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So fun fact: the older version of Sougo when not in the suit has been played by Seiji Taikawa, as a send off to him, as he decided to step down from being the main suit actor, in favour of it cycling through whoever gave the best audition. Though given how two out of three of Reiwa’s leads have been suit acted by Yuya Nawata (who previously suit acted Genm, Taiga as Cronus and Geiz, except for these last three episodes, with a stand-in doing 47-8 and 49 having Geiz’s actor in the suit), and how Zero-One made a big deal of casting Taikawa as the final boss so they could do a passing of the torch, it comes off as the only reason Saber had Kosuke Asai (who previously suit acted regular Cronus and a slew of Sentai Reds) was due to COVID slowing down production.

And also, we get the ultimate culmination of Uncle’s fix everything gag, by finally not just having him fix a clock, but having him fix a full stand of really weird ones.

And finally, while everything’s going great for Team Zi-O and the Time Jackers (though given the last scene starts off reenacting the first episode until Geiz appears, Sougo probably erased the guy who beat him up back then from history), and the separation of the 20 worlds means things are going great for some of the phase 2 Riders (Takumi Katsuragi gets his fake name and one-sided bromance with a straight man back, Kouta ascends back to Fruit Jesus, Eiji trades in a lucrative politics job for trying to revive a birdman), it’s not so great for the phase 1 Riders (Takumi and Kusaka go back to being dead, Kenzaki and Hajime are still avoiding each other due to the Undead’s influence, Kiriya and Kagami don’t get their closure), but eh, it was nice to see those characters again.

And to close off the main series reviews, a look at the watch from the end card.

“Using Progrisekeys, the Rider imitating numerous animals is Zero-One”

And rather than tease his theme song (Not a fan), I’m going for what is probably the best of some admittedly pretty bad inserts, Find a New Life