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Kamen Rider Zi-O Episode 36- "First Love Finally 2019!" Discussion
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05-24-2019, 02:49 PM
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Fish Sandwich
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Hey everyone, guess what time it is!
I'd make some comment about grabbing tissues, but, come on, look at who wrote this. It's a safe bet not many of us are going to take this episode at face value. Which is to say:
It's Inoue Time!
Oh boy, is it ever Inoue Time. I'm not gonna lie, part of me missed seeing episodes of Rider like this, and as a weird, strange, and frankly bizarre experiment, I'd say this was really fun and totally worth the fortnight spent on it. Just... don't do this again, okay, Zi-O?
I'm not sure how exactly to describe how I feel about this episode. I want to sound like I'm praising it because I legitimately really enjoyed myself (way more than the first part), but it's also a pretty crappy episode (probably more than the first part), so I don't know.
I'm not crying my eyes out by the time we get to the climax, but I was weirdly impressed by it? Like, I'm definitely going to remember these episodes in the future because they have such a unique identity from the rest of the show between the manhole cover obsessed guest character and the levels of angst that could only be higher if Die Set Down started playing over the ending. Whether or not the episode is strictly "good" or not stops mattering to me at that point.
Which is convenient, because the episode was also definitely NOT the epitome of quality writing. The sorta-romance between Sougo and Yuuko is so out-there it almost works (I'm sorry), but even I can't stick up for this plot when Spaceman McGee is over here wasting everybody's time with his pointless inclusion in this narrative. Literally the only thing Kamen Rider Ginga contributes to this plot is being a different bad guy running around so Another Kiva can have her little moments with Sougo, and it's not like they couldn't have accomplished the same result in a different, less inexplicable way. I don't even know if this guy is technically a Mirider or whatever because none of the other characters even seem to care who he is. Frankly, it was a more satisfying appearance by Ginga in Kamen Rider when Takuya Negishi showed up in Ex-Aid.
If this actually isn't the last we'll see of him, then maybe I'll change my tune on him as a character, but even then, this is really not the way to introduce a new Rider. Or a new power-up, for that matter, but if we wanna start talking about Inoue and power-ups...
At any rate, hopefully things are a lot less crazy next week.
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