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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It’s weird how little impact the Ren stuff had for me this episode, though. Some of that’s because the other stuff popped way more, but some of it’s because we just haven’t seen the consequences of Ren’s actions yet.

Shinji and Yui do have their hands full with Ren and Asakura this episode, so hopefully Auntie isn’t too put out. (That tea shop is empty 90% of the time, so I’m not sure what her problem is.) It’s not really a lot of story spent with them, as they’re pretty much just reacting to whatever else is going on.

Hmm.. this one's actually more of Shinji and Yui's stuff first rather than Ren's (who's still in set-up). Ren's still a self-destructive Rider because throughout the episode he never knows about Eri until at the very end, after that he started to seemingly change his stance. Other than that Ren's also too heavily injured to fight. Ren somehow gets to know Eri news by himself? As what's seen on screen was Yui slapping him (and the 2 insisting him not to fight) before leaving away.

There's a bit of both of them trying to help the victimized cops but not having enough time (especially with their slow af kei car to catch up against Ren's bike, and somehow they're able to!), but I wonder how to spend more story with them in this situation, your thoughts? The only other one following was ORE (Megumi and Reiko, the latter knowing newspapers on the van) and probably other news press with a breaking news shown on TV where poor Okubo can't get a hold on this. Besides yeah, Shinji needs to get a car (and unknown how) to transport more than 1 person as shown here, he can't do that in his bike.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

The Asakura/Everyone Else story, though, hot damn. It’s just great sequence after great sequence, as Asakura schemes and threatens and assaults his way to freedom.

This shows that calling a Contract Monster isn't only done by slotting the Advent Card as a Rider, and once again Asakura feeding his Contract Monster to regular humans (and yeah, truly Mirror Monsters can eat more than 1 people at once!). Surely Asakura is a great fighter of him handling 8 cops (not every in Japan!) at once, though I wonder how that holds up to Riders that can knock down Mirror Monsters (there are no fodders of them this far) in human form, like Shinji himself, his opponent.

Probably you're joking here but wasn't Sanako like, the one that also fears Asakura ("that felon")? She worries about the jailbreak, requests to close Atori, attempting to fight him off outside (wtf), and thought he's the one killing everyone on the ferry (plausible assumption tbh, but still shows how she views him). By that she surely will pull the trigger out!

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

First it’s questioning a completely wrecked Kitoka and Goro about whether they’d seen Ren, in a typically priceless scene. Once Ren gets news from Yui, though, it’s pretty much just Ryuki versus Ouja with a final assist from Tiger.

Well, poor Kitaoka and Goro (and Shimada), though the latter 2 kinda brought that to themselves by keep going and have fun, where somehow Megumi is still fine and fresh. I guess the only reason Kitaoka can't leave was Goro staying there. Not helped by Shinji keep pestering and being a bit loud to Kitaoka in that state. Kitaoka's completely right about criticizing a journalist missing a huge news like this. And Goro also confirms Kitaoka's Rider activity now. As already said by others it's Shouchi on TV.

As for the fight itself, it once again shows the superiority of Survive form! This time Ryuki's. A Heavy Pressure (Metalgelas) Final Vent is just merely swatted away by Ryuki's Guard Vent (which functions similar like Advent? And MW subs got it wrong! See the pic below). Asakura also pulls his own trump card of Unite Vent to Genocider, but that only upgrades the monster, not the Rider himself, who Ouja has been shown to lose badly to a Survive in a direct combat like Knight in ep. 24. Oh I did say that Final Vent one shots everything in contact (sorry maybe bad English after this)... but only in a complete attack, not interrupted ones like Ouja kicking Destwilder. Tiger's Final Vent is completed the moment the dragged victim gets stabbed by Tiger himself. And also for Ryuki vs Ouja one, Dragranzer hits Ouja's body, not touching his Metal Horn (the attack). For a sneaky guy like Tiger, to balance they probably purposely made his Final Vent being more impractical (overall worse), to keep the Riders alive as they have a chance to free themselves from his Final Vent. Though Ouja still did get attacked in a nasty way interruption aside, he got KOed, where despite the easy chance, Shinji still only keep him in custody.