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KAMEN RIDER FOURZE EPISODE 10 - “COLLISION IN THE MOONLIGHT”

Which is why this concluding chapter is so, so good. It’s small, in its scope if not in its setting. (Gentarou takes Tomoko to the moon! Ritsuko is going to blow up the school with a magic missile, just like Yuuki predicted! I guess we establish that Kamen Rider Stadium is next door to Amanogawa High!) Tomoko’s a girl that’s always wanted to be accepted for who she was, but when that seemed impossible, she wanted to escape instead: to the moon, or into someone else’s madness and vengeance. But people like Ritsuko never saw her, never wanted who she was. And yet on the moon, she found friendship instead of desolation and isolation, with a group of kids that wanted her to be herself, and in doing so make them all better. It’s a sweet little message – Be Yourself – that’s delivered with the appropriate level of teenage pathos to make Tomoko’s embrace of it feel like the truest victory of the story.

With power, it's easier to create impact on others not only about fighting monsters, but also, to change Tomoko for the better by giving her what she wants the easy way by just simply taking her to the moon, the KRC. What edgy teenagers are thinking is also often like this, where they don't feel belong in the world and want to escape including participating in something problematic (like said madness and vengeance here). I wonder what'd people like Miu or Shun did if they meet Tomoko before they met Gentaro and joined KRC. Felt that they can potentially look down on her as someone who doesn't belong, unlike now, which can mean that there's rehabilitation stuff due to meeting Gentaro that happened to those, where now, Gentaro combined with others opened Tomoko's eyes.

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And that’s no shade at the actual superhero fights in this episode, which nimbly correct my criticism about last episode’s blase treatment of Fourze’s new super form by letting its ability to defeat Ritsuko coincide with Gentarou’s acceptance of Tomoko. It’s cute, and I liked how Tomoko’s ability to pick up on it quickly established her as a useful member of the Club. Everyone got to contribute during the final fight, even if the kids had to stay up late to do it. (They all had a very long day!)

It seems that Tomoko is the overthinking and analytical type that has attention to detail, which I can relate here as also a reculse, dunno if this is often the advantage of these kind of people. Fire Switch isn't only about manipulating fire, but it also is actually immune to fire, rather than something that is vulnerable to attacks like usual despite producing fire.

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Also, man, you don't think Yuuki is going crazy yet? She almost joins a witch cult in this story!!!

I don't know if this talk here is allowed, but, even Fumika Shimizu herself is also one...