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09-17-2021, 07:42 AM | #16801 |
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No, I did not like it.
I just want to let out thoughts cuz I'm a bit salty lol without getting too spoilery -The movie is divided into two parts, the first part being Yaiba's and the second being Fuwa's -Yaiba's backstory doesn't get really explored up until the final part of her section of the movie -Naki has the assault grip somehow and gave it to Yaiba -There is NOTHING, NOTHING about Thouser in here to my dismay. He gets out of the rubble, holds his belt in the sky, and says something about ZAIA and Presidents. Probably leading to the TTFC special. -The story revolves around personal justices (I think) and how far you are willing to take them. -Serval Tiger was honestly disappointing -I do like how they tied Fuwa's thing with MBJR, him being the one who had most interactions with them all combined. Aruto didn't really interact with Raiden and Naki. -Lone Wolf's fight was kinda disappointing, it was weirdly choreographed too sometimes. -There are some really odd editing choices in the movie or choice of music such as the Ark theme playing at the end as Yaiba was talking. -Imo, the ending retroactively ruined the whole thing the show was trying to do. Not exactly an easy way to convince people that AI is all cool and stuff when MBJR went on a slaughter. -When the movie ended I was just really confused, kinda sad, kinda mad. -Azu's body is gone in the gardens, they don't point it out, it was just kinda weird she was absent. Last edited by TheRaizin; 09-17-2021 at 08:02 AM.. |
09-17-2021, 08:53 AM | #16802 |
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So I decided to skim Vulcan and Valkyrie.
Dang. Can't believe it's been 4 years and we can't get a good V-Cinema Form debut like Sin Specter. Such a shame. I can only hope that Saber's V-Cinema knocks it out of the park given that duo of writer and director from Re:Birth are going at it again. |
09-17-2021, 08:56 AM | #16803 |
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V&V sets a weird and dreadful precedent for me that has me worried for the main trio for Deep Sin
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09-17-2021, 10:34 AM | #16804 |
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Honestly, I haven’t seen Vulcan and Valkyrie, but as I said to a friend a while back, what I’ve heard about it has killed pretty much any chance of me actually doing so.
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09-18-2021, 03:06 PM | #16805 |
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Kamen Rider W(atch)
Weather Arc Episode 35-36: Beyond R R stands for Revenge and Ryu. Written by: Keiichi Hasegawa, Directed by: Ryuta Tasaki /The Rain Called Monster Approaches The final 2-parter of the Weather Arc, before continuing to Foundation X Arc. Terui is in Fuuto Wild Bird Sanctuary, of which he remembers Haruko dragging him there despite their different interests. It's shown that even without being revenge-driven, Terui would still be on more serious side (his reaction to the birds), but is significantly less tense. But the flashback was also about a more important event of Haruko congratulating Terui on his promotion, giving him a necklace. Terui then sees a little child asking an adult woman for birds, but she aggressively pushes the child away, who Terui helped after. Nice gesture of him for doing a cop's job of being helpful, while he also chases after the woman. As he intercepts her, he notices a Living Connector... a mutated one, as he interrogates her if she's a Gaia Memory user. A bit of reason of her standoffish behavior is said where she claims those who hang around her will die. Obviously Terui won't budge as it's not really clear, but the girl would pull an absolutely underhanded move, to claim Terui as pervert. This highlights unfortunate double standard of gender where men have the default monster status and the people around will mostly believe a woman's claim without taking context into account... including Shotaro and Akiko, who slaps Terui with a slipper before realizing who it is. And this shows a hypocrisy from the girl as well, she claims she wants to prevent others being hurt, yet she slanders anyway, and slander worse than murder. Shotaro and Akiko suffer the effects of the slander as well for being seen as the "pervert's friend". As Terui deflected Shotaro's question back to him due to rejecting questions, Shotaro reveals that they're in the Sanctuary due to work, fulfilling some kid's request to investigate a bird enthusiast who suddenly got depressed and avoiding anyone. Shotaro however refused the kids' payment...which earns him another half-boiled mockery from Phillip (but no outbursts from Akiko, who is the chief and is the most concerned about payment). Shotaro identifies the bird enthusiast as Nagi Shimamoto.. which