[DreadBringer]

So, the last episode for the Arc 1 in Revice, before moving on to Arc 2. With a cliffhanger ending regarding Hikaru and the Ushujimas.

Though dunno what'd happen later and that I can't guess (easy guess is yeah, Aguilera and Julio being redeemed), I approve that despite the hardships that the Deadmans face, doesn't mean that Aguilera and Julio are instantly won over by the Igarashis/Fenix (well, Sakura sorta to Aguilera but for different reason, and planned to use her for sacrifice anyway), as obviously their aims aren't about their safety, but about Aguilera wanting to become one with Giff and Julio wanting to please Aguilera by any means, and the Fenix's actions are quite... hindering to their goals (Julio's interwinding with Aguilera).

Not to mention, what Julio does here only gives Aguilera hope to continue her original goal, with her outfit is fine and that'd mean so does Giff. She'd continue her villainous schemes, only without Olteca. So does Julio then if he had utter loyalty to Aguilera, revealed due to her saving him in the past. Dunno how long in the past, or even if Aguilera's probably not-so-evil at the time she saved Julio (likely her redemption key), even in present time Aguilera throws tantrums to Julio like a bitchy teenager, using him as punching bag of which Julio would endure with his loyalty to her.

So unlike characters such as Baruba or Kai, Aguilera does reveal her Deadman form in Queen Bee Deadman here. Not really shown on how powerful she is, as everyone's on the defensive, though she does have AoE attack, but Barid Rex can block that.

Olteca reveals his goal of just ruling the world so far, and admitting that Aguilera's just his puppet queen, as he does to Vice. Chameleon Deadman dies quicker than I expected, just like Amahiko before, with him being revealed as the impossibru guy... so he's not actually unremarkable... he's remarkable as meme icon... depends if Revice had memes similar to irl ones (I mean they have KR shows). "Impossible!" is also a stock villain remark upon defeat, but ironically it's not used here to focus on his insecurity more.

About Ikki saving Aguilera, it's explored further here that he felt burden that he can only kill Giftex like Kudo and Amahiko, without finding a way to separate the demons from their bodies, so he's the type to show sympathy for villains (like many of other main Riders) and would prefer to not use drastic solution, and he tried that too against Chameleon Deadman here, to no avail. Cool move from him to see through Chameleon taking Yukimi's form and block her literal backstabbing with the tissue. There's a nice fighting move of Revi in his Eagle ability to not brute forcing his way, but using Eagle's vision to track down Chameleon Deadman.

While Daiji is a bit more pragmatic here that he'd resort to ending threats like Giftex albeit he'd still shoulder the burden too like what he signed up for as a hardened soldier, instead of someone who relishes at using the 'brutal necessary' solution, so Daiji would still be a mostly safe guardian to be around (aside from Kagerou) compared to a good number of other secondary Riders.

Now Sakura had another thing to be protected of which is her innocence, of which dunno if she'd approve of that or not, but I hope it can be a good lesson for her or audience to learn further about the burden of killing others. While Sakura does declare altruistic motivation to fight alongside others; making sure everyone is at peace, on the other hand she goes overboard on Genta that she just harshly takes her Driver from him despite that he practically helped her against Yukimi's overprotective nature, kinda gets on my nerves there.

To me Yukimi's overprotective nature that is even worse than Ikki is kind of annoying, though primarily due to how she doesn't extend that to Ikki and Daiji too, seems lowkey sexist. At least it's revealed here that Yukimi thought Deadmans are temporary that got her to be overprotective to Sakura, still doesn't explain how she views female sex as less to males to be only overprotective to Sakura. Hiromi finally clears this up by explaining about how the Deadman situation really is and that the world needs Igarashi siblings' protection more than them needing protection from Yukimi. Probably it's some poetic justice for her that instead of her children, she's the one had to be guarded by Fenix going anywhere here. Other than her previous overprotectiveness, I do like that they try to give some effort and touches in her cheerleading role, with her treating Vice differently, likely due to him trying to eating her or such, or her high energy actually harming Lovekov by accident, that she had to be restrained by Fenix soldier.

Shigeyuki Totsugi claimed that there are big secrets within Genta, and I guess this is the start of his big reveal in the series as George notes that Genta has no heart (literally, the body organ) in his x-ray scans. As others have talked, there's already speculations about Giff being potentially Genta's demon. At the very least within KR, this gives me about certain spoiler-y element from Build. Dunno if Genta and Giff are separate with Genta trying to suppress it (and probably causing more hatred against Genta.. like certain other media), or if Genta is one of Giff's plans, his disguise as outwardly goofy and useless man to lower anyone's guard. But if Giff is absolutely evil too then the lack of heart scenario here has double meaning here.

So far this episode seems to portray George at his most wholesome, just applauding the Fenix members and the Igarashi's work, and also taking care of Hiromi who once again is promoted as Commander. I guess Hiromi has no mistakes or blunders anymore so far and that's likely lowkey his development. Still though there's his smirk as Hiromi leaves.

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Originally Posted by henshinzero

I feel bad for Aguilera. So does Sakura. I hope she?ll find a way to help her. Next episode, Julio must?ve went to look for her for help.

I don't know if Aguilera deserves sympathy here or why Sakura turned 180 on her. Previously Aguilera's the main hatred target for Sakura for ruining their onsen moment.

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Originally Posted by Chasing

welp with revice's strong family motif/theme it has going on, it would only make sense for giff to be connected to the igarashi family. it definitely takes the whole "using the power of evil for good" to a different level

The sealed evil In a person type...

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Chameleon's true identity is revealed! .... It's not someone portrayed by Kiyama Yukiaki. It's not anybody important! It sounded like he hated his face for secret backstory reasons, but nope, he just has this selfish ugly duckling perception of himself which makes him seem like a very shallow guy.

C'mon, you gotta dismiss about who the guy (true form) really is? It's the impossibru guy Ayumu Kato!


The trend continues after putting Pikotaro in Kiramager.