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Not sure! I think Heure's character is the most interesting of the Time Jackers, but he's so tiny. Like, smaller than Chalice tiny. Very difficult to not get weirded out by seeing an actor that small get roughed up by monsters.

He's literally a child compared to others, he was born in 2002. But where did you get Chalice tiny? Kenzaki was one of the taller main Rider actor just that.

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KAMEN RIDER ZI-O EPISODE 28 - ?OUR GOAL 2019?

As someone who only really cares about these shows when I can invest in the characters and their relationships (even if it?s just some random one-off story with guest stars), the epic conclusion to this story about Sougo and Geiz?z really real friendship was delightful. It?s a hard-fought effort to stop looking at haunted pasts or doomed futures, but to focus on the support and value of the present. There was a semi-healthy friendship that Geiz was blowing up because of what might happen in the future, and that?s a terrible way to live your life. It?s also a great way to get yourself killed, if you think so little of Right Now that you?re willing to use a deadly power-up just to save an uncertain future. Everything with the two of them in this episode worked for me.

For sure Sougo and Geiz part here is by far the best part, but it's about it being executed well rather than about it using characters and relationships. While the last few episodes has shown that Sougo has a capacity of evil, at least 2 traits in his hidden sinister manipulative side and his denial to his sorrow, Sougo is still most of the time a sweet and empathetic hero, and both traits there are also kinda solved with Sougo accepting his Mirror Self (dark side) and Junichiro reprimanding him for it. Everyone does have mistakes and bad choices, but doesn't mean that everyone is the same morally wise like lumping villains like Heure together with the heroes like treating his actions as "someone who just made mistakes before", mistakes are different from deliberately harming others and Heure has only done bad things before but now the Time Jacker "bond" has cracked to have him do something else. Sougo being actually sweet boy in the present, with the dark side still tiny for now unlike for Ohma Zi-O, eventually won over Geiz fully here, it has been clearly proven that Sougo most of the time puts others above him and does good things for them including Geiz.

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The other drawback is more slight, but I found the resolution to Tsukuyomi?s crisis of faith to be hilariously obtuse, with her basically saying that they should believe in Sougo because the Time Jackers might be up to something. This is? this is not new information! The Time Jackers have been up to something since literally the first episode! We still don?t know what, exactly, Swartz is up to, so Tsukuyomi reverting to Episode 24 Tsukuyomi as the result of more questions than answers feels hopelessly insufficient to the recent shift in the status quo. (I mean, there?s also Tsukuyomi seeing an 8-year old Sougo use his Time Powers to save lives, but: also not new information.) I probably laughed harder than Geiz and Sougo at her 11th-hour arrival to defuse a defused situation, since she might as well have arrived from an earlier, better point in her character arc.

This is a comedic moment yeah. I guess this also shows about how previously, as "Time Mom" in your terms, Tsukuyomi was the reasonable one in the group compared to the lazy dope Sougo and bullheaded oaf Geiz. But now, Sougo and Geiz has grown into a healthier, more well-adjusted individuals, thus now they don't seem "insane" anymore compared to her, added up to the fact that after they develop, the story focuses on uncovering Tsukuyomi's actual flaw, sloppy as it is, and while she returns now it's shown by her being now the one that looks bad compared to the previously more immature Sougo and Geiz. If you'd say Sougo's achilles heel was his optimism, Tsukuyomi's kinda the same, she was won over by Sougo far faster, but that'd be the one that made her put him on pedestal, and had her judgment blinded, with her optimism and gut feelings. Other than that it's new info for Swartz (him alone, not other Time Jackers) actually choosing Sougo to be the candidate for the king, not trying to disable Ohma Zi-O, and Sougo was someone special if he can use time powers without Kamen Rider powers and as a child.

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Another Zi-O didn?t really become anything worth caring about (the show never found any nuance to his grudge that?d help it cover four episodes), but he certainly allowed for an epic battle! The fire of Geiz and Sougo?s reaffirmed friendship (shut up, Geiz, you were already friends) was so hot it melted a snowy parking lot, which is pretty goddamn special. Their teamwork through the Another Rider battle royale was exquisite, with them coordinating attacks and sharing power-ups. Just a great front-to-back action sequence of two Rider Bros overcoming the odds for a well-deserved victory.

If this is the last time Hiryu's gonna be seen, then yeah I'd say his resolution isn't really handled well that after some build up, it's just simply Sougo telling him to get over it (but in a nice way) in face of heavy emotional burden. But this isn't the last of Hiryu that'd be seen, he's already shown to be petty and spiteful here, but well, I posted a picture of Narutaki before regarding his talk. Their battle, it shows that Sougo and Geiz are actually unstoppable as teammates, it can be argued that they spent a good amount of their screentime being at odds with each others (one sided, and then it's circumstancial for Geiz's fight as Geiz Revive, not out of hatred anymore) to practically nerf their capabilities! They also defeated Another Zi-O and his entire army while they're injured too!

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I?m more excited for the future than I am for this episode, which is maybe the exact wrong lesson to draw from it. (Sorry, Sougo!) I love that Team Zi-O is back together under one roof, and that Woz is officially part of the team, and that Geiz hates it. The road to get here was bumpy, though, so I don?t love that part. The Time Jacker stuff is still nebulous, Hat Woz is still vaguely untrustworthy, Tsukasa is still the Wild Card who coasts on charisma in lieu of a coherent strategy, and the last four episodes of Tsukuyomi?s arc is something I am going to erase from my brain at the end of this sentence. But Geiz and Sougo?s friendship! Boy, that?s worth at least four uneven episodes.

White Woz is not 'still', as I said before White Woz is more rotten than he appears. He doesn't actually have a sympathy towards even Geiz. He only cares about Geiz killing Sougo so his timeline comes to pass, otherwise he'd let Geiz perish by his hyped up power. White Woz also refered to Geiz as "my savior", which literally means only a personal savior for him only as in making his timeline a reality, others who suffer from this be damned. He even now refered that his envisioned world would only benefit the few, likely only him! It was a spoiler before, but not anymore, the main problem in the world White Woz envisioned isn't Geiz or his psychological and emotional issues, but White Woz himself. Regarding Tsukasa here, his portrayal here is quite sinister, he'd still go through drastic way to destroy the world if Sougo does ended up become Ohma Zi-O as if he was talking about the weather. He had completely calm expression as bus driver before because he doesn't seem to really care for those children (or their parents) on the bus. For erasing Tsukuyomi's arc lately... dunno if that actually does play a part on Geiz's praise of Sougo's morals here, which seemingly is done on different level compared to Geiz's feelings to Tsukuyomi.