turns to be the girl Terui encountered earlier. Meanwhile in Museum, Isaka stole a Memory from Ryubee, and claims that he'll fulfill an oath from 10 years ago. As Saeko reminds him about Ryubee, Isaka reveals his treachery that he'd want to overthrow Ryubee and turn Saeko into the queen, and he claims he got the key to obtain the ultimate power for that.. in contrast of a megalomanical reveal, the key is revealed to be a ticket to Fuuto Wild Bird Sanctuary. Shotaro, Akiko, and Terui approach Nagi again to question her about the reason of her change in attitude. She's standoffish at first, but then talked about her fear due to her father being killed by Weather using red lightning in a raining day (and she got ill feelings for any rain too like present one), and Weather injecting Nagi with a Living Connector shortly after, claiming that they'll meet again. Other than being scared, Nagi claims that she can't ask anyone for help due to obvious reasons. Still though, Terui refers to Gaia Memory before albeit she never knew the term, but it's a hint that he knows more about it. But it's still better to talk than bottle it up, and luckily she talked to 2 Kamen Riders, and Terui would only thank her to clear it up, even smiling as he presents her his necklace as a good luck charm. Isaka promptly comes, as Terui henshins to Accel while declaring to protect Nagi, as Shotaro does the same to W. Weather uses his ability to control the heavy rain so it exclusively targets W, trapping him and presumably could've drown him. Accel got trapped in a stormy cloud that releases lightnings. With 2 Riders immobilized, Weather checks on Nagi, and claims that the port will develop further the more fearful Nagi gets, almost inserting the odd-shaped Memory he stole from Ryubee. As Weather mocks Terui's failure to protect, let alone revenge, W eventually turns Xtreme and frees himself from the rain, but Weather escapes. I guess this is a difficulty of 2-in-1 Rider for Xtreme that Xtreme had to absorb Phillip's body and fly to Shotaro's location, which can take some time? Nagi would hiss on Terui's failure despite his efforts as she runs off. If only Xtreme got a chance to show off against Weather in front of Nagi. Phillip identifies the Memory Isaka used as Quetzalcoatlus, and Nagi had high level of compatibility with it. It's another time Isaka used a perfect candidate for a Memory to catalyze its development to take it back and use it himself, like what he did to Lily before, but Isaka waits until Nagi's Living Connector completely developed, and it's the reason he killed her father. The episode then reveals Isaka's backstory as he narrates to Saeko that he searched for a purpose in his life including becoming a doctor and studying biological field, but found it meaningless until he witnessed Terror Dopant's power, taking out several civilians. It's seen that he already had his depraved personality as he's only mesmerized by people being killed in front of him, instead of realizing that a doctor's job to save lives, but what made him threatening is however his power, which he begged Ryubee for such an absolute power, which he claims the Gaia Memory will come to him when he's worthy. He had gained many Gaia Memories and Living Connectors, but eventually he'd sought the very Terror Memory itself, and approaching Saeko was his means for that. But Saeko's only relaxed to know his true intentions as she believes Isaka can beat Ryubee. It obviously won't be shown due to the show's target... but both would likely have a sex there. Isaka's so intriguing to Saeko that even her cold and ruthless persona are tamed around him. Terui, with Akiko following after, approaches Shroud again to ask for more power, but Shroud refuses as he wasn't as revenge-driven as before, and refers to his failure of beating Isaka. So Isaka's mockery of him protecting was an indicator of Terui growing out of his revenge-driven demeanor. Terui threatens Shroud as Accel, and she finally instructs him to follow her, which later revealed to be a Honda motocross test. Shotaro talks to Nagi in the Sanctuary, who this time agrees to explain some birds, which she gained interest due to her father working there. As Nagi asks him about Terui, Shotaro explains about him being similar that his family was killed by Isaka too, thus he feels obligated to protect similar victims like her. Again, she claims that she pushes others like Terui away for their own good as he'd die if he does so, but still, closing off to other people for their sake that doesn't need to resort into aggressive and hostile methods, it still makes her a jerk and can directly hurt others herself, like the kid or potentially Terui's reputation... living as someone who got undeserved infamy can be terrible too right. Being rude isn't the only way to deal with this problem (of keeping people distant)... and they aren't completely right due to good intentions. Shotaro