[Fish Sandwich]

Pretty solid conclusion to this little two-parter. The only thing I can sort of gripe about is more just something I'm of two minds on, which is the big elaborate sequence of all of Revice's forms getting used. Because like, on one hand, I love seeing that kind of stuff, and the entire scene was put together fantastically, but on the other hand, seeing Sakamoto do this in a Rider show is always going to remind me of how cool it was in Ghost, when those forms held emotional and narrative significance to further increase the scene's impact, and it's extra tricky for Ikki and Vice to compete with that in an episode that's not really about them.

Then again, it kinda *is* about them too, given that moment Hiromi takes to highlight Ikki's growth as a person, and the whole thing of Ikki going out of his way to try and stop Hiromi from making his catchphrase too literal. So maybe I can't gripe about the cool action at all? Maybe this is just a really strong episode of a strong show? Again, Hiromi is inherently fun to watch, the story is still moving along in a way where you'd never notice this was by a guest writer, and man, I gotta say, they are doing a heck of a job at making Olteca one of the most hateable Rider villains out there. It's genuinely uncomfortable how often he's just straight up been directly killing people on-screen lately. ...I hate it! But I kinda like that I hate it, you know?