[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Great direction in this one, as an aside

...And right on cue, 19/20 is another pair by Ishida.

This is another one where I don't have too much to contribute about the story off the top of my head, so I'll give the merchandise a little love by mentioning that I'm pretty fond of Magnet States, but even more than that, I just kinda like the MagPhone itself a lot? The whole shtick of the Fourze Driver is putting all these flickable doohickeys of various shapes in it, so the idea of making this new form feel like a bit more of a big deal by having it not only be a two-piece magnet theme, but having it be two giant handles to work huge cannons is just such a perfectly natural escalation of the gimmick.

It isn't really any more significant than the other form changes so far within the show's story, but I do find it cute that from this point on, that huge bulky thing just *is* Gentarou's phone, for advertising purposes. What I absolutely adore however, is simply that from this point on, Gentarou always verbally announces when he's splitting the phone in half to put in the belt. Like he's so dumb that he'll forget if he doesn't remind himself out loud every time, which is so perfectly That Character I'm both surprised they didn't come up with something like this earlier, and not at all surprised they expanded on the idea a bit the next time the had the chance.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

Honestly from this one, the only thing I remember is Miu's chibi drawings of everyone.

Oh yeah, this is where those first show up! I love those pictures! Bless whoever decided to just make those a regular part of the Rabbit Hutch set after this, because it'd be a shame it they were only for this episode.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

But it was Miu's leadership that put Tomoko on the right team to be the most effective -- sort of thought she'd end up on the Ryuusei team, but that's why I'm not the boss of the KRC -- so really, the credit should go to her.

...and you even had someone trying to make it easy for you. At this rate, Die, CODE will never trust you again!

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

what the hell is up with the Foodroids? I get that they were designed to inherit the Candroid price point from OOO but I do not get the concept here. What does fast food have to do with space? Where's the throughline here that ties all of the Fourze merch together?

High schoolers eat a lot of cheap fast food, and the show is also about high school. I actually happened to be skimming the Japanese Wikipedia page for Fourze just the other day and read something about how they considered having them be school supplies before deciding that wasn't a strong enough motif to sell toys of? But either way, the key is that their role is to be in the scenes that don't have Riders fighting, which is why directly connecting them to the space part of the show was probably not seen as that important.