Kamen Rider Drive Episode 47- "Friend, Who Do You Trust The Future With?" Discussion
 

We're in the final lap folks! What awaits Drive at the finish line???

I don't want Drive to be over, AHHHHHH ;_; All the feels today!!!

*Tries not to cry*

Just a solid feels-y epilogue. I think the last episode was really the high point of the climax. This began with an intense battle, but started wounding down pretty fast. At least it had an actual, seemingly well thought out ending. That's more than a few Rider series can boast.

*unholy noises*

Good god I need subs. I didn't understand any of what that talk between Heart and Shinnosuke but gad damn I could feel the SHEER EMOTION.

Farewell drive! This was the first show I kept up on a weekly basis and its finally come to an end ;(

And that police officer though....

One last epsidoe left.

Rough translation of Heart's final words -

Goodbye, my human friend.

The feels sure hit me hard

I absolutely loved this episode. I cried so hard all the way through. Especially when krim said goodbye to everyone. Scenes like that always hit me.

This was a great end to a fun series, next episode might just be a fun transition but for now this is one of my favorite final episodes

The action at the start was basically just finishing off last episode but this was a very solid episode for the emotional scenes. I think this is a pretty fun way of leaving everyone, and I hope next episode establishes what Shin and Kiriko get up to in the future.

Chase's human template was definitely a nice touch.

Good finale. Finished up the story quite nicely, even though I was really sad when Mr. Belt locked himself away :(

Really? Couldn’t they at least have some sort of connection so they can talk at least? Would that really be too dangerous?

But yeah, I like how they finished things, even though all Roidmudes are dead (meh). The ending with Gou is kind of Eiji with the Ankh medal, but I like how he drives away with the Professor.

And yes, they did show us Chase’s human counterpart and I really liked that. Ghost’s cameo was really random though, and I wished they wouldn’t have done that and scrapped the crossover episode, because this ending should be exactly that – an end.

Goodbye Drive :(, bye bye Kiriko-chan

Times like this I wish I had a hankerchief like Brain. All I am gonna say is nice drive.

A strong ending for a show that really pulled itself up to recover from its early problems. Never would've thought this way back at the halfway mark, but I'm really going to miss this show and its characters. I feel like we got a good conclusion, though. The final battle itself wasn't very special, but the last encounter with Heart was really moving - easily the most emotional death in the series for me, including Chase's. The Ghost cameo was surprising and kinda random, but a nice touch; it reminded me of when the Core Medals were teased at the end of W (plus it allowed for a second action scene in a very combat-light episode). Didn't expect to see the Drive gear sealed away, but it makes sense and should make for a cool reunion scene in the next Movie War. All the character wrap-ups were nicely done and I appreciated the little Animal House style descriptions of what happened next during the credits. And that last scene with Shinnosuke and Kiriko driving off together was pretty much the perfect capstone on the series.

I know there's still the crossover episode next week, but it really won't count as a main part of the story. This is the end and I think the best thing to say here is just:

Nice Drive!

(car honks)

Well Drive comes to an end, and honestly It was a great show in the end. The characters were great as well as the villains, with Brain racking up as my favourite villain. There isn't much else for me to say, since I think everyone was spot on. But in the end, it was a great show and i'm going to miss it.

More feels from Kamen Rider Feels. I'm gonna miss this show :'( despite the early problems this show truly did shape up to be something special and it's become one of my personal favorites.


Bring on Kamen Rider Ghost!

These last 3 episodes were truly the best in the entire series for me. Weird how I cried for 3 straight weeks of toku but the ending is something that I enjoyed. Especially since it wasn't a huge drag out brawl. Last week's episode did that for us and man was that epic. It is sad to see these characters Gou (Ah? Ah?) especially since this was my first rider series I watched week to week. That Ghost cameo though was fun and a nice tease.

Agree with everyone above^ very moving ending as they focused more on the emotion rather than the action :) I can safely say Drive will always have a special place in my heart for the first ever KR I kept up with haha!

That was a great ending to the show, I was worried the Heart/Drive fight would take away from the episode but it turned out to be one of it's highlights.

For a show that started out so lighthearted they did lose a lot by the time the end arrived, and this episode paid respect to that while remaining optimistic. Simply a great ending to such a fun show.

Well, I was surprised the final battle was so short, Gou & Chase VS Banno was better in my opinion. This episode and the 46th should really be watched back to back indeed.

Wow! This episode was perfect. Shinnosuke combining all the tires was really cool. Seeing everyone go their own way was nice to see. Shinnosuke and Kiriko together at the end was good also. I can't believe all the Roidmudes are gone. I thought only Chase, Heart, and Medic would be the only survivors but they had to kill them all off. Then finally seeing the human Chase copied made it perfect. We can all agree there is going to be a lot of tears next episode.

I like that they gave everyone from the SCU a happy ending. And that Tony Stark was in the finale. And that Eye Guy got to show off his wushu skills.

This will definitely be on a repeat watch list for myself in the future. I just enjoyed it. It was a pretty straight line road with very few turns, save for Banno's appearance and intent. For a show that had all the feels of Knight Rider, it did it's job to entertain.

So without spoilers, was the finale worth starting the show back up at 23?

The whole show is worth watching and the second half is much better than the first. So go for it.

