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The Beat Riders Saga Episode 3: Shock! The Rival's Banana Transformation!? Written by: Gen Urobuchi, Directed by: Takayuki Shibasaki (Ryuta Tasaki for the first 2 episodes) With newfound power from Sengoku Driver as Gaim, when not fighting, Kouta further uses it to benefit daily activities, mainly, to increase the Team Gaim's standings, skyrocketing their standings from 9th to 5th, and showing that Armored Riders themselves can directly battle in the arena in place of summoning Inves with Lockseeds, the Rider vs Inves Battle type of Inves Game. I wonder if Rider's fight in the Inves Game arena is easier or not compared to the Rider's usual fight against Inves in real world, the Inves in arena is much smaller than Inves in real world. The next scene jumps into the in-universe education system, Heaven's Tree Private High School, which seems to be a part of Yggdrasill with its decorations anywhere, and a class that has the seat formation resembling the one's used in theatres. 2 girls are talking about Inves Game where Gaim beats up the Inves by himself, who considers it stupid, but envies the free time that Team Gaim has that they can waste, while another student, a boy, is a no-nonsense type to tell off others to focus on studying and not wasting time themselves, pointing to Micchy as an example....not awaring that Micchy is a Team Gaim member himself (should likely an example that you're allowed to both study and...live more!), albeit Japan's a country focused on study and work). Micchy is shown to have different persona outside of Team Gaim, he's reserved and closed-off, and seems to be hostile to his peers, including the students that scolded the girls, telling him to not bother him and saw him as a rival too... something that I feel is a bit similar to Kaito's competitive approach to his peers. After school, Micchy switches to his Team Gaim attire, and meets up with Kouta, who, wears his Team Gaim jacket too, the one with Date Masamune in the back, signifying Kouta as being back on the team after spending time wrecking his room in comical effects to look for it, fearing it'll be eaten by moths. Micchy clarifies, for now, that Team Gaim is really important to him that it's all where his friends is and act as himself. So apparently for now, Micchy's true self is the cheerful and friendly one showed to Team Gaim members. Micchy laments that he cannot carry the team's weight unlike Kouta who can fight the Inves by himself Gaim, but as expected Kouta would console Micchy as only doing his best for the team, claiming himself as lucky to find the belt...oh man, I'd like it if Kouta spoke about Yuuya here for the Sengoku Driver, I'd like to see how the team would respond to it regarding Yuuya. The other Team Gaim members are also in awe watching Kouta's performance as Gaim in Inves Game. The interaction between Mai and the other Team Gaim contrasts with Micchy and Kouta's reaction above, where the whole team cheers for Kouta and expects to rely on Kouta to get on the top, but Mai had the more strict take as the co-leader, who chastises the team to try pulling their own weight and not just sit back, though it's likely also chiefly from Kouta quitting the team before. Kouta comes, and Mai's dispute with him confinues further as she pulls him to the outside. Firstly Mai questions about Kouta's jobs, which he said he had, again, quit, and that he re-joins Team Gaim to act as a stand in for the missing Yuuya. Then it's explored further about the reason of her strife with him, that Kouta's someone who is too concerned with putting others above him, that he had too severe case of this as he got a case of codependency and outright lack of care for their own. While heroism is an admirable trait, addiction to it will turn it into a flaw instead. So apparently Mai knows about Kouta better than the other members of Team Gaim despite her less favorable reaction to him... and the other members of the team ships them, though I'd like it if Mai also takes into account the benefit that befalls on Team Gaim currently (except if the team's laziness is considered as disadvantage to her). Micchy reacts to the team shipping them less enthusiastically (compared to his persona in Team Gaim)... foreshadowing a part of the memetic nature of his character known by the KR fandom. Team Invitto, led by Hideyasu Jonouchi, witnesses another Team Gaim's Inves Game with Team Raid Wild, planning to beat Team Raid Wild when they win, but Team Gaim wins with Armored Rider Gaim in a Rider vs Inves Battle, elevating their rank into 3rd in the standings, which enrages Kaito, enough to throw a card at TV screen to break it, but not for how Team Gaim raises in rank, but for the way Kouta uses his belt. Sid plans for a twist in the Inves Game and calls Kaito. Kouta goes home and hands his winning, which is more than his usual job, to Akira, but Akira refuses the money, and Kouta receives another lecture from Akira that, job is meant to help strangers living better lives ahead of getting money, refering to Kouta's previous 2 jobs (delivering food and painting buildings). Beat Riders job, in comparison, is only having fun with his friends and making only the group happy, and Akira views it as merely game compared to real jobs, like her current job or Kouta's previous jobs. As Kouta's new guardian after their parents' deaths, I guess I can see that Kouta takes up from Akira for his noble qualities, from how Akira views job as a platform to do altruistic things to the society instead of personal gain (mainly, making money for living). I also feel Kouta is put on tough situation here, that both girls had constrasting things for Kouta to follow, where Mai chastises Kouta for treating Team Gaim as childish stuff (likely taking it up from Akira too as that's her view) and his selflessness, while Akira chastises Kouta for ditching real job and his selfishness (at least in Akira's eyes). Kouta laments in Drupers about how he feels like he's helping others (his team) in Team Gaim, as if it's not enough (it depends if, he'll ignore others who need help in favor of his team or not), but he's consoled by G̶o̶r̶o̶ Bando who gives him a free parfait to console him, establishing Bando as another parent-like figure to Kouta, in a similar vein as Kazari from Kuuga. Shortly after Kaito comes to Drupers, and explains the reason of his disdain to Kouta's ownership of the belt, which is social darwinism; that he doesn't go out of his way to use his power to crush others and make them suffer, which Kaito enjoys as a taste of victory, but instead just using the power to defend themselves from the others who challenged them without making any enemies especially worthy ones, so Kaito feels that enemies equal greatness. Kaito feels it's especially a waste for them to not utilize the power to defeat others easily and take their stage away by going out and challenging them. Yeah, Kaito's views are like that, but people are different. Kouta may have different philosophy for Beat Riders stuff, that he likely only wants to make sure that Team Gaim had a stage to dance, so he only defends themselves, but let others have their dance elsewhere, likely because, Kouta's enjoyment is when others are happy and content, and likely will let other teams dance elsewhere to provide enjoyment for people in that area, even better when there are 2 or more teams performing at the same time in their respective stages elsewhere. But Kouta's success as Armored Rider Gaim seems to also went to his head, and he's irritated enough by Kaito to accept Kaito's challenge without thinking things through. Mai with a new hairstyle questions about taking a challenge without anything at stakes like the team or stage, but Micchy clarifies this is not a game, but a duel. Kaito reveals his Rider form for the first time, Armored Rider Baron, with Banana (and the unsymmetrical Banana Arms armor!) motif. Baron's name and color scheme, which is red (and white/yellow), is a reference to Manfred von Richthofen, whose alias is the Red Baron. He also had BanaSpear as a weapon in Banana Arms, which is a spear, making it as a reference from another secondary Rider in another multiple Rider series, Ren/Knight's Sword Vent from Ryuki. Sid implements the twist in the game shortly after, which is a Pass 1 game, where both Armored Riders are given Lock Vehicles, Sakura Hurricane for Gaim and Rose Attacker for Baron. While they're racing, a green radar shows up in their bike which isn't a speedometer, and then an event happens. I don't know if this will be explained later, but this is still too nonsensical for me to process, the Riders are suddenly surrounded by petals, and floats while rolling uncontrollably to be transported into the Helheim Forest. They're then assaulted by the Inves, where Gaim urges both to run, which is treated as spineless move again by Baron, who stays to fight off the Inves, while Kouta struggles with a flying Inves (at least the Musou Saber can shoot!). It ends with Baron's finisher, Spear Victory, Squash version, where Baron stabs the opponent in a projection of giant banana. I'd like to see the fruit aspect in the finisher more, like the banana being peeled and taking the Inves to pieces in the process, don't think this one is as good as the Orange Charge Gaim Orange Arms had, the banana just feels like usual attack projection to me.
