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What are you watching? (Kamen Rider Edition)
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DreadBringer
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Kamen Rider W(atch)
Weather Arc
Episode 35-36: Beyond R
R stands for Revenge and Ryu.
Written by:
Keiichi Hasegawa,
Directed by:
Ryuta Tasaki
/The Rain Called Monster Approaches
The final 2-parter of the Weather Arc, before continuing to Foundation X Arc.
Terui is in Fuuto Wild Bird Sanctuary, of which he remembers Haruko dragging him there despite their different interests. It's shown that even without being revenge-driven, Terui would still be on more serious side (his reaction to the birds), but is significantly less tense. But the flashback was also about a more important event of Haruko congratulating Terui on his promotion, giving him a necklace. Terui then sees a little child asking an adult woman for birds, but she aggressively pushes the child away, who Terui helped after. Nice gesture of him for doing a cop's job of being helpful, while he also chases after the woman. As he intercepts her, he notices a Living Connector... a mutated one, as he interrogates her if she's a Gaia Memory user. A bit of reason of her standoffish behavior is said where she claims those who hang around her will die. Obviously Terui won't budge as it's not really clear, but the girl would pull an absolutely underhanded move, to claim Terui as pervert. This highlights unfortunate double standard of gender where men have the default monster status and the people around will mostly believe a woman's claim without taking context into account... including Shotaro and Akiko, who slaps Terui with a slipper before realizing who it is. And this shows a hypocrisy from the girl as well, she claims she wants to prevent others being hurt, yet she slanders anyway, and slander worse than murder. Shotaro and Akiko suffer the effects of the slander as well for being seen as the "pervert's friend".
As Terui deflected Shotaro's question back to him due to rejecting questions, Shotaro reveals that they're in the Sanctuary due to work, fulfilling some kid's request to investigate a bird enthusiast who suddenly got depressed and avoiding anyone. Shotaro however refused the kids' payment...which earns him another half-boiled mockery from Phillip (but no outbursts from Akiko, who is the chief and is the most concerned about payment). Shotaro identifies the bird enthusiast as Nagi Shimamoto.. which turns to be the girl Terui encountered earlier. Meanwhile in Museum, Isaka stole a Memory from Ryubee, and claims that he'll fulfill an oath from 10 years ago. As Saeko reminds him about Ryubee, Isaka reveals his treachery that he'd want to overthrow Ryubee and turn Saeko into the queen, and he claims he got the key to obtain the ultimate power for that.. in contrast of a megalomanical reveal, the key is revealed to be a ticket to Fuuto Wild Bird Sanctuary. Shotaro, Akiko, and Terui approach Nagi again to question her about the reason of her change in attitude. She's standoffish at first, but then talked about her fear due to her father being killed by Weather using
red
lightning in a raining day (and she got ill feelings for any rain too like present one), and Weather injecting Nagi with a Living Connector shortly after, claiming that they'll meet again. Other than being scared, Nagi claims that she can't ask anyone for help due to obvious reasons. Still though, Terui refers to Gaia Memory before albeit she never knew the term, but it's a hint that he knows more about it. But it's still better to talk than bottle it up, and luckily she talked to 2 Kamen Riders, and Terui would only thank her to clear it up, even
smiling
as he presents her his necklace as a good luck charm. Isaka promptly comes, as Terui henshins to Accel while declaring to protect Nagi, as Shotaro does the same to W. Weather uses his ability to control the heavy rain so it exclusively targets W, trapping him and presumably could've drown him. Accel got trapped in a stormy cloud that releases lightnings. With 2 Riders immobilized, Weather checks on Nagi, and claims that the port will develop further the more fearful Nagi gets, almost inserting the odd-shaped Memory he stole from Ryubee. As Weather mocks Terui's failure to protect, let alone revenge, W eventually turns Xtreme and frees himself from the rain, but Weather escapes. I guess this is a difficulty of 2-in-1 Rider for Xtreme that Xtreme had to absorb Phillip's body and fly to Shotaro's location, which can take some time? Nagi would hiss on Terui's failure despite his efforts as she runs off. If only Xtreme got a chance to show off against Weather in front of Nagi.
