[DreadBringer]

Masquerade seems to be the easiest-owned Gaia Memory and the most mass-produced, but it's all quantity, the power-up is a letdown of only changing your head, so much that a gun can put them down too as Aya did. They're not even safe from the body being actually destroyed (as shown in Accel's Dynamic Ace Maximum Drive, 3 slashes that form the letter A)... but that'd mean a main Rider killed several humans? At least the numbers should still distract Accel enough for Himuro to escape, his death was unrelated as it's him encountering Triceratops Dopant.

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KAMEN RIDER W EPISODE 21 - “THE RETURN OF T - THAT MELODY DOESN’T SUIT A LADY”

It doesn’t help that we spend a ton of time to set up Detective Kujo’s backstory, lost love, and cast of victims in the first half of this episode. (For a story that feels like it’s going to tip too much into The Terui Show, this one goes all in on The Kujo Show.) It’s all sort of bland, and not exactly distracting – it’s pretty apparent from Kujo’s first appearance, right after the Triceratops Dopant splits, that she’s the mystery murderer. Everything after that just feels like it’s delaying the inevitable, and it doesn’t help this episode’s deliberate pacing. Tons of info to set up the motivation of a two-episode character, and it just doesn’t feel like time well spent.

And despite Aya claiming Mizoguchi got falsely accused due to them trying to discredit and eliminate him, suspecting Himuro and Akutsu behind that. Makura jumps to the conclusion that Mizoguchi is terrible for trying to get revenge and not abiding by the law to only apprehend culprits. This was something that is similar to what W claimed to Terui before. though he's right, he instead gets punched by Terui again, and Phillip explains that moral posturing can offend others. This shows that there are other things that need to be considered when saying something other than what you said is right; moral posturing is done to gain some advantage (and not necessarily supporting that viewpoint), like an effort to have people like you or admire you in some way...as this can apply to politicians, this is probably also the reason Miyabi from ep. 5-6 got hate.

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It’s not a total waste, though. The action’s strong, Mick shows up, Terui and Kujo have genuinely good chemistry, and I absolutely love that Shotaro’s way in to this story is that he just wants to humble Terui, the end. There’s some fun around the edges of this one, but the ratio of Fun to Kujo’s Life Story is way out of whack. At least they didn’t drag out the reveal of her being the Dopant past the cliffhanger?

For once, Shotaro and Makura can be on the same page. Makura has a crush on Aya, and wants to outdo Terui to show off to Aya, where Shotaro finally accepts the case to humble him. They even had a handshake. When Aya talks about her past with Mizoguchi and his whistling, Terui notes about his change to be consumed by revenge, which he likens to himself against W Memory user. Seems their similarity is only limited to how Aya and Terui are ace cops, though the only romance is Aya with Mizoguchi.

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DIE-A MEMORIES

-Like, I swear it’s not just me remembering how this one goes – it is SO OBVIOUS that Kujo’s the Dopant, and it made me roll my eyes when Shotaro’s like The Most Likely Suspect Is The Dead Man, Not The Alive Woman Who Spent Two Minutes Angrily Defending His Honor.

There's also Makura's crush on Aya amplifying his incompetence to blow their cover by immediately putting Akutsu under arrest, where he flees instead. This would get him appropriately reprimanded by his crush instead. Though Makura suffers from bad luck, he's also kinda a dick for a good amount of time, like that accusing or pushing Watcherman to the wall, which sometimes makes those deserved - like the slipper slap from Akiko for his behavior there. The cover was about how Triceratops has a completely male voice, albeit there's already a red flag in Aya telling the team to split up several times, and as she's not seen again, Triceratops appears, as well as the beginning where Triceratops disappears, then Aya appears. As well as Aya's right leg being injured after HeatMetal attacks Triceratops there.