Kamen Rider Build Episode 14- "The False Kamen Rider!" Discussion
 

The identity of mysterious warrior BloodStalk has finally been revealed, leaving both Sento & Ruyga reeling. What other secrets has BloodStalk hidden???

Subs are out now. So after Misora learned what Faust was really doing with the Full Bottles Soichi pretty much realised that he needed to get her to believe she was purifying the bottles for good.

This fits in very well with the theory that Sento is Katsuragi. So the whole motivation has been to purify all the full bottles, and once Faust realised that they couldn't get Misora to do any more Soichi obviously hatches a plan to get it back by wiping Katsuragi's memory and changing his face. Whether Katsuragi agreed to this or whether Soichi was manipulating Katsuragi remains to be seen but it seems quite likely that Faust had identified potential candidates for their Kamen Rider system and the whole "Katsuragi death" was just a means to get candidates for Faust to be test subjects for the Rider system.

Hence, Sato Taro was lured into a trap and killed by Blood Stalk/Soichi, who then swaps his face with Katsurgi's using the suit's in built ability. Katsuragi is then exposed to nebula gas to wipe his memories and therefore create an ideal candidate for being a Kamen Rider, since he has no memories he can be whatever Soichi wants him to be. The unconcious body of Katsuragi with the new face is then carried to an alleyway and after he comes to, Soicihi pretends to have "found" the man who he calls "Sento Kiryu".

Wouldn't be surprised if this is what is revealed over the next episode, the question is whether they will fit this in to Episode 16 as well since that is supposed to be the "Christmas" epsiode. I suppose Ex-Aid put their Christmas part of the episode to the bare minimum so I would expect Build do so too., especially if the new driver is supposed to debut after Christmas which either means Kamen Rider Grease will make his debut in Episode 17 or Banjo's upgrade will happen.

Sento and Banjo are also supposed to start falling out with each other soon, so the reasons why they come into conflict are going to be interesting.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and Soichi can fly. That is a bit weird, leading to further evidence that he may be from Mars.

So Souichi was playing the Truman Show with everyone.

It seems that BloodStalk managed to steal Venosnaker from Kamen Rider Ouja....


Another great episode for Build. I'm loving this season. Everything from the story, to the characters, to the suit design to the humor is really working for me.


If Sento really is Katsuragi, then I'm wondering if Kamen Rider Grease is Taro Satou.

That can't be the case because we've still got a confirmed dead body in all this mess

Maybe they turn him into a cyborg? Would fit with his robot motif.

I feel they'd do that to Utsemi. His actor didn't get flowers yet after all. Though we'll have to wait, Grease might outright be a new character

Wow, Blood Stalk is a real chessmaster. I didn't expect his plan to go THIS far.

I like RabbitTank Sparkling a lot more than I expected, there is something extremely funny about watching Blood Stalk get owned by a soda power-up.

I find it amazing that this show can do both comedy and series drama so well and in the same episode. The testing and "discussion" scenes in the lab were some of the funniest stuff ever, followed by some of the more series stuff in the whole show. And it somehow still felt natural.

There's still more going on with Blood Stalk than we know about. He once again, basically help them get more powerful and straight up gave them the box and told them to get stronger. He's up to something other than what he's saying. Plus he straight up told them who Night Rogue is, although that can be more of the same rivalry we've seen so far.

No one's mentioned it so far, but it was revealed what collecting all the bottles does. It opened the box, which supposedly contains a massive power source such as you might make a WMD out of, but I'm not convinced that part is true. Stalk is almost certainly not telling the trust about whatever is really inside that thing.