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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Kabuto
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01-22-2021, 06:02 PM
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KAMEN RIDER KABUTO - EPISODE 42
Wow, a set of episodes by Ishida where everything is on fire by the end! That's almost as surprising as me taking a positive stance on an episode Die didn't like!
I mean, these aren't
great
episodes, by any stretch, of course, but... gosh, most of the stupid things just didn't bother me, I guess? Like, I want to have some stellar defense prepared here, but even I can tell I'm probably just easily amused by anything with a Kamen Rider in it. The whole Anti Mimic Bomb plot is nonsense, just like Die said. I got nothing to try and talk that premise up. There's a chance we missed something in the exposition, I suppose; more likely, it's simply is totally and completely illogical. But I'm willing to roll with that, because any Kabuto story not involving Hiyori is automatically fighting an uphill battle for my attention, which means I'm already trying to meet whatever it's doing halfway.
I can easily forgive some boneheaded plotting if it uses that to do something fun or interesting enough, and that's where my opinion splits hard with Die's, because I overall found this to be a surprisingly satisfying conclusion to a two-parter I didn't expect to like all that much? A lot of it doesn't hold up to scrutiny, which is where it definitely stumbles
big time
, but the broad strokes of this one hit a bunch of notes I ended up thinking were pretty neat.
I liked Kagami in it, is maybe a big one to mention. It's worth noting I'm definitely sure he wanted to save Tadokoro from the very start; he's shown blaming himself for him getting taken hostage in his very first scene, and I think throughout the episode, that's the key thing motivating him to
want
to go and bust up the Worms holding everyone captive. He's torn anyway, because, first of all, I guess it's bad if the Worms have that bomb, and I'll take the show at face value there, but also, much more importantly, because he thinks his dad is asking him to be an unthinking pawn. That's the crux of his beef with the Natives, too. He can't stand this idea that his whole life is just some big script being written by someone else, and I like where the episode goes from there.
I thought it was solid turning point for Kagami to consider, with some prodding from Tendou, that maybe his dad wanted him for the job of negotiator
because of who he is as individual with his own free will
, rather than in spite of it. That his dad both knows him well enough that he'd go there and try something stupid and heroic, and cares for him enough to tacitly encourage it. And sure enough, Kagami gets his groove back, goes in there, does something stupid and heroic, and manages to beat the odds with his friends by his side. There are a lot of details in the middle that don't make sense, but I thought it stuck a nice enough landing. I especially appreciated how it built off of existing plot points, too. It's cool that Kagami's history with baseball is still relevant, for example, with the big emotional beat at the end even being his dad showing up with what is presumably Kagami's old glove from high school, since it has his name on it. Kagami's dad is in no way a character I'm invested in, so I don't want to downplay the achievement of this episode for making me care even slightly.
And the Tsurugi subplot, I mean, that thread is
golden
. Way bigger fan of that comedy than it sounds like Die was. It's wonderfully surreal in a way I have to imagine Ishida helped bring to life. The more absurd it got, the better it was for me, with the absolute highlight being Tsurugi transforming in his stage magician getup, throwing his wand into the air and having his sword come back down. Utterly delightful, and I appreciate the way it tried to tie back into the main plot thematically in the end, even if that wasn't ~entirely~ airtight either. I
definitely
loved Tendou telling him how messed up his interest in Misaki has been though. Much like Kagami, he's kind of responsible for all his own problems here, and in both cases, that seems to be the intent. It's sort of like a mini-redemption story for everybody... except Yaguruma, who is clearly being laughed at harder by the writers more than any characters in the show could possibly match.
Yeah, at the end of the day, I don't really
question
Die's animosity towards this one, but I don't feel an ounce of it myself. I thought this was a very enjoyable episode, despite its many flaws.
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