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07-31-2021, 11:11 PM | #16721 |
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I’m up to episode 26 of Kamen Rider Kuuga which means I am now a little more than halfway through the series. I also watched the second episode of Kamen Rider Gaim on YouTube before that.
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08-01-2021, 07:14 AM | #16722 |
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Because of Saber, I'm getting through Ghost right now. And..
Well I'll be. I'm enjoying it so far. I'll settle my thoughts once I get through the whole show. |
08-01-2021, 09:37 AM | #16723 |
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Oh nice, glad to hear.
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08-01-2021, 11:36 AM | #16724 |
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Good, good... we'll convert another yet...
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08-01-2021, 12:09 PM | #16725 |
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We think Ghost is good, therefore it is!
But yeah, jokes aside, it's legitimately always nice to hear someone enjoying Ghost. (Also, just seeing that screencap gets me unreasonably excited, by the way. That episode is SO good.)
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08-01-2021, 12:54 PM | #16726 |
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You say 'good', I say 'one of the best'!
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08-01-2021, 04:02 PM | #16727 |
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Kamen Rider W(atch)
Nazca Arc Episode 9-10: The S Terror S stands for Sweets (̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶a̶l̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶S̶m̶i̶l̶e̶,̶ ̶S̶i̶s̶t̶e̶r̶,̶ ̶S̶a̶d̶i̶s̶t̶i̶c̶,̶ ̶S̶u̶r̶p̶r̶i̶s̶e̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶S̶e̶r̶v̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶h̶o̶w̶e̶v̶e̶r̶)̶ and Sonozaki Written by: Riku Sanjo, Directed by: Takayuki Shibasaki /The Maid Detective Witnessed It! Akiko pretends to be W by wearing the Double Driver, performing henshin pose with her slipper, invites Phillip, and wants to count the sins of the enemy... in this case Shotaro, throwing the debt book to him (and of course the slipper too, she's enraged this time), showing him that their debt isn't going down due to Shotaro buying hard-boiled novels, while, a different one finally for slipper use, she rubs her slipper into one of his novels. Again, good thing that Akiko doesn't actually wear them, albeit it still can tear a page off. Shotaro treats them, obviously, as detective/life manual. This highlights relatable excuse when someone is forbidden to follow your favorite medias (can be from parent) or if those are criticized, that they'll excuse their favorite media as something teaching. Shotaro does retaliate for once, by throwing Akiko's slipper away without her looking. Shotaro freezes up again when Akiko brings up her father while questioning his detective abilities, him against Asuka before mirrors him against Akiko. They suddenly got a bunch of clients, not related but all has similar case, famous pastry chefs related to any one of them missing. It really is a fortune It being pastry-related, Shotaro's mockery is "half-baked" here, as Shotaro tries to keep Akiko away from danger again but is deemed as acting cool. One of the clients Mai Asakawa gives them information regarding her missing father Yuzo, who is the best pâtissière in the town, and suspects the estate as the reason. Which refers to Sonozaki estate, in the discussion (and bickering for former 2) between Shotaro, Makura, and Jinno, where they're kicked out and the cops back off from investigation, being scared of the head family. While using Gaia Library Phillip also notices that all of the missing people are guests in the mansion, and Shotaro suspects Ryubee inviting the first-rate chefts to prepare dessert. As they wonder about Akiko, it's revealed that she went undercover in the mansion as one of the maids, going along with Mai's invitation to the mansion, who was training with her father to be a pâtissière. Akiko stays loud in her undercover, being hyperactive (also being fine after jumping from heights), forcefully feeding Mick, and acting starstruck against Wakana. For that Akiko got reprimanded by the head maid Sugishita, and tasks for another maid Shirotsuka and Sasaki to keep an eye on her. Shirotsuka is