[Fish Sandwich]

Finally watched Kamen Rider Snipe Episode Zero. I deliberately waited until all four parts were out to watch any of it and I'm glad I did, because it works way better as a single narrative. It's also extremely good. Taiga's backstory was naturally ripe for drama and the bits of this story you didn't get in the show really add a lot. It's shocking to me to be watching anything where I found our old pal Dan to be an extremely effective and menacing villain instead of a clown, for one. The closest thing I have to a complaint is that the edit of Excite they used for the opening has an extremely awkward cut at one point.

There's a strangely ambiguous ending that I could see rubbing some people the wrong way, but other than that, it's solid gold. They even remembered to keep up the Ex-Aid spin-off trend of pouring ketchup on stuff, as you can in the screencap above. Although strangely enough, despite being the gritty origin story for Taiga, there's significantly less blood than most of the other ones. It's got nothing on the Brave special, that's for sure.