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Fun Fact: Nago's lucky button makes a cameo in Kamen Rider Drive as the piece of incriminating evidence that was used to convict Touma's murderer! I guess criminals buy their shirts from the same place, huh?



Fun Fact Part 2: Kiva and Drive are both Red Primary Riders while IXA and Mach are both White Secondary Riders. These shows are two of a kind!

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER KIVA EPISODE 28 - “REQUEST: TIME-ALTERING BATTLE”

Besides that, it was fine. The action sequences were fun (the Kengo/Wataru training scene was a funny diversion), and the additional clues in the mystery of Maya are sure to pay dividends (Taiga, the fact that Wataru’s mother gave him the button Nago gave to Maya in 1986), but I didn’t end up loving a lot of this episode. Everything with Maya was great, but I mostly didn’t buy into Nago’s arc over this story. When he does his little dance as Rising IXA at the end, I couldn’t figure out how the episode thought it’d earned that. It’s a story that clearly thinks its saying something profound about Nago, but it really just felt like a plot that went from A to A.

It may seem like a small development, but maybe Nago will give Wataru a chance after finding out that he might not be as innocuous as he assumed. Cause yeah, while there's some implications about Wataru's backstory in that scene with the button and Taiga, it's nothing we weren't already speculating about. The real significant change here is how that affects the relationship between Wataru and Nago and whether or not Nago will still be able to accept Wataru after coming closer to the truth about Kiva's secret identity.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

And parts of the collection I watched features a scene from an earlier episode (I assume 25) where it turns out Nago actually gives better romantic advice than Megumi.

Considering how much of a catch Nago was at the group date, I'm not surprised. Too bad he thinks romance is a waste of time.

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And can we talk about how, in saving Tanahashi from a lifetime of bitterness, Nago also spared a murder happy Fangire? Who knows how many people died in the new timeline that were alive in the original?

Oops!