Phillip identifies the Memory Isaka used as Quetzalcoatlus, and Nagi had high level of compatibility with it. It's another time Isaka used a perfect candidate for a Memory to catalyze its development to take it back and use it himself, like what he did to Lily before, but Isaka waits until Nagi's Living Connector completely developed, and it's the reason he killed her father. The episode then reveals Isaka's backstory as he narrates to Saeko that he searched for a purpose in his life including becoming a doctor and studying biological field, but found it meaningless until he witnessed Terror Dopant's power, taking out several civilians. It's seen that he already had his depraved personality as he's only mesmerized by people being killed in front of him, instead of realizing that a doctor's job to save lives, but what made him threatening is however his power, which he begged Ryubee for such an absolute power, which he claims the Gaia Memory will come to him when he's worthy. He had gained many Gaia Memories and Living Connectors, but eventually he'd sought the very Terror Memory itself, and approaching Saeko was his means for that. But Saeko's only relaxed to know his true intentions as she believes Isaka can beat Ryubee. It obviously won't be shown due to the show's target... but both would likely have a sex there. Isaka's so intriguing to Saeko that even her cold and ruthless persona are tamed around him. Terui, with Akiko following after, approaches Shroud again to ask for more power, but Shroud refuses as he wasn't as revenge-driven as before, and refers to his failure of beating Isaka. So Isaka's mockery of him protecting was an indicator of Terui growing out of his revenge-driven demeanor. Terui threatens Shroud as Accel, and she finally instructs him to follow her, which later revealed to be a Honda motocross test.
Shotaro talks to Nagi in the Sanctuary, who this time agrees to explain some birds, which she gained interest due to her father working there. As Nagi asks him about Terui, Shotaro explains about him being similar that his family was killed by Isaka too, thus he feels obligated to protect similar victims like her. Again, she claims that she pushes others like Terui away for their own good as he'd die if he does so, but still, closing off to other people for their sake that doesn't need to resort into aggressive and hostile methods, it still makes her a jerk and can directly hurt others herself, like the kid or potentially Terui's reputation... living as someone who got undeserved infamy can be terrible too right. Being rude isn't the only way to deal with this problem (of keeping people distant)... and they aren't completely right due to good intentions. Shotaro assures her that Terui is strong exactly due to his determination to protect, which was also Sokichi's teaching. Isaka arrives and puts a demonstration of a Quetzalcoatlus copy into a red/green Macaw bird, turning it into a gigantic Quetzalcoatlus Dopant that takes Nagi hostage. Shotaro henshins as W and uses Hard Turbuler to catch up with the flying Dopant, but instead gets Accel's Gunner A. W then goes Xtreme and finishes off the Dopant with Bicker Charge Break, with the Bicker shield being used as a surfboard to fly up into the air.
/Surpass Them All
As Isaka holds Nagi in his grasp, it's revealed that her Living Connector hasn't developed to what Isaka would've expected. So despite her standoffish view, the Riders do get through her to feel a sliver of hope, reducing her fear. Xtreme then intervenes against Isaka, using Bicker Finalusion as Weather escapes. Not much but Nagi should witness that there's a Rider superior to Weather, W CycloneJokerXtreme. Meanwhile Shroud hands Terui Trial Memory which boasts super speed. Accel tries it, and with Trial form having a traffic light, it went from red to yellow first, turning him into Accel Booster, yellow version of his base form. He turns into the actual Trial Form shortly after, as the Trial Memory's light turns go, turning Accel into a sleeker final form, losing much of its armor. Funnily, it's (CMIIW) blatantly inaccurate that the traffic light on Trial Memory represents the color blue as 'go' instead of green, and thus Accel Trial is colored blue as well. At the Agency, indeed Nagi does believe that Terui can protect her, thus Terui's emotional support prevents her from being consumed fully by fear, but she lost the necklace. Accel Trial begins his...trial, firstly by dealing with a rockslide that Shroud detonated. However, Trial had a drawback, he's a fragile speedster; his brute power is low with his failure against a big rock, but Shroud explains that Trial's effective tactic is making full use of his speed; attacking quickly enough to deal an impressive amount of damage by numbers even if each individual attack is minor, and use evasion to keep from being slaughtered. But Trial is hard to control, as it electroutes itself, reverting him back to Terui. Shroud gives Terui the next
t
rial... completing a motocross course around 150-200 feet within 10s, which will make him able to master the Trial Memory.
