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KAMEN RIDER REVICE: THE MYSTERY EPISODE 3

I love that the Terui/George side of things is just a grumpier, more emotionally distant version of the Shotaro/Philip dynamic from W. Terui’s all DON’T YOU CARE ABOUT PEOPLE’S LIVES, while George is geeking out over all the cool new mad science he’ll get to do in violation of God’s will. It’s a conflict between facts and empathy, yet it might actually have cracked this case. Very fun homage to the original Kamen Rider detective duo.

So this'd be several times that George's suspicious behavior is actually pointed out in the series, where I always felt that people overlook that (though not entirely) just because George is a help to the protagonists. He has not gotten official villain status at this point unlike Kuroto, but still, not all people who aid the good guys are also good (the assumption at this time).

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Also, Kaido is Kaido! I’d sort of assumed he was, despite the pseudonym, but I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it’s actually the character from Faiz, not just another guitar-playing weirdo for the actor to elevate. Just a nice little beat. I like when characters I like get to show up again! I’m easy!

Adds up to the returning characters after Terui, Oren, etc. Though Kaido's looks are really different now compared to the past, the other one that I can consider similar was only Asakura from Ryuki.

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There’s basically no real mystery-solving going on at the lodge? The brainpower, when it comes to actual investigation, is all happening outside the locked-room murder mystery part of the project, and it’s an element that is the most standard Kamen Rider plot imaginable. Hunting Down A Monster is… it’s not exactly a mystery that necessitates placement in the title? That’s something that could be in not just any Revice episode, but any Kamen Rider episode. The twist for this one was supposed to be trying to catch a killer in a remote lodge, not running around the city, collecting clues in an abandoned lab. It’s disregarding the rules of an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery, and it makes the story more generic for that change.

So just like Beyond Generations, comedy aside, I do feel that Hiromi is more standoffish and hostile in this part than his usual portrayal, though this makes sense with him being made "OOC" due to Suzu. Otherwise this part just feels like some prejudice of viewing Kaido lowly because he's a monster, though finally the sand is referenced in this episode as Orphnoch's remains, when it's actually from Orangutan Deadman.