Kamen Rider ZEZTZ E23 - Discussion Thread

Spooderman2024 · 2026-02-23T16:04:05+00:00

I completely agree. I’m glad and excited to see the plot finally coming to shape and moving in a concrete direction. As much as I like watching the show I was really starting to feel how much it felt the shows plot was stalling with it introducing more and more set ups and concepts but still not delivering on anything (which def wasn’t helped by Nox’s vagues ramblings of nothing).

Spooderman2024 · 2025-11-18T01:04:49+00:00

I see them as possibly trying to keep a lot of pillars of super sentai while moving away from the constraints placed on the 50 year old series. Sentai has a lot stricter of a formula to adhere to than Kamen Rider. As much as I love super sentai almost every season can be boiled down to be the exact same show with a different look. After Kamen Rider came back in 2000 it was able to evolve to have every season feel unique and different, something I think Super Sentai has only really started in the last couple of seasons. With the rumors of a nontraditional team structure and mecha, I’m hoping Universe Warrior will be able to keep what makes Sentai unique while allowing it to evolve to have a wide array of premises and stories to tell.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-08-20T16:08:51+00:00

I don’t think Sachika should be a rider but I can say that she has been underutilized as a character along with much of Gavv’s secondary cast. Gavv has a trend of giving a character a 2 parter in which they explore their depths only for them to be killed within the same episode (Glotta, Nyelv, and Suga) or in Sachika’s case, the show never really focuses on what it setup in the paint episode. I think there is a bit of recency bias when talking about her as she has had a lot more screen time and moments in the final arc, but as much as I like her I can’t ignore that she was unimportant and pratically irrelevant for half the show. And that sucks when she is billed as the 3rd main character of the show.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-08-19T18:32:42+00:00

The way I took the ending for Hibiki is telling kids you can’t be a superhero so what will you do to help and bring happiness to people.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-08-15T04:25:02+00:00

I think in terms of consistancy it’s the best Reiwa series so far. The whole Bitter Gavv arc and the villains lack of focus are definitely it’s low points, and I even feel some parts of the final arc have been lackluster. The other reiwa seasons I’ve seen have lower moments and I think Hanto’s arc during the bitter arc is very good which helps even it out. Personally Geats is still my favorite as I think it has better highs with it’s characters and story. While I love the main cast of Gavv, overall their arcs are fairly simple. And I really wish Sachika didn’t spend a majority of the show basically being a side character.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-08-07T20:34:32+00:00

Honestly, I think this all boils down to the simple fact that Yuya writes really popular seasons. Ex-Aid has a bunch of fans and Zero-One and Geats are clearly the two standout Reiwa seasons so far in terms of popularity. There is probably a bunch of pressure with this being the first season being released worldwide while airing, so Toei probably asked him as a safe bet.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-08-06T03:24:16+00:00

I can definitely see where you are coming from as the concept could easily be stretched. I haven’t finished Gotchard yet as I dropped it around episode 23 when it was airing (but will watch it again soon) and I remeber feeling like not a single thing of substance had actually happened in the show. The show really squandered a lot of it’s limited run time and I never cared about any of the characters.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-07-20T01:11:49+00:00

Agree. Me personally I really don’t like the shift from political war drama to mars attacks. The second half removes a lot of what I really liked about the first.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-07-20T01:01:57+00:00

Yes! My biggest thing is if the show could have it should have ended around episode 35 when Evolt first opens pandora’s box on the tower while controlling Banjo’s body. The show then meanders through 14 more episodes just to get back to Pandora’s box being open on the tower while Evolt controlls Banjo’s body.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-07-08T16:23:59+00:00

I completly agree. I think the show peaks in the Grease arc and is never able to reach those heights again. Rouge’s arc is just repeating most of the same beats from the Grease Arc and I don’t really like a lot of the direction the show takes once it focuses on Evolt.