more condescending while Sasaki tolerates her more, explaining how things are run there. Akiko escapes and does an investigation of her own with her notebook, and meets up with Mai herself after seeing her boss that has high standards (Mai sees this as an honor to be selected by Sonozaki family.. seems that the family has good public reputation at this time), and relates with her that Akiko too, becomes a detective to follow after her dad. Shotaro signals Akiko with Stag Phone to have her come to him and warn her about how stubborn she is to ignore his warnings that the place is dangerous. Like Shotaro himself of being hard-boiled, Akiko overestimates her detective abilities as being Ace Detective due to knowing that she has to go undercover for the place's danger, and keeps teasing him that he "can't get in" and for not giving the answer for her dad. I guess the latter is the show being self-aware about people hiding truth from girls, but (CMIIW) I don't even know if Akiko knows fully about being undercover, she doesn't bother to hide her identity or behavior. Phillip brings up this too that he may have to tell her about how they become Double, but Shotaro is revealed to have guilt complex, blaming himself for Sokichi's death. I guess it's also how he's moral (a̶n̶d̶ ̶"̶h̶a̶l̶f̶-̶b̶o̶i̶l̶e̶d̶"̶), to put others above himself by that. The 'undercover' part of her is questionable further, that after Ryubee praises Mai's cake, Akiko openly exposes Mai in front of the family, like it directly potentially puts both in danger instead? Though Ryubee is more tolerant of this compared to other part of the family like Saeko and other maids (while Wakana treats Akiko as laughing stock due to her being insane), he claims he'll remember both Mai and Akiko. Yeah nice job...considering that the next thing Shotaro and Phillip discuss is about how the missing pastry chefs are top 5 in the town and Mai's currently top 6, and potential next target, but on his way, Kirihiko corners Shotaro and accuses him as Wakana stalker, but breaks free as he sees Mai being pulled by a cream. They henshin into W to fight the cream user Sweets Dopant, and plans to use Heat, but the right hand is already hardened by the cream, so they resort to use CycloneMetal with Bat Shot to perform Sonic Shaft, freeing them. Kirihiko also joins the brawl as Nazca Dopant. Akiko gets reprimanded again by other maid who pulls her by ear, but she escapes by dumping a trashcan into her to check out the boss due to him being suspicious. It's a gag that the boss admits that he's exposed... but about him being still terrible at golf, and then follows after Ryubee, who later debuts as Terror Dopant. /The Great Detective's Daughter Terror Dopant's mere presence halts W's battle, due to his fear inducing power, and all the fighters escape, and drives Shotaro further to keep Akiko away from harm with that kind of power existing around them. Sasaki reports to Akiko that Mai is attacked, and Akiko checks her out. I guess the danger is benefical then that Mai knows the source of the kidnap for her father and other pastry chefs, though of course there has to be an intervention from W to save another target from danger. Shotaro calls out Akiko for putting her client into danger, and she quickly apologizes this time, Shotaro noting that it's much easier than he thinks. She seemingly accepts a room of improvement that she opens up that she's jealous to Shotaro as she only vaguely remember her father. Shotaro continues with a teaching moment that he too was chewed out by Sokichi due to putting a client family in danger, and was going to reveal about Sokichi's condition albeit Akiko leaves midway to prove herself as Sokichi's' daughter again. Ryubee too, actually suspects that there's a Dopant among their staff, so he's not the main aggressor here, though Saeko had her own plans regarding W against her father's. Akiko visits Ryubee to ask to gather every staff in the sweets time, with the more tolerant Ryubee complying to her request, while suspicious Shotaro follows her in the museum, noticing the coincidence that the museum displays tyrannosaurus, magma, and anomalocaris, the types of Dopant he fought before, with Ryubee introducing himself to Shotaro. Akiko again, can't keep it to herself that she openly reveals that she's a detective that pretends to be a maid (with Shotaro flabbergastered at this), and assumes the fat Shirotsuka as the culprit, due to her having an appetite to sweets. This