[Kurona]

Kamen Rider Ghost Episode 11





I didn't watch this in time for Christmas!

Which is a bit of a shame, because it's probably the one I have the least to say about -- oh, sure; it's the one where Takeru brings Kanon back to life and it's all very emotional and lovely, but the rest of the episode is more or less an extended fight scene and all the interesting fallout is promised next episode instead. Also, Saionji died! RIP dude!

Not to say the fight scene isn't good, mind -- it's a lot of fun, with Onari and the others tossing eyecons to Takeru and Makoto as they find them in the pre-upgrade-use-all-the-gimmick-forms celebratory fight. That old trope! It definitely stands out mind that Makoto only gets an entire two Damashiis while Takeru has half a dozen, but main rider privilege; what you gonna do? Well, what I'm gonna do is bask in the glory of both Takeru and Makoto reverting to their base forms to do a Rider Kick! I wasn't sure if that'd happen again! It gets blocked by a big CGI monster sure and Javert gets to live to no doubt star in a famous french musical, but hey, I'm also watching the show where the main rider's base form rider kick never gets to properly land; so I'm kinda conditioned to like this as-is. Another special shoutout goes to yet another thing I can't believe I forgot happened: Takeru backwards-jumping into all the Damashiis, taking on their forms for a second at a time before reverting back to Ore and doing an all-powers-combined kick. That's an idea that's so good and thematically appropriate; it'd be cool if they did a form about that or something!

Aside from that? Damn, it's nice to see Makoto just get to smile now. It's great to see that moment when the anti-hero finally breaks down at the end of his quest; now that there's no point to suppressing his feelings, his letting out that there was no goddamn point in attacking Takeru if he couldn't get to fulfill his wish anyway just absolutely hurts, almost as much as him hugging a now-alive Kanon hits me in the heart.