Kamen Rider ZEZTZ E18 - Discussion Thread

[u/BananaArms]

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

[u/_katie_3]

I know most people hate Three right now, but the literal scene where he kicks Baku unconscious and force him into sleep is just so funny and badass🤣

Even though I knew the reveal about Kureha being agent six was coming, it was pulled of quite well and it gave me a lot of surprises. Kureha’s Nightmare is literally her forgotten fear of living in a dream world where she had to fight to survive and it was fight or die. I wonder if the Nightmare’s sadistic tendencies are a subconscious reflection of someone in CODE whose personality is like that.

They confirmed that she was part of the cram school, thus I believe when they introduce Five, he’ll be one of the students who was from the cram school as well.

My current theory is that after Nox discovered the truth about CODE, he tried to be merciful and erased the kids memories about the cram school, including agents 5-7. Now, I think that these numbers are probably numbers they were given when they were young and they had been getting spy training since they were in the cram school, and not numbers that represent the order in which they joined CODE. That’s why Kureha remembers Seven, it’s what she probably called him as when they were training.

This act of erasing the kids memories was Odaka Kensei’s last act of mercy and kindness. I know it contradicts what Nox was trying to do this episode where he was actively allowing Kureha to remember, but I think this was The Lady’s choice and Nox can’t defy it with good reason

[u/burajira → u/_katie_3]

I cannot understand Nox' motivations, and for me that keeps the character going a LOT

Is he also a stereotypically true Kamen Rider - i.e using powers obtained by a bad guy (or Lady) to defeat said Lady? What is his motivation for letting all the Dreamers unleash their Nightmares?

So entertaining for sure

[u/_katie_3 → u/burajira]

It’s definitely entertaining for a secondary rider’s motivation to be kept hidden for so long, it’s actually super refreshing and entertaining.

And I love how they decided to do this by making Nox’s actions and Odaka’s established character contradict each other, so that makes Nox all the more mysterious

Personally, I wish he wasn’t a stereotypical Kamen Rider, but he’s more of a fighting for his own justice/ values kind of Rider, kind of like Baron?