is a shallow judgment to base it on appearence, as Shirotsuka herself said. While Phillip actually figures out the culprit using the keywords, as well as the words of Sweets Dopant, that he reports to Shotaro that Sasaki is the culprit, a food critic and writes the book that rates the pastry chefs. But due to Akiko preparing the pastry there, Sasaki is disgusted and is blinded by her anger, exposing herself as Sweets Dopant to take revenge on Akiko. I guess Shotaro and Phillip can continue from that point to deal with Sasaki just fine, but I guess the dumb luck here exposes Sasaki in front of every Sonozaki family, but it still puts people there into danger, with Sasaki capturing Akiko and Mai with her cream. Shotaro henshins into W with Kirihiko realizing that the "Wakana stalker" is W, and both him and Saeko assumes their Dopant form to block W. Sasaki spits out Akiko and Mai, and reveals that she kidnaps the chefs to force them to work for her as her food business didn't last long and she hated being food critic. W escapes from both Dopants with RevolGarry and HardBoiler, and reaches Akiko's place, due to the tracker they place on Akiko. However Taboo Dopant starts attacking Nazca Dopant due to his failure to stop W, and later Wakana also suspects that W and Akiko may be more useful than Kirihiko. Akiko gets a badass moment here that proves herself as Sokichi's daughter (W seeing the projections of Sokichi in her) by smashing Sweets Dopant with a chair so hard that it breaks, dedicating herself to protect her clients. Well, she already got the dedication to take care of the clients from the beginning, but her detective skills should actually be improved, she does advance the case here, but it's by dumb luck (putting others into danger but letting others know about the attacker, the location of the kidnapped..) while not doing undercover job properly. W switches to HeatJoker, then uses Bat Shot with Luna Gaia Memory when Sweets Dopant hides by turning into cream, and finishes the fight with Joker Grenade, an elemental split body attack like Joker Extreme but with punches, though I'd say it doesn't flow as nicely as Joker Extreme. Afterwards, Akiko convinces Phillip try her sweets before, though at least she tried it herself, while Shotaro acknowledges Akiko's strength and that he's the one that needs to toughen up.
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08-02-2021, 12:54 PM | #16728 |
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Kamen Rider W(atch)
Nazca Arc Episode 11-12: The Vengeful V V stands for Virus and Vehicle Written by: Keiichi Hasegawa, Directed by: Satoshi Morota /Infected Car On a rainy night a Chevrolet Blazer rams through a woman, leaving her bloodied, while in Narumi Detective Agency Akiko caught a cold, while claiming that Shotaro won't catch a cold as he's an idiot (albeit it's still tactless to sneeze in Shotaro's direction). Phillip however uses that as a new topic to learn, despite that idiot not catching a cold is an idiom. They got a call from a client, where after Shotaro arrive, the previous Blazer goes through the client... but it phases through him instead, albeit he's killed with the electrical trail the Blazer leaves him with with Shotaro all concerned over him and trying to wake him up. Poor Shotaro, despite him caring for the rammed client, he got accused as his killer by Makura, especially that there are no signs of his body being hit by a car, due to the Blazer being supernatural. Jinno comes and talks about how the client died from a virus, using a coroner's report. Akiko also comes to try bail out Shotaro which he denies as he's only witness, and Shotaro tells her that he still insists to take the case despite their client being dead, also makes a claim about the Blazer being crying. Akiko doesn't believe it, and checks out if Shotaro caught any disease, but of course what Shotaro said is the truth so it just sounds nonsensical thus he denies it and got called idiot. This scene has the most flipping reactions for Akiko regarding Shotaro between affection and annoyance, and while she complains for things she doesn't know, crying car should sound plausible as there's Dopants on this world. Kirihiko tries to get rid of Nezu, who sold the Virus Memory due to the remarkable development that happened within it, who tries to beg to be spared that it's an accident. Watcherman takes a shot with Akiko again for All Ladies, but she sneezes at the camera, albeit he still appreciates