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05-28-2021, 08:32 AM | #16583 |
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The Beat Riders Saga Episode 4: Birth! The Third Rider is Grapes! Written by: Gen Urobuchi, Directed by: Takayuki Shibasaki So it's revealed here that how Gaim and Baron got transported into Helheim Forest is a mechanic from Lock Vehicles, that if they reached certain speed, the bike (which both base models are Honda CRF250L) would generate the portal into Helheim Forest and transport the Riders there. Kouta reveals to Kaito that he had known this dimension before, the place where he found the Sengoku Driver. After the reveal, both Kouta and Kaito acted according to their character for a while in the forest. Kouta, being a team player and people person, would continue to search for Yuuya in the forest, but after witnessing some Yggdrasill researchers, another Rider, the white Armored Rider Zangetsu with melon motif, which later is revealed to be Takatora, hunts him, while also showing another Lockseed ability to grow it into another Shika Inves. Zangetsu didn't only beat Gaim relentlessly until near death, but also offering him his philosophy that the world is full of evil beyond reason, thus he had to fight him without question or hesitation, otherwise his life has no worth and deserve to die. Someone like Kouta obviously would opt to not fight another human being. While Zangetsu isn't a moral person for perpetuating the world's evil based on his beliefs, this also can be a lesson for Kouta, someone can learn from anyone regardless of their morals, but implemented in different way, namely for Kouta, to recognize better regarding which are good or bad, and deal with either better for his pursuit of helping people. Kaito pulls a smart move from this discovery, where he searches up as many new Lockseeds as he needed to benefit him, albeit he didn't make use of it in the Inves fight there. And this isn't necessarily a selfish or ruthless move, most people on any morality would also benefit from that. Kaito then leaves with activating Lock Vehicle mechanic again... though I feel that it would be hard to find a road that is suitable to in a forest.... However, as shown in later scene, Kaito didn't use some of the Lockseeds he obtained, but instead form a partnership with other Beat Rider teams, Jonouchi of Team Invitto and Ryoji of Team Raid Wild by giving both of them Lockseeds. Their reaction differs where the hot-headed Ryoji objects at the idea of working to another team, while the calculating Jonouchi sees the benefit in this deal as they'll gain significant advantage in Inves Games with their new Lockseeds, and alliances provide stronger defense against Team Gaim. Despite Kaito telling the kid earlier to rely on own strength, Kaito mumbles that obtaining another team is also a form of strength... so there's likely criteria of what kind of person Kaito agrees to work with. In Kureshima house, which is big and luxurious, Takatora questions about Micchy's late return, where Micchy claims it's due to extra session in cram school. It's shown that Micchy had pressure and big shoes to fill, which is likely the source of his messed up persona as Micchy is obliged to work alongside Takatora in Yggdrasill later, and thus he needs to cast aside any distractions and get clear path in life, where he seems to be forced to get perfect grades and the highest among his peers. Akira calls Mai and Micchy to her and Kouta's apartment, so Akira also knows Kouta's friends and relies on them too when Kouta's on distress, which is, curled up in his room here. As Kouta recounts what happened to him, he's terrified of Zangetsu's power, but also learns the real price of gaining Sengoku Driver that, being an Armored Rider isn't a game, it's a serious life-or-death fighting, and he won't stop hunting him until he's dead. It's a wake-up call for Kouta to stop acting too carefree in life. While other toku can make the hero vow to defeat Zangetsu, Gaim is a show that deconstructs toku stuff, where Gaim portrays this moment as traumatizing to the point of Kouta not even touching his belt, and vows to stop henshin. The dispute between Kouta and Mai regarding his membership of Team Gaim seems to be solved for good here as Mai opts to hide the belt and Lockseed and tells him he's free to visit Team Gaim again with a reassuring smile, conveying her need for Team Gaim to not solely rely on Kouta in a mellower way (which got debated by Micchy not long after). Like Kouta to Kaito, Mai also reveals that she knew Helheim Forest as Kouta tags along with and saved her there, and explains the reason to take the belt, she's now doing something regarding Kouta's hero complex, to keep him from hurting himself to help others. Micchy however objects that there's nothing wrong to be hurt when helping others, and if Mai thinks otherwise, then she doesn't understand the good Kouta had done to them. So, while it's ok to encourage others to be independent, Mai had to appreciate outside help like Kouta's better. And while hero complex is a flaw, someone being a hero tends to injure themselves a lot in the process, enforcing its risks and natural progress within it... at least among Kamen Rider series. Micchy goes home and watches a footage of Team Gaim practicing a dance, and from Kouta's big help as Armored Rider and Mai's insistence to be an independent team, Micchy vows to change, and goes to Sid to get himself a Lockseed, but being a Kureshima family, Sid tells Micchy that he only gives Sengoku Driver to specific people, and had to act carefully regarding his connection to Kureshima (being an influental family as the dad has high position in Yggdrasill), that if Takatora is known as careless to public and that Sid's the reason for it, he'd not be able to walk in Zawame City anymore. Micchy however, didn't budge and uses up his family name too to make Sid agree, that he's the one to fear in the long term, not Takatora, and it'd not be wise for Sid to get on Micchy's bad side, which earns compliment from Sid, and another showing of Micchy's true nature as "Kureshima ruthless", mumbling to himself that he's not the well-mannered Kureshima son. Team Gaim is dancing on their stage without Mai (who looks at the Orange Lockseed), before Team Invitto comes to challenge them into an Inves Game, Micchy is revealed to have solved the deal with Sid, to Mai and Kouta's (who is watching in Beat Riders Hotline in another girl's tablet) surprise, using a Sengoku Driver to transform into a grape-motif Armored Rider with Budou Arms, who DJ Sagara names as Ryugen due to him being a gunslinger with Chinese flavor and shooting foes like a dragon's breath.
