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This one felt weird to me. It's a bit hard to explain, but there was something about it that felt off, mostly in regards to the Otoya section. Otoya is behaving really weirdly, even by his own standards. As it turns out, this episode is weird: this two-parter is written by Shoji "Kabuto" Yonemura, making these the only two episodes of Kiva not written by Inoue.

They aren't bad, but the characters do tend to feel just a little bit off-base to me. I did enjoy the Wataru sections, though. Overall, I feel like Wataru is growing on me a lot more on the second time through the series. We'll see if he can maintain that.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It’s a completely weird new ability of IXA’s (Garulu Fake Whistlestle?) that changes the equation of the fight while it asks a major question about how W.A.K.E.U.P. knew to build something that could fake Kiva’s abilities. Not sure it’s going to get explained (Inoue show), but it definitely got my attention at the finale.

Not only is it never explained, but - like Shoo Doran before it - the Fake Fuestles will never be used again.