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Okay now this is the two-parter in which I remember Terui rocking a blue jacket, the Liar Dopant two-parter definitely threw me off. Regardless, I definitely enjoyed my time with these and they definitely felt quicker to get through than the Jewel Episodes. It's a solid story with a very bold premise it wants to execute given just, the messy nature of the Sonozaki's in general. Especially since while the victim/Dopant of the week stuff is nice, it's very much set dressing given we're towards the end of the show here.

Shroud is still an amusing character to me, and while her backstory finally being unveiled adds some depth, it definitely just makes her more comical. Just on the obvious pointing out of her abandoning her daughters instead of you know, taking them with her (granted that would've still turned out terribly). Or moreover on how Terui is like "You really didn't want this to happen, you've still got a nice spot in you" when connecting the flowers at the grave and Shroud's spot. Which is more amusing given her more dangerous tricks which involve exploding mountains to make boulders rain down or lighting stuff on fire.

Or having a repaint of the Trigger/Skull Magnum that totally would have been sold on P-Bandai had this show aired in this day and age. The Shroud Magnum and Bomb Memory are so intriguing because I nearly forgot about them. But here they are, they exist, and I'm pretty sure they only existed for these episodes?

Speaking of merchandise alongside the era of which things came out, CycloneAccelXtreme. For something that only has a few frames in one episode to its name, they pushed it a lot compared to a lot of other Riders before/after it. It had Video Game appearances where it wielded the Engine Blade, pretty sure the old Ganbaride Cards had an instance of that suit on there too. But of course, there's also the S.H. Figuarts of it that they decided to do which is very much the biggest win I think this form can get. It's very compelling.