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What are you watching? (Kamen Rider Edition)
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Okay, so I fell really behind on Zero One, but I've caught back up with that and now it's time to get back onto this train (rocket?), too.
Fourze 33-34
The school trip arc. First and foremost, there's a lot of really nice location filming in Kyoto here. After Hibiki it's really rare to see Kamen Rider film anywhere outside of the usual dozen or so same locations, so it's great to see the show invest in a travel budget for a change. It really is a pity that the show doesn't do this more often, although it probably does save a lot of money.
I'd be curious to find out when Movie Wars Mega Max got a home release, because there's a lot of stuff from it that shows up on the main show for the first time here. Foundation X makes an appearance, but the big deal is that Leo finally shows up after spending months doing... something, I guess. Leo makes a good debut here, easily taking down Gentarou and Ryusei in their strongest forms. Libra is also there, but much less impressive. There's a major plot development for him that I completely forgot about, though: this arc ends with Libra gaining the ability to see who will manifest a Horoscope. That's a big development for the character, but it also retraoctively fixes one of my big problems with this era of Fourze.
I remember being really annoyed at the time that we suddenly had new Horoscopes popping up every other week, effectively replacing the standard Zodiarts. I completely forgot that Libra could now track them, which obviously means that they're going to be more frequent. I still prefer the extended arcs we got with Scorpio and Cancer, but this does make the pacing seem less abrupt.
That aside, the main plot here is about Gentarou, Kengo, Ryusei, Yuki, and Yuki's Hayabusa puppet (like I said last update, we are now at peak Yuki) going on their school trip. Things get dicey, though, as a classmate named Yukina has decided that she is going to make Gentarou her boyfriend. I liked this story. Yukina was very frustrating for most of it, although that was kind of the point. Yuki also ended up the butt monkey of most of her shenanigans, which actually got some good laughs from me. What salvaged the character was the revelation of why she was so insistent on pursuing Gentarou: she knew he was Fourze and she wanted him to have a fun, normal school trip. That was a nice touch and it made for some good moments near the end of 34.
Oh, and I almost forgot, we got the first appearance of Professor Emoto, who worked with Gamou and Kengo's father back in the day. He eventually turns out to be both Virgo and Tachibana.
Next up we're into an arc that I really don't remember much about. The preview shows Yuki and Nozoma rocking out on electric guitars, though, and that can't possibly end well.
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