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Kamen Rider W(atch)
Foundation X Arc
Episode 41-42: J's Labyrinth
J refers to Jewel (Dopant) actually and (Mikio) Jinno.
Written by:
Keiichi Hasegawa,
Directed by:
Hidenori Ishida
/The Psychotic Villainess
To the shock of the cast who got called into the police station, except for one, the cop Jinno is currently imprisoned, as he's suspected as a jewel thief. The exception is the dickhead Makura, who uses his supposed partner's eviction to gloat about, while ignoring Jinno's explanation that he's framed. Don't know what leads Makura to do this or what hidden beef he had against him in the past (Jinno "enslaving" him to buy him teas or such?), or he's just the type who ditches his "friends" when difficulty comes. Fortunately Shotaro interferes to ask about the details, where on his way home, Jinno saw a giant diamond worn by a woman, who promptly beats him up while asking him what makes a diamond precious. Really, W is rife of evil women, and this even repeats the scenario of woman offering/helping one of the cast something then beats them up, which is done previously by Aya and then Grasshopper Woman, the former which is inflicted to Jinno too. Moreover, things went from bad to worse as Jinno is accused of being a jewel thief due to the woman leaving the stolen goods on him, thus gets arrested. Makura continues to mock him, but he got a deserved slipper whack from Akiko. Jinno asks for Shotaro to prove his innocence by finding what he refers as "diamond woman". The Agency would learn about a monster turning people into gems, currently 7 victims, and always with the diamond woman on the scene. Akiko notes that all of her victims are young beautiful women, and targeting Jinno is an outlier. Shotaro would defend Jinno as awesome from Akiko refering to him as goofy, ironically by explaining him as guillible, which Shotaro demonstrates by pointing upwards and claiming an UFO is there. Akiko falls for it.. or so she acts as she claims none will fall for that, and smacking Shotaro with her slipper (I thought she had taken that into account before? Or her not using her slipper is the specific one instead of becoming the norm..). But Jinno... fell for the same trick every time, shown in Shotaro repeatedly tricking him by 'look behind you' in flashbacks. Though Shotaro would give an explanation about Jinno being awesome, that his guillible trait sparks pity from others, making them feel bad to lie to him. Akiko still doesn't get it, and yeah it's not that easy to understand, but with people feeling pity, Jinno can unwittingly turn people around him to be a better person starting from the pity. This 2 parter overall elevates Jinno into spotlight, and with the supposed 'weakness' turning into an endearing trait, he's a counterpart to Shotaro himself, whose "half-boiled" traits are acknowledged as Shotaro's good things for others, and both are on 'unremarkable' side for Akiko but she'd defend them. But Akiko herself too can have attention deficit, and she too was guillible before when Tooru pretends to have feelings for her to pickpocket.
They come across Santa, who informs that all of the attacked women are models and are on the same club, Blue Topaz. As they inform Phillip, he's still in funk due to Wakana being able to visit Gaia Library, but still doesn't tell them. Should Phillip be inspired by Tooru's change too before? And Akiko did say that not talking doesn't help. It's the opposite for Kazu, who informs Saeko about Wakana's ability, thus she can get to Raito first, and Saeko's still losing even with R Nazca, but offers her a Memory that increases her chance of success. As usual Shotaro would be flirty watching a bunch of beautiful models, which earns him a smack from Akiko's slipper. Though that'd mean they have to deal with another unreasonable guard, once again they won't be let in, due to them in due to them not being models. Both Shotaro and Akiko tries to pose as one, which wasn't convincing. I guess Akiko's intentionally relatively 'plain' compared to other girls, if only Hikaru Yamamoto at that time is like her present self.... (
see for yourself
) Albeit fortunately, a famous male model named Makoto Uesugi, named after Uesugi Kenshin, intercepts the guard, letting them in. Here, Uesugi is depicted as being friendly and helpful, though vaguely withdrawn. Akiko's a fan of Uesugi and thus asks for his autograph, which he obliges. Both of them explain to Uesugi about their motive, and shortly they meet the diamond woman. Akiko approaches her, but gets beaten up just like Jinno before. So despite her athleticism, Akiko's no fighter, though it's completely off guard. The woman repeats her question about diamond which Akiko claims due to the diamond's value, but the woman now explains about how diamonds are beautiful and can't be harmed, and views herself like that too. She then steps on Akiko until Shotaro intervenes, where she declares to turn models into jewels and adorn her. The light suddenly goes off and a diamond-body Dopant appears in the place of that woman, and releases a gas to turn several models into jewels, like what the woman declares before. Shotaro and Phillip henshin into W, and Jewel lives up to her claim, that W just hurts himself in his attacks against her hard body. W still failed using HeatMetal and LunaTrigger, though for the latter the Dopant disperses diamond particulate to create an energy shield that deflected the beams. After the Dopant runs off, Uesugi informs them that the woman's name is Rui Jojima, his best friend who has changed. The first Jojima to set afoot on the franchise. Uesugi also blames himself for her change.
