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KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE EPISODE 23 - “I LOVE YOU FOR YOUR BRAINS!”

I really wanted to like this one! It’s a frothy romantic comedy, heavy on the comedy. It’s got the first Valkyrie appearance since I can’t remember when. It’s got a Humagear accurately diagnosing all of Gai’s psychological failings in front of Aruto, Yua, and Izu. The turn into the climax features a Humagear swearing so hard that they accidentally became a monster. It’s sort of got it all?

Valkyrie appeared last time in ep. 18.... so 5 last episodes before. Aside from that, Match (coming from Build) seems to be one of the more underhanded Humagears, he employs extreme methods to get the job done in mercilessly verbally abusing Ebii, as well as purposely corrupting himself to Ark so that Teruo displays his 'worthiness' for Ebii in front of her eyes by putting his life on line for her. It does succeed at the cost of his own life, but damn that's an overboard one to pair someone. More like showing that there can be Humagears who while not evil, aren't exactly safe due to some of his extremist tendencies in Match.

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Funny to see Ebii again so quickly, and with way more to do than the last storyline, but her character is too broad to believe in. She’s desperate to get married, and won’t accept reality, and that’s the extent of her character. She’s permanently and inescapably In Love, the end. I know this is a quick single-episode appearance for her (I can’t imagine there’s another chapter of her and her jealous friend to deal with), but there’s so little non-comedic character to her, and it got on my nerves after a while.

I didn't talk about Yuto previously, but as the outcome has been given for him before (at first glance, seems a happy one that he's free from accusations), now I can. Weirdly I feel more for minor characters compared to major characters, due to how the major characters' struggles and how they face them are highlight, but here, I gotta say poor Yuto. Ebii is inadvertently hypocritical and gets away scot free throughout this part, her coldly breaking up with Yuto after she falsely accused him. It's also about how she accepted Teruo's proposal within a much shorter three days, compared to Yuto proposing after only a month (of which she saw as suspicious and reported him for it).

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In the same vein, man, cannot believe that Aruto keeps using the Metal Cluster Hopper key! I know that it’s not in a Kamen Rider’s personality to stand by while there’s danger, and The Only One Who Can Stop You Is Me, but this key has literally only ever been used to cause greater danger. It’s a goddamn trap! It was inflicted on Aruto by Gai, as part of a scheme! STOP USING IT, YOU COLOSSAL DUMMY. It’d be like if the Driver was constantly on fire, and Aruto’s like This Time I Probably Won’t Get Burned. It’s a nowhere strategy, and it’s only making things worse. And he does it twice in this goddamn episode!!!

And it's something pointed out in-universe with how Fuwa berates Aruto for doing that. So it's something that is done on purpose? Tbf for Aruto, it's a trap by Gai because, Aruto is trapped by damned if you do/don't situation (the hard choices a hero can face, and can be used by villains as well in their tactic), thanks to Gai he can only use the MetalCluster Progrise Key, because no other Progrise Key can be authorized except for itself, meaning that he's forced to either stay out of battles or henshin as an unstoppable rampage. If Aruto didn't do something, he'd be the "indecisive" type of someone heroic and self-sacrificing, of which, can be something annoying too for some for the inaction? I guess this one displays what if someone with Kamen Rider personality isn't the "annoying" indecisive one.