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I waited to give my thoughts on 24 because I couldn't remember if the next episode gave an explanation for Tatsulot or not. Nope. Just another case of random shit happening on Kiva. Emperor Form, for the record, has grown on me a lot. I've always had two major issues with it. The first is the overuse of it from this point on at the expense of Kiva's other forms. There's a behind the scenes reason for that, though. The other - and this is really nitpicky - is that I don't love the gold. It's too bright. I would have preferred a more subdued shade; this color always looked too much like plastic to me.

As for the song? It's good. It's not Believe Yourself, but nothing else is.

Now for 25, I'm enjoying seeing the show ramping up some of its subplots. Emperor Form hasn't done much for Wataru yet, aside from giving him another bath buddy (as a side note, I'm really curious about how waterproof the DX Kivat and Tatsulot toys were). We're getting a lot more cool stuff with Mio now and Bishop is here to add another high level Fangire to the mix.

The '86 side is where we really start seeing some changes in the show's status quo. Jiro's gone, Otoya is Ixa, and Yuri has made the highly questionable decision to be in love with Otoya, who is already drifting towards Maya instead. I feel so bad for Yuri at this point. First her creepy boyfriend turned out to be a monster with serious consent issues, and now her new boyfriend is getting mesmerized by someone else. In fairness, she really should have seen this last one coming considering Otoya is, well, Otoya. I can't help but feel for her, though, given that Otoya barely had time to digest that omelette rice before he was off running around with Maya, headlong into another one of Inoue's beloved amnesia stories.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

P.S. I don’t know if anything in this show has made me laugh as hard as this episode remembering Shizuka exists:

My favorite part of this is that Wataru and Mio both completely ignore her like she isn't even there.