assures her that Terui is strong exactly due to his determination to protect, which was also Sokichi's teaching. Isaka arrives and puts a demonstration of a Quetzalcoatlus copy into a red/green Macaw bird, turning it into a gigantic Quetzalcoatlus Dopant that takes Nagi hostage. Shotaro henshins as W and uses Hard Turbuler to catch up with the flying Dopant, but instead gets Accel's Gunner A. W then goes Xtreme and finishes off the Dopant with Bicker Charge Break, with the Bicker shield being used as a surfboard to fly up into the air. /Surpass Them All As Isaka holds Nagi in his grasp, it's revealed that her Living Connector hasn't developed to what Isaka would've expected. So despite her standoffish view, the Riders do get through her to feel a sliver of hope, reducing her fear. Xtreme then intervenes against Isaka, using Bicker Finalusion as Weather escapes. Not much but Nagi should witness that there's a Rider superior to Weather, W CycloneJokerXtreme. Meanwhile Shroud hands Terui Trial Memory which boasts super speed. Accel tries it, and with Trial form having a traffic light, it went from red to yellow first, turning him into Accel Booster, yellow version of his base form. He turns into the actual Trial Form shortly after, as the Trial Memory's light turns go, turning Accel into a sleeker final form, losing much of its armor. Funnily, it's (CMIIW) blatantly inaccurate that the traffic light on Trial Memory represents the color blue as 'go' instead of green, and thus Accel Trial is colored blue as well. At the Agency, indeed Nagi does believe that Terui can protect her, thus Terui's emotional support prevents her from being consumed fully by fear, but she lost the necklace. Accel Trial begins his...trial, firstly by dealing with a rockslide that Shroud detonated. However, Trial had a drawback, he's a fragile speedster; his brute power is low with his failure against a big rock, but Shroud explains that Trial's effective tactic is making full use of his speed; attacking quickly enough to deal an impressive amount of damage by numbers even if each individual attack is minor, and use evasion to keep from being slaughtered. But Trial is hard to control, as it electroutes itself, reverting him back to Terui. Shroud gives Terui the next trial... completing a motocross course around 150-200 feet within 10s, which will make him able to master the Trial Memory. Isaka is enjoying himself with hot towel on the face and Saeko (later taken over by Ryubee) shaving him. Ryubee reminisces about Isaka begging for a Memory to him, and talks about his greed as he had gained Weather Memory and seduced Saeko. But of course, greed won't stop as Isaka declares that he'll defeat Ryubee, with the imaginary scene of Weather flying with Quetzalcoatlus' power. As Ryubee was holding the shaving razor, I was kinda terrified for the next scene here as it can potentially have Ryubee using the razor to mutilate Isaka or something (albeit my airing will probably censor). But I guess human butchering is more scary to show to children than detonating monsters (and W had the Dopants not killed most of the time), so Ryubee just throws it away and doubts Isaka accomplishing that, turning into Terror Dopant instead to melt him. Saeko turns into Taboo to interfere as well, she too declares rebellion to her father before they escape. The Honda bike had been modified by Shroud to function like Trial's Maximum Drive, but Terui repeatedly fails, with each failure getting him electrouted, with Shroud encouraging him to fill himself with revenge and hatred each time. Terui's latest stint had him fall of his bike and goes unconscious, and Akiko reports the situation to Shotaro. Nagi however thinks it's due to her losing Terui's necklace, and she slips out of the office to find it. Wakana finally speaks up against Saeko to express her feelings about Isaka that he's only using her, and reminds her about their family business as well as the love provided by her father, but Saeko would also confess that Ryubee never loved her unlike Wakana, and used her as untrustworthy slave, with an evil laugh. She then offers a choice if Wakana is with her or against her. Wakana views Saeko as acting strange and thus is deaf to reason.... like she's always been like this? Like her speaking up here, I'll also do it; honestly, I think since her setup in ep. 13-14, Wakana was kind of just there, mostly rolling along with what Museum does with occassional questioning, with ep. 23-24 as an exception (the other one had her experimented by Isaka). Her refusal to use Claydoll Dopant seems to instead relegate her into more minor roles, the character development she got was mostly used to tolerate Saeko more (her disdain is fully aimed at Isaka here). Saeko thus turns into Taboo to attack Wakana, but she got saved by Mick as Smilodon Dopant. Nagi finds the necklace, but also Isaka who figures out about Terui's influence