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KAMEN RIDER FOURZE EPISODE 25 - “THE PROBLEM WITH GRADUATING”

As much as I enjoy Shun’s romantic flights of fancy, partially for how it exposes Gentarou’s romantic (and also Romantic) nature in pursuit of an idealized high school experience for his buds, I really like how much this episode grounds Shun in regret and a more mature level of admiration for Miu. Shun dated Miu because she was the most popular girl in school, and he was the most popular boy in school, and that was the end of the equation for him; she was arm candy, not a serious emotional investment. Then she wised up, self-actualized, and he figured out what he was missing. That’s the part I like the best: this isn’t a story about Shun being a horndog or a possessive weirdo or whatever, this is Shun realizing that he’s fallen in love with the Miu who leads the KRC, and that Miu’s worth looking like a clown for.

Was just about Shun's dad being controlling, it's quite arranged marriage-like type for Shun being forced to date the Queen of the school, any Queen, as Shun ditches Miu when she seems to be not winning due to Tamae exposing what she does with the gifts. Shun realizing his actual feelings got to be a karma as he wouldn't get a second chance for what he did before, and perhaps, by the standards of netizens, he doesn't deserve that second chance. It was settled in Shun's two-parter back then where Shun going back to Miu was rejected, albeit it was Shun being the dad obedient snob self. Shun changing for the better still can mean that it's already too late for him.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It’s a melancholy story to tell, Shun and Miu graduating. Shun sees their time as a success, but one he can move on from while planning a future with Miu. It’s like football – the season ends and you move on, knowing that the team will continue on without you. But for Miu, the KRC is where she was the version of herself she liked the best – without that purpose and structure, there’s a team that will be great without her, and a girl that won’t have the chance to be her best self. She wants to prepare her friends to excel without her, but she also wants to excel with them. That idea of the KRC being a thing that she wishes she’d found early enough to really appreciate it, that’s a very bittersweet story to tell.

About football, it seems that, this'd be only about school, but the moving on seems to be about if they got older and past their prime, thus can't perform as good as they're used to be. Here it's said that Miu's the one that accomplishes something that matters with KRC, but the episode itself says, it's Shun who feels that he accomplishes something that matters with KRC, after breaking free from his father's control, as he feels that doing good feels good, like what Gentaro said in ep. 8. I can feel that Miu, who performs some unarmed action right behind Gentaro and Shun, perhaps should be more athletic than JK, who frequently runs away, but JK lasted longer. Shun is called out at the end for being irresponsible to focus on the prom rather than the KRC job in monster attacks, and Miu is rightfully upset over that, but it can be also about Shun having faith in the members of KRC.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Which I am very happy about! I love a wistful story about moving on, especially when it can be a metaphor for adolescence wrapped up in a Zodiart mystery. Miu acquits herself incredibly well, which was expected (my favorite!), but Shun steps up his game to deliver an alternately on-brand ridiculous performance – every overreaction, every fantasy, throwing himself down a hill in despair – as well as a surprisingly subtle exploration of his genuine love for the woman Miu’s turned into. (That scene on the hill, where he seems so happy to have been able to get to know the real Miu over the last few months… amazing. Amazing!) The monster-fighting aspects are something I’ll probably feel more interested in with the next episode, because this one was all Miu and Shun. I am rooting for these two to be happy!

The cliffhanger would be bad for Shun, because it's stated that Miu wanted to ask Gentaro out, so Shun isn't on the equation. Like Shun's previous two parter again, Miu favors Gentaro since the fallout of ep. 4 by agreeing in how he's the manliest of the man as Shun dismissed him as a trash. And other than Miu, Gentaro also had Ritsuko and Tamae originally wanting to ask him for the prom. But it seems that even Gentaro can unintentionally offend others and strain his friendship with them, which I relate much, maybe doing that will have me burn bridges with many others. But Nomoto was one of more unlikable Zodiart and Gentaro wasn't shown to befriend him after his defeat, but here he's treated similarly like the previous sympathetic Zodiarts, in Ritsuko and Tamae.