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Kamen Rider Fourze Episodes 11 and 12 - "The Lunar Gate Disappears" & "Duty and Noble Intentions"



Something that kept coming to mind this episode was the difference between colleagues and friends, and where the line blurs. Kengo sees the KRC as, effectively, workmates to defeat the Zodiarts. He keeps his professional distance, and has no time for their social activities. That's frivolities. He thinks that's what the others care about. But for Gentarou and the rest, the social stuff is part and parcel of supporting each other so they can fight Zodiarts. People work best when they're with people they trust. It doesn't help that the rest of the KRC are all Grade-A morons and losers, so Gentarou's earnest attempt at rocketing to the moon comes across, in his eyes, as worse than useless. It's obvious Kengo is basing himself a lot on his dad, and how self-supported he was - as well as being terrified the entire two parter because he's going to die alone on the moon - and probably doesn't want to reach out. Because, well, the KRC are colleagues. They hunt Zodiarts. Until the end of this episode, where Kengo realises that they can be both. They can be friends. He's not weak or stupid for letting them in.

On the complete other side of the scale, Pyxis Zodiarts! KR Fourze really out here inventing incels back in 2011. Makise is just detestable, to the point where there's not much to say about him. I thought we might've gone in a much more possessiv direction when Yuki basically offers herself as his friend, and look at how one-sided transactional friendships just aren't worth it, but no! He blows up the locker! He tries to kill a bus full of his classmates! More interesting is probably the revelations about the Headmaster (Administrator? Super-intendent Chalmers?). He's an astronaut, he set up the school almost certainly as a Zodiarts farm, and he's happy sitting about letting Fourze detonate his plans because it's funny I guess. Also, not really a fan of Yuki acting like begging him to launch a rocket to rescue Kengo is realistic? I get it shows her devotion to him, going to what is one of her idols, but I'm getting a worried feeling about things other people have said for where Yuki goes from here.

(Also, Ohsugi getting real creepy over Sonada's locker this time round. Please, please let this be the lowest he ever goes. Unless it manages to be funnier and not as creepy.)

All in all though, a fun pair of episodes that solidify the full gang, do some good stuff for Kengo, and just have a Zodiarts I don't mind being detonated.