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The Beat Riders Saga Episode 5: Revival! Ichigo Arms of Friendship! Written by: Gen Urobuchi, Directed by: Takayuki Shibasaki So it's a mistake for other Beat Riders team to think that Team Gaim will be easy to get through as there's another Armored Rider there too, Micchy as Ryugen. Personally I'd think, so far Ryugen's moves have the least fruit-theme other than the color, including the finisher where it shoots purple-colored beams despite the grape-like formation at the start, albeit there's dragon motif beam. Here another one of Micchy's nature revealed, that his dream is filled with....him watching Mai dance, and later Alternative Mai giving a warning to him about cannot going back after getting Sengoku Driver, showing Micchy's obsessive crush on Mai. Micchy wakes up from that and realizing that him getting Sengoku Driver isn't a dream... somehow Sengoku Driver can override even Micchy's crush on Mai. Micchy then narrates to Team Gaim that Team Baron has extended its partnerships to other teams, adding Popup, Souten, and Red Hot in the mix, which has obvious advantages of keeping things in check and reduces potential fighting. Then this part touches upon the part that I had question before, of Team Gaim joining with Team Baron. So Team Gaim's take of it is that Micchy thinks Team Baron only handpicks good dancers (even if there are an audience that prefers Team Gaim's dancing to Team Baron's one...) to be used as their backup dancers, which isn't the way of dancing Team Gaim want, and thus they had to protect their stage. Kouta comes and questions if Micchy is Ryugen, which he confirms is. From Kouta's previous trauma, he warns Micchy about the prices that comes within the power, where it's not a game and the wielder will be exposed to the dangers of Helheim Forest. Micchy knows full well that power has a price. It shows the depressing part beneath a life good number of people longs for, having influence, wealth, and position, like what being Kureshima family is, at first glance Micchy seems to have fulfilling life, but Micchy actually longs for the kind of life Kouta had, which is living free, and for him, Kouta's the lucky one, while living like that made Micchy only shaping himself to be what others want, and his life is trapped, and thus having belt means it's the first time for Micchy to fight his own battles. This talk likely shows the benefit of not living normally and not becoming something big. Kaito hears that Jonouchi lost the Inves Game with Team Gaim as they had Ryugen, and feels that playing ruler isn't as interesting as he thought. As a social darwinist, Kaito wants for the strong to be given the credit they deserve, to not neglect them and only noticing "the weak", clarifying that he's not that heartless to suggest just banishing "the weak" from the streets, and gives chance to those he thinks has hope like Team Gaim. I can see this being a real problem in various aspect of life too, where someone/something "A" not getting as much recognition as the more popular "B", despite "A" having quality on par or even better than "B", which can be unfair, and startes the talk and discussion about underrated stuff. Though ego seems to take part of Kaito's philosophy here as well, as he wants he himself alone at the top, instead of anyone strong, as Team Baron is enraged for an audience prefering Team Gaim's dance, which should likely fit for "the strong" as the performance is able to impress the audience. Later Ryoji and Jonouchi talks again about their alliance with Kaito, where the rash Ryoji is easily swayed by the benefits of the alliance like the Lockseeds they got, but the calculating Jonouchi sees better, that they're only used by Kaito as his pets and lapdogs, and he, tugging Ryoji with him, planned to revolt by letting themselves playing along with Kaito by raising their team's level to Team Baron's, so that when they revolt, they won't be at disadvantage fighting against Team Baron. The inner conflict for both of them and Kaito also shows the downside of relying on power to create alliances, namely by bribing others working with them (Kaito giving a portion of his power like Lockseeds to the ones he want to work with), while it can be an easy way to make allies, the alliance won't be genuine, they'd only cooperate when they would get the benefit out of it, and backfiring can happen like the infighting out of their personal interest, or them outright overthrowing the dealer. Sid overhears those 2's conversations and decided to make a deal... Kouta meets up with Mai who is practicing dancing to ask about what she thinks regarding Micchy, as the belt is dangerous, and chastises her to not stop him making the deal. But for now, she claims about how she didn't because both her and Micchy are like-minded, that for now as both Mai and Micchy are fighting for themselves to keep dancing with Team Gaim, and thus the belt won't be dangerous to Micchy, which I guess for him to only use the belt sparingly in the face of challenges issued to team Gaim... and I like that this will be proven wrong not long after as Chucky tells Mai that Team Baron issues a challenge to Team Gaim. Kaito mocks Kouta as someone cowardly to stop fighting as Armored Rider, but Micchy, who for now idolizes Kouta, angrily tells him to not judge Kouta. But to the surprise of Ryugen, Baron also fights by carrying 2 other Inves, making it an unfair (though not cheating) fight, believing that power should be used to their full potential.... a̶n̶d̶ ̶I̶ ̶a̶g̶r̶e̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶K̶a̶i̶t̶o̶ ̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶d̶u̶c̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶m̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶f̶u̶l̶l̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶R̶i̶d̶e̶r̶'̶s̶ ̶p̶o̶w̶e̶r̶s̶,̶ ̶e̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶c̶l̶i̶m̶a̶t̶i̶c̶ ̶f̶i̶g̶h̶t̶s̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶n̶e̶g̶l̶e̶c̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶n̶e̶o̶-̶h̶e̶i̶s̶e̶i̶'̶s̶ ̶u̶p̶g̶r̶a̶d̶e̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶D̶r̶i̶v̶e̶'̶s̶ ̶T̶r̶i̶d̶o̶r̶o̶n̶ ̶T̶y̶p̶e̶ ̶u̶n̶u̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶p̶o̶w̶e̶r̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶m̶e̶a̶n̶ ̶I̶'̶d̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶c̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶o̶v̶e̶r̶r̶i̶d̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶t̶e̶x̶t̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶,̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶a̶ ̶h̶e̶r̶o̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶f̶i̶g̶h̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶ ̶w̶e̶a̶k̶e̶r̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶s̶p̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶e̶t̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶o̶k̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶u̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶o̶u̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶e̶x̶p̶l̶a̶n̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶t̶e̶x̶t̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶m̶a̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶f̶u̶l̶l̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶p̶o̶w̶e̶r̶.