and decides to slaughter him before her eyes to complete her fear-induced Living Connector. Said Terui was reminded of Haruko before he wakes up. Shortly after Terui got a Beetle Phone call from... Isaka, who tells him that he kidnapped Nagi. Terui resolved to complete the lap under 10s, but Shroud is puzzled as he did it for the sake of protecting instead of revenge. Like Phillip before, Shroud can only think of cold detached traits as strength, only that Phillip already grew out of it. Indeed, Terui's lap now is recorded as 9.9s by Shroud, thus he pass, but as Terui leaves, it's revealed that Terui actually set 10.7s, thus he still didn't pass the trial. Shroud practically ditches Terui as he's no longer as revenge-driven as before, showing that she's ruthless and see others merely as a tool for her own ends, fitting her preference of cold detached traits; ignoring an obvious proof that even if he didn't pass, doesn't change the fact that Terui drastically improved in his lap time here, compared to the previous ones' 12-13s. Progress is still important to take into account too instead of just results alone. Meanwhile, the feelings between Isaka and Saeko turns mutual too, as Isaka too, now admits his feelings to her instead of only using her as a tool albeit it's odd for him, and presumably had a kiss with her, as both of them were covered by Isaka's umbrella while doing so. Isaka even now takes an interest at Saeko's real body instead of the Dopant one. Isaka and Terui had their awaited final battle and turns into Weather and Accel respectively, and Accel quickly turns into Trial after battling some red lightnings, and makes use of his super speed to dodge the lightning onslaught from Weather, including the concentrated one with stormy cloud. Trial then unleashes his Maximum Drive Machine Gun Spike, as Akiko told him the truth, but Shotaro had faith on his abilities. After dodging further explosive attacks from Weather, Accel delivers rapid-fire kicks to Weather while T-shaped energy treadmarks. The number of kicks from a source I read is listed as 49, but Climax Heroes had the attack dealing 98 hit. Nevertheless, Trial succeeds in completing his Maximum Drive, nailing it within 9.8s, as going through 10s will forcibly revert him into human form. Weather Memory finally breaks, as the evil Isaka is unable to comprehend the concept of goodness, where Terui is strong due to his desire to protect instead of hatred; a toku staple of "protecting someone is stronger than feelings of revenge", but kinda needed for Terui's growth. Terui frees Nagi, and him breaking the Quetzalcoatlus Memory erases Nagi's Living Connector as well. Meanwhile, it's not a mere Memory Break for Isaka, he finally suffered the consequence of his power lust as well, as his excessive use of Gaia Memories made his multiple Living Connectors go out of control and devours him, leaving nothing behind; a rather scary death for children's show, but even Shotaro, who spares criminals, would feel that it's fitting for him. Before dying, he warns that the heroes' fates have been sealed by Shroud. Speaking of multiple Memories, though it's shown that Weather can combine with Quetzalcoatlus in an imaginary scene, was it necessary for him to inject so many Memories on him when he only uses Weather? Weather had multiple powers, but all of it seems to come from it. Him using Weather seems to prove that quality =/= quantity, as well as Trial defeating him that he only relies on super speed to Weather's varied powers. Saeko witnesses Isaka's demise as well, and her having actual feelings to him made her fall to her knees, before Shroud behind her. Nagi was able to smile again (and this even extends to Terui) as she explains birds again to kids, of which they thank Shotaro, but now Shotaro admits that Terui is the MVP this time as he directs the kids to him. Terui again almost utters his catchphrase of his question refusal... but he's shown to be softer against kids similar to secondary Riders before him as his softer trait (like the kid he helped from Nagi at the beginning), thus he pauses to instead tell them to not ask so many questions at once.
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09-18-2021, 03:23 PM | #16806 |
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Five Riders vs King Dark offers only the greatest of explanations for why Riderman is now alive
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Even to this day I think that story was probably one of the best things to come out of that manga. Fun fact, Takaiwa was the suit actor for Riderman twice, first in the Kamen Rider Black RX TV show, and then he later reprised the role in Kamen Rider Decade All Rider VS Neo Shocker.
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09-19-2021, 12:50 AM | #16809 |
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We can talk about V&V now, right? I'll talk about it now.
