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KAMEN RIDER KABUTO - EPISODE 09

Funnily enough, I think this is the one where I'm hitting a wall when it comes to what I even want to talk about, so I'm just going to start somewhere random and see where this goes. (Don't expect anything too deep this time.)

First off, totally superficially, isn't that just a cool knife? The Kabuto Kunai Gun is low-key one of the coolest toku hero weapons out there, and I'm more than happy to take this chance to make sure I give it a proper shout-out in here. It's a design that compliments Kabuto's so well it's almost better than the suit itself. It's no less elegant, at least as straightforward, and manages to pack in its own Cast Off gimmick for three total toyetic modes, all without looking even remotely encumbered by the need to stuff in toyetic gimmicks. The phrase "simple is best" definitely comes to mind here.

Now let's talk about why it's jammed into the side of this bridge. For anyone who needs the context, this is because Kabuto had to chuck it at some debris that was going to fall on Kagami, a distraction which allegedly causes him to lose his fight with TheBee. I'd like to emphasize that part: allegedly. Tendou seems to be operating on a higher level of himself than usual in this one, and I'm honestly struggling to wrap my head around the details when I try and think about them.

I sort of fail to believe Tendou would have any real trouble saving Kagami and fending off Yaguruma at the same time, and that'd definitely line up with him getting up fine moments later and declaring that he was playing dead to get TheBee off his back... but then as soon as Kagami starts realizing how he was saved, Tendou is right back on the ground, which leads to him being in the hospital. But wait! Tendou plays dead again when Kagami realizes Tendou went out of his way to help him. Is he melodramatically avoiding the shame of admitting he slipped up? Or just the shame of admitting he helped Kagami? It's probably not because he was actually injured, because he's once again right back up on his feet at the hospital. No, hang on, did he just actively want to go to the hospital because he knew Yaguruma would probably come there to check in on that subordinate of his Kagami mentioned, and this whole thing was one elaborate troll job? Was it a devious scheme to destroy his Perfect Harmony even further? Did Tendou just not feel like walking home that night? Am I missing something obvious or otherwise massively overthinking the plot of this quite good episode?

I'd be totally cool if it was just the last one! And yeah, this is a great episode for all the reasons Die covered so well. I'd even maybe agree it's an improvement on the last two, but whatever Bandai suit came in and demanded the cliffhanger be five seconds of the Kabuto Extender finally showing off its gimmick instead of the perfect stopping point of Kagami's transformation into TheBee docks it just those few points. Only a few though!

And I mean, the question for this episode?

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a party with Hiyori

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doesn’t feel like a blast to attend

...pick one!