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Kamen Rider Revice Legacy: Kamen Rider Vail

Part 2

As this centers outside of Noah, more of Junpei's personality is shown here in the daily talk against someone, as someone only driven by revenge and has lost his meaning of life by that, he's a lone wolf type and would show some coldness and aloofness. It's explainable with how NOAH treats him, but his vengeful side seems to be purely his own, as that time he was eager to fight the devils, instead of obeying NOAH. Other than that, he seems to be enhanced as Vail with his wounds healing quickly. Not that it applies to his scent too however. He doesn't seem to be much superior to the NOAH soldiers that fought him, so he's probably at best slightly superhuman in physical stats at that point.

I think Genta's quest for revenge could be meaningless, since Episode 31 revealed that the red devil is Vail himself, due to Akaishi calling him by name. Of course, that means Genta's only memory of the red devil murdering his parents is impossible, since Vail didn't exist until after Genta's operation. Vail might be screwing with his memories the same way Vice did to Ikki, but this time to further his yandere agenda of presenting himself as the only one Genta needs.

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It now centers around the buildup of his relationship with Yukimi as she helped him out from the debris and took him to the similar-as-ever-in-the-past Happy Spa. True to how "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree", Yukimi showed traits that is seen in her future children, seen in her cooking being about spicy curries like Sakura's, as well as her being a #1 busybody like Ikki's, none for Daiji's yet. I guess it makes sense now on how she was fiercely overprotective against Sakura becoming a Rider, she resembles Ikki the most at the first place. That'd make her kind and helpful...
b̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶s̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶n̶ ̶J̶u̶n̶p̶e̶i̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶R̶i̶d̶e̶r̶ ̶s̶u̶i̶t̶, albeit with some wild and savage traits too, she's saving the day with traditionally feminine role to Genta, but Ikki's busybodiness is seen as a wrong trait in the main series, so if Yukimi's like him too she should've been given a lesson too, but I don't think it'd happen for 5-part only unless it's mentioned offscreen if Yukimi can be a main guide to her children.

If the negative side of Yukimi's busybody trait isn't addressed in the spin-off, then we can probably assume she experienced her own development for that sometime in the 25 year interval. The only development she got so far was in Episode 17, where she learned to stop being so overprotective of her grown-up children and start believing in them. That's not necessarily a bad thing though, since it shows that Yukimi is already a very emotionally mature and sensible person, to only need that one episode of development. Someone needs to hold that crazy family together. I think this is what makes it such a sweet love story, about a kind girl like Yukimi trying to tame a vengeful devil human like Genta to become the family-loving man we know in the present.

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Actually Masumi's conscience kicked in earlier than I thought, I thought he felt regret as he grew older and a bit wiser, but actually he already objected as a young man here against Agariyama, who's shown to be completely ruthless in reaching his goals, experimenting on various people without blinking an eye despite that all of them except Junpei are killed. That'd mean he might've obtained more victims than Olteca with Junpei being numbered 71. He'd also capture someone innocent just because she interacts with Subject 071 and would soon consider him a failure as well, Junpei's second chance is given without freedom.

Yeah, there could be up to 70 of those identical rust-colored devils that NOAH are forcing Genta to destroy, all of them his unlucky predecessors in the experiment to create a perfect devil human. Not sure about Olteca but it's interesting you bring him up, since Vail did sense the power of the devil inside him. Just speculating, but maybe his mother was also a partially successful experiment and escaped or something.