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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

My favorite part of this episode was when Kagami's relaxing from his stressful conversation with Tsurugi about Hidden Truths and/or Eternal Friendship, and Misaki comes over the wire to say Hey There Is Still A Fight Happening Could You Go Help Kabuto. It's a hilarious acknowledgement of how these action scenes can frequently have these incongruent dramatic scenes in the middle of them, and how the world doesn't stop for an emotional moment. It felt self-referentially funny without breaking the fourth wall or anything.

That was a fun beat, but at the same time, Kagami arriving to find Kabuto up against a single cowering Worm, begging for mercy really underlines how strange it was of Misaki to think Tendou would need help fighting a generic squad of goons.

Oh, and on the subject of slightly meta moments in the fights, I'd like to point out that my screencap of choice this time is from the beginning, where the first thing Tendou does, in this episode by Yonemura, is ask for clarification on why Kagami was being all Inoue in the cliffhanger last time and beating him up without even making an attempt to verbally communicate like a functional human being. It's a similar subversion to Drake's first clash with Kabuto – where the episode just sorta immediately discards the dramatic ending from the previous week to move on to the things it's actually interested in exploring. I thought it was rather cute.