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What are you watching? (Kamen Rider Edition)
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Kamen Rider Zi-O Episode 17 & 18
IWAE! I promised I would rewatch these episodes on January 1st 2022! On the dawn of a new year, truly the moment has come to keep that promise!
Honestly, the date is just a convenient excuse. These episodes compose my favorite arc of the show for three very important reasons. First is the introduction of Shinobi, who is a ninja and therefore awesome by default. Second is the introduction of Kamen Rider Woz, who has an awesome design and will eventually become even more awesome when the real Woz inherits the title. Third is the prelude to what I consider the most exciting part of the show, the coming of the Day of Oma and the alternate future of Geiz Revive threatening to negate it, which leads to some excellent development for Sougo, Geiz and Woz (and some not-so-excellent development for Tsukuyomi). It also references a certain lyric from Over Quartzer, "Nexus Future", cleverly foreshadowing the outcome of two futures merging in to one.
The moral of the Shinobi arc references another lyric about, "believing in your future self", which in turn is a reference to the EXCITE lyric, "You gotta believe!" It's relevant to 2019 Kagura Rentarou, who has the desire to protect others but feels too weak to accomplish that, but it's also extremely relevant to Sougo's entire character arc, since he understandably doesn't have much incentive to believe in his path of becoming the greatest kindest demon king after seeing his future self being basically the opposite of that. But maybe that's Sougo's strength, his refusal to let the future define him. After hearing White Woz's story, it pretty much confirms what he already decided. If the future is in flux, then the same is true of his destiny. Oma Zi-O may have wiped out all the Riders, but here's the present Sougo, fighting to give his successor to the title of Kamen Rider, Rentarou, a future. The future can be better, you can be better, but only if you believe. I think that's a pretty fitting moral to have for New Year.
This scene provides some serious meta comedy on a rewatch, considering how Zi-O has like the least amount of bike scenes in the franchise. I mean, isn't that just the story of a modern Rider's life? Sougo finally remembers he has a portable bike in his pocket and then this happens. White Woz is such a troll!
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