[Androzani84]

Well, we’re at the episode that TV-Nihon used for their April fool’s post in 2021. I have some rather scattered things to discuss relating to it.

First off is a tweet I found where someone in the Japanese fandom added their own silly caption to one of the promo pics. I don’t have the URL to the tweet, but I do have a screenshot of the Google translated version, which I used to present the joke here.



“Kento-san, give that back!”
“I’m sorry Ren, but this book has to be sealed.”
“Seriously! Even though it’s Mei-chan’s gravure debut!”

And we meet our last Rider, in the form of Reika’s older brother Ryouga. While I’ve saved the best I have to offer about him for later, I do have a funny anecdote about his name, which caused the show to trend among Yu-Gi-Oh fans for a weekend.

Ryoga Shindai's name shares the exact same kanji (神代 凌牙) as Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal's Reginald “Shark” Kastle (also known as Ryoga Kamishiro in the manga and Japanese version).(Hilariously enough, both Ryoga and Reginald are antagonists who have younger sisters). Toshiki Masuda (Shark’s Japanese VA) noticed Ryoga's name was trending out of nowhere and curiously tweeted about this asking why.

His character’s onscreen sister Megumi Han also commented about the trend (wondering if this Ryouga had a younger sister), but I can’t find that tweet either (having some trouble in that department, it seems).