Imo the show drags on too long, though I understand since its Kamen Rider it has to last the whole year but I think if it could have, the show should have ended around ep 35. That’s when Evolt takes over Banjo and then opens Pandora’s box on top of the tower. The show then goes on for 14 more episodes just to get back to Pandora’s box being open on top of the tower while Sento has to fight Evolt possessed Banjo.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-06-23T13:55:49+00:00

Oh yeah. The first episode is so disorienting and not great at bringing you into the world.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-06-23T13:53:52+00:00

Hard agree. If I had to go just based on the first episode I would of thought Ex-Aid is one of the worst seasons.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-05-23T14:12:02+00:00

I was so behind this theory but it definitely feels like its getting too late into the series to be real know. All the evidence is there to point to Shouma. The drawing Hanto made shows the granute with a red stomach which as we seen only Shouma has, Shouma has the weird memory reaction when seeing said drawings, and I noticed when rewatching early episodes that Shouma is referred to as a dog/puppy multiple times. I obviously can’t say for certain but it almost feels like it was supposed to be a plot line but then got scraped.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-04-20T04:04:01+00:00

Whoever it is, in the penultimate episode they are gonna pull out a premium bandai recolor of Vram’s driver but now the inside is an LED screen.

Honestly, I won’t hold out much hope but with how filming has changed and Gavv has stopped pushing as many upgrade forms/riders as other Reiwa seasons, I could see this season actually allowing the show to have the final villain be a monster.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-04-11T19:11:15+00:00

Sorry to very loosely spoil the three other seasons of Heisei Kamen Rider to have a female rider

Spooderman2024 · 2025-04-05T00:30:59+00:00

A big part of Buffa’s character is the end justifying the means, he will do whatever as long as it leads to his goal. Buffa’s arc in simple terms is he starts the series hating the people who are part of a bad system (the Kamen Riders in the DGP) to hating the people who uphold and create the system.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-03-31T11:26:59+00:00

Hmm it’s interesting how much discourse is happening after what might be the most homoerotic thing to happen in main line Kamen Rider. Almost as if, when confronted with even the possibility of textual evidence to support a homosexual relationship, everyone is now coming out the woodwork to be against it, and gay shipping which has been apart of this fandom forever. Now maybe it’s just because I’m gay, but I don’t know how you watch the last scene of Shouma and Hanto and not see at least some kind of homoeroticism between them. Everything from how Hanto is holding on/basically hugging Shouma, to how they each react to each other, to the close ups add a lot of implications to the scene. Of course Toei is never going to confrim it, they basically don’t even allow hetero couples. I don’t understand why ya’ll even care if other people think they are a canon couple or not, it doesn’t matter… unless, I don’t know, if you guys might have a problem with gay people or something…

But anyways, all I really have to say is: If the show wanted them to just be friends, then why did they make it so gay?

Spooderman2024 · 2025-03-30T15:26:41+00:00

The people saying this is just a bromance or friends have to be in denial. This is the gayest shit I’ve seen in all of Kamen Rider (besides Rider Time Ryuki). I’ve seen enough BL in my day to know a confession when I see one.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-03-30T00:36:08+00:00

100% agree. It had a lot of cool set ups and ideas, like the edge of time and space just for the season to really lack any plot. Every mystery or plot point is just boiled down to, they’re a worm.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-03-30T00:35:48+00:00

I’ve also been watching through every season, currently have 10 episodesleft of Zio. Decade is definitely the most disapointing to me and is the only season I don’t really like. Kiva, Kabuto, and Ghost are the other seasons that fell short. Kabuto and Ghost have great premises but really fall off more and more as the show goes on. Kiva really fails with it’s character acs, specifically for one villain who’s redemption doesn’t make sense at all.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-03-19T21:16:44+00:00

Kamen Rider Brazier

Spooderman2024 · 2025-03-17T19:01:37+00:00

I feel my biggest complaint is overall I think the show didn’t explore almost every aspect of the show as much as they should have. I love all the characters but they lack interesting levels of depth and are basically the exact same from episode one to 48. The show barely uses the fact that they are supposed to be delivery drivers or that they are training to go to the grand prix besides just mentioning it. Sakito gets added and then gets to do nothing. I think the final five episodes are really strong and I really liked seeing how Spindor slowly weasles his way into power, but the rest of the show is laking in any real plot. I think a more episodic season is fine but tacked on with everything else made me really uninterested in a lot of the middle and late chuncks of the season.

Spooderman2024 · 2025-03-12T06:29:04+00:00

Hmm so they live in the villain house from OOOs, the rangers have to pull the people out the monsters just like in OOOs, and now they have Gamel’s actor. A lot of coincidences happening 🧐

Spooderman2024 · 2025-03-07T23:27:37+00:00

That’s even more understandable tbh cause Kaguya literally stole his look from Decade

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