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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I'll leave the detailed actor trivia to someone else, though, and instead point out that 37/38 are more Tasaki episodes, which explains why I remember them looking so pretty.

Appreciate it!

There are three guest stars that I wanted to point out.

First are the Leo Imagin's troopers, played by recycled ZECTrooper suits.

More importantly, we have Kai himself, played by actor Hideo Ishiguro. Ishiguro's highest profile tokusatsu role is as Gai Kurenai, the leading role in 2016's Ultraman Orb (and it's films and spin-offs). For my money, Orb is my favorite of the current New Generation era of Ultraman (which is a really high bar) and Ishiguro, in particular, is fantastic in it. He's one of my all-time favorite Ultra protagonists. It's a performance that couldn't be further away from Kai: heroic lone wanderer haunted by his past failures. He also does the Kaiketsu Zubat thing of appearing suddenly while playing a musical instrument, which I'm always a fan of.

The other guest actor is Kenjiro Ishimaru, who plays the Station Manager. Ishimaru is a veteran actor and TV narrator whose body of work includes, apparently four Kekkou Kamen (don't Google that) movies all made in 2004. More notably, he's made multiple appearances on Sasuke, known as Ninja Warrior in the US. He's not the only Kamen Rider actor to appear on that show, but I cannot find a full list easily. I want to say that either Blade or Agito's actors did it, but I can't remember. Either way, you may think that Kenjiro Ishimaru resembles Owner's actor, Kenjiro Ishimaru, but you would be wrong.