so Akaba is biting the dust next ep.
Rogue wont be so strong once RabbitRabbit and TankTank debut.

Grease already seemed useless now...cant even go up against the Gear bros. At least Cross-Z is getting an upgrade...but ol robot? nope but i wouldn't put it past Toei to give Grease a last minute power-up unless ofc he dies.

If Grease dies, would be nice if there is reference his own scene in Kiva. xD

Seeing the preview for next episode, I’ve got a bad feeling Sento and Misora might end up cutting ties in fear.

I wondered why I kept thinking of his form as, "Black Hazard" even though people here told me it's just called, "Hazard."

Today I noticed in the subs, it's what the belt calls it, "Black Hazard."

https://i.imgur.com/A4ewYC3.png

I knew I'd heard it called that I just couldn't remember where and it didn't occur to me it was what the belt said.

But it said it with the very first Hazard Henshin,..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDHdL62Yyns


Anyway, good episode. I really don't understand how this show is so consistently good week after week. Sure some episodes are better than others but no episode has been bad or seemed boring or 'filler material' yet. Every episode advances the story.

That's one thing I really like a lot about the Heisei and Neo-Heisei shows, no filler. It's all part of the larger story.

Gentoku's backstory about how he became Kamen Rider Rogue is so damn badass....just desperate for power, then was made prisoner, then Stalk got a bunch of people to beat the shit out of him until he literally willed himself into becoming a Rider. What a baller.


Also, Kazumi is officially part of Team Build now! I wouldn't worry too much about death flags for him just yet. I mean, if you don't include Taiga briefly becoming Chronos for 5 seconds, he capped off at Lvl 50 while literally every other Rider on the roster surpassed him in power. And of course there's Necrom as well.

What's gonna happen to Misora now?

I'm really starting to think that Stalk was lying about the whole "raising your hazard level will allow you to control the Hazard Trigger" thing, because it seems like Sento's level of control over the thing is the same or in some cases worse than what was before his training.

Sad. I was hoping Gentoku would have a henshin pose when becoming Rogue. I am SO confused about the henshin process.

In fairness, as Night Rogue he did the bare minimum he needed to do in order to transform... so at least it goes in line with the character that he doesn't have a pose when transforming.

And the official site and all the scans say 'RabbitTank Hazard', 'HawkGatling Hazard', 'KaizokuRessha Hazard', 'SmaphoWolf Hazard' etc...
Because those are the forms' names.

'Black Hazard' is just what the Hazard Trigger says to have a single, snappy jingle rather than having to have 32 for each Best Match.

I poke fun at Gentoku for going all Kickhopper on us and then they immediately justify the change in personality. I worry the Hazard Trigger isn't carrying the same weight it used to and the preview for the next episode assures me it isn't the case. Way back when the show started I thought Misora was kinda lame, and now I'm super invested in what's going on with her. This show genuinely doesn't know how to mess up, does it?

It's also something the fans can say to have a single, snappy name to refer to several narratively homogeneous forms rather than using 32 different ones. Or at least that's how I see it. Maybe we can worry about this after people start spelling Rogue's name right? :p