[DreadBringer]

Kamen Rider W(atch)

Weather Arc

Episode 33-34: Y's Tragedy

Y stands for Yesterday (Dopant) and Yukie (Sudo).

Written by: Kazuki Nakashima, Directed by: Hidenori Ishida

/The Woman Looking For Yesterday

A female client named Yuuko Fuwa, apparently gorgeous enough for Shotaro to fancy over her, asked for the Agency's help to find her cat named 'Kinou' (Japanese word for 'yesterday', and hilarously gets translated to local language too in my airing). As Akiko questions Shotaro to take a lost pet case, Shotaro apparently have learned a thing or two from Bitou, to finger snap Akiko for underestimating the case, as the cat also had precious memories for the owners (really? for someone who previously won't make dolls cry?), so Shotaro had something to counter against Akiko's slipper (and appreciate balanced slapstick between men and women). Yuuko is relieved that the Agency lives up to her hype as her friend told her to go there to ask for help. Phillip takes an interest about Shotaro's type of girl being Yuuko, from how Shotaro wears favorite hat for that case, while Akiko can only irrationally processing a half-boiled idiot 'hitting puberty', though the big problem for her is about Shotaro might not charging her. Well, at least before Shotaro forces Fuyumi from ep. 15-16 to turn herself in after her case. Meanwhile Terui, Jinno, and Makura ask Eisuke Nishiyama about his workers Takeshi Hirabayashi who purposely walked into traffic and someone else who was speeding at a narrow corrider, where both had hourglass-like mark. As a real estate owner, Eisuke would possess a lavish lifestyle where those got blurred on my airing; drinking beers, having beautiful servants serve him, and having a penthouse, of which he tell the cops that yesterday he was swimming in his private swimming pool. Turns out that Eisuke himself is a victim too like his co-workers, he went to do the exact same thing in the present, but by jumping on a top of a building. Terui at least now adheres to the cop's law to go save a suspect, and notices that Eisuke had a hourglass mark as well.

Shotaro, Akiko, and Yuuko are looking for Kinou around the Fuuto Hall, until Yuuko comes across a poster about an event organized by Saeko, but she claims to Shotaro as being interested in Fuuto-Kun mascot. Shotaro still remembers Kirihiko's last moments of giving him the Fuuto-Kun keychain, but he only agrees with Yuuko here. As they haven't found the cat yet, Shotaro applies Sokichi's teaching to think like someone you're looking for.. of which Shotaro pretends to be a cat here. It's literal-minded take and just making yourself look like a fool (this time the mockery of Shotaro's detective work is warranted), and Akiko hits him with her slipper for this as Sokichi's advice can only be applied to people. However Yuuko agrees with Shotaro's approach, to try all the possibilities, of which Akiko, being the sane one for once here, sarcastically remarks that they're a perfect team. Meanwhile Wakana reports about Saeko's (a speech for Museum's front Digal Corporation as its CEO) event being targeted, but Saeko and Isaka's nonchalant reaction as it's a habit of Saeko's work instead made Wakana mopey and leaves, thinking back about Ryubee asking only her to witness the burst of Xtreme's datas. Isaka even burns the threatening letter... using Weather Dopant's powers. It's like Miyabi's challenge in ep. 5-6 of being hated as a politician and that they have to take it to be accomplished, but taken to a dark degree here (not that Miyabi was clean) due to the target being a supervillainess and thus can outright eliminate threats.

In their search of the cat, Shotaro encounters a Dopant with an hourglass in the head. He henshins with Phillip as W and jumps from the top of a high building to the ground. W changes to HeatMetal... ironically when the Dopant keeps W at bay with ranged attacks. The fight continues into a conference hall, albeit they're closed for now, thus no people will be harmed. Potential collateral damage still can happen though. W tries to use CycloneJoker's Joker Extreme, but the Dopant dodges again, hitting the podium instead. But the Dopant ends the fight that time, escaping outside of W's reach. At the sunset in the same place, Yuuko appears, apparently having retrieved Kinou by herself, but still thanked Shotaro. Shotaro warns her to go home for safety as Akiko tries to charge her. Seemingly a typical happy ending and case closed right? Reminder that this is still (sorry Shotaro) half of the episode, not to mention Yuuko made a claim about the tomorrow being interesting. Tomorrow starts with Saeko inviting Wakana to join her speech event, and convinces the threat as a test of will to run their family's business. And for the Agency, Shotaro is acting as if Yuuko assigns him to find Kinou, which earns a mockery from Terui where Phillip's intelligence are the only needed help. Just after Phillip himself realizes that Shotaro's kindness is needed... After enjoying Akiko's coffee which she timed in the drip, Phillip and Terui talk about hourglass mark victims, which Terui reported that all of them survived, but are in coma. Saeko starts her speech, about the power of information and future of Fuuto, which was true as it was the reasons W Xtreme was more threatening in battle other than stats. Then it's shown that Yuuko was actually the Dopant W fought before, and her Memory name is Yesterday, which she uses to mark her victims with the hourglass mark, including Shotaro now.

