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KAMEN RIDER CLUB MEETING – QUIZ: KAMEN RIDER URBAN LEGENDS!! EPISODE 02



Following on from his difficult-to-parse acting choices from Episode 08, we’ve got Shun as the host this time out, and he’s kind of bad at this? Mostly in a funny way – JK is laughing when the quiz starts, and multiple actors get big laughs as they give him shit about his delivery and distraction – but also in ways that you can tell the cast just thinks he’s an unprepared himbo. He goofs around in a way where you can see how that tendency might be annoying to a group of variably-experienced actors who want their job to be fun, but would also like to nail their scenes so they can go home.

I am probably reading too much into the cast’s views on Shun, but that’s sort of the fun of this series of ancillary materials, beyond watching people genially trash-talk Showa storytelling. (Which is always welcome! These kids losing their minds at Nigou exploding a plane at the end is terrific.) There’s vague camaraderie, and some minor gripes, and a little bit of teasing, and you get the sense of how these Actual People get along over a year, beyond what they’re playing on TV. It’s neat, even if I think they all thought Shun was the worst actor.