the shot. He then informs Shotaro that the killed client was named Mikio Aoki, and he was a part of an infamous gang. Shotaro and Akiko visits said gang, and tries to get information of the car and Aoki. Well, it's true that he refers to the car as "import car", as it's an USA-made Chevrolet within a Japanese media. However, Cross is in every way a violent thug, that he's... cross over this, attacking his underling for continuing Shotaro's question and pulling a gun on Shotaro, who Akiko pulls away. The gun display is censored on my TV, albeit the censoring isn't consistent. Said underlings however go on to check the black Blazer by their own knowing that they can't argue with Cross, but also plans to rip off any cars that look like it, and by this Shotaro follows after them while assigns Akiko to check out if Cross leaves. The Blazer appears and rams one of the thugs, while phasing through him. The supernatural stuff surrounding the Blazer is identified as a Dopant by Shotaro, while Phillip tells Shotaro talks about the results of his topic regarding idiots and flu, but also finds a new topic about idiots enjoying high places... unintentionally teasing Shotaro as he gets into the hood/roof of the Blazer... but it acted like usual physical car. He eventually henshins into W and deals with the Blazer, noticing somebody driving it, but is interrupted by Nazca Dopant again who views the Dopant as valuable sample, viewing the specal ability of the memory on the Blazer as big opportunity, and Nazca even was able to counter his Joker Extreme too. The Blazer later gets into the other thug as well and phases through him to kill him. Phillip explains to Shotaro about the driver he caught on the Blazer, which is Kouhei Yamamura, who had his older sister, the woman at the beginning of the episode, got rammed by said Blazer which belongs to Cross' gang, where afterwards Shotaro believes that Kohei becomes a Dopant himself and tajes revenge on the gang with the same car, which is apparently confirmed as Kouhei talks about how there's 1 left of the gang. Shotaro visits him to try to reason with him, using the argument that the sister wouldn't approve of the revenge. Shotaro's the type to reason with apparent evildoers if he can. Other than moral display seen in most main Riders, this is more fitting for him as he works in law department, who wouldn't resort into death penalty for any crimes. Phillip later would call him half-boiled again due to him deciding to save Cross despite that he's the menace of the city instead of Phillip's pragmatic view to let Kouhei take revenge, that Shotaro acknowledges that but does so due to him living in his city... then what about those who don't live in Fuuto then even if they're innocent? But overall still, being a criminal isn't justification for killing someone, at least not on its own, especially that Cross is a normal human, thus can be mitigated easier without a lethal force. Kouhei claims he won't understand, with flashbacks of his sister being rammed, and runs away. Kouhei bumps into his friend Noriyuki Yushima who blocks Shotaro from chasing him. Yushima introduces himself as an artist and art teacher, who is engaged to Kouhei's older sister, named Sachi. Shotaro then gets a call from Akiko who reports that she follows after Cross and ends up in a warehouse. So Akiko does get a small improvement here that she's cooperative to follow after Shotaro's instructions and not throwing her boss status around for orders. Cross waits for the Blazer to show up and he guns down the car. Later Cross resorts into begging for mercy and claiming that it's not his fault.. as W comes with HardBoilder to take on the car, try to reason again with Kouhei that they too lost an important person (Sokichi), but Kouhei resorts to take down W for blocking him. He fully succumbs into hatred and revenge, with victim mentality as well to only ask for acknowledgement and refusing to listen of someone else losing an important person to them. W causes some damage in the Blazer, losing one of its tyre, and then takes it on with RevolGarry, and notes that when the Dopant manifests in the car, it sets a virus to those the car rams. Using Heat Metal and red back half of HardBoilder, he blazes the Blazer with Metal Branding, setting the Blazer ablaze. But the protagonists notice that there's no Gaia Memory ejecting from Kouhei, which means he's not the Dopant. Before that, Akiko pulls the best slipper use yet, by smacking someone deserving