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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Zi-O
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04-24-2022, 08:02 PM
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KAMEN RIDER ZI-O EPISODE 32 - “2001 - UNKNOWN MEMORIES”
I mean, if you have to do a story where Tsukuyomi decides not to investigate the Troubling Mysteries of her past until later in the season, Shouichi’s the Rider you want to be the guest-star.
He’s a guy that never valued his past more than his present, so that’s
absolutely
going to be the lesson he imparts to Tsukuyomi. (Also, his past was just dumb stuff on a boat with an Agito Jesus, so you can see why he wouldn’t advise anyone to dig into their repressed memories.) It helps that it’s a lesson that the whole cast ends up learning at different points, making it more of an overall theme of the series than some random one-off life lesson. In the same way that Geiz was so focused on the needs of the future that he risked losing a friendship in the present, Tsukuyomi is so spun around about the Troubling Mysteries of her past that she runs out on the friends who need her right now. In both cases, it’s an overemphasis on the individual over the group. The Time Orphans take on all this
weight
, and view their problems as Their Problems, rather than something that their friends can help with. More than that, they miss the ways that their worries can be alleviated by focusing on the connections they have right this second. Keeping things present-tense can also keep you grounded, and it can let you better appreciate the support systems you have available to you. Probably pretty tough for four-dimensional commandos to understand, but it’s something worth keeping in mind.
The rest of the episode was good, but nothing that’s really worth unpacking.
Sometimes that happens! The whole back half of this episode is a gigantic battle against Evil Agito and a bunch Another Agito mooks, and it was definitely fun to watch. It just… it’s a big fight! It’s got a new song! (I think! I mostly don’t notice the music in these shows!) A ton of things explode!
I mostly don’t care!
Your mileage may vary (and I’m sure at least one person is going to tell me that the fight at the end of Episode 32 is one of their favorite Zi-O moments), but I found the whole back half of this episode to be entertaining, but weightless. There’s no real strategy to defeating the villains; it’s just overwhelming power. I don’t really understand why the Agito Ridewatch creates an exact duplicate of Agito, instead of the usual Another Rider thing. (I don’t even understand how the Anotherer Agito even exists without a Ridewatch as the power source?) The episode basically ended for me after the scene with Tsukuyomi and Shouichi at Restaurant Agito. The rest was fun, but nothing worth digging into.
As long as I’m griping a bit about an episode I enjoyed… like, Anotherer Agito wasn’t
anybody?
Just some monster? That’s– that’s
it?
Why was it so dead set on attacking G3 guys? What was even the strategy, besides causing mayhem? Was it just to get Shouichi to appear? If so, why not target him directly? And what was the plan once Heure had the Agito Ridewatch? Part of the reason I didn’t care much about the final battle is that the escalation of the Anotherer Agito plot was so tough to follow. There’s a ton of monsters to fight, but it’s pretty vague about what the monsters or villains are even trying to achieve in this story.
This episode ended up being a step down from the last one for me, but still a fun installment with plenty to recommend it. Great to see Shouichi in action, especially as Agito Trinity. (Woz’z absolute
fanboy freakout
was an episode highlight, if not a series highlight.) Tsukuyomi’s story, despite the COMPLETE AND TOTAL FAILURE of never saying Tsukuyomi Is Tsukuyomi, was a fun riff on a series staple. The villain and monster stuff was poorly explained and seemed to be only concerned with providing bodies to be detonated, but those detonations were pretty fun to watch.
…okay, now everyone can talk about the song during the fight while I try not to lose my mind over next episode’s return of two of my favorite Hibiki characters.
YES, I SAID IT.
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