I didn't like it, but I did like the thematic focus they were trying to do. I just didn't feel like how it ended was satisfying enough or it felt really unnecessary. The theme is about personal justice, like I said earlier. Fuwa explains that sometimes someone can do whatever they wanted just because it lines up with their own 'justice', something Arkland also pointed out. It's great. MBJR attacks Valkyrie in order to get Fuwa to come after them, since he's the only one capable of defeating them or deserving of defeating them. Fuwa's personal justice is that he does whatever he wants, however he wants, saves whomever he wants, because it's his rule. He teaches one of the Solds to think for themselves instead of having a black/white side outlook and not go with their programming told them much like how Horobi just doubled down on his "Human bad!' thing. He personally believes he is expendable, much different to Yaiba's personal justice which is far more optimistic, humanistic, and more of a role model. It's Fuwa's dream to fulfill his role as a Kamen Rider. Little bit more on this later. The action felt cheap, it felt sluggish, some weird editing choices, choreography, and just felt uninteresting. Serval Tiger's fight was disappointing as it was just Yaiba struggling to land a few hits on MBJR before delivering a weak finisher. It sucked. I did understand what they were going for, it's a hopeless fight as an eerie soundtrack plays, but I think it could have been better. Lone Wolf's fight was also kinda weak, there are some moments where the suit actors fail to connect their punches onto each other, yet they would still react as if they did. Kinda weird. MBJR, despite having the weapons of all the other members, didn't make use of them enough or in some way that was clever. I did like the part where MBJR fell in front of the flowers, that hit me. But the final rider kick was weirdly shot, like I was expecting their feet to collide but didn't. And then Fuwa dies. It's unnecessary. I love me my dark and bleak endings, but if you're going to do it just for the sake of it, or not showing a little hint of hope at the end, then it's ultimately useless or cheap. It felt like Takahashi just wanting to off his characters for no reason. So, Aruto basically sent Fuwa to his doom, the government guy attempts to deem Humagears and AI Intelligence as bad or something, but Yaiba stands up for them and then leaves with a weird choice of using the Ark's theme for some reason. Yaiba and the Solds head off, MBJR fades into nothing, and Fuwa fades into the light. I'm actually not sure why the Rider Wiki says Fuwa fading into the light was "up to interpretation", it was clearly meant to signal that he passed on. I'm just kinda wishing there would be a novel or another V-cinema, or even a TTFC special to wrap this up. No, I'm not saying this because I want a Thouser V-Cin (tho, that would be highly appreciated), just saying it needs a definitive end. I think Aruto should be charged with Second Degree Murder. |
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Kamen Rider W(atch)
Foundation X Arc Episode 37-38: Visitor X X stands for Xtreme (Memory) and (Foundation) X. Written by: Keiichi Hasegawa, Directed by: Satoshi Morota /The Bridge of Promises As Shotaro is playing darts, Akiko drags him to take staff photos, as Akiko tries to set up a website for Narumi Detective Agency, and it had an overly cutesy and girly design. Don't know if it's an appropriate design for others who access it, it's not a personal stuff after all to promote the Agency to others. It clashes again with Shotaro's hard-boiled ways to view website as unneeded, which of course, gets Shotaro slapped by Akiko's slipper... several times as it's the information age. Speaking about website, I wonder if they know about search engines as it functions similarly to the Gaia Library within Phillip. As they take another photo.. with Shotaro holding the bane of his existence in his hand a.k.a Akiko's slipper, there's an nervous old man called Satoshi Yamashiro walks by, of which they thought as a spirit. As Phillip comes to talk about the noise, Yamashiro apparently acts like if he knew Phillip, though he denies as him mistaking a person. He comes to ask for a case, finding his family after 10 years. I was thinking that the Agency had closed that time at dark, stormy night, but actually no. In the Museum, the big dinner table is wasted on only Ryubee and Wakana having dinner, as Ryubee talks about the Museum operation reaching final stage, and appoints Wakana as overseer for a visitor representing their investor Foundation X. He's also someone who insists for others to not be swayed by emotions; explains why he's always unflappable like at the face of Isaka's threat. Meanwhile, Saeko is on a run from several Masquerade Dopants for being a traitor, but obviously she can deal with all of them as Taboo. I only wonder why Saeko didn't