[Sh Ranger]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER FOURZE EPISODE 13 - ?KICKED OUT OF SCHOOL?

On the one hand, this episode is zero percent subtle about its metaphorical usage of ?Astroswitches? in place of ?drugs?. Miura is hardcore fiending for some sweet, sweet, cosmic collectible power, and it?s a wonder that Toei didn?t take the English language route inherent in its foreign high school aesthetics and just title this one ?Switch Madness?. This is not one you?ve got to work hard to decode.

Fourze's episode titles consist of 4 kanji as a rule and Switch is an English word, so I don't think that would work.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

You don?t fight that by defeating drug dealers or exploding drug supplies or putting on street plays about friendship (almost, though!) or by letting someone know that you?ll always protect them from their ability to get more drugs.

That street play was humorous as hell though. It's great that now Kengo is officially part of KRC, he can be convinced to go along with these antics on the basis that it's supporting his mission. He committed to the role as seriously as he could, until he couldn't take anymore.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER FOURZE EPISODE 14 - ?THE STINGER?S RELENTLESS ASSAULT?

I liked that Fourze needed all of his super forms to get the job done, and I think the Dustards are a fun group of star ninjas (???) to beat up as mooks, but you KNOW that I don?t have a lot of love for CG final forms for villains, so, like, half of the Scorpio fights here didn?t click with me. Scorpio?s such a fun hand-to-hand combatant ? all kicks and strikes ? that giving that up for a CG monstrosity feels like a massive downgrade instead of a clever upgrade. At least there were a bunch of black-suited mooks for Fourze to wallop on!

You didn't even like that awesome Rider Double Rocket Drill Kick?! I thought it was fitting how the climactic space fight played like a bigger and better version of the one with Orion Zodiart, but this time instead of defeating Miura, Fourze got to defeat the one who hurt Miura.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Also, please understand how hard I had to fight myself not to make these two images the screengrabs for Episode 14:





I still sort of regret it!!!

I'm not sure which would be more cursed, whether Miura would be referring to Ohsugi or Sonoda.

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

So fun easily missed clue as to the big reveal: Sarina Sonoda is an anagram of ?Sasori na no da?, which is a specific dialect of Japanese for ?I am the scorpion?, or more fittingly, ?I am Scorpio?.

I might've connected the stars to make that constellation, if I'd known that Sonoda had a given name.

[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

That street play was humorous as hell though. It's great that now Kengo is officially part of KRC, he can be convinced to go along with these antics on the basis that it's supporting his mission. He committed to the role as seriously as he could, until he couldn't take anymore.

A poorly-acted street play to convince a drug-addicted teen that his bullies regret their treatment of him and he should feel good about himself is easily the most memorable non-Tomoko thing from the entire Kamen Rider Fourze experience.

(And we'll be getting to the Tomoko thing later today!)