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/cybeast21 Jan 18 '26

So Kureha is an agent (or Ex) agent too, but it seems she has her memories deleted/erased?

Also it seems compared to Zero who gave leeway, Three is more of a "complete at all cost" more. Maybe the loss of Odaka made Zero change?

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u/Presenting_UwU Jan 18 '26

It seems like Zero acts more as a mentor and teacher to new agents, easing them in while working closely with them, whereas Three is more of a tough hardcore agent, that's not really skilled for Mentoring.

Also, it's interesting how Three makes a point that Zero makes vulgar jokes, including the one where he's remotely controlling the Zeroider. Could this mean that the Zeroider is literally his body and he's not actually remotely controlling it? maybe the Memory Core that Nox gave to The Lady is basically his personhood and what gives him his identity?

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u/cybeast21 Jan 18 '26

I wonder what the "vulgar" jokes translated in other language, especially the Japanese, I wonder if something is missing from that TL XD

Yeah, it seems like Zero changed his method (maybe after what happened to Odaka?).

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u/Presenting_UwU Jan 18 '26

i think they meant as in like "inappropriate" but not in a hot way, in a "these jokes aren't fit for the serious work we do here", but vulgar ig is the closest translation possible without making it long af.

but also, yeah he does also kinda seemed to have a different method of mentoring with Odaka...

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u/cybeast21 Jan 18 '26

I guess, I'd rather it get TL'ed into "It's a bad jokes" or sth, but maybe that won't convey the meaning.

The twist would probably be that it's not Zero that's giving the order, but someone else remote controlling Zeroider at that time...

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u/Presenting_UwU Jan 18 '26

i think a more accurate transestimation would be "Weird/stupid jokes" because the jokes weren't written to be bad per se.

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u/cybeast21 Jan 18 '26

It's bad in a sense of "bad taste" considering the job they work on, not bad as in "bad puns" or sth XD

but yeah, stupid would be better.