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So, this is the first episode of the anime with a new writer, in the form of Atsuhiro Tomioka, best known for heading 10 seasons of Pok?mon (and being a staff writer on 15 others), Inazuma 11, the first 26 episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds and the current as of this writing Super Sentai, Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger. Though how much a different writer changes things up, and how much of it is due to the manga taking a different tact that week… it’s unclear.

And talking of Sentai…

Sentai-lert!

Keeping with a casting theme from W proper, our main female suitor Kanna is played by Mika Kikuchi, better known as Umeko/DekaPink from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger and one of the guest heroes in Engine Sentai Go-Onger’s summer movie (the other two of whom were Takumi and Undad). Within Rider, she’s had guest roles in episode 3 of Kabuto (one which I remember from back during the watch thread due to how seemingly no-one noticed or recognised of the episode’s guest stars) and as a newsreader in Heisei Generations.