immediately transform until she got shot in the leg. At a hotel, a man with white suit and a briefcase called Jun Kazu, and him shown as being considerate to goth-looking Grasshopper Woman... portrayed by Minami Tsukui who you know later starred as Yoko in Gaim (and before was in Saraba Den-O), about a bug in her mouth. It's an establishing moment for her too, as the bug is actually her food, and offers Kazu some, which he passes. Akiko asks Phillip to take a staff photo as well (a model-looking staff) for the Agency's website, but Phillip refused due to prefering not to have others like the Museum find out their location, which Akiko concedes. That's one of the logical approach from Phillip that doesn't involve pragmatic, underhanded way, thus he's completely right there and I'm inclined to agree too. The website can still be established after threats like Museum ended later though. As Akiko seats Yamashiro inside, Phillip got a call from Wakana that she's followed by someone at Fuuto Bridge. Well, the Claydoll Memory's really important in this regard... like before where Wakana had to be saved by Mick as Smilodon from Taboo's assault. Even if Wakana doesn't fight her sister, it can still be used as more resistance. Again, not only to Phillip, Yamashiro recognizes Wakana as well from the conversation as a Sonozaki, and warns Phillip to not go, but holds back at last moment. Yamashiro's suspicion continues as Shotaro's sleuthing and Watcherman reporting to him that Yamashiro's a bad news. Watcherman then bumps into Grasshopper Woman, and Watcherman.. accepts to eat grasshoppers as food from her, but Grasshopper Woman also asks him about Yamashiro. As Watcherman declines, standard Minami Tsukui flick emerges as she beats up Watcherman by kicks, threatening to shock him with a taser on her boots. Terui happens to arrive there, after Grasshopper Woman steps on Watcherman, shocking him as well. Grasshopper Woman attacks Terui as well, before revealing that she's Hopper Dopant, with Living Connector on her thigh (intentional fanservice?). Terui henshins to Accel as well. Hopper gains the upper hand, using her power that is about super speed and high jumps (as per the hopper namesake), and interrupts Accel's upgrade to Trial as well, reverting him to human form. Shroud criticizes Terui's performance as well, and explains about Isaka's warning being their fate that they have to fight the Museum. As Phillip reaches the Fuuto Bridge... it turns out that Wakana is fine and well, and she lied about her situation before to make sure Phillip comes. And the series keep their usual cutesy hijinks, since long ago in ep. 23-24, where they keep talking through their phone after seeing face-to-face. That's something I mostly see in phone credit commercials, due to the credit being so utterly cheap, I hope they're using that kind of credit to keep "unnecessarily" phoning (and wasn't deceived by the commercials or such). Wakana's reason to call Phillip is to ask for advice of what should she do as she's assigned to take over her sister's work, which means she'd quit her radio show. Phillip realizes that she refers to Saeko, the girl who called him Raito and the Dopant who killed Sokichi, and Phillip is straightfoward here to ask if Wakana's work would be distributing Gaia Memories. After some silence, Wakana calls Phillip again and talks through their phone face-to-face, where Phillip suggests Wakana to being true to herself (yeah, this one's not malicious approach as it's to be radio host), and Wakana suggests for them to leave everything the city together for their own little world... and Phillip sort of agrees with that. Shotaro gives the address of Yamashiro's family to him, and Phillip also arrives. But as Yamashiro tries to leave, Shotaro exposes Yamashiro's true identity in front of them as well, that Yamashiro's a famous neuroscientist, and he's supposed to die 10 years ago along with 7 disappeared scientists, thus Shotaro interrogates him about the event. Terui arrives as well, and from the information Shroud told him, he answers Shotaro's question that Yamashiro was abducted by an organization and forced to do research, which Yamashiro admits, but he escaped to see his family and hide, revealing the Museum as the culprit to them, as Phillip is contemplating about Wakana's true identity being part of Sonozaki family. After finishing another Healing Princess stint, Wakana got a call from Saeko, accusing Wakana as hunting her, and declares revenge on her and Ryubee, despite Wakana being concerned and pleading to explain. It's revealed to be true to Saeko as well as Mick was the one they sent to hunt her down, while Saeko struggles to run due to her missing heel from the attack earlier, thus she resorts into using Taboo Memory again, but Smilodon easily dispatches her, sending her into a water nearby... another stuff (to Minami Tsukui) that Gaim... sort of.. redid, the older sibling