̶ Kouta and Mai come to the battlefield, watching Ryugen got overwhelmed by Baron and 2 Inves. It's also shown that normal human cannot interfere in the area they're fighting, where Kouta got bounced back. Kouta just begs for Ryugen to give up, but Mai explains that he won't because of his respect to Kouta, that as Kouta's watching, he wants to elevate himself into Kouta's level. Kouta decides to become Armored Rider again by this, and asks Mai to take the belt and Lockseed to him, assuring her that Kouta will fight for himself this time, which seems to live up that Kouta boasts that he's the only one that can use the belt, explaining his wider experience to it compared to Micchy's, and apparently feeling adult now as he accepts the power and is responsible on what he'd want to do with it, and transforms to Gaim, with awesome visuals of Gaim punching the stage apart (though I wonder if this move frees the Inves from the stage...actually endangering others), where Baron also thinks it as a proof that power is irresistible, someone wouldn't want to be weak for long. In the fight, Gaim, for the first time, objects against Baron's philosophy, where to him, power is a chance to benefit others, to be shared to people, not just being kept by "the strong" to show off, making others become strong too like inspiring them to get back or encouraging them, where they would be filled with courage. While it's good for the series to finally give the more helpful, positive take regarding power here that can be emulated, it's questionable to me regarding Mai and Kouta's interaction earlier, as it's partly something that drives Kouta back into fighting... is Mai a toxic friend influence that encourages Kouta to become (more) selfish and he'd only get the belt after he becomes that, or it's still a criticism to hero complex, but conveyed rather poorly by only talking about fighting for themselves making it sound like purely selfish philosophy (along with refering him as idiot)? There's Kouta claiming directly to fight for himself as Gaim and then getting the belt for the former, but there's Gaim pushing his view about power as something that should be shared to others for the latter. Ryugen gives Gaim the Ichigo Lockseed, and it's used to turn Gaim into Ichigo Arms, who utilizes Ichigo Kunai, which can be repeatedly thrown for ranged attack, like Ryugen's Budou Ryuhou. Gaim and Ryugen later defeats the 2 Inves, where Ichigo Arms' finisher is Kunai Burst, which is Gaim launching a strawberry projection to rain kunais on the opponent, which I feel had more fruit motif than Ryugen's, making use of the strawberry's seeds (cmiiw) as the kunai rain. There's a surprise after this though, where as currently allies for Team Baron, Ryoji and Jonouchi steps in, and they too, got Sengoku Drivers, which they use to henshin into Armored Rider Kurokage and Gridon respectively, refered as 4th and 5th Armored Riders by Team Gaim... hello, something wrong here, "Zangetsu: Am I a joke to you?". The episode ends with Takatora and Sid discussing about Sid handing Sengoku Belts to 5 different people already, and Takatora questioning about the benefit of doing that, which Sid thinks it's a benefit for one of them to solve the mystery of Helheim Forest. Sid also offers Takatora a file of Sengoku Driver users. And so it ends for me talking about Gaim for this week, as the show is aired from Monday to Friday on the TV, no weekend airings!
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Oh well, actually the show aired Sunday for 2 episodes at once, a bit of misleading info on TV where it mentions it airs from Monday to Friday, it should be Sunday to Friday, with Saturday as exception. I watched these 2 on internet as usual then.
Kamen Rider Gaim watch The Beat Riders Saga Episode 6: Durian Rider, Go to War! Episode 7: Great Ball Watermelon, Big Bang! Written by: Gen Urobuchi, Directed by: Satoshi Morota The 2 new Armored Riders, Kurokage/Ryoji and Gridon/Jonouchi (to his dismay for the naming), while previously they're likely meant to help Baron fight Gaim and Ryugen, changed their mind to betray Baron immediately instead, using the conclusion that to rise to the top, they must focus on the most threatening one among Beat Riders, and even eggs for Team Gaim to gang on Baron in a 4-on-1 fight to ensure the biggest threat are taken care first. However, Gaim instead opts to teach Kurokage and Gridon a lesson, likely (completely a guess) for their cowardly and cheating move against Baron to gain upper hand, and Ryugen, who idolizes Gaim, follows suit.... without leaving a clue of Micchy's darker personality, as he agrees to gang up Baron before Gaim decides otherwise. There's a cheering from other Team Gaim members... but I feel the cheering scene is poorly done and forced here, as if they forgot to put that in until the last minute. Gaim beats Kurokage with Kunai Burst (which can be aimed at any direction, not only downwards), Gridon is next, and it's revealed that for all the big talk Jonouchi had as a strategist and schemer, he's not a fighter at all, and can only complain about ranged weapon being "cheating", then got beaten by Ryugen. This marks a significant downfall to Kaito's philosophy and methods, bribing others to join him as their allies can backfire big time due to the alliance not being genuine (the so-called allies only looking for what benefits them), moreover Kaito had to be bailed out by his main rivals, Team Gaim Armored Riders. Kouta tries to talk out about Kaito needing to search for better friends, but, just like how Kouta's drive to change and become an adult isn't as easy as said, it won't be easy to change Kaito's mindset either for 1 impactful moment that befalls on him, but Kaito cracks and displayed more open emotion here in his tirade about his social darwinism view, and claims that Team Raid Wild and Invitto are only pawns to him. This ranks up Team Gaim further to be tied with Team Baron for the top. Kouta is on a job hunt and ends up at Charmant, where he got introduced to the owner there, Oren Pierre Alfonzo, a big imposing bald man, but with flamboyant and effeminate traits like wearing mascara, lipstick and nail polish. He speaks in goofy, hammy, and over-the-top manner, with also French words thrown in with comic clouds, establishing him as comedic and wacky character, and his personality traits shown here is his pride, insisting to be refered as pâtissier, judges everything by artistic quality, demeaning Kouta based on his response, questions, and even fashion sense, and has irrational hatred part to be dismissal of someone who has Aquarius zodiac sign, leading Kouta to be rejected at spot. Kouta comes back home dejected, reporting the situation to Akira, and shortly Mai visits, apparently being like-minded with Akira for Kouta being productive in society (but does Mai know about Akira treating Team Gaim as childish stuff?), and to Kouta's dismay, Mai got herself a cake from Charmant, the cake shop owned by Oren, and even more that Mai is a fangirl of Oren (and Akira being like-minded), shilling about his experience for 10 years and gaining French citizenship (explains his name), Coupe de Monde award, and Relais Desserts grade, with the scenes of Oren's speech about dedication to art interposed, along with the people enjoying his cake (including Mai and Akira) with glittery effects and joyful (dunno how to describe it sorry) sound effects. Team Red Hot also breaks their alliance with