[Kamen Rider Die]

MASKED RIDER AGITO EPISODE 41



A lot of housekeeping in this one. I mean, it was still utterly delightful, but it's mostly folks getting on the same page and bits of backstory being revealed.

It's all done with such style, though. That Shouichi/Hikawa scene, it's all just each of them telling each other things the audience already knows, but when they're telling it while eating between one and two ice cream cones each, it becomes sublime. It takes a boring, perfunctory scene (they've got to learn all this information onscreen at some point in order to operate effectively as a team) and sprinkles enough lunacy on it to make it fun to watch.

The hospital stuff has some of that same energy. It's a bunch of pairings we haven't gotten before, Hikawa/Ryou and Kino/Shouichi, and it's all just dialogue scenes, but they way each pairing's scene rhymes with the other one, same shots, same staging, same cadence, it's easy to forget that nothing's really happening.

But, I guess, enough things are almost happening to make this episode a good one. We're nearly to an actual Team Agito, Spooky Man's plan/goal/motivation is almost fully explained, we're edging closer to getting the full deal on Truegami and the Akatsuki-gou... even Shoucihi may've gotten Rider Kicked into getting his memories back! Everything's falling into place, and Agito's final string of episodes feels like it'll be a good one.

Oh, wait, no Houjou or Ozawa in this one, F-, Agito is cancelled.