Well, I'm going to miss this show. It may have started out slowly, but it got really good in the second half, and this ending episode felt like a fitting end to the story. Heart's death was memorable and emotional, and Belt-san locking himself away makes sense, and should be undone around the time of the next movie war. Everyone got a fitting ending, especially with the Animal House epilogue, and even Gou and Chase have their stories continued... but no-one tell Ankh and Eiji. They might be annoyed about the stealing of the plot :p

I don't think so. Drive shows some signs of life in the late 20s-early 30s, but the finale arc is pretty by-the-numbers. I may be in the minority, but I feel like -- though it had some strong ideas, episodes, and characters (especially Gou, Nira, and Banno) -- the show is overall pretty generic. It slots in at the very bottom of my KR ranking list (Fourze > Gaim > Ryuki > Kiva > OOO > Den-O > Drive).

Eiji: "Hey...in the white hoodie! What are you doing here?"
Gou: "Trying to find a way to bring my best friend back to life. You?"
Eiji: "Whoa this is weird..."

What a powerful, intense, emotional ending. I'm hopeful that there is a future for more Drive stories, like Gaim, there is enough left open to explore. I'm going to go back to crying now.

Yes, and I say this as someone who thought Drive was on course to be the worst Rider series ever before the halfway mark.

I like to think of Drive as a reverse-Hibiki. The first part was a total mess, but the second half really pulled itself together and presented a good story with engaging characters, although there were always still some lingering vestiges of the things that made the first part unbearable (mostly the over-the-top slapstick, which still popped up once or twice an episode).

Watching the overtime subs, was the ending "where are they now" thing in the credits originally in japanese? Or was it in English? Cause I know overtime had it as a straight-up block of English. I'm thinking it was edited with English over, Japan is never that good with grammar.

Japanese. I rewound breifly during the credits to reread one and it was in Japanese characters until MPlayerX re-synched the sub file.

It was in Japanese, I've seen the broadcast. I guess they just added a black box as a background to the text that covered the original Japanese characters.

Nearly perfect, so I'm very worried about the next episode. What I enjoyed most is that everybody did not, in fact, live happily ever after. There's a tragedy at the heart of the show: we've known since the earliest episodes that Roidmude aren't necessarily evil. I'd hoped that some of them could be saved, but I can enjoy what's essentially a somewhat sad ending, too.

This series seems to have followed in the tradition of Gaim and Wizard, in which what I think of as the true finale happens before the last episode to air. I'm just hoping the final episode won't do something stupid to undercut everything that happened this week. I'm already concerned because clearly, there will be more in-suit antics next week, when this week's story strongly implies that there should be no more suit scenes. We saw something in the "next week" preview that I may have a real problem with.

But yeah, this isn't the first Drive episode to have me on the edge of tears. I'm a little surprised that the series managed to recover from the mediocrity it had been wallowing in. Then again, didn't the head writer work on W?

The Ghost cameo worked really well for me.

(On another note: guys, seriously, OOO spoilers in a Drive response thread? We're a community that will always have people who are still catching up. I'm on OOO 36.)

Still, nice drive. Turns out all we needs WAS Drive.

The longer I think about, it the less satisfied I am with Drive's ending.

I mean, I think it was done very well and everything, but the way Heart's character arc ended up was just underwhelming. I understand why Gou was the one who got to take down his father--he was his father. But in the end, the one who was hurt by Banno the most was really Heart. But instead of him getting a satisfying final showdown with his creator, making good of his pledge to take down Banno himself after Brain's sacrifice...he just...doesn't.

Gou and Chase get the good stuff with Banno, while Heart (and Medic) end up in what was really a very impersonal fight against a non-character, Sigma. I guess Shinnosuke did too, but he got his time to shine in earlier arcs. For the Roidmudes, this was the time for them to really get the spotlight, and all they got was...no real resolution to their arcs in relation to Banno, their malefactor. They did help foil his final plan, but honestly, whatever. There's not really that much emotional weight to that.

I think I would have liked for Gou and Chase and Heart and Medic to have switched. The Roidmudes stay behind to fight Banno, Medic sacrifices herself, Heart takes revenge on the mad professor but ends up fatally wounded as a result, while the three Riders go to stop Sigma. Chase sacrifices himself for Gou (which I think would have much more weight in the context of this fight than Medic's did) and blah blah blah. Gou doesn't get to stop his father this way, but that was merely half of what made that part of the ending so good--the other thing was finally accepting Chase, which would have still been possible. I think I would have liked this more than what we got.

I still really liked the ending, but Heart was by far my favorite character in this thing, the fact that he got no real closure with Banno before the end really grinds my gears a bit.

The series has been a wonderful ride. Though some stuff really screwed with me such as that guy who killed Tomari's dad. I was really, I mean REAALLLY hoping hed get screwed up bad. The way he acted really pissed me off haha. Loved everything else though. Sad it's finished BUT I'm super excited for Ghost!

I get what you mean but I was personally not bothered by it. I saw Hearts storyline less as him specifically being tormented by Banno but Banno being a representative of humanity as a whole. So what heart hated wasnt Banno treating him like shit but humanity treating him like this. Which is why he even took part in trying to get rid of humans etc.

And this is why I think the ending works really well for his character. Through most of the show he absolutely despised humanity and saw them as the biggest evil out there. But in the end he learned that not all of humanity was like this. So making him the one to defeat Banno would be counterintuitive to this point I think. He would have gotten his revenge and his hatred over Banno/Humanity would have won in the end. Instead he learned to accept them and see the good in the same humans that treated him badly. In the end spending his last moments making one last friend, his first human friend.