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Like... WOW

Even before the season aired, my first thought was oug I love dream themes and one of my first stories/OC world had characters go in dreams and a game I used to be absolutely OBSESSED with during PS3 era (shoutout Catherine) was dream themed and one of my fav book series when I was younger (Silber... idk/idr if there's an English version for those hmm) was about people going through different dreams and everyone had like those. Dream doors. Yeag the covers are still making me go woaaaahhh BC THEY'RE SO PRETTY

Then one other INSANE THING IS YUTA DOING THE SECOND OPENING!!!

Yuta aka one of my first biases since getting into kpop back in 2019/2020? like what. So often I'd talk or think about how cool Yuta would be in some sort of Toku content but didn't expect it to happen??????????

Actually throwback to this one in particular IT DID MAKE SENSE AFTER ALL allllttthooough I guess he isn't exactly an actor in it but pffff close enough...

I even had a Yuta sticker I got from an album on my laptop for years and it has the number 07. Okay.

Okay.

OKAY.

Funnily enough, due to being both a Yuta and Kamen Rider fan, whenever I see other Yuta or NCT in general fans/stans post about the song I think THEY DON'T KNOW KAMEN RIDER LIKE I DO THEY NEED TO GET INTO KAMEN RIDER NOW and when Kamen Rider fans post about it I think THEY DON'T KNOW YUTA LIKE I DO THEY GOTTA GET INTO HIS MUSIC MORE

Honestly, there is a bit of an overlap in the fandoms anyway which is really nice :3

And yeah then there's Nox . Just wow even before the show even started I KNEW he was gonna be my fav and every episode at the start I was clinging onto the 2 seconds of screentime lmao😭🙏 Although recently he's been pushed in the background a lot I hope at least he gets to shine again when he gets Midnight Shadow💔💔💔

Looking back now is so funny I WAS LOCKED IN AND ZEZTZPILLED FROM THE START

(I don't play when it comes to black-white hair it's one style I love so much, or split colours in general it's so cool🥺 I even have a black wig with white highlights JFHDJD it was from an old Warrior Cats cosplay...)

Also it's so funny Takahashi seasons ALWAYS have at least one character that joins my absolute main favs and. Also always has at least one character joining later on that either overtakes my first fav or is on around the same level, I'd say it's definetly Sieg and Three for Zeztz but no one overtakes Nox THATS MY SON I LOVE HIM!!!! THE MEOW MEOW 😭

I'm also so happy I not only got my friend into Kamen Rider after all my yapping but also into Zeztz and they love it so much too and we wake up every new episode at 3/4am to live react to it😭 I'M ALREADY SCARED OF THE TIME ZEZTZ WILL END. I DONT THINK ANY SEASON WILL EVER COME CLOSE WHEN IT COMES TO MY OBSESSION WITH IT WHILE IT'S AIRING I LITERALLY COULDN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT SINCE EPISODE 1

Being such a huge Zeztz fan from beginning on is kind of funny on Twitter bc I've lived through everyone hating on Zeztz as a season, everyone hating on Nox because he did some bad things, everyone suddenly going WAIT A SECOND THIS SEASON IS KINDA GOATED because they hate when shows that go ~50 episode establish their characters and world building at first I guess and only like it when action starts to happen more, seen everyone go to loving Nox finally and also seeing some people go from "wow this is so boring" to "wow this is just full of twists this is too complicated" Like WOW the community on Twitter has been a roller coaster lmao😭 But hey I don't care I just love my silly little Kamen Rider show :]

And man I do love creating outfits in games based on my fav characters, but I don't think I've done it more for anyone than Nox (maybe closest is Arase from Yakuza bc his style is often easy enough to replicate :3), I bring him into every game as long as costumization at least kind of allows it😭🙏 Even naming all my characters since Zeztz started Nox or Nox Knight later on even when there isn't really much costumization otherwise... Anyway GO MY NOXLINGS!!!!!!!

I DONT EVEN CARE THAT HE'S OLDER I ALWAYS JUST THINK THATS MY SON AND I NEED EVERYONE TO SEE HIM LMAO

Honestly, I can't say if Nox is my fav Kamen Rider character because frankly there are too many and then there's recency bias always playing a heavy role LOL but I can 100% say that Zeztz is my favourite Reiwa season at least 🥺❤️ It was kinda hard to decide before Zeztz came along, I loved Zero-One, Geats and Gavv the most but WOW Zeztz really just is the absolute hydrogen bomb there lmao

Adding one more thing afterwards because I was just thinking of this... Nox also has 10/10 suit designs overall, hell I even love the pseudo Rider suit so much!! But most importantly a thing I realized with Midnight Shadow, I've been saying for forever how I looove spikey suit designs and the fact that Nox' suit designs get more and more spikey over time is just so perfect like HELLOO😭😭 ITS PEAK😭😭

I feel so hypocritical bc I thought any direction Zeztz goes in I'd like but

I DIDN'T EXPECT THE DIRECTION TO BE JUST KILL OFF ALL THE LORDS ????

I mean I'm definitely most grieving over Three, but in general I'm just also kinda sad we didn't see more of them all... already when Six went it was sad because in general that episode was kinda weird, but also I'd love to see Six and then Five get a proper "redemption" or have some sort of rebellion arc and all that. But literally nothing, especially Three is also just someone we know ABSOLUTELY nothing about, which honestly for him feels fine because it fits well, but y'know

To be fair this is also where the whole agent thing plays a big part, so in general I can excuse that, because it makes sense lol. Every agent is throwing away their whole life and identity, even Nox, who despises CODE, still has a "code name" in a sense and distances himself both from his agent identity and his life before becoming an agent, I think it's fairly similar for others who have left CODE, like The Lady.