Akiko declares Rui as the worst woman in Fuuto.... Of the plethora of bad woman in the series, at least is someone like Saeko a joke to her? Is it because Rui personally roughed up her unlike others (though it's not the worst of what happened to Akiko)? Well doing bad things personally to you doesn't make others who didn't less bad. Shotaro assigns Phillip to find out about Rui's Dopant abilities, but as Phillip finds the Jewel book... Wakana takes said book, explaining that her synchronization has risen from her previous 50%, but now she can even kick him out. As his friends are obviously concerned, Phillip finally speaks up, about his sister being in the Library, thus he can't search now. Shotaro visits the police station, where Uesugi follows after him. Jinno is interrogated, with Makura keep forcing him to "confess" about his crimes, despite both eating shaved ice. As Jinno insists for Makura to instead use his time to find out the diamond woman instead of blaming him, which Makura still denies about the woman's existence. Shotaro and Uesugi arrives to explain further about Rui's identity. As a famous model, Makura would recognize Uesugi too, also asking for his autograph, but as Makura asks Jinno, apparently he knows him more, to explain that he got into fights (with flashback) and blabbered about protecting the city's peace. Uesugi confirms that which he deems as his group of friend's naivety, and continues his story about how him, Rui, and another man named Satoru Takeda, named after Takeda Shingen, are best friends (with a photograph), then Satoru fell in love with Rui, but Rui fell in love with Uesugi instead, and Uesugi rejected her as he shipped his other 2 friends and doesn't want to ruin their friendship. So he watched other KR series that shows how a love triangle can really cause damage. By that, Rui is hurt and acted strange, eventually turned into a monster, and Satoru was one of her victims to be turned into a jewel. For some reason, Jinno finds this hard to believe, despite his guilibility before, and that was the lead for the woman who framed you man..
Due to Wakana accessing the Gaia Library, now she even knows that Kazu talked with Saeko. Meanwhile Terui and Makura approaches the same pub that the Sonozakis are there to ask about Rui, who is told as in the bathroom, with Saeko approaching her, asking her to show off her Gaia Memory ability. However, the 2 evil women had a human fistfight instead, ending with Rui stepping again on Saeko. So Saeko's a real hand-to-hand combatant as a human too, faring much better than Akiko, even lasting longer than Shotaro later. Probably explains about her being the other human who uses more than 1 Living Connectors like Isaka, as well as her combat prowess as R Nazca. For some reason Saeko was surprised when Rui attacks her in human form, isn't that what you ask?? The cops... enter the woman bathroom. Really, this is a job, but Terui can experience similar moment like when he first met Nagi, of a male entering female bathroom. As Rui sees the cops, Saeko breaks free of Rui's trampling, but Rui left the scene. Makura chases after Rui, with of course Makura getting KOed by Rui's kick, while Terui attempts to arrest Saeko, both changing into Accel and R Nazca respectively. A cycle of revenge happens as R Nazca wants to avenge Isaka, making Accel the one being 'hunted' this time, as Accel changes to Trial, turning the battle into super speed contest, implementing a sort of running contest among it. Shotaro and Akiko confront Rui, in a place she used to hang out, who brings up Uesugi, only to be brushed off as a big mouth. Shotaro then shows her a photograph of her with friends, and brings up the missing Satoru, which Rui admits without problem as the one who turned him into jewel. Shotaro and Rui fights in human form, ends again with Rui stepping on Shotaro. Rui really likes digging her heels into others (as well as explaining about diamond), though I wonder if the position would mean Shotaro can look at her... something, even if unintentionally. The position is also at a stairs, so Shotaro can break free while sending her rolling on the stairs. Rui then, seemingly, changes into Jewel Dopant, seemingly as she's concealed in light before Jewel emerges, and W also arrives. W goes Xtreme... and even freaking final form cannot scratch Jewel, including his Bicker Charge Break and Double Xtreme
back-to-back
, ending with Jewel stepping on W. Shows that quantity doesn't determine power quality... for a Dopant of the Week, Jewel's durability alone makes her invincible, seemingly the strongest so far to be shown outside of Terror, even to final forms, where Dopants like Weather had variety of power, but loses out against the same final form that fell to Jewel. Meanwhile, Jinno recounts about how Rui loved Uesugi, as well as showing her twisted mindset that the more you care about something the more you want for it to be destroyed at the end, which Jinno realizes that Uesugi's in trouble for that, and calls out Shotaro from prison.
