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Kamen Rider Fourze Episodes 19 & 20: The Matchless Steel Dragon & The Universal Magnetic Force



Friends fight. It's inevitable when you spend so much time with someone, that you're going to disagree. It's Relationships 101, be it romantic or platonic. The trick is in how you handle it.

Kengo is jealous. He feels Gentarou doesn't care about him, is happy to replace him with Ryusei, who gradated top of his science class as Jeet-Kune-Do academy, and isn't getting what he wants out of the friendship anymore - the feeling his advice is worth something. It's why he falls in with Egawa so easily. But he's not a selfish jerk who just wants to be seen as the smartest. His envy stems from seeing Gentarou get hurt, and still make the choice not to listen. It's painful to watch his friend reject him so thoroughly.

Gentarou wants to give Kengo an easier life. He sees his best buddy struggle so hard for him, push his nebulous illness to the limits, to give them all a fighting chance. So when Ryusei shows up, he both wants to scope out what the new guy can do for the team, and give Kengo a break. After all, Kengo is so good to him, it's the least he can do. And when Kengo rejects him, he knows he can't just throw out a half-assed apology. He needs to make things right, which in this cas means fixing the Magnet MacGuffin, because thats what Kengou would want... right?

All the stuff around this, it works to facilitate the Gentaro/Kengo plot. Draco is less of a character and more of an obstacle to work around, but he's very jealous of other running squad members having friends. Ryusei is feeling like a natural fit this week, the rest of the gang show their worth in keeping the KRC functional even without their resident tech geek, and honestly, it's nice to see Meteor's plan of "I'll beat up the Zodiarts unless they happen to be one I like, then I'll let them go" backfire on round 2. I was worried him and Fourze would have petty fights over it for weeks to come. And Meteor states, while I still think it looks very goofy in how bulky it is, it's cool. It has a big horseshoe magnet cannon, how can it not be?