#Kamen Rider Zi-O Spoilers

[egophiliac]

Kamen Rider Card Game, take 4!

so excited for cardcaptor rider!

[t-u-i-t-c]

"You become Oma Zi-O and create a sinister future! But I fled from that future to this era. I know I have to go back. But I want to continue living in this era! I want to create a new future with you!"

[mangolon]

I actually do like how they're ending this fight with Zi-O. It started with Zi-O and the Kasshines and it'll end with him as well.

[best-bff-brawl]

Best BFF Brawl: Round 1| Match 3D

Propaganda Beneath the Cut

Molly and Scratch

(TGAMM SPOILERS)

They have a Toptier friendship development arc. Basically, Molly moves into the house Scratch is haunting and to get rid of her, Scratch curses her but the curse is actually on him as he is now STUCK with the McGee's until the move out.

Scratch spends the first three episodes trying to make Molly's life miserable but her toxic positivity overtakes. At some point, Scratch even feels bad about ruining the turnip festival as it will completely crush Pete, Molly's dad. Of course he has to in order to avoid the flow of failed Phantoms.

Scratch ends up really liking Molly and her family to a point where he challenges Libby (Molly's human best friend) and even sticks around after the curse is broken. THEY MUST WIN!

Sogo Tokiwa and Geiz Myoukouin

(spoilers)

Geiz originally came from the future to kill Sogo, as Sogo was destined to become a cruel overlord. As time goes on, Geiz begins to grow fond of Sogo. He goes back and forth between being against Sogo to being with Sogo but eventually Geiz declares they are friends. Later Geiz can be seen saying that he wishes to stay in the current era because he wants to build a new future with Sogo. He wants to stay in this era with Sogo and truly believes it's where he belongs. Upon his death he tells Sogo that he was happy to have been his friend and that he enjoyed their time together. It's devastating and heartbreaking, because Geiz cared so much and so did Sogo. On the topic of Sogo, Geiz held significance as Sogo grew up without having friends and was incredibly lonely. Of course he makes other friends besides Geiz but Geiz is the one he reaches out for the most and the one he believes in the most. When the timeline is eventually rewritten, Geiz and Sogo are still best friends even if they have no memory of the fights they fought side-by-side.

[retrokid616]

and break time so like i said on the pregame its almost my birthday here on the eastcost so wish me a happy birthday in the reblogs till then if y'all want

[iristial]

Mark III is giving me that Zero Two experience, where I saw the scans and thought the suit wasn't the best, then I saw it in action and fell so utterly in love. Any suit summoned by sheer emotion and wields destructive power so great it can crush things out of existence gets a win in my book

[descendant-of-truth]

Hey quick question who said it was okay to do this to me specifically

I just. the parallels?? Neither version of these two really knew each other that well, or for very long, but it's clear that there was an interest in getting to know each other better (at least in Heure's case the second time - but even then, I don't think Sougo hated him or anything).

And then their opportunity to do so is cut short when one of them gets killed by a doppelganger - Heure was kind of tag-teamed by both Auras, and Sougo was taken down by another Sougo.

Not to mention what has to be intentionally similar shot composition between the two, even if it's not exact. And even if the second one wasn't quite as dramatic, in part due to the more surface-level relationship between the two, I think its parallel to the original show really enhances it.

[scoups4lyfe]

hELLO???

TSUKUYOMI?????

Damn I didn't recognize her at all

still a fkin BADA$$ tho

[melting-morning-blues]

kamen rider is so entertainig (i love the characters who are morally-ambiguous and do unethical things and how they begin questioning loyalty, identity and the facade they show others as these things slowly get pried open by the plot and the characters around them and themselves dghfhgghfgh)

[denooo]

happy pride month everyone! if you've watched kamen rider blade, you owe it to yourself to listen to the blade audio drama. it's set 10 years after the finale of the show (so major spoilers, obv) and gives us a look at where the major characters are now.

bereke scrubs has a GREAT translation:

ps - don't be like me and start listening to this in the background while playing a video game at night bc you WILL find yourself crying at 1 am, realizing you haven't touched the controller buttons for 20 minutes

[mukkuruingly]

OK after reading some fan reports, I'm did what I could to compile and summarize them all. So here it is...

