[Fish Sandwich]

While only a bit of it is actually used in the opening scene with King stealing Otoya away, I'm happy to use that as an excuse to share this awesome track, which is perfect for all those fight scenes that just aren't going great for the good guys.

...And because I'm just all about those low energy tracks, here's a short but sweet one featured in quite a few of Kiva's talky scenes, including Taiga's latest attempt to win Wataru over to his side here. I mean, I say "low energy", but it's a piece all about creating a sense of gradually rising tension, rather than the typical melancholic stuff I'm always choosing for these, which makes it a bit more unique.

I think the thing about this episode I noticed that I'm most excited to point out is how the year Yuri died written on her grave is conspicuously covered up by flowers when its shown, which is more than a little adorable.

Beyond that, I mean, I definitely see where Inoue is coming from with wanting to tie Shima and Taiga's backstories together and how all this plays into the central themes of the show, giving them another angle to explore the whole human/Fangire divide from and everything, but... yeah, I can imagine it being a little hard to care too much when it's still got that fundamental hurdle of involving Shima, a guy who has so far been most notable in this thread for his consistently questionable management skills, and very little else.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

First, we get another monster where I assume the name is based on the Kanji (it’s based off a seagull)

Nope! This time it's simply named after the sungazer lizard! It's worth noting that there aren't any Fangire based off of birds, because they're also all based on birds.

I forget if this has come up in the thread at all or not , but for reasons I'm unclear on, every single Fangire works in a bird of some sort somewhere in their design, and apparently that has something or other to do with the "true names" that you've been sharing for each of them. (Hence the "water surface" bit here, for example? I think?) The whole concept is so insane I struggle to properly grasp it, but man, overly inventive design work like this is such a lovely thing about Kamen Rider. Stained glass monsters was already creative enough! You didn't have to go this far!