Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Episode 26: "Players Betting On Survival!" Discussion
 

The secret of "Kamen Rider Chronicle" is now revealed- when players lose, they die. The Ministry of Health rushes to control this release while the Bugsters have another ace up their sleeve....

Good ep.

The Buggle Driver II and Toki Meki Crisis have some pretty cool sounds.

So refreshing to see Parad straight up lose, he's had top spot for too long now.

man Maximum is so cool lol

Really cool fights between Para-DX and Ex-Aid in this episode.

Hmm..so Maximum Gamer is robot like other support robot Gamers.

Salty is really the butt monkey of butt monkeys.
Level 10, yet he is easily defeated by a Level 5 Brave without using ANY item!

He's the Glass Joe of the Bugsters...

I just now realized the French connection.

I wonder how KR popy conclusion is, will it tragic or normal one :D
Also I like the Henshin jinggle and artwork on KR poppy:D

Can I just say that whoever on the creative staff decided to let the Maximum Mighty Armor have Eye Lasers should be promoted? That also reminded me of the one Ganbarizing card that had Ex-Aid shooting lasers out of the eyes on his head backpack.

Wonder if we'd ever see these Ride Players (besides Nico) beat a lower tier Bugster. Maybe they actually coordinate themselves and share a kill.

It's stunning how much story they pack into 25 minutes.
I hope that the ex-aid movie will be of this caliber.
And Like our Kamen Rider Chronicle should be a Kamen Rider Musou essentially.

Kamen Rider Poppy is stronger than Kiwami Arms in every stat.

Joke aside, Kiwami's strength mainly comes from his ability to use any arm weapons and control Helheim lifeforms, so it makes somewhat sense.

In my opinion Kiwami Arms itself is weak what is strong is kuota's god power Really i think his god power and the arms its different things

It's not just Kiwami Arms. In raw strength alone, she's stronger than every form of every past main Rider, save 4, least from what I checked. Black RX's Bio Rider and Hibiki Armed have stronger kicks than her. The only 2 main Riders to best her in both strength categories are Kuuga's Ultimate Form and Ex-Aid's Maximum Gamer.

That's not exclusive to her though. Her specs are in the ballpark of the Level 50 Gamer forms and the one other Level X there is. It's not so much Poppy that's stupidly strong, as it is Ex-Aid Riders on the whole.

Or so Toei would have you believe, anyway. It doesn't really matter.

(it is funny how she is like twice as strong as suika arms tho)

"We're the ones to fight the bugster"
OH NO
TAIGA'S GETTING CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
HE'S GONNA GET KILLED LIKE KIRIYA AND KUROTO DID

Okay upon re-watching sub this is first time Ex aid episodes fill kinda Eh to me XD
1.This episode sorta-kinda conclusion of public KR chronicle to me because The minister is announce publicly what KR chornicle is, Which kinda defeat the purpose for new people to try this game and If they smart the police and minister should closed genm corporation since this publicly known, I think bugster should come out with good comeback plan In my opinion.(Psst Spread the virus and make they play if they gonna be cured)

2. Alright i like poppy standby jingle but you can fool me the physique XD why use a guy though lol it just weird to me when in action XD its an old guy trying to be cute in my eyes XD

3. In Graphite Scene My conclusion just come of as "???" It just small Scene but the impact to me just "???" What he mean come to His level?

Next week is Taiga character development episode, well i just want to say shared your dual gashat please Hiro's form is more awesome

Point 1 was leaked by TOEI when they showed summaries of a few upcoming episodes Ren's gonna claim everyone who died could be brought back by beating the game

As for Graphite, he's also a part of Chronicle as a Bugster, he's challenging Taiga to a duel

Hmm nice point but i never read summary of future episode because its just spoilersh, i just give my comment on current situation.. i am still excited but to me this episode come out just weaker compared to past episodes and thats that.

As Graphite i just confuse what he mean by his lv, is it above Lv 50 possibiliy? because Taiga to be Honest is lack of rival at this point so yeah maybe graphite is neaded again for this role

We don't know, he didn't say what level he was, all we know is that Salty's 10. Though imagine if Graphite was 8 and Taiga faced him, that'd be hilarious

Both are seedy. But I would almost agree with you. She has obviously speed and strength buffs, and more than likely access to all the Gashat accessories.

That was exactly what I was thinking when I watched last night.

I just can't emphasize enough how much this season has been one of my favorites. At some point I'm going to GIF out Poppy's henshin.

