is ridiculously long to understand Tooru's thoughts, to Shotaro's surprise. What Akiko concludes is that Tooru views Jessica as an ideal woman, which is probably how she's still convinced that Tooru had a crush on Ai due to him assuming Ai's look for Jessica's portrayal. Though Akiko still tries despite Tooru insisting to use Gene, Phillip would be a cynic that he views changing Tooru as impossible task. Phillip may be someone devoid of interest human relationship for good amount of time before, but probably this time he can be just frustrated over his failed attempt to reason with Saeko before, if he'd have development for spending time with Shotaro and Akiko. It's a reversed role again, as Phillip called Akiko a genius before, but now it's Shotaro's turn to remind Akiko's capabilities to Phillip's skepticism. As Tooru isn't enthusiastic about directing the movie (still with the cast as the crew), Akiko finally takes into account of her slipper smacking habits, learning to put it away for once and resort into gentle encouragement. Yeah.. happens after 40 episodes, it leads to this though previously she still had her usual loudness which depending on the person, can be grating. Akiko uses another plan, to have the scene involving Terui (as a scarecrow) kissing Jessica, to test Tooru's reaction to that, as Akiko feels that people in love wouldn't admit that (shy) when Terui points out about Tooru's claim before. Terui instead escapes, while uttering his catchphrase to his enemies "despair is waiting for me at the finish line". Akiko assigns Makura to chase after him, and Tooru, actually wonders why Terui escaped. Of course, it's from his thoughts, so only the audience would know it, instead of the cast like Akiko intended.
Wakana laments about her Claydoll Memory being not on par, and that she's now living on the mercy of her sister, which shortly happened with R Nazca attacking her (in human form) as well as mocking her again for not listening to her warning, still being off-guard. I've read some that found the Wakana part (at Foundation X arc) being reminiscent of Yuka's part in Faiz, like communicating with certain person for comfort via a phone ('Kikuchi-san', though Faiz' one was texting), but I'd add up that it..well..
doubles
as taking up Yuuji's part as well (regardless of it being bad) of both characters turning evil (though I find Wakana's turn much sooner than I expect, outright at the beginning of the final arc) and is symbolized by assuming a new look as well as controlling the evil organization in respective series. Not to mention both her and Yuka are under the mercy of a ruthless woman named Saeko (who presumably finishes off Yuka in Faiz, or gloats over Yuka's demise by humans, depending on the interpretation). Wakana learns that Saeko disguised as the janitor she berated before and had the Nazca Memory with her. Wakana's sentimental teasing previously turns into full on criticizing that Saeko's outright 'obsessed' with the previous men. Though not sure if her words hold any weight anymore now, though Saeko denies Wakana's words due to her being a child with a mere Claydoll talking against a grown up woman. So Saeko bringing up their Memories means she had might makes right approach, feeling entitled from her power alone. She'd also have ageism view as well, treating adults as master authority towards childs (yet won't live up her words against Ryubee). They have a fight in their respective Dopant forms, which of course R Nazca would win, mocking Claydoll that it's only good in regenerative ability; it'd be meaningless if it can't properly strike back. Wakana resorts into using the Gaia Progressor, finally understanding what the light meant when Ryubee showed her in Xtreme's debut.
Tooru suddenly wants to talk to Aki-P about something, which had Akiko leaving the movie to Shotaro care temporarily. Due to Tooru holding Akiko's shoulders... she instead assumes Tooru having a feeling for.. her instead. But it turns out to be a sneaky plan of Tooru to pickpocket his Gene Memory back. Don't know if it's intentional or not, but Tif it's the former, Tooru's way more cunning than what people presume he is when he knows that Akiko would be distracted by other's "confession" to her, and though he may not speak, he had the advantage of understanding people better albeit he utilizes it in bad way here. But then she was right of Tooru having some potential before, albeit she learns it in the hard way. Still I'd wonder if Akiko would be disgusted or something if it's real. Akiko is understandably mad for the trick and tries to smack him with her slipper, but she still relents to reach out to him instead. Tooru's obviously doing criminal stuff here, but her attention deficit still needs to be worked on though. Unfortunately their struggle for the Gene Memory led the Memory to be tossed into Wakana as Claydoll, taking it, along with Tooru away. Wakana forms a deal with Tooru where she'd let him record the movie in Digal Corporation when he fuses the Gaia Progressor to her cells with Gene Memory, or she'd kill him otherwise. Tooru would oblige, though he still changes into Gene Dopant, don't know if he can defend herself against Claydoll with Gene's variety of power (albeit Claydoll's more vicious and experienced, and Gene's physically weak), but otherwise Tooru would be a pushover too, combined with a lack of strong moral code, can lead into doing disastrous stuff like this. Which makes both him and Claydoll, a deserving one for Akiko's slipper slap, as she arrives after the Gaia Progressor is fused with Wakana's body (shown in green light outside the building), trying to remind them of their usual selves as well (ofc Akiko won't know that Wakana's nice only on camera, but in reality is a mean girl). As Tooru runs off, back to the film production, he still hesitates to talk, but as it'll be about important information, finally Ai had it enough and also insists for Tooru to speak up. Reminded of Akiko's criticism before of having no will (particularly after helping an enemy from that), he finally does, telling Ai that her acting is too cheerful for Jessica, who's supposed to be a dark character. Though you can be a non-talkative person, speaking up is still important to clear things up, and you have to if it's necessary to speak, even if non-talkative person would likely only talk when necessary. So the plan to get him to open up is a success, midway before the movie is finished. Still though, no information of how Tooru can be extraordinarily kind of awkward like that. Phillip is proven wrong about him being impossible, and got inspired from that, but refering to Akiko made Tooru realize that as well to tell the others.