Team Baron, though Kaito isn't fazed and feels bored playing ruler, and in the face of the information that Team Gaim ties with them in ranking, Kaito's concern is more of the other teams instead of Gaim, like Invitto and Raid Wild who aren't that far behind (that means those 2 likely did utilize the benefit of the alliance before betraying) and focusing on them too as otherwise they'd benefit if Team Baron fights Team Gaim, and doesn't mind if Team Gaim keeps their pace, likely deep down changing his opinions on them due to them being "the weak" who would eventually gather their strength and fight back, which means worthy of his respect. The leader of Team Red Hot, Sonomura, is rewarded with the current last of 6 Sengoku Drivers for him getting out of the alliance's shadow, along with a Durian Lockseed, which makes Ryoji feel that they had no real advantage now that their point of getting Sengoku Driver was to beat the other teams, and both him and Jonouchi had to resort to good-ol training to step-up their game. At the Kureshima house, before Takatora lecures Micchy about education, he got a call to work, which prompts Micchy to check Takatora's briefcase, where he finds a Sengoku Driver and Lockseed, wondering why his brother would get that too, but without stealing the Lockseed there, showing that despite disliking his brother and his lifestyle, Micchy is similarly as ruthless as him, especially regarding his brother as he wants to break from his shadow. At Oren's home, which also shows off his military suit, showing him as a former soldier, turns out that Oren has been watching the Inves Game, and following his artistic judge, he's disgusted by the performances of the Beat Riders, considering them amateur and vows to show them the meaning of war, and apparently he also had Sengoku Driver. Kurokage and Gridon are training using a training dummy which is wackily decorated with drawings as its "faces", but despite the look, it can legitimately spew out projectile weapons. Gridon's bad luck streak continues as the strategy Kurokage proposes is practically using Gridon as human shield and as a propeller to charge and strike the opponent with his spear. Oren comes at their training session, along with an audience to watch, much to nearby Kouta's confusion. This part reminds that Oren, while comedic, is also a really terrifying character, showing that comedy isn't necessarily light-hearted. His pride is the part that made him bring an audience, seeking their attention to him along with his flamboyant speaking style. His artistic judge, along with his military background where he actually took part in battlefield and had killed people, actually makes him a sadistic and homicidal man, explaining to Kouta who he recognizes as his reject that he thrives on violence and bloodlust as a form of entertainment to please the audience, using Colosseum as an example for the application. His irrational hatred takes part of him rigidly opposed to "amateur" performance, taking the pro mentality to the extreme similar to toxic gamers, and the driving force of him to cause a ruckus here. The Armored Riders also questioned about his possession of Sengoku Driver, which he got from confiscating Sonomura's as a punishment for Team Red Hot celebrating loudly on his shop, disturbing other customers. Though Sonomura is a piece of shit of him trying to fight a normal human with Sengoku Driver, the scene is played in some grayscale and frame stuttering added in, portraying the moment as horrific for Oren's use of force against the punks. Oren transforms into Armored Rider Bravo, with Durian Arms and Duri Noko as dual weapons, who for his soldier experience, walks his talk and beats the "amateurs" that infested the Inves Game, including attacks like whirlwind kick (even for non-finisher, blows the surrounding environment with strong gush) after balancing on Kurokage's spear, then utilizing his mohawk (as his design is appropriately based on Roman gladiator) in his combo to Gridon who attemps a sneak attack after spent his time hiding. Kouta calls him crazy, but that seems to be ineffective that the audiences are laughing with Oren, seemingly winning them over. His performance sparks some discussion from several characters, where DJ Sagara interviews and broadcasts Bravo's philosophy allowing him to expand his view further, Mai losing her common sense (can't decide if it's regarding her moral or intelligence..) for her fangirling to Oren, where Kouta had to smack her back into sense and questioning Oren's motives, then Bando explaining about his own insights of art and entertainment; where advancing technology allows people to easily become famous just by uploading a video, regardless of quality, compared to the past where people had to be dedicated and work hard to get anywhere including teacher's blessing, something Oren takes pride in, and likely hating for the current era's take of entertainment, making people not maximize themselves for art; this series offers more viewpoint regarding art and entertainment here, as this current state of entertainment is real for the current world, and likely reminds the dedication needed for art, but doesn't mean it's objective truth as guilty pleasures also can happen. Other than that, Bando's insight of Oren's likely view seems to also align with Kaito's social darwinism of seeking only the strong to get the credit without the weak (people with no talent who got famous) interfering, who enforces Oren's view further by pointing out he backs up with his power, and to challenge his views you have to be stronger than him, before leaving to take on Bravo's challenge to Team Baron. Even Takatora is shown to have limits knowing Oren's involvement to Inves Game, regarding his military background (his citizenship is done by fighting in Parachute Regiment) he considers Oren too dangerous to be given Sengoku Drivers, and even defies DJ Sagara, criticizing him making use of his show as propaganda, but there's another individual introduced here, Ryoma Sengoku, who insists to let Oren get involved to collect data, while Sid also agrees on that. Despite Baron making use of his Lockseeds to summon 2 Inves, Bravo still defeats him, but this also shows a line that Bravo won't cross, if he finds a promising opponent, he'd let them live to become stronger and pose better challenge against him, meaning although lost, Baron was worthy of his respect, including giving back the Banana Lockseed. Team Gaim are Oren's next targets (and the audience wants that to happen too), he interrupts their dancing by taking the Player's Pass on radio and enforces his mentality, where Chucky, Micchy, and even Mai (who still fangirled at first, but is terrified now) objects about their dancing purpose is simply to share the fun to the audience. Oren didn't budge and henshins into Bravo, but Kouta interferes by transforming into Gaim along with Micchy as Ryugen, another revelation to Bravo that the reject is also a Beat Rider and mocks his fashion sense again coming from Beat Rider activities. Bravo uses tactics like using Gaim as human shield (though to be honest, I think the tactic amounts to nothing as they made Bravo overpower both of 2 Riders head to head using his military experience shortly after) and spinning his dual weapons to deflect Gaim and Ryugen's ranged attacks. Gaim also reminds Bravo of his cake business already making people happy without the need of