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08-12-2021, 07:07 AM | #16751 |
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Oh right this was the promotional episode between Ghost and Zyuohger when the Ichigo 2016 Movie was coming out.
It continued the tradition of having some sort of team up between the two SHT shows that year though downplayed from the prior two Combination Specials, this time it just having the Rider/Sentai lead insert into the A/B Plot of the episode they were cameoing in. That wouldn't last though since with the last one for Ex-Aid/Kyuranger and Chou Super Hero Taisen, it was just minor cameos during fights. |
08-12-2021, 08:33 AM | #16752 |
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On my rewatch I really had to laugh at this episode because. Because they actually tie Zyuoh Eagle into Takeru's very significant decision to start trusting and working with Alain??? He was getting there anyway and it would have worked just as fine without it, but when they straight up have him say "Yeah I can trust him, I barely know Zyuoh Eagle and I worked well with him" it's just so funny. Have to love Tokusatsu sometimes.
Oh, and it leads into what is now one of my favourite movies ever; so just a win all around!
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08-12-2021, 08:37 AM | #16753 |
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Ain't that familiar.
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08-12-2021, 10:21 AM | #16754 |
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Same writer, same director, same location, they knew what they were doing in this episode.
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08-12-2021, 05:09 PM | #16755 |
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Don't forget this one!
I really wonder exactly how long Sakamoto's been using that same shot of three people in a line. It'd be hilarious to find out he's been doing this since his Power Rangers days or something.
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08-12-2021, 06:43 PM | #16756 |
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Tfw the director said he wants to do a Thouser V-Cinema
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08-13-2021, 07:44 PM | #16757 |
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I finished Kamen Rider Kuuga a few days ago and it is indeed pretty good despite a few issues. I really liked Yusuke as the show’s main protagonist and Rider as well as its supporting cast. Hell, I didn’t even mind the slow pace during its first several episodes because of said cast and never once it felt boring or was going through the motions. I also seriously love its opening theme song. I’m considering checking out Agito next and then Ryuki onwards.
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08-15-2021, 03:55 PM | #16758 |
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Apart from usual occassional cancellation, W's schedule on the TV station is further reduced in favor of the re-aired Ex-Aid, slowing down the story more, and it's been a while since I got into the latest part of the airing in these 2 parters below, the last pair of episodes for Nazca Arc, before moving on to Weather Arc.
Kamen Rider W(atch) Nazca Arc Episode 17-18: Farewell, N! N stands for Nazca and Nemesis Written by: Keiichi Hasegawa, Directed by: Satoshi Morota /Memory Kids It's shown that to refresh himself, Shotaro regularly goes to Barber Kaze for a shave and hot towel in face, with Shotaro even knowing Kaze personally. He talks with another customer who apparently also loves Fuuto including praising the barber, and designs the town mascot Fuuto-Kun. Of course, said customer is actually Kirihiko, being another one who loves Fuuto, but the talk continues due to their faces being covered by the towels, until those come off from their face. All of the talk immediately ended in an instant (with Kaze being aware to send them outside), continuing their feud as usual. Kirihiko explains about himself being the distributor of Gaia Memory which he sees as a path for human evolution, which as Shotaro pointed out, he's doing the opposite of Fuuto love with making the city cry instead for distributing evil tool. Both henshin into their respective Rider and Dopant forms, with W finding another difficulty of Fang Memory moving on its own, and Akiko with Phillip failing to find it, resorting to CycloneJoker, then CycloneMetal, and HeatMetal, of which they can't put down the significantly stronger than usual Nazca, especially when it utilizes super speed. Nazca also still proclaims his love of Fuuto, not listening to W's protest about him actually making the city cry; he's deluded to consider his actions. As Wakana departs for work, Ryubee gives her back the Claydoll Memory. To me, Wakana here seems to feign being enthusiastic about the returned Claydoll Memory, a sign of her probably wanting to cut ties from the family, but is still too scared to do so for now, along with the Memory meant as a bond of the family. Saeko reports that Phillip/Raito still have not returned, but there's advantage that Kirihiko masters level 2 of Nazca (super speed). Kaze's true intention is to hire Shotaro for a case of his missing daughter Akane Egusa, who in flashback, shown to know Shotaro as well. Shotaro thinks it's normal due to kids typically wanting to run away from home at her age and she'll come back