with it, Cross, albeit he thanks W for saving him. /Grudge Beast The real Virus Dopant appears, and kills Cross with the virus. W defends himself with LunaMetal, but after the Dopant escapes, Shotaro notices that the Dopant is crying, like when he saw the Dopant in the Blazer. Akiko, who insists to keep working despite her condition despite Shotaro's protests, recounts the case, but a new info is given that Sachi is in coma and got hospitalized, along with Kouhei after the Blazer is destroyed. Shotaro assumes that the Virus Memory user is Yushima. Shotaro visits Yushima's place, who is teaching some girls art, before Virus Dopant appears separately from Yushima and wreaks havoc, which means Yushima's the Dopant's target instead. They're running out of potential suspects because the Yamamura siblings' parents died when they're young, thus no relatives to look after them, and they rule out acquaintances or coworkers. Akiko suspects Sachi's the Dopant user, which Shotaro points out that she's in coma, while Phillip compliments that as geninus. As they check out Sachi's body, indeed there's a Living Connector tattoo in her body, while Shotaro wonders how she's using the Gaia Memory while unconscious. In this new type of Gaia Memory, both Phillip and Kirihiko talks about how the Gaia Memory works by transforming their consciousness from intense rage and hatred, which Kirihiko finds as unique. Kirihiko then tells Saeko that from Nezu's information Sachi wears the Virus Memory before the Blazer hits her, where Virus Dopant left her comatose body and absorbs Kouhei's anger as well to take revenge, and apparently the Blazer the Dopant used was a different one, taken from a junkyard with a repaired body. Kirihiko has been planning to use and develop this data to make up for the disappointments to Saeko, but later it's revealed that it won't be enough as, this type of Dopant has a weakness too, the ones from mental energy will be weaker from transformed body, as Virus Memory should be able to kill entire city population, as opposed to just one at a time. Another question sparks for the protagonists, as Virus Dopant attacks Yushima too. Shotaro plans to track down Yushima to prevent anyone getting hurt by her and Phillip makes use of his ability that is unseen before (like Akiko said), to contact her consciousness as its state is altered by Gaia Memory. He succeeds, and meets Sachi in the Gaia Library, still retaining her injuries from the accident, and tells her that Shotaro's trying to save her, also asking why she's attacking Yushima. In this case, as Phillip said, the victims aren't the only ones Shotaro trying to save, but also Sachi herself, saving her from succumbing to her rage and despair. The answer regarding Yushima is given by Queen and Elizabeth that Yushima's in realty a scumbag who uses women for his art. Santa-chan who arrives while giving Shotaro cold medicines continues that Yushima also cons people into marrying him. Sachi also reveals that she saw Yushima proposing to another woman before she gets the Virus Memory, though she doubts getting revenge at first as it's pointless, after the accident her heart fully turns the Virus Memory into a monster. Phillip warns her that she's under the control of Gaia Memory. Yushima's rotten side is shown further that when Virus Dopant attacks him and a woman, he tosses the girl into the monster to escape, he's a coward and really doesn't treat women as people. Shotaro tries to end this by stopping Sachi's rampage as well as convincing Yushima to apologize, while Phillip explains Shotaro's aim to save her and not letting anyone got hurt, though it fails as Sachi gives in to her hatred, expelling Phillip. Still though, victim status like what Sachi went through doesn't give someone free pass to do anything they want, albeit this makes for a good twist that the victim's the one wreaking havoc this time. They have to resort into fighting the Dopant as W, ending the fight with HeatTrigger, using Trigger Explosion which is a flamethrower attack. Shotaro then uses count up your sins catchphrase against Yushima and punches him on Sachi's behalf. Still despite that Yushima gets off too easily from his atrocities, unlike the gang which were all killed. Sachi is still in coma, though Shotaro is optimistic that she'll wake up, but also catches a cold.... either proving he's not an idiot or that the idiom is wrong. And I suppose Phillip and Akiko were playing Old Maid like in ep. 4 right there.
