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Kamen Rider Fourze Episodes 15 & 16: "Holy Night Chorus Singer" & "Good Stands Against Evil"



Christmas episode! And it's an interesting one. We have the usual fortnightly Victim - he's an artist! He really doesn't like distractions! We get the next dollop of deep lore from Tachibana-San, whose latest attempt at mentoring a young person is going a lot better than when he tried to play baseball with Mutsuki. And we get a mysterious new Kamen Rider, who is able to beat a Horoscope by the sheer virtue of having actual martial arts skills.

The main story at play here is pretty standard Rider stuff, with a villain who just wants to follow his passion and is doing petty evil shit to do it, but it's pretty notable Gentarou manages to talk him down even while being petrified and drawing like a child. Probably also didn't help that Tachibana-san sent him straight to killing children. I do feel that, while "Gentarou makes friends" is going to be the signature theme of the show, we're 16 episodes deep, and the plotlines need to start stretching a little more than that. Probably why the writers are introducing the other thing. Not Yuki's singing career, the other other thing. Hayabusa-song is probably what Switchblade hears in their nightmares, alongside the second Hibiki OP.

Meteor! He's cool! He's still a blank slate here! I guess we'll get properly introduced to him next episode. God, it's weird to have Kamen Rider show with literally only two Riders. That's basically only this, Den-O and kinda-sorta-Double, right?