naturally. Well that's optimistic, but a bit of generalizing, with Kaze reminding Shotaro about Akane's difference; not detailed how but Shotaro remembers and agrees to take the case. Shotaro returns to Narumi Detective Agency, only to find the office being messy af due to Phillip's idea looking for Fang Memory. Shotaro reports that he got a case, and Akiko would prioritize work over Fang Memory... distracting him by turning on Wakana's radio show as she and Shotaro leave for work... albeit it'd be coincidental that the topic of her show is about bird-man. Shotaro and later Akiko interrupts Queen and Elizabeth's photo session to get an information from them that Akane's hanging out with her friends, which is made up as suspicious for 15 year olds, and finally made Shotaro realize that he doesn't really get kids nowadays. When they meet Akane, who's with Yayoi Kubota, Akane doesn't laugh anymore at Shotaro and Akiko's pranks, and has other attitude problem like refusing to go home, giving me Yuuko vibes from ep. 3-4. The youth problem is shown to Shotaro here with those 2's friend Touma Fujikawa revealing a Bird Memory, and possessing rebellious spirit to seek freedom of having fun and cut down meddling adults such as detectives. In the opposite of usual joke, Akiko is somehow called... old lady here by Touma. Touma hands the Bird Memory to another friend, Yuichi Kanamura, to become Bird Dopant who pulls Shotaro high up to the air, albeit he saves himself by henshin into W, surprising with Phillip's unconscious body dropping the cage that he used to catch a kabuto beetle.. setting it free again. W uses LunaJoker to capture the flying Dopant, and then LunaMetal. Yuichi claims to surrender, but hands the Bird Memory to Touma, who, to both W and Kirihiko's surprise can also change into Bird Dopant, despite that normally it's impossible for a Memory to be used by multiple people; another new revelation. Relevation comes again with Yuichi suffering painful side effects on the area he plugged the Gaia Memory (without Living Connector), not holding back to show the skin outright melted. Kirihiko reveals to Saeko that he wants to use Gaia Memory to evolve humanity into ideal life-form. So Kirihiko does genuinely have good intentions, but he still uses the wrong means to achieve it, a well-intentioned extremist, along that he'd agree to sacrifice corrupt adults to achieve it, but he has limits on his atrocity to not involve kids while Saeko looked up for it. Yuichi is hospitalized, but a nurse reports that he'd be fine. Not only Yayoi, but Akiko is relieved as well and consoles her, another showing of her dedication to the job and clients - those who are related to them too. Shotaro digs their story more as Yayoi explains that they're interested to become superhumans, enjoying to fly through the city as Bird Dopant, but, if even adults can get drunk with power like Kurata before, like what Queen and Elizabeth speculates, youth is even more suspicious to this, with Touma using Bird Memory to attack people and treat it like a game (that's outright Grongi thing, monsters who are all cruelty), despite Akane's objection, with Yayoi telling those 2 about his next location to attack, which is in the ramen stall Jinno and Makura eats while discussing about ace cop transferring, a foreshadowing of an important character. As someone who objects to Touma's idea, Akane has been warning others about Touma's attack, which happens soon after. Now I don't understand about Akane's standoffish behavior earlier, or that she is a slight prick but has standards, or the side effects she suffered later. Shotaro also comes, and had an awesome moment of flip-kicking the Bird Dopant away as the Dopant charges towards him. Phillip actually comes too with RevolGarry, and tests a theory regarding Fang Memory that it'll come through him when he's in danger, which is proven true, and finally they can henshin to W FangJoker, with Akiko somehow forgetting that it's Phillip who turns into W, to Shotaro's anger that she let his body fall. FangJoker beats Bird Dopant with Fang Strizer with Touma also getting the side effects, but yet another revelation, the Bird Memory doesn't break. I'd like it better if FangJoker deals with the flying by his boomerang ability. Kirihiko comes and W calls him out for selling underages Gaia Memories, but Kirihiko denies that as there are no records of underages buying Gaia Memories, with him waiting for Saeko's investigation to explain as W and Nazca fights again. /The Friend with the Wind The Fang properties to protect Phillip is a good advantage in the fight as well, that it can deal with Nazca's super speed, due to moving W's body on their own when there's attack, giving him automated response to super speed. Nazca's body breaks down anyway while W tries to finish him off. But it'd be better to try convincing Nazca, given there's a hint of redemption (and reminded by Fuuto-Kun poster), by appealing to his love of Fuuto, convincing him to not make childrens cry again. On the way to treat Touma, Phillip and the audience catches a glimpse of Living Connector on Akane's body, which later he confirms her ownership of the Bird Memory. Looking into the locations Touma attacked, Phillip found a clue that all the locations have the parents of Akane's rival in track and field. That'd mean he's doing what he did for his friend's sake, but doesn't mean it's noble trait if it involves