Kamen Rider Build Episode 26- "Treacherous Deathmatch!" Discussion
 

A battle between Seito and Touto Regions is proposed to settle their conflict for good. Kazumi suspects a traitor among the group, while Sento develops a new device to bring his Hazard powers under control...

I get the feeling they're going to rehash a lot of plot points in this one. Not only do we have a proxy battle but also a traitor... kind of been done before in the series already.

It's very obvious that Sawa is a traitor but with that, we will know Namba Child thing soon...
seems like she doesn't betray again, she's just a beef/Namba Child from the beginning with :U

Do you all fear Sawa will end up as villainess?

Not really. She didn't seem happy to be selling Sento up the river this ep, and in Toei's image dump for next ep, she looks upset when handing Nanba the data. It's probably a fear/indoctrination thing that will be cured by the magic of friendship within an episode or two.

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though i suspect that after the last time his data was hacked by someone on the inside that he may have made a decoy. Lets face it he knows someone is a traitor and she is really the only one who it could have been. The 3 riders are out first because all 3 of them have had something taken from them and its obvious they are not ok with those who took it from them. The girl is out because she is the owners daughter and is the source of much of what they understand. So really the only one who could be is the reporter/spy who is still a spy, when she flips her actions haven't really negatively effected nanba heavy industries as it works into the plan of everything.

I just hope she'll be forgiven for this one somehow.

After everything she's been through, I believe she'll remain their friend to Team Build. Plus she deserves a better role than this. MAKE HER A RIDER!!!!

Unless she's Evol I can't see her being a rider.

Since Soichi is the most likely candidate for Evol I think it's fair to say that we won't be getting a female rider in this series. With the exception of Ryuki-Faiz and Fourze-Wizard-Gaim I don't think we've had consecutive shows with female riders in them.

Never have I ever laughed at an episode ending so hard!

"Hellbros is here"

"No way :("

Man even Ryuga knows he's about to job to the new form debut.

That being said, considering how suspicious Sento was of Sawa this episode, I wouldn't be surprised if he had left something in that data as a surprise. Especially because this happened with Stalk already.

I mean remember this is the same guy who shut himself in his base and made fake fullbottles to fool Stalk when he found out his identity.

Greases finishing move/rider kick was amazing!


Good amount of Misora this episode. Goood....gooooood.

https://i.imgur.com/P9Zg3qa.jpg

This episode appears to be the most lighthearted episode we've gotten in a very long time, and I have no problem with. Hell, we even see Sento do that weird hair thingy that we haven't seen him do since like, what, episode 5? The humor in Build really, really works for me.

Banjo was a highlight of this episode for me. His comedic timing and delivery is just perfect and he stands out as the least angsty and most light-hearted of the 3 riders. Although I do love all of the characters in this show.

RabbitRabbit debuts next week and I can't freakin' wait.

But question for us, which side should Sawa belong to? Team Build or Faust?

Sawa deserves TRUE redemption!

I just hope the author will let her die :v

Why does Sawa deserve anything? I'm glad this spy plotline hasn't been resolved yet; they'd seemingly wrapped it up really quickly when it was first revealed and she hasn't done much since. It's good that that was all just cover.

I like that we see Sento doing lab work again this episode. It's been a while since we've seen him experimenting.

Author?

But what'll be the path for Sawa next once she'd discovered?

Maybe take up a Transteam Gun?

I hope we get a new readout on Grease and Cross Dragon's Hazard levels. It looks like Grease leveled up some, remaining relevant.

Ryuga might lose, since nobody is prepared for the Hellbros.

I believe Sento laid a trap for Sawa to walk into. Watching again, it seems that he had a spare RabbitRabbit Full Tank inside the bag, and left the one plugged with wires when he rushed off.

Just watched the Raising the Hazard Level Part 2 episode. It appears that Utsumi's "training" for Sento to use more Full Bottles was all a ruse to complete the Nebula Steam Gun weapon and to create the BiKaizer.

Given that the BiKaizer didn't actually show up in show until yesterday it makes more sense as to why the second half of this was withheld until now.