messing Beat Riders, which got silenced. To make things worse, Bravo also summons a dozen Inves to aid him in the fight. But although Bravo's military experience helped him big time, this part also shows Bravo's lack of knowledge regarding Inves Battles, that the summoned Inves attacks anyone, including Bravo himself, to his dismay. Ryugen decides to hand the Lockseed he stole from Takatora, which is Watermelon Lockseed, for Gaim to use, which summons Suika Arms, and it's scaled appropriately compared to the other fruits, as watermelon is one of the bigger fruits, making Suika Arms dwarf Gaim, scaring him. Mai is fully cheering on Team Gaim's side despite Bravo being their opponent by praying for Suika Arms... but Ryugen also joins her in doing so despite of him being a Rider.. Gaim finally prepares himself to accept the power, but it squashes him flat as expected, which is laughed off by Bravo as suicide tactics, which both shows his wacky demeanor but also his apathy of people getting killed, before slicing the Suika Arms into 6 pieces. But turns out that Suika Arms work by acting as the Armored Rider's whole suit, and in place of bike, Suika Arms curls itself in watermelon form for mobility, which can be used to destroy majority of the Inves summoned by Bravo, has dual weapons which he can spin in a similar manner as Bravo did before, and is also strong enough to punch out Bravo, complete with eyes popping out in cartoony effect. A rather simple way of getting upper hand on Bravo by just getting stronger power, albeit Gaim or Ryugen cannot catch up to Bravo's experience in short time. Though something worse happened, as 1 Inves survived and eats all the Lockseed used by Bravo, turning it into a gigantic Inoshisi Inves. Suika Arms is also the power needed to beat that Inves by chasing it down and using Twin Bladed Slice to destroy it, which is an enhanced version of Orange Arms' Naginata Musou Slicer, trapping the monster in the fruit projection and slicing it over, but Suika Arms slices repeatedly. Bravo catches up to both Riders and prepares to resume their fight, but an alarm sounded, and Oren had to bake the pie crusts, making Team Gaim win on technicality, and as Oren stops being threatening there, his exit is done in comical movements and sound effects, finally pushing Team Gaim to the top of the standings and they decide to celebrate, again to Kouta's dismay, by Mai (who changes her tune to Oren, but not completely) buying a cake from Charmant again, with the other members (I don't know if they realize Oren is the owner of that place) overjoyed on that except Kouta.
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The Beat Riders Saga Episode 8: Baron's New Power, Mango! Written by: Gen Urobuchi/Toriko Nanajo Directed by: Shojiro Nakazawa As the only one that defeats Bravo is Team Gaim, DJ Sagara informs that they're finally pushed into 1st place for the standings, while Team Baron drops to 4th place. As it's aired on Drupers where Kaito is watching, Bando talks about how Yggdrasill was able to renovate the city from an old dump and making him able to set up his shop, and being grateful to them. However this only enrages Kaito, who leaves the place, forgetting his change, who Bando decides to use as his tip... likely showing his a bit of money-oriented aspect. Micchy wonders why Watermelon Lockseed is unusable now while Takatora and Sid discuss about missing Lockseed, Sid makes a claim that Micchy stole the lockseed, but Takatora seems to be angered by this, giving Sid a fierce glare and considers Sid as a fool for his assumption, who then leaves and apparently smirks, probably his claim to Takatora there is him not seeing the full picture. This also shows another of his redeeming qualities that while Micchy seems to feel overshadowed by his brother, Takatora genuinely cares about him to have a faith regarding him. Kouta is approaching a shop that hires part-timers, while Mai discovers a portal to the Helheim Forest, and decides to continue searching for Yuuya, and tries calling Kouta, who again, failed to apply for the job as all the positions have been filled, while he's desperate as in trying to give a smile trick, neglecting her call. Mai decides to just, enter the forest to look for Yuuya, heading to danger. Kouta likely checks for his missing calls after to get to know that Mai needs him (as I don't know if there are phone signals on Helheim Forest, or that the portal can act as that too if she calls again) for him to running looking for her, who coincidentally meets Micchy to ask about her whereabouts. Apparently a jingle informs that Mai is in Helheim Forest, and Kouta henshins into Gaim to race for her there. Mai is being chased by an Inves, and tries fending one of them off with a tree stump after tripping, but she eventually got cornered (I feel like there's still a room for her to escape despite the surrounding 3 Inves...) and a Rider saves her... but it's Baron instead of Gaim, defeating the 3 Inves with am enhanced (banana shaped energy of course) spin AoE attack. Mai questions Kaito's motive of also, putting himself in danger in Helheim Forest, which is to search on Lockseeds to get more power, and it's shown he'll discard the ones he deemed weak. As he's also wandering on Helheim Forest, Mai asks him if he sees Yuuya. Though Kaito's still acting aloof, including telling Mai to not follow him around, he softens up around her, likely not even realizing it, like him just telling Mai he didn't see Yuuya in a straightforward way, without like, for instance, unnecessary insults for Team Gaim as the leader's missing. And despite Kaito's insistence to rely on his own strength, it's shown that other people are needed around you, even those who are "beneath", as Mai offers likely new knowledge to Kaito for Helheim Forest spawning portals somewhere in real world (as Mai following him is meant to find her way back to the real world). Sid has visited Team Gaim's hanging place to meet Micchy, who asks for other members to leave in their private conversation. Micchy straight up admits that he stole the Watermelon Lockseed, and knows that Takatora won't believe it. Instead, Micchy shows his manipulative nature further, that he can lie and frame Sid (despite that Micchy claims he and Sid are friends) that he conned Micchy into stealing it where Takatora would believe that more, earning him a praise from Sid as little demon. Micchy asks Sid to do more favors for him. After a while, Kaito and Mai reaches the spot that, according to Mai, was her entrance before, but discovers that the portal has been shut. Mai notices Kaito's wound and attempts to treat it, who Kaito brushes it off as it'll heal soon, but Mai didn't budge, and not long after noticed bigger part of his wounds which are already bandaged. While Mai is covering his wounds with Kaito is really desperate about getting stronger, following his social darwinism philosophy, but to Mai here he opened himself up about his past, that Zawame City used to be a common suburb, until Yggdrasill took control of it, taking anything away from Kaito in the process, and apparently he gained his philosophy from this moment as Yggdrasill was powerful, while Kaito was weak and thus cannot stop them, and thus prioritizes power above anything else so that he survive unlike the weak who will naturally go extinct like him in the past. It turns out that there are similarities betweei Kaito and Mai, as