innocents. This'd be a bad consequence of genuine friendship (corrupted further with power), non-friends are also people too. Akane got the Bird Memory due to being depressed, with the one handing it to her being a female.. confirming that it wasn't Kirihiko who sold it. It's shown too that even as human, Gaia Memory users would receive some buff in physical stats, improving her track and field capabilities. Akane apologizes for showing the Bird Memory to Touma and causing the chaos to happen, but Shotaro would show more tolerance to the kids, by blaming the ones who gave her the Bird Memory utilizing youth's cluelessness with Akiko consoling her as well, then pitying her as she sleeps in the bed (with her boots taken off, good as usual for Japan media). Kirihiko comes across a secret doorway which Saeko gets out, and enters it, discovering underground cave system beneath the Sonozaki Mansion. Ryubee appears to explain about the place, where the first set of Gaia Memories was discovered there and it operates as experimentation place. It's confirmed too that, the family purposely bend the rule to get children using Gaia Memory, due to getting more comprehensive data, giving accelerated evolution. Ryubee would give no regards to those children's death for achieving Museum's goals. Ryubee has lower moral standard than Kirihiko, who would be ok doing that to adults but not tolerate children, and his coinscience defies Ryubee here, but it's a reckless action, despite that Ryubee still explains the way to save Akane, due to another truth that, Kirihiko was a pawn to the Museum as well to peel the secrets of Nazca, that while he reached level 2 in Nazca, it's his limit and he'll die soon, and him changing to the Dopant here shortens his lifespan further. Kirihiko flees, but Ryubee assigns Mick to end him. Nazca is saved by Wakana as Claydoll Dopant. Despite the new truth Kirihiko gains, and the next question he asks to her, he's actually aware to Wakana's behavior that he thought she hated him before, but is now gone due to Wakana showing concern to him after saving him. I guess her behavior change isn't fully restricted to only Phillip then. Kirihiko gains an inspiration from Wakana by his question to know what she would do if she got betrayed by someone she had faith, which is to know what her true self wants, and for Kirihiko, it's to take care of Fuuto, thus he decides to help W, before bidding farewell to her and tell her that he loves her radio show, keeping all of his potential demise secret from Wakana (though she'd probably find it later in newspaper). I'd think that either Kirihiko's redemption is the usual rushed type to only take some inspiring speech/tips from others, or that Kirihiko isn't really redeemed - he'd still agree on his philosophies like sacrificing some people like corrupt adults, albeit not supporting Museum and Gaia Memories anymore, but he'd also do something that benefits Fuuto if the option is available to him. However when Akane wakes up, she's acting strange, slapping Phillip and pushing Akiko, while demanding Bird Memory and escapes. Though Akane's the owner, she still suffers the side effects which gives her something akin to drug addiction even when her friends presumably use it quantitatively more than herself, and later, the Bird Memory can potentially kill her as well. Phillip however attaches a tracker in her and inform Shotaro. On her way Akane meets the woman who gave her the Bird Memory, which is Saeko. When Shotaro meets Akane again, she had retrained her Bird Memory which she uses to turn into Bird Dopant and satisfy her flying desires. Shotaro laments about the worsening situation and henshins into W. W uses Hardturbuler from RevolGarry to fight the flying Bird Dopant, then continues with CycloneTrigger to shoot off Bird Dopant and her fireballs. Kirihiko as Nazca comes to assist W, for once doing what W hoped for Fuuto lover to do, by using Ryubee's information to save Akane, using his Driver to locate the Bird Driver, which W uses Bat Shot in the TriggerMagnum to perform Trigger Bat Shooting which is a wind blast that is made sure to be accurate with Bat Shot's targeting. I guess LunaTrigger's homing properties isn't 100% reliable for this situation. Akane feels better then returns to Kaze with Touma and Yuichi waking up. Kirihiko warns Shotaro about Museum's secrets while handing him the Fuuto-Kun keychain as he departs. Kirihiko begs for Saeko to leave Sonozaki family with him. Kirihiko is fully nonchalant throughout his last moments yeah, but I don't know if Kirihiko somehow can see the possibility of Saeko following him while he feels Wakana hates him before. Sure before ep. 13-14 Wakana had nasty traits, but Saeko had even more so and openly shows disdain to him for his 'failures' which he tries to make up, or he's making one final chance even if he knows that he won't get it, but it's worth trying (he started his plead with "if you love me"). Not to mention, Saeko was the one doing something Kirihiko disapproves of giving Gaia Memory to children. Saeko promptly turns into Taboo Dopant to shoot Kirihiko dead, showing how unpredictably ruthless she is, not even to her family that she had her own ambitions. Kirihiko is still nonchalant, enjoying Fuuto's winds... the opposite of the ace cop Jinno and Makura talked about before, who is Ryu Terui, making his first debut, declaring his hate for Fuuto instead for the nasty winds.
