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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER OOO EPISODE 37 - “SLEEP, A HUNDRED MILLION, AND BIRTH’S TRANSFER”

The Yummy itself nicely has a personality, marrying Gamel’s dimwitted laziness to Mezool’s subterfuge and sneakiness to create a scheming monster that very much does not want to fight a superhero, and sort of resents OOO for showing up. It makes for a fun old-school monster to set up against Eiji and Ankh, even bringing back classic OOO tropes like not having the right Medals to counteract the monster’s strengths. (Eiji definitely needs to pay closer attention to the pre-show Medal roster! It’s there for a reason!) Everything about the Yummy plot here is like tokusatsu comfort food – clever action, fun jokes, and a low level of threat to keep everything from feeling too tense.

With you wanting for the MOTW stuff to be back here, wonder if there are fans that feel the same way regarding KR, especially those who still put W, OOO, and Fourze on pedestal. For this kind of Yummy, even the final form weapon Medagabryu (which should prevent OOO's body from making contact with the spikes due to having a weapon, despite a melee) is less effective than the ranged weapons like Kujaku medals or untransformed Goto with Birth Buster. With OOO having a hard time using melee attacks on the Yummy's spiked parts, I thought it's obvious that OOO has other forms and he can use ranged attacks so he won't get hurt, but perhaps he uses Medagabryu to prevent it escaping and catch the Yummy off-guard with it destroying it with the help of Unagi Medal?

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Because, y’know, we’re also in an episode where Date’s lead poisoning and desperate need for cash is stressing out Gotou and eventually -slash- unconvincingly causing Date to flip to Maki’s side of the battle. It’s a tough part of the episode to discuss, for a couple main reasons. The first is that we’re only getting Gotou and Eiji’s conjecture on Date’s need for cash, and it’s fairly colored by their own life experiences. Eiji immediately connects Date’s desire to his own, but it’s maybe flattering Date too much to be accurate. The other main thing is… I mean, do we really think Date straight up joined the Greeed? For even a second? It makes for a dynamic visual at the end of the episode, Date’s smug grin as he stands next to the villains, but it’s hard to accept. Much like Eiji’s view of Date is a little too generous, this version of Date depends on thinking the worst of him. You might’ve been able to sell this turn 10 episodes ago, but I think we’ve gotten a good enough read on Date to think that some deeper play is happening. We’ll find out next time!

The cliffhanger does seem to be menacing about Date pulling a heel turn, but you'd think it's unconvincing, despite how at first you seemed to view Date in a negative light as a flamboyantly selfish contrasting Eiji, which seems to finally happen here in him doing dirty work for money. This is a no-spoiler discussion, but before condemning Date as a two-faced person by this, would rather see how much'd he do in the villain's side to get what he wanted, like it depends on what he does rather than if he's joining the bad faction; if he'd attack and murder many, then yeah it's a heel turn, but if it's a facade, then it's another story, of which the latter is likely with Date usually being straightforwardly heroic like Eiji. Date is really closed-off about what he wants with the money, despite his symptoms now being obvious leading for Goto to become strict with him to focus on his life, and he ironically becomes reckless like Eiji regarding fighting as Birth and skipping check-ups. I wonder how'd Tamura fare when performing a surgery on Date's bullet injury of which many other surgeons are afraid to do so.