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Nazca Arc Episode 13-14: The Radio Q Q stands for Queen and Question. Written by: Keiichi Hasegawa, Directed by: Hidenori Ishida /Targeted Princess Wakana comes across yet another stalker, who wants to immediately marry her by giving her a bouquet and claiming that he's more accomplished than Kirihiko, and obviously rejects him. Though this is a display on how Wakana's true personality is snobby, stuck-up, overall representing bad stereotype of the riches, the man wouldn't be innocent either for stalking and going instantly through marriage without properly building up relationships, and resorts to turn into Masquerade Dopant to attack her. Unfortunately for him, he's out of her league in superpower too, as Wakana is a Claydoll Dopant, an actually threatening one to Masquerade Dopant's merely mask change, and one shots him. In her radio show, as usual Wakan puts up a fake cheery persona as Healing Princess as she debuts her single Naturally, which both Shotaro and Phillip sings along with, being avid fans, while Phillip is also processing human attachment from that. The single is actually released in real life as well. Wakana then got a question call from "Mr. Question" about favorite number which is 7, but Wakana suspects him as another stalker, while keeping her true personality hidden by muting the recording, where "Mr. Question" gives her a present outside window, which is a view of a structure's collapse followed by Dopant attack. Being an avid fan, Shotaro acts as the shining knight to go save Wakana... really Wakana has good publicity if even the protagonists think she's just dainty damsel in distress, something Shotaro notes that a detective should act outside a case. Wakana is hounded by interviews regarding the caller and the destruction. Another radio show host, Saeki Motoko of Voice, intervenes to talk regarding similar case she got (the question), as Shotaro is revealed to be a casanova, trying to flirt with Wakana. Outside of the interviewers, Wakana shows her true colors again, to be abusive towards her manager Tsuyoshi Ageo due to his failure to keep paparazzi away, and openly shows disdain towards Shotaro, closing the sliding door of her Toyota Alphard without regard if Shotaro got hit by it. Shotaro copes about Wakana being actually scary, as Phillip identifies her caller as a Dopant, and due to not meeting her directly yet, still views Wakana as angel. The Sonozaki family discuss about the difficulties of Wakana's entertainment business and suggests to give her a role in Gaia Memory distribution, but despite her troubles Wakana rejects them and denies it, causing a fight between her and Saeko in their Dopant form, which apparently Saeko's Taboo being superior. Ryubee breaks their fight and tries to help within Wakana's problems, but she insists to take care of that. Jinno and Makura takes part in the radio station to prepare the trace for the call and Jinno giving an advice to Wakana to talk as long as she can, and is her fan as well to use this chance to capture her heart while also finding the culprit. Being in public scene, Wakana is pleasant to his help as well as to Ageo. Mr. Question calls again to ask regarding favorite color (red), and Shotaro uses his phone to relay Mr. Question's dialogue to Phillip. Shotaro then intervenes, despite the protests that it's live, to interact with Mr. Question, claiming that he should have combined that with the third and fourth questions, which was his plan. Mr. Question then cuts off the trace, and Wakana complains to Shotaro that he ruined their best chance, while Shotaro claims he does what Phillip asks him for, continuing their talk in front of her, informing the location Mr. Question heads next, Southern Wind Island Park. Shotaro finds Mr. Question, which is Violence Dopant blowing up the gas main, and Wakana has horrified expression watching this, a sign that she's not completely heartless despite being stuck-up. Shotaro and Phillip henshin to W, and finds Violence Dopant to be too tanky for close-range attacks like CycloneJoker's. They switch to CycloneTrigger, which works better, but Violence Dopant compresses his body into Violence Ball and sends W flying while he escapes. Motoko acts as a news reporter regarding that, claiming that many suggests Wakana's radio program should be put on hold. This'd be foreshadowing for something later. Wakana suddenly visits Narumi Detective Agency where the protagonists are listening to the news report, acting completely aggressive and tactless as a guest to demand Phillip in a shouting and threatening way. Of course, Phillip