[Switchblade]

We're up to a phase of the show that I don't remember in much detail. I know the broad strokes: Fang, Accel, end of the line for Nazca, but I don't remember many details about the specific episodes. I had definitely forgotten, for example, just how hard this two parter goes. The Arms Dopant is incredibly violent and the way he shuts down W and then sets up that death trap for Shotaro is pretty crazy, then we have all the stuff with Philip and Saeko on top of that.

I really liked FangJoker's first fight on the series. I like the suit itself a lot and the choreography of both the mook fight and the battle against Arms himself was really good. I am, as always, a little disappointed that FangMetal and FangTrigger never happened, although I hear they show up in the manga. Can't really verify that since it hasn't been translated past the first 25-ish issues.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Androzani84

For additional punny naming, Shotaro?s oft mentioned surname Hidari is Japanese for ?left?.

I first learned this a few weeks ago and I hate it. I don't mind characters having meaningful names, but I like it when there's at least some effort to be clever with it and the names being "Right" and "Shotaro Left" is not clever.

That said, I totally never put two and two together about Raito until just recently either so maybe I'm just salty about missing the pun.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

-Fuyumi also dresses like Lara Croft at the indoor climbing wall, and it was, uh? a good choice.

Unrelated trivia time! Competitive climbing is really big in Japan. They have probably the most stacked team of climbers in the world right now, at least for the boulder and lead competitions. They won two out of the three women's medals at the 2020 Olympics in 2021 and they've already filled up three of their four combined competition spots for the 2024 games in Paris (the last spot will be decided during the Olympic Qualifying Series and will be very hotly contested between reigning Olympic Silver medalist Miho Nonaka and Futaba Ito).

This has nothing to do with Kamen Rider, but I fell in love with this sport during the last Olympics and have been following the annual world cup seasons ever since. I will take any excuse to gush over it.