My only other thought is of course like any good P2P game, the ones who've been playing the longest have the best gear. Art imitates life!

*Looks up Poppy's rider stats*

...Jesus Christ, why is a Dating Sim game that strong?

What the hell does a player do in Toki Meki Crisis, wrestle Kaiju's to impress boys/girls?

Judging by Critical Crews-Aid she blows kisses at them or something and they go boom

Clearly I've gone about asking people out all wrong.

"Excuse me, ma'am, would you care to go on a crusade with me?"

So Poppy doubles as a anti-cheater enforcer. Guess that Dom attitude she took on back in the Snipe Lv. 50 debut episode is a consistent thing with her.

Oh god I thought of a whip wielding Poppy beating the everloving shit out of Hiro or Taiga. I know PLENTY of people who'd enjoy that

Poppy being an anti-cheater enforcer is kinda interesting. Wouldn't that put her at odds with Emu's use of Maximum Mighty, considering it literally rewrites coding (IIRC)?

I really like Hinata and Kamen Rider Poppy even though the suit is bad looking is pretty powerful. Also its pretty obvious that a man is the suit actor for KR Poppy and it is pretty distracting .

Here's a review/analysis of episode 26 from one of my personal favorite toku analysis blogs, Capes and Cool Scarves: https://capesandcoolscarves.wordpres...to-plowshares/

Will Emu get Poppy back? I hope being evil is not permanent.

She's like the smart brain lady from Faiz with the whole PR thing, but also casually join in the fight. I'm still annoy that Brave is still using level 5 while the other riders are using level 50s and 99. Dragon Hunter Z still manage to defeat a level 10 bugster again.

....I really don't see where people are getting the Taiga death flags from. Just cuz of his words in the next episode preview?

Anyway, good Episode as usual. I'm really glad this started with the Ministry attempting to recall the Chronicle games already distributed, because thats the one immediate thing that should've happened after the events of last week. Also, how the villains are handling their plans is AMAZING. First with the whole setup of Kamen Rider Chronicle working against the heroes, then this Episode revealing Kamen Rider Poppy as an enforcer to the game if things don't go their way....and then what they're doing next week? I was worried how this Arc would continue if KRC is pretty much done due to what went on in this episode, but WOW.....

It's called skill. :lol

Hmm, let's see... He has no upcoming in-series forms, and Brave does, leaving Snipe with the oldest and probably weakest form in the roster by the time Chronos and/or Muteki appear. Next episode focuses on him. Nico is a morality pet for him. He's a jerk with a heart of gold. His character doesn't seem to be going anywhere with the exception of what happens next episode - something heavily involving protecting Nico, probably from Ren, who is likely to be at least as powerful as Simulation Gamer. Graphite challenged him to play KRC so he can fight him formally as a boss fight, something that appears to be hard and time-consuming to make possible. That shot of him walking away at the end of 26. I'm sure I'm forgetting some. There's just a lot of ominous story cues surrounding him.

Literally the one that raised flags for me was during the Debut of Bang Bang Simulations. The one line, "I have nothing to lose..."

Except he does, Nico, like it or not she's basically become a surrogate sister to him. Not to mention the fact that the Gashat he's using is on par with a Proto Gashat in terms of recoil and he's basically slowly killing himself as a result.

Maybe I read the scans wrong, but I thought the new Brave form was for the summer movie?

Doesn't seem to be. The two toys for the summer movie are in their own section specifically labeled as being for the movie. TL is outside of that. It also comes out a month too early for the movie.

I could see Snipe sacrifice himself for Nico, Emu understanding him, and Brave forgiving him. Maybe he'll die in a confrontation with a stronger Graphite or maybe the writers are saving Graphite for Brave.
I don't think game over are permanent. Next episode they're talking about resurrecting people. People came back even after receiving flower like the GREEDS in Os. It cheapens out like most shonen animes.

I'm fairly certain that Ren's BULLSHITTING. Beating Chronicle only unlocks the end game villain imo

Maybe the strongest Bugster will be come from Kamen Rider Chronicle game.

Personally I think that the final boss would be Chronos

But man, on Chronicle screen , there are 12 bugsters
palad has 2 datas, if Poppy said player need to beat 13 bugsters to unlock final boss that hiding in the world, the last one probably is Lovrica
12 + Lovrica = 13, but we have one more bugster, the source of all gashats and bugsters ?, he keep hiding in someone's body
So Im betting the final bugster is M
the strongest, the source of all powers