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Kabuto Episode 9
I think Tendou just saved Kagami. Why else would he let himself get hit by the Rider Sting?

Tendou has a way cooler looking bike then you Yaguruma.

Well it looks like he wasn't completely faking his injury. It also appears that I was correct about him saving Kagami instead of protecting himself. Good work Tendou for being a considerate helping member of society. You get a gold star and a pizza roll.

Oh my God, Tendou's really... Oh my God Tendou you're killing me. They set that scene up to be so dramatic and then BAM!, more hilarity from good old Tendou. You could rip his arm off and he'd probably act like it was nothing while helping orphans learn to ride bicycles. He's that awesome.

To be fair, you do need Kabuto. After all you're facing an army of Worms that seems to have unlimited soldiers, and it doesn't appear that they're running out anytime soon. The constant fighting is bound to wear both you and your troops down. So having another rider ready to go when you need a break probably wouldn't be that bad of an idea. And since at this point the only other rider is Kabuto and you just "eliminated" him, you kinda shot yourself in the foot there.

What are those things anyways?

Is there anything Tendou can't or won't do?

So how long until Tendou whips out a brand spanking new belt?

So going off of that, Tendou has had the belt since he was a kid? Was Zect even around back then? And if they were, were they making the rider system and the belts? The plot thickens even more in concerns as to how Tendou received his belt. A whole lot more.

How did the belt repair itself? Does Hiyori have magical techno powers to fix electronics?

This idiot is going to get him self killed.

Yaguruma is acting like a dick to be honest. He's letting his obsession with Tendou get in the way of his duties as the captain of Shadow. And just look at the results of him doing that, his team is getting slaughtered because he can't focus on helping them. Dude you may not have finished off Tendou and want to finish it right now, but focus on your damn team first and make sure they survive and that the worms they're fighting are dead.

Thank you Tendou for taking care of the Worms. Yaguruma sure wasn't going to do it.

Wait what? I don't get it. Why did TheBee Zector disengage from the henshin and abandon Yaguruma?

Man Kagami deserves a medal or something. He just went full on king kick ass on the Worms, and he's just wearing a suit and tie. He just outdid pretty much everybody in Shadow IMO. He's even giving out orders like a commander should in this situation, and he just got chosen to be the use of TheBee Zector. Kagami is just a total bad ass right now.

Even the bike can cast off? That's pretty damn cool. Not a big fan of how it looks in this stage though.

Well that was nine and it was fine. Okay I'm done rhyming now. But it was a very nice episode.

I'm going to start with character development because good lord was this an episode filled with it. The main receiver of development was definitely Yaguruma. He went from being one of the coolest and calmest cats around to being obsessive and quite agitated/angered. He let his anger and obsession with Tendou get in the way of his commanding duties which ultimately cost him his position as TheBee. Not only that, it disrupted his perfect harmony and since he pretty much left his squad behind, I think it's safe to say it soured their opinion on him. Kagami even got some development with getting a bit more brave and stronger. His goal of wanting to protect people lit a fire under his ass big enough to where he in a suit and tie rushed the Worm Carter Grayson style. That's quite the change compared to how he has been for most of the show so far. Heck even Hiyori and Tendou's relationship got a small dose of development. So needless to say this episode was running on all cylinders when it came to character development.

Moving on to the story, it once again was pretty good since it was tied straight into the development. As the characters developed, the story here moved right along to keep it all flowing well. The most interesting part to me was Hiyori's flashback since it does seem like Tendou might have saved her as a kid, or at least been at the scene (if it was Tendou, I now demand to see a little Kabuto). It obviously contributed to the main overarching of the story of the show with the whole switcheroo with TheBee Zector. Just like the story, I'd say that the story was pretty damn good this episode.

Now is usually the part where I say how while everything is seemingly running perfectly that one part of the episode dropped the ball on and makes the episode only near perfect. Unfortunately with episode nine that shit ain't going to fly. The action was as great as always and offered quite a bit of variety. We had rider on Worm fighting, rider on rider fighting, military force on Worm fighting, and even civilian on Worm fighting. It hit almost all the types of fighting you could have in an episode and did it superbly in my opinion. Like everything else this episode, the action is plain great.

I think it's clear what my final verdict of the episode is. It was hilariously entertaining, it nailed every single aspect of the triangle of importance and did so just amazingly well. It is for the moment the most perfect episode in Kabuto and one of the most perfect episodes of any Kamen Rider show I have ever seen (I'd even say it is the most perfect one I've ever seen). I enjoyed the hell out of it.