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Kamen Rider Storious is a cool suit, and is very much the Solomon suit with Storious' monstrous head and a new mask with a fresh coat of paint. I think my favorite detail that I believe only the Detail of Heroes ever points out is that Storious' eyes can glow behind the book mask he has and it makes for a really cool demonstration.

The Four Sages are also a neat concept, bringing back the Augustia Base Guards from Senki but elevating their role to that of a proper mini-boss squad. Especially when it comes to the fact that 9 Kamen Riders are about to march onto their doorstep.

That being said. The real meat of this episode, the real fun stuff is our calm before the storm. Everyone readying and preparing themselves for what's to come as they spend what could be their last peaceful day doing whatever they want to. There's a lot of nice little moments, and we get some fun stuff, like Adult Luna's actress getting to reprise her role in the series now, Ogami's wife being shown onscreen in the show itself and not just in the prequel Manga... just a lot of nice little touches.

There's a real big weight to this finale that's being set up here. The fact that we don't get the credits like usual being one of those. Instead of dancing we get another beautiful song being sung where we see everyone spending their final hours doing whatever they need to before they all slowly but surely meet up. It gives me such chills whenever I hear it, and it's a scene I like to replay a lot... both physically and mentally.

If there's two particular scenes I'm always thinking about in the back of my head for my Saber crossover with Symphogear, it's Episode 43's Desast Fight and Episode 44's ending credit scenes. It's very much running those two scenes through my head as I hope that whenever I do get to them, I manage to sort of match what the show was able to do in my writing.

Very solid final lead up to our finale set of episodes if I'm being honest.

Also a nice solid introspection from Mei for our story this time, and our potentially last time seeing the Brooding Roof in one of these stories. I'm going to miss it.