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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER FOURZE EPISODE 29 - “SILENT TREATMENT FROM JUNIORS”

Mostly it’s that I found the Haru/Ran story kind of boring? It’s the most Fourze plot you can do, but it’s also one we’ve seen a dozen times by now. Haru’s being preyed upon by the Horoscopes, Ran wants to protect him but ends up making him feel powerless, there’s a Relevant Secret to Ran’s backstory that we won’t learn until (probably) an impassioned monologue with Gentarou in Part 2, and so on, and so forth. There’s nothing wrong with the execution – I think Ran does a stellar job showing concern for Haru without coming across as overbearing – and, again, the formula is what this show runs on. But it is a formula, and I’m not sure the concept of the new school year does enough to make this iteration feel distinct enough. Gen’s doing his pushy good guy thing, Ryuusei’s creeping around the edges trying to figure out if this kid’s gonna be the next Aries (he’s obviously going to be the next Uva), and there’s a new Switch that might help Gentarou contain the slippery Zodiart enough to put an end to this madness. It’s all done competently enough, but that’s only because this show can do this story in its sleep by now. The only real wrinkle to this take is the fact that the gang needs to duck a newly-vigiliant Ohsugi.

I feel that Ran is overbearing to Haru, to want to protect him, but being overprotective of him and preventing him from making friends with anyone else except her. Rather clear that Haru wants to become a Musca Zodiarts to prove himself to Ran. A case when a 'support' from a friend, something usually seen as preventing someone's darkness, has the friend being pushed to darkness instead, pressing the Switch after Ran assures to protect Haru. I see for many other cases, a story would have someone who is ostracized by others, getting only one friend that is portrayed as just enough. Here, it's the opposite where having only one friend isn't seen as something good (I mean, it's clear about what's the MC of this series is), and Haru wants to make more friends than just Ran. I think for school, it's not enough, because teachers can forcibly separate you from them in new class or pair you with those you don't know well for group tasks.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Which kind of worked for me? I don’t think it’s some fantastic new use of Ohsugi, or anything – he’s still a weird creep about Sonoda and unnecessarily physical with multiple students – but it is a new use for him, and one that feeds into the episode’s larger story about how to bridge mistrust and help people who need it. Him trying to get to the bottom of his three most troublesome students isn’t a million miles away from Gentarou trying to get Ran to open up, and they’re both phenomenally unsuccessful. For all of Ohsugi’s wacky vendetta against Gentarou (tiresome), there’s a genuine belief from him that he needs to intervene with three delinquents before they ruin their lives forever. He’s a clown, but even clowns can help distract a bull so that it doesn’t kill a cowboy.

Ohsugi gains a lot more power over the students as the new homeroom teacher (with Utsugi's actress only appearing at the movie and the finale), to move the three "delinquents" ahead of the seat row, then getting a chance to stalk and follow them. At the end, he successfully discovered the Rabbit Hatch, despite some resistance from Yuki's Foodroids. Ohsugi's vendetta against Gentaro is revealed due to thinking that Sonoda retired because she can't stand Gentaro. Gentaro seems to rub several teachers the wrong way in Sonoda (at least for him calling her with -chan or being late), Satake, and Ohsugi (extension from some scuffles with Sonoda there). I wonder if the cast, either the kids or Ohsugi, would eventually know that Sonoda's actually Scorpio and the reaction for it.