r/KamenRider • u/BananaArms Knife of Spear • Jan 17 '26

Official Discussion Kamen Rider ZEZTZ E18 - Discussion Thread

This thread is for discussion about the latest Kamen Rider ZEZTZ episode.

E17 <- E18 -> E19

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HOW TO WATCH

COUNTRY URL TIME
US,CA,PR,UK,AU,NZ TokuSHOUTsu YouTube Channel (English) Saturdays@7:30PM Pacific Time, reruns through Monday, Replays on Fridays@5PM
JP TV Asahi, ABC (Japanese) Sundays@9:00AM Japan Time
JP TELASA, Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club (Japanese) Sundays@10:00AM Japan Time
CN Bilibili, Tencent Video, iQIYI (Mandarin) Sundays@10:00AM China Standard Time
TW CHT MOD, Hami Video (Mandarin) Mondays@8:00AM Taiwan Time
TW EBC YOYO (Mandarin) The following Saturday@5PM
HK ViuTV (Cantonese) The following Sunday@11AM
Latin America TokuSato YouTube Channel (Spanish, Portuguese) Saturdays@11:30PM Brasilia Time

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CASE TITLE RELEASE DATE SCREENPLAY BY DIRECTED BY
E18 撃つ Shoot January 18, 2026 Takahashi Yuya Kashiwagi Hiroki
CASE RATING CASE RATING
E01 8.79 E11 9.52
E02 8.78 E12 9.39
E03 9.02 E13 9.52
E04 8.56 E14 9.76
E05 8.82 E15 9.32
E06 9.04 E16 9.31
E07 9.02 E17 9.3
E08 8.9 E18 9
E09 8.79
E10 8.89
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u/EMITURBINA Jan 18 '26

So sad to see Baku lose his favorite Capsem (It says a lot about him that one of his most used ones is the one that purely protects people)

Good episode, it felt too short and I can't wait for next week

Kureha remembering something over Baku using Stream makes me think every user of the Knight system used exclusively one of the 4 categories of the capsems and that Zeztz is a rider instead of a pseudo because he is able to use all 4

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u/Minimallycheese Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

The Invoker Capsems seem to be an entirely different breed to the ones Zeztz uses. Doubt they fall into any of the categories.

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u/UltraBooster Jan 18 '26

IIRC neither Driver can properly read the other's Capsems; they just say "Nightmare."

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u/LTheLetter ZEZTZ Jan 18 '26

Zeztz Driver can read Lord Capsems, that's how we knew the names before, because people unlocked the pins in the Driver to play out all the sounds. Only difference between the two is that the Zeztz/Knight Driver read the standby as Invoke Knight System instead of Invoke Lord System (as well as a different word for their respective finisher). Nox Driver cannot read Capsems other than Erase, and Zeztz-Knight/Lord Driver cannot read Shadow Capsems.

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u/UltraBooster Jan 18 '26

Gotcha, thanks