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Kamen Rider Fourze Episodes 17 & 18: Impact Of A Meteor & The Gen Ryu Battle



He's here! Our next Kamen Rider, and he's not here for your ideals of friendship!

Lets deal with the negative first. In exchange for the Meteor plot, the Switcher side of this episode feels undercooked. It doesn't do anything to tie into Ryusei's deal, like other "New KRC member" stories. He just hates Kengo for being smart, is fully willing to go full Horoscope, and that's a story that I thought Fourze would excel at that, being set in a school. But no, he just gets detonated by Fourze without any fanfare - we don't even see the Switcher wake up. It's clear that's taking a big backseet to dealing with Ryusei's whole deal.

Ryusei, he's interesting. I don't want to say self-centered, but he's very focused on his own goal. He doesn't care who Lynx hurts, only so far as he stands a chance to turn into Aries. He takes the KRC for a bunch of losers who are utterly ineffective against Zodiarts because they don't take it as surface-level seriously as he does. He complains that Fourze is an idiot whilst helping a mysterious guy in a mask try to make the obvious villains more powerful. He's willing to help Gentarou fight them, but his "Anti-Zodiarts" stance as mentioned by Tachibana from Daft Punk seems to be second-fiddle to his goal of "Fix Jirou". He's an interesting addition, to add someone so dupilcitous to the cast. He's like JK in his debut episode but slightly more noble! Looking forwards to seeing how long he can maintain his deception until someone figures it out.

(Also, Gentarou only making friends with someone who is 'true' to themselves? Pretty good choice. Gentarou is 100% the kind of guy who would see your worst impulses, and say 'As your friend, I see you doing this, and will help you out!')