[Tokumonkey]

I'm a little curious about the episode's couple of nods to Zero-One. In addition to the 21 worlds we see at the end of the episode, Zero-One is called out as one of the attacks Sougo uses as Grand Zi-O, although the attack itself is a blur indistinguishable from (Drive?)

I realize this show had already done a ton of stuff that didn't make sense, but FFS, Sougo never obtained a Zero-One RideWatch; we didn't see one among the repaired RideWatches his uncle handed him, and it wasn't represented on the Grand Zi-O RideWatch. This feels very much like something that was added during last-minute post-production.

This episode was... meh. I guess the action sequences were fun? The overall plot of Zi-O landed with a splat, which I guess was inevitable given that Sougo's desire to be a king has never, ever felt like an actual human motivation.

I was mostly enjoying the back half of the series, but this episode was largely devoid of surprises and clever bits. That Tsukoyomi would betray Schwartz was beyond obvious. That it largely didn't matter - and that we largely didn't get to see the awesome Kamen Rider Tsukoyomi in action - was just annoying. It was annoying that Decade and DiEnd got practically no denouement. The characters who returned to life as Sougo's fellow high school students made little sense.

Between this show and Kamen Rider Decade, I'm feeling pretty confident that big anniversary crossover seasons are not a great idea. Good thing the next one is a decade away...