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08-16-2021, 05:28 AM | #16759 |
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I'm at 35 and uhhhhhhhh
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08-19-2021, 02:50 PM | #16760 |
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Kamen Rider W(atch)
Weather Arc Episode 19-20: The I Doesn't Stop I refers to Iceage (Dopant), Investigation and Intensity. Written by: Riku Sanjo, Directed by: Hidenori Ishida /That Guy's Name Is Accel Shotaro is yet again trying to become hard-boiled, this time by playing billiard below the Narumi Detective Agency office, which he likens the gameplay of predicting ball's direction and hunting them one-by-one into detective work. But with the usual half-boiled gag, though I'd feel this is flanderization or escalation, Shotaro failed so much in a mere basics of billiard, with him slipping the cue stick away. Terui arrives at the place, and he's not called ace cop by Jinno and Makura for nothing... he's able to sink all the balls in a single break, surprising Shotaro (anyone would be likely as surprised too...) as the feat is hard-boiled as hell. Terui (with Shotaro finding this out as well) introduces himself as a police detective to Akiko, asking for a case to find culprit behind assaults that left the victim frozen. The hard-boiled stuff is the most sensitive topic to Shotaro.. so much that he succumbs to negativity here, to irrationally and pettily kicking Terui (someone hard-boiled) out due to refusing to play second-fiddle to authorities. But of course, Akiko's the chief and therefore she's the one to decide (along with dragging Shotaro who Terui asks to 'borrow'), especially after Terui pays and that she views Terui much more highly than Shotaro, expressing an interest in him, along with Phillip deciding to look up what bothers him about Terui. Much character shilling for Terui here, though personally I don't fully agree with the shilling with him considered much cooler than Shotaro right away by style or appearence; I mean Terui did have inhuman skills at billiard, but only Shotaro saw that. As Shotaro and Terui arrive at the crime scene, they find a frozen apartment room, belonging to the attacked Shinya Ikeda. Shotaro finds out again about Terui being the one in charge, and Terui shilling continues from Jinno (who hypes him up as someone to establish Special Crimes Unit) and Makura (who had Terui as role model). Terui finds a blue chrysanthemum as a clue, and while Shotaro seemingly has put his irrational dislike of Terui away to cooperate with the clue, it's Terui's turn to be hostile to him, in greater extent than Shotaro before, showing great aggressiveness and confrontation to him while pushing him to wall, refusing to hear his questions. Ryubee and Saeko are talking about the freeze from Dopant's attack as well, while introducing Wakana to the basement of the museum, trying to get her into official Museum work. Shotaro and Terui finds the Iceage Dopant who is targeting Ikeda again, who survives but is in bad condition. Terui is revealed to have a sword named Engine Blade, which is so heavy Terui had difficulty lifting it and it damages the asphalt, walls, and cars when hit. Terui orders Shotaro to henshin into Kamen Rider, much to his surprise that he knows, and has everything figured out. A bit of delay with Phillip focusing on his new topic for a while, showing again the difficulty of 2-in-1 Rider. As Iceage uses, well, ice, W uses HeatJoker to deal with the ice attacks. Iceage escapes, with Terui vehemently pursuing it, and catches a glimpse of a woman running off with a blue flower left behind, and Terui is revealed to know Phillip as well, telling Shotaro to give the keywords to him. They go to the secret base in the office, finding Phillip going into another one of his hijinks, wearing St. Bernard costume due to following Wakana's radio show. Shotaro finally had enough and forbids Phillip listening to Healing Princess. This gives a forceful parent to a child vibe in Shotaro and Phillip where parents can forbid kids to follow their interests (e.g. playing games) due to it being 'distractions'. It ironically also reveals Phillip's more 'human' side having his own hobbies and interests too, which is inherent in humans and can't be just taken away like Shotaro or those figures want them too - it can cause problems but the interest can be directed into positive path while still being kept. Terui reveals more of himself that the mechanical kabuto Phillip caught before was his gadget to spy on the protagonist trio. He also reveals an Accel Memory, as