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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I'll see you in about half an hour!

Proceeds to sleep instead.

But seriously, if I'd known beforehand, I'd have stuck around. No worries.

So, we've now reached the big turning point in the show. ARK Gets beaten with the "help" of Metsuboujinrai, then Horobi proceeds to inherit the ARK's will anyway and kills Izu. I'm sure we all knew Izu was going to bite the dust at some point, moreso given that she has no backup, meaning she's one of the few Humagears who get perma-killed.

And then ARK-One is born, with Aruto now inheriting that power, and like with the previous ARK, he flexes his power on everyone, until Naki gives Fuwa some extra firepower to oppose him. And while a recolor of Assault Wolf with Naki's colors, it's still a nice-looking suit, maybe even like this color palette better than Assault. While ARK-One looks like a zombie Zero-One, which is a neat idea, it still retains its mish-matched machine monster look from old ARK, but with some of Zero-One's design being mixed into the machine.

I also want to take a moment to appreciate Fukuzoe and his companion (whose name escapes me at the moment). These two, while were more like comedic characters in the early, who did a good job on entertaining me, Fukuzoe, who does indeed deserve to be a boss, has an incredible role in the ARK Arc (that sounded more redundant than in my head) showing how great he is as a president, even accepting Aruto's views of Humagears which shows how Aruto, while just thrown in because he's the founder's grandson, he still made an impact on them all, and he really makes this arc worthwhile.

Now we have the final confrontation between Horobi, now given an ARK Makeover, and while not as mixed quite as well as ARK-One, I actually love ARK Horobi's look very well, as it looks more like Horobi has more control of the ARK than Aruto, giving more Horobi to the ARK suit, and Aruto/ARK-One. Which is quite a setup for their battlefield, with a bunch of weapons strewn about for them to pull out and fight with, it was a neat way to set it all up.

Then finally, we get that Deus-ex Machina to bring Aruto back to Zero-One and once more, take off toward a dream and the true final form is revealed, Realizing Hopper! It's just Rising Hopper, but they wanted it to feel special, which I won't complain about, since Rider usually finishes off the season with their base forms anyway (with some exceptions), and boy! The fights throughout the ARK Saga were amazing! Even with current events, they pulled some amazing fight scenes in this arc, and made the best with what they got.

I'd say much more about this, but I also just woke up, so my tired brain likely messed up in places, but I'll have an extra post to cover some other details (which will probably focus on how the "Pandemic" Arc fared and some other points I'd like to mention), but for now. Zero-One set up Reiwa's most unique trait so far, and that's it's fantastic action scenes.