[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER OOO EPISODE 29 - “A SISTER, A DOCTOR, AND THE TRUTH ABOUT ANKH”

Like, Birth and OOO basically accomplish nothing this episode? Birth, in general, is a reactive force, but even Team OOO is running around like a Chicken Yummy with its head cut off, flung from one Greeed sighting to the next. It’s an episode all about how the villains are not just sitting around waiting to spring a scheme on the heroes – Kazari, Maki, and Ankh Lost are pursuing their own goals around the actions of the heroes, not because of or in spite of them. There’re a million threads in this one episode, and they’re all pretty compelling.

Not like Birth and OOO doesn't try. It's just that Lost Ankh is something powerful enough to generally gain an upper hand against OOO's currently strongest form TaJaDor. It's lucky that for now, Maki has someone who cares for him who comes to his rescue, Date, despite being a depraved bastard otherwise. It's unknown if this is part of Maki's plan, but so far, in Maki and Kazari's divide, Kazari has the upper hand now, halting Maki's plan to make Kazari go out of control, but indeed as I thought, Kazari working with Maki would just have him being planned to be used as a pawn, so dunno if working with another deranged individual is an inherently smart move, unless they can anticipate this.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It’s really the best second-half storytelling in the franchise. There’re any number of shows that need to find a new level when the show comes back from a movie break, or need to introduce new threats to be vanquished. While this episode nominally does that – Ankh Lost is, for all intents and purposes, the big new threat for the quarter – it never feels like it comes out of thin air, and it never feels like the totality of the storytelling options. This thing could’ve just been about Kazari’s reluctance to finish his form, or Maki’s fight against his own Yummy, or Gotou scarfing down a birthday cake as Satonaka's new assistant (!!!), and the episode would’ve felt no worse off for it. Adding in Ankh Lost feels motivated by 26 episodes of Ankh’s backstory, not some weird new menace that dropped out of the sky. This is a show that spent so much time creating a nice stew of different plot ingredients, and now it can ladle them out in whatever portions it wants.

Kougami is actually being menacing here to threaten to eliminate anything that is against what he personally wants. It's something healthy for one to prioritize one's own desire over others, but perhaps this is what increases suspicion about Kougami. Not exactly about Kougami, but villainy is also often about imposing one's desire over others regardless of how much damage is done. Lost Ankh was the part of the red herring in ep. 25-26 two-parter though that Ankh didn't actually spawn the Yummy. As Lost Ankh is clearly villainous, and is the rest part of Ankh's body, this may be an indicator of what Ankh would do if he's not limited to a left hand that is dependent on Eiji and is bossed around by Hina, that the sinister stuff Ankh planned like spawning a Yummy or getting rid of Hina aren't just talk.