would flee into the secret base, but is caught on by Wakana. He decides to talk through the door. Wakana interrogates him regarding Phillip's ability to predict Mr. Question's location, which Phillip answers that the questions all came from an interview with her in Wind Life magazine, continued by her latest interest (aromatic candles) and where she goes when she has free time (Southern Wind Island Park). Phillip's interest of her turns mutual as Wakana too, starts to admire Phillip for his intelligence here, and acts pleasant to him while touching his hand, the lighting effects indicate something further regarding them. Phillip is even more enamoured with her, seeing her nature as mysterious and complex. This is relatable reaction, it's similar to audiences being fascinated with scumbag characters that can show soft side on occassion, deeming them as "multi-faceted and complex", likely due to variation of the things that can be done to various people and situation. Wakana continues her show by going on a restaurant toor, seemingly tolerating Shotaro far better due to him being (to his dismay) the 'assistant' of Phillip, the only person she values so far. Ageo claims to get stomach ache, which Shotaro is concerned for, but Wakana lets him go. The restaurants she visited are the ones previously seen in two parters before, first is Yuuko's pastry shop of ep. 3-4, which Shotaro notes that her demeanor changed to smiling after she stops gambling. They got a call from Mr. Question again, which Shotaro uses his phone to relay the dialogue to Phillip. The question is about favorite scenery, but Mr. Question claims no answer is needed to give her the scenery. Phillip directly talks with Wakana who informs him the answer is Fuuto Tower. By this Phillip concludes that Mr. Question will destroy Fuuto Convention Center that blocks her view from the Fuuto Tower. Shotaro heads out there as W, declecting Violence Dopant's flail with CycloneMetal, then uses HeatMetal. A little of Violence Dopant's character is shown, he claims he gotta show his feelings to Wakana, rationalizing his actions that there's always casualties in love. Well the term iirc usually means about those who has been dumped by a date, but the term is misused in dark way here to refer to literal bodycounts to show his feelings. RevolGarry arrives to protect W from Violence Ball. Wakana arrives as Claydoll Dopant to deal with the stalker, and due to Claydoll and W not recognizing their true identity, they fight too, but W got the same sensation when he catches Claydoll's punch like Wakana touching Phillip's hands, for obvious reasons they don't know yet. They actually talk here... so they apparently won't recognize their voices either, dunno if it's about voices being hard to memorize or mistake to keep their true identities secret. Violence Dopant then uses Violence Ball to attack Claydoll, apparently shattering her into pieces. /Live Catastrophe W is next for Violence Ball's target, but is repelled by RevolGarry, causing him to escape. RevolGarry is really the stronger asset for battle so far. Claydoll however reforms her body from the broken pieces, which Kirihiko understood as what Saeko meant that her blasts won't kill Wakana. The comment before to me kinda misleads into Saeko holding back and that it's just sibling squabble, but it actually refers to Claydoll's ability. Wakana's next destination is Mai's restaurant, of ep. 9-10. Mr. Question calls again while Shotaro relays the dialogue, but he doesn't give a hint this time. Phillip says Mr. Question had 2 mistakes, Fuuto Tower answer wasn't recorded and he comments that she wants to badly see the scenery, which means Mr. Question knows Wakana personally. Wakana visits Phillip again to ask him regarding the identity of the person who knows her personally, and Phillip still hides behind the door. Phillip's the one to ask first about Wakana being hunted by others, which she claims she feels it from her older sister, due to Ryubee tightly controlled Saeko's childhood but not Wakana's, thus Saeko bulles her to vent her childhood. Saeko's name means cold child and it's meaningful for her behavior there. The only saving grace for that is that, Wakana had another sibling, a younger brother, who calms her down when she tries to retaliate, making her "kind again". Phillip notes that there's kindness in her words just now and her true self is the kind little girl underneath, which means the bitchy persona is the fake act. Well she's acting that way solely to Phillip, the one that meets her standards (and the only one that claims she can be honest with), so would disagree for