getting knocked over the edge to the water, in the same location. Mick takes the Taboo Memory as Kazu witnesses. Phillip uses Gaia Library to search for Museum, but instead gets booted out, with the Library going haywire (the background turning magenta, the books exploding). Equivalent of this? But otherwise lol, museum is also a general keyword, not specific name such as Million Colosseo for certain casino, what if they want to search about regular museum instead of the main opposing force of W, but that did prove something to the cast, as Terui notes that Ryubee has been under suspicion a few times, but the evidence was conveniently lacking, which means that Ryubee could've been manipulating all forms of media and information, even the Gaia Library. Shortly after, Yamashiro runs off... due to Akiko being the one to watch over him (her capability is still not perfected). In the Museum, Ryubee is enjoying bug snacks from Grasshopper Woman, and as Smilodon arrives to give Taboo Memory, it does confirm to nearby Wakana that both Mick.. and Grasshopper Woman are Museum's executioners. Ryubee sends Grasshopper Woman to work again, which is to execute Yamashiro, confirming his fear that the Museum will kill him if they find him. Wakana confronts Ryubee over Saeko, and he explains he won't let traitors go unpunished. Wakana can only try to contact Phillip, and now he's suspicious over her true identity, or being unconscious due to being W, as Shotaro saves Yamashiro and fight off Hopper. Yamashiro now realizes about the Narumi Detective Agency members being Kamen Riders, but Hopper gains upper hand as, well, if base Accel can't, the weaker base W also can't, thus they go Xtreme, and turns the fight around, using Bicker Charge Break, but Hopper's a Dopant that resorts to underhanded tactics by using Yamashiro as hostage. If only the other Memories aren't finisher exclusive, Luna can get around this like at ep. 6, LunaTrigger's debut. Hopper claims Yamashiro erases Phillip's memory as well. Accel intervenes before Hopper eats Yamashiro to keep her busy, as Xtreme de-henshins, where Phillip's understandably (as detached as he was, he's still not devoid of emotional side) outraged, confronting Yamashiro over this. /In the Name of the Museum Yamashiro admits his actions and claims he erased the memory about Phillip's family, as Accel upgrades into Trial, trading kicks with Hopper Dopant, but she escapes as Trial slipped. Shotaro continues the question to Yamashiro regarding being forced to work, where it's actually Yamashiro being tempted to Ryubee's funding and resources. Phillip just asks him again if Yamashiro knows his family, which he doesn't as he didn't touch the specifics. I guess Phillip being mostly logical leads him to straightly ask the needed information instead of doing 'unnecessary' retribution to him. Terui takes Yamashiro to interrogate him about the Museum. In the Museum itself, Kazu explains his reasons to arrive there, which is due to the Gaia Memory productivity dropping 12% over last year... and Ryubee treats it as not a big deal, causing Kazu to drop his cup. But Kazu's still unflappable, being a stoic emotionless type of a character. Kazu offers Foundation X's further funding, but Ryubee plans to make up for the losses by giving executive control to Wakana, who is eavesdropping the conversation, and runs off. Meanwhile, Phillip is so upset that he stayed up all night, as Akiko wants to take photos again, but due to familial-like bond (against Phillip's family issues) between the main trio, which convinces Shotaro and shortly after Phillip. Not waiting for Terui too? Considering in hindsight... Bat Shot is used to take the photo, unlike previous photos for some reason. However Stag Phone interrupts Bat Shot as Phillip got a call from Wakana to invite him leaving the city together with her as promise. Yeah.. probably still being exclusively kind to Phillip, to selfishly take him away regardless of others who also value him. Akiko reminds Phillip that Wakana's one of the evil Sonozakis to convince him not leaving, but Shotaro implements Sokichi's teaching about 80% of man's job is being decisive. Finally brought up again from very early part of the series in ep. 4 (Phillip's freezing at 'family' word, treating Shotaro and Akiko as substitutes), Phillip does treat the other 2 like a family, but it's also Wakana asking him, thus he's still indecisive... earning a slipper smack from Akiko (hope it's intended as a get a hold of yourself technique for his blabbering around), so they decide to take Phillip to Fuuto Station. Kazu's other work is recovering Saeko, with her sleeping (like a corpse) on Fuuto Hotel. Saeko learns too that her Driver is already broken, and thus combined with her fugitive status, she had lost everything. The cold, ruthless, and manipulative villain is finally, broken by circumstance, but the audience being satisfied or not depends on