Isaka is enjoying himself with hot towel on the face and Saeko (later taken over by Ryubee) shaving him. Ryubee reminisces about Isaka begging for a Memory to him, and talks about his greed as he had gained Weather Memory and seduced Saeko. But of course, greed won't stop as Isaka declares that he'll defeat Ryubee, with the imaginary scene of Weather flying with Quetzalcoatlus' power. As Ryubee was holding the shaving razor, I was kinda terrified for the next scene here as it can potentially have Ryubee using the razor to mutilate Isaka or something (albeit my airing will probably censor). But I guess human butchering is more scary to show to children than detonating monsters (and W had the Dopants not killed most of the time), so Ryubee just throws it away and doubts Isaka accomplishing that, turning into Terror Dopant instead to melt him. Saeko turns into Taboo to interfere as well, she too declares rebellion to her father before they escape. The Honda bike had been modified by Shroud to function like Trial's Maximum Drive, but Terui repeatedly fails, with each failure getting him electrouted, with Shroud encouraging him to fill himself with revenge and hatred each time. Terui's latest stint had him fall of his bike and goes unconscious, and Akiko reports the situation to Shotaro. Nagi however thinks it's due to her losing Terui's necklace, and she slips out of the office to find it. Wakana finally speaks up against Saeko to express her feelings about Isaka that he's only using her, and reminds her about their family business as well as the love provided by her father, but Saeko would also confess that Ryubee never loved her unlike Wakana, and used her as untrustworthy slave, with an evil laugh. She then offers a choice if Wakana is with her or against her. Wakana views Saeko as acting strange and thus is deaf to reason.... like she's always been like this? Like her speaking up here, I'll also do it; honestly, I think since her setup in ep. 13-14, Wakana was kind of just there, mostly rolling along with what Museum does with occassional questioning, with ep. 23-24 as an exception (the other one had her experimented by Isaka). Her refusal to use Claydoll Dopant seems to instead relegate her into more minor roles, the character development she got was mostly used to tolerate Saeko more (her disdain is fully aimed at Isaka here). Saeko thus turns into Taboo to attack Wakana, but she got saved by Mick as Smilodon Dopant.
Nagi finds the necklace, but also Isaka who figures out about Terui's influence and decides to slaughter him before her eyes to complete her fear-induced Living Connector. Said Terui was reminded of Haruko before he wakes up. Shortly after Terui got a Beetle Phone call from... Isaka, who tells him that he kidnapped Nagi. Terui resolved to complete the lap under 10s, but Shroud is puzzled as he did it for the sake of protecting instead of revenge. Like Phillip before, Shroud can only think of cold detached traits as strength, only that Phillip already grew out of it. Indeed, Terui's lap now is recorded as 9.9s by Shroud, thus he pass, but as Terui leaves, it's revealed that Terui actually set 10.7s, thus he still didn't pass the trial. Shroud practically ditches Terui as he's no longer as revenge-driven as before, showing that she's ruthless and see others merely as a tool for her own ends, fitting her preference of cold detached traits; ignoring an obvious proof that even if he didn't pass, doesn't change the fact that Terui drastically improved in his lap time here, compared to the previous ones' 12-13s. Progress is still important to take into account too instead of just results alone. Meanwhile, the feelings between Isaka and Saeko turns mutual too, as Isaka too, now admits his feelings to her instead of only using her as a tool albeit it's odd for him, and presumably had a kiss with her, as both of them were covered by Isaka's umbrella while doing so. Isaka even now takes an interest at Saeko's real body instead of the Dopant one.
Isaka and Terui had their awaited final battle and turns into Weather and Accel respectively, and Accel quickly turns into Trial after battling some red lightnings, and makes use of his super speed to dodge the lightning onslaught from Weather, including the concentrated one with stormy cloud. Trial then unleashes his Maximum Drive Machine Gun Spike, as Akiko told him the truth, but Shotaro had faith on his abilities. After dodging further explosive attacks from Weather, Accel delivers rapid-fire kicks to Weather while T-shaped energy treadmarks. The number of kicks from a source I read is listed as 49, but Climax Heroes had the attack dealing 98 hit. Nevertheless, Trial succeeds in completing his Maximum Drive, nailing it within 9.8s, as going through 10s will forcibly revert him into human form. Weather Memory finally breaks, as the evil Isaka is unable to comprehend the concept of goodness, where Terui is strong due to his desire to protect instead of hatred; a toku staple of "protecting someone is stronger than feelings of revenge", but kinda needed for Terui's growth. Terui frees Nagi, and him breaking the Quetzalcoatlus Memory erases Nagi's Living Connector as well. Meanwhile, it's not a mere Memory Break for Isaka, he finally suffered the consequence of his power lust as well, as his excessive use of Gaia Memories made his multiple Living Connectors go out of control and devours him, leaving nothing behind; a rather scary death for children's show, but even Shotaro, who spares criminals, would feel that it's fitting for him. Before dying, he warns that the heroes' fates have been sealed by Shroud. Speaking of multiple Memories, though it's shown that Weather can combine with Quetzalcoatlus in an imaginary scene, was it necessary for him to inject so many Memories on him when he only uses Weather? Weather had multiple powers, but all of it seems to come from it. Him using Weather seems to prove that quality =/= quantity, as well as Trial defeating him that he only relies on super speed to Weather's varied powers. Saeko witnesses Isaka's demise as well, and her having actual feelings to him made her fall to her knees, before Shroud behind her. Nagi was able to smile again (and this even extends to Terui) as she explains birds again to kids, of which they thank Shotaro, but now Shotaro admits that Terui is the MVP this time as he directs the kids to him. Terui again almost utters his catchphrase of his question refusal... but he's shown to be softer against kids similar to secondary Riders before him as his softer trait (like the kid he helped from Nagi at the beginning), thus he pauses to instead tell them to not ask so many questions at once.
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