/The Diamond Is Hurt
Jewel is interrupted by Accel and R Nazca's battle, and decides to escape as she's almost done (despite her obvious advantage..), but before nullifying yet another of Xtreme's finisher Bicker Finalusion, using the shield to send back the beams at all the 3 fighters, reverting all of the 3 fighters back to human form. Bicker Finalusion (Jewel's) AoE from the spreading shot is used well here. As Shotaro and Akiko visits Jinno, Jinno recounts about Rui's past that he interfered in the trio's fight (the same one as the previous flashback) but got roughed up (probably accidentally, as later Rui gives him a towel), and later Rui talks to Jinno that they fight for the city's love. Jinno sees that as a crummy excuse, which yeah though that kind of excuse is also seen in even villains (or some using that to paint the villain white), for the trio there's still not much context for their fighting in the past (but Uesugi deems that as their naivety), albeit as usual Jinno believes her. Still though believing doesn't mean you can't give an advice or such to her regarding her ideals. In said area, there are a bunch of pinwheels set up by kids as well for their volunteer work, but got destroyed a few days later with the kids crying (means you mess with Shotaro), where Rui confessed it and reveals said twisted mindset of destroying what you love. At this time, it seems that Rui is set up to be a well-intentioned extremist, good intention but is done with twisted actions. However, Makura kicks out Shotaro that his visiting time is over and that Jinno needs a medical checkup from a doctor. Makura just have a too rigid approach for the cop station, that Shotaro's stalling gets them to an argument again, and he had a big ego to use that as his golden age... by abusing your power? The attitude is seen on some of the police brutality to throw their weight around in the most nitpicky things, only that there are no violence here. The doctor turns out to be... Rui disguising as one. Shotaro retaliates by taking Makura's popsicle. Makura's unaware about the doctor being Rui due to his denial of Jinno's explanation though. Meanwhile Phillip is still cockblocked by Wakana, who really wants to take back Raito into the Museum, as well as showing that she can turn into Claydoll there, and with no Shotaro around, Phillip is a dead meat. Wakana seems to revel in her little brother's difficulty as well, probably something that really changed from her old personality. As the Gaia Library always provided the heroes with vital information, it's an interesting new obstacle to the heroes' job that Phillip now can't smoothly provide them information anymore this time.
