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Kamen Rider Revice Legacy: Kamen Rider Vail

Part 1

So Genta in the past, a.k.a Junpei, or a.k.a Subject 071, did the Demon hunting on his own instead of Vail. Vail has less significance by only a partner to talk with. And Junpei's anti-hero kind of a Rider, as he didn't do anything bad (but NOAH is just bad) by killing devils, but he only fought the devils for revenge of the death of his parents to a red devil, and him losing his soul as he fought more and more unrelated devil shows that he didn't really care about protecting others.

Episode 30 reveals that NOAH stands for Nest Of Anti-Human. Misanthropist much? It's like they're advertising the whole evil organization thing, instead of trying to hide it. Vail's (the devil, not the Rider) depiction here is a lot different to how he was in his show debut. He's presenting himself as a friend to Genta, presumably to build trust between them so he can use him later.

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Junpei learns to use the ViStamp and Vail Driver quickly, while he at first goes to fight the devil in his human form, after Masumi tells him to use both devices he did it without struggling, or making use of Vail's tools afterwards. And while NOAH treats him as a captive, his fighting style is also really brutal, as if he's mindless. It even got him to destroy the bridge at his final fight and buried him under rubble, so he's a really destructive folk which have NOAH quite justified in their cruel methods of restraining him.

Why doesn't Genta just stay henshined after defeating the devil though? Undoing his henshin only makes him vulnerable to NOAH tasing him everytime. It seemed contrived that he never learned from repeating the same experience and NOAH are relying on him not thinking to do that so they can subdue him easily.

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Unrelated but there's this oversight that can happen for shows that is meant to be set in the past as Revice prequel. As ep. 30 of Revice claims, the photo of NOAH executives (with Akaishi) are set decades ago... but one of the cars shown, the one he looked at the window as others call him devil, was 4th generation Honda Fit, which was a 2020 release. Sure the tech in KR world is far more advanced like NOAH, but this is still lacking an effort to make the past is really the past.

Nice observation! I guess the sponsors will do anything to show off their products, even if it doesn't make sense. Like M and Nico competing in the Tekken 7 tournament in 2010.