Vice just straight-up tells him, because demons can't lie!

https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/revice/revice2c.png

Episode 2. I don’t have any new thoughts, so I'll just quote myself, do the thing, and then move on.

Ikki: It’s Ikki’s…

Vice: And Vice’s…

Both: Stamp Navi!

Ikki: And today’s stamp is this one!

Eagle!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TwWtxAV58M8

Rampage! Soaring! Flying in the sky! Eagle! Count up your wings!

Ikki: The Eagle Vistamp grants us the power to soar through the skies, both individually and as a combi.

George: And the Legend who I based it off… is this one.

Desire Driver: W!

Phillip and Shotaro: Henshin!

Cyclone! Joker!

George: Kamen Rider W. When Shotaro Hidari and Raito Sonozaki come together as one, it creates the ultimate 2-in-1 detective. His Maximum Drive has a tremendous power that can destroy Gaia Memories.

W: Now, Count up your sins!

Vice: Hey, Kari-chan, why’d you give us this one as our first form change?

George: Well, you were facing a golf player, so I thought it suitable to give you a BIRDIE.

(Crickets chirping)

Vice: Come on, we can end on a better skit than that.

George: Fine, fine. (Takes the Denden Sensor out of his pocket) Here.

Vice: Aw, wook at the cute widdle… (he touches it and gets electrocuted). Ouch.

Ikki: We hope you enjoy the next instalment.

Vice: Pain.

Brevity is the soul of wit! Thanks for the skit and a recap of your thoughts!

Ah, I see, this is partially a sub thing.

https://i.imgur.com/4qnCImK.png

And then it just kinda cuts to Ikki making a face and a flashback of Vice talking to the golfer with a filter over it. To me it came across as either a mind read or Ikki making an(correct) assumption.

But whatever, it's really not that big of a deal. You are right afterall, devils can't seem to lie in this setting!

And let's get into Episode 2 of my rewatch!

Was not expecting you to skip ahead so suddenly like that, thought I had at least a couple of days. May need to pick up my pace!!!

Anyway Episode 2 uh... it's an Episode 2 tbh, the golfer and caddie story is fine enough, since this episode is mostly about Ikki trying to tolerate Vice, failing at that, and realizing "If he wants to be selfish, I'll be selfish back to make him scared" so they can try and work together without many issues.

It'll make a fun time in getting to see how exactly these two end up becoming a dynamic duo. Especially given the Remix (CG Monstrosities dear god) system. They've got a really cool handshake down pat at least!

Meanwhile W Genome... one of the few Genomes I can actually bother to remember when trying to recall how they look from memory! Some praise Revice's alt forms for not going too wild with the colors and keeping to Revi's color scheme. But to that I say... it gets aesthetically boring and they kind of start to mesh together too much imo.

That being said, something funny that I noticed is that shows that need to advertise toy guns in 2021 decided "accidental shooting" was the way to go. Zenkaiger had a whole set of episodes where the heroes use their gun henshin device to just shoot immediately (or in one case almost blast her head off). Meanwhile Revi here catches his axe in its gun form and immediately shoots when gripping it, taking out a grunt.

Just thought I'd mention that.

It honestly took me about two or three form changes to realize that they were based on past Riders. Definitely the fault of my own lack of attention and not a slight on the very tight and on-point pairing of Rider series and animal motif. Good old W, always eagle-ing everywhere.

Yeah, the animals they chose for each Rider are definitely... interesting, to say the least.

That said, I feel like an Eagle for W atleast makes some sense, given how birds are almost always associated with wind, just as W very much is.

Sorry! Definitely was not my plan!

Ha ha, I don't know if I'd put it that way! There's an astonishing empathy to Ikki, coupled with a yet-to-be-revealed tendency towards personal sacrifice, that makes him 100% willing to go fight Deadmans on his own if Henshining would just unleash more monsters like Vice. Like, it's a little bit of a scheme (Ikki is fully aware of Vice's need to keep him alive), but I don't doubt that Ikki would keep fighting if Vice tried to call his bluff.

Oh yeah for sure, I agree, Ikki is the type of dude who'd absolutely keep on fighting despite everything.

Oh right, just realized and I am curious since we have gotten our title sequence this episode but... what do you think of the OP for the season LiveDevil?

And can I perhaps get your Reiwa OP Rankings since you've watched Geats?

I... mostly did not care for LiveDevil. I don't know that I got a great feel for it, but most of what was there didn't do much for me. Probably my least favorite Reiwa OP. That could change, though! Usually these songs grow on me, and by the end I'm at least humming along with even the worst of the Kamen Rider theme songs. (Ryuki, maybe. Probably Ryuki.)

Assuming Revice's doesn't massively improve for me over the next few weeks, my current Reiwa rankings would be:

1. REALxEYEZ
2. Trust*Last
3. ALMIGHTY
4. The next few decades of openings, until Emperor Naruhito either passes away or abdicates
5. LiveDevil