As for this episode I've yet to see it subbed which is a shame because since switching to Facebook as my primary means of watching the show I've managed to find every new episode of Build subbed but for some reason not this one...

overall i think the real question is whats going to happen once the rep battle is over. Look at what we where seeing them fight. First its was the random smash showing up and stalk toying with them to get them to make more bottles. Then it was the blue area and grease and the 3 hard smash, increased danger increase difficulty, now again we see more enemies with the reds one rider 2 using the kaiser system. each time the difficulty spikes forcing them to adapt and make something new and increasing their fighting power. with half the episodes done what could the remaining ones be?

Fist possible is the that nanba has another rider or has something else prepared that we don't know about. Second is that stalk will become evolt and we will see him dominate the battles and him unveil what he is actually after -im betting its something related to the martian civilization being brought back by the box. or something

I'm surprised that it took this long to even mention a Martian civilization outside of exposition of where Pandora's Box came from. Not even the villains discuss anything regarding Mars. Will aliens be featured later on? The whole thing is treated as no big deal.

What I wonder is what will happen to Sawa after giving Nanba the data?

Just hope Sento can turn her around away from their evil clutches. She's making a big mistake.

I'm just speculating here, after the hooplah with Seito is over, Nanba would make moved directly himself.

The only reason she's making these mistakes is because it's what she was raised, taught, and told to do. She's a Nanba Child, she was indoctrinated into doing whatever he wants her to do. It's the same thing that happens to North Koreans (not to get political, it's just the best comparison I can make).

happens with everything, you do this because you have always been told this is right or this is how you should do these kinds of things.

Faith, Political beliefs, Cultural superiority, or your favorite sports team because its your state's team and you support your state team. It all comes down to or desire as humans to be part of a tribe or group.

Its not something we can just over come its part of us. So it takes time.

But here is the thing, i figure seoto but dummy files to dupe her because he's learned not to leave his files on a computer any one can download them after the sclash driver but why does she want them- i wounder if nanba is going to have another build?

Obviously Sento used back Nanba's spy (Sawa) to send Nanba some false information regarding his latest form, and suprise them later, thats why he purposely hurry in rush without shut down the computer. He used same strategy that he used before toward Isurugi. Well, I cant wait for Gento, Utsumi, Sawa and that old man suprise reaction after know that they have been outplayed by Sento,haha.

That's what I'm curious about too. This situation reminds me of Ex-Aid when they defeated Dan roughly halfway through and then episode 25 happens with the Parad taking control of the reigns and steering the entire show in a whole new direction by releasing KR Chronicle into the mass market.

The way I see it, they can't just have Evol show up and keep beating up the riders for the next 25 episodes. So I think they're gonna have:
-Sento unveils RabbitRabbit and TankTank.
-Namba then raises the stakes with Isurugi becoming Evol.
-The good guys counter with Banjo becoming Cross-Z Magma.
-Gentoku upgrades to Mad Rogue.
-Sento somehow opens the box and obtains Genius
-Isurugi pulls out Evol Black Hole for the last 2-3 episodes as the ace up his sleeve

On a side note, I only just now noticed both of the Trigger power ups are: Black Hazard and Black Hole

Two problems there.

1: Black Hazard isn't its name. XY Hazard is (ex: RabbitTank Hazard, Kaizoku Ressha Hazard, HawkGatling Hazard, SmaphoWolf Hazard)

2: Cross-Z Magma is April, Evol is May - so Cross-Z Magma comes before Evol.

I think Utsumi might become Mad Rogue. Gentoku could die later on.

At least the pacing of the upgrades are not too tight and kinda make sense.

You know, I've done a lot of repetitive ranting about Build, but I don't think I've ever taken the time to properly mention how consistently funny all the meta-humor it uses is. The recaps are always great, for one, but the way the show basically mocks the entire concept of a clip show here was something else.

Oh, and needless to say, great episode as usual.

If one even dared to think Grease couldn’t get more awesome, this episode happens. Damn.

Great episode, I really liked the short recap section as well.

I’m looking forward to RabbitRabbit and TankTank!

Greases finishing move was, (and I truly hate to use this term but it's the only one that fits...) EPIC!!

I loved how the show nearly turned into a clip episode before Misora yelled at Banjou and Sento. A bit of levity is appreciated now and again! I also have to give a shout-out to Grease for just being fantastic as always.

I’m really torn about what will happen with Sawa. On one hand, she did seem genuinely hesitant this episode to help Namba, but I also don’t know if I am totally behind a redemption for her either. Part of me thinks it would be much cooler if she went full villain and that a redemption could feel cheap.