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This is not forgotten.

I wasn't aware devils are unable to lie in Revice, that's reason enough to take your word on it for me.

As others have said, there are bigger things for Ace to worry about, not to mention that if he were to repeatedly flirt with women throughout the show, it'd be with Neon, the one woman who he regularly interacts with. Ace having bigger things to deal with than try to flirt with a woman who shot him down is hardly anything that requires more than half a minute of thinking about

Congrats! You managed it in 9 years less than me!

It took me little under two years.

Well, yes, because in the first episode, Ace wished to become a hikikomori;) I still tend to think that the show simply did not have enough space to reveal this part of it.

Neither Otoya nor Shotaro was deterred by this.

Kamen Rider Fourze Episodes 17 & 18: Impact Of A Meteor & The Gen Ryu Battle

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He's here! Our next Kamen Rider, and he's not here for your ideals of friendship!

Lets deal with the negative first. In exchange for the Meteor plot, the Switcher side of this episode feels undercooked. It doesn't do anything to tie into Ryusei's deal, like other "New KRC member" stories. He just hates Kengo for being smart, is fully willing to go full Horoscope, and that's a story that I thought Fourze would excel at that, being set in a school. But no, he just gets detonated by Fourze without any fanfare - we don't even see the Switcher wake up. It's clear that's taking a big backseet to dealing with Ryusei's whole deal.

Ryusei, he's interesting. I don't want to say self-centered, but he's very focused on his own goal. He doesn't care who Lynx hurts, only so far as he stands a chance to turn into Aries. He takes the KRC for a bunch of losers who are utterly ineffective against Zodiarts because they don't take it as surface-level seriously as he does. He complains that Fourze is an idiot whilst helping a mysterious guy in a mask try to make the obvious villains more powerful. He's willing to help Gentarou fight them, but his "Anti-Zodiarts" stance as mentioned by Tachibana from Daft Punk seems to be second-fiddle to his goal of "Fix Jirou". He's an interesting addition, to add someone so dupilcitous to the cast. He's like JK in his debut episode but slightly more noble! Looking forwards to seeing how long he can maintain his deception until someone figures it out.

(Also, Gentarou only making friends with someone who is 'true' to themselves? Pretty good choice. Gentarou is 100% the kind of guy who would see your worst impulses, and say 'As your friend, I see you doing this, and will help you out!')

The base suit for Meteor is genius and whoever designed it deserved a raise.

I just got done reading through all of the Zero-One comic, and for as bad of a reputation its has, I just overall found it kinda Meh?

Like, don't get me wrong, most of the critiques you read about it are very valid(the worst being Fuwa being very out of character), but as an overall experience I could at the very least see what the people behind the story were gunning for. Sure, it's not executed in anywhere near the best way, but it's also not to the level of, say, Zero-One Others wherein it's like something out of an entirely different work. With an extra pass through editing, I could actually see this scenario as a sort of tie-in movie to Zero-One.

Outside of the mischaracterization of Fuwa though, I'd say the comic's' biggest weakness is the colorist they got for it, who overall did a terrible job. Most notably in coloring the Drivers for both Zero-One and Ragnarok(they somehow managed to make the Zero-One Driver red at one point!).

It has its good moments though, such as some very well drawn and composed panels interspliced throughout all four issues, and the flashback sequence featuring Aruto and HumaDad was like something directly out of Zero-One itself, of which I really dug. And while Ragnarok's' origin story is kinda lame, I can see what they were gunning for in terms of tying it into the Humagear plot of Zero-One itself.

But yeah, I give it a 2/6. Mediocre with some lost potential, but not without merit.

I am now up to episode 32 of Kiva where Taiga finally makes his introduction into the series.

EDIT: Just finished said episode and I decided to take a slight detour from the series itself to watch Kiva's own summer movie. I will come back to the series once I am finished with said movie.

Kamen Rider Fourze Episodes 19 & 20: The Matchless Steel Dragon & The Universal Magnetic Force

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Friends fight. It's inevitable when you spend so much time with someone, that you're going to disagree. It's Relationships 101, be it romantic or platonic. The trick is in how you handle it.

Kengo is jealous. He feels Gentarou doesn't care about him, is happy to replace him with Ryusei, who gradated top of his science class as Jeet-Kune-Do academy, and isn't getting what he wants out of the friendship anymore - the feeling his advice is worth something. It's why he falls in with Egawa so easily. But he's not a selfish jerk who just wants to be seen as the smartest. His envy stems from seeing Gentarou get hurt, and still make the choice not to listen. It's painful to watch his friend reject him so thoroughly.

Gentarou wants to give Kengo an easier life. He sees his best buddy struggle so hard for him, push his nebulous illness to the limits, to give them all a fighting chance. So when Ryusei shows up, he both wants to scope out what the new guy can do for the team, and give Kengo a break. After all, Kengo is so good to him, it's the least he can do. And when Kengo rejects him, he knows he can't just throw out a half-assed apology. He needs to make things right, which in this cas means fixing the Magnet MacGuffin, because thats what Kengou would want... right?

All the stuff around this, it works to facilitate the Gentaro/Kengo plot. Draco is less of a character and more of an obstacle to work around, but he's very jealous of other running squad members having friends. Ryusei is feeling like a natural fit this week, the rest of the gang show their worth in keeping the KRC functional even without their resident tech geek, and honestly, it's nice to see Meteor's plan of "I'll beat up the Zodiarts unless they happen to be one I like, then I'll let them go" backfire on round 2. I was worried him and Fourze would have petty fights over it for weeks to come. And Meteor states, while I still think it looks very goofy in how bulky it is, it's cool. It has a big horseshoe magnet cannon, how can it not be?