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KAMEN RIDER W EPISODE 31 - “THE B BROUGHT BY THE WIND - TO PURSUE THE BEAST”

And it starts off so great for him! Here’s some gritty old guy (41 isn’t that old, but this dude plays it like he’s 60) that used to know Sokichi, and he needs Shotaro’s help. Dream come true! Shotaro gets to pal around with a real wethered tough guy who knew his mentor, gets to show off his hardboiled detective skills, gets to revel in the manliness of taking a fall for the woman you love, maybe even sock a crumb-bum in the kisser… it’s what Shotaro has been building up to for 30 episodes – this is his final form.

Other than it might being funny, Bitou does have an attitude problem which seems expected from someone imprisoned 10 years, but turns out he just took a fall for someone he's in love with, Suzuko. turned himself in Maruo's place. Sokichi not saying a word to him for that. For once, Shotaro didn't get hit by Bitou due to him being right, albeit Bitou's still gruff about it (him overall after 10 years sentence). Akiko found the bear carving, but Isaka as weather comes along to attack them again. The reason why Bitou always stands up for Suzuko, like Maruo's treatment of pushing him or Makura rejecting her answers.

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It’s really great to see, honestly. It’s a crucible for Shotaro, to work with a guy like Bitou who completely doesn’t care for his cosplay detective nonsense. Worse, it’s a guy who doesn’t care for it because he knew the guy that Shotaro’s pretending to be; this isn’t just some dismissal of Shotaro’s demeanor, this is a guy who is outright telling Shotaro that he doesn’t measure up to Sokichi. The dynamic arguably makes Shotaro even more difficult to work with than normal, since now he’s desperate to gain the approval-by-proxy of Sokichi by solving Bitou’s case. Just when Shotaro needs to be at his most collected and effective, he’s making half-boiled observations and blundering into a decade-old noir romance that he can’t seem to treat with the proper gravity.

So he has a gag similar to Akiko's slipper, finger snapping Shotaro between his eyes. Can't ever go right for him, as he got finder snapped for kicking him out for his suspiciousness, taking the case as it involves Sokichi for being a rookie, for mumbling out loud, for questioning the nickname of Bitou's circle, warning Bitou about Maruo. Except when Shotaro deduced that Bitou's in love with Suzuko. Makura also, as usual, got hit by this due to rejecting Suzuko's answer when interrogating.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

We are just instantly launching into Shroud’s Terrible Prophecy, and I’m okay with it? I like that, even though we don’t know exactly what’s happening, something is happening. This isn’t weeks of Philip fretting over Shroud’s insinuations while Team Double slowly buckles under unaired recriminations and terrible secrets – we are immediately in a story where Philip and Shotaro cannot act as Double, period. While it means we’re robbed of Double kicking ass this episode, it’s a fair trade-off for Philip’s anguished looks and a completely botched Maximum Drive. (In front of Isaka and everything! They’ll never hear the end of it!) The whole team is in the deepest of shit, and Shotaro might be the cause.

Demonstrated in the power surge of the Cyclone Memory? The trouble is more prevalent in the battle as the power surge on the right (Cyclone) side made W's power imbalanced, hindering their battle. Philip warns that Joker isn't powerful enough to be paired with Cyclone, but W tries Metal and it still fails to stop the imbalance. W de-henshins, but something strange happens to Phillip as he wakes up, but in an empty Gaia Library with W, but having a band of light down the middle of his body approaching, before he wakes up properly. Shotaro thinks Phillip only needs to tone Cyclone down, kinda dismissing the warning. Even trying FangJoker to get around the power surge, it still failed.