Still SIGGGHHH I'm just so sad about last episode man!!!! So much potential to happen with all these characters in general!!!💔 But I already had a similar gripe with that back with Geats, at least there it didn't hit my main favs (but I would've loved to see more of Zitt lol that was such a nothingburger sadly) ... Three being a threat in the finale would've been so cool, Six and Five joining the main team to go against CODE would've been so cool too 💔 Ah well it's still definitely my favourite Reiwa season so far, and I'm excited to see what's to come. The Nightmares are probably gonna be the main threat now lol which I mean Idk how to feel about that thought but maybe something else will happen there's still a couple episodes left

ONE THING I WILL ESPECIALLY MISS IS THIS BEAUTIFUL SUIT GEAHH GONE TOO SOON 💔💔💔💔🥀🥀🥀🥀

It's kind of funny, because I was expecting Three to go this season I went on the hunt for some dramas to watch with his actor (Tamaki Yuki) the past days and it's a real struggle. So much is just nonexistent, but as a jdrama fan I sadly am used to the struggle 💔 If anything I feel spoiled with Kamen Rider now because it is SO accessible jfhdjdjf Also why do especially Kamen Rider actors of my favs end up doing so many stage plays only 💔 I mean they're cool and I love theatre and loved doing theatre myself but... THEY ARE EVEN LESS ACCESSIBLE AND FINDABLE THAN NICHE DRAMAS 💔💔💔 Ahhhh the struggle will always be like that huh ...

But yeah anyway so I started one drama yesterday and ! Tamaki's character got arrested LMAO and just generally every other character just hated him and now in Zeztz he got epic grilled and then I watched a movie earlier and he died there too lol (I mean at least I'm 99% sure? He was like. Uhm a cyborg or whatever but yknow.) Also someone exploded in the movie that felt also very. Insane after That Zeztz Episode. (Weirdly enough seeing a character actually die in a graphic way feels less painful than them. Being turned into paper for gods sake)

But it's always kind of funny when I get a new fav actor and all their roles are full of just irredeemable scumbags and/or they die (or similar) all the time OHH OR are just really pathetic that's one of my fav things to happen :D In the movie surprisingly he played a....good(?it's hard to say what exactly qualifies as good in certain types of movies....?) character so that was a change jdjdjd

I'm so used to my favs dying man especially with the types of games I play and dramas I watch BUT SOMETIMES IT JUST GETS ME SO I JUST HAD TO LET OUT ALL THE RAMBLING ‼️ (I think last Kamen Rider death that Got Me like that was in Kabuto... Even then I think livewatching a show makes it a billion times worse oug...) Honestly if it was anyone else other than Nox defeating him I'd probably hate that character now lol

I think I also would've been fine with it if it happened later, honestly with all of the Lords it's really just making me think fly high (or uhm low in Three's case) 🕊🕊🕊 gone too soon🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🥀🥀🥀💔💔💔

I think now the only thing to completely shatter me would be if Nox dies BUT THEY WOULDN'T DO THAT

Ah well whatwver at least there's still..the movie rigjt...at least everyones in that.......oug

AND AS A LAST THING BECAUSE I CAN ALWAYS FIND TIME TO BE A ZERO HATER

THIS IS PISSING ME OFF I DIDNT HATE ZERO ENOUGH YET!!!!!!!!!!!! I HOPE.YOU GET A BILLION PAPERCUTS IN THERE AND DIE DIE DIE DIE

OOOO THATS WHERE CODE SOMNIA WENT

OH YOU'RE SOOO FUNNYYYYYY !!!!!!!!!!!!

I SWEAR TAKAHASHI IS STALKING MY ACCOUNTS AND DISCORD AND CHANGING THE SCRIPT ACCORDINGLY TO MAKE ME SUFFER

But

I've already got spoiled by BOUQUET PHOTOS JUMPSCARES before the new episode but I'M SO SAD

I KNEW IT WAS GONNA BE HIS TIME SOON BUT I'M ALSO SAD BC THREE WAS ONE OF MY MAIN REASONS TO WATCH THE SHOW!!!! Literally so sad rn like he barely got time to be cool💔

FIVE GOIGN WAS ALSO KINDA WILD

Takahashi I love your shows but I don't see the vision here killing off half the cast so close to each other😭😭 Especially with roughly 10 episodes left???. AT LEAST WE GOT EPIC MIDNIGHT SHADOW DEBUT YAYYY

Thinking back at what my Three Mii said recently when I already had the "oh he's gonna die soon" paranoia YEAH EVEN THE MII KNEW

LIKE OMG SHUT UP YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW GOOD YOU HAD IT😭😭 SO MUCH ZEZTZ AHEAD OF YOU😭😭😭💔

Funnily enough though I was just thinking about how conflicted I feel because I finally am up to date with clipping Zeztz again for future edits, but all the songs I love and want to make about Zeztz, aka make edits with it I feel like "Hmm but this would probably fit better once all episodes are out!" and then I'm sad again about Zeztz having to come to an end lmao😭

Honestly mainly just an excuse to use this screenshot lol

Also Sieg's being silly as usual 😭🙏 And I think he got toasted by Exdream #rip

And special shoutout to The Lady downstairs chilling with her little Nightmare butterflies :D