Episode 19!

-Quiz is so wild. Seems more like a concept for a Sentai MOTW than a Rider, but isn't that what makes these Future Riders fun? Doing Rider concepts that couldn't be possible in a normal season? I dont really think anything of Mondo, but I think his goal is interesting. It's really funny to walk into a show where everyone's going back to past to change the future, and go "Changing the future by "fixing" the past has no point!"

-I know this crux of this episode's emotional dillemma is to defeat Mondo, but why does he still exist, as Quiz, when Another Quiz is running around...? Does being from an alternate timeline protect him from Time Nonsense?

-Speaking of this episode's dillemma....This is a super minor nitpick, but kinda wish this episode didn't immediately start in media res? I think a glimpse of Quiz in future doing Rider stuff like we did with Shinobi wouldve been nice, to get an idea what kind of loss the future not having Quiz around would be like. But this is just a nitpick, and I think Quiz still works without it.

-Anyway! I totally do love the difference between each Woz and the person theyre advising shown here. Woz will make moves behind-the-scenes in an attempt to steer Sougo on the path of Oma-Zi-O, but is inevitably pulled along into whatever act of good Sougo's trying to do this week. White Woz seems a lot more aggressive and overt/impatient with his "guidance" for Geiz. Like, both Wozes sort of treat the future they want as somewhat inevitable, but White Woz's nature make him feel a lot more sinsiter, even though he's on the side of "good".

Quiz and Shinobi's designs are interesting to me. Someone decided to swap the helmets of Ghost transient and Ride Player and instantly thought they had something in their hands. Pretty smart how they made use of it too.

I for sure thought we were getting a Quiz mini-series too, something related to how he got the belt. Alas, I was disappointed.

I wish I could find it, but I remember there being fanart conceptualization for what if Quiz had his own show. Him getting his own bike that could also transform to a giant robot was pretty cool.

https://www.kamen-rider-official.com...1/main_image/1

I love it, though? As a thought? I mean, a lot of it is just Mondo having daddy issues (a Heisei celebration, in any era), but it's getting at some of what this story is about; how both Wozez are struggling to create a Correct timeline, and the real struggle is an emotional battle to better understand an absent father. There's a scale the Wozez are working at that doesn't fit with Sougo's more humane view of temporal shenanigans.

I feel like the show will have an answer for this? Woz brought it up as This Is Against The Rules, so it's not like it's being ignored.

Yeah, Hat Woz is a guy who wants to be the star of the story, rather than a witness to it. (The Time Geiz And I Saved History, rather than The Time Geiz Saved History, By Woz.) He wants to make Geiz into a savior, regardless of Geiz'z view on the topic.

Quiz looks for all the world like a Paradox form from an unreleased V-Cinema, and I love it so much.

So, I mostly remember this as where the big “subbing race” that lasted throughout Zi-O, before continuing into 01 and finally stopping during Saber began. By which I mean OT decided to slow down progress on releasing Zi-O episodes (even going as far as subbing Pretty Cure, something they had never done before or after), meaning that a lot of subs from other groups came out earlier.

Anyway, enough about one of the most annoying things about being an “as it airs” watcher, let’s get on with…

Miridewatch Playlist: Hands on Buzzers Mix

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

“Save the world (sekai), answer correctly (seikai). Kamen Rider Quiz”

And since there is neither a Quiz show, nor a similar Tokusatsu series, I went with the theme song for Skatoony, a British-produced Cartoon Network show that Canadian network Teletoon gave the Carl Macek treatment so they could use it as a shill for two of their biggest cash cows, Total Drama and Jimmy Two-Shoes. https://youtube.com/watch?v=5BLJaLot3o8

And as for the answer to that question I asked at the end of my reply to episode 18, it is… True.

And for the compare and contrast, Mondo Douan is a prideful genius who is very good in solving riddles as Kamen Rider Quiz. While his dad, being a scientist, is desperately obsessed in trying to further his research to solve his own questions, and became Another Quiz to take the knowledge of other researchers besides him. Design wise, since Quiz doesn’t have any monsters of his own (I’m guessing his enemies are… giant brains?), Another Quiz is based on Hats, the mascot for Nippon TV quiz show UltraQuiz.

And to close off, true or false: Basketball was invented by a Canadian P.E teacher?

Ah Quiz, I really enjoyed him from just an active level compared to Shinobi. Dude gets heavily involved in the plot this time like he's a Legend Rider the group are trying to help out. So there's this familiar territory but it's also still vastly different because of the whole Future Rider concept. But yeah, also just seeing Quiz's theme and design, already liked him way more than Shinobi tbh.

That being said man... Another Quiz is literally the most pathetic Another Rider we've seen thus far and it's funny but sad. Like... Another Quiz literally has nothing aside from the "Brain Drain" thing. Then there's just the way he acts in fights as well, dude barely gets any good hits in and has like no real combat oriented abilities.

Anyway, this is a fun arc I feel and continuing with that fun we're back to BGM Swaps. Because well, Quiz's actor is from Go-Busters, that explains the music choice the uploader did. And now there's context for the extra song that's been playing in the BGM Swaps since the start of the new arc, it being Geiz's insert song that the actor sings himself. Of course there's a third song put inbetween both of the BGM Swaps this time, one that's only put in because of the relevant form suddenly appearing in the episode preview

Zero's Legend Episode Previews Corner - EP 20 Preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPhuIHgWKzk

(opens Oma Advent Calendar and gestures dramatically again)

IWAE! Today is April 7th 2022, which marks the 3rd anniversary of the Day of Oma. On that day, the future of Kamen Rider was decided. Would it be the future of Oma Zi-O, or Geiz Revive? In the end, there can only be one absolute truth!