he wants to become Kamen Rider too, taking over W as they don't have what it takes, to the displeasure of Shotaro and Phillip of his behavior. This'd just be self-centered and detrimental to force only 1 'hero' fighting in the city, as Kamen Riders aren't omnipresent. To prove W, Terui tests Phillip to help with their case, and with additional clues from Terui, Phillip identifies the flower shop Cornflower Blue, while Akiko reveals the owner as Katahira Makiko (Akiko with M added ~), the woman who run from the crime scene earlier. Terui acknowledges W's capabilities, but same as previously in what Akiko and Wakana sees, Terui sees Phillip as the useful one. At the flower shop, Makiko's son tell the detectives that Makiko hangs out at Fuuto Park regularly, albeit is defensive to his mom due to her infamy due to her negative traits. As they reach the Fuuto Park, Terui catches a glimpse of a woman with a hat, sunglasses, and mask (..!), where it's shown that Terui's true purpose is going after her, leaving Shotaro and Akiko to find Makiko. Terui identifies that woman as Shroud, who gives him the AccelDriver in a metal suitcase surrounded by a ring of fire. They really should've named it AccelRider instead, it contains bike's handlebar and not steering wheel! It's implied that Shroud 'worked' for Terui, this time to make him a Kamen Rider as he claims Shroud has finished my Driver. Akiko, as normal person would do in theme parks, won't waste this moment by actually enjoying the rides in the park, to Shotaro's dismay. But turns out that, having fun doesn't mean that you'd fail, as Akiko's the one to find Makiko, who is also.. riding a merry-go-round. That'd mean Shotaro's too serious either being confused of grown-up riding it or not approving Akiko having fun. Shotaro and Akiko approaches her, who tells them that she used to ride merry-go-round with her son. But as Shotaro questions her about the frozen victim, Makiko realizes that they're cops, and reveals her true cold and icy persona, ignoring them and leaving. Shotaro warns her that he'd make her pay if she makes the city cry, but she pushes Akiko to Shotaro to run, and both are confronted by Iceage again, which Shotaro thinks Makiko's the Dopant. Shotaro henshins into W HeatJoker right away, but Iceage is strong enough to freeze Heat, which means HeatJoker won't be advantageous enough. Terui comes, and it's his debut in TV show (as his real debut was in Movie War, the first of secondaries) as Kamen Rider Accel, a bulky red Rider with engine properties in his stomach, using Engine Blade as his weapon. Accel can also rev the AccelDriver to release a fire from his body, freeing him from Iceage's freezing. Accel also can use Engine Memory in Engine Blade, turning it into flaming blade, which is based on one of the three engine types, representing jet type here (the other ones being steam and electriic). That'd mean Accel is stronger than HeatJoker, at least in their fire abilities (with W also shilling Accel's combat and Akiko throwing her catchphrase). As Iceage escapes, Accel shows another one of his ability, turning into a literal motorcycle in his BikeForm to chase Iceage down. After he catches up (and in reverse, Iceage releases a steam from its body to extinguish the flames on her like Accel before), Accel ends the fight with his Maximum Drive, Accel Glanzer, a spinning kick like Fang Strizer, but with skid-mark like trail. Accel was engulfed in flame before the kick, but it's not used at all in the attack...it suddenly disappears after he jumps. They then note that the defeated Iceage was a decoy created by Makiko, who escapes while carrying a Gaia Memory, as there are no Gaia Memory after Accel destroyed it. Accel chases her, and as she's cornered, Accel still tries to attack her, which W tries to stop, like usual to not give excessive beatdown to an already powerless threat. W now sees what it means to be hard-boiled in Accel... /Kamen Rider Style Accel is relentlessly brutal in trying to take down Makiko, the supposed Dopant, in her human form due to her taking everything away from him as W Memory owner, even rejecting and berating W for trying to reason with him, as per his usual refusal to questions - that'd be very dangerous mentality to have which this episode does explore. After he de-henshins, Shotaro calls out Accel (still in Rider form) for not following the values expected from Kamen Rider, which is to hate the criminal act, not the criminal itself - which means not killing someone after they no longer pose a threat. As expected in a hardass (-boiled?) and brutal character, for