Jinno learns that the doctor is Rui, and accuses of her wanting to turn him into a gem after Uesugi. As Jinno screams, Makura arrives to tone Jinno down, and he got another slapstick with Rui shoving a watermelon he holds in his face. Shotaro, still in the station, learns as well that the doctor was Rui, and chases after her. Now Rui finally talks, that she claims that a simpleton like Jinno isn't worth turning into a gem. Shotaro calls her out on not properly knowing Jinno's trait, as well as her approach of destroying the things she loves instead of protecting. Good that for a casanova, Shotaro would put males (Jinno, Uesugi) above an evil woman. For the comparison I did between Shotaro and Jinno before at ep. 41, now it's refered in-universe as well with Rui mocks Shotaro for being as foolish as Jinno. I guess there are no ways to reason with her, albeit for Jinno's flashback, she's probably still tame enough to be reasoned with. Still, it's meaningless to have a good intention if you'd have twisted view or methods, you'd just cause as much damage as full-fledged villains, and the real troublesome stuff is not being foolish but being self-righteous, one of the greatest enemy to human souls, to make them look to themselves for salvation and rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong, due to that, they're hard as hell to reason with. For some reason as Rui runs off, Shotaro didn't chase after her like Akiko wanted. Phillip reports to his friends that his sister now has surprassed him in synchronization and can turn into Dopant in the Library. Akiko, once again, becomes a 'source of inspiration' with her question of Phillip sharing a half with Shotaro unlike Wakana, which reminds Phillip when Wakana is at 50% synchronization, of which she's intangible in the Library. Phillip praises Akiko again and worked on the solution he found. Uesugi visits the Agency shortly after, to convey Rui's message that she wants to meet at Kazami Wharf, despite Akiko's warning that it might be a trap. Rui does show up, in a different outfit, but runs off. Taking Raito back is also the final stage of Museum, which Ryubee says will happen if Wakana does so. As Wakana interferes in Phillip's Gaia Library search again, Phillip now agrees to go into the Museum when Wakana tells the needed information from the Jewel Memory book... which she does. So even guilibility doesn't only apply to the good guys here, but a villain like her here, due to Wakana still having a faith Phillip, probably from how both are comfortable with each other thus she's overconfidently think Phillip will choose her over others. I guess so far the comparison is about guilibility between the Xtreme fighters in good (for Shotaro) and bad side. But of course Phillip runs off, and Wakana now changes into Claydoll Xtreme, shooting red energy balls. Then Phillip is the one that synchronizes 50% to the Library, phasing through Claydoll, and reading the still open Jewel Memory book at the required page. Here Phillip shows (or grows to) that he's not only book smart, he can outwit others too with strategic mind.
After running for a while, Rui reaches a spot where she leads Uesugi to come closer. The running seems like luring others into danger or such if they run then persuades others to come closer at certain point, which makes Shotaro use Denden Sensor to scan the surroundings, which turns out to be true, she set up bombs, which means Akiko was right, and pulls Uesugi away before it explodes, seemingly killing her off, but the cast is unharmed. Uesugi explains that Rui tried to kill him, albeit screwed up (or probably the heroes having the needed tools to foil her, golden age of Memory Gadgets), and he still blames himself of Rui's fall from grace. Akiko thought the case is over (and sets up hefty fee for Jinno), but Shotaro actually disagrees, and he hasn't finished his reports, missing the last page which he needed to do the last action, which is both of them going to a cruise ship that Uesugi boards, and declares Uesugi to be the real Dopant. As Uesugi and Akiko objects, Phillip is actually there too, and continues that the moment Rui turns into Jewel was a trick, that it was instead Rui's reflection, in the crystallized shield of diamonds, where Rui was hidden from the heroes' sight. Obviously Uesugi won't believe Rui doing that, but Shotaro continues that Rui was forced by him, revealing that she's still alive in front of Uesugi, who protests that Uesugi didn't fulfill his promise to her after she takes cover for him for everything he did, pretending to be the villain. She also declares that Uesugi actually lied, Rui loved Satoru too, and Uesugi turned him into a gem due to that, and the promise is turning Satoru back. Uesugi's a textbook depiction of sociopath, being a guy who is manipulating others while reading and exploiting them, as well as being willing to off anyone who gets in his way with little concern, while looking like a gentle and noble person to the others (which he drops the act at this point), hiding his true personality with his charm, further helped by the halo effect from his model occupation. I'd say so far, this is the most unexpected twist W did in Dopant cases so far, though I don't know if it's necessary (probably only for how Rui's name means tear drop, which she had when begging for Uesugi here), it's practically just swapping roles, that it's Uesugi who turned Satoru and the girls into gems instead of Rui, it's Uesugi who beats up others as Dopant instead of Rui, it's Uesugi who wrecks the pinwheels instead of Rui, it's Uesugi who had the twisted mindset of destroying things he cares about instead of Rui, while on the opposite case, it's Rui who wants to stop Uesugi and not the other way around etc. Though the pinwheel part might be the driving force of Uesugi's actions, as Uesugi thought she loved her as she takes the blame from his actions. The love triangle part before, it wasn't Uesugi preventing the strife that can happen from it... he's the living proof of the disaster a love triangle can cause like several other Rider series. She.. um.. friendzoned him ("love as friend"), the frendzoning isn't played as lighthearted humor for obvious reasons here though, as she's afraid of his twisted mindset now. Though Rui probably stopped now, but it's not pretending if she'd let her friend doing his terrible deeds while you're helping him even if forced, it's an actual (anti-)villainy act, even if lesser one (as a "sidekick of sorts"), it'd still harm others for a loved one's sake. She could've secretly (if disagreeing would have Uesugi harm her or something) asked for the Agency's help like a bunch of people in previous 2-parters, as their case are also weird ones.