THE KAMEN RIDER BLADE 20TH ANNIVERSARY LIVE SHOW (stage play): a summary

Screencaps of my summary in the cut below for Spoilers

- King got released somehow and starts causing havoc as well as stole some cards from BOARD (Tiger included)

- Steals Hajime's Mantis card and unseals him

- Hajime reunites with Tachibana and the narrator reveals that they have gotten along much better within 20 years (Hajime even apologized to Tachibana for the trouble)

- Hajime (in Joker form) and Tachibana fight King and Mantis. Mantis attacks Tachibana but was shielded by Hajime, and ends up getting sealed

- Also we get to hear Mantis talk for the first time and he's like disappointed that Hajime is holding back on being Joker during their newest flight but King just goes" lol anyway (interrupts their fight)"

- Mutsuki as Leangle then comes to help

- Turns out Mutsuki was in Tibet and works under Tachibana as a researcher

- Tachibana mentions his research is going well, then retreats as Mutsuki goes to take care of King

- Mutsuki then has to fight Tiger under King's control

- scene changes to Mantis Undead

- Kenzaki finally appears, immediately recognizes Hajime isn't present thru his Joker senses, and demands Mantis to tell him what happened to his friend

- THEY FIGHT and Kenzaki transforms to Blade

- (OP points out that even as a Joker Undead, Kenzaki still fights with precision as he does back then when he was human)

- Mantis then explains that there's someone else whos the one who unsealed King and is the mastermind of what's happening

- Mantis is defeated and Kenzaki seals him

- scene changes, returns to Mutsuki vs Tiger

- Tiger suddenly stops and reaches out to Mutsuki, trying to resist the brainwashing

- Mutsuki hears Shima's voice and takes Tiger back to him (regaining her sense before willingly being sealed again)

- He then faces King and finally transforms to his own King Form

- (OP notes that everyone was screaming and sobbing when this happened, same with Kenzaki's first appearance in the stage show where it's described that he has a Terrifying and Intimidating presence the moment he walks in from the Audience aisle and to the stage.... omg...)

- ANYWAY MUTSUKI OVERPOWERS KING and manages to retrieve Hajime's card

- Unfortunately Mutsuki can't take his King Form's power for too long and was quickly reverted to base Leangle

- Before King would attack Mutsuki, time immediately freezes

- Kenzaki arrives using the Scarab card!!!! And tells Mutsuki he's doing great so far 🥹🥹🥹🥹

- King moves again, and Kenzaki tells Mutsuki to unseal Hajime

- REUNION HAPPENING

- Hajime thanks Mutsuki (Which OP notes is rare to hear especially hearing him call Mutsuki by his first name instead of his Rider name)

- Mutsuki was told to retreat while Hajime and Kenzaki face King

- Hajime: I will not waste the feelings of my friends!

- YEAH HAJIME CONSIDERS MUTSUKI AND TACHIBANA AS HIS FRIENDS TOO 🥹🥹🥹

- THEY FIGHT KING

- OP: King then starts to sound like a conspiracy theorist (regarding the mastermind of their unsealing) before being defeated and sealed

- Kenzaki wonders what King meant and if it's related to them being Joker again (referencing THE ZI-O EPS)

- Before Kenzaki could leave Hajime, he was ambushed....

- SURPRISE it's *ANOTHER BLADE*

- Kenzaki worriedly thought it was Amane at first but Hajime quickly sensed Another Blade's presence is neither human or Undead

- Another Blade attacks and it was enough to cancel both Kenzaki's and Hajime's transformation reverting them back to their human form

- Another Blade says they will be the new embodiment of chaos and destruction, to which Hajime states he won't let them destroy the world

- Mutsuki and Tachibana finally reappears, and reuniting all 4 riders

- they're all happy to see each other... even Hajime is smiling 🥹

- All 4 transform and face Another Blade together

- BLADE BRAVE plays and the 4 riders reenact the poses in the opening theme yoooo

- there's a bit where Hajime would say the "I'LL BEAT YOU UP" line again from the original show and that got the audience to laugh fhfjdkk (how could you not tho 😂)

- gonna keep the climax brief but yeah it's the Big FIGHT scene

- Tachibana and Mutsuki manage to seal the remaining Undead

- then EVERYONE shifts to their King Form (and Wild Chalice) to stop Another Blade

- There's a lot of cool stage effects going on too

- Kenzaki makes the finishing blow after receiving three other cards from his friends

- I forgot to mention but only Kenzaki and Hajime remember everything that happened in Zi-O before the reset. Tachibana and Mutsuki are absolutely clueless and are lost when Hajime mentioned about it. And it's only now they learned about Another Blade's existence.