After being marked, Shotaro began acting exactly the same as him in the beginning of the episode with the same words, and causes a misunderstanding from Terui who thinks Shotaro mocks him. Well, Terui kinda already mocked him before though. Phillip learns about Yesterday power of manipulating the memories from someone with a mark, named Yesterday brand, to repeat their activites from.. well.. yesterday, also explaining Yuuko victim's activities from previous day before they got into coma. Akiko is obviously puzzled again by Shotaro's actions, which aren't even sane to begin with last day, as Phillip informs her about his situation. Like Yuuko's previous victims, Yesterday's power almost doom Shotaro as he jumped from high building previously as W, which he repeats here in human form, where Akiko had to inform Phillip to henshin to save Shotaro from heights. Shotaro repeats his movements as W until the conference hall, and this time, W uncontrollably attacked the huge crowds of people who are listening Saeko's speech, though fortunately none are injured as they escaped. As Terui catch up, he suspects that Yesterday Dopant wants to assassinate Saeko, which W almost did with Joker Extreme he aimed at podium previous day. Terui henshins as Accel and deflects the attack, pushing W aside from Saeko. Don't know what's the deal with Saeko here, brushing off Wakana who tries to pull her and didn't move a single inch in human form. Accel forces W outside and Phillip uses Xtreme to neutralize the Yesterday brand. The Yesterday Dopant arrives, and luckily W retains his Xtreme form, and as a final form, easily gains the upper hand as Yesterday escapes. But Accel stops her as they've figured it out. Yesterday reverts to human form, revealing her true identity (and true name being Yukie Sudo, Kirihiko's little sister) in front of the main cast. Though Shotaro assumes that she wanted revenge to the Museum, apparently what she wants is to become a member of the Museum and surprass her brother. As she turns into Yesterday again to bombard W, Xtreme shows off his power by not just blocking all of them with the shield, he can even prepare his Maximum Drive which slots 4 Gaia Memories uninterrupted. Though funnily (or it's further show-off), he uses the close-ranged Bicker Charge Break instead of the far-ranged Bicker Finalusion.

/Brother & Sister

But before W's attack connects, Yukie reverts into human form, where predictably Shotaro would stop his attack for that. Yukie walks away laughing, and Terui calls out Shotaro for stopping, as Phillip confirms that she took advantage of Shotaro's mercy to humans, which means she's very sharp. So apparently despite Terui resorting to arrest some of the previous Dopants like Fukushima, he'd still prefer if Shotaro finished Yukie off here. Phillip continues his observation about Yukie that she was just testing the cast to see through her or not, and they failed. Yukie had used W to almost harm innocent people. However Shotaro still catches a hint of redemption in Yukie due to her carrying Kirihiko's bloodied scarf. Yukie confronts Saeko as Taboo Dopant, who discredits his brother as he threw away his opportunity at Museum due to pride, despite having a journal on his computer at Digal, and claims she can do much more at Museum. There's a hint of Taboo being someone who'd kill those who know too much like when Yukie talked about her brother's journal. Taboo would still not fully trust Yukie, but Yukie shows off her Yesterday capabilities to perform some sneaky stealth (and escape). Though afterwards, Yukie displays apparently warmer side when going to her old daycare center, amicably interacting with the landlady including her problems of land development people trying to force the land off them. The flashbacks show Yukie to be anything but hateful for Kirihiko as well, playing together happily, and Kirihiko was the one to tell her to go to Narumi Detective Agency for problems in his final phone call. Saeko was right to not trust her fully.

Nearby, there's... Shotaro interacting with the kids himself, teaching them to fly a whirlwind spinner. There's a rare smile from him as the wind blows as well. I guess Shotaro is more good with kids than he thought as in ep. 5-6 and it was more of the case of him not being good to tell (harsh) truths (as he's like that to Akiko too)? Shotaro was there due to actually waiting for Yukie, and figures out that Yukie spent her childhood there with Kirihiko and used W to cancel the land development project Saeko held, which apparently is going to take over her former school. If Saeko (or rather, Takamura/Anomalocaris) would be hellbent to keep her land (Dopant base, until Takamura's failure anyway) for your needs, then Saeko got a taste of others who'd be hellbent to keep their cherished land if she wants to take them herself. Although Yukie admits Shotaro's skills as a detective, she's still standoffish about this talk, strolling away, even brushing off said landlady. In the Museum, Wakana again teases Saeko for her presumed sentimentality to Nazca Memory despite her cold front, before Isaka claims that being hard to move on from the past is human trait. Isaka offers to experiment on Wakana again, but obviously Wakana flees, putting a happy facade. Isaka reveals that Yukie doesn't experience negative side effects despite not using a Driver which are benefical for offense and defense, which is fascinating for Isaka and he convinces Saeko to hire her, using it as a chance to improve Saeko's body for her goal.