Uesugi explains another aspect of his that he's a perfectionist, his twisted mindset comes from how the flaws of something he liked stands out more, including Rui's, thus he wants to get rid of it. This episode had a twisted sociopath take of it, but it does can happen, like some people at a fanbase of a media that starts to get nitpicky over every single thing that is 'bad' to them, outright losing their ability to appreciate the actual good stuff over time (not that people cannot criticize, but accentuating the negative is imbalanced). Uesugi decides to throw Satoru into the sea, but Accel Trial saves him, and it means it's the 2nd time he saved Uesugi's "friends", as he also saved Rui before with Trial's super speed. Accel describes Uesugi's overall plan is making Rui look guilty with Shotaro and Akiko as witnesses. Shotaro unwittingly helping Uesugi was the reason that Rui mocks his guilibility before, though actually Shotaro reveals that he finally figured it out at the wharf, looking at Uesugi hiding the detonator in the arm cast along with the Jewel Memory. So the series' method of exposing the manipulator is the usual single mistake that blows their cover.... kinda an easier take. And of course, he used the cruise ship to escape and continue turning women into gems in another city, but now he had to take out the ones who know his true nature as Jewel, with Shotaro and Phillip turning into W, fighting with Trial against Jewel. Uesugi's still calm as he knows that neither of them can break a diamond like him, but Phillip now figures it out due to his trick on Library, that the Jewel Memory had a weakpoint, the "eye of a stone" that splits the materials. W goes Xtreme and uses Bicker Charge Break in that area, defeating Jewel. I guess that's the reason why Jewel Memory wasn't used as a primary offense means by the Sonozakis despite it seemingly performing better than Weather to the Riders for example, it has a glaring flaw... and turns out even Uesugi himself isn't perfect, and fittingly, (along with Jinno's guilibility), Nobody's Perfect plays after this. Again, this is a really easy route the series take of an invincible enemy, of revealing about a weakpoint or such, would prefer if there'd be more clever tactics getting around it. Uesugi would blame Rui for involving Jinno, which led to him running into the Agency and Fuuto PD, containing both of the Kamen Riders. So Jinno's the one who unwittingly saved the day here by being the Agency's client, without even getting into the action, and Rui got Jinno involved due to him being guillible, thus she had to keep him safe from the potential lies from Uesugi, and flashbacks show her as one of the people who got affected by Jinno's infectious aspect of being guillible, going along with him even if he's fooled (though tbf, the 'lie' she told him of her friend being held hostage isn't a really obvious one unlike Look Behind You), thus redeeming her delinquent aspects, not fighting anymore, owing him for that. Uesugi is unconscious and Jewel Memory breaks, turning Satoru and all the girls back to normal. As Rui and Satoru embrace, Akiko tried to do the same to Terui, but he unknowingly avoids her, causing her to hit the ship's barrier. Though this is a comedy slapstick inflicted to her, she'd get helped by Phillip, instead of the others reveling at the slapstick victim. And as Jinno is cleared of his charges... of course, Makura sucks up to him, claiming that he knew he's innocent the whole time, but still he doesn't seem to value others as friends, only being an opportunist to get himself on spotlight. Akiko once again, had her mean side resurface (without slipper) as he forces Jinno to pay ASAP, while Shotaro reveals that Rui wants to cook for him as gratitude. Jinno, however, thinks that it's a lie and vows to become less guillible, but of course, it'd be a big talk as Shotaro tests him, points a yeti, and he fell for it again. Albeit this time, Shotaro turns to be true that a yeti did appear nearby, scaring both of them.
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