- Mutsuki brings up his worries about new enemies beyond what they know but Kenzaki reassures him it'll be alright and that they can handle it together

- Tachibana then tells Kenzaki that he's still finding a way to turn him back into a human which Kenzaki appreciates and thanks him (still showing his respect to him as his senior at work) 🥹🥹🥹

- Hajime then says he'll wait forever among the humans (OP notes his voice is gentler just like in the finale ep) to which Kenzaki replies that someday the battle will end for sure...

- ELEMENTS plays as the 4 raise their fists together just like in the 2nd OP 🥺

- Kenzaki leaves first disappearing behind the smoke

- Tachibana and Mutsuki leaves

- Hajime was the last to leave but also the slowest, as he lowers his head before making his exit from the stage

- While Hajime leaves, Kenzaki's silhouette in the smoke remains and he's facing Hajime's direction before completely disappearing (OP mentions the lighting used for the smoke is colored gold...... LIKE THE COLOR OF THE GINGKO LEAVES AT THE PARK DURING THE BENCH SCENE FHDJNFKLK)

- once everything is dark, two colored silhouettes appeared: red and blue

- the blue one confirms that the Battle Fight will resume as two Undeads are still active

- the red one then says that they'll continue to observe as they hope to restore harmony to the world

- though made vague in the stageshow, OP points out that these two are actually the final bosses from the Blade novel

- THE END

[toxicsludgeyaoi]

Toxic Sludge Yaoi Tournament: DiEnd×Decade (Kamen Rider Decade) Vs Hitoshi/Bokutashi (Nyan Neko Sugar Girls)

(Vote for whichever you like more.)

Propaganda under cut. Note: spoilers for these medias may be below.

DiEnd×Decade propaganda

"Kaitou and Tsukasa are in a constant war to either fight each other or kill each other, all while having intensely gay romantic feelings for each other. The only reason they ever protect one another is because they want to be the only ones to kill each other in the end, no matter what. Each time Kaitou sees Tsukasa again, he asks if Tsukasa has "eaten sea cucumber" yet, being both a pun on sucking dick, AND because sea cucumber is poisonous and would kill Tsukasa if he ate it. Tsukasa himself likes hindering Kaitou's attempts at theft and ruining his day, sometimes even beating him up if the situation calls for it. Kaitou's actor, Kimito Totani has also said on several occasions that he plays Kaitou as though "He has romantic feelings for Tsukasa, and wants those feelings to be noticed." During the Sentai x Rider crossover movie, Tsukasa joins an evil organization known as Shocker to keep Kaitou safe, but Kaitou feels betrayed by this reveal at the end, deciding that if he was betrayed by Tsukasa, he'll show Tsukasa how it feels to be betrayed - by stealing the villains' giant robots and combining them into an even larger robot, just to make a point. When this plan ultimately fails, he tells Tsukasa "I never want to see you again! ... But I don't think I could ever forget you.", revealing he had stolen one of Tsukasa's most important items to keep a reminder. Despite his claims there, he shows up again in the later show, Kamen Rider Zi-O, ALL BECAUSE Tsukasa was there, where he kills Tsukasa, then brings Tsukasa back to life. These two should SO smooch."

Hitoshi/Bokutashi propaganda

"After being kidnapped, Hitoshi-san can't stop thinking about Bokutashi-kun. They canonically get together and it causes Raku-chan's death. They're so toxic it killed a neko girl. It's so sugoi!!!"

[mangolon]

Iron Gotchard. Those arms look heavy, but it still looks really cool. Of course, being forbidden alchemy there'll be some reason to justify the upgrade to Platinum Gotchard. Also, that train station part kind of reminded me of Grand Zi-O.

[gotinterest]

DOES LOVE WIN IN KAMEN RIDER? HEISEI EDITION

Kuuga: LOVE WINS*

Agito: haven't finished but it probably wins I really just need to sit down and finish I only have a few episodes left and it's been MONTHS

Ryuki: IT'S COMPLICATED

Faiz: love has never lost so badly

Blade: LOVE LOSES. GET BENCH'D

Hibiki: LOVE LOSES**

Kabuto: LOVE WINS

Den-O: haven't finished cause the big bad guy started boring me but I'm a bit Scared and Concerned.