upholding moral and humanity values other than simply destroying enemies, Accel berates Shotaro as naive and attacks. Even Akiko, who shills Accel before, now instead jumps in Shotaro's defense, and Accel de-henshins, but declares his hatred against Fuuto again, claiming that the city and people there are rotten. If Terui refers to 'rotten' here as in people who object to him, including condemning non-toxic flaw like being "naive", then he'd possess self-righteous views, "with us or against us" mentality. Later Akiko too, laments that the 'cool, sharp, and capable' Terui have really violent side, reminding that in that kind of person, negative traits aren't the part of their coolness (e.g. "chad") and can't be played up as admirable like Terui's brutality, despite some audiences doing so. Phillip suspects personal connection between the freezing attacks and Terui, while describing hard-boiled as those who ruthlessly pursue their belief, having iron will, which refers to Terui. This one's not shilling though, more like talking about why being hard-boiled doesn't actually work, going against Shotaro's values - a deconstruction. I actually feel that other than a sigh, I find Shotaro not responding enough to the real consequences of being hard-boiled here, other than going to stop Terui against his injuries, making Akiko throwing her chief position to prevent him leaving as endearing this time which is worrying about his state. That alone also qualifies for iron will to stop potential danger despite his injuries. Terui throws a bit of his anger to Jinno and Makura as well for failing to find Makiko (the "good work" seems sarcastic, opposite to treating those 2 as children in his mumble), and decides to work independently. While Terui follows after Makiko's son, Watcherman informs Shotaro and Akiko that Makiko's personal territory is Ayumi Park, and it's shown that Makiko visits the place and flashback of her playing with her son appears. Makiko meets her son in present day there, who is named Kiyoshi, and shown to be cold to his mother, ignoring Makiko's explanation to explain the reasons. Accel, naturally, jumps into the conclusion that Makiko is so despicable that the son won't defend her and resumes his attack. Shotaro and Akiko arrive to stop him, with Accel calling Shotaro out to not realize what he already did (likely the assumption that Shotaro let the supposed criminal continue her attack unprovoked, which'd be rotten in his eyes, and while it can potentially happen, doesn't mean one's own action is never wrong either like Terui's). Phillip arrives too with Fang Memory so that they fight Accel as W FangJoker, outright viewing Accel as insane. It seems that true Accel is stronger than base W, as he keeps up with FangJoker. Accel shows another one of his abilities, using jet variant of engine type to fire energy projectiles. Accel then uses electric variant of engine type to enhance Engine Blade's slashes with electric. W counters with Shoulder Fang, and restrains Accel, claiming that losing composure reduces his fighting effectivity. Contrary to popular belief that when someone is angered so much (except those that literally have anger as actual superpower) they can mow anything in their way, instead you won't be able to keep clear head. Accel claims he's doing his job as officer, but W figures it out that Accel was only fighting for vendetta, though Accel admits that as he reverts to Terui. Duty as officer? More like Terui knows nothing/being blinded about that, as murdering criminals constantly with no trial or conviction is a criminal act itself, especially that it comes from a cop himself, not from a vigilante. Phillip figures it out from the fact that the victims of Iceage Dopant attacks involve Terui's family after his search. Terui lashes out again for being a "know-it-all" regarding his feelings, but Phillip's rational is put in good use here, he acknowledges that, but is also why Terui had to tell them to actually solve the problem, the very reason he hired the protagonist trio... Terui's impulsiveness is clarified again as Saeko (bringing Wakana along) is preparing to meet up a valuable ally of Museum which is said as the lead suspect in the freezing attacks lately, and the W Memory user. Which, as Shotaro pointed out, the consequence of revenge and violence is that being blinded by it so much that Terui almost killed the wrong person, after telling his story that his family was killed by a freezing attack and his father bringing up W Memory... and he had the nerve to tell the trio that they have no right to stop him after finding the supposed