[Fish Sandwich]

Hey, Excite Subs? Love the work, keep it up, but if you fabricating plot points through mistranslations is the price I pay for the episode releasing early, I'd rather just wait a couple extra days. All Emu said there was "Dan Masamune must have programmed Kiriya to act like a different person to use him as a pawn". This should be glaringly obvious simply from watching the episode, given the whole back half is about trying to Re-Reprogram Kiriya back to normal.

Anyway, loved the episode:

- Emu got tired of being the world's punching bag and punched back, which was going to be my (seemingly now obligatory) opening picture, followed by a joke about him finally snapping after all the s*** he's been through, but alas, there wasn't a good frame for it, so instead you get whining about fansubs.

- Kiriya-san ain't no dang traitor! No way no how! Unlike Hiiro his behavior throughout this episode is WAY too glaringly out of character for this to be legit. I mean, a black coat? Come on, that's so on the nose he probably went out and bought it specifically because he thought it'd be hilarious. The only shred of doubt here is that Emu, unlike Kiriya, hasn't been known to give performances that convincing. Unless you count that time he tricked the other Riders into fighting him so they could all use Drago Knight Hunter Z to fight Graphite. Or that time he shoved a gun to his chest and told Poppy to pull the trigger since she's just an evil Bugster. Huh.

- Speaking of which, can I just reiterate how much Emu has been back on track lately? This isn't specific to this episode but he's successfully combined his early show nigh-invincible self and his second quarter misery magnet self into a character who has this compelling sense of gumption to him. He's like Kouta, except instead of just saying how much he'll never give up, he actually does it.

- I guess we have an opening narration now? That's something, I guess. It's like the actual show is so consistent and planned out they had to balance it out by constantly messing with the intro.

- Also I've been noticing the past couple weeks that the actors aren't credited as "Kamen Rider (so and so)" if they don't actually transform that week, so I'm just sitting there going, "oh hey, no Brave this week! Lame!". It's like the actual show is so full of twists and turns they had to balance it out by spoiling the episodes in the intro.

- Although the episode title is also completely misleading. Or is it?!