As the others reach Digal Corporation, Phillip explains to Akiko that Wakana used Gene's ability to give Claydoll new ability. And it would be the first time (cmiiw) that it's not a
double
henshin, but a triple henshin with Shotaro, Phillip, and Terui doing it side by side. Triple for double (as in number) Riders. Though for now the Claydoll looks the same, it did become more powerful, and W goes Xtreme. Xtreme gains the upper hand as usual and performs Memory Break with Prism Break, but Claydoll got stronger as it even regenerates after being attacked by Prism Sword, contrary to what Phillip analyzed before, to their surprise. Claydoll now mutates into stronger form, dubbed as Xtreme... just like W's final form, with her noticing Saeko nearby to have her witness it too. Ryubee explains to Kazu about the creation behind the Claydoll Memory; being made by people who convey their wishes to the gods, and Wakana is now the cleric of the god (known as Earth) with her mastery over it. So Wakana more than lives up to her boast of being the Museum itself, but she's even more than that. Ryubee credits that to the data gathered from W's battles, thus it's worth letting them run around for this long. It's personal view, but I'd think that the excuse to let W run around as a data gathering feels more like a cop-out here, compared to the previous series I've seen on TV such as Gaim or Build, where the villain's data gathering is done more actively, with their effort and methods being more prevalent throughout the series, though there was Gaia Memory distribution too in W by Kirihiko, but I'd feel Gaim plays it off better to its theme, with Sid knowing why he'd success due to the young ones being more easily tempted with power (metaphorical drug for Lockseeds), while the Gaia Memory's distribution target more random people that happened to have it succeeding (though of course not only young ones more tempted to power).
Claydoll gets an upgrade into Claydoll Xtreme, the same name as W's final form, a floating type without legs like her sister's Taboo, and it's quite silly-looking though ability's the real deal, I do think regular Claydoll is silly looking anyway. Claydoll Xtreme can stretch her limbs, with Saeko (as R Nazca) remarking it as really powerful, and also shoot red energy balls. Tooru shows another change as well by ducking himself and Akiko for a blast, and later handing his Gene Memory as he doesn't need it anymore due to friends, and later making a new movie with his theater friends. Xtreme counters a big red energy ball with Bicker Finalusion, a Metal variation in place of Joker that augments the Prism Shield's capability (and it's explained in the series). This'd make Ryubee's favoritism even more obvious in Saeko's eyes, that Wakana actually got the ultimate Memory. The Xtreme naming for Claydoll, I guess that's setting up Wakana's set up as Phillip's counterpart? If it's the case probably it comes from how both of them are only more comfortable and relaxed around each other before, and that now Wakana also can visit Gaia Library, but still don't get much what'd be the contrasting part of them other than what side they're fighting. Probably gotta wait for some next episodes. The Xtreme name in W's case comes from how X is the letter after W though, signifying the next level (in next letter), with the katakana ekusu
tori
mu containing 'tori', which is the word for bird, and how the Xtreme Memory is shaped, and the weapon Prism Bicker is 2-in-1 just like the Rider. However, a side effect of Tooru's change occurs, in Terui still trying to perfect his kissing with a bunch of romance DVDs, and is ready to perform the kissing scene it to Akiko with the cast trying to hold him off. It's too late for him that Tooru's case has ended, and that moment is something so unusually silly for someone hardcore like Terui to do.
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