[Kurona]

First of all, I want to note that GenmCorp were a LOT faster uploading subs this time -- only 6 hours after Izu in fact, and about 14 hours after the episode itself aired! It looks like they might be a quick option this time around rather than waiting until Monday as it looked last week. Jaws hasn't uploaded theirs yet but I assume it'll be either tomorrow or Tuesday, and I might just watch theirs too? Is this who I'm becoming now? The watch-multiple-times-for-different-subs girl?

Well, it's a good thing I'm definitely loving Revice enough to watch each episode twice! There's so many little things in this episode that added up to something crazy and something wholly unique from past series. I love how the toys have increased interaction with the real world outside the drivers and weapons (The ViStamp having Vice possess a bike! The phone gun being used as a gun by Fenix!), in a way that feels both downright Early Heisei yet also beyond even that. I love how the Remixes aren't, like, Revi and Vice doing a silly pose and that's supposed to be them combining into a dinosaur; no, it is literally just them doing a silly pose that somehow makes them more powerful, and it's barely pretending to be an actual animal! I love how Revi and Vice fighting around like idiots has them accidentally activate the driver! I love how utterly striking the OP is, how different it seems to everything around it.

Like... just in general, I love how much all these elements are highlighting the actual real humans here? After so many shows where everyone with the slightest plot relevance gets to be a Rider (unless they're a girl), you've got the OP focusing on the family; you've got grunts doing fighting; you've got normal people kicking and punching; you've got the ViStamps doing things not directly related to a Driver or a weapon finisher. It all feels so much more real and natural and well-integrated, which also feeds into how strong the characterisation for even minor players is so far.

I'm just... I'm really feeling it! I'm loving watching Kamen Rider again!!