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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

It wasn't seen on how Sougo worked his way up to become Ohma Zi-O before.... Sougo would likely still be his goofy self who wears his heart on his sleeve I guess in said Ohma Zi-O's youth and thus can invite his friend to become his staff, but dunno. And while this isn't about becoming king.... Sougo's offer to his friends seems similar to certain successful people who also tried to make cooperation with their friends back then and/or can be looked down or underestimated with their goal declaration.... b̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶ ̶h̶a̶r̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶s̶i̶l̶e̶n̶c̶e̶.

Pretty much. Our Sougo and Oma Sougo at this point in time would be pretty similar, with Geiz's and Tsukuyomi's arrival being the variable. The tragedy is that while Sougo was born to be king, any events that occur before his coronation are up to destiny. In the Oma timeline, his only way to become a king was to become an evil overlord. It can't even be called bittersweet for how much he loses to obtain his dream. Regarding the offer, yeah, it's nice but too incredulous to take seriously, since the gamer dude's employment hinges on the remote possibility of some random guy he just met becoming a king. Better to keep his options open.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER ZI-O EPISODE 6 - ?555-913-2003?

And, hell, I can?t ever be too mad at an episode that tips in a bunch of goofy Faiz details: Takumi being unable to drink something hot; the dry cleaning points card; Takumi having Keitaro?s dream (!!!); Kusaka being a grim weirdo who makes everything worse, always, forever. I don?t even much care that they?re just Playing The Hits, you know? It?s probably not even as good as their emotionally-destructive reunion in the Heisei Vs Showa Taisen movie, really. (It?s hard to top Kusaka coming back from the dead specifically to tell Takumi to kill himself!) This is just Reunion Special stuff; low-impact. But I love Faiz, and I don?t care a whole lot if these guys want to just goof around for a week.

I actually think Takumi's and Kusaka's reunion in this arc is a lot more meaningful than mere fanservice. Like Takumi's line, "I hate you sometimes, Kusaka, but you're my friend!", you joked about it, but it shows that Takumi no longer holds any hard feelings towards him for everything he did. It fits with his philosophy in Kamen Rider 4, about living by your own means and dying with pride. He wants to stop Kusaka from throwing away his life the same way he used to.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER ZI-O COMPLEMENTATION PROJECT EPISODE 6.5 - ?THE SECRET OF FOURZE 555?

It?s great, though. Takumi and Kusaka?s increasingly thin attempts to connect Faiz and Fourze are a delight, nearly reaching the point of suggesting that cellphones send signals through space, and Fourze is a space Rider, so they?re totally connected. I could watch the two of them unconvincingly bullshit about Kamen Rider shows forever. Good bless these two lunatics.

Fourze also has a cellphone!

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

And look at that final (cursed) image!

Yay, friendship!

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Originally Posted by TheRaizin

I also think Geiz gets the better armors, him being red and his armors being mostly black makes his suits blend in well. I would've honestly loved a SHF of his Drive Armor. Sadly he only got the useless Genm armor.

Even though I prefer Zi-O's black suit on its own, I agree that Armor Times generally look better on Geiz's red suit. He also has the most Armor Times at the start, which I think highlights Zi-O's growing power as the tables start to turn and Geiz becomes more desperate to prevent the Day of Oma.

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Originally Posted by GrandComplete

But this right here is why I fell in love with ZI-O on the spot this scene to me speaks so much about Sougo and Geiz. Two different individuals across two different timelines declaring the same desires to stop a tragedy 15 years in the making. It speaks how at the end of the day these aren't so different but at the same time there not thwre to hear it from each other. And all of it was possible with Sougo giving the Faiz Ridewatch to Geiz so he can go to 2003 for this to all begin. And in this moment of great action, use of music (Over Quartzer is very hype song to me) and how badass Faiz Armor and it (accurate) finsiher from Geiz all makes for scene that made me go 100% on board from ZI-O till the very end.

The whole concept of defeating an enemy in the past to make them vulnerable in the future reminds me of certain boss fights from Final Fantasy XIII-2, so this is probably the first arc where I'm not complaining about how everything is so convoluted. I agree that this is definitely an establishing moment for Zi-O's story at this point and Geiz's epic speech to Ora is the first sign that he's more heroic than he appears on the surface. Over Quartzer makes it even more memorable, especially since I don't recall any other episodes using it as an insert, which is crazy, like, why only do it once?! I even manually inserted it in some later fight scenes to compensate.