[Fish Sandwich]

Hey, everyone, guess what time it is!



Time for me to have a new favorite... wait, no, I used that one last week. I mean, two-parters are basically one big episode anyway, right?

At any rate, this episode straight up rules, and as much as I empathize with the people who aren't feeling Zi-O, I think you have to have a heart made out of stone not to enjoy this one at least a little bit.

It's just got everything you could ask for. The characters are nicely developed, the direction is freakin' stellar, and to top it all off, we get one of the most laugh-out-loud hilarious episodes of Kamen Rider out there. Just about every aspect of it felt way more inspired than usual to me.

There are still aspects worth criticizing, of course. You could probably argue Geiz's character arc is going in circles pretty convincingly. I think Kaito might've been mixing up 強さ and 力, but Urobuchi was the only writer who ever truly "got" Kaito anyway, so I'm not going to hold that against the episode too much. Although considering Kento Shimoyama did a better job than most in Go-Rider, it's actually a bit unfortunate these episodes didn't go to him. Kouta drew the short straw in terms of screen-time, but he did make the scenes he got count well enough.

Aside from that though, I can't think of much to complain about. I was a little too busy enjoying the wacky time travel antics to really worry about anything else. The preview for next week has got me extremely excited, given my well documented love of Ghost, and slightly less well documented love of Tsukasa, so I can only hope Zi-O keeps this momentum going, because it really is just getting better and better lately.

EDIT: Actually, never mind that point about Kaito. I mean, I still would've liked to see Shimoyama's version of this, but after going back over his scenes, I've concluded I was the one mixing up words. Well, me AND Over-Time, but that's beside the point. Also, I forgot to mention this episode involved a Kamen Rider actually riding a bike in a climactic moment! Apparently I was so satisfied with this episode it didn't even stick out as any cooler than all the other stuff going on.