now, being nice to certain person is hugely different for being nice person overall. For shippers, this scene also actually hints that Phillip was the little brother in the flashback... so it'd be incest. Akiko left the secret base to save "missing" Wakana (who is actually heading there), and slaps Shotaro for that... but another physical gag happens with her also pulling his ear. But despite worrying about her, she's excited of her potentially getting a chance to fill in for Wakana, only for the role to be done by Motoko. The last destination is a ramen dessert shop, of which Watcherman being the one to eat. Phillip asks Wakana to provide him keywords, like if she's been asked for her favorite scenery, which happened when she auditioned for Healing Princess show. Phillip discovered the culprit and Wakana gets back to work, but promises him to meet face-to-face later. This'd further humanize Phillip as he learns about emotions like feeling here, growing out of his self-proclaimed 'little devil' persona. After explaining about the ramen dessert via Watcherman's experience, she got a call from Mr. Question again, but now she knows that the true identity is Ageo, which she directly mentions, surprising others. Ageo admits that his cover is blown and turns into Violent Dopant in front of them, taking Wakana in his Violent Ball mode. Phillip is searching about Wakana's book in Gaia Library, but refuses to read it. The scene is played as dirty mind-like, but I'd imagine for now, as Phillip is "search engine man", the book would be like public figure's article on Wikipedia. Shotaro invites Phillip to henshin as W and chase after Violent Dopant with HardBoilder, changing it into HardSplasher along the way. They caught up with the Dopant and frees Wakana with LunaTrigger's Spider Memory attack. W thinks Ageo hates her so much to take it out on her, likely for her abuse, but Ageo does love her, while the reason he does it is due to being forced by someone that'd make him a "real man". Due to Ageo being merely a pawn, albeit not innocent, there's a glimpse of Wakana running over towards the knocked down Violence Dopant, though W insists her to run away. Maybe she does become nicer, albeit slightly for non-Phillip. W continues his fight with Violence Ball with HardTubuler, and finishes him off with Trigger Stag Burst to pincer the Dopant that is bouncing around, but saves Ageo's body with Luna's stretching arms. However Phillip notices that Wakana knows Gaia Memory. Kirihiko looks up the purchaser of the Violence Memory, and claims Saeko actually cares about Wakana due to having him look for it, though she denies it. The real bad guy of the 2 parter is revealed, which is Motoko, someone who before suggests to put off Wakana's show in her news report, who relieves in Wakana's apparent suffering, but she's still alive (due to W) and confronts her about egging Ageo. Motoko is also utterly batshit insane, while revealing her motive that she's driven by pure jealousy that her radio show is more popular than hers.... even the guy who sold Motoko the Violence Memory had doubts about that due to how crazy Motoko is (she went apeshit directly in front of the guy), and she'd have no qualms to let a Dopant loose on the city in form of Ageo, who is a yandere himself to turn into a monster to make her like him. Wakana is put on similar situation as her childhood to Saeko, intending to retaliate by killing Motoko as Claydoll, but she remembers her little brother and Phillip's words, indicating that she's regaining some part of her childhood persona, and walks away. Predictably, Motoko would expose Wakana's true nature as a monster, but Kirihiko comes to give her a deserving final blow as it'll be a threat to Museum's secrets, which is why Saeko denies caring for Wakana before. Saeko notes Wakana being happy, which she thought to be her sticking to business, but on the contrary, it's due to her becoming true to herself, which is probably sticking to entertainment instead. Phillip questions her personally about having Gaia Memory, but she'd lie that she doesn't while reminding him of his promise, though it'd become a truth as she drops her Claydoll Memory which Ryubee took. Shotaro notes that Phillip is spacing out after this case, and gets to retaliate to Akiko.. by slapping her with her slipper when she doesn't leave him alone (but by being concerned about him.. which is insensitive in Shotaro's eyes). Akiko gains upper hand in the slipper fight though by blocking the next attack and disarming it back. But both scenes aren't censored on my TV that time!
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