[Nokination]

So, we're here, the final episode, I'll start right off the bat by saying that this is a pretty good episode, not my favorite in the series, but still good, I can't say I was too disappointed with it, but it makes you wonder what they could've done without the Covid delays. Now onto the actual episode, Aruto and Horobi begin their fight and it looks pretty good, I've complained quite a bit about fights in this series, but for this episode, I'm fine with them. Aruto and Horobi argue with each other's points while fighting, with Aruto even agreeing with some of Horobi's points (yeah, Aruto, maybe you shouldn't be agreeing with the villain who you are also trying to stop/kill).

The other three riders try and think of a way to stop the fight, with Yua trying to restore Jin to see if it could stop Horobi, which really just proves how pointless Jin dying really was, when he's able to be brought back in such a short span of time that he'll be back before the fight ends. We then find out that Aruto apparently wants Horobi to defeat him.

So I guess Fuwa did somewhat get through to him, but apparently not enough for Aruto to not still go and fight Horobi and start an entire war, but I guess it's fine since Horobi is supposedly the only one who can stop him (clearly he still has some control of his body, so couldn't he just throw away the Progrisekey?) Horobi manages to defeat Aruto (and destroy the Ark driver too), and we see that Aruto is doing this to try and 'show Horobi what the heart is' which is a sentence that doesn't really make much sense when you think about it, and also sounds very cheesy, but it does sound like the kind of thing I'd expect to hear from Zero-One, so I guess it's alright?

We then get to see Aruto's father saying a lot more sentimental stuff, so that's cool, I guess. Zea also makes Aruto a new driver (is this the final form of Zero-One? Is Zero-Two the final form? Is MCH the actual final form because it was the last one on the actual Zero-One driver? These are questions that will plague your mind so don't think too hard about them). Horobi then realizes that he's being hypocritical, since he is really furious at Aruto for killing Jin, when he's no better for killing Izu.

The two of them then proceed to sort of argue, even though they both believe in the same thing, they then proceed to transform, with Aruto going into his new 'Realizing Hopper' form (which is possibly the greatest and stupidest name to come out of this show), and as I said before, don't question whether this is his final form or not.

They then punch each other for a bit, as you do when your entire worldview has been shifted in a Kamen Rider show, they use their finishers on each other and it's pretty cool. Then everything is good again, yup, no war happened, everyone's doing good, and there's nothing to be worried about. You'd think that's joke, but nope, everything's good now, no time is needed to see even just the HumaGears realizing (I don't ever want to say that word again) that Aruto didn't betray them, but nope, there's no time for that, though that's not really anyone's fault, considering Covid, but it's still a bit too rushed for my taste. Wait, Gai now has 5 dogs, and we get to see Thouser again! I was kidding this is an amazing finale and a terrific way to close out on Zero-One.

Oh, right, there's still time left in the episode, we now see what everyone's up to, Yua and now Naki are doing A.I.M.S work, Fuwa is helping people and I guess doesn't have a job? That's a strange future for him, Horobi and Jin are doing the same thing, but it makes sense that they wouldn't have jobs, since they were both previously terrorists and are HumaGears. Then we get.. some incredibly obvious movie bait, which must've been very annoying when watching this weekly and having to wait several months before the movie would come out.

We finally end off with Aruto making a new Izu, who has none of the memories and merely looks the same and acts the same as pre-Singularity Izu, which I know some people really don't like, but I personally don't mind it. And that's it for the show, it's a bit weird to know that it's over, I've left messages here since episode 17 and so even though there's still more side content left, it's a bit melancholic to see the show go.

All in all, my final thoughts on this episode, it's pretty good (aside from the Thouser scene which was perfect), and my thoughts on the series as a whole, it's pretty great, a few shortcomings and Covid definitely didn't help the show, but I can't help but love the show either way.