Final verdict on episode 16? :lolol

It was an episode focused almost entirely on Nico, and as such it most certainly wasn't an episode I cared all that much for.

Now that the holidays are over, I am now back to watching some more Kamen Rider Den-O on which I might be able to finish very soon. 36 episodes down, 13 to go with Fourze being my next KR series to watch.

Started watching Kamen Rider Zi-O: Supplementary Plan, a series of three-minute videos that ran after the first 16 episodes of the show. So far, this only makes me love Zi-O even more. Supplementary Plan does a good job of making fun of the shortcomings of the show while being very candid about the reasons for certain decisions (like OOC characters due to different writers and directors, or the appearance of Dan Kuroto in the OOO arc). They also blew up Toei's office. For me, Zi-O has always been a show full of problems, but impossible to get mad at because of his genuine love for the previous riders. And the Supplementary Plan shows that if the show wasn't meant to be, at least the people behind it knew it.
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Since we are talking about ex-aid, or we were talking about ex-aid, I want to just praise my favorite scene and my favorite character from that show.

In episode 10 something happened that hurt Kamen Rider Brave. Our boy Brave had to get tucked in to a hospital bed by those two nurses that were always following him around in those early episodes. While he was being tucked in and cared for by the nurses, he yelled at em for daring to tell him to get a good night’s rest, and he told em to get the heck out of the room.

Before the nurses could leave, his cellphone on the other side of the room starts ringing and without even ordering them to do it, one of the nurses picks up the phone and brings it over to Brave and holds it up to his ear. Brave’s arms are still tucked into the sheets, he is literally doing nothing. The nurse puts the phone to Brave’s ear and Brave just sits there scowling and looking mad, but saying nothing! A long time goes by, our boy never even greeted the person who called him. Then, finally, the other caller, the sweet boy Emu, breaks the silence and tries to greet Brave “It’s Emu!” Our boy brave is still mad and grumbles “What do you want?”

Can you imagine being Emu? You are calling your colleague and you can tell the phone was picked up but nobody is saying anything? Haha. Maybe this scene was just written for me, but it’s hilarious (to me). I know I would be the Emu in that situation. I could never be cool enough to be Brave.

Ah. A perfect scene. I laughed so much when I first saw this.

Emu is a good boy. Brave is a jerk.

What about episode 12 aka the Christmas episode? I meant to ask about that and had a brain fart and asked about 16 instead. My bad. :lolol

Basically aside from feeling like two different episodes stitched together, I felt like the big reason that Lazer was killed off was both for shock value and because Takahashi realized that if Lazer didn't die right there, the whole plot would've been over because he was the only character who was actually being proactive.

And well, the shock value part kinda falls flat nowadays when the episode in question is one of those things that became so infamous with the fandom that it's almost impossible to not get spoiled as to what happens.

Looks like I'll be finishing up on Den-O earlier than I thought since I'm currently down to its final five episodes and up to its own Christmas two-parter no less. Should be finished with the series over the weekend.

I can agree with this. It's very much Madoka Magica episode 3 vibes - I was like "oh holy crap" when it actually happened because it was cutesy Christmas songs until then and had no idea what they'd try. But now that everybody hypes it up, it kind of loses that impact, meaning you see it as what it is.