[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

There's one other big change with this episode. This is the first appearance of a Horoscope as the Monster of the Fortnight. Cancer wasn't around as long as I'd remembered, but it was still several weeks. From this point on, the Horoscopes are going to basically replace regular Zodiarts because Fourze had an episode limit (as it turned out; I may reminisce about the rumors of Fourze season 2 at some point during this retrospective). I was always disappointed to see what had been major event enemies get turned into regular weekly monsters. This is the big place where Fourze had pacing issues for me.

I'm sort of okay with this? Beyond just the basic power creep of Zodiarts being the new Dustards once you've got Cosmic States and Meteor Storm, there's also... like, I'm not sure how many more original takes there were on high school drug addiction metaphors? 29/30 were as close to an archetypal Fourze as you can get, and it just did not feel like there were a ton of moves on it for me. At least with the Horoscopes, there's more intention behind it, and a sense that Club is being proactive in eliminating the scourge at its source, rather than reactively waiting for someone to get high on cosmic collectibles.

[Androzani84]

I don’t really have issues with Cosmic States or the Barizun Sword, there are worse looking visual upgrades and weaker conceptually weapons.

Conversely, I’m not keen on how after all the build up regarding Meteor and Aries, the latter gets taken out by Fourze, leaving Cancer as the latter’s most personal foe. It’s like if W had Phillip and Shoutaro finish off Isaka, while Terui took out some comparative nobody.