Now a question for Die (others are still welcome to answer):

White Woz or Mondo.... Who has the best hat?

I also really like that message, but I'll save my thoughts on that for another time.

The Another Miriders generally follow different rules to the Another Riders created in the present or past. This conflict between the two timelines exists in a space where two futures are simultaneously true and false. So theoretically, Quiz can continue to exist in the future even if he's erased in the present, similar to a singularity point, for as long as the paradox is maintained.

A Quiz mini-series could've been awesome and I'd expect it to be a little darker than Shinobi. But I guess Mondo was lucky to have a bigger role in his own arc so maybe they decided he didn't need one.

Was this the fanart you were referring to?

https://i.redd.it/1t12wx3711j21.jpg

A bike that combines with a sphinx is a pretty genius idea!

X

Correct! As all Miriders are portrayed by Sentai actors, Douan Mondo's actor is Suzuki Katsuhiro, who was Sakurada Hiromu/Redbuster. Suzuki has also appeared in J-dramas.

Ha ha ha, ridiculous! Thanks!

Yeah, this story is About Quiz way more than the previous story was About Shinobi. The last one was all about Hat Woz, to an extent that left Shinobi feeling underdeveloped. This story pushes Hat Woz into the space normally occupied by the Time Jackers: hovering around our heroes, but ready to strike in the finale.

Oh, Hat Woz, no contest. I found Mondo's hat to be the worst part of his design. It's just sort of dull and dumpy?

Hmm, so now this explains it and it clears things up, it's about the age of others too (Takumi was 18 for reference). I guess for the fault of the series didn't talk only about Iroha here but about other case of dude magnets like this s̶u̶c̶h̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶A̶i̶r̶i̶.

Mondo now quite challenges practically everyone in Zi-O, that he thinks those who try to change the past are obsessed with it. Though he'd also travel to the past but to ask the truth from the father, to move mother's time forward.

I think the level of threat here is the usual 'Ohma Zi-O will ruin the world in the future, gotta go back in time to stop it, the problem is current Sougo is a sweet boy', like what Time Jackers and previously Geiz pulled, of which White Woz does that too, but by grooming up Geiz, while the Time Jackers use various subjects, the Another Riders or Tsukasa. And as Geiz previously was hell-bent on seeking vengeance to Sougo, Geiz and Sougo clash has been done before and thus White Woz would try to reignite the old hostility.

Not to mention, it's unsure if White Woz would create an actually better future. On paper, it sounds like an objectively good thing, to have a world free from Ohma Zi-O. But it's supposed to involve Geiz killing Sougo on the Day of Ohma, his future might not be as bright and shiny as he claims it is. And that's just for now regarding White Woz, there's even more regarding White Woz pushing Geiz to gather power. For now, while the Time Jackers are evil, White Woz brutalized Ora too here. Going back in time now had Geiz staying to keep an eye on Sougo, not to kill him the first chance he gets, still he along with Tsukuyomi planned to go back to 2068. Geiz'd only potentially crush an innocent person when he perceives them as evil, at least previously, like when someone is an Another Rider and hasn't caught commiting crimes yet.

Finally you acknowledge it here, about Rentarou's sense of justice. Another Rider brainwashed the users, though Rentarou did have flaws on his doubts on himself (still not toxic flaw).

Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure I want to live in a world where Geiz is the moral arbiter and absolute ruler (or whatever) of the whole of civilization. That kid's got a ton of weird psychological and emotional issues! If someone as sweet as Sougo could eventually become a genocidal despot, I can't imagine how bad things could get with a starting point of Geiz.

(Fish Sandwich also watched Kamen Rider Zi-O - EP19)

Kamen Rider Quiz was one of those things in these shows that I'd swear was done specifically to appeal solely to me, and me alone. I mean, it's the actor who played one of my favorite toku heroes ever, only now he's a Kamen Rider with that unbeatable red/blue hero color scheme, a hilariously awesome gimmick, and a suit made with Dark Ghost's helmet. He's representing Go-Busters AND Ghost at the same time!!! And then, so as not to waste the brilliance of this character, they wrote the plot for this two-parter to put a huge focus ON his character, placing the spotlight more on his personality and his relationship to his family without bothering to try and flesh out what a Quiz world would actually look like. And those writing priorities are also totally my speed! I really enjoy how Mondo interacts with the main cast throughout this one.

There's a lot I love about these episodes, is the short of it. And that goes beyond Quiz, too. Just as a random tiny thing, that bit with Sougo teasing Woz by pretending to not know which Woz he is makes me grin like... well, exactly like Sougo does, after teasing Woz about which Woz he is.

Oh, and there was also a new insert theme in there, huh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlWQo1XdIW0

Future Guardian is just as great a theme for Geiz as Zi-O's is for him, and for very similar reasons. The overall sound matches Geiz's character perfectly in its own way, with a much more intense and traditionally heroic flavor, and once again, Fujibayashi's lyrics are on point. I love that both of the main Riders got insert themes. They really do feel like two parts of a set in my mind, and I love that both of them turned out so well.

The way the show used Future Guardian here is unfortunately nowhere near as good as the treatment Sougo got, however. It's rather haphazardly played during the fight at the end of this episode, which is not at all a climactic moment, and it gets cut off before it even hits the chorus. Back after the episode aired, I basically totally forgot what it even sounded like until the full song was released way later, because its use here was just that unmemorable to me. Like, the song is great! You'd basically have to be trying to get me not to remember it! In that sense, I guess it sort of loops back around into being impressive?