their view, albeit Kazu offers a chance for her to rise back, but she's turning into his servant. Another crushing position for someone's usually dominant like using Kirihiko as her lapdog... including him taking her family surname. Yamashiro is being interrogated, with Makura throwing his weight around against a powerless suspect by yelling. He's not nearly as cool as he thinks however, as Jinno sends him to buy tea. And after this, Yamashiro actually talks, where he was kidnapped in his son's 7th birthday, but he abandoned his family for research, thus now he wants to apologize but he feels he had no right to see them. So despite Jinno being a joke at times, he's still more sensible than Makura, and again, a showing about how mean and strict ways don't always work if you want to get something out of someone, contrary to the belief of how success can only succeed if they're built in strictness, meanness, harshness, etc. It can instead make others less likely to listen to you, shown in Yamashiro only talking when the yelling Makura's out of the scene. However, Grasshopper Woman disguises herself as a cop, with a victimized Makura, offering people her bug snacks. Jinno's... interested for that, but for a second time, he got beaten up by another female "cop" using kicks. She chokes Yamashiro with her thigh (fanservice bait) as she changes into Hopper, as Terui henshins into Accel, saving Yamashiro who escapes. Accel then turns into BikeForm to ram Hopper in front of Yamashiro, but Hopper uses another dirty trick to throw a civilian girl off an edge, forcing Accel to save her (as Trial). Yamashiro hides behind a bush as he spies on his family, revealing the son's name as Tsubasa and the mom's name as Yoko, but unfortunately Grasshopper Woman appears beside him. Ironically, Yoko would be the name of Grasshopper Woman's next acting in Kamen Rider. Terui's still in his Accel Trial form, but it's too late for him as Grasshopper Woman already attacked Yamashiro, who's lying on the ground. Yamashiro's in hospital now, and Akiko informs that to Shotaro, who is already at the station with Phillip, with Wakana not being there yet. Moreover, Yamashiro wants to tell Phillip something, so it's an urgent situation and they have to go to the hospital immediately, with Wakana arriving just as they left the station. Trial finally finishes Hopper off with Machine Gun Spike, that had him rotating around Hopper too in his kicks, completing it in 9.7s... a slight improvement from his debut, Shroud should eat her words. Terui only failed before as base form of Accel wasn't as powerful. In an unusual case, Grasshopper Woman was one of the Dopants that would get killed, as Smilodon attacks her to silence her, shattering her body into pieces (normal human got destroyed in supernatural way?). Shotaro and Phillip reach the hospital, and Yamashiro admits that he's a selfish man; he wasn't really Museum's victim. Asking for forgiveness which Phillip nods, Yamashiro reveals that Phillip's real name is indeed, Raito.. Sonozaki, the 3rd child of the family and Wakana's comforting little brother. So Phillip and Wakana being comfortable with each other isn't an incest build up... but an actual family bond build up, even the show didn't intend to use it as shipping . With Nobody's Perfect playing once more, Phillip's decision is clear now, to be together with Wakana at the outside of the city. Shotaro only warns about his path being difficult one. Meanwhile, Phillip's the one that is late now, as Wakana is teleported by Terror Dopant into the Museum's basement, feeling that the Museum caretakers hold a big responsibility for the world as the planet's fate rests on them, thus Wakana cannot be 'selfish' anymore. So Ryubee got a sense of being a well-intentioned extremist in his Museum control for the planet's sake, though of course it won't justify the means to achieve that. Phillip looks after Wakana, and shortly after he got a call from her. She's actually there... but not in a good way, as she's not clad in an all-black outfit, and underwent a personality change, calling Phillip Raito and tried to kill him as Claydoll. Phillip calls Shotaro to henshin, and due to Phillip alone being there, FangJoker returns. Now Shotaro learns that Wakana is Claydoll Dopant. After killing a horde of Masquerade Dopants that backs her up (...would that mean W kill humans here?). The only explanation she gives to them is that she understands her duty and Raito should do as well. The woman in black then insists the man in white a.k.a Kazu to talk to her instead of Ryubee for business needs. Another emotionally devastating moment for Phillip, though that'd mean Phillip's still with the Narumi Detective Agency, whose website have been done, with Shotaro now directly witnessing it having girly design, total contrast from how detective-related stuff should be made hard-boiled.
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