So I'm not a fan of Justi-Faiz but the bit at the start of the chorus is very good and I'll often catch myself singing that line and only that line how's that for a Faiz hot take.

Do you know how many times I'll randomly sing "Can You Feel" in a day? A lot. A lot of times.

It's all about "Ima hitori-hitori no mune no naka", I'm telling you.

I can't ever really remember/pronounce Japanese enough to sing along with it... except for "Double wo sagase", from the end of the Double theme song. Look out for Double! It's a good rule!

Oh, I copied this from the wiki. I can go off sounds, and while I'm sure some wil tell me I'm not experiencing toku properly unless it's in the original Japanese, allow me to retort - no.

Ditto. It's the repetition of the hitori-s.

Back with the discussion of the episodes, I think episode 24 might just have my favourite cliffhanger in Kamen Rider EVER. You know they’ll get the Faiz and Kaixa gears back, but the question is how they’re going to do it without backup gears to fall on? Or indeed, another Rider with his own gear?

It's a really great cliffhanger!

If it were any other show, the How Are They Going To Get Out Of This One factor would be off the charts. For Faiz, though? I feel like an elaborate, episode-long heist is as likely as the scene after the opening credits just being Takumi and Kusaka having already regained their belts. I'm not really counting on the show having a stellar answer for this cliffhanger! It's... it isn't really what this show's about, you know?

God, I remember this scene. It was just... it was just so funny how after almost a whole half-season of the main villains trying to get their hands on the belts, Kaido just does the stupidest thing and gets them in two seconds. Ridiculous.

It gets back to why I love the episodes where it's all romantic comedy and people taking jobs at pizza places. The plan to pretend to be cops in order to waltz away with belts in broad daylight, it's utterly ridiculous and completely in-character for a plan Kaido would make. There was probably a whiteboard full of ideas Kaido had that were either partially-formed fragments ("Coat them in oil and maybe the belts slide off", "Distracted by solar eclipse???") or stuff they'd already bought props for ("We are the Kamen Riders' dads and we demand the belts", there's a pile of wigs and fake beards alongside a shirt that says Proud Parent Of A Kamen Rider).

This character is so cartoonish that a cartoony plan completely works within the reality of the show. It's so great.