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Kamen Rider Die watches Masked Rider Ryuki
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04-05-2020, 04:52 PM
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MASKED RIDER RYUKI EPISODE 25
This one... it's not that good. It's maybe even
bad?
I'm straining to think of something that worked in this episode, but between anticlimaxes, obvious turns, and general sense of What Is This For, this was a disappointingly weak outing.
Like,
great
cliffhanger from last episode. Shiro has dissolved the Riders' contracts, robbing them of their powers and setting their monsters loose to try and kill them. Bad news for our heroes! What dastardly scheme could Shiro have in mind that would cause such a massive
HA HA just kidding
he wants Ren and Shinji to go visit Yui at the beach because she's sad. That's...
that's it?!
They show up, a monster chases them into a building (where they just leave Yui on the beach?), Shiro says Everything's Going To Be Okay, and then they get their powers back, no one gets hurt. Wh...
WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THIS?!
There was
no other way
to have Shiro talk to Yui? He's popped in for cryptic chats a half-dozen times without imperiling a Rider to do it, why does he need to threaten to kill Shinji and Ren
this
time? It's like pointing a gun at someone to get them to say hello.
Seems like an unnecessary escalation!
Definitely doesn't warrant that level of terror! It's a total bummer, that a cliffhanger with so much potential was in service of
nothing
, narratively. Yui feels a little better despite zero new information (it's literally just Shiro telling her to feel better!), Shinji re-emphasises his commitment to helping Riders as people, and Ren... is there, too? It's a bafflingly hollow part of the story. Accomplishes nothing, in service of nothing. Weird and frustrating.
The Asakura stuff is not any better, but for different reasons. As Asakura tells Reiko his tragic backstory, how he tried to save his little brother from a fire, he's so earnest and sad. Which, of course, means he's
1000% lying
. It's so obvious that it's funny at first, then dull and predictable afterwards. It means that every single scene of Reiko and Shinji planning out Asakura's redemption makes them look like idiots. It's so clear he's lying, for so long in this episode, that it's weird that no one even entertains the possibility that he's not being honest. A lot of my problems with this storyline could've been fixed if there'd been, like,
twenty seconds
of them saying he might be lying, but maybe it's worth the risk, blah blah blah. But that's nowhere in this episode. (Even
Ren
doesn't bring it up!) Reiko and Shinji see what they want to see, and Asakura ends up murdering his brother and knocking out Reiko. I'm sort-of okay with Shinji looking like an idiot, but, man, no idea why whip-smart reporter Reiko is so easily taken in by Asakura's bullshit. It's a huge leap for her to try and rehabilitate a guy who, at the very least, has been brutalizing people for over a decade, and just held a child hostage. I get that she wants to understand him better, but does that have to mean taking everything he says as gospel?
I don't think that's how investigative reporting is supposed to work!
Even the minor Kitaoka thing in this episode, where we find out that Goro wants to be there for him since he feels responsible for Kitaoka's illness not getting treated quickly, I don't know why we need to know that now? It's an okay scene, but it exists in a weird isolation, Goro expositing stuff Kitaoka should already know in, like, the middle of an afternoon. It's just...
there
, without needing to be there. Not a bad scene, but deployed in a bizarrely random way.
Yeah, this episode, it's a bad one. Nearly every show has at least one, but I hope this one's it for Ryuki.
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