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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

3. Speaking of The New Guy, there’s a new guy on Team Orphnoch! He’s basically their Keitaro, a slightly wacky dude who understands what genre of show he’s on and what his role is supposed to be, and is 100% okay with that. While Team Faiz is grudgingly following Keitaro’s mission, Team Orphnoch is getting pulled deeper into the conflict thanks to The New Guy’s mix of enthusiasm and recklessness. (He is totally their Keitaro! He’s even got a heightened sense of smell! But not just for the horrors that lurk within men’s hearts, like Keitaro! He also can tell what you had for lunch!) It’s hard to get much of a feel for what he’s going to bring to the group dynamic, since he mostly has his own side plot this episode, but I think having a pretty symmetrical Team Orphnoch to Team Faiz thing is a great idea. (Also, controversial comparison, but Team Orphnoch’s Takumi is Yuka, not Yuuji. Yuuji is their Mari.)

Interesting how you consider Kaido the equivalent to Keitarou, since I previously made the comparison of Keitarou to Kiba as the nice guys, leaving Takumi and Kaido as the a**holes and Mari and Yuka as neutral. You make a valid point though. Kaido and Keitarou are polar opposites but they both play the wild card in their respective teams with Keitarou being the nice guy and Kaido being the guy who allegedly doesn't care about humans. I think there's more than one way to pair these characters together. How do you see Takumi and Yuka as equivalents and likewise with Kiba and Mari? I would like to see that perspective.

Now that I think about it, this show is kind of like a precursor of Lupinranger VS Patranger.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Actually, having just taken a look at that scene, I'm not sure it was? The line from Sawamura is:

「内臓の一部が人間のものじゃなくなってるっていうんですから」

Which would be more like "They're saying some of their internal organs were no longer those of a human", which, like, I can't even remember at this point what that means or why the distinction would matter, so I guess it's very lucky "Murder Make Cops Go ???" is still the main takeaway from these scenes. It's apparently a consequence-free enough environment that all the errors just barely manage to fudge their way into still sounding okay. Just, "oh alright something wrong with the organs got it"

And yeah, Soeno definitely has a totally different energy from a guy like Ichijou or even Hikawa. If you told me Sawamura was literally just Omuro I might believe it though.

Destroying hearts is the Orphenochs' calling card but since we don't get to see the pseudo X-ray vision when Squid kills Kaido, we don't know what happens to him. Either his heart was destroyed and replaced by an Orphenoch heart or it mutated as a result of being injected with mutagen. This is only a head canon but maybe they found the failed Orphenoch heart in the gym class' corpses? That would explain how incompatible humans are able to reanimate for a short duration.

About the translations, I thought it was weird how they translated Master, which was already an English word. I don't remember them doing that in Kiva with Mald'amour.