Kiva: Have not watched this one to be honest with you

Decade: Also have not watched this one yet sorry I'm holding off till I finish all the other phase 1 Heisei shows

W: Haven't finished but from what I can tell LOVE WINS HETEROSEXUALLY AT LEAST

OOO: LOVE WINS AND THEN LOSES!

Fourze: Haven't finished but from what I can tell I think love wins?

Wizard: Haven't watched and I've been avoiding spoilers so please don't tell me.

Gotchard: It's still ongoing so we don't know yet

Drive: Haven't watched.

Ghost: Haven't watched

Ex-Aid: Haven't watched but from what I can tell love wins in this one.

Build: LOVE WINS MORE THAN EVER BEFORE

Zi-O: LOVE WINS***

*well it will. Eventually.

**the love of the writers, cast, crew, and fans is what lost

***Zi-O is just the Blade 2 parter to ME

[tsuki-sennin]

Iwae! For those of you pissed at Legend for taking the spotlight for three episodes, rest assured that this is the last one~! Will Hotaro and Kaguya have their handshake? Will Hundred destroy Gotchard's world?

Spoilers, I guess...

-Oh, throwin' hands again

-Butler movin'!

-He's having fun :)

-Knocked the fuck out of his transformation without even rolling him.

-Okay, bye pal

-This time limit seems unneccessary.

-Ohhhhhhhh

-Tsukasa's currently dead, so

-G

-Gigist, what ya doin

-"I love Malice. Make it happen, my friend."

-OHHHHHHH

-I knew this bullshit would happen eventually! (<- Excited)

-I see Ark-One's still in pristine condtion.

-...at least better than Eternal's yellowing making him look like he pissed himself.

-OHHHHH

-WHAT THE FUCK

-ARK MALGAM

-HOLY SHIT WHAT

-KIDS YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE

-FUCK MY ENTIRE LIFE

-PULL THE FUCK OUT

-Good for you, I guess Saigetsu.

-...Gigist ain't fucking playing around, I can tell you that much.

-Fighting alone gorgeously~!

-Junsei Motojima's really damn good now

-I

-Is he slutting it up in the middle of an abandoned mall

-Sabi help

-If it's beautiful, you should carry it

-"Do as you please. I'm fixing it anyway."

-Roll for initiative.

-Thank you Spanner.

-Ark Malgam, I can't believe this is real.

-For a gorgeous world.

-Gotchanko!

-Ultimate shiny!

-"Hotaro...!"

-THEY'RE ALL OUR BOIS

-LEND US YOUR STRENGTH, LEVEL 10 SQUAD!

-The Gotcha!

-One Kaguya?

-Many Kaguya.

-Take off, toward a dream!

-Grand Zi-O Time.

-T

-The fucking Kachidoki flags, are you joshing me

-Oh, good

-Sonic Arrow~! My beloved!

-O

-Oh, Grand Zi-O could summon himself this whole time.

-I don't know how to feel about that.

-Legendary legends of the legendary legends!

-Finale da! Hotaro!

-Gorgeous Gotcha~!

-ONORE REJENDO

-Welcome, Kaguya :)

-Gorgeous special cake...

-Looks amazing

-"Not bad :)"

-Still got a Hundred to think about.

-...Your Gourgeist...

-OHHHHHHHHHH A POPPY CARD

-I WANT ONE

-This is farewell, Houou Kaguya Quartz.

-We will meet again

-OH

-D

-Daybreak????

-EGG????

-SKEBOWS????

-OH MY GOD

-THIS WAS NEVER A FILLER ARC! THEY PLAYED US

-...okay it is a filler arc, but WOW

-Y'know, call me easy to please but I had fun! This was worth it.

-I give this episode one Kamen Rider Poppy Ride Chemy Card/10.

[wordiestbird]

So I finished Kamen Rider Decade the other day...

And I do indeed have some thoughts about it, both as a whole and how it adds some interesting character to Tsuaka's whole deal in Zi-O (and I should really re-watch that at some point too). Thoughts below the read more, spoilers abound as you might expect.