monster, viewing everyone but him as in the wrong. Talking about law where they work, it's the reason why death penalty is questionable as well. Like most of the secondary Riders, Terui's an anti-hero, as while he's a cop doing his job (not a corrupt one), he had several unpleasant traits like being driven by personal reasons like hatred and revenge, the brutality and violence in carrying his will, and the self-righteousness to reject reasoning until now, all which are needed to be kept in check. Especially in series like W where the Dopants are like Riders, only strong in their Dopant form, but is completely normal in human form which can be easily subdued. Unfortunately the consequences of those trait isn't always shown in other characters possessing those traits in other media, or worse, portraying actual morality as being ineffective (while thinking that being heroic/moral is simply destroying evil), which can lead into the audience thinking that heroes have to possess those traits to become 'effective', while bashing those who object as being "stubborn" and "naive" (like Terui himself). Regardless of it being 'effective' or not, doing the right thing means you shouldn't resign to the cynical perception of reality and only doing what is most 'effective' like pragmatism and the end justifies the means instead, which are morally wrong to do, to regards unlucky few with finite value like cattle, disregarding their individuality and feelings, and even if anti-heroes are subcategory of heroes, doesn't mean they don't have to work towards becoming better persons all-round. Shotaro leads Terui into the real Iceage, which turns out to be Kiyoshi. Kiyoshi is dancing in a dance club, but kicks everyone out as the protagonist trio and Terui comes. Shotaro notices that Makiko's infamy is due to her son, not herself, who wastes her money and attacks people. Kiyoshi is borderline psychopathic, abusing his power to attack anyone who pisses him off, including Shotaro accidentally shoving him at Cornflower Blue, even enjoying inflicting pain to others, excusing himself due to others mocking him as useless son. While Makiko was actually a good mother, protecting him by spreading flowers in crime scene. It finally gets through Terui's thick head that he almost killed an innocent. Makiko tries to stop Kiyoshi once again, but he directly defies her mother to escape by pushing her to ground, enraging Shotaro. Shotaro and Phillip chases after him to fight as W HeatJoker, while Akiko takes care of Makiko and Terui is still disgusted but conflicted at Shotaro's "naivety". Akiko admits to him that Shotaro is half-boiled, but the scene plays it out as acknowledging it as endearing part of Shotaro instead, reminds me of Kagami in Kabuto being 'praised' for his idiocy due to him rushing to do the right things. In W's fight, Iceage has an ability to control nearby water as well, turning it into freezing projectiles. W changes into HeatTrigger to fight against it, but gets overwhelmed. Terui arrives and henshins into Accel, fighting against the freezing projectiles with steam ability in Engine Blade. Accel finishes the fight by launching Iceage with electric Engine Blade and Engine Maximum Drive A-Slasher, launching A-shaped concentration of energy. Terui almost kills Kiyoshi in his human form who is reduced to begging for help, as Shotaro and (M)akiko tries to stop him, but to their relief Terui handcuffs him instead. Though not fully as he'd only do it in Fuuto, Shotaro succeeded in making Terui change a bit to play by his rules (actually law rules are like that in the first place) there, with his half-boiled traits held in higher regard (even Shotaro only calmly denies it there.. well should argue about iron will being something that he had too). It feels wrong to me that all of Kiyoshi's aggression instantly disappears at this point though, even without power (or it should be the reason). Another twist comes that, the Memory Kiyoshi used wasn't W, but Iceage, so it means that Terui didn't catch his real target for now. Said real target is discussed by Saeko and Wakana as a real monster for his Gaia Memory usage, not following anyone, and that they're lucky he's not their enemy. After the case ended, Shotaro is back at being irrationally mad at Terui.. due to him acting like he owns the office making delicious coffee (even to Shotaro) and attempting to take over him as Phillip's partner (as usual, Shotaro being viewed as beneath Phillip), leading to Shotaro throwing pillow to him. Yes, Terui's change isn't full at this point.
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