she also was born and raised in Zawame City until Yggdrasill takes it away, so both of them had mutual hatred to Yggdrasill and a drive to become stronger. But their view of strength is a different one as Mai explains to Kaito that strength can come in different forms, like emotional strength; those who smiles and keep going in sad or tough situations, where Mai's motivation of dancing is an altruistic one; to make people who are sad or in tough situation smile, which means giving them strength according to her view, also showing similar aspect to Kouta's view that strength should be shared to others. Kaito still objects, but softens up further, and allows Mai to follow him. Gaim arrives at Helheim Forest, in an absolutely bonkers (and bad luck) way, that he ends up in a dead end of a cliff, with cartoon gravity logic as his bike falls first, but Gaim only falls after he looks down and realizes he should fall. Apparently even as a Rider, it seems that falling from that height still puts him in unconscious state, explaining him being late to reach Mai. Gaim got stuck by an Inves swarm, but Ryugen also arrives while late, using another Rose Attacker (which Gaim questioned), apparently the result of his another deal with Sid. After destroying all the Inves, Ryugen remarks that the Inves are stronger. Kaito and Mai finally found a portal, in which Mai tries to celebrate by high-fiving, and gets ignored by Kaito (although cold, it's a right move, never celebrate too early). But they came across a Seiryu Inves, who is already an Advanced Inves, and as Kaito henshins into Baron, Seiryu Inves is completely immune to his BanaSpear attacks.... albeit his kick can push him down before Seiryu Inves blasts him with a blue energy ball. Gaim and Ryugen arrived at the nick of time, checking both Mai and Baron's condition, and thanking Baron for him saving Mai, but Baron pushes him away. Gaim and Ryugen's attacks aren't working on him either. Moreover, the portal's closing, but Ryugen and Mai managed to get out in the nick of time (I wonder what will happen if the portal closes through someone...). Seiryu Inves' attack also pushes Gaim and Baron, along with the Inves out of Helheim. After a while, Gaim tries his Pine Arms form, and his attacks actually work on Seiryu Inves, damaging him bit by bit. Again, showing Baron that, other people are needed, as this is the move that inspires him to use his Mango Arms, with Mango Punisher, another heavy weapon that is able to push Seiryu Inves quite a distance. Both Riders combine their finisher into Seiryu Inves, with Baron's Punish Mash Au Lait being an attack that creates a giant mango projection by swinging the weapon multiple times. Mai thanks Kaito, who left without a response, but from the portal, Micchy realizes the new horror that, in reverse to what happened to Mai, Inves can also go through the portal and got stuck in the real world, attacking humans as shown in someone falling in an alleyway from Komori Inves' attack...
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The Beat Riders Saga Episode 9: The Monster Inves Capture Battle! Written by: Gen Urobuchi Directed by: Shojiro Nakazawa Overall, I wonder if people actually remember Micchy in this episode. He's a total MVP here and makes full use of his smarts! The episode starts with another portal opening, and that the tree has branched into real world, where a worker finds a fruit and thinks it looks delicious. Knowing the start of Invesion in real world, with a headline news talking about how people see "monsters", Kouta eggs for the others of Team Gaim to act according to this...boasting that this is the advantage of being a Beat Rider compared to adults that they know nothing about Inves and Helheim and therefore cannot help, rejecting one of them's proporsal to report them to cops. Team Gaim also tries to cooperate with other teams, but Kaito flat out refuses, despite Micchy showing his still present redeeming quality here by reminding him that the civilians are attacked by Inves. Still fixated on the Beat Riders game, Kaito points out as Team Gaim is now on top of the standings, and that means they're in no position to demand help from others as they're the strongest now, claiming it as the curse of victory. So while Kaito can protect innocents from Inves if it's right there, he still won't go out of his way to do that, and he, along with other teams, holds their competitive view above anything else including Invesion, considering Team Gaim's acts as only "playing hero". Kaito also claims other teams would give the same responses, which is proven true as Kouta and Mai asks Team Raid Wild and Invitto. In likely quite an ironic turn of event, Kouta and Mai hears someone screaming for help right after they aren't helped by others, but they rush in to find out that it's Bando being assaulted by a Komori Inves after a daily stuff that is really fitting to the show's theme; buying fruits, crashing his car into Chaser, not the tertiary Rider of Drive I mean, but a car from Toyota. Poor Bando had his newly bought fruits dropped to ground, and the monster picks up an apple, but crushes and throws it away instead of eating it. Kouta henshins into Gaim, and he's actually being attacked while doing that... but Gaim's henshin is really safe as Orange Arms appeared first to shield Kouta before his Ride Wear forms, while Mai tugs Bando into safety by running, leaving the car behind as Gaim and the Inves are fighting on top of it (I'd think getting away by car would be faster). After being shot by a purple beam, Gaim switches into Ichigo Arms, and does his Kunai Burst finisher multiple times (a rare instance of a Rider spamming their finishers...I really want to know if Riders can actually spam finishers without limit in actual fight at least here), but it all missed the Inves who is flying away. Micchy, noticing the Watermelon Lockseed colors returned, goes home in late time again, and Takatora confronts him about a thief that stole the Watermelon Lockseed, but suspects the Beat Riders for the thief, showing his disdain on them as street rats that didn't contribute anything to society; so while each Beat Riders would have different reasons to dance, Takatora seems to be someone who undermines little acts, as it can be harder to see the benefits of, making people joyful, only condoning those that has stand-out, obvious benefits, like big companies such as Yggdrasill being able to make big impacts with company power. But it's something that should be likely learned, morale is also an important part to maximize the efficiency of a team (like corporate structure). If Takatora suspects Beat Riders, I'd guess he may come across a Beat Riders Hotline airing, but did he notice that it was Micchy who holds the Watermelon Lockseed to throw it to Kouta? (or he likely only watched the Gaim Suika Arms part, already being used by Kouta..). Although I don't know if Takatora knows Micchy's one of them, Micchy, although I don't know it's to conceal himself or defending the only circle he's comfortable with, speaks highly for Beat Riders to Takatora, while admitting the Beat Riders may not know their future, it's only a process of them growing up, they're figuring out what's important to them while dancing. Takatora however reminds him that he's a Kureshima, and thus his future is already set in a stone, and sets them apart from those garbage... not realizing that this is