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Ugh...

This entire episode felt like a waste of time. Onari taking over Alain's body accomplished absolutely nothing beyond getting Takeru injured, the show is still wasting time with victims of the fortnight, the whole battle to shut down the server accomplished nothing, and the whole battle to shut down the real server accomplished less than nothing since it gave Adel an opening to gain full control. Takeru and the others may as well have just sat around with their thumbs up their butts for all they actually accomplished here.

And no, Ghost, you cannot suddenly start implying some kind of importance for Takeru's mother when you've gone 43 episodes without mentioning her existence.

And no, you also cannot suddenly pull the the girl and androgynous person from the web videos into the show like they're actually involved in all of this somehow. That is bullshit and you know it.

I've tried to be less hard on this show after getting called out on my harshness a few weeks ago, but this episode was just plain terrible. The only thing it actually managed to achieve was cementing Onari as the single worst character in the history of Kamen Rider. He's worse then Shunpei, he's worse than late-series Yuki, he's even worse than the stupid photographer from early Skyrider. Those were all terrible comic relief characters, but at least they never actively interfered in the Riders' ability to do their job. Fuck this asshole.

The last four episodes of this trainwreck cannot go by fast enough. At this point, the only way to salvage this series is for Shibuya to remember that he's really Ryotaro, pull out the Den-O belt, and reveal that this was all just a really weird Chou Den-O project.