Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Episode 2- "Two Geniuses? No Thank You!" Discussion
 

A New Challenger Approaches!


Emu learns more about the strange Bugstar virus. He is shocked to find out there are others equipped to fight off the monsters...

Well that opening certainly points to Parad being GENM...

Not sure what to think of the op yet. Need to see it clearly.

Pacing in this ep felt a little off but maybe that's just me.

PMAX confirmed to have different sounds than MAX. Guess I do want it.

And Taiga appears to buy his gear from Dan? Interesting...

Hmm...interesting episode..

Graphite Bugster spread Bugster vurus by his Gashacon Breaker. Hmm.....I am felt Graphite Bugster really similar to Brain Roidmude....

So...Genm has "Prototype" word in his PMAX Gashat.....interesting

Really cool Brave's fights. His transformation also really cool.

In end of episode, Taiga already obtain Gamer Driver and BangBang Shooting Gashat from Dan, hmmm.....sometime Dan remind me to Takatora.....

This series has so many reflections of Gaim.

And I love it.

Ex-Aid = Gaim

Goofy but wants to do well

Brave = Baron

Even spins his Gashat like Baron spun lockseeds

Snipe = Ryugen

Looks like a scheming little bastard

Looks like the only rider ally he'll get is Lazer.

Honestly in the same way you could say it has many reflections of Ryuki.
Emu=Kouta=Shinji

Kagami=Kaito=Ren

Taiga=Mitsuzane=Masashi

That one's not a great comparison, honestly. If you HAD to make a comparison with Ryuki, Micchy is a like an amalgamation of several Advent Riders.

And Taiga feels more like a Kitaoka, least to me.

He's clearly something of a self-serving jackass, but he's also a main character as opposed to a throwaway like Scissors. And every time all the Riders pop up together (as in the fancy beginning of episode 1 or well, the op itself) Snipe is right alongside the others as a hero, hinting at the fact that despite being a jerk he's still going to end up being more or less on the right side. Comparisons to Kitaoka in that respect seem more apt than Mitchy, who started off all goody-goody but then went off the wrong path.

It's not a great comparison, even then, but if we're making them...

Lazer, on the other hand, doesn't resemble that many of the Rider archetypes we see in these multi Rider shows. He looks friendly and fully willing to cooperate with our main Rider. So...Mitchy if he wasn't such a bitch, I guess.

Admittedly I haven't watched Ryuki yet so I just sort of based it off brief snippets of character bio I've read.

I wouldn't count on that just yet. I mean aside from the fact that he is the literal Rider Machine of Ex aid, the way he's portrayed both in this episode and last episode makes him a little shady. Of course I wouldn't mind if he did turn out to be friendly.