[DreamSword]

It's the debut of the Kamen Rider W Genome!

Upfront, I didn't give a crap about the golfer or his caddie. Golfer was a douchenozzle and the caddie had zero backbone in going back to him.

And while Ikki and Vice's' dynamic was fun throughout(like accidentally activating the finisher due to their rough housing), I was actually kinda more on Vice's' side here than I was on Ikki's'.

Like, yeah, Vice is causing trouble, sure, but Ikki is putting even more people at risk, including his family, via the entire "gambit" of giving up the driver. Vice had a point: They legitimately can't fight the threat without his help. But it's kinda just swept under the rug to get the plot rolling.

The biggest takeaway here for me was Daiji, actually, and how this episode pretty much officially kickstarts his arc. Like, yeah, we saw the inciting incident of it in episode 1, but episode 2 is where it starts actually moving forward a bit. And everyone can feel free to correct me here, but I don't recall many Riders missing their shot at being the main one due to very understandably being too scared to act when needed? It's a pretty unique angle, I think.

No Line/Text screenshots today. The two featured in this episode are pretty much the same as those in episode 1, just with a slightly more comedic spin on them. I got a good giggle out of them, but they're nothing super important.