[Kamen Rider Die]

KAMEN RIDER CLUB MEETING – QUIZ: KAMEN RIDER URBAN LEGENDS!! EPISODE 12



First of all, is that right? Did Shun actually receive half the prizes for the Quizzes? I did the math, and here’s how many times each contestant won a Quiz:

Ryuusei = 0 (He was only in one, but it’d’ve been pretty funny for him to win the one he was in and be able to say he won 100% of his Quizzes.)
JK = 2
Tomoko = 2
Miu = 2 (robbed)
Yuuki = 3
Gentarou = 3
Kengo = 5
Shun = 5

So, actually, counting the Blu-ray he got for hosting 11/12 and the Nigou figure he got for hosting 2, he got seven of the eleven prizes! More than half! (Also, the winningest team was Kengo/Shun with three straight wins, and Tomoko was right to declare that they needed to be broken up after 6.)

With the bookkeeping done with, we can talk about this final Quiz, and it was one of the best. The actual normal Quiz part was solid, even if the kids seemed a little lethargic after eight questions, but the Bonus Round was insane – five kids trying to guess a number and getting incrementally more hyper about it, until only a jankenpon contest could crown a winner – and the little send-off at the end was surprisingly affecting. I wish that the various Final Stage cast Q+As would get subbed at some point, but since that feels unlikely, this is the closest I’ll maybe ever get to hear these actors talk about what this show meant to them while it was still fresh and/or raw. It’s interesting to hear how much each of them embodied parts of their characters: Tomoko’s well-spoken emotional insight; Shun’s poorly-timed humor; Yuuki’s wistful nostalgia; Miu’s charm and joy; Ryuusei’s brevity-bordering-on-curtness; Gentarou’s lack of interiority and easily befuddled nature. You get a sense of how working on this show for a year-plus bonded them, and what the end of it via a DVD pack-in (?!) signifies to them, and it honestly caught me off-guard. I thought we were just gonna give away a Kamen Rider Blu-ray! I did not think you were going to make me sad! MINUS A MILLION POINTS!!!