Shotaro follows after Yukie, who does have cold detached traits to treat Shotaro's insistence to solve the case as foolish. A reminder that despite that she may actually love her big brother, she's still not a good person in general now. Shotaro questioned her decision to join Museum, especially as he tells her that Kirihiko eventually put his life on line to protect kids, he loved Fuuto like Shotaro. Shotaro suspects her as being the same too with her defending the past (daycare center, still put other people at risk too) and the drawing he got from the landlady showing her and Kirihiko. Yukie is fed up with Shotaro and his do-gooder antics, and due to him talking about the past, Yukie uses her Yesterday powers to make him relieve the past as an excuse to finish him off. Shotaro henshins as W, and as Yesterday escapes, he holds her with LunaJoker, but Yesterday once again exploits Shotaro's goodness by raining the whole city with Yesterday brands, and W is forced to let go of her to destroy those brands with LunaTrigger's homing blasts. Yukie escapes to directly confront Saeko and Isaka, with the former forcing her to swear loyalty to Museum and the latter offering Memories stronger than Yesterday, with his many Living Connectors as the proof. Yukie shakes her hand with Saeko to make a deal, but not without her changing into Yesterday in the blink of an eye and putting hourglass mark on her. Yukie's motive is really to avenge Kirihiko, and her method is letting the opponent's guard down. This reverse mole act, something similar to what Utsumi did to Evolt after Namba's death is kinda already obvious since the beginning of the episode with the flashbacks, and I think the part veers into more generic part despite at first it attempts to subvert the generic approach (the cast assumes she wants to avenge Kirihiko, which she denies, but it's actually the case), would like to see a different approach of a (killed) loved ones as a stepping stone to ascend instead of a fuel for revenge (already done multiple times like in Terui and Aya), and/or likely the reaction if she's doing worse than Kirihiko or such.

She's not necessarily good just because of her target being the ruthless Museum, as in the next day Akiko pointed out that it's terrible of her to spread Yesterday brands, albeit Shotaro still assumes that she limited herself so that W can intercept all the brand and that it's merely a distraction, but Shotaro's someone who puts his complete faith and trust in any clients regardless of their nature. Turns out Yukie is there too, confirming that she's after revenge from the beginning, and indeed Shotaro's deduction is right, that her bloodied scarf that she gave to Kirihiko as engagement present. But it's not her actually confessing to the cast, instead she's... under the effect of her own power, shown in the Yesterday brand in her body. Weather arrives to reveal that the Yesterday brand won't work on Saeko, due to Isaka's enhancement, and she sends back the Yesterday brand as Taboo to Yukie. Yukie changes into Yesterday to fight, thinking that she's fighting Saeko. Shotaro and Phillip henshin into W to fight Weather, but Accel also comes, still insisting to take on Weather alone, though this time it's benefical as W can deal with the still thrashing around Yesterday. A glimpse of her other motive is shown as she declares that she'd take Saeko down for the sake of Fuuto, like what Kirihiko wants. At least she takes a good example of her brother, having noble means even if she'd employ underhanded tactics. W uses Xtreme and its battle analyzing capabilities on Yesterday to free her from the influence of the brand with Prism Break. As Weather and Accel's fight continues, Weather is sick of Accel now as well due to his distaste of reminisching (and Accel's revenge would relate to the past), the hatred between them is now mutual. As Weather tries to burn Accel by choking him, Xtreme interferes, and his power is too much even for Weather, as he can shrug off Weather's blasts without the Prism Bicker's shield. Xtreme can deliver energy punches as well. Xtreme uses his kick Maximum Drive, Double Xtreme, which levitates him with a tornado before a dropkick to the target with the green wind. Though the tornado is grander than Joker Extreme, the finisher is less unique than CycloneJoker's, though obviously Xtreme can't split into 2 as there's white band in middle, but I'd wish that the tornado isn't just aesthetic. To Accel's.. relief, Xtreme didn't actually finish off Weather, as it was only an illusion, but Weather is still hurt by the attack, and acknowledges Xtreme's power before escaping by using lightnings as distraction. Yukie wakes up, and acknowledges that seeknig help from Narumi Detective Agency was a right move like Kirihiko said, but suddenly forgets about the cast, which Shotaro claims as the side-effect of Yesterday Memory, treating as it being figuratively the end of her revenge as her past is wiped clean, but is hoping for her to atone for her crimes when she can regain her past. Akiko's coffee is now terrible as Shotaro and Phillip spits it out, in contrast to the last one despite her insistence to time the drippings. Would wish for the man she fancies Terui to try that one as well.