[DreadBringer]

So the culprit is Kiku, the grandma, and she had some connections with Museum. She wants the best for her family, but only them, while as she said she had many bodycounts as well as taking fortunes to make Kagamino family the way it is. Though the bride competition wasn't a front, it's actually a bride competition, just that, Kiku meant for the wife to continue Kagamino shady dealings. Even the bride's homicidal tendencies are her fault too by making Alcohol Memory worked that way. She also died in her burning mansion... just like Ryubee, and as a High Dope, she's the first one to force W to use Xtreme.

The Dopants mostly aren't killed after they're beaten, but Shotaro's concern of their human form is highlighted here due to Kiku being old, of which otherwise, she's far more capable as the Alcohol Dopant than the others. So it seems to save others better, more power is required, so the fight can end faster as Shotaro wanted. This is a case where I got a bit annoyed by Shotaro though (of which, Kiku claims there should be limit in kindness), to kinda justify what Kiku does due to how it's for the best of Kuya (he still should save her, but not correct her behavior).

He failed anyway, due to Tadashi Kimura, the butler, which sets the mansion on fire after her defeat. Loyalty isn't always a good thing, and it's shown in Kimura who'd also support Kiku's dirty dealings. In contrast to what he said to Tokime in their feud, Philip here delivered the truth to Shotaro, but in civil way, that even as Xtreme, there are still something they can't do.

Other than the baddies, seems that everyone that got involved in the bride selection now become friends. And even with a bunch of pretty girls at the bride selection, the male Kuya can become bros with Shotaro too. I kinda wish that after Kanna thanked Shotaro, Shotaro would also brought up that Kanna saved the detectives first too.

Despite being the head family, Kuya's not only someone completely innocent, but can't drink alcohol at all too. Too bad for the others that, it's unintentional, but Kuya could've solved the case faster if he told them that he can't drink alcohol. Kuya's genuinely locked out of the loop of his family's shady dealings, but I'd bet if this is real world, Kuya would be demonized for being a part of Kagamino, or letting them do their shady dealings unchecked, or just being out of touch (when people aren't omniscient, though Kuya wanted to work this off by becoming self-made man).

[henshinzero]

When do you all think is a good time for FangMetal & FangTrigger? And I got a feeling Tokime is from the same city as Aurora.

[ShiShiLeo]

I think they will end the season on FangTrigger and tie it into season 2

[Shin Henshin]

Considering the case format this next arc will be our last, so I assume they're gonna end it on one of the new Fang forms.

Also gonna assume the stage play means the manga reception and by extent the anime reception have been good. To clarify, the actors in the stage play aren't the voice actors. Stage plays of manga or anime properties have their own cast to work with. So essentially, we'll now have four versions of W's cast that will exist in media.

The original series cast.

The manga portrayals.

The anime portrayals.

The stage play portrayals.

[Enchilada645]

It also depends on which Volume Fang Trigger debuts in as well since each three episode arc is a Manga Volume and I think we've only gotten through 1 through 3 thus far.

[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

It also depends on which Volume Fang Trigger debuts in as well since each three episode arc is a Manga Volume and I think we've only gotten through 1 through 3 thus far.

It seems to be from 1 to 4. Above they wrote that they missed one arch that tells about Miik. If anything, I myself have not read the manga and just retelling what I read.

[Mesnick]

By the way, it just popped into my head. Will Sanju write the script for the stage show?

[JusticeMagnum]

At this rate, season 1 is going to end on vol 4 of the manga which is 37 chapters (kinda, they skipped the mini arc about Philip's cat), Fang Trigger debut's in chapter 65, and Fang Metal doesn't appear until chapter 100. So with the pace they're going at, unless they skip a bunch of cases we won't see Fang Trigger until the end of season 2, and Fang Metal until the end of season 3 assuming we get those of course (also keep in mind this is under the assumption that future seasons will also be 12 episodes).

[Frontier]

Shadow Fuuto is not a safe place to be...especially if you've run afoul of Bando and his people.

Shotaro and Tokime really feel like a relationship bound by fate, especially when it turns out Tokime's broken Memory...was a Joker Memory, just like Shotaro's. So does that mean Tokime was the Joker Dopant? Is she Joker with boobs? Lot of questions there.

But even if Tokime still has a lot questions about her past and who she is/was, she's got Shotaro and the rest of the cast willing to support and be there for her!

Classic case of a little girl worried about her grandpa and the shady dealings he got himself into...but Rentaro was just too skilled for his own good, to the point of creating something that could be used by dangerous people, and only realizing the danger until it was too late.

I wonder how much of a personality shift Tokime's amnesia caused because she feels much more terrified of Shadow Fuuto than she thinks she used to be, or maybe it's just she realized how dangerous it really is.

Why are there so many old W Dopants in Shadow Fuuto acting like they're still alive? Are they just feral monsters now? Although Beast Dopant sure got chewed up.

I love Akiko trying to will the Joker Memory into working again.

Duo Henshin with W and Accel! Perfect thing to enter into the final arc of this season.

So Mamoru isn't the Brachiosaurus Dopant (despite his height) and he's not giving our heroes a lot of answers...but he does admit he works for Bando, is after an executive position (since they're the ones who get the drivers), runs the energy in Shadow Fuuto, and in that respect it's fitting that he turns out to be Reactor Dopant. A living Nuclear Furnace!

W and Accel can barely keep up with him in their base forms, and he can literally burn through their suits. It seems like they don't stand a chance against any of the upper tier of Bando's group without their strongest forms.

So Tokime's been kidnapped by the Brachiosaurus Dopant...who turns out to be a kid. But he definitely seems to know Tokime.

Some surprise comedy with our villains all culminating in a joke on Bando's name that is kind of obvious when you think about it.

[Mesnick]

I thought that in Fuuto PI there was still a skew among the W halves, which was also avoided in the original series. That is, both now and then, Shotaro gets more screen time. But in 2009, this was offset by the importance of Philip to the plot. In the anime, his role as a MacGuffin character is given to Tokima and Phillip is essentially a minor character. This can still be fixed by somehow connecting him personally with Bando or Shadow Fuuto.