exactly the part that causes issues to Micchy, that having a set future only means Micchy doesn't have a control of his life. Micchy uses up his intelligence here by marking all the attack sites, with a simplistic drawing of Komori Inves as a clue, though the team failed to find any Inves after asking the people there. Gaim especially does more harm than good by asking an old lady in his Rider mode along with the Inves drawing (if they can hold their phone while in Rider form, then they can take photos of that Inves for better evidence then!), just scaring off her, and gets him smacked and reprimanded by Mai for this, and somehow able to forcefully pull the 100kg warrior away. Kouta argues that he already henshins in case the Inves attacks the civilians while searching, acting too prepared. At Drupers, Kouta, Mai, and Micchy laments about the true nature of the Inves Game actually is, that the creatures they're playing are danger to humans, and complaining about Lockseed and the belt creators as crazy. Kouta asks Bandou for clues, and he points out that the Inves seeks out Bando's fruit, but throws it away, suspecting that Bando's fruit is bad.... but is proven wrong as a customer is delighted at his fruit and asks for more, with Bando revealing his female assistant's name as Iyo. Mai also points out that the Inves can't get enough of the fruits in forest and Kouta points out they can eat Lockseed too, all giving a clue to the strategist Micchy that, Inves only wants to eat Helheim fruits, and not finding proper food in human world, they vent their frustrations by attacking humans, and he proposes a strategy to take a fruit from Helheim Forest to bait the Inves there. It's also revealed that the fruits turned into Lockseeds when a Sengoku Driver holder touches it, thus Ryugen de-henshins and hands Gaim his Sengoku Driver, picks a Helheim fruit and covers it with a plastic to prevent Gaim turning it into a Lockseed. The fruit is hanged in front of Team Gaim's hangout place, with the team members hiding either in bushes or... under a trash bin (with Gaim's head crest sticking out!). Rat is tempted by the fruit's look to have a taste, but is scolded by Mai to stick to the plan, while in turn got scolded by the ones hiding in the bush to keep quiet. This part, along with the earlier part of episode, is likely done as a healthy move to make kids eat fruit more, by presenting fruits as appetizing, along with Chucky eating a fruit after a sequences of problems here; the plan didn't go out completely smoothly either, with Gaim rushing blindly to someone who approaches the fruit, who turns out to be the old lady earlier, scaring her again (while interrogating Gaim for quite a time), kids trying to pick the fruit and also making fun of Gaim when he fends them off, and fending off swarm of crows who tries to do something to the fruit, getting pecked himself in the process, somehow making Gaim sob with a black aura of gloominess (I thought the black aura was something supernatural...it's only to highlight mood in wacky way...), before being dragged by Mai and Rat away. But Komori Inves finally arrives, correctly tries to pick the fruit, and Gaim jumps into battle. The Inves reveals another power which is unleashing supersonic sounds, being based on bat. Ryugen joins in, pulling the Inves to the ground, sticking something in the monster, before it gets away again. Ryugen eases up the other member by another smart trick (albeit somehow the Inves never caught it on..), which is tying his phone with tracking mode on so they can follow its locations using their tablet. Just like how fighters aren't the only ones who can contribute... same goes to devices. Both Rider devices and mundane human devices can work together to save the day. The tracking device leads Kouta and Micchy to a factory, discussing that the spore and seed is spread to the real world from the portals, letting it grow in real world. They also come across the hat of the earlier worker, covered in leaves. At this point, both the audiences and Kouta/Micchy are likely led to thought that the Inves killed the worker, an usual outcome for monster invasion. Komori Inves ambushes them, where Kouta makes use of his dancing skills again to avoid it before both henshin into Gaim and Ryugen. The Inves uses its supersonic sound again, but again mundane human creations are made use again here, as Gaim kicks an oil tank to the monster, then shoots it with Musou Saber to explode it, staggering the Inves to free Gaim. Gaim and Ryugen then finishes the monster off by combining their finishers. As they went to explore further, commenting about its fast growth rate and another Inves swarm who come to eat the fruit, Zangetsu arrives to destroy those Inves, Kouta clarifying to Micchy that it's the Rider that attacked him in the forest. After that, he had Yggdrasill researchers burning the roots in the factory, with Kouta and Micchy suspecting that they're destroying the evidence in real world and concealing the Invesion, angering Kouta. It's another revelation to Micchy that the Rider that attacked Kouta is, in fact, his older brother, noticing the similarities of the Lockseed he saw in his briefcase, showing how little he knew about Takatora actually, and freezes Micchy to the point that he had to be pulled away by Kouta from the ensuing fire. This likely shows about the consequences of keeping something a secret, that it'll make for a devastating reveal if others get to know it. The next scene answers a bit about Kouta and Micchy's suspicion about what Yggdrasill is doing, Takatora remarks that Helheim has finally awakened as the cracks are forming faster than anticipated, a case of nature beating technology to make the hypothesis wrong. Ryoma however, thinks this is fascinating, showing his depraved nature, which led to another redeeming part of Takatora, that he calls him out to undermine this stuff as a game, showing a suprisingly similar view as Kouta, who learns that Armored Rider stuff isn't a game earlier. Takatora points out that their staff is already stretched thin already, and Ryoma proposes a new schedule, which requires a new tester. Takatora offers to do it, but Ryoma shows again his mad scientist nature, that he has no conscience of turning someone else as guinea pig, as using Takatora will be risky. Takatora insists to take full control of the object as he's dedicated to it, and he reveals a goal of ensuring a future to humanity, utilizing Yggdrasill's influence to the world. Though Takatora's goal is noble, his cynicism view seems that he'll be the type who uses extremism to get wha the wants though. It seems that both brothers are opposites where Micchy is built up as protagonistic character while Takatora is built up as antagonistic character, but Micchy reveals more and more of his rotten nature (aside from this episode), while Takatora reveals more and more of his noble nature so far.
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Aaaah well, it's hard to not "finish" something when you start it, even if it's crap.
I've just watched the Kamen Rider Saber X Ghost episode and....I liked it. It made me want to actually watch some Ghost movies and also watch Saber. The problem is, the thing that made me have headaches were those CGI environements and stuff...Does that stay in the series or does this disappear after let's say, episode 6? |
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